State of the Fanblog, an upcoming review, and a cameo from Veitch and Alcala's "Swamp Thing"
It's been rather quiet here lately, and while I'm sure much of that has to do with my recent posts being less substantial than they were B.B. (Before Baby), I'm also a bit concerned that the recent DDoS attack may have affected things too. For the record, I'm not planning on leaving LJ anytime soon, especially since users fleeing LJ is pretty much what the hackers want, but should LJ be shut down for matters outside my control, I will either permanently move to the Dreamwidth account or start up fresh elsewhere.
In regards to posts with substance, I've spent the last five days sloooooowly working on a review of Flashpoint: Batman--Knight of Vengeance, which has become much, much more than I had expected based on the lackluster preview I posted two months ago. Everybody is gaga over this story, praising it as an "instant classic," whereas I suspect that they're just praising the mini's *twist* rather than the plot or storytelling. But even if it's just because I'm annoyed by the universal glowing praise it's receiving, the fact is that I'm still thinking about it almost a week later. Considering that 99.9% of comics coming out now are so mediocre that I often forget entire issues just hours after I read them, that's both impressive and a depressing look at the scale of what's considered "instant classics" in comics today.
I'm planning on outright spoiling the twist of Flashpoint: Batman--Knight of Vengeance in the review, outside of the cut, because surely everybody's heard of it by now. However, if you're someone who does not want to be spoiled, pipe up in the comments and let me know.
For now, I'll just post a cameo from Swamp Thing #66, by Rick Vietch and Alfredo Alcala:
From the looks of things, it seems like the good side is the one having the nightmare, and the bad side is dreaming of... well, probably nothing nice. I'm going to pretend that he's dreaming about ice cream. Yes, ice cream is much nicer than whatever it is that'd give Two-Face the warm fuzzies at night.
Also, anybody else get the impression that Grant Morrison's entire use of Clayface as a walking metaphor for STDs in Arkham Asylum was inspired by this page?
In regards to posts with substance, I've spent the last five days sloooooowly working on a review of Flashpoint: Batman--Knight of Vengeance, which has become much, much more than I had expected based on the lackluster preview I posted two months ago. Everybody is gaga over this story, praising it as an "instant classic," whereas I suspect that they're just praising the mini's *twist* rather than the plot or storytelling. But even if it's just because I'm annoyed by the universal glowing praise it's receiving, the fact is that I'm still thinking about it almost a week later. Considering that 99.9% of comics coming out now are so mediocre that I often forget entire issues just hours after I read them, that's both impressive and a depressing look at the scale of what's considered "instant classics" in comics today.
I'm planning on outright spoiling the twist of Flashpoint: Batman--Knight of Vengeance in the review, outside of the cut, because surely everybody's heard of it by now. However, if you're someone who does not want to be spoiled, pipe up in the comments and let me know.
For now, I'll just post a cameo from Swamp Thing #66, by Rick Vietch and Alfredo Alcala:
From the looks of things, it seems like the good side is the one having the nightmare, and the bad side is dreaming of... well, probably nothing nice. I'm going to pretend that he's dreaming about ice cream. Yes, ice cream is much nicer than whatever it is that'd give Two-Face the warm fuzzies at night.
Also, anybody else get the impression that Grant Morrison's entire use of Clayface as a walking metaphor for STDs in Arkham Asylum was inspired by this page?