Captain Cascader's Blog Posts

Ok guys and gals, we just launched a never-ending (well sorta) trivia app on comicvine. Basically you can now test your comic trivia knowledge and compete against other users to make it to the top of the leader-board. Users are submitted by the community and feel free to submit as many as you want. We launched this same feature on Giant Bomb (our sister site) over the weekend and they are already up to 2000 questions. I think we can beat them.

The questions show up on the homepage and the individual character/team pages. There are also leaderboards that are specific to that character and team, which I'll be pushing soon so you can flaunt your knowledge of Jean Grey or Wolverine.

If you notice a question that is either poorly-written or out of place you can vote that question down. If it gets enough people doing the same, the question gets deleted.

Anyways, have fun and please keep the trivia specific to comics, as opposed to RPGs, site knowledge.

New feature on comic vine. You can now have your blog also create a message board topic in the board of your choosing. This is optional and can be turned off by going to your message board preferences popup. Essentially we saw people writing awesome blogs that not a lot of people were seeing and wanted to give you guys an optional ability to get it out to more people.

If you attach your blog to the forums any replies you get there will show up on your blog and vice versa. If you have any questions, give a shout.

This post relates to: Abe Sapien, Johann Kraus, Hellboy

Earlier today I checked out Hellboy 2 and as guessed, was very impressed with it. I've always been a fan of practical effects movies where costumes, makeup and duct tape are more common then CGI so Del Toro has always had a soft spot in my heart. After 2 films he's created an original visual experience that I can only compare to the original Star Wars trilogy or Blade Runner. This is a world you can feel. I think G-Man's post hit it when he mentioned the shared memory of the Mos Eisley Cantina. Hellboy is filled with weird, believable stuff.

Now that it's been officially announced, I figured I'd drop in to say our team is currently building giantbomb.com for Jeff Gerstmann and crew. I've been buds with Jeff, Ryan, Brad and Vinny for years so I'm pretty pumped to build a site out for them. The site will essentially be Comic Vine for videogames. We'll be launching in 2 weeks, which all said, is 6 weeks since we relaunched comicvine. Both are built off the same platform, so as we build features for one, the other benifits. Same goes for bugfixing.

This post relates to: Are you interested in non-comic comic book movies like hancock and unbreakable?

I loved unbreakable. To this day I consider it the second best comic book movie ever made (the best being the original superman flick). I know it's a little slow for some people but I thought it did a really good job of telling an origin story in a non-fantastical way. Comic movies too often deal with the instant joy of finding out you have powers and unbreakable really broke the mold by spending an entire movie just dealing with the issue of denial.