Can't stop thinking about it

That stupid vampire baseball Writer's Block is stuck in my head. Now I'm wondering more about the concept. First just ignore the call-back to the damn Twillight books. Think the early season episode of The Simpsons where Mr. Burns hires an entire team of ringers for his softball team to win a bet. Now replace that with vampires. So you've got two vampire baseball fans who maintain teams. And one decides to fill his with pro-players...

Now I'm thinking what all-time greats are still alive. Because once someone is turned into a vamp two things matter. One, performance enhancers like steroids or the like should either be expelled or just not have any effect at all. And second no matter how old they were BEFORE going vamp, now they're a young, strapping undead athlete. So why bother with whoever the big names are now when I can have Jackie Robinson with all his skills AND the strength to bench a buick...

So people who actually know anything about sports, what nine (or however many a full bench is) still living baseball legends would you bring in as undead ringers to win your bet?

New Comics Day 8/5/09

The store got shorted on a couple issues this week. Which was ok, since I was pretty tight for cash this week. And it meant I could afford to get the Wednesday Comics from last week I missed. Except I realized when I went to read my comics that I bought the one from TWO weeks ago. Oh well...

As for this weeks installment, Superman is still a big whiny baby, Amanda Conner's Streaky and Krypto are super-adorable, the Kuberts are the Kuberts and Paul Pope's "Strange Adventures" is a glory and a wonder to behold. And I seem to be the only person who really digs on the dense and heavy paneled "Wonder Woman"...

In the latest Secret Six Ragdoll still has all the best (if creepiest) lines as the Sixers have to deal with an angry Wonder Woman...

The Slayer Army faces its greatest horror yet in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Yak Butter Tea...

Over on the other Whedon book Angel begins a Drusilla story written by Juliet Landau, her actor...

With their dad missing and presumed dead in Savage Dragon Malcolm and Angel attempt to step up to the plate and deal with Mako. Malcolm's lightning punch is interesting. I don't remember anything prior to this showing he had inherited any part of his mom's powers...

I'm glad to that in the latest Jersey Gods more focus is put on Barock and Zoe's relationship. Though we do get some new villains and a plane rescue...

Facing a berserk Myriad-Whiptail, Brain Trust and a rampaging horde of drug induced transformed human-dinosaurs Dynamo5 have to make a morally grey bargain...

Astro City: The Dark Age: Book Three #4 (man I'll be glad next year when this title goes back to being a regular monthly with a normal title) concludes the story of the Apollo 11 as the First Family, Honor Guard and Omega Rangers take on the threat of Pyramid and the Incarnate, Kerresh the Devastator...

Funny People

Much funnier than I thought it would be. I mean, yes it has a LOT of dick jokes in it. But this is the first movie I can recall where Rogen plays a guy I wouldn't mind knowing at the START of the movie. And this was also one of Sandler's better roles. Plus the celebrity cameos tended to be fairly funny. Even the Andy Dick one. I mean sure, he was still pretty creepy. Anyway the first Apatow-crowd movie other than Forgetting Sarah Marshall I really liked...