Super Junior, a Korean boy band whose name could easily pass for a luchador’s name, won the Mashable Awards’ Must Follow Personality award, beating the likes of John Cena and Noah “SpoonyOne” Antwiler. While Cena couldn’t overcome the odds in this category, he can take solice in two things:
1 – He still won the Mashable Award for “Most Influencial Social Good Champion Sponsored by Yahoo.”
2 – Spoony didn’t win. Therefore, no inane victory speech from him.
Oh well. Back to not caring.
Marvel Comics took over the license of producing MMPR comics, beginning with an adaptation of the first MMPR motion picture and following up with not one, but two short-lived comic series. For this run, we’ll be focusing on the main MMPR comic and get to the Ninja Ranger stuff later down the line.
Each issue has two stories and unlike the Hamilton comics which tried to keep the formula of the show intact, the Marvel kinda sorta does its own thing. The first story has the Rangers at a computer club where they marvel over the Internet, inspiring Zedd to create a virus-based monster, while the second story has the Rangers dealing with a copycat monster of sorts. For what they are, they’re perfectly adequate and quick little reads; something that would work as part of a digest edition or something like that. The characterization could use a little work; other than little sparks from Billy spewing technobabble, all these Rangers could be interchangeable.
The low point of these comics was the art, which is basically that rough-looking style with square faces and thin eyes that was the style in the mid-90s. The first story isn’t all too bad and is the typical Marvel 90s style that dominates most of the stories in this run, but the second story is where the art takes a nosedive, with characters not resembling who they’re supposed to be (Rocky is blonde here, whereas on the show, he wasn’t) or the action bits just being a confounding mess of visuals. Never been a huge fan of the art for this Marvel run and it doesn’t get any better from here.
So yeah… John Cena’s off my TV this week due to an injury. That’s the best belated Christmas gift I’ve ever got. Unfortunately, he might return next week to sell more merch. Because that’s all the fucker could sell.
Other RAW thoughts:
– So the whole story is that Wade Barrett has been usurped from Nexus by new arrival CM Punk. Does this mean Barrett goes away for a while or is this the beginning of a face turn of some kind? I’m probably reading too much into this, because Nexus’ relevance died in 2010 and I have very little faith that CM Punk’s inclusion into the group is going to revive it. Yeah, CM Punk is a solid talent and a great talker, but even he can’t save Nexus from being a footnote.
– The Miz retains his WWE title in a match against John Morrison, defeating his former partner in an pretty awesome match (Did I say it was okay? I was stupid). Strange that a title match would open the card, but whatever… Watching the match again, I have to tip my hat off both guys for opening up with a phenomenal match. This should have been the main event – this was good enough to close out the show – but instead we’ve got a lethargic cage match between Orton, Sheamus, and Wade Barrett… that Orton won.
– So anyone willing to fork money over for the Royal Rumble will get yet another Miz/Randy Orton main event. Some people might get upset over this because Orton’s been in one too many title matches (last one he had was LAST MONTH), but as long as it’s not John Cena in the title match, I’m very happy either way. That fucker needs to go away and get new material.
– Nice job by the tag-team champions. Those will really boost the credibility of those titles… wait, Santino and Koslov are still the champions? Never mind.
– Alberto Del Rio defeated R-Truth in the only real sour spot of the night. It wasn’t a bad match per se, but nothing that kept me from fast-forwarding.
– So they’re bringing back Tough Enough, huh? Hopefully they’ll play it straight and make good use of whoever wins the competition… oh, who am I kidding? This is going to be a complete waste of time. I have very little faith in these people’s ability to run a credible show.
– Why do the Bella Twins still have jobs? And where’s Daniel Bryan Danielson? I want a good wrestling match to my wrestling show, not more plastic.
But, yeah this was actually a good show. A rare one that included a lot of wrestling. John Cena should suffer more injuries more often if it means giving the WWE Universe quality sports-entertainment programs such as this one. Top-notch effort.
I hope everyone’s had a wonderful holiday season and I wish you all a happy and prosperous 2011.
A little over a year into this new blog and I’m liking what I’ve been able to do thus far. Especially in terms of making videos down the road, it’s a lot more flexible than what I’ve been using in the past and I can appreciate that. In regards to the video front, I guess it’s safe to say that more is coming. I’m starting to get the hang of this Vegas software that a friend managed to get me and I certainly appreciate most comments coming along the way… while others… well, such is the nature of the beast.
Wish you all the best and I’ll see you all later.
So what’s the big deal with this commercial, anyway?
Back on the old DTM Blog, I used to do a quick lookback on a year, primarily some of the highpoints and lowpoints that were worth my attention during the past year. Now we’re slowly approaching 2011 and thus it’s time to look back on some winners and losers of 2010.
2010 has been a relatively crummy year for me personally; I spent the better part of it looking for work after getting laid off from my old job. And for the most part, spent months doing nothing at home until a couple months ago where I got another job… which is actually less than stellar, but I guess I should be glad to have any work at all. In any case, not the best year for me.
But while things may have been on the low end of things personally-speaking, I can take solace in the fact that I’ve got family, I’ve got health, and I’m not as far as I could have been. So I suppose I can’t complain too much.
But that would defeat the purpose of this listing. So let’s begin, shall we?
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Watch out! The demons are attacking via your ancient Atari video game system… or the Activision Anthology compilation that I’m playing this from.
All I have to say on the matter… here.
But if you want text, click the break.
I normally wasn’t going to touch on this because it’s not really worth the effort. And some time has already passed. But… I figure I throw my two Canadian pennies in and talk about some guy that I have a bone with.
Joe Vargas… also known as Angry Joe.
Now here’s a guy whose “popularity” is a complete and utter mystery to me, because he doesn’t look like anybody interesting – just some doofus with a greenscreen. To be fair, I checked out a couple of his vids and got nothing out of it. He sounds annoying, he’s not remotely funny, his greenscreen effects are distracting at best, and for a guy who calls himself “Angry” Joe, he doesn’t seem all that angry. So… yeah. Not exactly someone I’m going to be tuning into at any point in the near future.
But the only reason I’m bring him up – and quite possibly the only notable thing about him, it seems – is because of his embarrassing, horrifically-painful-to-watch interview with Geoff Keighley on the carpet of the 2010 Spike Video Games Awards show. And while Keighley did show a lack of interest in putting up with Joe, I can’t really blame the guy. People might not be aware of it, but Geoff Keighly is the executive producer of the Spike Video Game Awards, an award show that goes on TV. Tee Vee. And he has a lot of shit on his plate to ensure that his baby goes off without a hitch. So that fact he’s giving this relatively obscure amateur whose fame comes from the Internet five minutes of his precious time moments before this big show goes on Tee Vee is pretty fucking generous, I think.
Joe came in completely unprepared and was basically fumbling through the questions he had, showing no integrity, composure, and coming off as a joke. And this is during an quick impromptu interview that Joe claims lasted two minutes, but seems more like four or five. And in that short instance, the man who claims to represent gamers and be a hero of people DROPPED THE FUCKING BALL.
How do you start an interview? You introduce the person you’re going to interview. “So, today I’m here with Geoff Keighly, executive producer of the Spike Video Game Awards.” blah blah, exchange pleasantries, blah blah, first question. Basic stuff. Keep your cool. Be professional.
What does Joe do?
“I’m here with JEFF! And I’ve got a BONE to pick with this guy.” He calls that being diplomatic. I’ll call it unprofessional and a sign that this is not going to end well. You know? Yeah, lack of preparedness. And I’ve been in situations where I was caught unprepared. I know the feeling. That’s what I get from Joe.
The other sign that . Joe is in the middle of a sentence as Geoff looks in the distance, presumably to check for celebrities since it might possibly part of the job description. And when Joe notices Geoff seemingly not paying attention, he sort of just trails off. Lost in thought. It almost seemed like Angry Joe was about to burst into tears. In fact, this happened a couple times.
And… and the funny part about the whole fucking thing is when, during the video, there’s a little counter countdown to the moment where Joe would lose his cool… yeah, sorry, Joe lost his cool the minute he opened his mouth.
“Thinks I’m some random guy off YouTube!” Oh, I guess it’s easy to get that wrong. I suppose. You’re not some random guy off YouTube. You’re some random guy off Blip.Tv. SAME SHIT, ASSHOLE. As a matter of fact, I think some random guy off YouTube might show a better more professionalism and a bit more preparedness for the occassion than Jose did.
His excuse is that he didn’t get the proper 15-minute sit-down interview that he wanted, but really? So what? You didn’t get it; you got five minutes on the carpet, so you make the most of it. The fact that YOU FUCKING BLEW IT in the five minutes you were give almost makes me glad that you DIDN’T get the 15 minutes you were allegedly promised because that would be a trainwreck of massive proportions.
This is not taking into account his blatant hijacking (for lack of a better term) of the press conference, bombarding Mr. Keighley with question after question and never letting up. Never letting the actual journalists… you know, the ones who are professionals and thus GOOD at their fucking jobs.
And for Joe to go crying about it afterwards, that is just pathetic. If this chump is supposed to be a representative of the gaming community, then that community has no hope whatsoever because he’s doing a fucking horrible job of it. As a matter of fact, I venture to say that Joe did a better job at destroying the image and credibility of the gaming community in that ONE interview than EIGHT YEARS worth of poorly-contrived awards shows EVER DID. You want a good gaming representative speaking on your behalf? Look in the mirror and you found him or her. Don’t look to the Internet for that HERO, especially when his name is Angry Joe and his main beef is with an awards show that no one with a SLIVER of common sense and competency should be caring about.
I’m so glad I got this off my chest. Happy New Year, everybody.
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Cheating here a bit… on the one hand, it’s a new product released in 2010. On the other hand, it’s a straight repackage of a Super Nintendo game from 1993 with no modifications whatsoever. But in any case, here we are.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone.
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