The Hellboy animated movie will air tonight on Cartoon Network, at 9:30 EST.
Cool. Just IMed the GF to setup the DVR for me. (Wow, that was an intially sentence.) I won't be home before it starts, but at least I won't miss it again.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
Other Media 2: It's Astounishing!
Discussion of comics, graphic novels, and more. Except for capes. No capes!
Please use spoiler font for new releases until after the weekend following release.
Kalshane - Dec 30, 2006 1:49:07 pm PST #30 of 5059
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
DXMachina - Dec 30, 2006 2:08:22 pm PST #31 of 5059
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I can't tell what's going on in 3/4 of the panels and, as the link in the last thread pointed out, it's chock-full of obvious porn face. The storyline itself is kind of interesting, but the art is just painful.
To be honest, if you guys hadn't mentioned it, I don't think I even would've noticed. It looks (to me) like most of the art I see when I look at Marvel books.
Kalshane - Dec 30, 2006 2:23:11 pm PST #32 of 5059
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Too me, in addition to looking like a bad photoshop job, the panels tend to be too cluttered and the character's facial expressions don't actually match up with what's going on. (ETA: Not just because of the porn face, but most of the expressions in general.)
Polter-Cow - Jan 01, 2007 10:45:16 am PST #33 of 5059
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I miss reading comics. I need to catch up on my titles one of these days. Or perhaps start budgeting them into my...budget.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 01, 2007 12:53:34 pm PST #34 of 5059
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Does he have that much of a fan base that he's still a golden child? Is this like the lunacy that was Liefeld?
I hope there weren't vast throngs of teenagers engaging in self-abuse with the aid of Liefeld's drawings. Which is the only explanation I can come up with for Land's popularity.
esse - Jan 01, 2007 3:38:59 pm PST #35 of 5059
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Reading "Watchmen" for the first time. My impressions are kind of scattered....I'd read Powers and Transmetropolitan many years before this and I know they were both influenced by WM, but I can't get those titles out of my head when I'm reading this. It's really cutting to the core of the costumed vigilate/superhero ethos, isn't it? What are ya'll's thoughts on the book?
Laga - Jan 01, 2007 4:30:11 pm PST #36 of 5059
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Watchmen was my life changing comic. It's also my dream movie project and I am crossing my fingers that Zach Snyder can pull it off. I've been casting this one in my head ever since I first read the comic back in college.
victor infante - Jan 01, 2007 4:59:49 pm PST #37 of 5059
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
I can see where "Watchmen" might be a hard book to come to in the wake of all that's come after it. And indeed, the Cold War angles feel a bit outdated 20 odd years later.
But I do love "Watchmen." Partly because it broke open so many doors, but also because it's got so many classic bits. And because of Rhorsach.
Strega - Jan 01, 2007 5:39:24 pm PST #38 of 5059
It's really cutting to the core of the costumed vigilate/superhero ethos, isn't it?It was one of the first comics I read, so the things about it that are groundbreaking are things that I was (and mostly still am) blissfully unaware of. I admire it immensely, but I don't really like it. I don't dislike it, either, but... I think when I pick it up now I wind up going, "Ah yes, it's quite clever what he's doing here" not, "Wow, this is an entertaining read!"
Plus, I'd seen that Outer Limits episode, so even on the first read I was going, "Oh... Seriously?" And then I have one Citizen-Kane-esque problem with the actual plot.
Laga - Jan 01, 2007 6:09:47 pm PST #39 of 5059
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Yes I think the big challenge with bringing Watchmen to the big screen today is that we already know that a terrible deadly tragedy striking NYC did not help to unify the nation. If anything it polarized us even more. If I was screenwriting I might consider rewriting the entire ending, maybe Rorschach and Nightowl could stop Veidt's plan. (White font spoils the whole damn book so don't read it if you haven't read the book!)