Eugene

New Ben 10: Alien Force - tonight, maybe?

noreply@blogger.com (Eugene) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:12:00 +0000

The Cartoon Network website says it's not my new episode tonight, but some websites are saying it's my new episode. And now Facebook is telling me it's my new episode tonight.

Above and Beyond

Friday, February 5th - 8:30 pm - Cartoon Network

The Plumber’s Helpers are called upon by Grandpa Max to rescue him from an abandoned space station where he’s being attacked by Ben!

Set the Tivo just in case!

Super Hero Squad - "Mother of Doom!"

noreply@blogger.com (Eugene) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:05:00 +0000

New episode of Super Hero Squad!

Mother of Doom!

Saturday, February 6th - 7:30 pm - Cartoon Network

Doom rescues his mother from Chthon's mystical dimension but soon grows tired of her nagging.

Guest stars include Mark Hamill as Chthon and Jess Harnell as Odin.

Super Hero Squad Issue #4 - Available Now!

noreply@blogger.com (Eugene) — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:30:00 +0000

My story "Every Inhuman Has Its Day" (story by me and Cort Lane) was solicited in issue #1, but actually hit stores on December 16th in Marvel Super Hero Squad #4.

Comics Continuum has a preview of the first six pages-

Anyhoos, I'm really proud of how it turned out - it's available at your local neighborhood comic book shop. $2.99.

Iron Man: Tales of the Golden Avengers GN-TPB

noreply@blogger.com (Eugene) — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:21:00 +0000

I'm a little late to solicit this, but it hits stores in February-

IRON MAN: TALES OF THE GOLDEN AVENGERS GN-TPB

Written by Eugene Son, Fred Van Lente, Marc Sumerak and Robert Venditti, penciled by Dario Brizuela, James Cordeiro, Marcelo Dichiara and Nelson.

Collecting five action-packed stories starring the Golden Avenger! After a tragic airplane crash, 16-year-old Tony Stark loses his father and is so injured that he must use his dad’s repulsor technology to keep himself alive. In the aftermath, Tony also discovers a prototype for the IRON MAN suit, and donning it, Iron Man resolves to fight the enemies of World Peace! And in IRON PROTOCOLS, Tony travels deep into the Arctic to do battle with an Artificial Intelligence trying to destroy all human life! Then, someone is using stolen Stark Industries technology to take control of Marvel's most high-tech heroes and villains. Sounds like the perfect time for Power Pack to attend an exhibit of old Iron Man armor! Collecting IRON MAN: ARMORED ADVENTURES, IRON MAN: IRON PROTOCOLS, MARVEL ADVENTURES IRON MAN #1 and IRON MAN AND POWER PACK #3-4. All Ages

128 pages, $14.99.

In Stores: Feb 3, 2010

http://marvel.com/images/604107./from/onsale.2010-02-03

"Oh Brother!" - CREDIT CORRECTION

noreply@blogger.com (Eugene) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:28:00 +0000

The Super Hero Squad episode #7 "Oh Brother" premiered last Saturday, January 2nd, with the wrong writer credit.

I didn't write it. "Oh Brother" was, in fact, written by the awesome Nicole Dubuc.

Hopefully it'll get fixed in future releases, but in the meantime, all the praise for the great writing should go to Nicole Dubuc.

Repost: Christmas Story

noreply@blogger.com (Eugene) — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:33:00 +0000

In honor of the holidays, I'm reposting my old "Christmas Story" blog. Some of you may not have heard it - the ones who have heard it seem to like hearing it again.

I only have a handful of stories about my life that people actually like to hear. This is one of them.

Christmas time. I think I was six years old and I was in the big Korean church Christmas play. It was a telling of the Nativity story and I was in the very first scene - I was a SHEEP out in the fields on Christmas Eve. Me and the other little girl actress were to read our page of dialogue - stuff like, "Wow, I've never seen that star before." "It shines so brightly above Bethlehem." I memorized my lines, my mom sewed a puffy white costume for me, and voila - I was a sheep.

The dress rehearsal went well. We read our lines, then exited stage right. No problems.

Then came the actual performance that night. The play began - me and the other little girl took the stage. The lights were really bright and the church hall was packed - hundreds of people looking back at me. We each delivered our lines and our scene went flawlessly. After we finished, I exited stage right.

Or at least... I TRIED TO.

Unlike at dress rehearsal, there was an elderly Korean woman at the stage right exit. And she was whispering and motioning at me, "No! Go the other way!"

So I stopped in my tracks and did what she told me to - I turned around, walked back to the other side of the stage, and tried to exit stage left. The other sheep followed me. The next scene started, the wise men actors set up and started their lines, but behind them, two kids in sheep costumes crossed the stage.

I reached the stage left exit. At this door, there was a Korean man in a suit with glasses. He whispered loudly and motioned, "No! Not this way! Go the other way!"

So I stopped, turned around, and walked back across stage right. The scene continued and I finally reached stage right... where the old Korean woman whispered loudly and pointed, "No! Not this way! You have to go out the other way!"

So I stopped, turned around, and headed back stage left. I seem to have a vague recollection of it being a scene with Herod and three wise men talking about the birth of Jesus. But if you were in the audience that night, you didn't see that scene. You were too busy watching the two sheep walking back and forth across the stage. Oh yes - two sheep. The little girl followed me back and forth, as if somehow *I* knew where we were supposed to go.

As you can predict, I reached stage left and the Korean man yelled at me to go the other way. So I dutifully stopped, turned around, and crossed back across the stage towards the exit stage right. Before I even got there, I could see the elderly Korean woman pointing me in the opposite direction.

I turned around and headed back stage left again. At this point, someone in the audience (maybe my Dad or Uncle? maybe the other sheep's relative?) shouted out loudly, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" I looked out at the audience and shrugged - arms out like, "I don't know! Somebody help me!" The audience ROARED with laughter.

I reached stage left - and the Korean man was very adamant that we couldn't exit this way. So I turned around and headed back stage right. The play was continuing... and the Eugene sheep from the first scene was still looking for a way off the stage. Looking back now, I wonder where the other actors were entering and exiting the stage?

I also wonder why some grown-up didn't just run out there pretending to be a shepherd, then drag me away to be slaughtered into a lamb chop.

After a few more times back and forth through what seemed like the entire nativity story, I reached stage right, and the elderly Korean woman said, "Come on!" and waved me over. FINALLY, I was off stage. I don't remember much else about that night except being in that tiny room stage right and wondering... Why didn't that old lady let me exit here in the first place? Like we practiced?"

Over the years that I've told this story, people have different theories as to why she wouldn't deign to let me use her stage right exit. One good theory is that she wasn't whispering and motioning at me, but she was trying to get someone else's attention. The other theory is that there was some power struggle going on between the two stage exits and each one had to be right. Maybe she just wanted to show me that I was not cut out to be an actor. Or maybe I just a dumb kid that night.

Anyways, that's my Christmas story. I'd like to think that my experience led to the funniest Nativity play ever. And it taught me a valuable life lesson that I still use today...

Whenever you're in trouble, just shrug and throw your arms like, "I don't know! Somebody help me!" People won't help you, but they'll laugh - and in the end, that's what really matters.

Happy Holidays everybody!

A Journey through Old Photos

noreply@blogger.com (Eugene) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:48:00 +0000

I'm digging through a bunch of old photographs - sorting and scanning stuff that've been sitting in boxes in the back of the garage. No, I'm not posting them here - quit asking. A few observations that may interest no one else but me, but-

-Looking at old family photos, I think we've finally isolated where the Eugene-overly-smiley-gene is inherited. Certain relatives have it, others don't. It's kinda obvious from the pictures which ones have it.

-Found pictures from my parents' honeymoon in a stack next to pictures from my honeymoon. My parents were an arranged marriage - mine was not. One guess which honeymoon had the really AWKWARD photos? Seriously, their honeymoon looked like a funeral.

-In my old baby picture albums, I found that some photos had been turned around for some reason. As I dug through, I discovered that all of these were baby photos where I'm in the bathtub.

Then it hit me. At SOME POINT in the past, young Eugene must've gone through and turned over all the photos where there's full-frontal baby nudity. I honestly don't remember doing this, but somewhere in my childhood, I blocked out the traumatic memory of going through and hiding my shame.

And I have to say... I'm okay with it. But what is it with moms who think it's so adorable to have their son letting it all hang out?

-While I'm complaining, this is the obligatory complaint about how my parents dressed me. There's one particular photo from the 1980s which is never going to see the light of day.

Aviator glasses, bowl cut, short shorts, and tube socks up to my knees? And you wonder why I'm so bitter all the time?

-But there were some pleasant revelations among the pictures. For example, my pre-school teacher was apparently a hottie. I obviously never looked at her that way when I was five years-old, but the pictures don't lie. Ms. Cindy was smoking in a wholesome late 1970s/early 1980s sorta way.

Is that wrong to say? It's not like I could track her down anyway. "Hey, remember me? Several years ago, you taught me my colors and shapes? How about we meet up for drinks sometime?"

Ugh. That may be the creepiest thing I've ever written - and that's saying a lot.

-School pictures are kind of a scam, but I didn't realize how bad it was until I found my first-grade baseball photos. My mom apparently bought the complete package of photos of me in my baseball uniform, posed with my red jersey and hat, smiling with the front two teeth missing.

The COMPLETE PACKAGE of photos.

So far, I've found at least three 8x10s, a dozen 5x7s, twenty 4x6s, and like six-hundred or so wallet-sized. What is the scam with wallet-sized? Who would want to carry around a picture of me in my baseball uniform around in their wallet? Maybe my mom? MAYBE? Every box I open in the garage, I find another set of wallet-sized photos.

Why should I order business cards anymore? I think I'll just put my contact information on the back of these photos of first-grade me in my baseball uniform. "Hire me! I write... and play second base!"

-Sigh. So many pictures of me from my childhood have me making a goofy-stupid-smiley face. Not goofy or stupid or smiley - but all three at the same time. It must've been a brutal nightmarish hell being my parents.

As it must be a brutal nightmarish hell being my friend right now. :)

Now if you'll excuse me, I have my pre-school class photos. Time to google some names and see what happened to these people...

Insanely Busy Month

noreply@blogger.com (Eugene) — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:13:00 +0000

A brief recap of the life Eugene-

-Working.

Keeping busy writing on some fun projects... that of course, I can't talk about. But when you love what you do as much as I love what I do, being insanely busy is a blessing.

-Holidays.

Holiday shopping done. Presents are all wrapped. I just have to send out my Christmas cards.

-Stuff on TV.

My most recent episode of Super Hero Squad is currently available for viewing on Cartoon Network's website-

*Tales Of Suspense!

Over at the official Super Hero Squad website, I can direct you to -

*Deadly Is the Black Widow's Bite! - story by Charlotte Fullerton, teleplay by yours truly

*If This Be My Thanos! - written by yours truly

New Super Hero Squad - "Tales of Suspense!"

noreply@blogger.com (Eugene) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:43:00 +0000

Tales of Suspense!

Saturday, December 12th - 7:30 pm - Cartoon Network

"Doctor Doom, Crimson Dynamo and the Melter team up to take down Iron Man - but they didn't count on two of 'em! Iron Man's best friend James Rhodes must armor up - and 'Hero Up' - to help save his pal from certain doom (gulp)! As a new hero emerges, Squaddies Wolverine and Reptil face off with Abomination and M.O.D.O.K. in a game so deadly, so sinister, that mankind has only one name for it: GOLF!"

Guest stars include Levar Burton and Stan Lee.

You can check out the title card imagery over at Comics Continuum.

It's December already?

noreply@blogger.com (Eugene) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:29:00 +0000

You may have noticed that I haven't blogged in a while. Sorry about that. It's been kinda busy around here.

How busy, you ask? At one point, I wrote 67 pages in eleven days. 67 PAGES.

That's actually not the most I've ever written in a short period of time. In college, I started a screenplay over winter break, and got 30 pages done in three weeks - then had no time to finish. When the quarter was over, I wrote the next 60+ pages in two days. All that pent up writing energy became a completed screenplay. And surprise of all surprises, the script wasn't half bad.

Whatever happened to said script, you ask? I said it wasn't half bad, never said it was half good...

I do have some half-written blog posts that I'll try to find time to get posted. I'll try to get those up. In the meantime, I gotta get back to work.

20 Years Ago Today

noreply@blogger.com (Eugene) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:44:00 +0000

Still crazy busy, but I had to blog this before I forgot-

Let's flashback to the past. History Class with Mr. Rowey. Mr. Rowey was that veteran history teacher who'd been at it for decades. Smiley guy with a fiery temper. Then again, he was a teacher - all teachers should have fiery tempers after a few decades trying to get through to the minds of young people.

Mr. Rowey had made the decision to retire. So towards the end of his final school year, he would wax poetic. Now thinking back on it, he was probably being very wistful and pouring his heart out to us - reflecting on his decades of teaching. If I hadn't been a typical dumb teenage kid, I would've sat up and paid close attention. But at the time? I was a typical dumb teenage kid and I was bored out of my mind.

Now one particular day, Mr. Rowey was talking about how those who study history have insight into the future - that they can see patterns and predict events based on how things have happened in the past.

Mr. Rowey specifically told a story from around 1950 about a history teacher of his who asked if anyone knew where Indochina was. No one knew. This teacher of Mr. Rowey's said that Indochina had all the wrong combination of colonialism, poverty, and a dangerous communist insurgency. This teacher made the prediction that Indochina would become the worst war the world had ever seen. Years later Indochina would be renamed Vietnam - and things unfolded exactly like the history teacher had predicted.

So Mr. Rowey was going to make his prediction. And it went something like this-

Communism is going to fail. It can't sustain itself. Sometime soon in your lifetimes the Berlin Wall will fall.

I remember this barely registering in my mind. I looked around to see if anyone else was paying attention - no one was paying attention. And so it went. Mr. Rowey retired and I forgot all about it.

Until November 9, 1989. Then I'm sitting in my living room watching the Berlin Wall come down.

So to all my teachers who got up and went to work each day at my embarrassing public schools - and to all my teachers who tried to teach me something when I didn't really want to listen.

Thanks. You got through to me.

Also, I can't believe it's been twenty years. EGADS I'm old...

Hello Comeuppance, my old friend

noreply@blogger.com (Eugene) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:09:00 +0000

Last week I found out I was fourth in points in my ice hockey league. FOURTH! Now this isn't that big an accomplishment - it's the lowest ice hockey level at the rink. But STILL! I'm the fourth highest scorer! Other guys are gunning for me, because I'm #4! Instant respect!

So I bragged about it on Twitter and Facebook. Felt good.

We played ice hockey last night and we won - I had one point. After the game, someone has the score-sheet and says, "Wow! Eugene with the three point night!"

"No, I didn't. I didn't touch the puck on the other two goals. I should only have one point."

"Scoresheet says you have three."

My first realization. The scorekeeper is incompetent. That's why I'm fourth in the league - because the scorekeeper is giving me phantom points that I don't deserve.

Then I looked at the scoresheet further and tried to figure out who REALLY should have gotten the other two points he'd given me - and found out they should've gone to the other Japanese teammate.

And there it is.

The scorekeeper can't tell Asian people apart, so he's giving all the points to me.

Because apparently we all look alike... nevermind that WE HAVE NUMBERS ON THE BACKS OF OUR JERSEYS.

Thanks to last night, I'm apparently #3 in league scoring now. Yet it feels kinda hollow for some reason. So thank you to the incompetent score keeper for raising my spirits, if only for a little while.

Sigh...

Super Hero Squad: "Deadly is the Black Widow's Bite!"

noreply@blogger.com (Eugene) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:20:00 +0000

Another new Super Hero Squad episode!

Deadly is the Black Widow's Bite!

Saturday - 7 am - Cartoon Network

Story is by the awesome Charlotte Fullerton - teleplay by yours truly.

The show now airs every weekday morning on Cartoon Network. If you miss episodes, you can get them in iTunes or view them online at superherosquad.com.

Curse you, Eugens Son!

noreply@blogger.com (Eugene) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:12:00 +0000

I forgot to mention it, but last weekend was the premiere of episode 21 of Iron Man: Armored Adventures - "Designed Only For Chaos". I wrote the story for it.

But my name was mis-spelled in the credits.

It's no big deal - mistakes happen. Plus while I got story credit, nearly all the credit is due to the ridiculously talented story editor Chris Yost.

But now I've got a new pseudonym - a new pen name. Eugens Son.

Perhaps someday future generations will wonder about the subversive genius that was Eugens Son. Whatever happened to him? How did he get to write the story for the one episode and then disappear never to be seen again?

The world may never know.

Super Hero Squad: "If This Be My Thanos!"

noreply@blogger.com (Eugene) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:03:00 +0000

Sorry about the radio silence. Got busy, did some traveling, and now I'm on deadline - but I wanted to give you the heads-up on a new episode written by yours truly.

Super Hero Squad: "If This Be My Thanos!"

Saturday - 7am - Cartoon Network

It's a super-team team-up as the Squad helps out the Fantastic Four with an ambush from the alien Skrulls and Super-Skrull. Meanwhile, Dr. Doom is making a devious deal with a mysterious cosmic villain named Thanos. As the battle rages in the Baxter Building and outer space, our heroes find that both threats are connected and they may have to make a deal of their own to save the Earth!

Notes about "Hulk Talk Smack!"

noreply@blogger.com (Eugene) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:07:00 +0000

If you didn't catch the Super Hero Squad episode Hulk Talk Smack! this past weekend, don't fret - it's available online now at superherosquad.com. Or you can plunk down the $1.99 for it from the iTunes store.

And because I know people love to see this stuff, here're some script bits that didn't make the cut.

Cloak and Dagger

I never submitted this joke. It was too ridiculously silly - even for me - so I cut it. But I have a soft spot for the ridiculously silly, so here's what was in the outline-

While the Falcon loves the sneaking around, the Hulk hates it.  FALCON: "Love the cloak and dagger action!"  HULK: "Bah, Hulk HATE Cloak and Dagger!"

Reveal Cloak and Dagger in the next aisle over.  Hearing Hulk's words, they BURST INTO TEARS before running away.

The Watcher

This one went to outline, but got taken out. There was a feeling that this joke was too random. I didn't agree at the time, but in hindsight, they were right. There were better ways to use the Watcher than as a gag.

So as the Green Hulk in the library-

The Hulk is certain that someone is following him, but the Falcon tells him that he’s being paranoid and begs the Hulk not to do anything dumb.

Then later as the Gray Hulk on the Helicarrier-

Suddenly, Gray Hulk stops and pulls the WATCHER out from behind the doorway.  "I knew it!  You HAVE been following me this whole time!"  Gray Hulk tells the Watcher to go away...

The ratings for the show have been great - especially amongst the young and the young-at-heart! So thank for supporting the show! More great episodes on the way!

Saturday Morning: Super Hero Squad Show!

noreply@blogger.com (Eugene) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:31:00 +0000

Hulk Talk Smack written by yours truly. 8:30am on Cartoon Network.

If you miss it, it'll repeat on Cartoon Network later this month - or it'll appear online soon at The Official Super Hero Squad Site.

Miss Last Week's Ben 10: Alien Force?

noreply@blogger.com (Eugene) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:28:00 +0000

If you didn't catch it on Cartoon Network, you can watch it now on Cartoon Network's website.

Ben 10: Alien Force - "Fool's Gold"

It'll be available on their web site until October 12th.

Reminder - Ben 10: Alien Force Tonight!

noreply@blogger.com (Eugene) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:31:00 +0000

Reminder - the premiere of the Ben 10: Alien Force episode, Fools Gold, airs on Cartoon Network tonight at 8:30pm.

"Marvel's SUPER HERO SQUAD Brings the Funny for All Ages"

noreply@blogger.com (Eugene) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000

From Newsarama.com comes a great article about the Super Hero Squad Show -"Marvel's SUPER HERO SQUAD Brings the Funny for All Ages".

Along with positive words about the show, the article has an interview with Marvel Animation Director of Animation Development Cort Lane, along with info about upcoming episodes, including-

103 – “Hulk Talk Smack!” Written by Eugene Son
During a chaotic battle with Klaw & Screaming Mimi, a fractal’s cosmic power turns the Hulk into the Gray Hulk. While Falcon and the Wasp babysit this unlikable, brainy Hulk, the Squad chase down the Lethal Legion in a battle to save Super Hero City.

Guest Heroes – The Wasp 
Villains – Klaw, Toad, Melter, Screaming Mimi with Abomination & MODOK 

"Unstable radioactive poop?!?"

noreply@blogger.com (Eugene) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:49:00 +0000

(if the video doesn't show up above, watch it here)

Humanitas award, here I come!

In all seriousness, this episode is a lot of fun. Directed by Dan Riba, story-edited by Dwayne McDuffie, produced by Glen Murakami, and written by yours truly.

"Fool's Gold" airs this Friday 9/25 @ 8:30pm on Cartoon Network.

Ben 10: Alien Force - Season 3!

noreply@blogger.com (Eugene) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:52:00 +0000

Forgot to mention - new episodes of Ben 10: Alien Force are airing on Cartoon Network. Friday nights at 8:30pm.

THE SUPER HERO SQUAD SHOW!

noreply@blogger.com (Eugene) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:51:00 +0000

We interrupt your regularly scheduled Kanye West/health reform blogosphere for this important announcement.

The Super Hero Squad Show is here!

Tonight is the sneak premiere of the first two episodes of the Super Hero Squad Show on Cartoon Network in the United States.

9/14/09 Sneak Premiere (Episodes 1 & 2) - 7PM
9/16/09 Sneak Premiere (Episodes 1 & 2) - 7AM
9/18/09 Sneak Premiere (Episodes 1 & 2) - 3PM
9/19/09 Premiere (Episodes 1 & 2) - 8:30AM
9/26/09 - (Episode 3) - 8:30AM
10/3/09 - (Episode 4) - 8:30AM

I'm so geeked about this show. The art is hysterical, the voice actors are off-the-charts brilliant, the scripts are amazing, and even the executives are a dream to work with. Amazingly talented people at every stage.

And check out the official web site - http://superherosquad.marvel.com/. They've got stuff like trailers, artwork, and "Make Your Own Comic."

But before you do that, go set your Tivo!

And good luck getting that catchy theme song out of your head!

So... (Super Hero Squad Comic)

noreply@blogger.com (Eugene) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:29:00 +0000

So Super Hero Squad #1 came out today. So it was solicited as having been written by me. So I solicited all of you to go buy it. So yeah, that's what happened.

So... notice I'm using the word "so" a lot.

So there was a mistake. My story's not in it. I did write one of these, but it's not in the issue that just came out. My story is probably going to appear in either #2 or #3.

So check out Super Hero Squad #1 - featuring stories by Mark Hoffmeier and Paul Tobin. Their writing is great.

Unlike my writing.

Which is only so-so.

Super Hero Squad Show

noreply@blogger.com (Eugene) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:14:00 +0000

New teaser trailer for the Super Hero Squad Show.

http://superherosquad.com/

Premieres in the U.S. on Cartoon Network - September 19th.