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Comic Brian Posehn formed a metal band for a track on his new album. It pretty successfully lampoons metal song and video conventions, even throwing in references that only real metal fans would get. Scott Ian of Anthrax is on guitar, and Brian’s real life wife and dogs are even in the video. Look for another Mr. Show vet in a cameo.
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This past week Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting became the fastest selling Xbox Live Arcade game so far, but Street Fighter fans need look no further than this enthusiastic cosplayer who invaded Otakon to celebrate their favorite franchise.

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I wasn’t a fan of the TV show. I was hardly looking forward to the movie when it was announced.

But a funny thing happened: The Colbert Report. I began to really get an respect him, and went looking in his history and sure enough, Colbert was on the old Comedy Central series “Exit 57” with Strangers with Candy co-creators Paul Dinello and Amy Sedaris. I thought I’d take a look with a more open mind this time.

Now, the movie was getting mixed reviews, so I was still a little skeptical. Even the trailer wasn’t entirely impressive.

Thankfully, I enjoyed myself. In fact, I really loved this movie. I haven’t laughed this hard since Anchorman (and I still giggle like a moron at the mention of Dorothy Mantooth). Strangers With Candy the movie drops the afterschool special conventions the show had, but it gains better pacing as a result. Voiceovers and monologs are gone, instead giving way to more screwball convict talk, racism, and homoeroticism. Its a real family movie.

Now like I said, I wasn’t a fan of the show, so if this is mostly recycled jokes I wouldn’t know. Still I found Sedaris to be positively astounding as Jerri Blank, bouncing between a moronic child to streetwise hustler at the drop of a hat. Colbert and Dinello return as teachers Mr. Noblet and Mr. Jellineck, though their screen time is diminished to more supporting roles. Cameos from famous fans like Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Mathew Broderick add little, as their scenes are stolen in every instance by Greg Holliman’s Principal Onyx Blackman.

So I’m going to make this appeal to you, dear reader. If you missed the show the first time around or maybe just didn’t think it was funny, try the movie. It doesn’t quite push the limit like South Park or Chappelle, but the final line of dialouge left my mouth agape in shock and I was laughing well after I’d left the theater.

Of course, this review won’t change your mind now, but maybe you’ll watch it on cable in 6 months anyway.

Oh boy, this is going to be a regular ongoing joke, isn’t it? [Read the rest of this entry…]

Thanks to Joey O.

Update: No longer requires quicktime.

In one of the more bizarre licensing deal announced at SDCC, Oni Press has announced it will be publishing a monthly comic based on the NBC show My Name Is Earl.

In the show, Jason Lee plays a criminal who wins the lottery and sets about righting the wrongs he’d done in his life in order to enhance his karma.

The comic book will focus on Earl and Randy crossing off items on the list that can’t be done on the show, or fit better in the comic medium. The first issue will featuring Earl replacing comic books (of course!) from someone he stole from at a comic convention. From there, future Earl stories include him flying a plane, destroying the Hoover Dam, and repairing it. Hunter Covington, scriptwriter for the Earl TV series, is set to write the comic, but no artist has been mentioned.

Link: BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM ONI PRESS AT COMIC-CON 2006!

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Some get kittens, some learn sign languane, and some get to play Ms Pac-Man.