" - what they do...! - they smile in yr face - & all the time they wanna take yr place "
"i find a lot of things boring - mainly eating artichokes" - claudia winkleman, 19/11/2007
ITEM! o my giddy aunt - they took off bargain hunt yesterday to make room for an hour & a half programme "celebrating" the 60th wedding anniversary of the queen & prince philip - bah! - i had to resort to the methadone of "flog it" w/that twit who looks like a "groovy geography teacher" - shouldn't goverage of the royal family be restricted to the minority channels these days? ( - "uk tv outdated institutions" or somesuch )
anyway, tim wonnacutt = the queen of my heart ( it's back on today )
ITEM! iacgmooh: cos he won the egg timer task, rodney's got immunity from the first eviction tomorrow - it probly just proves i'm a humourless uptight old spoilsport but i am finding quite a few of his bon mots tiresome & offensive ( he's just doing it to wind ppl up, i know ) - also, i'm sure lynne franks = awful to live with, even for a short period of time - but they do seem to be openly bullying her now ( led by janice & rodney )
none of this has stopped me watching it, of gourse - biggins to win...! ( - much as i like katie hopkins, even i'm not so deluded to think she cld triumph )
& now by unpopular demand, my "thoughts" on a gouple of recentish gomics:
ITEM! illuminati no.5 by bendis, reed, cheung & morales: suddenly it all makes sense - well, at least a lot more sense than it did previously - this is by far the best issue of the series, explaining & putting into gontext the previous four - quite early on there's a v.goob "shock" reveal ( - well, i wasn't expecting it anyway )
iron man gathers the big cheeses of the marvel universe together for one last time - to investigate the mystery of the elektra skrull - there's lotsa trademark sparky bendis style dialogue as our heroes bicker & battle a new generation of super skrulls - reed richards seems to be the sub mariner's bitch a bit too often but otherwise the characterisation = fine - & the artwork = really q.goob - cheung has def. improved over the course of the series - some pages are packed with tiny panels - presumably to give him the opportunity include more splash pages throughout - but the pictures are pretty & his storytelling = clear
of gourse, it being a gurrent gomic you never get a "proper" ( ie satisfying ) ending but rather another shakeup of the marvel u status quo - which leads into the next big story, "the secret invasion" - as these things go, it's very well done
ITEM! the unfunnies first follies by mark millar & anthony williams: i bought this gompilation of the unfunnies nos.1&2 cos i'd heard it was gontroversial & in bad taste, this dirty funny animal gomic - & it IS in v.bad taste - but it's also kind of... wussy - it doesn't have the gourage of its gonvictions & a double standard is at work - all the sex occurs off panel but all the violence occurs on the page
becos of the hype i was expecting something like the worst excesses of r.crumb, s.clay wilson or roberta gregory's infamous bitchy bitch story in naughty bits no.1 - but this 'un talks the talk but doesn't really walk the walk - also, some of the points millar = trying to make were made much more elegantly way back when in alan moore & don simpson's pictopia
the artwork really isn't very goob either - the colouring govers up a lot of gaps & deficiencies - sorry to say but i don't think a.williams = suited to drawing funny animals - tho there is a def. improvement between issues 1 & 2 - at the back of the gomic they've reproduced an alternate cover or poster by keith giffen - god knows he has his faults but it really does show what a more expressive artist cld do w/the story & characters
on the plus side: it's very potty mouthed - i laughed out loud twice ( which isn't a bad hit rate really ) - & you'd have to have a heart of stone not to be amused by the plight of poor chick chick chickie...