Last night A&E started airing new episode of Dog The Bounty Hunter.  I’ve never been a nut about reality shows, and but Duane “Dog” Chapman’s family of Hawaiian bounty hunters are as consistently entertaining as anything scripted on TV.

The new season opened with a lead on a $75,000 bounty, taking the team to San Fransisco with a little less than 72 hours to catch a guy before they’d have to cough up all the money to the state.  They spent the better part of 3 years looking for this guy, and in 3 days chasing his friends all over town, they got him.  Dog has never failed to catch his man.

I really love this guy.  When I first started watching, I was kinda laughing at him and his obviously peculiar wife, brother, and sons (and other hangers-on) who work with him in the bail bonds business.  They deck themselves in leather, dark sunglasses, dangerous amounts of hair products, and T-shirts with “Lynard Skynard” or slogans like “Fighting Solves Everything.”  They don’t carry firearms, instead relying on an intimidating appearance and compassionate attitude to bring in their targets.

Yeah, compaission.  After they get done yelling “Down speed-freak!” and “Ice is the road to hell!” they usually buy their guy some mcdonalds, give them a smoke, let them call their mom, and then turn him into police.

I can’t suspend my cynacism though when they work out with wanted posters in front of them and coin phrases like “We are fishers of men” and the way Dog got all teary when recounting his father’s dying words:  “you are the world’s greatest bounty hunter!”

God, I must sound like a dumb fanboy with this post, but I can’t help it.  Its funny.  Hilarious, even.  From the Ozzy intro to the group prayer before the hunt, I can’t stop laughing at and with this show.  They’re bizarre, they’re crazy, and they’re what I want to be when i grow up.

My inbox just got a collector club update:

I will be on TV tomorrow Thursday March 23 on the G4 Channel Attack of the Show doing a GI Joe piece. I know it is not Transformers, that is for a future show but I thought you would want to tune in and check it out!

Thanks,

Brian

Wired Magazine’s April Issue feature has a guest editor in Will Wright of SimCity, Sims, and soon to be Spore fame.

His editorial is already online, and 5 more article studying the culture, economics, and fun of video games will be online in the coming weeks for those that want to read for free. Where’s my subscription copy?

According to TNI, Kaiyodo and Xebec are going to be reissuing the popular Eva series in metallic paint.
The listing they link to mentions die-cast in the description, but the originals were plastic/rubber with a two different paint schemes. One with traditional flat colors and another with metallic paints.

The 6 figures to be re-released are:

• Eva Unit 0 (Blue – Rei)
• Eva Unit 0 (Orange – Rei)
• Eva Unit 1 (Purple – Shinji)
• Eva Unit 2 (Red – Asuka)
• Eva Unit 3 (Black – Angel/Toji)
• Eva Unit 4 (Silver – Production model)

Yeah, I know I’m late, but I’m dealing with a crippling bout of Pharynghitis, (in other words, I’m under the weather) so don’t sue me. Anyway, Gamecube owners craving some serious M-rated action have very few venues to turn to, (including rare’s Eternal Darkness and Midway’s Mortal Kombat Deception) and even fewer that are exclusive to the system. THis is also on PS2, but it once began life as a member of the ‘Capcom 5’, 5 gamecube games from Capcom that would hopefully breathe life into the system. SInce the announcement, the first game flopped miserably, the second did quite well, even spawning a sequel and a few spinoffs…also ported to PS2, the third was cancelled altogether, and the fourth was one of 2005’s top games, if not the top game of 2005 (and was also ported to PS2). This is the fifth, and not only does it succeed at being one of the more grown up games available for the system, it’s also one of the most outright weirdest games available, from it’s unconventional control scheme, to it’s oddball plot, involving a man with an afro, an elementary school, a child organ harvester, a power rangers-esqe superhero team, and crazy, even if somewhat predictable plot twist. Although there is little replay value, the zany plot alone makes it’s worth the $20 dollars. For kicks, there is an excellent plot analysis available on gamefaqs.com.

Its seems Billy West, the voice of Fry, has posted again on his message board to retract his statement about 26 new episodes of Futurama. It does appear that there will be some sort of Futurama project coming out in the future but a new season is not currently on the agenda, sadly.

From the post:

Guys,
I’m sorry I gave inaccurate info on the cartoon.I was told on one end that the
TV show was a go but DXC enlightened me (with a hammer) that this was
not the case.I think there is a Futurama project as in DVD’s but I appearently
had bad info.But I do live to give good Futurama news to people.So I must’ve
died or something.

All eyes on the skies,

Billy

Thanks to Sam for the heads up.

Action Figure Express has an exclusive version of the Masters of the Universe Sorceress mini-statue coming up from the Four Horsemen. The colors of the regular statue reflect those shown in the animated series from 2004. The exclusive statue uses the color scheme the Four Horsemen originally proposed to Mattel for the show. The colors are very similar to the original scheme from the character in the 80’s version of the animated series.

You can order this statue here. I have a feeling I’ll be ordering one.