An Important Announcement From Timmy

To all my friends, fans and family,

Spring is a time of change, a time of new things and a time of new beginnings. Plants grow, snow melts, and bears come out of hibernation.

For me, change is afoot as well, and thus I am hereby announcing my resignation from The Whitest Kids U' Know.

For some this announcement may be a shock, but for myself and the other members of the group, it's really been a long time coming. My wife and I recently have moved to Portland, Oregon and started a chicken farm, and that's really the direction our life is going now. Comedy was never something I wanted to do forever, and the time for change has come. Working and living off the land is something we've always wanted to do, and now is the time.

Not a day will go by where I won't miss coming up with silliness with my five best friends. I've had a great time making this TV show, but that time is over for me. For me, that world has moved on.

IFC has been a wonderful place to work for the past few years. We're lucky that we get so much creative freedom and that's something I'll always cherish.

Most of all, I'll miss the fans! You all are the reason we get to do this ridiculously awesome job, and I'll miss meeting you at shows and talking to you on the internet.

Well, that's it from me. I wish nothing but the best to the other Whitest Kids, IFC and our awesome legion of fans. Take care everyone.

Love,

Timmy Williams

Sweet Baby Hubbard!

Okay, so I know this movie is hyped to all Hell by the Internerd community, but damn! Every nanosecond of this movie looks like to be the cartoon and sugar-induced fever dream of the 12 year old little boy in every single one of us*. I can't wait!

*Women and those under the age of 12 also have 12 year old boys inside of them.

DC and Marvel: Two Sides Of The Same Coin, Only It's One Of Those Trick Coins That's The Same Thing On Both Sides

I love mainstream comics and I always will. I will always enjoy keeping up with the Spider-Manses and Batmen and everybody else. They've got me hooked and I'll always be interested.

That being said, THEY NEED TO STOP DOING THE SAME THINGS. ALL THE TIME.

It's really getting out of hand.

Three years ago, Captain America got shot and died. Last summer, they revealed/made up that he had really just been shot with a time gun and was "unstuck in time." He eventually fought his way back to the present, only to find that his former sidekick had taken on his mantle.

Last year, Grant Morrison wrote about 120 pages of blather that didn't make any sense and then killed Batman at the end. And then he wrote another 160 pages of nonsensical blather and killed Batman again! Now it seems that Batman is stuck in the timestream and attempting to get back to the present. Once he gets here, he'll find that his former sidekick has taken up his mantle (and become more interesting than he has).

See what I mean?

And now, after about a decade each of "dark" stories and "putting their characters through the wringer," both companies are promising a more optimistic universe after each ends their current big event. Marvel is ringing in "The Heroic Age," which will put their classic teams and line-ups back together, restore classic heroes to their classic situations, and hopefully have Punisher stop being Frankenstein. DC is releasing "Brightest Day" and claiming that theirs is just another story and not a company-wide change like Marvel's, but I doubt it. They are still promising universal changes and I seriously doubt something called "Brightest Day" will bring about a less Heroic Age.

These are only two big examples, of course; there's literally thousands of similarities. For a while I followed both companies' titles, but it really is the same stories being told twice, and I gotta say...

Make Mine Marvel!

Except for Batman and a few other cool things, Marvel just has better characters than DC and that's all there is to it!

Now, if you make me pick out of all current comic-bookdom, it'd probably me more like "Make Mine Umbrella Academy and Also RASL Whenever It Does Actually Come Out" or something, but between the Big Two (One?) Marvel's just a little cooler, right?

The Lost Dark Tower Island

So I've been slowly poking my way through The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. I'm currently reading Part 3, The Waste Lands. So far, the series is about a cowboy, a junkie, a mad black lady and a little kid searching for The Dark Tower, which is the nexus of reality. The group is connected by coincidence and destiny, and the world they explore is full of mysteries and hints of a technologically advanced group of people that used to live there.

The TV show "LOST" is about a group of plane crash survivors stranded on an island. The group is connected by coincidence and destiny, and the world they explore is full of mysteries and hints of a technologically advanced group of people that used to live there.

The dudes behind "LOST" have said more than a few times that they're influenced by King, especially Tower, and in fact they were going to work on a film adaptation of the series once "LOST" is done but that fell through. That's too bad for them, but someone really needs to make it into an HBO show. It'd be amazing.

Now, I'm not fully through either story yet, but I'm guessing that The Island and The Dark Tower end up being the same thing to their respective universes (universii?). Obviously, I'll find out what The Island is first, since there's no way I'm reading the remaining FOUR THOUSAND pages of The Dark Tower before "LOST" is over.

Also, the two series seem to have something else in common: making it up as they go along. But they're both entertaining as well as kind of almost deep, so whatever. I love it.

I'm Back

Hey look! I started writing in this again! Hooray!

Well, I'm not going to Comic Con in San Diego. I really wanted to but it's not happening. Trevor gets to go though, so scratch one friend.

I found out today that Justice Society of America, one of DC's best titles, is about to get a crazy new teammate: KINGDOM COME SUPERMAN! That's ridiculous, right? I've been catching up on all this Multiverse stuff lately since DC has brought it back, and this (along with Anti-Monitor returning) is the kind of stuff I want to see! Both have been done by Geoff Johns, and I'm beginning to think he should just write EVERY DC TITLE.

Tomorrow two long-delayed Batman stories com out: Batman #666 and All-Star Batman #6. Both are being written by maniacs who are doing crazy things with Batman and I can't wait to see what's next.

I wrote back in May that I would be following "World War Hulk" and counting the bodyslams. Well, every issue so far has had body slams, but it's the same one! Almost every issue so far has been different characters watching the same thing happen, so we'll see where else it goes since several more pieces of the story come out tomorrow.

I bought an Animal Man action figure. I'm pretty sure it's the nerdiest thing I've done, which is saying something.

I got the huge Madman collection last week. I read the new title, which is CRAZY and existential and stuff, but haven't read the old stuff before. I'm really looking forward to it.

This was kind of a boring post. Sorry I didn't come back with a bang.

Homework.

So it looks like Warner Bros. has started doing some cool internet campaigns for "The Dark Knight," the new Batman movie coming out next year. Going here shows you a Batman logo, and then clicking on it brings you to a Harvey Dent campaign poster. It looks like the movie will be about him becoming District Attorney, which, as with most positions of power,leads to him getting a face full of acid, which leads to him becoming Two-Face.

What we really care about in this movie, though, is the Joker, right?

Clicking here brings you to a defaced Harvey Dent poster that slowly decays, revealing something underneath. Put your email address (Yahoo and Hotmail ones don't work apparently) in the thing on the bottom and enter the code, then follow the directions. This will help deteriorate the picture more and show us what's underneath. I'm pretty sure it's a picture of what Heath Ledger will look like as the Joker, and I for one am a big enough nerd to go through all of this just to see it.

Hopefully he looks like a cool and different take on the Joker and not just Heath Ledger in a Jack Nicholson mask Actually, that would be pretty cool too.

Watch me on TV talking about comics!

Hey everybody! I'm gonna be on The Sauce on FUSE on Wednesday talking about comic books! Watch me nerd it up with Steven, one of the co-hosts of the Sauce! Watch the other host look on in horror as Steven and I say things like "X-Men" and "Batman!"

6pm ET!
Wednesday, May 16th!

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSE!