Haunted Fire Studio

Happy New Year Everybody!

Here's hoping this economy starts turning around now.


Anybody get an iphone for Christmas and now have an old ipod you don't know what to do with? Here are 10 ways to give the old music player a new life as well as some cool comic book related apps for your new iphone. Ya spoiled jerk.

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...Now that you've got enough gadgets to fill a utility belt, why not go the full nine yards, dress up in a crime fighting outfit, take to the streets and join the "reals".

"Behind the counter, the cashier giggles as Master Legend orders a beer. "Master Legend thanks you," he says, reaching out a gauntleted hand for the beer. When we go upstairs to the small dining room, the young couple at a nearby table stop eating and eye us nervously. Master Legend gestures wildly as he shows me the scar from the time he was shot while saving an old lady being mugged. "They got me here," he says. "But it was small-caliber. Not enough to take down a superhero!"

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"This is more than bravado, say veterans. It may help as evidence after a Real has been arrested or even committed to a mental health hospital for evaluation. That happened to Mr Invisible’s equally short-lived predecessor, Black Owl, who last summer had to be sprung from a psychiatric ward by his teenage daughter who told doctors: “Dad forgot for a moment, when faced with police, just for a moment, that he did not have real superpowers. He could not just fly away.”

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Sound kinda geeky, or nerdy, or maybe even dorky? Well, so is the President-Elect... But which one is he? A nerd, a geek or a dork?

"A geek is someone who has the knowledge of the geeky type stuff and has social graces," Blum said. "A nerd is someone who has the knowledge but not the social graces and a dork is someone who has neither."

Thanks for sorting that out for us Blum.

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Speaking of Geeky... VHS is officially dead. The last major VHS retailer retires the format.

"It's dead, this is it, this is the last Christmas, without a doubt. I was the last one buying VHS and the last one selling it, and I'm done. Anything left in warehouse we'll just give away or throw away."

2009 will officially start the process of me bugging my kid with "I remember when".