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The Great Potential of John Krasinski as Captain America

March 10, 2010 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Film Features, Haphazard Reckonings, Real Life Happenings!

Frequenters of the internets will have seen that casting for “Captain America: The First Avenger” has been a big news item over the past week or two. The short version is that “The Office’s” John Krasinski (aka Jim Halpert) was initially in the running and an early front-runner for the role. He was then voted the fan-favorite choice by MTV readers, and now it looks like he’s no longer in the game.
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All Day Pizza Buffet: Shrimp Cocktail

February 23, 2010 By: Jim Gibbons Category: All Day Pizza Buffet, Film Features, Food Stuffs

You are what you eat…
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Happy Bale-entine’s Day!

February 08, 2010 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Film Features, Real Life Happenings!

After “The Dark Knight” came out, many among the crew at Wizard HQ back in 2008 were constantly quoting some of the more hilarious lines from “Batman Begins” and “TDK.” While both those movies are extremely enjoyable, Christian Bale’s gruff Batman growl is just too funny not to endlessly mimic. Frequently, during meetings or random conversations, people would growl “Where is she?!” or “Swear to me!” instead of using normal human dialogue.

Safe to say, this made for a pretty fun time around the office.
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Hollywood Overhaul: Remaking Better Comic Movies

January 25, 2010 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Comicks, Film Features

I was digging through some old files on my computer when I came across a piece I pitched to CBR during my brief freelance jaunt, but couldn’t follow through on due to my employment at Dark Horse. Luckily, I wrote an initial draft so it was all ready to be adapted for blogging…
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Movember Moustache Photo Diary: Day 24

November 24, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Facial Hair, Film Features, Real Life Happenings!

Today’s moustache photograph features a special guest. He’s got one of the greatest moustaches in science fiction, sacrificed his life to help destroy the first Death Star and has been immortalized in vinyl figure form. Here he is, my friend and figurine…
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Space ‘Stache and Santa Claus

November 23, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Facial Hair, Film Features, Haphazard Reckonings, Real Life Happenings!, TV guides

Nothing says “Please donate to this worthy cause” like poorly photoshopped promotional materials, so please enjoy this image of me as an astronaut!
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Some of the Best Moustaches in Science Fiction!

November 14, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Facial Hair, Film Features, TV guides

Simply because I love sci-fi and have moustaches on my mind, here’s a collection of some fantastic ’staches from space!
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Getting down to busy-ness

October 20, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Comicks, Facial Hair, Film Features, Grassroots comics love, Real Life Happenings!, Skimming the Internets

Ladies, gentlemen and martian invaders! Greetings! The past few days have been pretty darned busy but I’m back with some blogginess, so dig in!
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All Day Pizza Buffet: Richie

October 15, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: All Day Pizza Buffet, Comicks, Film Features, Illustrations

A quick doodle of Richie Tenenbaum from “The Royal Tenenbaums.”
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Ditto.

September 17, 2009 By: Jim Gibbons Category: Film Features, Illustrations, Skimming the Internets

Patrick Swayze died on Monday. An acting legend and pop culture icon, his death is a considerable loss to the profession and certainly the movie-watching masses, as well.
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