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Tim Story ankles 'The Losers' (Thu 11-29-2007)

From his blog Andy Diggle reports that Tim Story is no longer the director of 'The Losers' and 'Zodiac' writer Jamie Vanderbilt is working on the script. Jamie Vanderbilt - who wrote ZODIAC for David Fincher, as well as reworking Peter Berg's screenpla...

Sylvain White sends THE LOSERS on mission
by Rob M. Worley (Fri 11-07-2008)

...es. 'The Losers' tells the story of a band of black ops agents who are set up to be killed by their own organization. They survive and begin the task of taking revenge on their handlers, and unraveling the dirty deeds of the American government intell...

McG To Direct DC Comics "The Losers" (Tue 03-06-2007)

An industry insider claims that McG ('Charlie's Angels') has replaced Pete Berg ('The Rundown') as the director of the big screen adaptation for Vertigo/DC Comics 'The Losers'.


Script Review: The Losers (Mon 07-02-2007)

"It's hard to beat Diggle's comic. The man was born to write The Losers and was born to write action. Having Peter Berg come in and write a screenplay is almost a disservice because...they could just get Andy Diggle to write it! ALMOST a disservice bec...

Exclusive Video Interview: Tim Story Talks 'The Losers' (Thu 06-14-2007)

... and 'The Losers' in this exclusive video interview from IESB.

Tim Story to direct 'Losers' (Sat 06-09-2007)

Variety reports that 'Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer' director Tim Story is taking on the DC's gritty spy caper comic 'The Losers' as his next project for Warner Bros. Studio has hired Jamie Vanderbilt to adapt Andy Diggle's comicbook, worki...

Peter Berg one of the 'Losers'?
by Rob M. Worley (Mon 07-25-2005)

Rumor has it that director Peter Berg ('Copland') has started discussions in regards to adapting 'The Losers' from Vertigo Comics. More...


Goldsman to adapt 'The Losers'?
by Rob M. Worley (Mon 10-27-2003)

The amazing Rich Johnston writes, "From the man who brought you 'Batman And Robin' and 'A Beautiful Mind,' I hear Akiva Goldsman is involved in bringing an adaptation of DC Vertigo's 'The Losers' to the screen.

Tim Story talks Losers (Sat 06-16-2007)

Tim Story talks to Empire Magazine about 'The Losers', which he's recently become attached to direct: "Peter Berg has written the script and he's also producing, so I've been able to go and talk to him about it. This is definitely going to be an edgier ...

Legendary Returns for Dark Knight, Losers and more (Tue 06-26-2007)

...book "The Losers," a feature adaptation of the cult TV series "Kung Fu," a feature based on the successful Blizzard Entertainment online game franchise "World of Warcraft" and a remake of the 1981 fantasy "Clash of the Titans." Those join the already a...

Berg adapting 'Losers' comic for Warners
by Rob M. Worley (Thu 09-15-2005)

Pete Berg has signed on to write with an eye to direct an adaptation of "The Losers," a gritty DC-Vertigo comic book, for Warner Bros. Pictures. Berg will produce via his Film 44 shingle along with Weed Road's Akiva Goldsman. "The Losers" follows a highly...


Story Agrees With LOSERS
by News Editor (Sat 06-09-2007)

Warner Bros. Pictures has hired Tim Story to direct the big screen adaptation of THE LOSERS, by writer Andy Diggle and artist Jock. Peter Berg wrote the screenplay. Based on the comic book from DC Vertigo, the plot centers on a highly trained and eclecti...

Boogiepop Dual Volume One: Losers' Circus
by Janet Houck (Mon 10-16-2006)

I'll admit to bias right now; I have yet to meet a Seven Seas book that I didn't like. I like their philosophy of authentic, yet accessible manga, with extras in the back, and colored pages in the front. Although their books run slightly higher than most ...

THE LOSERS
by BRIAN THOMAS (Sun 02-26-2006)

When Roger Corman made his western-on-motorcycles flick THE WILD ANGELS in 1966, no one knew what he'd unleashed. The movie made so much money and was so cheap to make that for the next few years the drive-ins were crowded with pictures about smelly, braw...

Warner Bros. Goes for LOSERS
by News Editor (Thu 09-15-2005)

Warner Bros. Pictures will turn DC Comics' THE LOSERS into a feature film.Peter Berg will adapt. Kerry Foster, John Cameron, Sarah Aubrey Peter Berg and Akiva Goldsman will produce. Berg might also direct. The story centers on a highly skilled CIA team...


Ping Pong Club Vol. #4: Loser's Club
by Chris Beveridge (Tue 10-09-2001)

What They SayJust because you\'re the biggest geek on campus doesn\'t mean you can\'t get the girl. And Maeno, the club\'s sorest loser, intends to prove it - by cooking up a scheme to play Doctor with every girl in school! But instead of helping, his tea...

Suzuka Vol.#03
by Eduardo M. Chavez (Wed 03-21-2007)

...nners and losers. Have to say that is apropos in more ways than one. Don\'t know who I would call a winner under these circumstances. Maybe Del Rey wins if people are buying this book, as this series is tremendously over-priced in terms of quality of s...

Ping Pong Club Vol. #3: Goes Too Far
by Chris Beveridge (Sat 12-21-2002)

What They SayA new teacher has arrived who is so cheerful, so perky, and so completely annoying, that Maeno and the team just have to take action. The twisted freaks of the ping pong club unite to form the Losers’ Community, a class of losers, for l...

DC: THE NEW FRONTIER
by Tony Whitt (Tue 01-27-2004)

At the end of WWII, the Losers make the ultimate sacrifice to rescue an Axis scientist and his military escort gone missing in the Pacific. In the early 1950s, Senator Joe McCarthy calls for all mystery men to reveal their identities and be registered, le...


Maple Colors
by Chris Beveridge (Wed 11-01-2006)

What They SayThe new transfer student, Yoshijiro, fits right into class 2-B - the biggest collection of rejects, losers and weirdoes the Academy has ever seen! But his loser status is about to be upgraded to top dog. On his very first day, he manages to f...

Stardate 0008:28 - Trekkies in the White House?
by Michelle Erica Green (Mon 08-28-2000)

... band The Losers played a practice session of Donovan`s `Hurdy Gurdy Man` early in the week, receiving praise from partisan listeners. Technical glitches marred the competition, with The Losers having to start over at one point due to an annoying buzzi...

Bill & Ted: mutants
by BRIAN THOMAS (Tue 07-12-2005)

...notified. Losers can weep in their root beer. SPOTLIGHT OF THE WEEK This week, our spotlight falls on the comedy team of Winter & Reeves: (O) BILL & TED'S MOST EXCELLENT COLLECTION (MGM) Those puzzled as to why so many critics have difficulty a...

Books and Boxes
by BRIAN THOMAS (Tue 09-27-2005)

...udes BORN LOSERS, BILLY JACK, THE TRIAL OF BILLY JACK and BILLY JACK GOES TO WASHINGTON, plus a bonus disc full of stuff.(O) THE CANDY SNATCHERS (Subversive) 1973 thriller in which a trio of amateur kidnappers abduct a teenage heiress and bury her aliv...


CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN #1
by Tony Whitt (Mon 06-21-2004)

...eries THE LOSERS, which, despite its excellence, has little to nothing to do with the pre-CRISIS WWII team of the same name. Then we got the latest incarnation of the Doom Patrol, which has nothing to do with the original and even less to do with the v...

Comicscape April 6, 2005
by Kurt Amacker (Wed 04-06-2005)

...o cares?")LOSERS #22 (MR)$2.99MAD ABOUT THE NINETIES TP$9.99Al: Hey! I'm mad about the nineties! Matchbox 20 sucked! I'm totally buying this.Bub: NAAAAAAAAARGH! GACH! ICH! ("Screw the nineties! That's what happens when speculation takes precedenc...

Arnett is JEFF THE DEMON
by News Editor (Mon 11-14-2005)

New Line has set Will Arnett to star in the comedy JEFF THE DEMON.DEMON centers on a pair of high school losers who find a book that allows them to summon a power from the netherworld. The demon helps them win every battle and right every wrong in their l...

Troma's DIY cinema school
by BRIAN THOMAS (Tue 05-31-2005)

...udes BORN LOSERS, BILLY JACK, THE TRIAL OF BILLY JACK and BILLY JACK GOES TO WASHINGTON, plus a bonus disc full of stuff. ACTRESS APOCALYPSE © Crash (O) BOOGEYMAN (Sony) A young man investigates the closet demon that abducted his father in ...


The final FINAL DVD?
by Brian Thomas (Tue 07-25-2006)

...RS (Sony) Losers David Spade, Rob Schneider and John Heder form a 3-man baseball team and take on little league teams. Includes 2 commentraks, featurettes, deleted footage and more. (O) THE BILL COSBY SHOW Season 1 (Shout Factory) No, not that one. Th...

PSYCHO BUSTERS, Volume One
by Nadia Oxford (Fri 11-02-2007)

...corporate losers who think of their quarry more as products than people. After much murmuring and gasping, they decide to set the "Category Ones" on the trail of the psychics, but all the build-up is simply for a band of boring enemy psychics...

Resident Evil Returns
by Pat Ferrara (Mon 07-30-2007)

...usly sore losers. Even if Walker does pull off the impossible and pinpoint his needle of a solar system in the universe haystack, there’s a good chance that the unrelenting Vilenjji will get to him before he ever gets to Wrigley Field. Yep, it&rs...

ON THE LOT: Second Round of Auditions
by Stephen Lackey (Sat 05-26-2007)

...nners and losers of each episode are given away early on by the focus that they get throughout the episode. I’m just basing this on the first two episodes but the formula is pretty apparent. The teams were broken down into teams of thre...


Battle of the ‘Star’ Series: Star Wars, Star Trek, & Starship Troopers
by Pat Ferrara (Tue 01-30-2007)

...while the losers will be pounded into submission. But time has shifted on its axis, so none know who will survive, or how peace will take hold in a world turned upside down. These are the questions that John Birmingham brilliantly answers in his cri...

Lionsgate goes to THE RABBIT FACTORY
by Karl Schneider (Wed 06-21-2006)

...long-time losers whose paths intersect in or near Memphis. Arthur is nearly 70, impotent and fearful of losing his sexy younger wife, Helen. She tries to seduce teenaged Eric, a pet shop employee who fled his abusive father's rabbit factory-a metaphor ...

DVD This Week: September 18th
by John Thonen (Tue 09-18-2001)

...These two losers end up on a jungle island with mad scientist Lugosi and a bunch of "comedy" sequences which are even more stale and moth-eaten than the gorilla costume featured within.CAPE FEAR: SPECIAL EDITION is Martin Scorsese's 1991 remake, which ...

LOVE IS A MANY SPLATTERED THING
by Andrew Hershberger (Thu 02-14-2002)

...gh school losers should be given telekinetic powers, not just the ones with overly repressed, devoutly religious mothers. Poor Carrie - she's such a nobody, all the kids hate her, her mother hates her and even the ugly shirt-wearing boy riding a bike h...


KEEP ON THE BORDERLANDS
by James T. Voelpel (Mon 04-08-2002)

...inners or losers. Now DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS' current torchbearer, Wizards of the Coast, brings us a mass-market paperback based on this quintessential module by veteran media tie-in writer Ru Emerson, the author of twenty novels such as the Nedaq trilog...

BLACK HOLE #9
by Arnold T. Blumberg (Thu 12-13-2001)

...he mutant losers that hang out at the Pit, which is where Keith finds her and brings her to the house. Narratively we wrap back to the beginning and now Chris is drunk (several drinks too many, which Keith eagerly supplied) and ready to pass out. As Ke...

International Alternatives to Repeat TV
by Stephen Lackey (Fri 12-28-2007)

... group of losers selling pot and getting into trouble in a small trailer park. Ricky and Julian aren’t bad guys; they’ve just been brought up in a place where petty crime isn’t such a big deal. The series starts with the two...

DORK #9 and THE COLLECTED DORK VOLUME 1: WHO'S LAUGHING NOW?
by Arnold T. Blumberg (Thu 08-16-2001)

...ose total losers whose lives are a never-ending parade of action figures, debates on TREK continuity and role-playing marathons, are back in a frightening psychological gauntlet titled "Intervention." Well, truth to tell, the Club makes only a cameo ap...


TOKYO OLYMPIAD
by ANDREW HERSHBERGER (Wed 08-14-2002)

... winners, losers and in-between.Ichikawa’s movie zooms in and out of the action, providing an overview of events at one point and then closing in on, say, a runner who in spite of a valiant effort is in last place or has collapsed on the track only to ...

THE WHITE SHEIK (LO SCEICCO BIANCO)
by ANDREW HERSHBERGER (Tue 07-08-2003)

... dateless losers”… whew, what a condensed language that Italian) - or should I say when I watched 76% of the subtitles with 24% of the visuals occasionally catching my eye - I noticed that all the actors and actresses seemed to be mimicking the convent...

2004 Eisner Awards nominees announced
by Patrick Sauriol (Thu 04-08-2004)

...Image)THE LOSERS, by Andy Diggle and Jock (Vertigo/DC)PLASTIC MAN, by Kyle Baker (DC)SLEEPER, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (WildStorm/DC)THE WALKING DEAD, by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore (Image) Best Title for a Younger AudienceASTRO BOY, by Osamu...

Internet Failure Article
by Andrew Hershberger (Mon 02-09-2004)

...hat "even losers have to win sometimes," it negates the core idea of Mr. Brown as the personification of unwavering human kindness in the face of grotesque abuse. At least that's what the drunk guy on the bus thought.FATAL ATTRACTION (8 pm, BRAVO) A gu...


Warner Bros. Classics
by BRIAN THOMAS (Tue 09-30-2003)

...about two losers who accidentally book their vacation on a gay cruise with excuse-riddled commentary by Gooding and director Mort Nathan. Curiously, the box copy and ads make no mention of the gay-themed plot, instead emphasizing lots of chicks in biki...

Comicscape - August 27, 2003
by Tony Whitt (Wed 08-27-2003)

...ee..."THE LOSERS: Good grief, here's Tim Agen again! (He sent me an actual top ten list, by the way, so if you want to be mentioned in my column a lot, you might do the same.) Of this title, he writes, "Issue #1 was just fun. I've also read #2 and I'm ...

AZTEC writers strike gold
by Patrick Sauriol (Thu 05-27-2004)

...rowd. The losers were put to death.In the AZTEC story winning means Tez gets to live, but he also has a plan to escape the city of Tenochtitlan and make off with a treasure's worth of gold. Can Tez pull it off?The story pitch was delivered by screenwri...

Saiyuki Reload Vol. #2
by Chris Beveridge (Mon 04-25-2005)

...make them losers in the end since they weren\'t looking out for their own interests first. The two follow-up tales were pretty light fare after this, such as one with a cat who becomes a bit of a partner for the group for a bit and another dealing wi...


Gundam SEED Vol.#04
by Eduardo M. Chavez (Sat 08-06-2005)

...ctors and losers. They believe that the means behind their ideas can all be justified if the ends bring them the results they want - good or bad. They are selfish. They send people to battle for their personal gain - revenge, power and greed. They are ...

Bus Gamer 1999-2001: The Pilot Edition Vol.#01
by Jarred Pine (Tue 10-03-2006)

...ne of the losers of a game dies right in front of them, they realize what is really at stake: their very lives! The ReviewAn interesting premise that was abandoned and never finished, making this an incomplete manga with no completion in sight. My adv...

Cromartie High School DVD Complete Collection (Thinpak)
by Mark Thomas (Tue 10-07-2008)

... from the losers, bruisers, and thugs at Cromartie High. The Review!Audio: For this viewing, I listened to the English dub, which is offered in 5.1. The Japanese track is available in 2.0. The dub sounds pretty nice, and there is some nice differentiat...

Devil May Cry Vol. #3
by Chris Beveridge (Tue 10-14-2008)

... that the losers die makes it a little more interesting. An episode like this easily works against the core audience, much as how people felt about the recent Casino Royale movie, in that’s not what they want out of the character. Dante playing c...


Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig Vol. #7
by Dani Moure (Tue 12-05-2006)

...ll be the losers? There's one thing that you could pretty much guarantee with the end of this series, and that is the main story would always be resolved. Thankfully there is no pandering out of a proper finale here; what we get is a good and proper s...

Harlequin Violet Vol.#01 - Blind Date
by Ariadne Roberts (Fri 06-29-2007)

Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Emma Darcy / Mihoko HiroseTranslated by:Ikoi HiroeAdapted by:Ikoi HiroeWhat They SayCatherine never expected to win the top prize on Blind Date. In fact, it was the second prize she was after! But sometimes when you least expe...

Chat with Charles McCarter of Bandai
by Chris Beveridge (Fri 11-10-2000)

...g with us losers :) . You've been extremely helpful and polite and been here far longer then you had to be. and the special edition DVD cover is a foil cover. chris: yes, that's the only VHS there will be. DVD is the only place for uncut OVA and the ...

Jock styling on 'Batman Begins'
by Rob M. Worley (Thu 04-22-2004)

'The Losers' artist Jock dropped CBR News a line detailing some of his involvement with the new Chris Nolan-helmed Bat flick. Apparently, Jock is working from his home studio in England on "style sheets" that Nolan and Bale will be shown to give them a be...


Superman Returns vs. X-Men:TLS (Fri 08-18-2006)

...nners and losers on this deal?

DVD Shopping Bag: Great Pumpkin Issues
by Robert T. Trate (Tue 09-23-2008)

...ng of all losers is essentially branding him as such spouts out a huge rant that next year he’ll be there (in the pumpkin patch) waiting. This tirade always lead me to believe that there would be another Peanuts Halloween episode. Being a child o...

Box Office Update: THUNDER Strikes Twice at B.O.
by Associate News Editor and Jarrod Sarafin (Mon 08-25-2008)

...s and the losers for this summer season. The one with the big “L” attached is obviously Speed Racer, a big production for Warner Bros. that failed horribly in translating from 60’s anime icon to 2000’s film treatment. But Warn...

The Gainax Bounce Effect
by His Lordship Chaos (-)

...ay to you losers is--!" SD His lordship Chaos-chan: "Might I remind you this is a rated G column, Dark." SD Dark Schnieder-chan: [throwing an irate li'l hissy fit] "Kuso! You never let me have any fun." SD His lordship Chaos-chan: [shaking his he...


Gestalt
by Bryan Morton (Tue 11-28-2006)

...where the losers will be fed to a carrion crawler. Just a little over-the-top, perhaps? It turns out the queen is being aided by a sorcerer named Soushi, with whom Ohri is already well acquainted... The first thing that\'s worth pointing out is that...

Cromartie High School Complete Collection (Thinpak)
by Chris Beveridge (Thu 03-06-2008)

...hilarious losers of Cromartie High! The Review!When Kamiyama finds himself in a school of badasses, he accidentally works himself into being accepted by them and then in a way becoming the boss of them. Audio: Cromartie High School is presented in a...

Ping Pong Club Vol. #1: Make Way For
by Chris Beveridge (Sat 08-24-2002)

What They SayDirty jokes, girl trouble, and other dumb things — these are the trials and tribulations of the boy’s Ping Pong Club. Join these not-so-lovable losers as they face their worst enemies – themselves!The Review!After starting t...

Tenchi Muyo: Pretty Sammy/Mihoshi Special
by Chris Beveridge (Sun 10-20-2002)

... the sore losers from Juraihelm has selected a magical girl of her own, Pixy Misa to defeat her! Contains four episodes on one disc! The Review!Pioneer goes for the double feature method of release for two related series with this package, as after f...


Sailor Moon Super S TV vol. #1
by Paul Grisham (Sat 03-02-2002)

...rom these losers! Really, it\'s the humor and relationship irony that make Super S so much fun. It\'s not as angsty or dramatic as SMS, but at times, this is more fun. The real drawback so far is that a lot of the intrigue of Sailor Moon S is missin...

Dragonball Z TV #03: Saiyans - Snake Way
by Chris Beveridge (Tue 05-11-1999)

What They SayThis disc contains three episodes. \"Episode Eight - Home For Infinite Losers:\" Goku has fallen off Snake Way into the land of no return. There, two ogres give Goku a test; they promise that they will show him the way back to Snake Way if ...

CPM New Title Solicitation & Re-Pricings (Tue 06-14-2005)

...ong Club: Losers\' Club - $9.95 The Ping Pong Club: Love & Comedy - $9.95 Agent Aika: Final Battle - $9.95 Agent Aika: Naked Missions - $9.95 Geobreeders - $9.95 Geobreeders Collection - $19.95 Geobreeders:Breakthrough - $9.95 Photon: The Idiot Adventu...

Variable Geo
by Chris Beveridge (Tue 07-08-2003)

What They SayThe action is sudden and fierce. The TV cameras are close behind. With every match, beautiful winners inch closer to the grand prize - gorgeous losers strip naked before an audience of billions. Harmless fun? Not quite. Black magic oozes ...


Urusei Yatsura TV Vol. #18
by Chris Beveridge (Mon 12-15-2003)

...st lot of losers lately since good young men are hard to find. When they present her with the image of Ryuunosuke, she’s completely won over, even if she has to deal with Moroboshi and his group again to gain her. What starts off as a simple epis...

Girls Bravo Vol. #5
by Chris Beveridge (Mon 02-27-2006)

...where the losers must change into assorted costumes. The mature, thrilling and exciting game finally begins! The Review!Still essentially plot free, this is harem style anime that pushes the envelope and just seems to know how to have fun. Audio: Fo...

Invasion of the Direct-to-Video Titles
by John Thonen (Tue 11-28-2000)

...han a few losers, and you can usually count on Troma to come through in that category. And they certainly don’t disappoint with this week’s Alien Blood. In surer hands than writer-director-producer Jon Sorensen, this mix of vampires, aliens, masked ...

Gokusen Vol. #3
by Chris Beveridge (Thu 03-03-2005)

...school of losers anymore and has other plans for him. Yankumi is of course unhappy about this and goes to confront him but it\'s not what she expected when she finds out he\'s really high in the police force, enough so that he uses his status as a way ...


Vixens
by Chris Beveridge (Sat 07-31-2004)

...a has the losers life but everything changes for the worse when an android catgirl takes up residence with him and uses her powers, toys and abilities to help make his life fun. She\'s even called Doreimon. Yujita and his tiny frame get into a lot of t...

Super-Villain Team-Up MODOKS 11
by Robert T. Trate, Columnist (Fri 02-08-2008)

... bunch of losers out for that last score and teaming up with a bad guy that is way beyond normal. Modok does after all have a human’s intelligence genetically sped up 5 billion years. So, with whatever he is after; why would we need the...

Samurai Deeper Kyo Vol.#04
by Jarred Pine (Sun 05-08-2005)

...tory. The losers ... well, the shogun isn't one to hand out consolation prizes. Demon Eyes Kyo has entered the tournament, but it's not fame or fortune he's after--he wants the head of Ieyasu himself! The ReviewPackaging: The cover art features the sam...

And the Oscar goes to...
by Patrick Sauriol (Mon 03-24-2003)

...ANET were losers to the North American dubbed version of Hayao Miyazaki's SPIRITED AWAY.While SPIDER-MAN lost out for Best FX, comics were represented with a win for ROAD TO PERDITION for Best Cinematography (Conrad L. Hall).Other award-winners include...


DVD Reloaded!
by BRIAN THOMAS (Tue 10-14-2003)

...TI) Three losers try to change their harsh destinies using a stolen device to send messages into the past. Includes commentrak.(O)     GHOUL SCHOOL (Tempe/Splatter Rampage) High school students become zombies hungry enough to eat Ja...

DORK #10
by Arnold T. Blumberg (Fri 09-13-2002)

...our young losers who represent every kind of genre fan across the nation. Dorkin is usually at his cynical best when examining the depths of desperation experienced by the poor bastards who wile away their lives in the pursuit of cheap sci-fi entertain...

John Frankenheimer, 1930-2002
by John Thonen (Wed 07-17-2002)

...n full of losers are highly anticipated events. Marvin's superb work is ably supported by the likes of Frederic March, Robert Ryan and a young Jeff Bridges. Frankenheimer's visual sense does what most of the other AFI plays on film series could not; it...

THE CRANES ARE FLYING (LETYAT ZHURAVLI)
by ANDREW HERSHBERGER (Fri 07-12-2002)

...etentious losers” section of my video store. Then we headed back to my folks’ house for a night of love.When I popped THE CRANES ARE FLYING into my player, my woman’s first response was, “THIS IS IN BLACK AND WHITE,” her subtle scream sending my eardru...


WANTED #1
by Patrick Sauriol (Thu 12-18-2003)

Wesley Gibson is one of life's losers until unresolved family business comes calling. You see, 24-year-old Wesley is another poor schlub doing the daily grind for a boss he hates, living with the knowledge that his girlfriend is nailing his supposed best ...

Comicscape - June 8, 2004
by Tony Whitt (Wed 06-09-2004)

...ome money losers. They have to find ways to tell compelling stories without making even the slightest, let alone fundamental, change to these characters."Dewey Yeatts writes, "I have to admit, Superman has held little appeal for me over the years. I ha...

New Line Summons DEMON
by News Editor (Tue 04-12-2005)

New Line has picked up the comedy "Jeff the Demon" by Tom Scharpling and Joe Ventura. The story centers on two high school losers who find a book that allows them to summon a power from the netherworld. The demon, Jeff, helps them win every battle and ri...

Real GUNDAMs!
by BRIAN THOMAS (Sat 05-21-2005)

...temptible losers who will trod the path of shame and misery for the time being. Stay tuned for another giveaway soon, when you can try again to join us in the bright, shining V.I.P. room at all the best parties! SPOTLIGHT OF THE WEEK This week's spotl...


Comicscape February 23, 2005
by Kurt Amacker (Wed 02-23-2005)

First, a little more COMICSCAPE housecleaning: because of the overwhelming number of e-mails I've been getting that either declare the column "BOR FRICK ING" (in one astute reader's words) or threaten to stop reading altogether, I'm going to try to make t...

Olympic Glory
by Patrick Sauriol (Mon 08-09-2004)

...ight. The losers are forced to watch all the episodes of the American version of COUPLING.FRIDAY, AUGUST 13OLYMPIC SUMMER GAMES 2004 (8 PM, NBC) The coverage of Athens Olympic Games kicks off in full starting with the opening ceremonies...and it goes o...

JUSTICE LEAGUE ELITE #1
by Tony Whitt (Tue 08-03-2004)

.....and the losers get to die. Is it possible to simply appear to be killing everyone in sight? But before all this can happen, Vera must set up the JLE's non-existent credentials with Saudi spook Naif Al-Sheikh, and he doesn't like metahumans.Anyone who...

WILD GUITAR / THE CHOPPERS
by Andrew Hershberger (Wed 06-26-2002)

...hey, even losers have to win sometimes) would have been nice; same with a selection of Arch Hall Jr. hits over the usual trash-o-rama exploitation art. Sadly, this was not to be.Three short subjects are featured on the disc: “Dance Craze,” “Twist Craze...


BOB LE FLAMBEUR
by Andrew Hershberger (Wed 05-08-2002)

... for its “losers of the world.”Melville’s narrative is slick with style and ripe with rich faces: it’s got a smooth flow. The composition is provocative enough to make one feel like declaring, “Every shot is a picture suitable for framing.” The loosely...

JOHNNY FIRECLOUD / BUMMER!
by ANDREW HERSHBERGER (Wed 03-13-2002)

...use we’re losers man… we’re losers.” Yes it’s a bummer indeed.It’s not the production, the acting or even the hostility the film treats it subject matter with that makes BUMMER! such a dog; plain and simple the problem with BUMMER! is that it’s so damn...

EXORCISM
by ANDREW HERSHBERGER (Wed 03-20-2002)

...eople are losers. Yes, losers. You should hate these people, hate them with every fiber in your body, though not the killing fiber (killing is bad and illegal). Franco requires, like most of the great artists, a familiarity period. Do not expect to be ...

Stardate 0007.28: Be on VOYAGER!
by Michelle Erica Green (Thu 07-27-2000)

...ainst the Losers, the studio band with whom Stern plays. Later in the week, Stern considered songs from the 1960s the Losers could play, but ended up favoring `Spirit In The Sky` because the others might be too complicated.Jeff `Koganuts` Koga told Tre...


Comicscape - June 25, 2003
by Tony Whitt (Wed 06-25-2003)

... with THE LOSERS, Andy Diggle's tale of an elite U.S. Special Forces Unit whom the CIA has unsuccessfully tried to kill off, and who now want revenge. Say, wasn't there a group of WWII GIs called the Losers who were killed off in the Crisis, too? Guess...

LEGEND OF CRYSTANIA: THE CHAOS RING
by ANDREW HERSHBERGER (Fri 08-16-2002)

Ever since I started reviewing anime for Cinescape I’ve found myself being harassed by my various animation fiend friends about what titles I should cover. One of the more obnoxious instances is my third cousin on my mother’s side - I don’t wish to reveal...

Aztec
by Corona's Coming Attractions (Fri 05-28-2004)

...where the losers are put to death. Tez and his teammates have a plan to escape the city where they are held and run off with a fortune in gold, but can they keep winning long enough to make it out alive?Release Date:Unknown.Comments:None.Scoop Feedback...

Beyblade Vol. #07
by Derek Guder (Fri 04-16-2004)

... were all losers from the beginning and got soundly beaten by Europe\'s champion Beybladers. They blamed the sport itself for their failure (after all, if it didn\'t exist, they wouldn\'t have lost, right?) and got some kind of demonic/evil bitbeasts t...


THE CONVENT
by JOHN THONEN (Mon 01-28-2002)

... frat boy-losers and sorority bitches on their way to the long shuttered convent  now a local legend as a haunted place of evil. And yes, brilliant opening aside, this does seem to be becoming an all too typical teen-slasher horror flick. But wai...

TREMORS / TREMORS 2: AFTERSHOCKS (2-PACK)
by John Thonen (Thu 09-20-2001)

...f redneck losers who are in way over there heads. Michael Gross was a real surprise as a survivalist far removed from his FAMILY TIES character, Reba McEntire showed she acting chops, and cute Finn Carter was the perfect tomboy scientist. And even that...

PETER PARKER: SPIDER #33 (131)
by Arnold T. Blumberg (Thu 07-19-2001)

...perennial losers, the New York Mets, to drive home this point and serve as the basis for Peter's life lesson is a touch that only a native New Yorker could devise or fully appreciate.In fact, this is a rare story that really illustrates just what a tru...

THE CELL, SE7EN, DEAD MAN
by John Thonen (Tue 12-19-2000)

... bunch of losers as he is, Tylor somehow manages to keep coming out on top of every situation he get in. Sounds kind of like `Gilligan Goes to Space,` but I’ll reserve judgment for now. AWOL TITLES I’ve uncovered even more unannounced and unheralded t...


After Success
by Randall Larson (Fri 06-24-2005)

...nners and losers. With these songs, we explored a utopian outlook where everyone wins and everyone lives for something greater than their own desires." In addition to "Advance Warning," the video continues to be on the "Dean's List" on MTVu. "Beautiful...

Comicscape - July 27, 2005
by Kurt Amacker (Wed 07-27-2005)

... #8 $2.99 LOSERS #26 (MR) $2.99 Al's solo title just keeps on trucking!NEIL GAIMANS NEVERWHERE #2 (OF 9) (MR) $2.99 NIGHTWING YEAR ONE TP $14.99 OMAC PROJECT #4 (OF 6) $2.50 OTHERWORLD #5 (OF 12) (MR) $2.99 If anyone was wondering, and I'm gonna assume...

Four Months of Strange Sex: A profile of Icarus Publishing's AG manga anthology
by Lauren Goodnight (Thu 10-20-2005)

...mic "Sexy Losers" makes its print debut here. 15 July 2005 -- Issue 18 Themes: consensual and nonconsensual sex; oral, vaginal, anal; bukkake; girl/boy; bondage; power exchange; humiliation. If there was one issue to miss in the series, this might be...

CPM Highlights Repriced Releases (Thu 11-17-2005)

...ong Club: Losers' Club The Ping Pong Club: Love & Comedy (Die! Die! Die!) The Ping Pong Club: Make Way for the Ping Pong Club The Ping Pong Club: Rots in Hell The Venus Wars Time Bokan Time Stranger Tokyo Babylon Virgin Fleet Voltage Fighter Gowca...


Pop Japan Travel-Essential Otaku Guide Vol.#01
by Sakura Eries (Thu 08-16-2007)

...rowd of \"losers\" changes dramatically as they wind up in all sorts of escapades. See Japan through the eyes of our otaku group as they cosplay on the streets of Akihabara, defend their favorite manga creator from a bunch of biker hooligans, and esca...

Ordinary Crush Vol.#01
by Julie Rosato (Fri 12-21-2007)

...nsole the losers, isn’t it? A couple of short bonus chapters and a side story involving the freshman Mizusawa follow the main body of the story. Also included is an unrelated short story about a stubborn man and his doting android. CommentsThe ...

Variable Geo Neo Vol. #2
by Chris Beveridge (Thu 04-17-2008)

...e must be losers who must suffer the penalty. Audio: This release works with the fairly standard audio setup for bilingual adult releases in that we get a pair of stereo mixes encoded at 192kbps. There isn't much need for more than that here but the ...

Holy Shitaki, Batgirl
by Kurt Amacker (Wed 09-17-2008)

...ike those losers that got the one with the darker black bars that came out later.    Guys, this is literally and figuratively the stuff of basement-dwellers.             If a retailer deci...


Paul Newman Passes Away at 83
by Jarrod Sarafin (Sat 09-27-2008)

... guys and losers. New York Times critic Caryn James wrote after his turn as the town curmudgeon in 1995's "Nobody's Fool" that "you never stop to wonder how a guy as good-looking as Paul Newman ended up this way."But neither his hea...

Stardate 008.14: You Can't Go Home Again
by Michelle Erica Green (Mon 08-14-2000)

... band The Losers against Russ, backed by Neil Norman and his Cosmic Orchestra. Record company executives will judge the competition.But there`s a lot more to Russ than music. An amateur astronomer, Russ revealed in a recent interview with Astronomy mag...

BUZZ LIGHTYEAR Debuts
by Steve Fritz (Tue 08-08-2000)

... of these losers is Blake’s grifting, alcoholic father Sammy. Sammy basically abandoned James as an infant only to leech on again now that the kid has tons of money.Spade voices both James and Sammy. While it’s a wonder how James ended up successful at...

Slow Summer Months for VHS & DVD Releases
by John Thonen (Tue 07-04-2000)

...and-white losers from the ‘50s. The former is a forgettable fake-horror film, but the memorable Yvette Vickers adds some fire to Leeches. This disc is the first of Elite’s, `exclusive` Drive-In Discs series, which feature cartoons, a countdown clock,...


Akiva Goldsman Talks Comic Book Movies (Wed 01-16-2008)

At the Brazil junket for 'I am Legend', Akiva gave updates on 'The Losers', 'In the Small', 'Teen Titans' and 'Doom Patrol'.

Variable Geo Neo Vol. #1
by Chris Beveridge (Thu 04-10-2008)

...e and the losers are stripped of their dignity and raped for the amusement of the spectators. Yuu Asuka dreams of winning the money so she can save her brother\'s restaurant, but first, she must battle her way through the world\'s sexiest martial artis...

Prince of Tennis Box Set 03
by Chris Beveridge (Tue 10-30-2007)

...nners and losers in a tennis match and Seigaku has to get further in order to get the Nationals. What works in the shows favor though is that the team is not infallible. The opponent for the Metropolitans is St. Rudolph, a school whose manager is als...

The Buffy Files: Chapter 1
by Stephen Lackey (Fri 10-13-2006)

...d typical losers versus the cool kids stories but they aren't so CAWSON'S CREEK that I'm turned off to the series. I think these high school stories work for me because they all have a twinge of darkness to them. Buffy's stories are obviously dark as...


"Punisher War Journal: Volume 1"
by Kurt Amacker (Sat 03-03-2007)

... of other losers reflect on the changing face of the Marvel Universe.  Fraction takes the Silver Age stories quite literally, as the baddies reflect on the comparably innocent fights with heroes – ones in which no one really got hurt.&nbs...

TAG
by KURT AMACKER (Fri 06-02-2006)

...where the losers get to be zombies. It's a novel premise, though as I said, Japanese horror films have reexamined childhood trauma as a force for terror in the adult world. Giffen's story hasn't moved past that yet, but it promises greater revelation...

DOCTOR WHO - The Long Game
by Jason Davis (Thu 04-27-2006)

... very few losers to hitch a lift with the Doctor (wouldn't be fitting to point fingers at any others of his ilk), but I have to appreciate what Davies has done with the character in his brief stay. Here's a guy who worked for the man that owned the In...

CGI, ROBOTS
by BRIAN THOMAS (Sat 09-24-2005)

The Prize Closet is throbbing so let's get right to it! Geneon Entertainment has provided us with 5-packs of their recent releases to give away to five lucky readers. Send an email to psycho@psychotronic.info with your mailing address and "GENEON 5" in th...


BLOODY REUNION
by Tim Janson (Tue 07-24-2007)

... becoming losers in life. She made fun of Sun-hee for being overweight leading to an addiction to cosmetic surgery; she hurt Dal-bong’s led, preventing him from becoming an athlete; she ridiculed Eun-young for being poor, etc…  ...

Get Over Those Terrible Gifts
by Pat Ferrara (Mon 12-24-2007)

...while the losers will be pounded into submission. But time has shifted on its axis, so none know who will survive, or how peace will take hold in a world turned upside down. These are the questions that John Birmingham brilliantly answers in his critic...

Cromartie High School: The Movie (Live Action)
by Chris Beveridge (Mon 07-31-2006)

...school of losers, oddballs and freaks. Now that he\'s in this situation, Kamiyama decides that he can change the school to make it better and slowly but surely builds up some friends around him, such as Hayashida and Maeda, and learns the ropes about t...

Cromartie High School Vol. #1
by Bryan Morton (Wed 10-11-2006)

...hilarious losers at Cromartie High. This is one class you won\'t ever want to cut.The Review!Another high-school comedy hits DVD. Maybe it\'s just me, but these seem to be increasingly common these days. Cromartie High School has a unique selling po...


Dragon Ball Z Saga 5: Goku Held Hostage
by Chris Beveridge (Thu 09-29-2005)

... Infinite Losers\" always struck me as just how stupid censorship really is with these kinds of shows so having them the way they should be was like coming full circle. Goku also runs into the \"patron saint\" of the serpentine path when after getting...

Yu Yu Hakusho Vol. #24: Old Rivals, New Problems
by Chris Beveridge (Sun 06-20-2004)

What They SayWith mere moments to go before the tunnel between the Living World and the Demon World opens unleashing hordes of beast on an unsuspecting population, Yusuke\'s team push their way into Sensui\'s Lair. But what they find there shocks them bey...

FREQUENCY and THE BLOB
by John Thonen (Tue 10-31-2000)

...ere total losers. You know, the kind of guys that everybody in the fraternity only hung around with because their daddies were rich. Yep, real idiots. Just remember: keep repeating to yourselves, `It’s only a Halloween party.… It’s only a Halloween p...