next time there won't be no next time
Spent a lively few hours watching "The Dark Knight" with my housemates. Mostly, it was them trying to watch and me going off on tangents of movie vs comics. And then I looked into who the villians are for the next movie and...yeah. Bane? I like the actor who's going to play him, but until Secret Six, Bane's biggest contribution to DC Comics was breaking Batman's back, and that happened after he'd had a couple Robins and Jean Paul Valley. Nolan!Batman is still at the beginning of his game. Couldn't they do, like, Riddler? Deadshot? Zsasz? Any number of villians who could conceivably pop up early in Batman's career? Heck, Deaadshot came in during "Batman: Gotham Knight" (which sadly I still haven't watched) so he's at least know to this continuity.
And one more gripe: why oh why have Anna Ramirez in "The Dark Knight" when she's obviously an expy of Renee Montoya? Renee's a good cop while she's on the GCPD and would never do something like wha Anna did. They should have just had someone else, anyone else. Wasn't there a cop in Gotham Central who the Joker killed in the first issue that was a little shady? Couldn't we have just had two cops on the payroll who were men? Did it have to be a Renee expy? I love me my Renee Montoya. I feel this way about how Boodika was transformed character wise in "Green Lantern: First Flight," which is why I can't stand that movie. DC movies, whether they be animated or live action, are seemingly making women (or their expys) who are otherwise upstanding in the comics be not so upstanding in the movies, and it aggravates me. Grr. Argh.
::deep breath:: Anyway. I read my three books for the reading program: Batman: Cacophony by Kevin Smith and the first two volumes of Gunslinger Girl by Yu Aida. All three books are extremely good. I remember Onomatopoeia from the Green Arrow comic where he was introduced, and he's still creepy. But you know the weirdest (and strangely the coolest) thig about that book? A sane Joker. I mean...wow. It's weird and yet highly enjoyable. I still think Gordon was right and Batman should have let him die. Joker's definitely not one of my favorite villains (except in the two books I mentioned in the Writer's Block question, because in both those books it's mass destruction, and I like him when he's causing devastation on a worldwide stage).
Gunslinger Girl is actually going to become a manga I try and buy when I get a chance. I have volumes 3 & 4 for tomorrow, most likely, but I want my hands on the entire series, even if I have to call them up from every library in the county. It's fascinating, how those little girls are trained assassins but still just little girls. And the art is really nice, too. I swear, I'm reading more series that I'm going to show Trace when he's older...eight is too young to be reading stuff like this or Zombie Loan. Or even Bleach, for that matter, but since it's in Shonen Jump there's not much I can do about it because he really loves a lot of the other series in it, like Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds.
I think tomorrow is volume 3 & 4 of Gunslinger Girl and either Superman/Batman: Finest Worlds or Batman: The Widening Gyre. The latter book would probably be best, because iit's the sequel to Batman: Cacophony but...dude, I really love the Superman/Batman series. Have ever since I got my hands on Superman/Batman: Public Enemies two years ago. Who knows? Maybe I'll read all four of them tomorrow and file one away for Monday's report.
And one more gripe: why oh why have Anna Ramirez in "The Dark Knight" when she's obviously an expy of Renee Montoya? Renee's a good cop while she's on the GCPD and would never do something like wha Anna did. They should have just had someone else, anyone else. Wasn't there a cop in Gotham Central who the Joker killed in the first issue that was a little shady? Couldn't we have just had two cops on the payroll who were men? Did it have to be a Renee expy? I love me my Renee Montoya. I feel this way about how Boodika was transformed character wise in "Green Lantern: First Flight," which is why I can't stand that movie. DC movies, whether they be animated or live action, are seemingly making women (or their expys) who are otherwise upstanding in the comics be not so upstanding in the movies, and it aggravates me. Grr. Argh.
::deep breath:: Anyway. I read my three books for the reading program: Batman: Cacophony by Kevin Smith and the first two volumes of Gunslinger Girl by Yu Aida. All three books are extremely good. I remember Onomatopoeia from the Green Arrow comic where he was introduced, and he's still creepy. But you know the weirdest (and strangely the coolest) thig about that book? A sane Joker. I mean...wow. It's weird and yet highly enjoyable. I still think Gordon was right and Batman should have let him die. Joker's definitely not one of my favorite villains (except in the two books I mentioned in the Writer's Block question, because in both those books it's mass destruction, and I like him when he's causing devastation on a worldwide stage).
Gunslinger Girl is actually going to become a manga I try and buy when I get a chance. I have volumes 3 & 4 for tomorrow, most likely, but I want my hands on the entire series, even if I have to call them up from every library in the county. It's fascinating, how those little girls are trained assassins but still just little girls. And the art is really nice, too. I swear, I'm reading more series that I'm going to show Trace when he's older...eight is too young to be reading stuff like this or Zombie Loan. Or even Bleach, for that matter, but since it's in Shonen Jump there's not much I can do about it because he really loves a lot of the other series in it, like Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds.
I think tomorrow is volume 3 & 4 of Gunslinger Girl and either Superman/Batman: Finest Worlds or Batman: The Widening Gyre. The latter book would probably be best, because iit's the sequel to Batman: Cacophony but...dude, I really love the Superman/Batman series. Have ever since I got my hands on Superman/Batman: Public Enemies two years ago. Who knows? Maybe I'll read all four of them tomorrow and file one away for Monday's report.