Marvel Anime: Iron Man – Complete Series
DVD
Directed by Yuzo Sato
Written by Warren Ellis
Marvel Entertainment/Sony Pictures
Release Date: April 24, 2012

Okay, a little honesty here. I thought I had written this like eight weeks ago, but when I went to go link to it, I realized that it must have been one of the reviews I had on my tablet when my it died. So here is my very late review of this two-disc Marvel Anime: Iron Man – Complete Series. It was quite different from other Iron Man cartoons I have seen in the past.

The series itself is very typical of Japanese anime. If you are a fan of this style, then you know what I mean when I say it is very much eye candy. The characters are very animated (no pun intended), almost to the point of ridiculousness at times, actually. But again, this is common for anime. Not that I hate it or anything, but I don’t really like the style. I grew up watching Starblazers and G-Force, so the amalgamated stylings of “Japanimation” are not unknown to me. There just seems to be a certain slickness to it that sets modern anime apart from other cartoon styles.

The $10 t-shirt deal of the day over at RIPT Apparel today is a mash-up of Hot Fuzz and Shaun Of The Dead called “Fuzz of the Dead” by TeoZ.

The shirt went on sale at RIPT today, Sunday, September 23, 2012, at midnight CST, and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it’s over, it will not be sold on the site anymore.

As part of Amazon’s MP3 deals for this month, Night Ranger’s Midnight Madness for only $5. The CD version is only $5.99.

You know this 1983 album for the sappy Top 10 power ballad “Sister Christian,” but I love Midnight Madness for its rockin’ tunes like “(You Can Still) Rock In America,” “Rumours In The Air,” and “Touch Of Madness.” I’m gonna tell it to you straight, I friggin’ love Night Ranger and I love this album. I’ve gotten a lot of grief in my life for admitting this, but it’s true. I got into the band when I heard “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me” off their debut album (MP3; on sale on CD on sale for only $4.99), so I was pumped when I popped in my Midnight Madness cassette and heard the opening song “(You Can Still) Rock In America.” Of course then I was greatly deflated when “Sister Christian” hit it so big that every kid in my junior high school liked them for this one song (hate it when that happens!). But when everyone else left Night Ranger in the dust, I stuck around. So, go on and grab this album for only $5 and rock it, rock it, rock it!

Browse all 100 albums on sale this month for only $5 each.

At this point, I really don’t think fans need Michael Bay to explain why he is doing Transformers 4. On one hand, you could accept the following quotes below and on the other, you can say he is doing it for the money. But the man is talking, and he gives us some very surprising answers as to why he is coming back.

In an interview with The Huffington Post, Bay talked about his hesitancy to return to direct Transformers 4 and how long lines at the Transformers 3D ride at Universal Studios in Los Angeles inspired him to come back for a fourth time.

For a studio that once prided itself on animated characters like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, and Porky Pig, they’ve had a surprising lack of memorable full-length animated feature titles. So Warner Bros. hopes to change all of that by hiring fellow SNL alum Jenny Slate to pen a draft for an upcoming hybrid CGI/live-action film involving the aforementioned characters and more, much like the underrated Looney Tunes: Back In Action.

THR reports that David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith (yes, the one who wrote Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) will be producing the film. Grahame-Smith also wrote the screenplay for Vampire Hunter as well as the screenplay for Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows. Both films weren’t the box office blockbusters many hoped it would be, but a person of Grahame-Smith’s caliber doesn’t get to where he is without hitting a few bumps in the road, so maybe those two films were just stepping stones.