More like the 9? The Twelve: Delayed Indefinitely.

Fans of the Marvel comic The Twelve received some dissapointing news from Joe Quesada this week:

“What’s going on with The Twelve?

THE TWELVE has momentarily become a casualty of the success of its creative team. First JMS became one of the most sought after writers in Hollywood following the release and success of the film he wrote, CHANGELING.Then, Chris Weston signed on to do conceptual art and storyboarding for a completely separate film project at around the same time! So for the moment, while they stick pick away at it, THE TWELVE is on hold until such time as Joe and Chris free up from their incredibly hectic schedules. ”

Wow. Count me among the bummed.

Superman and Spider-Girl, crossover movie

Well, it might not be sanctioned by either Marvel or DC, but this is a pretty great paring of 2 great superheroes.  I have never seen dance moves like this preformed whilst saving innocent victims from peril.  So Awesome.

It’s awesome that they gave Superman the power to become “semi-transparent” while he flys, and… Spider-Girl can fly too.  Yeah.

How Cool Was a Manglor?

Ok, so here is one of the greatest and most unusual toys ever made-MANGLOR!! I used to have manglor when i was a kid and beleive me they were pretty rad. It was the first toy i could destroy or mangle (hence the name) and then put back together.

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Unfortunately you can only tear a Manglor apart so many times before it doesn’t stick together anymore and ends up a dusty lint covered heap of body parts. I learned that the hard way. I beleive Manglor was rockin’ the Toys R Us (the only store in history that could rival a trip to disneyland to a kid) circuit around 1983-please bring Manglor back!!

Back-Issue Gold Presents: Sensational She-Hulk Vol.2 #59 (ca. 1993)

Hello! And welcome to the first edition of UniversalDork’s Back-Issue Gold! Here we’ll be posting some of the most strange but fun 70’s, 80’s and 90’s single-issue-stories and arcs commonly found in your LCS’ discount boxes. Not only that, but we’re gonna give you plenty incentive to plunk down that $0.50 with detailed highlights of what makes it so special.

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Leading off is from The Sensational She-Hulk Vol. 2 #59 where we find our favorite green attorney in the middle of a lawsuit between the ‘Terrible Tinkerer’ and every lame super-villian you can think of. Continue reading →

Grizzly Adams vs. The Christmas Nazi Elves!!

This was the second year that I celebrated Christmas with a  “Christmas Horror” night. Yeah I know what you’re thinking, maybe we could have watched Scrooged, Black Christmas, Silent Night Deadly Night or even Gremlins right? WRONG! I wanted something special this year and what’s more amazing than watching a chain smoking “Grizzly Adams” battle evil nazi Elves on christmas eve?!! Yeah this little jem of a movie from 1988 is simply titled “Elves” and it delivered the goods!

The premise is simple, a teenage girl figures out that she is the spawn of  a sinister Nazi experiment which involves human breeding with demonic elves attempting to create a race of superhumans. Her and two of her super skanky friends decide to spend the night in a department store hoping to get laid by a group of teenage douche bags in the sporting goods section.

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But instead they discover they are trapped inside with a crazy horny elf and a group of neo Nazi’s hellbent on getting this little horndog laid on Christmas eve to officially start the master race.  Their only hope is Dan Hagerty(hell yeah- TV’s Grizzly Adams!) who plays a down on his luck, chain smokin’,  homeless,  recovering  alcoholic,  ex-con,  ex-cop who is currently trying to hold down a job as the department store’s Santa Claus. Really now does it get any better than that? Continue reading →

Here we go!

Welcome to our new blog, Universal Dork (soon to be at Universaldork.com).  We thought “Is there not a better way to start of 2009 than with a new blog concerning Comics, Movies, D&D, Comedy, and other great Nerdy stuff from the point of view of some pretty hip folks (seriously, we are hip and carry lots of scenester points).  What we want to accomplish with this blog goes as follows:

  • Review comics and either poke fun or complain, or possibly champion
  • Discuss Sci-fi, new and classic, and give opinionated commentary
  • Invent new stupid things to blog about
  • And whatever else…

We have 3 contributors to the blog and hope to update it very frequently for your reading pleasure.  Thanks and K.I.T.