Dafixers Hideout ep195 Battle Royal

The gang is back and we get into SOPA,"Red Tails",tv,and our favorite battles.

Barbaric Fun

It's an idea that did not have to happen, but since it's going to we need to give Dark Horse comics props for coming up with it.  Dark Horse Comics is putting out a Groo vs. Conan miniseries in April. It will be written by Mark Evanier with art by Sergio Aragones and Thomas Yeates and colors by Tom Luth. The four-issue miniseries will bring Groo the Wanderer and the character he’s parodied together in one series. Both Conan and Groo are published by Dark Horse.

How Green is my Pilot

It seems that the CW has ordered an hour long pilot featuring Green Arrow.  The series is  being written and executive produced by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim &Andrew Kreisberg. The tentative word is the the pilot might directed by David Nutter, who directed the Smallville pilot, episodes of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Game of Thrones, Shameless and Entourage.  For those who don't remember, Green Arrow started out as a guest star in the 10 year running Smallville where he was portrayed by Justin Hartley.  No word yet if Justin Hartley would be reprising the role, but the idea being bat about is to put the character in a new world not based on the DC comics.  They tried that with Smallville for a minute but eventually DC continuity reared it's head because despite popular belief more the comic readers know who Superman is and that he lives in the same world as Batman and the rest.   Green Arrow being a lesser known character outside of Smallville might work in a world without other DC character - there's much doubt about this but one never knows.

The Shadow Knows Dynamite

The Shadow Knows

Dynamite Entertainment is bringing the Shadow back to on-going monthly status with a new series by Garth Ennis and Aaron Campbell - with covers by Alex Ross.  Unlike the last DC Run - which was based in the modern world of 1990's - the new storyline will take place in 1938 and will start with slaughter at the docks and culminate to a world-ending crisis.   Knowing Garth Ennis, get ready for hyper-violence abound in this one.  

Also, Howard Chaykin’s The Shadow: Blood and Judgment, last collected in 1991 by DC Comics, will be released in a new edition by Dynamite Entertainment. The work is among Chaykin’s best, and a favorite among many comic creators. Mark Waid said of his work, “Not sinceWalter Gibson has anyone been better suited to The Shadow than Howard Chaykin.

Dhep 194 - Our Thoughs of 2011

No this is not the echo show, we didn't know the button was on and it was hard to get rid of. So we end our 2011 with tunnel audio but the gangs all here and we give our thoughts to the best of 2011. Enjoy

Akira's on a Low Budget

There are just some movies that are train wrecks from the beginning. Don't believe? Go back and look at two years of news prior to the release of Green Hornet, then watch Green Hornet and ask yourself exactly how surprising it was that the movie was that bad. Same for movies like Dragon Ball Z and Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li - go look at all the news leading to them. Same goes for the train-wreck that is the American made Akira. Every news story is a breadcrumb leading to another disaster of a movie.

The lastest story is that Warner Brothers thinks Akira's current budget, $90 million, is just too damn much money. According to the Hollywood Reporter, WB wants to bring the budget down to $70 million before they give director Jaume Collet-Serra the green light. To keep score, so far they've replaced all the asian characters with white actors - except one, the location of the story to Manhattan, lost a bunch of good actors who backed out because they looked at the light at the end of the tunnel and realized it was, in fact, a runaway frieght train, had the director changed twice and now want to trim the budget to something near a Uwi Bol flick. At the end of any story about this movie, everyone should add: Anyone who goes to see this movie deserves to lose those hours of their lives and really should never get them back again.

DC Getting More Graphic

As the success of their 52 relaunch dies with a geek afterglow DC announces more from their Earth One line of graphic novels, which started with Superman:  Earth One.  Coming up next will be Superman:  Earth One Vol 2 which will focus on classic Superman villian Parasite and Batman:  Earth One.  The creative team behind the original Superman: Earth One, J. Michael Straczynski and artist Shane Davis, are coming back for Superman: Earth One, Vol.2, and Batman:  Earth One will have Geoff Johns is writing and Gary Frank doing the art.

A Study In Warp Drive

Benedict Cumberbatch, who stars in the BBC’s series Sherlock, has been signed to play the major villain in J.J. Abram’s second Star Trek film.  If you have not seen Sherlock then it is suggested that you find an instant watch to see it as soon as possible because it outshined the Robert Downy Jr. films in just about every way - the most important being that it is a far better representation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s long lived master detective. It is well known that Benicio Del Toro had previously turned the role of the Star Trek 2 villian down and that Edgar Ramirez reportedly auditioned for this part as well.  Because both of those actors have Hispanic backgrounds it begat the speculation that the villian would be Khan (though no one is sure if which of the two classic Khan stories - Space Seed or Wrath of Khan - would be redone in the film.  Khan was famously played by the late Ricardo Montalbanin both the series episode and the movie.  Weather it will be Khan or some other villian Cumberbatch is a welcome addition to the cast and it will be interesting to see where this goes.

A Slayer Delayed

It's been a little more than a year since Warner Bros. announced plans for a Joss Whedon-less "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" movie that would reboot the character and story.  It looks like it will be at least a while longer before any such project gets a green light.  Screenwriter Whit Anderson, who was hired to pen the new "Buffy" story, is now off the project, the L.A. Times' Hero Complex reports. The producers are looking for a new writer. Anderson's script contained "some great ideas," a source close to the project tells Hero Complex, "but in the end there just wasn't enough on the page."  The site also notes that the entire project may have "lost some steam." Whedon doesn't own the rights to "Buffy," which is how this all got started, but for pretty much every fan of Buffy Summers and Co., he absolutely owns the story.

Marvel Gets The Ghost

A judge has ruled for Marvel and against Gary Friedrich on the question of who owns the Ghost Rider character. Friedrich filed suit in 2007, alleging that he had ownership interests in the character. This ruling was on that issue; the parties were ordered to meet with the judge in January to review any open claims and/or counter-claims. Federal District Judge Katherine B. Forrest ruled that even if the original work (the origin of the new Ghost Rider character was in Marvel Spotlight #5, published in 1971), was not “work for hire,” Freidrich transferred his rights in the character on two subsequent occasions in 1971 and 1978. The 1971 transfer was accomplished when Friedrich endorsed his freelancer checks, which carried an “assignment legend” on the back assigning Marvel any rights in return for the check. The 1978 transfer was in the form of a contract, in which Friedrich relinquished any past rights in exchange for future freelance work.

Super Heroes. . .For Real?

People dressed up as superheroes are making news around the globe. A group called the Black Monday Society in Salt Lake City, composed of men dressed as their characters Red Voltage, Asylum, and Nihilist, which regularly patrols in costume. A single masked crimefighter in Milwaukee, and a more sinister group of rogue cops in Milwaukee that called themselves “Punishers” and wore Punisher logo-wear. Also, over the holidays, a man dressed as the Hulk arrested in Coventry for selling cocaine in costume. The Coventry Telegraph reported the story of Scott Anderson, with a green face and Hulk costume, selling drugs to another club goer while being observed by police (whose attention was attracted by his costume). A repeat offender, he was sentenced to two years in prison last week.


It’s hard to draw many conclusions from incidents as disparate as the ones above, but one thing is clear: superheroes are starting to make a bigger impression on real life behavior by adults than they have at any time in memory.