Greatest American Comic Book League Meeting (10/7/10)

7:01 -"You’re gonna pick up a whore?! You’re really gonna pick up a whore! Aw, that’s -that’s just great. You want your cab to smell like whore? Because that’s what’s gonna happen if you pick up that whore!"

7:09 -We can hardly wait for the television adaptation “The Walking Dead” -ZOMBIES!

7:16 -“My favorite president is Courtney” -Will

“What about Teddy Roosevelt? Hey, what about Taft?” -Mike

7:18 -It’s A Fact: William Howard Taft is the only president to serve most of his presidency in a bathtub

7:20 -”Pee-Wee*? He’s probably dead at this point.” -Will *Pee-Wee the gas station attendant*

7:21 -“‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ was written during the Civil War, right? It’s a sci-fi novel like ‘1984’. He got it right...Yeah, Harper Lee is George Orwell’s pen name.” -Will

7:22 -“Congratulations, Mr. Simms. You are the fattest boy in camp” -Lars from Heavyweights

7:24 -“Do you still own the suit?” -Selecthumor to William Katt, the former star of ‘Greatest American Hero’

7:25 -Selecthumor informs us that there was an unaired pilot for a spin-off of ‘Greatest American Hero’ called ‘Greatest American Heroine’…’Greatest American Heroine’, really?

7:27 -Return of the Denim trench coat

7:29 -Whatever happened to Wyatt Wingfoot?

7:31 -“Hey everybody, we’re all gonna get laid!” -Al Czervik (Rodney Dangerfield), Caddyshack

7:33 -Blood match for the CBL Presidency!

7:35 -Calvin Coolidge was the Wolverine of the U.S. Presidents

7:37 -“Duck boobies!” -Taimur

7:38 -“Yeah, Michael J. Fox was in the duck suit.” -Will

7:41 -Will has veto Don Vito power

7:44 -The Chili Dog Whisperer

7:46 -Tim Allen as Mary Jane Watson

7:48 -Dylan Baker was probably really pissed about ‘Spider-man 4’ being cancelled

7:50 -We’re all intrigued by “The Seven Brothers Meet Dracula”

7:54 -Dan plays “Eternal Flame” by The Bangles on his phone for no reason

7:55 -“Jimmy Neutron is like Dexter’s Lab for Down Syndrome kids” -*name withheld*

7:59 -Dan just told Will to take Selecthumor to the shaft…y’know like Vader did to Emperor Palpatine.

8:00 -Zing of the Night: “She [Helen Keller] graduated from Harvard with a law degree. You couldn’t do that with all of your senses” -Eitan to Will

8:05 -Is Estelle “Mother” Winslow still alive?…Nope. Aw.

8:09 -Taimur’s nickname would be Scene-It

8:10 -“Aw, c’mon! Get those Plagues off of my Fangoria!” -Mike

8:12 -Howard Dean looks like he has the Eitan disease -Eitan-itis

8:18 -“Did you know Patrick Warburton is the voice of Brock Samson on ‘The Venture Brothers’?” -Slowpoke Eitan

8:20 -“We don’t actually shit on Jeff -that’s unsanitary.”

8:22 -“He bought half of his wardrobe at Universal Studios” -Will

8:25 -“Imagine I have as many rings as The Mandarin and T-Rex arms” -Dan, preparing for an impression

8:28 -Phil Molnar is the man

8:31 -Whatever Happened to Tim Curry?

8:34 -Tee shirt & pin-stripe suit pants with Converses is not a good look. At all.

8:36 -Plato, you asshole!

8:38 -Danny Tamberelli let himself go

8:39 -“It’s gone. It fell off the Internet” -Will

8:41 -“Do they have a Bangles wine?” -Dan

8:42 -Wendy doesn’t like us

8:43 -Best Vampire Movie: Dracula: Dead and Loving It

Best Zombie Movie: Sex & The City 2

8:45 -Best Group Cosplay Idea: Recess

8:47 -Andrew is the Young Phil Molnar

8:49 -Recess: The Later Years

8:52 -“Did your car get stuck in the lake that Moses parts?” -Will

8:58 -“Grandma, get off the phone! You’re ruining my connection! I’m trying to post on the ‘Hey Arnold!’ message board!”

9:01 -Taimur starts singing “Grease Lightning”

9:03 -“I just pooped my pants…metaphorically” -Dan

9:06 -“Say it with me, Dan -BULLSHIT!” -Will

9:07 -Will is a lesbian

9:11 -Tommy Pickles is retarded

9:15 -Newt Gingrich looks like the digital number nine

9:18 -We’re just a buncha noids

9:21 -Lorie Beth Denberg got fired for sexual harassment. They were going to sue her for all her Vital Information for Everyday Life

9:25 -“I’m doing the ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ down at the rec center”

9:29 -“Oh my God! The bio teacher’s doing a Poo Bear with a jar of peanut butter in the lab!”

9:31 -Vito Corleone power

9:34 -Chicken fries!

9:40 -Dan Aykroyd from ‘Canadian Bacon’ will be here all week

9:45 -We waited until 9:45. We'll get you next time, Kraft! Next time! *shakes fist dramatically*

Iron Man's New Outfit Heralds Movie Sequel

CBL alumnus and current New Jersey Herald reporter Phil Molnar has been continuing the comic book thing and most recently got an exclusive with Matt Fraction on Iron Man's upcoming new armor! Check it out!

Iron Man's New Outfit Heralds Movie Sequel

By PHILLIP MOLNAR
pmolnar@njherald.com
Taking spring fashion to a new level, the Marvel Comics superhero Iron Man will get some new duds in April, just in time for "Iron Man 2" hitting movie theaters.
Tony Stark, Iron Man's alter ego, will create the new costume in Invincible Iron Man issue #25, due April 28.
The writer of Invincible Iron Man, Matt Fraction, had a simple explanation for the change.
"Well, we'd blown up all the other ones," he said of the sleek new outfit. "He sort of had nothing left and needed to start over."
Iron Man's armor has changed more than a dozen times since his 1963 debut.
"Unlike Superman or the X-Men, who are born with their powers ... Tony can give himself new 'powers' in the form of new tech," said the writer of the Iron Man Legacy series, Fred Van Lente. "He's just like James Bond, except unlike Bond, he creates the gadgets he uses."
The new costume comes on the heels of a storyline in which Stark systematically deleted his own memories so bad guy Norman Osborn could not discover the secret identities of America's superheroes. Movie fans might remember Norman Osborn, played by Willem Dafoe, from the Spider-Man movies.
The costume was designed by Ryan Meinerding, who designed Iron Man's costume in the first film.
"He sketched around. ... When he hit it, everybody kind of knew," Fraction said. "It was there all along, we just had to find out where we put it."
Peter DeFelice, owner of Pyramid Comics & Cards in Sparta, said the Iron Man comic became one of his best sellers after the movie came out.
"We saw a big pop in sales, which is typically not the case," DeFelice said. He said that "The Dark Knight," the Spider-Man films and all the other superhero movies did not increase sales for their respective comics.
The Invincible Iron Man series began a month after the movie came out in summer 2008 and has continued to be a favorite of fans and critics. It won the Eisner award -- the comic book industry's highest honor -- for Best New Series in 2009. The previous Iron Man series, which had been retitled War Machine, ended a few months later.
DeFelice is hoping for another increase in sales when "Iron Man 2" comes out May 7 and is also excited about the new armor.
"Change is good," he said. "New armor is always fun."
Fraction also hopes the movie will increase book sales.
"You can do a lot worse than having the most anticipated movie of the summer be your lead," he said.
The first Iron Man movie grossed $318,412,101 in the United States, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com. The film was nominated for Best Visual Effects and Best Sound Editing at the Academy Awards.
Fraction was also a consultant on "Iron Man 2" and assures new readers the comic series will sync up.
"The vibe is there," he said. "If you dig the movie, you'll dig the book."
The villain for the sequel will be Whiplash, played by Mickey Rourke. The character first became a recurring Iron Man foe in Marvel Team-Up #145 in January 1974, when Spider-Man and Iron Man fought him as he tried to rob a casino in Atlantic City.
Fraction said he had no current plans to bring Iron Man to New Jersey, but didn't rule it out.
"He's still in the Avengers so he won't be away from the East Coast for long," he said of the New York City-based superhero squad. "Besides, the rents are so much more affordable over the river."