Milx and Cookies

You know, I’ve been obsessed with this guy for a while now, so when I saw his name popping up again recently I decided to talk about him here. He’s a comic book artist named Milx. Seriously, Milx. Many years ago, he was getting rather popular, drawing a few comic books. Then, the guy totally disappeared. Just fell off the face of the earth. While he was missing, someone on a popular website started claiming to be him. A few weeks later, the real Milx did an interview and confirmed that he had a breakdown and was hiding out in some city in Malaysia. What does all this matter? It doesn’t really. Milx is back now and starting work on a new comic book. If I was really mean I’d start taking bets on when he was going to have his next freakout. However, I’ve effectively written the word Milx six times now, so my work here is done.

Git R Done

Man, I wish I was making this one up. IDW is a comic book company that specializes in putting out licensed comics. Or in other words, comics based on existing properties. Metal Gear Solid, CSI, Castlevania, and 24 are just a few of the properties that IDW have turned into (bad) comic books. Now, however, they’re stepping over the line. They’re bringing in comic book legend (and total windbag. That’s right, I said windbag) Frank Miller to write and illustrate a comic book based off of his favorite comedian. Larry the Cable Guy. Yeah, I know. Let it sink in. Larry the Cable Guy. Written and drawn by Frank Miller. I could go on and on about horrible this is, but I just puked on my laptop.

Quentin Glass is wrapped up in something

Thomas Jane, star of The Punisher, has confirmed that the script is almost finished for the sequel and that it’s “darker, bloodier, and more unfriendly” than the first one. This makes me infinitely happy as I thought the first one was awesome. It’s nice to know that every once in a while, Hollywood gets it right.

Fly that angry green Bana

It’s all but been confirmed that Eric Bana, star of the first Hulk movie, will not be returning to play Bruce Banner/Hulk in the upcoming sequel. If the new director is to be believed, it’s not even going to be a sequel. They’re going to throw out the entire first movie and start over, a la Batman Begins.

Tom Brevoort hates black people

Okay, not really. However, the target of so much of my ire lately isn’t helping himself out by posting on his new Marvel blog. In fact, he’s pretty much just tossing more logs into that little furnace called “internet”. In a recent post, while trying to explain that he doesn’t go out of his way to be off putting, Brevoort is completely off putting. Plus, he misspells the word possible (possibel to be exact) which I find hilarious to see an editor posting something with spelling mistakes. Then he goes on to explain how he’s too busy to double check anything he posts online, so I wonder if he misspelled the word just to make him seem more like a normal guy. However, we’re all assured in the end that the man known as Brevoort will “never knowingly lie” to us. That’s reassuring. On a related note, I can fly. Seeing as I’ve never tried, that’s not me knowingly telling you a lie. Plus, I can build race cars with my mind and they can drive five hundred light speed parsecs per millisecond and punch holes in the fabric of time and reality and teleport the driver into a land where Pepsi tastes like coke and coke tastes like dr pepper. That’s not knowingly a lie either. Man, this honesty thing is really working for me.

Do you want cocaine and whores with that?

Falling into the “I probably should have reported this last week but oh well” category is the naming of Robert Downey Jr. as the lead role in the Iron Man movie. That’s right, the tin man finally found his heart. Or brain, I can’t remember which one. Hold on, was tin man the one who needed the courage, because he was all rusty or something? Regardless, the Iron Man movie now has a star. Most people had assumed that an unknown actor was going to be cast in the role. Why they assumed that, I have no clue. In other Iron Man movie casting news, Terrence Howard, star of Hustle and Flow, has been cast to play Rhodey Rhodes, a guy with the most ridiculous name in the history of earth. Well, aside from Cher. In other casting news, Dolph Lundgren is in talks to play a Russian boxer in the film.

You’ve not killed me yet James Bond

Well, it looks like I’ve only got one more week here at the Bum’s Rush. Next week I’d like to do a special question and answer section for my last column. If you’ve got a question about anything related to anything I’ve talked about in my time here, or just a question in general, please email it to freejenkins@gmail.com and I’ll answer it right here in the column. No subject is off limits (unless it is really explicit), so ask away!




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