Heroclix - Colesium of Comics Venue - 1/31/2009

Okay, remember when I said I took a Hiatus? Well, I guess that's why they call them "Hiatuses" because I got completely hammered during this event. lol.

It took at place at the Coliseum of Comics Orlando Fashion Square Mall

But it was all in good fun!

To RE-cap, this was my 1,000 Pt Team

I liked the way it was run though very creative.

Basically, you had a 1000 point team, then you had 2-200 point RESERVE teams. The ran like this per our judge Tyroclix (Click on his name, and you'll see the FULL Results, you can also click on the "Full Results" to get the "FULL results". lol)

TYPE: Constructed (Pyrrhic Victory 5)
INFO: 1000 point, + 2 200 point Reserve teams to come in if a player loses more than 100 points in a round, 30 points in Feats, 5 actions - all damage and KO's carry over throughout the tournament. Shock the Turtle in effect as well on any turn no figure is KO'd.

My 2- 200 pt RESERVE Heroclix teams were

1 - Ant-Man, Grim Reaper, and S.R. Quicksilver
2 - Karnak, Shang Chi, and Shang Chi

I got a total of SIX points. LOL. These guys were good though. I got taken out by the series of "Omacs" in the second round. And had a fledging reserve team left (Ant-man, Grim-Reaper, SR Quicksilver) - going up against Dream girl, Doctor Strange, and Green Lantern.

"Curses I was foiled by those crazy kids! And I would've one if it weren't for those pesky Perplexers!"

- Evil Tony

Evil Tony's Hero Clix Tournament - Coming Tomorrow!

Well, I have been out of the loop playing Heroclix for a time now. But I will be taking a trip to Orlando.

The tournament setup.

1 - 1000 pt game

and apparently from the Heroclix Judge he wanted us to bring 2- 200 pt teams with us as well. I am assuming we're playing 2 games with 2-200 pt teams, is that right Tyroclix?

So I am looking forward to this. Even though this is last minute, I am ready to go with my teams!

I took a picture of the 1000 pt Team


Time: 6 pm
Place: Colesium of Comics at the Fashion Square Mall in Orlando, FL

(CoC's MySpace Page)

Been a long time, had to print out some old Players Abilities sheet. LOL

Anyhow looking forward to this, I can finally play some HEAVY hitters!

The Tale of Two Jokers Part II - Interview with Safire (Flames of Blue)

I talked with this cutie in blue with the same lines of questions about The Joker Comparisons. She goes by the name of Safire.
She's able to shoot blue flames (natural gas?), fly and heal quickly.

www.myspace.com/safiremodel

E.T. How do you feel about Heath Ledger now being dead and not being able to play the joker anymore?

Safire: It's definitely a shame that Heath Ledger is gone. He was an excellent actor and his portrayal of the Joker was really well done.

E.T. If you thought the Dark Knight Joker was great, do you think anyone could do just as well performance-wise in the next Dark Knight?

Safire: While I'm sure there are other actors who could do a great job as the Joker, I'd prefer if they didn't bring back the character. There are plenty of other enemies that can be used in future Batman movies. Harley Quinn would've been cool to team up with the Joker, but with Ledger gone, I wouldn't do anything with either of those villains.

E.T. How does Heath Ledger and Jack Nicholson; please compare and contrast.

Safire: What I liked about Ledger's Joker is that he played it so differently than Nicholson's Joker. Nicholson was really entertaining as the Joker, but was a lot less serious and had some great interactions with his underlings. Ledger seemed to be misunderstood and not diving into another Joker origin story (that would attempt to humanize him) was a great idea. It allowed him to just be a supervillain.

There you have it, straight from Safire! "Extinguishing crime one flame at a time!"

Don't Get Mad, Get Pwned!

Okay, ever had that friend who, for some reason when physically nuts playing video games, be it in public at an arcade or at home playing on a game console?

I have, and sometimes it isn't pretty, lol. Back when I was about 18 or 19 years old, I hung out with this friend of mine who was a Street Fighter II Fanatic! He'd play it religiously and quit constantly.

When he would be getting slaughtered by the computer, he'd always blame it on the block function, you know the function where you pull BACK on the joystick to block an attack? Well, apparently it wasn't working for him, and finally, when again the block function would not work.

I swear I thought he was going through a seizure or something and all his veins in his forehead were about to explode. He would yell, (in a public place mind you....I think it was a in-mall drug Dollar General store,lol), obscenities and other colorful metaphors as he YANKED as hard as he could on the joystick pulling the machine about a foot or two.

He would say, "blankity blank, BLOCK.... BLOOOOCK you stupid..BLANK!!...BLOOOOOOOCK!!!!"

I would be thinking, "Man I don' t know this guy!" But this was my first experience seeing someone get mad at a video game.

Anyone care to share their experiences with people they know getting mad at video games?

Comment below if you have

The Tale of Two Jokers - Interview with Bobby Nash

I just had the pleasure of conducting interviews of some people I know from MySpace and other internet personalities I have known for a while. Basically, I had posed some questions to the latest Dark Knight movie, asking certain personalities to compare and contrast the JOKER character and the actors that had played them.

Let me first start with Bobby Nash "Writer@Large!:

www.myspace.com/bobbynash

He is known for his titles "Evil Ways, Domino Lady and Lance Star. ( I take it the Rocketeer was your favorite movie, right Bobby? ;-))

Anyhow, I posed a few of these questions to Bobby (and later to other personalities) about his thoughts on the "Two Jokers". Here is what occured:

E.T. - How do you feel about Heath Ledger now being dead and not being able to play the joker anymore?

B.N. - I feel bad for the next actor who plays the role because of the inevitable comparisons that will happen. I enjoyed Heath's performance in the movie. He was a very talented actor.

E.T. - If you thought the Dark Knight Joker was great, do you think anyone could do just as well performance-wise in the next Dark Knight?

B.N. - Sure. I'm sure the comparisons will be there between both actor's performances, which is understandable. I'm just afraid that aspect would overshadow the film itself.

E.T. - How does Heath Ledger and Jack Nicholson; please compare and contrast.

B.N. - Well, they both played the Joker in a Batman movie. The comparisons end there. Both of these movies were aiming for a different feel. Burton's Batman was a stylized approach where as Nolan's movie had more of the real world aspect. Different films, different times, different performances. I do like both of them in the role.

E.T. - Anything else you want to add, feel free. :-)

B.N. - While I like both Nicholson and Ledger in the role, my favorite actor to portray the Joker remains Mark Hamill.

E.T. - Oh man, I almost forgot about Mark Hamill! He did the cartoon Joker! He did a pretty darned good job. It was funny, because I did not realize he did the voice for the cartoon Joker until I saw him on a show that listed the Top (X) Villians or something of that nature (can't remember the title.) Because he did it in front of the viewers, and I was thinking, "Holy Cow! It was him?!" Amazing

Anyhow, thank you Bobby Nash for your answers. I'm sure Heath will be missed, and had probably disappointed a lot of other fans that he wouldn't be playing any FUTURE JOKERS.

The Two Jokers - Let Me Compare

I'm going to give an opinion here about the recent Joker played by Heath Ledger vs. the older Jack Nicholson counter-part. I have to say, for a while I thought Joker er....Jack Nicholson was a good actor for The Joker. In fact, at that time, I thought they picked a good character for the Joker. Well, Jack Nicholson has always been one of those actors that played a good scary guy, ever since the days of "The Shining" which probably landed him in that kind of part. I mean, if you thinking "The Joker" played by Jack Nicholson, you're probably also thinking, "Yeah, 'The Shining'!"

The face of him in the shining compared to his face when he said, "Wait'll they get a load of me!"....uncanny and very well suited to the part.

At that point, I figured no one could compare to Jack Nicholson's part. Then Heath Ledger came around. I was thinking, "Holy cow! Totally Crazy!"

He played a perfect style of The Joker. The mannerisms, the nervous ticks (both facial and motor skills as well). Every time I saw him interact, he gave me this feeling of bugs crawling on my back, it was as if I was anticipating him attempting to do something almost Hannibal Lector-ish or even worse, but he never did because it wouldn't be suitable for that movie rating, but he DID give you that feeling he was about to do something atrocious.

I liked the way the butler Alfred described the personality of the Joker was pretty much dead on. Just did what he did for the sake of doing it, no motive behind what he did. It was more of a hobby to The Joker.

I like how he referred to Batman as in "Kill THE Batman"

All in all, Heath Ledger REALLY took the cake in this part, in fact, I think it'll be a major dissapointment to not see him anymore in any futre Dark Knight movies.

Over A Billion Plus ME Served!

Well, I saw this McDonald's advertisement for their Double Cheesburg special value meal for $2.99. What a deal! I call it the "Recession Meal"!

With it you get a DOUBLE CHEESEBURGER!


Medium Fries!!


And a Medium Soft Drink (I got a SPRITE!! Mmmm!)

Marvel - Blast from the Past

Can anyone tell me what this ad meant when it ran in the 80's? And what it was all about?

I need to get caught up! Thanks!

FUN with Iron Man DVD Case!

I had taken these pictures back when the COOL Iron Man DVD came out and paid a few extra bucks for the "fancy" case.

Here is me capturing my EXCITMENT when opening the case and discovering the features and SECRETS within' Tony Starke's Mask

I'll try to do this in order

Here's me all happy and joyful at just having the the Marvel Ironman DVD in my hands!

Now, here's the kicker, I'm wondering, "HUH? How do I open this up?? Where is the DVD and if there IS indeed a DVD in there, how do I get to it?? Was this all just a hoax to get me to buy just a plastic casing of the Ironman Mask and NOTHING MORE?

Woooooooo!!!!! I figured it out! I was able to find out where Tony Starke's SECRET compartment in his mask to find the sensitive data with his movie within!

This ALSO doubles as a mask!! I decided to take a piece yarn and tie it to my face so I could walk around the neighborhood acting like I'm Tony Starke and singing "I AM IRON MAN!!" Yeah, kind of weird. But worth it!

All, in all I really enjoyed the movie, outtakes, documentaries and so on! This movie was awesome!

"A Dog's Breafast Review"

Coming SOON! By Evil Tony

My Infiltration into Camp Hammond - Avengers Initiative #1

Well, I have a recon photo of myself posing as a lab asst. at the Camp Hammond facility. See that clipboard looks like a lab bench sheet, but it's really me taking notes on that fateful day where MVP was blasted to bits by a piece of weaponry and laid to rest and hidden deep in the facility. I planned on taking my report to "Frontline".

My disguise allows me to appear as one of the "good guys". That's one of my amazing abilities. Nothing happened here today, Mr. Peter Gyrich? Want to make a bet? That's why they call me Evil Tony.

Computer Stuff in The Olden Days

Look what I dug up, a portion of an old Best Buy ad, I guess this is when Best Buy first came about. Look at the unaffordable prices for computer hardware.

And good ol DUKE! LOL

Hard to believe, back in the day you could get an 8.4 gig hard drive for 300 bucks! lol (Question, and if anyone can answer this, how come they made hard drive memory storage in the decimals? Why not just round up or round down? Why have 8.4 and no 8? or Just 9 gig?

And look at the MMX Processor upgrade, that was something that you added on next to some slot next to the actual CPU, before MMX Processors came out as a whole!


That's funny, seems like Duke Nuke 'Em never made an actual sequel, well they tried...but not the one we wanted.

They're ACTION Figures not Dolls!

Ever have people make fun of you because they call your collectible action figures "dolls"? I see it on sitcoms all the time. Some nerdy character on the show would get all in a huff about it when his sports loving friends would call his action figures "dolls".

But hey, they could be worth something in the future, right? You never know. I am thinking my items won't be worth anything until I'm in my Golden Years and Joe Quesada will be the age Stan Lee is right now. lol.

By that time, what will comic books NOW be called when they've reached the "Golden Aged"? Would they have to come up with new categories of old comics? Anyways, that's another post (funny how I think of NEW posts when typing current ones.)

Anyhow, back to action figures, I was wondering if you would all like to post a pic or just tell us what your current FAVORITE action figure is in your collection.

Are they the small ones that kids typically tear out of packages on their birthdays and Christmas to play with in their backyards, and burying them not to be found again, or, if found, slung into a window by a lawn mower blade, or even worse, mangled by a lawn mower blade. Thus driving up the value of said figure.

Or, do you like the larger life-like ones? Like the 12 to 18-inch action figures?

Some of my favorites are...and this seems to be the MOST recent one, the Army of Darkness S Mart Ash

He's standing on top of that roll-away card while he's unloading into the modern day deadite

Then there's the Cult Classic Army of Darkness 7-inch Ash

With the cape and all.

I have the old McFarland Toy Ash where he talks to you, it's motion sensitive, one time it scared the daylights out of me, apparently I had company over and they were looking at it, and had left it ON without me knowing about it. I came in one night, was unlocking the door, and when I walked into the dark living room...then I hear "Alright......who want's some....who's next??!!"

It was sounded like an electronic whisper that nearly scared the heck out of me! My hair stood up on the back of my neck LITERALLY. I thought someone was IN my house!! Thing of it was...it was dark..so I could not look around to see what was making the sound....so I couldn't look over and go , "Oh, ha ha, it was just Ash doing that."

Nope, I creeped as slowly as possible on over to the light...turned it on....looked in the direction of where the "voice" came from. Then what was SAID finally registered, the Army of Darkness quote....I go, "Ooooh..." and realized what it was! LOL

Cam Test 2 All Angles (Well Most)

Just doing my Web Cam test from angles

Testing My Webcam

Testing 1....2.....3....




I can't seem to get any SOUND to work.

Army of Darkness Mantle Pieces

Okay, some people have tiny little curio pieces on their mantles others have nautical equipment. I have Army of Darkness pieces on mine. Quite uncommon, but I am a fan of Army of Darkness and most things Bruce Campbell. (I tried watching burn notice....kind of a snooze fest, sorry Bruce. But hey, your known for your B-Movie acting, right?)

From my left (or your left) to my right (or your right).

1. The Sideshow Army of Darkness 12-inch figure
2. Evil Ash action figure
3. Photoshot of an Army of Darkness still with Ash's BOOMSTICK!
4. Autographed "Book of the Dead", aka - Necronomicon
Don't BELIEVE ME? I Have PROOF...PHOTOGRAPHIC proof! Right here

Me and Bruce Campbell, down here

You can SEE my book right there, Bruce Campbell is getting ready to sign it!

5. The Ash and the Pit Witch Action Figure

6. The Army of Darkness Lunchbox

I have acquired these while on my shopping spree. I tell you what, meeting Bruce Campbell was a great experience. But that's another blog post altogether. I have always been a fan of the obscure actors and movies.

Anyhow, feel free to enjoy my mantle collection!

Debating on getting a domain name or not

I am considering a domain name for myself, but I might or might not do that depending on the popularity of this blog, so I'll wait and see.

Anyone think I should?

Evil T.

The Hero Initiative: The Hero Initiative is looking for a few good video crews!

The Hero Initiative: The Hero Initiative is looking for a few good video crews!

The Marvel Universe Conundrum

I figured I’d just start off 2009 not telling you about myself (in detail) about myself, but how I entered to explore the Marvel Universe and my puzzling experience with it. I’m not criticizing, but it can be an inconvenience if you’re not one to go out and “buy it all”!

Truthfully, I had just gotten back into comic books in the past couple of years. Prior to that it was only Jr. High was when I had an interest in Marvel Comics. The reason I had gotten back into them is that I wanted to expand my current “nerdiness” from just computer and video/computer gaming related activities to other ventures. Comic books had been my next venture along with a short bout with Heroclix and MTG (Magic the Gathering – still a complete newb at that game, lol)

Anyhow, I think the reason I stopped with the whole Marvel Universe world was because I kept getting tired of the variants of different comic book titles of the SAME character, ( I still find them trying to this very day, however had become more tolerant – perhaps the whole Marvel movies actually helped it along as well.).

In case you’re wondering what I mean, for example, titles such as (at least back in the 80’s when I gave up on collecting them) “The Sensational Spiderman”, “The Spectacular Spiderman”, “Peter Parker: Spiderman”, “The Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman”, etc, etc. I think at the time there were 3 running at the same time, and I think I stopped collecting it because it actually turned me off to making purchases of different variants of comics of the same character. It just didn’t make much sense to me. Guess I was too cheap as well. lol

This turned me off for a while, until I was able to tolerate it more in my adult life. I just collected what I thought was interesting to me personally. Whatever other variants I didn’t collect, I just used my imagination as to what is going on in those other variants. Are they just separate variants that are complete different stories kept apart from the other variants of the same character? Do they not follow the same timeline OR run parallel to each other?

For instance, I had been following the “Secret Invasion”, however this “Invasion” has also crept into the separate comics as well,”tie-ins” as you would call them. From what I’m gathering as I am reading them together, it seems you’re watching what’s going on from different perspectives. I read “The Punisher” for a short time during the “Death of Captain America” where the “Big News” on the Jumbo-tron of Cap’s death interrupted the Punisher’s story. I found that pretty interesting. Though you have to admit, there’d be “notes” in little squares at the bottoms of the corners with “*’s” indicating “As seen in Thor #15”, not sure that would have me running out to buy “Thor #15”, but it sheds some light on things.

I had never been that much of a fan to the point of collecting every tie-in, variant, and the like to get a closure of what’s going on with the Marvel Universe, but I do like it and what it has to offer. Plus if need me I can keep up with other dedicated fans should I ever have a question like, “Why did Wolverine kill that guy?” or “Where did Spiderman get his black costume?”.

Anyhow, hope this sheds some light about me in this New Year. Anyhow ttfn!

- Fin (Typical comic book ending)

E.T. – (a.k.a. – Evil Tony)