My latest podcast appearance is up, so please endeavor to enjoy it. It's definitely the sauciest I've been so far. Feels kinda weird to jump into an established podcast and start shitting on things, so I've been largely polite. This time those thrice-damned 360 Mii ripoffs got me going. It's nothing I haven't already said here, but it's probably fun to hear me say it.

Plus, there's ten seconds of silence while host Joe Haygood waits for me to react to the exciting announcement of a KOTOR MMORPG. Hee!

But what really has me psyched is that I gambled and scored on a Play-Asia order last week. They were running a summer sale where various in-stock merchandise was half off, or something like that. So I picked up a Pokemon keychain toy for Clark, and the DS rarity Slide Adventure: Mag Kid (which looks fascinating because it comes with an attachment that lets you move the DS around your table like an IR mouse). Smash Brawl players may recall a few spare Mag Kid stickers.

While shopping, I noticed some US Eye of Judgment starter decks listed at $7.50... which is half retail. And yes, $15 for a 30-card starter deck is unacceptably expensive, but there you go.

Here was the risk. The product description says "The Eye of Judgment: Biolith Rebellion Set 2: Water Barrage Theme Deck." Well, all good EoJ fanboys know that Water Barrage was Set 1 and who wants that. But then the picture of the item shows a Set 2 box. So, not knowing what to expect, I ordered the fire "Set 2" and the water "Set 2," for a combo price of under $15, and hoped for the best. I went with fire and water just in case it was actually Set 1, as I do not own those varieties in either set.

And as my happy tone probably tells you, it was indeed the Set 2 version. Which I have never seen in stores, nor at my two summer conventions. So I nabbed two Set 2 starters for less than the price of one. In fact, my entire bill - including the bizarro Mag Kid DS game - was only around $30. Now I'm debating placing another order for the Coffee Prince DVD boxed set.

The big sale is over, but Play-Asia still has the US EoJ stuff in stock, starters at $10 which is still cheaper than retail, if you can even find them. Warning: if you do order EoJ stuff online, make sure you get the version appropriate to your region, because the US EoJ game will not read Japanese cards.

Not this god thing again.

From Dr. Horrible to Mr. Terrific. In the latest JSA, once again some faux-character development is presented in the form of a grasping Mr. Terrific questioning his athiesm. Uh-huh. It's exceptionally cool that Mr. T's race is never really a plot foible, just who he is... it would be great if his atheism could be treated with the same respect.

Buck up Michael. We all know Gog will turn out to be a robot. (Confession: I didn't think of that until I read it on Pretty, Fizzy Paradise!)

Pokemon cards in Burger King Kids Meals.

I think the cards are all reprints, but it's still slick to get actual Pokemon TCG cards for dinner. And the toys are all centered around the cards... deck boxes, card frames and hand holders!

There are twelve cards and twelve toys... but in an unbelievably shitty move, the cards are random! In our first batch of three Meals, we got three Monferno cards! What are the odds!?!

But there's a bonus, BK's new Kids Meals can be customized for total vegetarian.

We bought the Imaginext Batcave playset.

It is so great. It's like Castle Grayskull big. Since the figures are only three inches, it's packed with rooms and action features. Every time I look at it, I find new details hidden in the sculpt, like the little TV dinner tray inside the prison.

We also completed the rest of the figure packs, so we now have Penguin, Joker, Superman (comes with Krypto!) two Batmen and Robin. I hope that there's plans for additional DC heroes and sets, so that this becomes a serious collector counterpart to the Marvel Super Squad line... but so much better since these are actual playable figures. Of course nobody anywhere has any info on this.

Another downside is that this line gets hidden with the Imaginext junk, which is always in the toddler section, while the Super Squad packs always live right by the action figures.

Dead Rising on Wii?!?

Wow. Interesting announcement. Of course, once I heard the photography stuff was shitcanned from the Wii port, I immediately lost interest. I'll hold out for a PS3 version.

Also, Eternal Sonata coming to PS3... being the JRPG based on the music of Fredric Chopin. I mean, jesus. That's a concept I can totally get into, and it's from the team who did Baten Kaitos, which I really liked.

ScreenFlow records the other screen when Screen Sharing in iChat.

I suppose I should have expected that, but I still found it a very cool surprise.

So now you can manipulate somebody else's desktop and record yourself doing it.

Things I Want to See in the Flippin' Watchmen Movie.

Big Figure

Bubastis

Hollis Mason

Moloch

Rorshach eating Dan's sugar cubes > ronch ronch <

Increasingly-naked Dr. Manhattan

Sally Jupiter's nudie comic

Young Comedian in the yellow pantsuit

The photo memory bulletin board in Doc's old workplace