Animated round-up

All is right in the world. Comedy Central has put in a 13-episode order for new episodes of FUTURAMA. The bad? We have to wait until 2008. The good? You can ...nay, WILL once again hail the glory of Hypnotoad!


One for the "rumor for now" category is the possible direct-to-DVD animated movie based on Darwyn Cooke's 2003 graphic novel, DC: The New Frontier. The story takes place in the 50s, the dawn of the "silver age" of superheroes, and deals with an emerging generation of heroes as they come together to face an alien threat. It's a great read, I recommend you pick it up. Cooke drew the book similar in style to DC's animated universe--as seen in Batman: The Animated Series and Justice League--so it seems fitting that the man who helped created those shows, Bruce Timm, adapt New Frontier into a movie. I really hope this comic-to-animated movie adapatation is way better than Marvel's Ultimate Avengers garbage. It's like they took the Mark Millar's awesome storyline from The Ultimates and did the exact opposite. Who knew Uwe Boll directed cartoons? Ok, ok. That's not nice. Maybe it was Paul W.S. Anderson.

**VIEWER ADVISORY** This weekend marks the start of The Venture Brothers' second season on Adult Swim. You can catch a new episode this Sunday (the 25th) at 10:30pm. OR, if you need your fix sooner, there'll be a sneak peek available on adultswim.com starting Friday at 6pm.

Vegas heartbreak.

Last weekend, Son of Gigan and I made our second trip to Vegas this year to see another fight. The names weren't as big as Pacquiao vs. Morales, but a fight in Vegas is still in Vegas.

The combants were Diego Corrales and Jose Luis Castillo. SoG said their first fight was great, but marred because Castillo was fighting over the weight limit. Before that fight, Castillo didn't make weight, but being the competitor he is, Corrales agreed to go on with the match.

And was subsequently laid out.

Pretty good set up for the rematch, right? Well, the night before we left for Vegas, I got an e-mail from SoG saying that Castillo ONCE AGAIN DIDN'T MAKE WEIGHT. He was 5 pounds over, and was given two hours to make weight. Of course he didn't do it.

And again, Corrales was faced with the decision of whether or not to let the match go on. Understandably, Corrales opted not to go ahead with the match.

So there you have it. It's Corrales' fault there was no fight. Wha?

Oh, and yes we still went to Vegas. I took the refund, but SoG still went to see the other matches on the card. Later he told me that people had travelled from other countries and had no idea the main event was cancelled until they got to the arena.