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Elliot tore it up, great job. He sounded the most like Freddie out of everybody Taylor was very entertaining and had a damn good vocal. Chris was great too, he just belted it out and this super intensity to him. Unfortunately I don't think the audience appreciated that song much. He should have played it safer and done Tie Your Mother Down. So those were my top 3. After that I'd actually go to Bucky, he just fit that song really well, even though his vocal wasn't the greatest. Paris and Katherine had decent vocals, Paris actually surprised me being able to pull that song off. Kellie was cringe worthy, but I'd put most of the blame on lighting, costuming and makup. Her vocal was better than I expected. However, the judges were crazy for praising her as much as they did. Ace was terrible. A complete joke, he should go home. And dear god was Simon a dick tonight.

Or maybe if there were a backup story in 52 (there is) and it were entitled "The history of the DCU" (it is). Yeah the new Superman issues have been great. I think I'm going to be picking up Busiek's Superman run. Now if only they'd tell us who will be doing Action Comics. But this is the first time I've been enthusiastic about in-continuity Superman since he came back to life. (But then, I didn't read any comics between 96 and last year)

It somehow fakes BIOS, since Macs have been using EFI instead for some time. And yeah, I hated Apple with a passion until I started using OSX based Macs for music recording. That OS is an amazing improvement over their previous systems. Rock solid stabilty.

It's more Bendis, Millar, Heinberg, and Quesada shitting on fans who like characters (IE The New Warriors and Alpha Flight) that the four shits hate. The New Warriors are massacred along with a large amount of civilians by Nitro, the living bomb villain who's mostly known for accidentally giving the original Captain Marvel cancer. But rather than recasting Nitro as a Dr Light type bad-ass and play up bringing Nitro to justice and the heroes being divided between those who want to kill Nitro and those who want to catch him and put him on trial for killing the New Warriors and let the legal system deal with him, the plotline is taken into the direction that everyone blames the New Warriors for being fuck-ups and are blamed instead of Nitro for the civilian deaths Nitro causes. This causes the US government to declare that every single super-hero in the Marvel Universe must reveal their secret ID to the US Government and register under a new Super-Hero Registration Act. In favor of the act is Iron Man and the T-Bolts and opposing it is Captain America and the FF. That said, LITG Rich Johnston has spoiled the ending to the whole series as the whole point apparantly is: In NA: Illuminati Reed Richards sided with Iron Man FOR cooperating with the US gov. That Cap running to Canada to form a new Alpha Flight rumour was unfounded and Millar shoots it down in part 2 of that Newsarama interview. He says: "To answer the first, no, Cap doesn’t flee for Canada because that's just bloody stupid and completely out of character." And I can see disliking Quesada and Bendis because they come across like arrogant shits a lot of the time, but Millar's always seemed cool. Plus he's an amazing writer. So Civil War's starting to interest me a bit more after reading those Millar interviews, but I agree that the main Marvel universe is suffering from 'Earth-shattering crossover fatigue.' It's hard to accept Millar when he says that this will set the tone for Marvel for years to come, since that's the same rhetoric that Bendis spouted off like every day before and during Dissasembled and House of M. The problem for me is that none of the books have any breathing room. It's like: -Get 10 issues out -Spend 4-6 issues in crossover -Spend a few issues dealing with 'gigantic fallout' -Repeat Marvel almost needs a DC One-Year-Later type approach where they can just set a status quo and start developing good stories that will last for the forseeable future.

I'd just like to remark on the awesomness of WCW dressing up a dude as a mummy and calling him "the Yeti."

You'd sing a Journey song on Queen night?

Yeah I read Illuminati (didn't buy it) and it was more interesting than I thought. There was absolutely no reason to label it as a 'New Avengers' book as they had nothing to do with the story (except Iron Man). I'm still not interested in this Civil War, but I did like that one book. However, I was disapointed that all it really showed was the forming of the group and their downfall. It would have been nice to see some of the effect they had on the Marvel Universe in the past. I also read Annilihation: Prologue and Annilihation: Silver Surfer #1 (also didn't buy them) and they bored the hell out of me. Which is too bad because that series actually interested me when I heard about it.

Sigh, Vancouver, my home town boys, (Well, not really, but the closest hockey team to me.) how the mighty have fallen. So last season, they win the division and sell out every game, all while getting the best community support in their history. But they lose to the Flames in the first round, so let's fire Brian Burke, the GM who built this team from losers to a damn fine team practically with his bare hands. Well, look where that got them.

I actually can't see anyone pulling off Under Pressure. I think Elliot could handle the Bowie parts but not the Freddie parts. Plus the only 'big note' is that one that Freddie does right before it kicks up, and he just goes insanely high without going into falsetto, and I don't think anyone can do those.

I don't know why you would even bother trying Bohemian Rhapsody, the song is composed of so many different movements it's pointless to try and condense it. I mean, obviously SOMEONE's has to go and try it because it's one of the most famous songs ever, but I just don't get it. Pickler singing it will be hillarious though. Innuendo's another wierd song that has different movements. Don't know why Chris picked it, but I can envision him doing some parts of it. He really should have picked Tie Your Mother Down. Or Princes of the Universe damnit! And yeah, Bucky got really lucky this time (again). I'm listening to Fat Bottomed Girls right now and I can see him fitting in perfectly. The song's got this great kick drum back beat in the verse that sounds almost like a hoedown. It's definately a song that could get a bit "country'd up" and still work. And listening to all this Queen makes me remember that, damn! Freddie Mercury was really one of the very best.

Great song choices for Bucky and Taylor, those songs will fit them really well. Paris and Kellie, I just can't see doing those 2 songs at all. I mean, Bohemian Rhapsody? Ace is such a dumbass for thinking he won't looks stupid trying to do We Will Rock You. He should have done Best Friend. And no Princes of the Universe? Denied!

No, they've learned their lesson this time. All the major continuity gliches have as of now been explained, usally by Geoff Johns. Hawkman, Power Girl, the JSA, Wonder Woman, they've all been cleared up. And anything else lingering since COIE (like the Doom Patrol) can now all be explained by, say it with me, Superboy Prime punching the time stream. And it looks like the minor changes to history due to this crisis are all just bringing things back to the 'classical' status quo.

The greatness continued in issue 3. Morrison is going on a wirlwind tour through old style Superman stories dredging up old characters and themes. I did think that this issue squandered the opportunity for a great "Lois gets Superman's powers" story for the Samson and Atlas stuff, which was a little out there for me, But Morrison's great writing and the amazing art made up for it. I just wish the focus had been a bit more on Lois using the powers. Her not believing Superman that he's Clark is awesome though. And is All Star Batman #4 ever going to come out? Issue one came out last August and we haven't even got to issue 4 yet! ....er.... not that I care or anything....just curious, that's all.

Yeah, watching that Joe/Kobashi match it struck me that them like chanting "MATCH OF THE YEAR" two minutes in after a bunch of slaps was pretty lame.

Lies, dirty lies. I'll grant you that Chicago, Toronto, Charlotte (if Flair is in the building) and Boston & Philly (which you didn't mention) are definitely usually good places for the atmosphere, but Seattle, San Jose, San Diego or the other Canadian cities I don't think are anywhere near the best crowds. I honestly can't recall any show from one of those places ever being memorable because of anything the fans added to the show. However, Montreal is bar none consistently the worst crowd on the WWE circuit so maybe they should get a cheap plug here as well. Stop hatin' Wasn't Montreal the crowd that came up with "TWOOOOO!" after every two count. And Calgary is a super hot crowd as well, maybe better than Toronto at times. All the Canadian cities are hot, except maybe Vancouver.

So I read some rumours a little while back that DC will actually be doing a little bit of retconning after this crisis, and that the catalyst would be the temporary multiverse collapsing back into Earth-1. Looking at IC#6 again, I noticed that on the page after Superboy kamakazies the tower and it shows the one earth reapearing that in the 'shards' flying out into the page it shows a few scenes that might provide insight into these retconns. One scene is a newspaper with the names 'Joe Chill' and 'Wayne family' on it, so I guess he's back in the game (negating Zero Hour's effect there). Another is that cover with the JLA turning into trees exept this time it's got Wonder Woman back in the scene (she was replaced with Black Canary post-crisis in that situation), so they might be bringing back Wonder Woman as one of the JLA founders. It's also got a picture of silver age Superboy in front of a Smallville sign, and also one of what looks like the old school Kryptonian villians.

What, magic universe altering punches don't make sense to you? I mean... punching! Come on. It doesn't get anymore straight forward than that. Oh, and Infinite Crisis #6 was awesome. More thoughts later. Ah hell. You do this, and now look what happens to my avatar. You bastard. Genius. So back to IC#6, I read it again and I reiterate my previous diagnosis of awesomeness. Ok SPOILERZZZ abound below: Batman's new characterization is great, acting like a leader and all, writers no longer need to try and one-up each other to see who can make him a bigger dick. Except Frank Miller in ASB, but that's like on a whole other plane. The breaking point/epiphany for Batman seemed to be his big freak out and breakdown in the batcave in issue 3 right before Superman-2 showed up. That symbolic moment where Hal Jordan busts through the satellite and Batman takes his hand to fly to safety was great. The scenes from the various different Earths were cool too and had some nice 'insider' references. The coolest part (maybe in the whole issue) was where Alex is looking around for Earth-Prime when he finnaly spots it and reaches out of the page at the reader. Complaint: DC didn't ship this issue with 3d glasses for that one panel. That would be super sweet. Black Adam is incrediably badass. Poor Psycho Pirate. Superboy Prime is also badass. Superboy's death was handled really well I thought, and the last page was pretty striking. Also, did anyone notice that in the preview cover that was out on the internet, it had Superman's torn up cape in the background, but on the real cover it was Superboy's shirt? So all in all, another excellent read I thought if a bit light on some details (So what happened in the speed force? And what's the deal with the remaining Earth?), but I'm sure they'll be answered later. Newsarama has been doing a hillarious recap of each issue so far that I recomend you check out.

Yeah, it's kind of a wierd shitty situation, but seeing the way that Siegel and Shuster got treated by DC for DECADES I find it hard to drum up sympathy for DC over this.

What, magic universe altering punches don't make sense to you? I mean... punching! Come on. It doesn't get anymore straight forward than that. Oh, and Infinite Crisis #6 was awesome. More thoughts later.

I know Jason Todd's been back for some time, but since I haven't read Batman in quite a while an explanation for the resurrection would be highly appreciated. Wait...if it was never supposed to have happened and now it never did happen, then why does he not only remember it happening but so does everyone else? @#$^# retcons. Everyone thought he was dead. Apparently, he was comatose and in a near-death state (Yeah, I have no clue how that got past BATMAN), crawled out, and was found by Talia Al Ghul, put into a Lazarus Pit, and healed. Jeez guys, that's not at all how it worked. Did anyone actually read that Batman annual? Jason did die. He was blown up by the Joker and died. But aparently that wasn't 'supposed' to happen. He was 'supposed' to live but for some reason, maybe residual "universe-fuckedupidness" due to the collapse of the original multiverse (or the fact that readers actually 'intervened' and had the guy offed by calling that 1-900 number), he ended up dead. So he stayed dead for a year until Superboy-Prime started breaking the walls of the universe, which sent "time ripples" out and corrected a number of things, such as his death. Jason then came back to life and dug his way out of his grave, walked a few miles and eventually ended up in a coma in a hospital. Since there's no record of him existing (cause Batman's a sneaky fucker), no one ever found him. A few years later he woke up with no memories and hung out on the streets for a while until Talia found him, dumped him in a Lazarus Pit (where he got his memories and skillz back), and sent him on his merry way to fuck with Batman. So to recap: -Jason dies -S.P. hits universe -Jason comes back to life -Spends time in coma/without memory -Takes Lazarus bath So there's no retcon there. It's not like the past was changed and Batman found him alive or anything, things were just 'set right' and he was brought back to life, albiet under 6 feet of dirt. So everyone (including Jason) still remembers his death.

Oh yeah, I was 100% right about the semi finals. I'm so awesome.

The destruction of the entire Post Zero Hour Legion of the Super-Heroes future/replacement with the new shitty Mark Waid version Really? You're like the only person I've seen who doesn't love the new (current) Legion.

Ok, I've been buying just the Perez covers so far, but DAMN, that Lee Superboy Prime cover is amazing! I think I'll go ahead and get both, even though I'm very against buying multiple copies of the same issue, so I can have teh whole 7-issue run in the Perez covers, but also have that one Lee cover. Just cause that's one of the best covers I've ever seen. I love the 'Death of Superman' cape in the background.

Not feeling the Ashley Simpson/Kellie Pickler comparisson. Pickler may not be that good of a singer, but she's 5x as good as Simpson. How that girl managed to get a career as a 'singer' is a joke that's not even funny. I do get a scary feeling that Pickler's going to go much too far in this thing. I figure the reason Katherine was in the bottom 3 this week was because she's been so 'safe' the past few weeks that people just forgot to vote for. Couple that with the fact that her last couple performances havn't done anything to remind people to vote for her. Did you guys see Paris bawling her eyes out when Lisa got the boot? Imagine what happens when she gets kicked off. Lisa, however, was very composed.

Fuck yeah to anything in this post, especially that $10 deal, those are 3 goddman amazing (and long) games, if a bit dated. But if you're looking for good story, who gives a fuck about graphics.