Atomik Nacho Pot Pourri

1. Nacho Libre: Unfortunate. Bad. Perhaps racist? Jack Black playing Jack Black with an accent. Not funny. Boring. Did I say maybe racist? Ah well. At least we have the Tenacious D movie to look forward to, and if you dont know what that is, well, you are sad. I love the Jackster, dont get me wrong, loved him in Kong, School of Rock, even Envy. This is not it.

2. A followup to the note on WizardWorld - also got to meet Sal Abbinati, creator and artist for Atomika, now on its 7th issue of independent publication. He was a bit under the weather but was gracious and gentlemanly and was kind enough to sign the Alex Ross-covered Atomika #1. Atomika is a terrific, old-school-Heavy-Metal story about the gods of ancient Russia coming to life and fighting each other (gross oversimplification) and it is far out, to use the vernacular. There's a trade that collects the first half and Sal told us that day he's going to finish up the 12-issue regular series and then do an annual with some material that didnt fit into the series. You. Should. Check. It. Out. Here's the autygraft and thanks again Sal --
3. Dane Cook on this past week's repeat of SNL - "Dude, Smell My Eyes!" Classic. Still laughing.

4. This: 5. Next: More Autographs