I was shocked, excited, aroused, and driven mad with ecstasy, having discovered that Mike Mignola's one-shot The Amazing Screw-On Head comic was adapted into twenty-two-&-a-half-minute animated series pilot. Mignola is creator of Hellboy, for the record.
Please go and view it now, on the SciFi Channel's website and fill out their survey. There's a big old button-image in the middle of the page leading to the cartoon.
(Cover image by Mike Mignola, ganked from Dark Horse Comics)
This, ah, strikes a blow for democracy or something. It's a cartoon featuring a clockwork robot head as the main character, his manservant Mister Groin, and Abraham Lincoln is an important supporting character.
The villain, Emperor Zombie, is perhaps the closest representation you will ever find of what I'd be like if I was killed, resurrected as a zombie, and went off to to pursue a career in evil dictatorship. Furthermore, he is voiced by David Hyde Pierce.
Comments (2)
Hey - comic-related but a tad off-topic - I heard a little buzz about a new version of Batgirl, in which the female caped crusader is a *gasp* LESBIAN.... any news, SuperNerd?
Posted by Steph | July 19, 2006 12:40 PM
Posted on July 19, 2006 12:40
Not Batgirl, BatWOMAN. Too different characters. Kathy Kane was the Silver Age Batwoman, who had a niece named Batgirl (the first Batgirl). Anyway, she didn't exist anymore for a long time and then they've just brought her back into play. She's a lesbian, yadda yadda, socialite. Naturally, the piddly fatbeard comic geeks with the lack of the social skills and the conservative bent are up in arms over the whole thing.
There's the slightly dodgy subtext, given that the other three or four visible lesbian characters at DC are all based in Gotham City, that the lesbians are all placed in the bad city because they're all bad and noir and such.
Posted by ben | July 19, 2006 4:02 PM
Posted on July 19, 2006 16:02