Your weekly Nerdgasm 03/25/13

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Your weekly Nerdgasm!

Capcom gave me reason to love modern games again

                                   

                                              (oh yeah, this is the good stuff right here.) 

I got two words for you; Ducktales, woohoo! Seriously, Capcom this week broke the news that they were making a revamp of their ever so popular NES Ducktales video game. Not only did they have the news, but the trailer was ready, showcasing the game play and graphics. Backgrounds are 3D rendered with all game sprites maintaining a very cool "hand drawn" effect. Capcom says the game will be very similar to it's predecessor, with a main room complete with stage select options and new playable levels such as the McDuck Money Bin. 

                                   

                                    (I'd play this level for hours just because I loved the music)

The trailer showed the Money Bin level as well as the Amazon and Transylvania, but didn't show fan favorite levels the Himalayas or the ever popular outer space level. The outer space level was everyone's favorite level and the music from that level is in just about everyone's top 5 NES game soundtracks, outside of Metroid, Legend of Zelda or SMB. What's the deal Capcom, don't play with our hearts like this. Anyways, the fanboys and fangirls squealed with anticipation after watching the trailer, even getting to learn many developers and coders for current games hold Ducktales in highest regards (the original game ran on the MegaMan engine for crying out loud and your cane was both pogo stick and golf club!). The game will be available on PSN, XBOXLIVE and WII-U networks for download, costing $15. Which is a real deal considering any of us who owned an original one most likely paid $50 or so back in the 90's. But please Capcom, don't forget your loving fans on STEAM (such as myself).

I guess Teenage Alien Ninja Turtles is still a go

(credit to toysrevil.net for the picture)

Much to everyone's dismay, TANT (which is dangerously close to TAINT) is still in pre-production with Michael Bay gunning to ruin everything from your childhood with confirmed Megan Fox as April O'Neil .I wonder if him and the Dwayne Johnson have a running bet to see how many awesome properties they can trash? I wonder if April will be a stripper instead of a news woman? I wonder if the fanbase will allow this movie to happen?

(the face of evil!)

Anyways, the first actor to join the cast as one of the four turtles/aliens/brothers is Alan Ritchson (Aquaman on Smallville), allegedly taking the role of Raphael. That....that's actually OK with me. But when you say actor they mean voice actor, right? WRONG! The turtles/aliens/brothers not be animatronic suits but motion capture ala' Avatar styling. This.....this I'm cool with too because the actors will have to emote and actually act instead to trying to match up voice tone and infliction to puppeteers in suits. So TANT brings me through emotional ups and downs and not even one second of film has been shot. I'm holding out till I see who the villains are going to be since they are keeping really hush about it.

                                                     (was this ever confirmed legit or not?)


Boldly going......to mess my pants

Between trailers for Iron Man 3, Star Trek: Into Darkness and pictures from Pacific Rim, I can't contain the awesome. Seriously, it's going to be a great summer season at the movies. Not to cheap out on you in the third article, I just feel all three of these developing stories deserve their own blog entry this week so I'll leave you with the following.

COMIC BLOG: Darkwing Duck

Guest blogger and my wife Ana Bruja-Khayos
                                   

In 1991 the Disney Channel introduce one of their most memorable characters called Darkwing Duck.  A cape crusader who roams the city of St. Canard, protecting its citizens from super villeins such as Nega Duck, Taurus Bulba, and The Liquidator just to mention a few.  Unlike your traditional heroes, this hero had no super powers, but he had wits, and ego to boot, a gas gun that double as a gateling gun, and a purple suite that constantly had characters in the city questioning Darkings fashion sense.  In total the show aired from 1991 to around 1995 with 65 episodes in season 01, 13 episodes in season 02, and 13 episodes in season 03 (IMDB    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101076/). 

If you were a big  fan of the show, you remember that the show ended leaving us wanting more.  Sadly Disney did not approve for a fourth season and the fans were left with out Darkwing Duck for almost 15 years.  The company re-introduced the show to a new generation of children through Toon Disney and realized the show still had some appeal with both their younger viewers but also the parents that grew watching Darkwing Duck along with some of their other show such as Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers, Bonkers and Goof Troop. With such a golden opportunity, they revived the "The terror that Flaps in the night" in comic book format published by Kaboom! publishing.

The company has done the distribution of both traditional comics and then converting them into graphic novels. As of now there are four graphic novels that compile 16 books.  

1) Disney's Darkwing Duck:  The Duck Knight Returns 1-4

                  

2) Disney's Drakwing Duck:  Crisis on infinite Darkwings 5-8

                                                      

3) Disney's Darkwing Duck:  F.O.W.L. Disposition 9-12

                                                     

4) Disney's Darkwing Duck:  Campaign Carnage 13-16

                                                    

While the books have the same spark of the TV series, it's not a book I would start someone with if they have never seen the show. It literally picks up where the show left off but one year in the future. The story it self is just as fun as the show with a more aggressive story line. You will get re introduced to the main characters and at times you will see a merge between Darkwing Duck and Duck Tales characters like Scrooge McDuck with the nephews making special appearances.  The books art work at times seems very flat, but the full page spreads are just fantastic.  A major treat you'll find as you are reading through the panels are the hidden gems of other Disney properties hidden in the background that makes you remember other shows, movies, or secondary characters you haven't seen in a long time. 

In the end of each book there is a small section dedicated to display the comic book covers, variant comic book covers, at times thumbnails sketches of the characters, and occasionally you will get a sneak peak at some of the Rescue Rangers graphic novel. 

All in all this graphic novel series is just buckets of fun and it will leave you wanting more. I give this book 4.5 out of 5.