http://iwasben.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:57:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "I've got the great Jack Kirby shot coming up here, alright, when Iron Head gets thrown into the tree and the tree explodes into a thousand splinters. I think Wang Yu was the one who literally became the Jack Kirby of China, alright, with his directing efforts. It ... http://iwasben.com/2008/07/03/the-jack-kirby-of-china/ Well, someone had to knock that last post from the top of the page. I'm off with J. to France in a few days for the longest break from work I've had in over two years. I'm most looking forward to checking out the original sets from the Cabinet of ... http://iwasben.com/2008/06/26/when-an-irresistible-force-meets-a-movable-feast/ This past week I've been hit with a multitude of setbacks from losing my job (yikes!) to having my computer getting completely fucked (d'oh). It's time for a special kind of therapy that only seeing a man's head engulfed in an elephants rank ass can do. :) http://iwasben.com/2008/06/24/sometimes-you-just-need-a-mans-head-in-an-elephants-butt/ I'm off to beautiful Montreal this weekend with my MMR compadres for our first ever outdoor metal festival, Heavy Mtl (Warning: Link may contain too much metal for one hand). Attending a metal fest has been a dream of ours since we were children. I'm at least as excited by ... http://iwasben.com/2008/06/20/fuck-you-picasso-we-love-you-bruce/ My favourite item from yesterday's skim through various comic sites was Tom Spurgeon contrasting The Incredible Hulk and Sammo Hung. I can only imagine The Incredible Hulk would have benefited by having Sammo play the lead. I've been on a big Sammo kick these past few days, watching his earlier ... http://iwasben.com/2008/06/17/huge-monsters-in-purple-pants/ Just in time for Father's Day, the latest Macho Movie Review podcast is up, and this time we revel in the barrel-chested machismo of Hero of Rome. All three panelists were in agreement that of the fifteen movies we've seen so far, Hero of Rome was the greatest. ... http://iwasben.com/2008/06/15/hero-of-rome/ I was just checking out this weeks installment of Brian Cronin's incredible Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed feature at Comic Book Resources just now when I got a crazy deja vu vibe as I laid my orbs on this cover in his story about Peter David's Star Trek comics ... http://iwasben.com/2008/06/14/two-methods-of-approach/ There's just something about this new Hulk that doesn't sit well with me... http://iwasben.com/2008/06/13/hulk-nose/ JohnKricfalusi's work was something that I really, really loved as a kid. Whenever I'd see his stuff it was good times indeed. I was super-jazzed to find out about his incredible blog some time ago! I've been doing art stuff for a few years now (never got into animation like IWB's ... http://iwasben.com/2008/06/12/all-kinds-of-stuff/ After a lengthy lull I'm finally easing my way back into animating, and to loosen up I've pulled out my Shaw Bros. collection and immersed myself in the balletic art of violence known as Kung Fu. I found the clip above at The Slums of Shaolin, where the proprietor ... http://iwasben.com/2008/06/11/tiger-style/