I find it interesting/amusing tha Mark has a scholar's sword rather than something along the longsword/claymore line.

I've just been raiding someone's clixcollection for the REV cannon fodder and I think I made out quite nicely on the deal:

3x Henchman
3x Lackey
3x Thug
3x SWAT Specialist
3x SWAT Heavy Weapons
3x SWAT Officer
3x HDC Trooper
3x Gotham Policeman
2x Easy Company Soldier
3x Metroplis SCU
3x Criminal

32 figs (+ any unlisted extras of their types) + O/S postage to Australia = US$20

The SWAT figures in particular are really nice.

It does? The Cylons have a plan...

My impression of Equinox:

No, a NPC is considered to have ranks equal to the higher of their skill bonus from skilled or their competence bonus. This effects both their rolls and their caps.

Examples?

According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Runaways" is the latest Marvel Comics book to get the big-screen treatment from Marvel Studios.

Brian K. Vaughan, who co-created the series with artist Adrian Alphona, is writing the adaptation, for which Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige will act as producer. Vaughan is also a co-producer and writer on ABC's "Lost"...  While Marvel has already scheduled its next four films through 2011, "Runaways," like the company's "Ant-Man" project, remains in the incubation stages.

Firstly, its going to be a teen movie, which means they're going have to find 7 or 6 good teen actors that can fit the teen roles, which I think are usually harder to cast than adult ones. Secondly, if this thing does become successful and sequels are inevitable, they'd need to have a quick turnaround schedule, ala Harry Potter, or have to keep recasting to keep the ages consistent. Thirdly, there's a mental image of them taking cues from The O.C. or Gossip Girl in order to target the teen audience... which provides a nice transition to the X-Men news...

Apparently, Fox isn't planning to be stop sodomizing the X-Men license anytime in the near future as a 'X-Men 4' is in the works, with The O.C. creator Josh Schwartz writing it.  The rumor mill says that the new movie will focus on the 'young X-Men' and could adapt some of the 'New Mutant' or 'New X-Men/ Academy X' material since, you know, they killed everyone else.

Anyone have any idea when and if the X-Men and Spider-Man licenses will get back to Marvel and Marvel Studio?

BSG Season 3 spoilers

http://aaronrutkoff.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/is-america-ready-for-a-cylon-president/

Koschei:



I edited the result in Photoshop to move the gun to the left hand, engrave the blade, return the end of th etie and improve the feet. Sadly the program doesn't seem to do lace-ups for the ladies unlike Heromachine. The red is meant to be something like the stripe down Han's pants in the Star Wars films

Yeah, I just found that last night. It's utterly brilliant.

Pretty much, except it should take you to the wiki entry

Have you seen the Director's Cut? The romantic subplot and immortality issues are much more prominent and it's a vastly superior film as a result, so I can kind of see where he's coming from - kind of. Ultimately the best realization of the concept would be a fairly equal blend of the three, though I admit that doesn't sound like what Davis is shooting for.

I think my main problem is that the modern romance (a) is simply repeating the story beats of the original, and (b) suffers from a critical lack of chemistry between the participants.

The Director's Cut is exceptional, especially the part with the Nazi officer and how it relates to his secretary. "It's a kind of magic. Heh, heh, heh." The line carries so much resonance for later in the film before he goes to fight Kurgan.

All that was in the cinema release version as I recall.

I did see the film while I was in high school

Saw it at school camp. Loved it at first sight.

Bwahaha.

In a way, reminiscent of the forced feminisation body horror of the Alien but potentially made worse that it's happening twice.

He giveth with one hand and takes with the other...

Iron Man writers tackle Highlander remake.

I think I must have missed something, because according to Peter Davis, producer on the original and new film: "romance was key to the series' popularity and will be a central theme in the new film. I would hate to think that people viewed 'Highlander' as a sword fighting movie because it's much more than that. The issues of an immortal falling in love with a woman and knowing she's going to grow old and die in your arms, those are very romantic issues to deal with."


As far as I'm concerned, the cool thing about Highlander was the guys with swords fighting through the ages in search of the Prize. The forensic examiner was pretty much a standard heroine in distress used to initiate the final confrontation and act as (how I hate the term) the audience identification figure. The women in II and III were even more redundant.

Come the series, it wasn't Duncan and any mortal chick that grabbed the largely female audience, it was Duncan, Richie and Methos and the simmering sexual tension between them. The central relationship in Raven was more about a lawbreaker and a cop working together (and was essentially repeated verbatum in Birds of Prey).

I feels all warm & fuzzy over this.

I personally quite dislike the overtly demonic take on4th ed tieflings. They're pretty much epic fail ever since they first showed them, but given they're still relying on the jack ass who redesigned dragons for 3rd ed it's not too surprising.