IT HAS ARRIVED.

Well gang, this is it. After nearly two years of Grointasticness and sporadic updates, it’s time to finally put Goki’s Giving Groin back where it belongs:

In my pants.

Fear not, dear readers! This is NOT the end of the blog. However, this IS the beginning of the much-heralded changes to our lovely Inter-home. We begin with a name change: Goki’s Giving Groin will from this day forward be known as…

EAT MORE COMICS.

Delicious, isn’t it? Don’t worry, we’re still going to cover non-comic book related topics, as well. Yet if you look at the blog’s output, you’ll see that we’ve clearly talked about comics more than anything else. Not to mention that our old name probably isn’t too SFW. So now you can surf our blog without worrying about getting fired! Or sent to detention, for all you young scholars out there.

But wait! There’s more! In addition to changing our name, we are also starting… a message board! This’ll allow us to cover more topics at once, as well as increase interactivity with our readership (and each other). More importantly, it will allow you, the reader, the chance to come up with topics of your own. Can you feel the power?! Just don’t get carried away; we’d still be in charge, after all

Expect the blog and the message board to have a symbiotic relationship (or symbiosis, if you prefer). We’ll link to popular message board topics on the blog and vice versa, and if we want to cover a message board topic in more depth, we’ll probably post on the blog. That said, expect blog posts and message board posts to be any length; we’re not letting format dictate how long our posts are going to be.

We’ll be posting the link to the message board some time this week, so stay tuned and save your appetites!

Forgive the slight delay…

… to the big changes I spoke of, as life has recently been trying to run me over with a steamroller. Yet fear not, dear readers, for I shall unveil these changes this weekend at the earliest and Wednesday at the latest. In the meantime, check out some of the great content David’s been posting up lately:

• David asks for your next PROJECTS suggestions
• David tells you what to buy this week (for he is The David, and we shall all do as he commands)
• David reviews last week’s comics (for he is The David, and thus can turn back time)

So click on those links… or just scroll down.

It’s coming…

Something so big it cannot be contained. Something that has to be seen to believed.

(and no, I’m not talking about you-know-what this time)

It may come this week. Or perhaps the next; you won’t have to wait longer than that. What is it, you ask? All I’ll say for now is this: it will change the blog as you know it. Guaranteed.

We now return you to our regular progamming.

Pardon our dust

Sorry for the lack of updates: things are getting busy for us this time of year, as they often do. We’ll be updating as we can throughout April and May, but I have a feeling we’ll become much more active near the end of May. We’ve also got a big announcement coming up (for serious), so stay tuned!

Journey to the Center of the Bat!

Plasticman and Elongated Man

I… wut? Like I said in my previous review, Batman: The Brave and the Bold can be a bit of a hit or miss. And apparently when it is a hit it is a hit, and when it is a miss it is a miss. “Journey to the Center of the Bat!” was quite… off.

The mini-team ups at the beginning of each episode are a nice way to introduce characters to the series, and get a little bit of comedy in as well. That’s no different here, when Plasticman and Elongated Man take on Babyface. Plasticman is dead on, as he was in previous episodes, but Elongated Man sounds a bit like he should be throwing dinner parties on Martha’s Vineyard or the Hamptons. The two spend the fight arguing over which one of them Batman likes working with better. Huh. I mean they, they’ve both got similar powers, but… that’s a bit odd.

The main story kicks off with Aquaman calling in the Atom, Dr. Ryan Choi, when Batman is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation from Chemo. But something is off with this incarnation of the Atom. He sounds like a Andy Dick with a PHD, with a very loose lisp.

You can only imagine my amusement as he spouted off phrases such as:

“As the Atom I can shrink to the size of a sub-atomic particle and ride electrons through the phone wires.”

“I’m a phyicist!”

“Specifically fast-replicating monoclinic philosilicates.”

Basically anything with an “s” sound in it is worth a laugh. While Atom and Aquaman shrink down to tackle Chemo’s virus within Batman, Bats goes after the creature to discover who is behind it.

Overall, not a particularly enthralling episode, and the mischaracterization of the Atom left me with a… weird taste in my mouth. The villain was meh, and the heroes shrinking and takin a trip into Batman to zap some bug-virus things has been done before. Atom does do other things! Believe it or not though, Aquaman is growing on me. He’s so oddly Silver Age that you can’t help but grin.

Next time: Despero wipes out the Green Lantern Corps, and Batman must team with the few remaining ring-bearers to bring him down.

Get drunk with X-Men The Animated Series return to DVD

“Hey! Don’t forget us,” says Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. According to TV Shows on DVD they’re bringing the original X-Men Animated Series back to DVD, with Volumes 1 and 2 of the ’90s favorite. What is in these volumes exactly? Who knows. But they’ll each be two discs and retail for $23.99. Will there be more volumes to come? We don’t know that either. Maybe no more trolling eBay for the burned (and illegal) DVD sets of every episode! How did DISNEY get their hands on these rights? The Mouse has power, guys.

But the good news is now you too can relieve all your old favorites crammed into a couple of discs, AND play the companion X-Men Drinking Game! Gather your friends and follow the instructions after the jump!

Site pimpin’

Check out the new category on the right: “Our sites!” Here’s where we’ll put up links to sites we own/co-run in alphabetical order. First up is Lia/dillonmania’s America’s Heroes: Freedom Force site, which focuses on the old Marvel Comics super-team made up of mostly ex-Brotherhood of Evil Mutants members. Next is Lia’s Hail the Rogues! site, a LiveJournal about, you guessed it, the Flash’s Rogues gallery. Then there’s Rob/hypergraffic’s Ultimate X site, your place for Ultimate Marvel news.

Of course, I can’t go without mentioning Spiffy’s Comic Castle 4 message board, which in many ways is the granddaddy of this here blog. It’s one of the places where the five us of us really got to bond and talk about comics, movies, TV… “everything awesome, really.”  Though it’s no longer active (Spiffy hasn’t picked a completely arbitrary date to bring it back yet), it’s a great time capsule for us in terms of comics and in terms of our friendship. Although I have to admit that some of the things I said back then make me cringe today…

And yes, I know that Comic Castle 5 link at the top of the page doesn’t work anymore. That’s because there no longer is a Comic Castle 5. D’urh.

A handsome man enters

Goki’s Giving News (and more) 10/31- UPDATED

This has been a busy week. When I haven’t been busy, I’ve been lazy resting. So until I get back on track next week (which will include the triumphant return of my patented ratings system), enjoy what all these other productive people have posted on the Internet:

Announcing upcoming Projects

With the mammoth effort of Project: Fables behind me, and it seemingly a smashing hit, I thought I’d give you lucky bastards a hint into some of my plans for the rest of the summer with regards to Goki’s Giving Groin.