Someone found a way to make one of the prequel Star Wars movies watchable! Revenge of the Sith + Clerks = worth your time.

It seems the folks over at Calgary Cosplay make custom hoodies. They’ll make you a Pikachu hoodie, or a (Other Pokemon I can’t name) hoodie, or whatever. Some of these custom hoodies go for $150 bucks and up.

Of course Pokemon aren’t all they do. Megaman, for example. And, you know, Pedobear.

Nope. Not joking. $175 bucks for your very own custom, hand made, Pedobear hoodie.

I can’t see anyone wearing that and having it end up well. Unless it was a Pedoflashmob. That might work out. But short of that? No. Just… no.

The A-Team opening, done with Star Wars. I wanna watch that show.

Today’s Top Ten is over at Mamapop – Top Ten Pop Culture Stories I Wish Had Happened in 2009. Go and enjoy.

And we’re back with another list. This time out I gave comics a long hard thought or six. I wanted those stories that stuck with me, that fit what I think the medium can be, and that I really liked a lot. So here they are in no particular order:

All Star Superman
12 issues and it’s the only Superman story you need. It has everything, and doesn’t feel crunched for space. It tells you what you need, finds the heart of Superman, as a character, and also manages to make his supporting cast important. It combines the goofy times of the 50s with a modern deftness and comes out sheer magic.

New Frontier
Taking DC Comics whole timeline and shifting it slightly so it lines up with history, this story is just cool. Cooke’s art is wonderful and his writing really keeps up, bringing home the sense of style he wanted to get across. The story is fairly simple in essence but it is more about the characters than plot. A great fun ride.
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Almost two and a half minutes of Robin’s “Holy ___” exclamations from the Adam West Batman show. Enjoy.

I give you advice. Don’t ask Batman what he got his parents for Christmas:

Here’s the first trailer for the new Karate Kid film with Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan. This time the kid is moved to bejing with his mother and ends up learning unreasonable amounts of martial arts. The first was good because it was, on some level, feasible. Daniel wasn’t that awesome. He lost, even. This time… well, see for yourself.

So it’s time for some more good top ten list action. Today it’ll be the Top Ten TV Shows of the Decade. I don’t watch much TV. 99% of what I watch is done on DVD and not anything like close to live. So yeah, that affects how I view stuff. It also doesn’t mean a damn thing. Shows were chosen because I love them more than other shows. So here are my picks, in no particular order:

The Shield
This is, quite simply, the best TV show ever made. It’s dark and mean and wonderful. No one is “good” or “bad” among the main characters. No one is clean. The world is an expanse of moral gray. It’s also incredibly tightly written, directed and shot with a unique style, uses music like no other show (by not using background music at all past the pilot and the very rare bit of montage, maybe once a season) and… frankly most shows go up and down. They peak and valley. Shield goes in a straight line, up, for 7 seasons. Each one is better than the last.

Scrubs
While technically this show is still on, for me it ran 8 seasons and ended. And they were, for the most part, a great 8 seasons. What with House before there was House, a medical drama that could be incredibly dramatic and comedy that could be perfectly hysterical, Scrubs had everything you could want in a half-hour sitcom. It’s just so perfectly watchable, you know? It had a few weak seasons, but overall the show was just always touching and funny and spot-on.
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So I got to thinking about movies and how to do a top ten list of them. Should they be the best made movies? Best overall (direction, acting and writing etc) or what… Then I just decided to do the ten movies I think, at this moment, I enjoy the most. They are in no particular order:

Casino Royale
I’ve always loved Bond. The one from the books. I like the movie version as well but the book version is far and away my favorite iteration of the character. We hadn’t ever seen him on film, though. We got great movies but the real Bond, the one I fell in love with the most, was missing. Until this. Suddenly we had the killer, the cold, detached, fucked-up man right there. And it was everything I could have hoped for.

Iron Man
Robert Downey Jr. Before this and one other film we’ll discuss in a minute, he was all right but nothing special. Now? He’s RDJ, damn it. Iron Man gave us the first super hero film that treated the characters like humans. No diss on the Chris Reeve Superman film, it is still amazing, but this is something special, too. Stark finds a purpose but doesn’t lose the man he was in the process. He struggles with it and remains very much the central character, not the suit. It is, going forward, the mark all super hero movies will have to match.
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