At Last...A Blast From our Past.

There has been a lot of DVDs coming out of shows from the past and present,
there is one TV show that has been missing from our shelves,
but the wait is almost over.

Now if you were a kid back in the early 90's ( or a teenager like me ),
then you grew up on Animaniacs , Pinky and the Brain and Hysteria!.

but before any these shows became part of our lives , there was Tiny Toons Adventures.




Tiny toons premiered on September 14, 1990 and ran for 3 seasons with a total number of 98 episodes (plus 2 specials), now with Animaniacs and Pinky and the brain already out on DVD the question was when if ever was tiny toons ever going to come out on DVD?.

Well the wait is over, on July 29, 2008 is the release date for TINY TOON ADVENTURES : season 1 part 1 (35 episodes from the 1st season on 4 DVD)



Now join me on July 29, 2008 as I and many others will be reliving our past and laughing our summer away.

Also, Check out the trailer for the DVD Release.

Finally . . . .Coming out on DVD.

This is a list of T.V shows on DVD that are coming out
within the next couple of months that I can't wait to own,
I'm especially looking forward to My Boys : season 1
and Birds of Prey : complete season

(there will be another blog with a huge announcement of a T.V show later on this week)

*this is a list of DVD's that I'm looking forward to buying, if you want to check it out for yourself, go to TV Shows on DVD website.


IN APRIL/MAY:

04/22
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS: Season 2




05/06
CROSSING JORDAN: Season 1




IN JUNE:

06/10
THE BOONDOCKS: Season 2




FANTASTIC FOUR - WORLD GREATEST HEROES: Season 1




MY BOYS: Season 1




06/24
FUTURAMA - THE BEAST WITH A BILLION BACKS




IN JULY

07/01
MAD MEN: Season 1




07/15
BIRDS OF PREY: COMPLETE SERIES





07/29
FREAKAZOID!: Season 1




ROBOT CHICKEN: Star Wars




WITCHBLADE (LIVE ACTION): Complete Series

Turn off the lights . . . . for Earth's sake.

Please join in the Movement that is Earth Hour 2008.

In 2007 2.2 million people and 2100 Sydney businesses turned off their lights for one hour - Earth Hour. If the greenhouse reduction achieved in the Sydney CBD during Earth Hour was sustained for a year, it would be equivalent to taking 48,616 cars off the road for a year.

This simple act has captured the hearts and minds of people all of the world. As a result, at 8pm March 29, 2008 millions of people in some of the world’s major capital cities, including Copenhagen, Toronto, Chicago, Melbourne, Brisbane and Tel Aviv will unite and switch off for Earth Hour.

The most important thing to do on 03/29/2008 is turn off your lights between 8pm and 9pm.

with this little gesture, we can make a big difference on our planet.

Check out EarthHour.org and also check out My EarthHour profile page, hopefully you can join in this Wonderful cause and don't forget to turn off the lights.

King of Kong: the best video game movie of all time???

This past week me and my brother tony watched the documentary King of Kong: A Fistful Of Quarters, and after watching it got me thinking Could this be the greatest video game movie of all time???

The movie premiered at Slamdance in January of 2007 and came out on DVD on January 28, 2008.



For those who don't know what the movie is about, King of Kong is a documentary about the game of Donkey Kong, but more importantly it is a about a guy who decides to go for the world record and the obstacles he had to face in the process.

Steve Weibe was an unemployed father who while going to college to study to be a teacher decide to play donkey kong in his spare time and after achiving a million points, decide to try For the world record and that is were movie gets interresting.


I have watched many documentaries, some with topics that i cared about and some that i didn't, but the great thing about this movie is that it gets you interested in the story of Steve Wiebe and has you hooked until the very end.

Does he get the World Record?

What does the current Champion who is Billy Mitchell who also hold records for Pac-man and many other games does about this?

and many more question will come to you as you watch this movie, if you are a Gamer or not, i recommend everyone to watch this documentary and tell me what you think...

What an awesome christmas I had.

This year with everyone knowing what i would really love to get as gifts
(books, dvd, games, giftcards),
Everyone really went all out and I have to say this was by far one the best christmas ever.



My lists of my gifts goes as follow:

BOOKS:

Playing for Pizza by John Grisham

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

GRAPHIC NOVELS:

Absolute Batman: The Long Halloween

Robert Kirkman's Invincible Vol. 2

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. 2 & The Black Dossier

Queen and Country : The Definitive Collection Vol. 1

Wonton Soup

DVD:

Heroes season 1

Firefly The Complete Series

Friday Night Lights season 1

Studio 60 at the Sunset Strip season 1

The Wire season 1

GAMES:

Naruto: Rise of a Ninja for xbox 360

Puzzle Quest for nintendo ds


Also i received anout $75 in borders gift cards so more gifts to come.

Now I'm not posting this to brag or gloat, just want to let you one what i will be talking about in the next couple of weeks.
Thanks to everyone for my gifts and i hope everyone enjoyed their holidays as much as i did.

End of a Marriage…start of a brand new day.

On Friday 12/28/07, Marvel comics released Amazing Spider-man #545 which was the last part of a four part cross-over called “One More Day”, written by J. Michael Straczynski and illustrated by Joe Quesada.


This controversial mini-series was going to change the life of Spider-man forever starting with the removal of his marriage.

But before we get to that lets give you a back story on all that has been happening in the world of comics.

In 2006 Marvel had a company wide cross-over titled Civil War, which had heroes against heroes in a battle over the need for a Superhuman Registration Act in the United States., during this cross-over Spider-Man deciding to prove his point reveals his secret identity as Peter Parker to the world.

After realizing that he was on the wrong side of the battle, Peter joined the rebellion in a losing cause. With his identity known to the public he and everyone he knows became a target.


Almost immediately following the Civil War, Peter’s Aunt May is shot by an unnamed assassin hired by the Kingpin to kill Peter. With Peter being a fugitive due to the registration act, he is unable to provide Medical help to Aunt May and she slipped into a coma. After Failing to get help from the most powerful people in the Marvel U, Peter begs god to help him no matter what, but instead of god he gets mephisto ( who is Marvel's Satan) who offers to save aunt May's life and in return he wanted Peter & Mary Jane's marriage. The catch, as there always is with the Devil, is they would both feel some pain of loss from losing their marriage without knowing what that pain is from.


Peter & Mary Jane have a decision to make Peter says that he could never live with himself if he let aunt May died because he believes it was his fault she got shot in the first place and Mary Jane only cares about is Peter's happiness. With both of them taking Mephisto up on his offer, Peter wakes up the next day living with aunt May and having his friends back with no recollection of his prior life toasting to a brand new day.

One of the things that has made me and a lot of fans upset, was that the decision to do this storyline was the editor in chief's idea, not the writer. In fact J Michael Straczynski mention on his blog that he wanted to take his name of this story line but was talked into keeping it. Joe Quesada (marvel's Editor in chief) has mentions several times that one of the problems with Spider-man was that he was married and there are no new stories to be told with him being married, that many of the younger audience didn't relate to a thirty year old married spider-man. So he decided that the best way to take care of this, is to have Peter make a deal with the devil.

I'm sorry but this is a horrible decision on the part of Marvel, to get rid of something that was precious and long lasting in the world of comics (this is the 20th anniversary of their marriage)
just to push the envelope, just because one person can't relate to the character anymore.
there are many alternatives books to read if you want a story about an un-attached spider-man (ultimate spider-man, marvel adventure series), i personally don't need a younger spider-man, i grew up on those stories and i want the characters to grew with me.

Marvel you will always have a die hard fan in me, but your pushing your fans away this time and i lot of them are not going to come back.