Sparkles and Thanksgiving and Comics, oh my!
I had a pretty good thanksgiviing. My cousin came over and we hung up. Oh! We saw New Moon. I put of glitter to be extra sparkly and giggled through the whole thing. Soooo many shirtless hot guys around my age. DRAMATICALLY taking their shirts off. It was worth it just for that.
Actually, the middle was pretty good. Bella was terribly mopey and self absorbed as always, (SULKING FOR THREE MONTHS ON END. ABANDONING HER FRIEND IN HOPE OF GETTING GANGRAPED SO SHE CAN SEE EDWARD TELLING HER TO BE CARRRREFUL. GOD I FORGOT THE HORROR) but I was reminded by how I really liked Jacob's sweetness and banter. Too bad he turns into a sexual assaulting loser in the third book and a creepy imprinter in the fourth (so I heard). New Moon!Jacob is too good for Bella anyway, so she and Edward can have each other. And I also liked all the non-Edward vampires. I forgot how cool they all were!
Also the CGI wolves and the end fight were nice. Oh, though since we need to focus on Edward's fight, Alice gets taken out by a single chokehold, and I'm pretty sure she was supposed to be the best fighter in the books...I can't remember...Anyway, despite being a hundred years old and having all the time in the world, vamps don't know basic martial arts techniques like bending a dudes fingers back when he grabs your neck instead of uselessly clutching his arm.
The rest of it was bad. But giggle worthy! Edward's first appearance was hiiiii larious! Super slow motion walk and dramatic music like he's a fashion model. Funny.
What saddened me was a little girl behind me declaring the movie her "ALL TIME FAVORITE after TWILIGHT!" and telling this other girl "Don't rank it, because I know you only just like it, not love it, and the fact you don't love it hurts me personally."
...noooooo brainwashing our youth into liking stalker bad boys and being useless damsels in distress WHY.
When I was little, I felt that way about Harry Potter. For this little girl to feel fangirlish glee for Twilight...MAJOR step down in terms of everything from plots to characters to strong female role models and good messages.
Now that that's over, comic reviews:
Wonder Woman
Huh. On one hands, the plots and characters are interesting. And Donna gets a good showing.
On the other hand, Diana mopes uselessly in her jail cell and I'm really tired of that sort of thing. She's WONDER WOMAN, dammit. She should be FIXING the problem of Themyscria, she should be fixing the gods, saving the Amazons, saving her mother, getting shit done, not waiting to be executed in a jail cell because "oh no they have my mom". Well, don't let them TAKE her.
Honestly, I don't know anymore. I still LIKE the title okay, and Gail says the self doubt thing will stop with issue 40 (not to mention we'll be seeing some villians be reinvented and all kinds of awesome. I can't wait)- but I don't understand or agree with the direction of the title, and it feels like these plots are dragging out and there's so many OOC things going on with Diana and Hippolyta and the Amazons....I just want this mess to be fixed, and for the Amazons and Diana to be awesome and epic again.
But Diana vs. Cottus promises to be cool, so there's that. Maybe the next issue will make stuff clear and whatnot.
3/5
The Web #3
This issue was very blah and I don't care about the Web at all, but um...Steph was in it so I got it. She helped the Web install some software. Yaaay. Oracle is keeping an eye on the web based hero and making him go on the right path since she's Oracle and all. She controls the internet.
Apparently the Web doesn't know what Facebook is, though. Which is weird, considering his name and modus operandi.
Anyway, Steph got a decent showing and was competent. Although it was very weird seeing her let Oracle say "leave it to the professionals" to someone, but not heinously out of character, since the Web is a douche and not caring that he's putting people in danger- so she wouldn't have a problem telling him off, regardless of any parallels to her own history. And she said "dude" a lot, which rang weirdly to me.
2/5
Detective Comics
Another good issue. As expected, Kate was a victim to the military "Don't ask don't tell" rule. The scene where she drops her ring and says "I'm gay" is pretty powerful. Also, she saves herself from the mugger going "I'm a soldier! I'm an goddamn-"
*BATMAN APPEARS*
...I wonder if that was on purpose.
Anyway, seeing Batman simply be nice enough to help Kate up before grappling off- and how awed Kate was by his amazing presence (which beautifully shown by the contrast between Batman and the art style) was a nice change from the typical "Batman save hero, hero is inspired" origin. However, I hope there's a little more to it, as it should take something other than seeing Batman to wanting to put specifically a bat symbol on your chest.
The question back up- only one thing registers- NO BELLY WINDOW LEOTARD WRECK ON HUNTRESS! Gaudy shoulder pads instead, but I'll take that over the stupid, sexist,impractical,
OOC and even more ugly looking belly window.
Though I'd prefer it if they go back to the BOP fully covering white cross costume, this one is a winner too if they ditch the shoulder pads or replace them with a cape...and maybe make the zipper end above the crotch.
At any rate, THANKS Cully Hamner! You rock!
5/5
World Finest #2
I decided to get this because I might as well, since I'm collecting the last two issues and all. It was very meh, but I kind of expected that, I'm not particularly fond of either character. Damian's amusing sometimes, but the Guardian's just boring. It was an okay read though.
2/5
S'all for now!
Actually, the middle was pretty good. Bella was terribly mopey and self absorbed as always, (SULKING FOR THREE MONTHS ON END. ABANDONING HER FRIEND IN HOPE OF GETTING GANGRAPED SO SHE CAN SEE EDWARD TELLING HER TO BE CARRRREFUL. GOD I FORGOT THE HORROR) but I was reminded by how I really liked Jacob's sweetness and banter. Too bad he turns into a sexual assaulting loser in the third book and a creepy imprinter in the fourth (so I heard). New Moon!Jacob is too good for Bella anyway, so she and Edward can have each other. And I also liked all the non-Edward vampires. I forgot how cool they all were!
Also the CGI wolves and the end fight were nice. Oh, though since we need to focus on Edward's fight, Alice gets taken out by a single chokehold, and I'm pretty sure she was supposed to be the best fighter in the books...I can't remember...Anyway, despite being a hundred years old and having all the time in the world, vamps don't know basic martial arts techniques like bending a dudes fingers back when he grabs your neck instead of uselessly clutching his arm.
The rest of it was bad. But giggle worthy! Edward's first appearance was hiiiii larious! Super slow motion walk and dramatic music like he's a fashion model. Funny.
What saddened me was a little girl behind me declaring the movie her "ALL TIME FAVORITE after TWILIGHT!" and telling this other girl "Don't rank it, because I know you only just like it, not love it, and the fact you don't love it hurts me personally."
...noooooo brainwashing our youth into liking stalker bad boys and being useless damsels in distress WHY.
When I was little, I felt that way about Harry Potter. For this little girl to feel fangirlish glee for Twilight...MAJOR step down in terms of everything from plots to characters to strong female role models and good messages.
Now that that's over, comic reviews:
Wonder Woman
Huh. On one hands, the plots and characters are interesting. And Donna gets a good showing.
On the other hand, Diana mopes uselessly in her jail cell and I'm really tired of that sort of thing. She's WONDER WOMAN, dammit. She should be FIXING the problem of Themyscria, she should be fixing the gods, saving the Amazons, saving her mother, getting shit done, not waiting to be executed in a jail cell because "oh no they have my mom". Well, don't let them TAKE her.
Honestly, I don't know anymore. I still LIKE the title okay, and Gail says the self doubt thing will stop with issue 40 (not to mention we'll be seeing some villians be reinvented and all kinds of awesome. I can't wait)- but I don't understand or agree with the direction of the title, and it feels like these plots are dragging out and there's so many OOC things going on with Diana and Hippolyta and the Amazons....I just want this mess to be fixed, and for the Amazons and Diana to be awesome and epic again.
But Diana vs. Cottus promises to be cool, so there's that. Maybe the next issue will make stuff clear and whatnot.
3/5
The Web #3
This issue was very blah and I don't care about the Web at all, but um...Steph was in it so I got it. She helped the Web install some software. Yaaay. Oracle is keeping an eye on the web based hero and making him go on the right path since she's Oracle and all. She controls the internet.
Apparently the Web doesn't know what Facebook is, though. Which is weird, considering his name and modus operandi.
Anyway, Steph got a decent showing and was competent. Although it was very weird seeing her let Oracle say "leave it to the professionals" to someone, but not heinously out of character, since the Web is a douche and not caring that he's putting people in danger- so she wouldn't have a problem telling him off, regardless of any parallels to her own history. And she said "dude" a lot, which rang weirdly to me.
2/5
Detective Comics
Another good issue. As expected, Kate was a victim to the military "Don't ask don't tell" rule. The scene where she drops her ring and says "I'm gay" is pretty powerful. Also, she saves herself from the mugger going "I'm a soldier! I'm an goddamn-"
*BATMAN APPEARS*
...I wonder if that was on purpose.
Anyway, seeing Batman simply be nice enough to help Kate up before grappling off- and how awed Kate was by his amazing presence (which beautifully shown by the contrast between Batman and the art style) was a nice change from the typical "Batman save hero, hero is inspired" origin. However, I hope there's a little more to it, as it should take something other than seeing Batman to wanting to put specifically a bat symbol on your chest.
The question back up- only one thing registers- NO BELLY WINDOW LEOTARD WRECK ON HUNTRESS! Gaudy shoulder pads instead, but I'll take that over the stupid, sexist,impractical,
OOC and even more ugly looking belly window.
Though I'd prefer it if they go back to the BOP fully covering white cross costume, this one is a winner too if they ditch the shoulder pads or replace them with a cape...and maybe make the zipper end above the crotch.
At any rate, THANKS Cully Hamner! You rock!
5/5
World Finest #2
I decided to get this because I might as well, since I'm collecting the last two issues and all. It was very meh, but I kind of expected that, I'm not particularly fond of either character. Damian's amusing sometimes, but the Guardian's just boring. It was an okay read though.
2/5
S'all for now!