The voice cast is led by Adam Baldwin (Serenity, Chuck) as Superman, Anne Heche (Men in Trees) as Lois Lane, and James Marsters (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) as Lex Luthor.
Huh.
Jayne: Captain, can you stop her from bein' cheerful, please? Mal: I don't believe there is a power in the 'verse that can stop Kaylee from being cheerful. Sometimes you just wanna duct tape her mouth and dump her in the hold for a month.
'Serenity'
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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.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 12, 2007 2:53:05 am PDT #749 of 5059
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Theodosia - Jul 12, 2007 3:42:20 am PDT #750 of 5059
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Sounds like an Andrea Romano cast -- she's damn good as a voice director.
Steph L. - Jul 12, 2007 5:01:09 am PDT #751 of 5059
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Adam Baldwin (Serenity, Chuck) as Superman
Yum.
James Marsters (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) as Lex Luthor.
"Superrrrrrman, yourrrrrr days arrrrrre numberrrrrred!"
I mean, seriously -- James Marsters? Come on -- the One True Lex will always be Clancy Brown.
Tom Scola - Jul 12, 2007 5:06:47 am PDT #752 of 5059
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
the One True Lex will always be Clancy Brown.
Seriously. The best characterization of Luthor ever. And the last episode of JLU? He takes a break to change into a clean suit, and then takes down Darkseid. Fucking badass.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jul 12, 2007 10:58:50 am PDT #753 of 5059
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Much to my surprise, 'Martha Washington Dies' came out yesterday. That seems incredibly fast since I first spotted it in Previews.
Anyway, my quick review in white font:
Unsatisfactory. Even knowing it was a meager 24 pages didn't prepare me for just how short the strip was. It feels like it should have appeared in one of the Dark Horse Presents issues. Dave Gibbons art: Good in places, a little more stiff than usual in others. Maybe he didn't like the script. Which brings us to... Frank Miller. Hey, Frank, thanks for totally NOT trying. Really, I get the impression that Dark Horse asked you to wrap up the saga and you weren't really interested so you did it as quickly as you could. The phrase 'unseemly haste' comes to mind.
Miracleman - Jul 12, 2007 1:03:47 pm PDT #754 of 5059
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Pete:
(not really spoilery, but references Pete's whitefonted review,so...)
Are you really all that surprised? Did you read DK2? I have never seen a crappier, dashed off, piece-of-shit ripoff than that! Pages of super-sluts? Gateway pages for no reason, except possibly as filler? An ending that feels like "...and then, uh, it stopped. And Batman said something kinda grim. Hey, pie!"
Social satire? Not so much, Frank. Political commentary? Yeah, uh...not so much, Frank.
And fucking Captain Marvel is 1) old and b) DIES?! Because he and Billy are different people? And Billy died of unspecified unhealthiness some time ago? Whuh? What the--WHAT?!
Fuck Frank Miller. He's the Eddie Money of comics; used to be hot shit, but burnt out fast and limps along on his laurels.
Fuck Frank Miller.
Thus endeth the rant.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jul 12, 2007 1:09:29 pm PDT #755 of 5059
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
MM: I succeeded in wiping the memory of DK2 from my mind some time ago so I guess I left my fresh, pink, expectations open to be fucked by Miller ALL. OVER. AGAIN.
I'm not even an optimist but I really wanted this to be a valuable addition to the series.
Miracleman - Jul 12, 2007 1:11:59 pm PDT #756 of 5059
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Pete:
Tattoo it on your newly scrubbed, pink expectations: "Except for Frank Miller. Fuck Frank Miller."
§ ita § - Jul 12, 2007 2:19:28 pm PDT #757 of 5059
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Blech, Pete. Am sad, and won't bother going looking for a copy. Completeness isn't worth it.
I miss this thread. But I fell off the collecting wagon when I lost my job. I got rid of most of my comic collection when I realised how much dust it was gathering. The rest I need to catalogue and determine how to follow in trades. Hopefully that will be possible for what I still have interest in. Which includes Buffy-I read one issue near the start and it was unintelligible.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Jul 12, 2007 2:26:55 pm PDT #758 of 5059
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
ita, it looks like they're printing every Martha story into one collection in '08 so you could just pick up that shiny item and give this section the eyeful without feeling too cheated.