Michael Hutchison: August 2008 Archives

I'd meant to do a Wizard World Chicago wrap-up, but I just couldn't find my business cards. I'd collected cards, fliers, handouts and freebies, all with the intention of posting a links-and-pictures heavy post... but having misplaced the cards I put it off. Now that I found these, it's time for a belated Wizard World post.

The other reason I put it off was that it was so demoralizing. Attendance was low (blame the economy, blame gas prices), Chuck Dixon had just been fired from DC, and I sold only a few issues of Metro Med. There were some positives, sure, but overall the thing was disappointing. My spirits have been low for a while, so I haven't been posting. Sorry.

I shall share the pain shortly.

I was looking over the "If Celebrities Moved To Oklahoma" pictures and realized: Photoshop is so good that I could swear these were real pictures. Of course, with the fauxtography scandals of recent years where news organizations are running pictures with extra smoke, extra missiles, etc., I guess I knew that. Still... these would be disturbing if they weren't so funny.

Tell me that isn't the real Tom Cruise. You could have fooled me! (Seriously, you could have.)

I hadn't heard a thing about this movie, and yet it looks great and is already playing in a few markets!

I'm not the only one who finds Christian Bale's Batman voice a bit less-than-perfect.

No, not the loser character from Zero Hour.

Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog rips on the sweaty virgin nerds at Comic Con. Including PvP's Scott Kurtz.

Conan O'Brien also has the full speech as a web exclusive.

There's my book! Awesome.