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Marketing Done Wright: Follow @TheWhiteRabbit & Join the Madness on Faceb...:

Follow @TheWhiteRabbit & Join the Madness on Facebook: Alice: Madness Return’s marketing campaign enters the World Wide Wonderland

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Marketing Done Wright: #ijustsavedalife How many lives can you save?

Marketing Done Wright: #ijustsavedalife How many lives can you save?: I am trying to raise awareness for a charity called Your Life Counts. Your Life Counts or YLC is a a national, grassroot...

#ijustsavedalife How many lives can you save?

I am trying to raise awareness for a charity called Your Life Counts. 

Your Life Counts or YLC is a a national, grassroots, volunteer driven  charitable organization run by real, caring people who know what it feels like to struggle with the overwhelming pressures of life at the toughest times 'cause we've been there too. 

YLC’s mission is to “Help Youth And Families To Hold On To Life In The Toughest Times."

They need support and awareness from concerned Canadians in order to provide life saving resources for youths who need it.

Please donate and spread the word with the hashtag: #ijustsavedalife

If you have Twitter please follow @YourLifeCounts and Tweet everytime you or someone you know donates.

How many lives can you save? 
#ijustsavedalife by donating to www.yourlifecounts.org

Alice in Wonderland with machine guns!

Dragons, B-52 bombers and brothels...

 

In 2011 we will be graced with the imagining of writers Steve Shibuya and Zack Snyder. An action-fantasy film with an all female cast set in the 1950 (Can you say; ‘Pin Up Girls’?) and starring the stunning Emily Browning with her excellent supporting cast of Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hugens, and Jamie Chung.

This film, SUCKER PUNCHED, will follow a young girl about to be lobotomized (OUCH) as she attempts to escape an insane asylum with her beautiful inmates. This amazing movie is scheduled to be released in both IMAX and conventional theatres on March 25^th 2011.

The cast had to take fight evaluations and will be demonstrating amazing technique from the stunt coordinator from 300 and Watchmen. The girls training requires them to deadlift 210 pounds for their roles and they will have to master their stunts, training and choreography to create the spectacular performance Snyder demands of his actors.

Snyder tells that when the girls are fighting, "[like] they're on their way to kill a baby dragon, they've killed all of these orc-like creatures and they're entering a door [and] it's this classic, real Navy SEAL style room clearing. They have machine guns but they're fighting mythic creatures, impossible creatures. The hand to hand stuff is all brutal, because Damon [Caro] did all the [fights] in Bourne and it has that vibe to it." In the characters' imaginations, Snyder remarks, "they can do anything."

This movie has been described as ‘Alice in Wonderland with machine guns’ and ‘in the end, it’s about this girl’s survival and what she needs to do to be able to cope.’ –Snyder

SUCKER PUNCH is an epic action fantasy that takes the viewers into the vivid imagination of a Baby-Doll, whose dream world is the ultimate escape from her painful reality. Unrestrained by the boundaries of time and place, she is free, and her incredible adventures blur the lines between the asylum and her fantasy world.

Watch Baby-Doll as she urges the outspoken Rocket, street-smart Blondie, loyal Amber and reluctant Sweet Pea to band together and try to escape their terrible fate!

Their unbelievable journey—if they succeed—will set them free.

The Hottest Geekette.

Watch the Trailer ->  SUCKER PUNCH

Little Red at a Masquerade:

 This Halloween I dressed as Little Red Riding Hood, though I wasn’t too traditional. A severed wolves head lay quietly in my basket and I wasn’t heading to Grannies.

Accompanied by the lovely Esmeralda, my friend from College, I ventured to the Renaissance to enjoy my first Masquerade Ball. The music was that of the mid 80’s and early 90’s era and hall was filled with costumes from all different eras. We enjoyed the grace of ballroom gowns from the 1600’s as well as an entertaining Mummy and a masked superhero. The beckoning of the Spice Girls and Michael Jackson had us dancing away the night, and a Candy Bar in the lower hall satisfied our inner children.

Overall the night was successful, and we even dragged along some friends from the local comic book shop to dance away the night with us. We enjoyed music, laughs and slightly degrading jokes all night. I even won myself a free comic book!

Inspired by Zenescope’s launch of Grimm Fairy Tales Myths and Legends I dressed as Little Red who will be premiering in their first few titles. Zenescope has always featured alluring characters to myself and I had a hard time picking between Little Red and the Queen of Hearts. Ultimately I had to go with the character which looked more innocent and who was about to be features in and new Zenescope title.

As some of you may remember I had a vote earlier in October about which costume I should dawn on this festive night and thankfully with my multitude of parties I was still able to satisfy my voters with a salty pirate maiden outfit. I had guns and swords hidden and spent the night plundering booty and pillaging the candy stations.

I hope that everyone enjoyed their Halloween excursions and had a safe weekend. Don’t forget to check out my entries on Septagon Studios Comic Book Blog as well.

                                           
View my Halloween Pictures on Facebook!
More to be added as I accumulate them from friends.
Yours, The Hottest Geekette

2010 – The Year of the…Women?

X-treme Rogue

One of Marvel’s many goals for 2010 is to celebrate women of all types; whether heroines, villains, artists, writers or other contributors to the Marvel Universe. Many believe that one of Marvel’s greatest weaknesses is their perception and representation of women in their comic books. I disagree.

In the past when women were required and expected to be stay at home mothers and generally seen and not heard Marvel (as well as many other comic book companies) had female characters. Marvel may not have made every female character positive but they didn’t make every male character positive either. Fictional characters are boring without depth and faults. Marvel did an amazing job in X-men of creating strong relatable female characters along side their popular male characters.

Uncanny X-men

Rouge, arguably one of their stronger members of the team, was extremely popular with the female fans. She was physically strong and had the power to become stronger by stealing the powers or strength from mutants and humans a like. Rouge amazing power was also her greatest weakness; she was unable to have physical contact with anyone while she didn’t posses the control of her powers. Her tragic love story with Gambit captured the hopeless romantic female readers. Thankfully the die-hard fans were rewarded with some Gambit and Rogue action in a few comics like X-treme X-men. (Which after hearing about her new control of her powers in this series I immediately went to my amazing local comic book shop to order)

Stepford Cuckoos

X-men also stars strong characters such as Jean-Gray, Storm, and even some tragically amazing villains such as Mystique and Magneto’s daughter the Scarlett Witch. While looking into each of these characters from the X-men universe as well as many more it is easy to see that Marvel didn’t have a vendetta against women. They had character ideas, plot line ideas and the worked like any creative person would. Their characters are a strategic creation to promote women in a negative way but another character created (whether female or male) to gain a personality, fan base and to help the story to progress.

Pixie

Lately Marvel has heard the cries of under appreciated female fans and is trying to over compensate for perhaps not giving the female characters enough ‘lime-light’ or positive qualities. I am afraid that Marvel may be pushed too far and while trying to appease it’s female viewers it may in fact alienate them more. I am glad the female fans and employees are being recognized and celebrated but I believe there are better ways for Marvel to promote their female characters then in this gimmick. The strong female characters deserve more then to just be used as tools to appease some angry female fans. Some women are not of amazing moral caliber and some are the most sincere imaginable. Emma Frost will forever be of low moral fiber and have enough plastic surgery to look amazing and I wouldn’t want her any other way. On the same thought Rogue is a strong female presence (when written correctly) with great ability to be both sincere and extremely selfish, she may have mutant powers but she still has human emotions.

Rouge will forever be one of my favourite characters because of how REAL she is portrayed in the X-men 90’s animated TV show and many of Marvel’s comics that feature her.

Thank you Marvel for recognizing women, but heed these warning ands be tactful.

Yours truly,

The Hottest Geekette

2010 Marvel's Year of Women! Enjoy it!

My Loyalties Sway

How the Comic Book World entered my Wonderland:

When I was in my teenage years I decided I needed to know more about my favourite character from DC’s Batman The Animated Series. I started with a very generic Google search of my beloved Harley Quinn and found out she had her own comic book series. I was ecstatic and at the nearest FanExpo in Toronto I buckled down and found a comic book distributer to help me start my ever-growing collection. After my initial introduction to comic books I realized that not all comic books are about superheroes and once I found Zenescope’s Grimm Fairy Tales and other spin offs as well as Dark Horses Buffy I was completely hooked on strong female characters in comic books. I read one comic book with Superheros and that is Power Girl, other than that I have Harley Quinn as an anti-hero in Gotham City Sirens and everything connected to Zenescope’s Wonderland and Grimm Fairy Tales.

Recently I decided to look into local comic book publishers and I have found Septagon Studios. Their mission is to publish non-traditional comic books and their focus is on great stories without a ‘superhero’ character. I love the entire idea, I want to read a comic and be enthralled by the story and the ability to relate to the characters. Septagon and Zenescope’s are styles draw me in for very opposite reasons. Septagon has very inspired artwork that is unconventional and very original; they try to spotlight local artists and are located in Toronto. Zenescope on the other hand takes light and fun fairy tales and turns them to a sexy dark art style. I believe that their more eccentric comic issue I’ve read would be their Pinocchio issue for Grimm Fairy Tales.

DC and Marvel may hold the top market share, but they need to look out for upcoming comic books with story-lines that capture their audience; who don’t rely on recognizable characters to bring in their fan base but are creating a new style of comic book.

DC Comics, you will always have my readership because I love Power Girl so much and I truly enjoy reading about my psychotic Hench Wench (Harley Quinn) but with the upcoming competition providing me with stronger female characters, more in-depth and enticing story lines and avant-garde style art I can’t say I will be loyal to you much longer.