My Take Radio

Dark­seid is a long­time Super­man vil­lain, seen many times in Super­man and Jus­tice League car­toons as one of the few that could truly stand up to the Man of Steel. Regard­less, noth­ing less of a Kryp­ton­ian mon­ster ever put Big Blue down deci­sively. So what if Dark­seid had a vicious Kryp­ton­ian at his dis­posal? Enter the next big DC team-up movie, “Superman/Batman: Apoc­a­lypse.” Sort of a play on words since Darkseid’s mobile home planet is called Apokolips. Dark­seid recov­ers a female Kryp­ton­ian after her space­ship crashes in Gotham Har­bor. Know­ing what he will do with her, Super­man and Bat­man must infil­trate Apokolips and res­cue her from her new “mas­ter.” Will they be able to save her? I for one intend to find out when this releases on Blu-Ray, Sep­tem­ber 28, 2010.

Nintendo’s new DSi XL

Yes­ter­day, Nin­tendo pulled out the good ol’ beat you in the head stick and released another win­ner in the Nin­tendo DSi XL. The fourth incar­na­tion of Nintendo’s dual-screened hand­held is for the most part just a giant sized DSi, but it is a lit­tle bit more. For $20 more than the DSi, it had bet­ter be. Let me start with the bad and get that out of the way. Being a long time gamer and long time Nin­tendo fan, it was dis­ap­point­ing when the orig­i­nal DS came out and we learned that it would not sup­port Game Boy games. When the portable dropped it’s orig­i­nal “tank” con­fig­u­ra­tion and became the DS Lite, peo­ple were happy that it fit in their pock­ets and that it still had the GBA slot. Last year, the portable “evolved” into the DSi and it gained two cam­eras, inter­net access and an SD card slot along with a new UI which was rem­i­nis­cent of the Wii menu. This evo­lu­tion involved the com­plete loss of any Game Boy com­pat­i­bil­ity. The DSi XL, while larger than the DSi or Lite, still does not show the Game Boy or Game Boy Advance any love and this really sucks for some­one who may have a large col­lec­tion of those older games. One would find this excep­tion­ally strange from a finan­cial stand­point because of the con­tin­ued suc­cess of the title Poké­mon. Not one, not two, but five Nin­tendo DS titles with the Poké­mon name have a sig­nif­i­cant attach­ment to the Game Boy Advance. The Dia­mond, Pearl, Plat­inum, Heart­Gold and Soul­Sil­ver ver­sions of the game all fea­ture an area in their game world called the Pal Park, which allows the player to plug in the GBA titles Poké­mon Ruby, Sap­phire, Emer­ald, Fir­eRed and Leaf­Green in order to send pocket mon­sters from those games to the DS games. To me, the move makes no sense, but it is what it is.

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You mean aside from the fact that it’s already in sea­son 4 and you should go watch the back episodes now? My thing is, if you are a MTR reg­u­lar, there is prob­a­bly some­thing wrong with you.…I mean up there, in your head… deep inside. Since we have deter­mined that you are dis­turbed, shouldn’t your late nite pro­gram­ming be equally as twisted?

Enter the Ven­ture Bros., two boys (that are really clones of two boys) that have pos­si­bly the worst father in the world. Many fathers have joked that if some­thing hap­pened to their kids that they can “just make more,” but Dr. Ven­ture really means it. Their body­guard is Brock Samp­son — imag­ine Brock Lesnar minus the tat­toos, he’s much less of a dick but eight mil­lion times more vio­lent. That’s just the tip of the ice­berg. Throw in an arch­neme­sis with a but­ter­fly fetish whose girl­friend is the hottest chick on the show but her voice makes you think she’s a tranny (she’s really not, she’s a chain smoker), a fake Fan­tas­tic Four that makes the real FF look cool, the real Jonny Quest and Had­jii, and a slew of other WTF moments and you have what is per­haps Car­toon Network’s great­est Adult Swim hit ever.

Oh and if that wasn’t enough, last night’s repeat episode fea­tured Cap­tain Sun­shine. Cap­tain Sun­shine is a super­hero that flies around like super­man and has a solar flash abil­ity — he basi­cally blinds and flash sun­burns his enemies.

Cap­tain Sun­shine & Dean

 Did I men­tion that he’s a gay pedo whose but­ler gives anal lube to his young side­kicks at night? I can’t make this shit up peo­ple. That pic­ture is of him fly­ing with Dean Ven­ture a la Christo­pher Reeve & Mar­got Kid­der in Super­man. Oh best part, he’s voiced by Kevin Con­roy, you know, BATMAN from the 90s ani­mated series. This stuff writes itself people.