Gina Torres in a interview with Wired Magazine on Women in Comics

There aren’t really any skinny bitches in the world of comic books…they’ve got muscle. . . . in that comics world they’re all curvaceous. They’re strong. And it’s important to have strong images of women out there, women who aren’t afraid of expressing themselves, women who aren’t afraid of taking chances, women who aren’t afraid of their own power.”

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I must admit that I had never heard of Percy Jackson until I saw the teaser trailer last fall.  I am a huge mythology nut, especially Greco-Roman mythology, so this movie looked like it was right up my alley.  After watching the movie, I was more than a little pleased.  I kinda liked how they made Percy similar to Perseus, whose exploits were fictionalized in Clash of the Titans starring Harry Hamlin, and will be reimagined in this years Clash of the Titans starring Sam Worthington. 

Percy is the son of Poseidon (Kevin McKidd) God of the Seas and Earthquakes and one of the Big Three (Zeus and Hades).  Being the son of one of the Big Three gives him a considerable amount of power.  We saw him use his power over water; it will be interesting to see if they work in the earthquake powers if the series continues.

I haven’t read the books and don’t know how closely it tracks to the source material.  I am not sure if they are going to make this a franchise, but considering how popular the book is, I am sure that there were discussions.  The story was decent and the pacing was good.  When it ended, I seemed to want more, and as a movie goer that’s a good sign.  However, it ended in a way that if they don’t ever do another Percy Jackson movie it isn’t as if the story left you hanging.

The effects were good and the CGI was seamless with the live action.  All of the actors were perfect in their roles, though I did have a hard time buying Alexandra Daddario (Kate in White Collar) as a 17 year old.

Oh, and don’t think of this post as just another reason to post a picture of Rosario Dawson.

http://www.mania.com/10-influential-africa…cle_120722.html

I really hate these list when people don’t put more than 5 min worth of thought into it. The fact that you have Richard Roundtree and Michael Jackson on the list tells me this list is @$#$#!$ up.    Seriously “Mania”  what the hell does Richard Roundtree have to do with Sci-fi even in your article you only mentioned his small role in “Se7ven”.    This has to be one of those list where you wanted to create some buzz by putting MJ as #1, instead of taking the time to put some thought into a  meaningful list.

Last night I had to watch The Deep End, Grey’s Anatomy, and Private Practice.  Some might say, “hey, that’s a pretty good night of television.”  No it isn’t for a scifi fan.  I can’t remember a time when I watched a whole night of ABC.  Of course I could have put in a movie or two, but I want my sci-fi TV.  Fox is trying to throw us a bone by giving us a new show Past Life.  I watched about 6 minutes and 30 seconds of it before I realized how inferior it was to Medium, besides being a wee bit slow.

Could I have watched the Olympics? Sure.  I tried that the other night, and found myself bored to death by the skating event, and then I was unmoved by the women’s alpine skiing (congratulations to Lindsey Vonn and Shani Davis for their gold medals.)  But after last night, I draw the line.  I want Fringe, V, Bones, The Mentalist, Flash Forward, and all the other “be back in March” shows back on right now.  Don’t make me have to start watching America’s Best Dance Crew, Project Runway, or some other “fun to watch” reality show.

Source  CBR

In a interview with CBR writer Jeff Parker talks about the addition of 3-D man to “Agents of Atlas”.   Here’s a few excerpts

The idea for forging the various characters of “Atlas” into a team first came in 1978’s “What If?” #9, a book that featured 3-D Man. However, when you brought those characters into the current continuity with “Agents of Atlas” #1, you left 3-D Man out because he was a character created in the ’70s and not from books published by Marvel Comics’ predecessor, Atlas. Now it appears as though the current 3-D Man is going to play a large role in May’s “Atlas” #1. What made you want to look at him now, and is this the original 3-D Man or the new one who adopted the identity during “Secret Invasion?”

He kept coming up, and Gabe Hardman and I came up with a neat way to build a story  around him. This is Delroy, the current 3-D Man, formerly Triathlon [from Kurt Busiek's run on "Avengers"]. He has a kind of convoluted personal history, but don’t worry, you won’t need to know it. And you will also be seeing Chuck, the original 3-D Man.

Again, don’t fret over the continuity of the character; it will be told in a way that is very easy to get into, yet work with what has come before. Gorilla-Man will not tolerate having to listen to someone’s wending origin story.

Well, the theatrical trailer for M. Night Shayamalan’s and Nickelodeon’s The Last Airbender was released.  I doesn’t look all that great to me, in fact it looks pretty bad.  I suggest you save yourself the trouble and just go watch the animated version.  As a matter of fact, if you’ve seen the animated version, go watch it again.  I don’t have high hopes for this movie.  In fact, it may go down in flames much like the Dragonball movie or Street Fighter movie that came out not too long ago.  But, if you must insist, I have posted the trailer here if you really need to see it.  For the record, I do have issues with the casting since but they won’t be addressed in this post.