The Jack Bauer Action Figure

Yes, they're here. Jack Bauer Action Figures.

Let's check 'em out--starting with the most expensive Jack Bauer first:


"Real Action Heroes 12"" Jack Bauer Action Figure" - $ 189.95
From: YouBuyNow.com

This one's the big dog--coming in at almost $200, this 12 inch Jack Bauer figure is the serious one, for the serious collectors who want their Jack to look nice.

As opposed to this Jack Bauer:


"24 8:00AM Jack Bauer 12"" Cloth Figure" - $ 28.50
From: YouBuyNow.com

Which is cheaper, but makes Jack look more like a Ken Doll.

I think my favorite, though, is the cheapest Jack Bauer of all of them, from McFarlane Toys:


Jack Bauer Boxed Set Action Figure - $ 21.00
From: YouBuyNow.com

You can't pose this one, but come on. Aside from shooting Barbie in the thigh to get Ken to talk, this is the pose you'd put him in anyway, isn't it?

Win Cool Swag With Your Iron Man Costume

Speaking of Wizard, they're offering cool Iron Man stuff to whoever wins their Iron Man costume contest.

You can win what they're officially describing as, "$2,020 in Iron-y goodness, including statues, busts and whatever else is in our vast Prize Closet!"

They're opening it up to any character in the Iron Man universe who's ever donned armor, including everyone's favorite armored hero, Aunt May.

Check out the rules here.

Batman Vs. Snake Eyes

Of all the mythical struggles that will never happen, this one is, perhaps, my favorite.

What if Snake Eyes fought Batman?

Wizard did it's take on it a while back, and while the art was cool, I'm not so sure about their victor.

I mean, if you think about, Batman does have three advantages. First, he practices every night, while Snake Eyes only does occasional missions. Second, while Snake Eyes is a trained ninja, Batman is a trained Ninja AND trained in whatever else he could spend money on. And, he's got a more expensive utility belt. Since Snake Eyes's gear is military issue, that means it was probably overprice and outdated.

However, I still got to give it to Snake Eyes. Not only is Bat's "Ooh, I'm wearing a creepy Bat-suit" schtick not going to phase Snake Eyes, but Snake Eyes has almost every fight he has with other ninjas. Batman fights street punks.

Plus, you have to remember that when Snake Eyes is training, he's training with folks like Jinx, Kamakura, and Scarlett. Who's Batman training with? Kids in circus outfits?

I'm going to have to go with Snake Eyes for this one.

A Good Place To Get Punisher T-Shirts

Once upon a time, I hunted all over creation trying to find a good Punisher shirt. I finally ended up at a biker kiosk at the mall. I didn't even know there were biker kiosks. To me, the image of somebody who dresses that hardcore picking up his spikes off a fake wood kiosk at the mall across from the pretzel place just seemed odd.

But there it was.

Now, there's no need for you to hunt all over your town looking in kiosks. Check out SuperHeroStuff.com for whatever kinds of T-shirts you want. You can't go wrong with a good Punisher shirt, but they've got everything from Green Lantern shirts to shirts from NBC's Heroes.

They've got other stuff, too, like Superhero statues and Superhero graphic novels, but it's the shirts that are the name of the game at this place.

Go peek around.

New Joker Image Being Revealed

Okay, so maybe it's some other crazy guy with purple pants. Like, oh, I don't know. Willy Wonka.

But a new pic of either the Joker or Willy Wonka is slowly being revealed by the folks over at Empire Online.

Details on The Watchmen Movie

Be sure and check out the Watchmen movie website.

There are some cool pics of the set, along with some interesting tidbits about the set itself.

For example, in the movie the same set had to be redone to pass for years 1938, 1945, 1953, 1957, 1964, 1974, 1975, 1977, and 1985 (And you thought doing the three time periods for Back To The Future was impressive).

As for more on the movie, here's the synopsis from the website:

A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” – which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union – is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion – a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers – Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the watchmen?

The film based on the graphic novel is being directed by Zack Snyder (300) and produced by Lawrence Gordon (Die Hard), Lloyd Levin (United 93) and Deborah Snyder (300), with Herbert W. Gains serving as executive producer.

Playing the film’s core group of “masks,” the masked adventurers at the center of the story, are Malin Akerman (upcoming The Heartbreak Kid) as Laurie Juspeczyk, aka Silk Spectre; Billy Crudup (The Good Shepherd) as Jon Osterman, aka Dr. Manhattan; Matthew Goode (Match Point) as Adrian Veidt, aka Ozymandias; Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children) as Walter Kovacs, aka Rorschach; Jeffrey Dean Morgan (TV’s Grey’s Anatomy) as Edward Blake, aka the Comedian; and Patrick Wilson (Little Children) as Dan Dreiberg, aka Nite Owl.

Watchmen was originally published by DC comics as a 12-comic book series between 1986 and 1987, before subsequently being collected into a trade paperback. It is the only graphic novel to win the prestigious Hugo Award or to be named among Time magazine’s “100 Best English Language Novels from 1923 to the Present.”

More Dark Knight Viral Sites Go Live

So it looks like the people who sent in pics on the last round of the Joker's viral web-commanding have got a bunch of newspapers in the mail as a reward.

The newspaper is now visible online, here: TheGothamTimes.com.

Of course, the Joker's answered that with TheHaHaTimes.com.

The paper also includes links to various Dark Knight other viral sites, including RememberingGina.org, GothamNationalBank.com, WeAretheAnswer.org, GothamCityRail.com,
and GothamPolice.com.

There's a phone number in there too, 1-866-237-6480. You can dial 1 and leave a message.

Oh, and be sure to check out WhySoSerious.com/PersonalityProfile and see how high you can light up the ol' crazy meter.

Some Iron Man Stuff

If you haven't seen it yet, there's a few new bits up over at the Iron Man movie's official website. I know the jury is sort of still out on this one, but personally, I think it looks great.

In the meantime, Orson Scott Card, award-winning sci-fi author and writer of the Ultimate Iron Man series, has given an interview to Wizard magazine about the next Ultimate Iron Man series. It apparently picks up moments after the first book ended, which makes sense when you consider the first series ended one issue shy of what it was originally slated to.

Regarding Optimus Prime

In the subheading on this blog, I mention Optimus Prime.

I want to make it clear that there is only one Optimus Prime I am referring to, and it is not the Bayified Optimus Prime that served as comic relief for the "real" (yeah-right-chortle-chortle) heroes like Shia LeBeouf in the movie.

The real Optimus Prime is the one who rolled out of the back of the big ship, transformed in mid-air, and started picking off Decepticons before he hit the ground. Not the one who knocked over flower pots because he didn't know how to hide. Even though his main attribute is camouflage.

It's the same way there's only one Megatron, and he's voiced by Frank Welker.

And Starscream can talk. And Bumblebee keeps his pants on.

Just so we've all got it straight.

The Mighty Marvel Vault

Wow. Just . . . wow.

This is some box set.

This is more than just a comic book book. They're calling it a "Museum-In-A-Book," and it comes complete with the kind of stuff you'd expect to find in a museum of Marveldom.

It's got everything from a membership certificate for the Merry Marvel Marching Society to the oft-coveted No Prize (did anybody else try for one of these things and never get one?).

Like just about everybody, I'm as big a fan of Stan Lee's wonderful flair for promotion as I am of the comic book superheroes he created, and this looks to be a celebration of both.

I can't imagine buying this as a collector's item, because it would be just too much fun to flip through, but I guess it would be possible. If you ask me, though, this will be way cooler on your coffee table than that book of famous dogs through history your crazy aunt got you for Christmas last year because it was on the discount rack at the bookstore.

Excelsior!