Arrested Development Art

I've known about this for a while. However, I figured some of my fans who love Arrested Development may not have seen this.


Also, I embedded an Arrested Development video featuring Buster (Tony Hale). Apparently, one of the jokes in the show is a reference to a commercial he did for VWs. I love this show.

Breakfast of the Gods

Now, I decided to highlight a webcomic that I like to read from time to time. I believe that you will all enjoy it too.

It is basically an epic story that uses all our favorite childhood cereal brands. Tony the Tiger is a Bad Ass, Captain Crunch is like Captain America, the Trix Rabbit is a spy, and Count Chocolua is an evil crime lord. This is crazy shit. I'll just show off two pages randomly from this ongoing work.


Wow, this is cool.


Toucan Sam as a Club Owner? Frankenberry as thug? The Cocoa Pebbles Knock Off Monkey? Trix Rabbit? Everyone should at least peruse this comic.

Breakfast of the God is an ongoing work and I hope you all take some time to relive your childhood cereals in this oddly seriously fucked up universe.

Wow. Blu-Ray has ruined me.

Today, I received the New Frontier on Blu-Ray today. When I first bought the PS3, I put Pixar's the Incredibles for a field test. The movie quality was already fantastic on standard definition. The PS3 upscaled it somewhat and I just couldn't imagine the picture quality being any better.

Months later, I put the Incredibles into the slot for a friend to watch. Needless to say, I started to nitpick the qualities of this masterpiece. Suddenly, the image became too soft or the crispiness wasn't all that spectacular to me. Even when I bought Ratatouille, the amazing quality of that film didn't make me notice the jump. Ironically, it took a 2-D animated film like the New Frontier to make me see the difference.


I used to argue with Zac regarding cartoon transfers. Was there improvement for animation on a high definition scale? Aren't they already optimized for DVD? Well, after watching the Blu-Ray copy of this film...I was blown away. I just could not believe the colors, the sharpness of the edges, and lack of any imperfection. Unbelievable. Unfortunately, the rest of the extras including the extra Justice League episodes are standard definition. They look like CRAP on the HDTV. I haven't watched all the extras and only briefly went through the chapters of the film. The Darwyn Cooke commentary is supposed to be insightful so I am looking forward to that. My feelings on the film are strong. As a geek who loved the original work and a fan who loves superhero films, this is incredibly faithful and fun. Not perfect, but really amazing considering what they were able to do. They compressed two volumes into a 75 minute time with little sacrifice. Well Done.

If I had to put some sort of rating down, I call this a B+ purchase. In my heart, it is really an A- though.

Wait, some Trailers!

Tomorrow, Justice League: New Frontier will be arriving from Amazon on Blu-Ray! To commemorate, I embedded two trailers. One is for the film itself and the second is for the new Batman Animatrix-Esque Project coming out prior to the Dark Knight arriving in theaters.


Justice League- New Frontier

I'll reserve a post about this Blu-Ray when I watch it. However, I did watch a screener for this film and it was EXCELLENT. It is a great adaptation of the work. Highly recommended. Although it does feel choppy and a little short at the end, I think Bruce Timm and his buddies did a stellar job with this work. Clearly, there was a ton of love for the original work by Darwyn Cooke.


Batman Anime Project. This looks interesting. I loved the Animatrix, but disliked the actual films. Hopefully, I will like both movies. I recognize some of the designs here, but I am too lazy to figure it out.