June 2011
65 posts
Comic News Insider Episode 341 - Solo!
Comic News Insider: Episode 341 is now available for free download! Click on the link or get it through iTunes! Sponsored by Dynamic Forces.
Reviews: Brightest Day Aftermath: The Search For Swamp Thing #1, Flashpoint: Lois Lane And The Resistance #1, Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #160, Falling Skies, Outcasts
Jimmy is joined by…NO ONE! Yes, in the first solo CNI ever, Jimmy delivers a...
Quick Recent Movie Reviews
I saw some movies recently. I reviewed them on my podcast, COMIC NEWS INSIDER. Here are some quick versions of those reviews. Apparently, I use the word “fun” a lot when reviewing. Hey, it’s fun to do it!
X-Men: First Class
Lotsa fun, cool action, hot mutant girls but just a teensy bit of racism. Magneto rocked it.
Super 8
Harkens back to the 80’s...
Brooke Shields Kissed Me!
I saw Brooke Shields again recently and it reminded me to share a story or two with you! I hope you had your name dropping basket ready to catch this one! :)
I first met Brooke Shields back in the day when I was working at the well known restaurant Serendipity 3. That place was famous for getting famous people to visit for the then 40 years it had been opened. Brooke would come in quite...
SpongeBob MushroomPants
We all know our favorite sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea, right? Good ol’ SpongeBob SquarePants! Well, he’s so popular that a group of scientists have named a new species of mushroom after him. From the BBC:
“The fungus, named Spongiforma squarepantsii by the researchers at San Francisco State University (SFSU), was found during an expedition to the forests of...
Comic News Insider Episode 340 - Galactic Girl w/...
Comic News Insider: Episode 340 is now available for free download! Click on the link or get it through iTunes! Sponsored by Dynamic Forces.
Reviews: Alpha Flight Vol 4 #1, Wonder Woman And The Furies #1, Godzilla: Gangsters & Goliaths #1, Super 8, X-Men: First Class, Green Lantern, Galactic Girl in: Attack of the Starbarians
Jimmy is joined by frequent guest host Jon Hoche and Erica...
Proper Linking to my Sites!
Just wanted to be clear about the various sites I’m on and how to link to them. My blog’s official URL is:
www.jimmyaquino.typepad.com
I bought www.jaquino.com and it redirects to the above. But most people go to the site, cut/paste the URL and use it as the link. Which I understand. But if you have done that and have time, I’d love if you could change it. So please use:
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Happy Father's Day?
My sister said it well on her Facebook status. “Being raised by a single mom, Father’s Day was often just another day in my house.” Now, for those that don’t know the story, my sister and I have the same father. He was pretty absent in both of our lives (moreso in hers). So, I’ve never really thought of this day as a big deal either. She does find some positivity...
Comic News Insider: The Interview List
I’ve been working on cataloging/alphabetizing ALL of the interviews that we’ve done on my podcast, COMIC NEWS INSIDER (CNI), since its inception in April 2005. Boy, do we have a lot! Tons of comic book folks, naturally. Lotsa TV/Film. A few theater, web, music and theater ones as well! I’ve split them up into various categories. Some people from TV/Film cross over into...
Nerd Do Well by Simon Pegg Audio Book
I don’t want to lose any nerd points from that last post about Sarah Vowell’s book. Hey, I’m a history nerd too! Anyway, I also just finished listening to the audio book version of actor Simon Pegg’s autobio, Nerd Do Well: A Small Boy’s Journey to Becoming a Big Kid. If you’re a big Simon Pegg fan like I am, you will love this. Some question why he has written...
Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell Audio Book
I’m currently listening to the audio book version of Sarah Vowell’s book, Unfamiliar Fishes. The official blurb:
“Many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, when we became a nation devoted to the pursuit of happiness through self- government. In Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell argues that 1898 might be a year just as defining, when, in an orgy of imperialism,...
Drunk People Are Always Right
So, I’m sat near a LOUD drunk lady at a bar. They cut her off. She gets upset and starts cursing the staff out. (Thus proving them right that she shouldn’t be served any more). Lady friend with her (bit more sober) tells them they made a “big mistake” since she loved the place and will never return. Guess what? THEY DON’T CARE. (And lady friend admitted her friend was...
Comic News Insider Episode 339 - The Kelly Sue...
Comic News Insider: Episode 339 is now available for free download! Click on the link or get it through iTunes! Sponsored by Dynamic Forces.
Last of the Heroes Con interviews with the amazing Kelly Sue DeConnick. Thanks to Iz McAuliffe who stays on to intro/outro the episode. Jimmy sat down with Kelly Sue at Heroes Con and they got along so swimmingly that we decided to release it as a...
iJimmy wants an iCade!
Someone buy me this! You’ll have to buy me an iPad to go along with it. But I want this iCade in my hands soon! Go do it.
Comic News Insider Episode 338 - More Heroes Con...
News Insider: Episode 338 is now available for free download! Click on the link or get it through iTunes! Sponsored by Dynamic Forces.
Reviews: Flashpoint: Emperor Aquaman #1, Fly #1, Mystery Men #1, Samurai’s Blood #1
Even more Heroes Con love with interviews from Darwyn Cooke, Becky Cloonan and Scott Weinstein. Jimmy is joined by good friend Iz McAuliffe, a fine podcaster in her...
Small Press Big Mouth Birthday Song
What is Small Press Big Mouth? It’s a podcast about small press and independent comics that my dear friend Stacey Whittle does with her good friend Lee Grice. Go listen to it on the website or through iTunes. I loves it, I do! So much so, that when Stacey put the word out for birthday messages for the show, I just had to do one. But, I was stumped.
Then, I watched the Tony Awards last...
Fast Forwarding Through the Tony Awards
Great opening by Neil Patrick Harris. Except when they got into the audience. Ouch.
I guess Hogwart’s had a musical theater class cuz Harry Potter’s got pipes!
I loved the film, Catch Me If You Can, but do I want to see the musical?
Fuck yeah, Book of Mormon number. (Only show I saw this year, but still…it just fucking rocks!) They actually said “Fuck” on the...
Comic News Insider Episode 337 - Heroes Con...
Comic News Insider: Episode 337 is now available for free download! Click on the link or get it through iTunes! Sponsored by Dynamic Forces.
Yet even more Heroes Con love! Jimmy moderated a great panel at Heroes Con called TAKING ON THE PROPERTY: ICONOGRAPHY with comic book titans Darwyn Cooke (The Spirit, DC’s New Frontier, Parker), Ed McGuinness (Deadpool, Superman/Batman), Don Rosa...
Comic News Insider Episode 336 - Heroes Con...
Comic News Insider: Episode 336 is now available for free download! Click on the link or get it through iTunes! Sponsored by Dynamic Forces.
More Heroes Con love! Jimmy got so many great interviews at the show so we had to put out some specials! Mike Cho stays on to co-host and introduce interviews with Don Rosa (Scrooge McDuck), Chris Schweizer (Crogan Adventures), Van Jensen (Pinocchio,...
Some Formspring Questions Answered!
I don’t use this much, but will on occasion check in when I get a few questions and randomly answer some. Here are some recent ones. My answers in BOLD:
Is it just me or are the Formspring daily questions really banal? Not just you.
One of my pet peeves is the combination of “The Blame Game,” and people failing to say, “I don’t know,” when they cannot answer a...
Should I Stop Buying DC Comics Until September?
As everyone knows, DC is relaunching their entire line of comic books come September. That’s the new Justice League of America as designed by Jim Lee pictured above. There will be 52 new titles starting out with a new #1 issue. All titles are slowly being announced.
My question: Does this mean current DC comic books are meaningless? Why do we need to read them if the entire mythos is...
Comic News Insider Episode 335 - Heroes Con w/...
Comic News Insider: Episode 335 is now available for free download! Click on the link or get it through iTunes! Sponsored by Dynamic Forces.
Reviews: 50 Girls 50 #1, Reed Gunther #1, Zombies Christmas Carol #1
Jimmy attended Heroes Con and got a ton of great interviews for your listening pleasure! Enough to spread out over 4 or 5 episodes! In this episode, Jimmy chats with Jonathan...
Jimmy Aquino Attacks Heroes Con!
The CNI banner. www.fotosbyfaren.com I attended Heroes Con for my podcast COMIC NEWS INSIDER over the weekend and all I got was an awesome time! Always one of my favorite shows, Heroes Con takes place in Charlotte, North Carolina and is the mastermind of Shelton Drum. A true comics show that focuses on comics almost exclusively. Be it print comics or web comics. It’s very friendly...
Heroes Con Photos!
As you know, I was at Heroes Con in Charlotte, NC all weekend. I didn’t take a crazy amount of pictures but there are some up on my Flickr site so go check them out!
BIG SHOUT OUT to my old friend, Faren, for taking pics as the “official CNI shutterbug” over the weekend as well. She is a professional photographer and takes fantastic photos! Go check out her site:
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Heroes Con Interviews
I got tons of great interviews at #HeroesCon! I’ll be putting them up over this week and possibly next. Stay tuned for when you can hear them! I’ll also be putting up the Iconography panel that I did with Darwyn Cooke, Ed McGuinness, Don Rosa and Tim Sale. Other interviews:
Rob Anderson (Animal Control: Special Creatures Unit, Rex: Zombie Killer)
Becky Cloonan (Demo, Wolves)
Kelly...
WE'RE COMING BACK!!!
gracenmichelle:
We weren’t necessarily gone. BUT. We have a new web series in the works and we need YOUR help. Imagine that! We need suggestions for XBOX LIVE games for us to play. Because we’ll be playing them. In this new web series. As well as doing other things. Non sexual. Stop it. So, give us your games?!
I return to great news! Help them out, friends. What games should they...
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