Crimson and Gold

While making this comic I discovered the difference between 'armour' and 'armor'. Americans use armor and the UK uses armour. This would be interesting if it wasn't so dull. Game of Thrones on the other hand is very interesting, as is Iron Man. Here's a few things I learned whilst on line not looking up the difference between armour and armor.

Julian Glover (Grand Maester Pycelle) was in The Empire Strikes Back as General Veers aswell as Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade as Walter Donovan.  Michelle Fairley (Catelyn Stark) was Hermione’s Mum in Harry Potter. Harry Lloyd (who plays Viserys Targaryen ) is the great-great grandson of Charles Dickens.

Most of these came from Uproxx.com so check that out for more of the same.
Also here's the Joffery/ Bieber tumbler that's been doing the rounds, just for the lulz.
http://joffreybieber.tumblr.com

Enemy at the Gates

Loki's helmet always looked a little cumbersome to me. Awesome but impractical. In the comics Thor spoke with like a Shakespearean thing going on, 'Thou hast been slain!' etc. This is a bit weird considering he's a Norse God. Also in the comics I guess they didn't know what to do with him so they gave him an alter ego 'Donald Blake' which is bizarre. Donald is a mild mannered doctor who hits a stick off things to become the 'Thunder God Thor'! When the film came out all the white supremacists were up in arms because the Norse God 'Heimdall' was played by one of those dark skinned fellows 'Idris Elba'. Seems that the KKK are comic fans, I suppose that explains their love of costumes and secret identities. Anyway they boycotted the movie or something because they changed a fictional character's skin colour.

The Scarecrow

Welcome to the 150th comic. Please enjoy Batman and The Scarecrow in their epic battleings.
I saw 'Oz: The great and powerful' the other week and it was pretty serviceable, mostly because James Franco is hilarious in anything he's in and because both Mila Kunis and Rachel Weisz are in it. A couple of things have to be said about it though. Quite a lot of cleavage for a kids film and green cleavage at that. Mila Kunis has a big green moon face which (not witch, ha!) is fairly distracting along with said green cleavage. Also Mila kunis has a screechy Meg Griffin voice that doesn't work well when she shouts and she shouts alot in this. This has turned into a bit of a Kunis bashing hasn't it? She's good in other stuff just not as the wicked witch. I'd like to add that the flying 'bellboy' monkey was well done, the other flying monkeys were terrifying and that like most movies, this one was about a half an hour too long.

Bones

Not my most specific of drawings this one. The penguin thing is pretty much a blue triangle but what's wrong with blue triangles eh? As I type this there is a kid on the train about 10 years old who's rhyming off facts and figures about Carrickfergus and it's castle. 'There's Carrick Castle! It was built round a well in Norman times!' For some reason this is annoying me. He's being precocious and he needs a slap. No one asked for his facts and figures, he's just spouting them so he can feel all grown up and smart. I'm all grown up and smart and it didn't do me any good so someone give that kid a beer and a couple of Jagerbombs and maybe he'll puke up all those useless smarts and he can feel the hangover tomorrow like a real man.

The Golem of Liberty

Happy Easter everyone! Enjoy your chocolate representations of the stone that kept Jesus's body trapped in his tomb. I find it weird that France gave America a big statue of a lady with a book and a night light, but I suppose what do you get the country that has everything....

Dress Up 2

The first Fantastic Four movie was kinda meh. The thing was a big rubber power rangers villain (this guy is supposed to be able to go toe to toe with The Hulk remember) and Doctor Doom was that guy from Nip Tuck...... the less said about that the better. Chris Evans as the Human Torch was good but lets face it....it was a bit crappy. Fantastic Four 2 was also meh. They had Galactus as a villain but they didn't show him. WTF? This is a giant robot looking' guy with a massive purple helmet (*ahem*) who EATS planets.....how awesomely insane would that be in a movie? Apparently too awesome for Fox to show us.  Here's how I imagine he should have made his grand entrance in the third act of the movie....

Expresso

I always thought it was weird that Starbucks had that 2 lobster clawed lady as their logo. Then I found out that it was actually a mermaid.....with 2 tails. You can see the original 'starbucks siren' design below (from http://www.logodesignlove.com/starbucks-logo-evolution). Is it just me or is the image of a 2 tailed mermaid splaying herself to the world kind of horrific? They did seem to get around the problem of how can you do it with a sexy mermaid if her entire bottom half is a fish tail though. Smart. I also think the fact that starbucks logo is a figure from greek mythology that lures sailors to their death is an odd choice too.

Pet Shop

Gremlins was a pretty dark movie, I watched it at Christmas there and an old lady was fired out the top window to her death on a stair lift. Also the story about how Kate's dad died stuck up the chimney at christmas dressed as santa claus was pretty grim. While on the interwebs i found this on wikipedia.

Since its release, some people have criticized Gremlins as being culturally insensitive. Some observers have commented that the film presents gremlins as African Americans. In Ceramic Uncles & Celluloid Mammies, Patricia Turner writes that the gremlins "reflect negative African-American stereotypes" in their dress and behavior. They are shown "devouring fried chicken with their hands", listening to black music, breakdancing, and wearing sunglasses after dark and newsboy caps, a style common among African American males in the 1980s.

Maybe they were wearing sunglasses because they are allergic to sunlight? Maybe they were eating chicken with their hands because cutlery is pretty difficult for gremlins to figure out. Maybe they're just plain racist yo!

Titanic Avenged

Last year was the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. You would think we would celebrate the year that it was built or something rather than the year it sank but hey they didn't make a movie about that so we'll go with the anniversary of the deaths. That would have been quite a different movie though wouldn't it? Leonardo Dicaprio would be hammering rivets into metal for 2 hours 50 feet in the air with no safety harness and what's her face would be eating sugar plums in the Harland and Wolff offices.

Recently they opened a Museum thing about the titanic in Belfast. Check out Pastiebap's review here.

Skullington Boy

Skeletons live inside you. You have 206 bones in your body. This is all I care to say on the matter. If your heath had skeletons you would have little skeletons living in your mouth. If you want to learn more about skeletons go to the wikipedia page, you can see a skeleton man riding a skeleton horse. Thats pretty cool huh? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeletons