December

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December has officially begun! The year is almost over! And that means we should talk about and celebrate the good things that happened this year as we get ready to stab 2016 in the chest and bury it deep in the ground and never speak of it again!

We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service by A Tribe Called Quest: the last album by A Tribe Called Quest, and it’s just… it’s good and you can dance to it and you’ll feel good and also sad but ultimately hopeful. I just love it.

The Nice Guys: Shane Black wrote and directed a funny, tightly-paced 70’s detective story and Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling just sell the shit out of it. If this movie was just Ryan Gosling pratfalling for an hour, I still would have loved it, but everything around the pratfalls makes me love it more.

Better Call Saul Season 2: it feels like it was SO long ago since I watched this season, but it was just at the beginning of this year. A prequel to Breaking Bad that lives up to those lofty expectations and manages to find so much fun and drama and pathos in the origins of Saul Goodman, who will eventually become a slimy criminal lawyer but that expectation is actually heartbreaking and exciting at the same time. It’s complex, well crafted, and just about the best.

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Of Cosmo-bots and buff Colonels

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Last week we spent a moment giving thanks, but now we have to address the elephants in the room. Mainly, the now elephant sized Russian kill-bot and juiced-up madman.

This moment is such a weird combination of elements from previous drafts. It wasn't always the Stalin AI in the Cosmbo-Bot suit, but a now-abandoned astronaut chimp antagonist. He was given for dead, became a genius through space rays, crashed on Stalin Island, and now wanted to go back to space (I think?). We ended up replacing the evil chimp with Colonel Bolshevik before the first draft.

But it also felt hollow to not have the Stalin AI physically present in the climax. We already had scenes with him on a screen, we wanted him THERE. As an AI, it was also a pretty natural fit to put him in a robot. The 'Hammer & Sickle' joke dates back as far as the first germs for this story, but was used by the Cosmo-Bot to describe its fists. As Bolshevik started to develop, such a bold statement felt more appropriate with his swoleness.

I could go one (Hell, Bolshevik's sudden muscle growth is our love letter to Dragon Ball's Master Roshi) but I think it's time you go and check out that New Page. WOO HOO!

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Giving You Thanks!

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As Time Cheetah goes to 11 in the newest Page, me and my brother Carlos wanted to take this day to say thanks:

-To Matt and Mike Cossin, for bringing our stupid idea to life. Thanks!

-To our parents, who tolerated us talking about 'that cheetah comic' for years. I have to hold back a tear whenever I see my dad recommend our comic to his Engineer friends. Gracias a los dos.

-And to all of you, dear readers, for every view, every click and every like. Thanks for joining us in this great ride.

It's been a long year, hold your family close and have a good Thanksgiving!

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We Have Liftoff

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Guys… Time Cheetah’s going to space! Read the new page and strap on in, it’s gonna get a little nuts now!

This weekend, my brother and I watched a movie called The Accountant. I wanted to share some facts about this movie that you won’t see on IMDB:

 —The original working title of the movie was “What if Batman was autistic?”

—Jon Bernthal is in it. He played The Punisher on Netflix’s Daredevil. Ben Affleck played Daredevil back in 2003. Ergo, this was both a Batman AND Daredevil movie!

—There is in fact a scene where Ben Affleck uses his Accounting powers! He writes with markers on glass panes and flips through boxes full of random papers and folders. He never tries to use his Accounting powers against bad guys, though. He just punches them instead. Disappointed!

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