Major Spoilers Podcast #289: The Creature Tech Podcast

Published: March 23, 2011, 5:54 a.m.

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Creature Tech by Paul TenNapel

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This week on the show: Science and religion! Giant bugs, demon cats, Wonder Woman in costume, ducks that talk, and aliens that walk.

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NEWS\\n
TELEVISION: Wonder Woman costume revealed\\n
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REVIEWS\\n
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PAUL\\u2028
Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen, Jason Bateman, Sigourney Weaver, and Kristen Wiig.\\u2028
Written by:Frost and Pegg\\u2028
Directed by: Greg Mottola\\n
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) reunite for the comedy adventure Paul as two sci-fi geeks whose pilgrimage takes them to America\'s UFO heartland. While there, they accidentally meet an alien who brings them on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever. For the past 60 years, an alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen) has been hanging out at a top-secret military base. When he discovers he\'s been taken prisoner, the space-traveling smart ass decides to escape the compound and hop on the first vehicle out of town-a rented RV containing Earthlings Graeme Willy (Pegg) and Clive Gollings (Frost). Chased by federal agents and the fanatical father of a young woman that they accidentally kidnap, Graeme and Clive hatch a fumbling escape plan to return Paul to his mother ship. And as two nerds struggle to help, one little green man might just take his fellow outcasts from misfits to intergalactic heroes\\n
[rating:4/5]

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Rodrigo\\n
WALT DISNEY\\u2019S COMICS #717\\n
Written by William Van Horn, Ted Osborne, Daan Jippes, Freddy Milton\\n
Drawn by William Van Horn, Floyd Gottferdson, Daan Jippes, Freddy Milton, Walt Kelly\\n
SC, 40 pgs, FC, SRP: $3.99\\n
COVER : Carl Barks\\n
The celebration of 70 years of Walt Disney\\u2019s Comics continues with the best Disney stories both classic and new! First up, two stories that have never before been published in the U.S. \\u2014 \\u201cScrooge for a Day\\u201d by William Van Horn and Daan Jippes\\u2019 Daisy Duck story \\u201cCoat of Harms.\\u201d If those aren\\u2019t enough for you, try these rare gems: Floyd Gottfredson\\u2019s \\u201cBroadcast News\\u201d and Walt Kelly\\u2019s \\u201cDonald Duck\\u2019s Surprise Party,\\u201d both reprinted here for the first time in the U.S. in over 60 years! Featuring a Carl Barks cover showcasing one of his last ever drawings!\\n
[rating:3/5]

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Matthew\\n
VAMPIRELLA #4 \\n
32 pages FC\\xa0 \\u2022 $3.99\\xa0 \\u2022\\xa0 Teen +\\n
Written by ERIC TRAUTMANN\\n
Art by WAGNER REIS & FABIANO NEVES\\n
Covers by JELENA KEVIC-DJURDJEVIC (25%), JASON PEARSON (25%), PAUL RENAUD (25%) & AL\\xc9 GARZA (25%)\\n
\\u201cBlood Red\\u201d Retailer incentive cover by JASON PEARSON\\n
\\u201cBlack & White\\u201d Retailer incentive cover by AL\\xc9 GARZA\\n
\\u201cVirgin Art\\u201d Retailer incentive cover by PAUL RENAUD\\n
Vampirella\\u2019s pursuit of Dracula has revealed a cult of vampires, worshippers of an ancient evil, one so vast and terrible that\\xa0 even the Lord of the Vampires\\xa0 respects \\u2013 and perhaps fears \\u2013 it. As the world stands between\\xa0 eternal chaos and an endless army of blood-drinking horrors, Vampirella, plagued with nightmare visions of her past and of possible future, may finally have met her match

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[rating:4.5/5]

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MAJOR SPOILERS POLL OF THE WEEK\\n
Wonder Woman is getting the Tee-Vee treatment, with Adrianne Palicki cast as the Amazon Princess, and Elizabeth Hurley as the villain Veronica Cale.\\xa0 Surprisingly, or not surprisingly, depending on how far down the road you can see, David E. Kelley\\u2019s version of the DC Comics hero got a costume change.

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Creature Tech\\n
The book tells of the adventures of Dr. Michael Ong, a paranormal scientist and former seminarian, who is given a head researcher\\u2019s position at an Area 51-esque laboratory in Turlock, California called Research Technical Institute. In exchange for granting the government the lease to build the facility, the City of Turlock demanded that it be staffed primarily by locals. Ong\\u2019s task is to open, catalog, and classify each of the hundreds of crates in the facility\\u2019s warehouse. Many of the artifacts found inside are proven to be highly dangerous and thoroughly insane\\u2026Russian teleporter technology, aliens, mutants, even a were-pig.

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