Canadian clothing company Roots recently teamed up with Canadian writer and artist Douglas Coupland to create a new fashion line that just screams out “Oh Canada!”… the only problem is that it’s pretty damn hard to make Canadiana look cool. He went with a telecommunications theme, the idea being that technology connects us since we [...]
I know a lot of people have been waiting a long time for an official Marvel MMO, but somehow I doubt this is what they had in mind. This week Gazillion Entertainment officially announced Marvel Super Hero Squad Online, an MMO based on Marvel’s line of cute and cartoony two-inch figures. As you might expect, [...]
By now, you may have heard about Axe Cop, the web comic written by a 6-year-old kid and illustrated by his 29-year-old brother. But have you seen the motion comic? Like a lot of things that go viral on the web, it may seem a bit gimmicky, but there’s also something so charming and refreshing [...]
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post over on Film Junk about a movie in development based on one of the Fighting Fantasy books from the mid-’80s. I was a big fan of these books when I was younger, as they combined Choose Your Own Adventure-style branching stories with role-playing elements… a brilliant [...]
I guess I can finally admit to myself that I have become a Scott Pilgrim fanboy since I am much more excited for the final volume of the comic than the upcoming movie. (Then again, that could change once I see a trailer.) It hits stores on July 20th courtesy of Oni Press.
It's a good thing it's not out before Christmas, or else there would be a lot of eager parents and a lot of pissed off kids out there.
Cory Doctorow’s young adult novel Little Brother is a book that just about everyone seems to be talking about this year (especially… ahem… Doctorow himself), and I finally managed to get through it over the past month or two. Billed as a 21st century companion to George Orwell’s 1984, the story takes place in current [...]
It's kind of like the GTA Hot Coffee mod… why leave it in there if you know there's a chance someone might see it?