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For the LA Weekly By Nicole Campos
Dustin David aims his propeller limbs at Jonah Ray’s recycling.
Just one week from today, geek brethren: Matthew Vaughn’s much anticipated, controversial, madder-than-a-hatter and — judging by the early reactions — all-but-assured cult classic adaptation of Mark Millar’s Kick-Ass barrels its way into theaters. In the spirit of home-spun vigilante heroism, the intrepid crew of Meltdown Comics held an event Wednesday night with an eye toward giving any and all local candidates for grass-roots ass-kickery a chance to shine and prove to the world they’ve got what it takes to put a boot in the hiney of… well, any hiney that requires booting, really. With the backup of Comics on Comics, Geekscape and Lionsgate Films, Meltdown cleared as much space as possible in their back gallery space (No mean feat – lots of room breadth-wise but those ceilings are low. And dude, don’t kick the artwork!), set up cameras, called in some judges and enticed the masses with gooey fried goodness from the Frysmith french-fry truck… all to find out who among Hollywood faithful had what it takes – with only a minute to demonstrate — just how they are capable of kicking ass.
Annie Cruz’s fists are ready for their closeup
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Meltcast 025 April 21st, 2010
2010′s biggest movie to date has arrived! We start things off with Aaron’s take on the Kick-Ass movie, touch on FEVRE DREAM #1, WOLVERINE: INSANE IN THE BRAIN, BATMAN & ROBIN vol. 1, Grant Morrison’s JLA run, then Chris drops a bomb on us!!!! We then delve into SPIDER-MAN: O.M.I.T and look at the repercussions of ONE MORE DAY (not on Spider-Man, but on Marvel’s magic landscape) before returning guest Sam Humphries gives his full C2E2 con report.