Kevin Smith: Burn in Hell DVD

As I frequently do, I must give yet another shout out to Kevin Smith. I just finished watching Kevin Smith: Burn in Hell and thought it was great. As he is infamously known for, he conducted a Q&A session which had much focus on Red State, his latest film at the time, but with much talk of his career and where he's headed. As always, he complete brutal honesty is wonderful and watching this I got the same level of satisfaction as I do whenever I listen to a Smodcast episode but receiving the added bonus of seeing the very animated Kevin Smith up on the screen. Check it out.

-Danny

Smodcast

I've recently been on a podcast kick and started listening to Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier's Smodcast. I had no idea that they have been doing the show since 2007 and I have a lot of catching up to do. Being a huge fan of their work, I was hoping that this show would be a way to get to know these guys a bit better and to have a better understanding of their everyday lives and careers. That's exactly what you get. Stuffed full of humorous profanity, Smith and Mosier are two truly funny guys and you'll find yourself laughing throughout their one hour(ish) show.

My favorite attribute of Smodcast is the honesty which can only be described as both brutal and genuine. Smith and Mosier can make fun of themselves equally as much as they make fun of others and it's the combination of both that make for a two-way street show; never taking themselves so seriously.

We at The Naked Bear highly recommends you give it a shot because Smodcast is most definitely for the Kevin Smith fan. Visit their page at WWW.SMODCAST.COM or download the episodes onto your music player via your Zune software or iTunes.

-Danny

Thought of the Day: Cancer in Comics

Earlier today I was thinking about the ludicrous fact that Eddie Brock had gotten cancer and how that resulted in Mac Gargan becoming the new Venom. I would say that most people read comic books and really enjoy the stories about these fantasy characters because it is a temporary escape from the harsh reality that we live in. When you bring in one of the harsh elements of that reality and put it into comic books, in my opinion, it not only may touch a nerve and come too close to home, but it's a bit depressing and doesn't really fit in such a fantasy world. Especially when it's a superhuman being that's succumbing to such a disease. So I ask this: What's the point? Of all the ways that you could kill off a superhero or super villain, why choose cancer?

In a world where one can have the most badass obituary stating that they were annihilated when the Hulk sneezed or was hit by a car that was thrown at them by Doctor Octopus, you really need to keep something like cancer out. Just a few names of characters that had or died of cancer are Captain Marvel, Quentin Beck (Mysterio), Judge Dredd, The Question (Charles Victor Szasz, Vic Sage), David Qin, Janey Slater, and for the love of God, Archie's Geraldine Grundy.

This is how I want to remember Eddie Brock.

Not like this.

Keep cancer out of my comic books, son.