Tranformers Paper Dolls, The Question, X3's Aborted Sentinel, New Animated Batman, Doc Frankenstein, Transformers Predict 9/11 9/2/04

9/02/2004

Transformers Paper-Dolls: Yesterday I was in a general-type pissed-off mood because I didn't have any means of acquiring Transformers paper dolls. Today, I'm in a mild haze of sublimation and denial, because now that I have them... they don't speak to me about my life the way I thought they would.



Not even Bumblebee, the VW Bug and human-scale narrative... shit.
Transformers Paper Dolls

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Tommy Lee Edwards on the Question: Yesterday, we here at Monkey + Robot read intently as Rick Veitch told us all these interesting things about the nuanced script in store for the new Question, with references to the originalmaterial and commentary on both the industry and the history of post-Charlton characters... but anyway, we weren't really taking any of that in, because we were paying attention to the art.



Now, Tommy Lee Edwards speaks up: Tommy Lee Edwards on CBR

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X-Men 3: SuperheroHype offers an image to go with all the talk of the aborted Sentinel designs for X2... I remember the concept drawings, and I couldn't wrap my head around a disc that transforms into a fucking Sentinel. Even, like, a really big disc, like the one that The Dub is dancing around on at the Republican National Convention. But this concept maquette actually looks pretty fly...for a robot guy. Maybe that's why I like it. Plus, what's not to like about Sentinels... unless you're a mutie scum type. I mean, they lumber along, talk in broken english, and smash buildings when they fall apart. All good.



"A look at what may come X3 and future X-MEN films. Guy Dyas and James Jones designed this maquette/ sculpture for the computer animators to create a fully CGI Sentinel. Jones provided us with hi-res photos featuring this very maquette/ sculpture.
According to James Jones, the Sentinel would've cost around $8 million!!! Due to the high price, and the budget that X2 had, the mutant hunting machine was cut from the film, including many other planned characters.
*The sculpture is hollow in to show how it can retract itself into a disk.
A previous quote from Bryan Singer (originally appeared in Total Film Magazine):
"The Sentinels are something we looked at for X2. I originally brought Guy Dyas, my production designer, on board to do Sentinel designs for me and he came up with a clever design and built a maquette of it, which actually sits in my home! But we felt, for X2, the concept of giant robots is a difficult sell. But it's definitely something we may have room for in the future."
Booyakasha! Chekkit!

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Batman, Animated: There's a new Batman in town... still green, untested, soon to face a rogue's gallery of famous foes for the first time, with a reliance on technology and intelligence over pure brawn... and this isn't even Batman Begins. It's the premise of the brand-new-you're-retro animated series on the WB. It looks a lot like Bruce Timm's stuff, and he has the tacky yellow chest insignia, but otherwise, looks pretty good. Plus, at least they designed a better Bane. Watch it in hi-res Quicktime or your broadband player of choice: Click Away

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Doc Frankenstein: Burlyman Comics has released a preview of the first book in their new line: Steve Skroce's Doc Frankenstein. Trip out...


">Doc Frankenstein Preview Pages

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The Beat Swipe-age: Once again, The Beat encapsulates perfectly two or three news bits I was going to write about, better than I would anyway... and throws in a few zingers I hadn't heard of yet. So, I humbly steal it all. Kisses!

First, she decides to jump on the Monkey bandwagon...

"Monkey Watch: Tajikistan Needs Monkeys
Operating on the belief that everyone is fascinated by three things -- dinosaurs, pirates and monkeys -- The Beat is instituting a semi-regular feature called Monkey Watch to cover the latest in monkey news and technology. Given comic books' distinguished history of covering the complex relationship between man and monkey, this would seem an appropriate topic for this continuing news blog.

First up, a touching yet puzzling story from central Asia. Monkeys are out of control in India's Himachal Pradesh area, where mischievous simians are rummaging through people's homes, overturning fruit carts, flipping open dustbins, and scattering garbage -- which as we all know, is code for flinging poop.

Authorities are said to be "tearing their hair out" over the monkey scourge, but help may be on the way from Tajikistan: it seems they want more monkeys.

"The Tajikistan government has sent a letter to the Indian government requesting the import of monkeys," says one official. The little scamps would be housed in zoos and sanctuaries.

Now, call The Beat paranoid...but why would any country want to import naughty, poo-flinging, cart-overturning monkeys? Isn't there something suspicious going on here?

Could the Red Skull be behind this?

Developing."

Note she forgot ROBOTS. R O B O T S.

Next, she discovers a weirdly unconvincing hoax auction on ebay: Future Prediction Old Transformers Comics...

"Tranformers Predicted 9/11

Some English fellow is selling a 1991 Transformers comic on eBay he claims predicted 9/11. The comics, written by Simon Furman, shows Rodimus Prime haning between the ruins of the Twin Towers.
wouldn't you like some glimpse into future events, these comics if used to predict events from week to week, they are currently around issue 230, this is august 1989 (2004), and they run until 18th feb 1992 (2007), that means there are over 100 more issues to go, thats almost three years of predictions, i can send you information of exactly what to look for in them, how to make sense of the vague and cryptic predictions, and will allways answer emails from anyone who wants to help understand these better.
Link via The Museum of Hoaxes which doesn't take the claim seriously. However, current Transformer comics contain more terrifying predictions, including a world where nostalgia comics have diminishing sales, and grown men are ashamed to play with robot toys. "

What's weird about this is that my little paper Bumblebee told me that Jesus was going to be Superman.



So says...Wrongrobot!

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