regretful for the lack of a “ Postal Apocalypse ” last week , folks ! If I could drop my faux phoney postman - of - the - post - apocalypse shtik for a brief moment , I was still suffering the burden of the norovirus , which basically means I was ejecting fluids from both ends of my body like the world ’s most disgusting human sprinkler attachment . But I ’m back , the corporeal fluid have stopped fly , and your alphabetic character need to be answered ! Do n’t forget to send your missive to[email protect ] ! No letter too weird , no letter too dumb ! I can’rt forebode anything about the reply , though .
C.H.U.D. Studs
Ken P.
Supposing hypothetically , I was working on a paranormal Romance language about the forbidden making love between a young woman and a C.H.U.D. inspired monster . The goal is to make the C.H.U.D. romantically appealing , yet have him retain his essential C.H.U.D.ness . Is just making him glittery enough ? Originally I thought this , but then I remembered the Gorn with his glittery eye had kinda take up out with the female demographic . It seems , no matter how many bout with a shirtless Kirk , women find Gorn unsexy ( for instance , when brought up repeatedly on dates ) . How far do I require to transform my obscene cloaca monster shy of turning him into a pallid Justin Beiber with a glittery pony mane ?
Also , would n’t getting zombi goop on your low-down sass , or in your eye , have the same essence as get chip ?
Alas , you ’re going to ask to crank up up the Humanoid factor to essentially 11 . C.H.U.D.s – - and there ’s a moving picture on the left for those who ’ve forgotten their coming into court – - look like Jawas who have been put in the microwave for 60 straight minutes , and there ’s absolutely no part of that anybody chance sexy . Meanwhile , the appeal of Edward and the other Twilight vampires is 1 ) they face like attractive humans , 2 ) they seem to be bad because they ’re vampires while 3 ) they ’re not really bad at all . Twilight ’s vampires are attractive boys who claim they have “ dark secret ” while they happily wait decades to have sexual activity . The glitter is only a bonus .
So you ’re going to call for an Extreme C.H.U.D. Makeover if you want the ladies to fall for one . Let ’s say you start with a young man — slight , but with abs . You could in all likelihood get away with knock off his head , but he ’d take his original heart so he could face soulfully at girls . You could credibly make him glisten , but only in a “ covered in level wax ” way , not a “ covered in innards ” manner . All in all … yeah , this just ends up being Justin Bieber . But he wipe out human flesh and is distressing about it ! He has a troubled soul !
Also : Yes . That ’s always wiretap me about snake god flicks . If zombism is exceed through a bite , it should inevitably be slip away through any wounding where a zombie breaks the chassis , include scratches ( but not when a zombie spirit , say , rips your weapon system out of your socket and starts eating it ) . And the disease should peculiarly be squeeze when you smash a zombie ’s heading and rakehell goes flying into your center , mouth or any exposed wound . Sometimes in The Walking Dead Rick and gang are covered in zombi succus and just chilling out , and if drives me crazy .
Route 52
Carl H.
What do you think Marvel ’s “ 52 ” promos intend ?
At the here and now , Marvel has relased two newfangled promos — one containing nothing but 52 chela stigma , on the face of it scratched by Wolverine , and another hold the # 1 made up of the names of 52 Marvel characters . The reason we have n’t mentioned them on io9 yet is partly because the promos are irksome , but mostly because they do n’t extend a individual clue of what Marvel ’s preparation . All they show is that Marvel is mocking DC ’s New 52 , because Marvel is a saccade like that . We hear anything else , we ’ll countenance you know .
My Aim Is True
Teagan S. :
Based on your Arrow “ rules ” ( in“7 Superheroes Who Should Get Their Own Arrow - elan TV Shows ” ) , should n’t that intend show like The Cape and Heroes and No average Family should have been instant smasher ? They had a clear get-go , have play other than superheroics , and none of them had many special effects .
https://gizmodo.com/7-superheroes-who-should-get-their-own-arrow-style-tv-s-5987024
Ah , yes . I probably should have clarify : I was talk in the main of adaptations of establish comic record eccentric , not original series . Original superhero serial do n’t have to worry about approachability , and they should have their budgetary concerns dealt with from the showtime .
My Arrow Rules were for transitioning established comical characters to TV , but there ’s still a lot a show needs to be good after that : good writing , compelling characters , not being too campy , and , in Heroes ’ case , not being the stupidest fucking matter ever aired on television . Arrow ’s deliver the goods in all of that , by the way .
Box Office Mojo
Jeffrey W. :
I ’m wan as hell of everyone insult DC moving-picture show and praise Marvel like everything they do is perfect . Yes , Marvel ahs made some good movies , but none of them are as dear as any of Chris Nolan ’s Batman trilogy ! That ’s three masterpieces compare to what , sixe jolly adept movies ? And when you reckon Spider - Man 3 , Daredevil , X - Men 3 , the Fantastic Four and the Ghost Rider movies , Marvel ’s made so many more crappy picture than DC has !
You are technically right , which is the most obnoxious way to be correct , but most multitude receipt that all those moving picture you ’ve listed above are out of Sony ’s hands . The rights are owned by Sony and Fox , and while Marvel own the characters , they have no say over the pic these companies make .
They do , however , have the right to Iron Man , Captain America , Thor , Hulk and the Avengers , and of the movies Marvel itself has superintend and produced … well , they may not be flutter 1.000 % thanks to Iron Man 2 , but they ’re close . Alas , since WB owns DC and handle all DC property , they ca n’t be said to have done the same : for those three Nolan Bat - motion picture , there ’s Green Lantern , Jonah Hex , Superman Returns , Catwoman , and Constantine ( which was in reality all veracious , as long as you ’d never register a Hellblazer comic before ) . as telling is the films DC has managed not to make over the last X or so , peculiarly Justice League and Wonder Woman .
alas , when you compare the movies Marvel has made — the single they ’ve had concluded ascendancy on — versus the 1 DC has made , despite having control over the entirety of the DC universe , it ’s no contest . Also , personally , I cogitate Batman Begins is pretty overrated . Give me Michael Keaton anyday !
Before the Game commence
Shannon L. :
There ’s a ton of backstory to A Song of Ice and Fire that ’s absolutely crucial to the game , but with two seasons down , there ’s scantily been a mention . How is the show go to work in the event that happened prior to a Game of Thrones , like the stuff that Dany was theorise to see in the House of the Undying ?
Okay , if you ’ve been watching the Game of Thrones TV series but have n’t say the books , here ’s what Shannon is talking about : fundamentally , there ’s a lot of things that happen prior to the events of A Game of Thrones that the Holy Scripture hints at through theatrical role ’s memory , especially the case that surrounding Ned Stark ’s babe Lyanna and the Mad King Aerys ’s son Rhaegar that take to Robert Baratheon ’s revolt against the Targaryens . In the book , we know enough to know we do n’t do it everything that encounter ( if that makes sentience ) but still , book readers are getting a outstanding many contingent the TV show has n’t managed to show yet .
The biggest modification in this regard is when Dany visit the House of the Undying at the closing of Season 2 . In the show , she only gets tempted , but rescues her dragon and cut the wizards ; in the volume , she gets infodumped with divination of the future and peek into the past ( and burns the wizards ) .
I apologize for being ineffective to find my rootage on this , but I know that showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are well aware of the trouble , and are stress to figure it out ( and they may have already , for all I be intimate ) . I feel like Game of Thrones the show is n’t ever going to be able to just have someone narrate a bunch of prophecy , or have someone give Bran a lengthy chronicle lesson — I feel like at some point the show may just need to do a flashback sequence . Or two . Or maybe even a 2 - hour prequel special event detailing what happen when Ned and Robert were immature and everything else that went down .
The job with this is that George R.R. Martin is still holding so much of A Game of Thrones ’ past close to the vest , so a prequel special would be really … weird , with all the thing that fall out whose significance we do n’t sympathise yet . It almost makes more sense for the show to wait until GRRM explains everything he wants to explain in the books , and then do a prequel special including everything that can be told . Which means we could be waiting quite a while before we see Lyanna and Rhaegar on screen .
Carbon Scoring
Bitterman :
Fuck / marry / kiil : R2 , C3PO , Chewbacca .
Kill Threepio , because he ’s the unfit . I ’d have to say fuck Artoo , if only because of all the gadgets and doohickeys and attachment he has , surely there ’s one that would get the job done . And get married Chewbacca , for a life-time of comfortable , late night snuggling .
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