by Marc Hustvedt on June 3rd, 2009
Comic geeks, the wait is over—A Comicbook Orange is back. After a stint on NextNewNetworks’ Pulp Secret channel, the popular weekly comic book web series from creators Casey McKinnon and Rudy Jahchan launches its third season today. McKinnon returns as host of the four minute episodes, which are chock full of lightning quick news from the comic world (you might have to watch each one twice to catch it all) and interviews with the top creative names in the industry.
The Canadian natives McKinnon and Jahchan make up 8Bit Brownies, the production company behind the pair’s well-received sci-fi sketch comedy web series Galacticast. In fact A Comicbook Orange itself is a spinoff of sorts from Galacticast, where it first appeared as segment back in May of 2006. It wasn’t until June of 2007 that the series debuted on its own, picking up a loyal following of comic book enthusiasts.
by Lindsay Stidham on June 3rd, 2009
For many web show creators their ultimate goal (whether they say it or not) has become to land a TV deal. The question is, do super low-fi shows still work on the web?
Miles and Ben, from creators (and brothers) Joshua Brandon and Steven Brandon falls into this low-fi category. It’s basically two friends sitting around talking about nothing—a genre perfected and lampooned by Seinfeld and Larry David, and then reconstituted over and over again in the world of web television. While Miles and Ben has it’s moments (Miles likes to inexplicably wear a fur coat, and has fun goals like “to see how many different animals I can fit on a fork”) but ultimately it’s hard to say what the show has to keep us watching.
by Tim Goessling on June 3rd, 2009
Across the nation people are watching a touching animated story on the screen. The story is hilarious, full of memorable characters that are instantly quotable. The visuals are astounding, unique yet also warmly familiar. In the spirit of adventure, the story is action packed, full of dastardly villains and heroes fighting to the death. But surprise surprise, I’m not talking about “Up” the recent Disney Pixar film, I’m talking about the blood drenched online series, Meet the Team, that accompany the video game Team Fortress 2.
Team Fortress 2, or TF2 as it is in know in geek circles is a squad based online shooter created by the video game company Valve Software. The best way to describe the game would be HALO in the animated style of The Incredibles with the pitch-black comedy of Tarantino film. Two teams fight to achieve different objectives while shooting off as many wisecracks as missiles and blowing each other in majestically animated globules of meat and bone. Where other games have let the fans create their own machinima series around their games, TF2 publisher Valve has embraced machinima culture by creating their own episodic series.
by Joshua Cohen on June 3rd, 2009
Strap on your stupid, because tonight you’re going to spend a very special evening with the creators of You Suck at Photoshop. Matt Bledsoe and Troy Hitch – web series masterminds with fun-loving senses of humor and face-melting image-altering capabilities – are in town from Covington, Kentucky to spend a super special night with the [...]
by Marc Hustvedt on June 2nd, 2009
NBC Universal’s Digital Studio will be developing Robert Kirbyson’s Sundance-winning short film CTRL-Z (above) into a full season as an original web series dubbed CTRL. The 10-episode series will be bringing on board Nestea as lead sponsor funding the project.
Tony Hale (Arrested Development) stars in both the 6-minute short film as well as the upcoming web series as a down and out office worker who after spilling Nestea (note the product integration) on his computer keyboard has the ability to influence his co-workers and read their minds.
by Jonathan Hludzinski on June 2nd, 2009
I love hot sluts.
I mean, I love Hot Sluts, the new web series by A.D. Miles at Atom.com. There is so much quality to this throwback sexploitation series about bad-girl cocktail waitresses in a nightclub, it’s hard to know where to begin.
Let’s start with the acting. I was totally blown away by how EVERYONE hits the tone perfectly. This is no small feat when parodying a genre that’s almost a parody of itself, the women-in-prison film. Alison Brie from Mad Men plays the part of Amber, the show’s lead character, a just-off-the-bus Midwestern girl with just the right amount of innocence, naïve ‘passion’ for dancing and sex appeal. As Miles explained in Tubefilter’s previous interview regarding the launch of this show, she’s “A real pro, she came in and got the joke and gave a terrific performance all while wearing a very skimpy outfit. Not an easy task.” Bearing ample cleavage and getting guffaws over gawks shows serious talent (entendre intended).
by Jake Weaver on June 2nd, 2009
(Editor’s Disclaimer: There are graphic and disturbing images and subject matter in the links of this article and the embedded videos.) All share a common destiny – the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the clean and the unclean… This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same [...]
by Pat Miller on June 2nd, 2009
Who would have thought that web television’s boldest hero would be a guy with a graying beard and an affectation for business casual?
Meet Captain Alpha Male, a new superhero series due out this summer that promises to help you fix your comb-over and turn that practical four-door sedan into a four-door sex machine. The show comes courtesy of co-creators Jay Lutsky (Captain Alpha Male himself), Ric Serena, and Dan Greenberger, all comrades-in-arms with network television writing, directing, and producing experience with giants like CBS.
