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THE OANS WOULD YOU LIKE YOU TO KNOW THAT BASTILLE DAY IS NO EXCUSE FOR SLACKING

Jul 14, 2009 09:26

I've been glued to NPR for the past two days listening to the Sotomayor hearings. Thus far they mostly consist of "YOU DARED TO BE ETHNIC. HOW DARE YOU ACKNOWLEDGE RACE AND ETHNICITY?", then a rebuttal from a more liberal Senator, lather, rinse, excoriate, essay another rebuttal, repeat ( Read more... )

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goneformofman July 14 2009, 21:54:51 UTC

My favourite bit of Kirby writing still comes from Paul Pope, comparing smartphones to MotherBoxes.

Did you know that Paul Pope's upcoming Battling Boy has a FORTY PAGE FIGHT SCENE? I might ComicGasm. I own that term now.

kali921 July 14 2009, 21:58:22 UTC

Can Paul Pope even draw action scenes? Ones that don't feature gnome-like hunched over uglified people?

Forty pages. Hmmm. Well, it won't achieve the levels of Simonson's an-entire-issue-of-Thor-doing-nothing-but-fighting-the-Serpent-in-splash-pages, but it sounds interesting. Are there previews? Because the more I think of it, the better it sounds - forty pages is more REALISTIC for a fight scene, you know? Not all conflicts end quickly - just once I'd like to see a fight in comics that lasts as long as it would in real time. As in two or three issues if you get evenly matched opponents or Matt Murdock fighting his way through a horde of Hand.

goneformofman July 14 2009, 22:09:54 UTC

I was wrong. It's going to be about 50 pages

kali921 July 14 2009, 22:18:08 UTC

Is that a dude in a black leather S&M chest harness and thigh-high black boots fighting a dragon?

Wow. I'm so torn. On the one hand, it's got Pope's usual busy-yet-flat style - I can never tell what the fuck is supposed to be happening on a Pope page if it involves action. He draws action about as well as Maleev, which is to say not at all well.

On the other hand, it's a dude in S&M gear FIGHTING A DRAGON FOR FIFTY PAGES.

txtriffidranch July 14 2009, 21:58:26 UTC

What: no Chris Elliott as G'Nort? (Of course, I say this because The Comics Reporter was asking about a gag article written in the Nineties about a GL movie, and I know a little something about it.)

kali921 July 14 2009, 22:03:48 UTC

...Good LORD, it's like geeky Oan manna from heaven! Oh, my. That is hilarious.

txtriffidranch July 14 2009, 22:07:49 UTC

I have to admit that I was waiting to hear a Guy Gardner speech with the following routine: "Do we need a three-and-a-half-hour movie about Hal Jordan? No, we don't: I can sum it up for you in three sentences. 'I'm GL, I'm nobody, I'm GL, I'm famous, I'm GL, I'm fucking dead.' That is IT, end of fucking list." As tired as I am of Leary today, especially considering how much of his routine he blatantly and unapologetically stole from Bill Hicks, I still figure that this would have been perfect casting a decade ago.

dj_spider July 14 2009, 23:13:28 UTC

I actually like the idea of Hugo Weaving (The Matrix's Agent Smith, Lord of the Rings' Elrond, V from V For Vendetta, voice of Megatron) as Sinestro, myself.

kali921 July 15 2009, 01:09:37 UTC

I love Hugo. (Also, I think it's safe to say that anyone reading this journal knows who Hugo Weaving is, so don't worry about the credits next time. :-) ) See, the thing is, though, that Hugo's a little too stentorian for the role of Sinestro - Sinestro's agile, quick, sleek-minded, and he doesn't strike me as having a Hugo Weaving voice.

the_croupier July 15 2009, 00:19:31 UTC

It would be odd to see Night Gallery clips on the internets, though, wouldn't it? That sort of thing just belongs on a tv set sometime around 11pm-2am on a Saturday night. =)

I do like all the talk of casting for members of the Corps. We need lots and lots of that so the studio heads and Campbell don't try using Hal but not the Corps. They would, after all, be stupid enough to think that was a good idea.

As for 'Comic Book Reviews'.... what is this, fucking 1983?

kali921 July 15 2009, 01:07:03 UTC

As for 'Comic Book Reviews'.... what is this, fucking 1983?

Now that I've watched a few of their clips over the last couple of months, I think I can safely say that they strike me as the Topical Consumer fanboy rather than the Listen, Marvel/DC/Image/Top Cow, I'm Actively Letting You Steward Characters That I Care About So Don't Fuck It Up type of fanboy/fangirl. Meaning, Marvel puts out product and they're likely to like it and give it only a cursory analysis. This is a nice way of saying that I think they're, uh...lazy. Yeah, "lazy" is the word I'm looking for - consumers with a more binary way of looking at what they're reviewing. All surface, no substance, no plumbing the epistemological depths. But that's just based on what they say on YouTube.

Wasn't the bit at the end about girls and comics just precious? Simultaneously mocking what women like and then unable to decide if Marvel Divas is Marvel's attempt to reach out to women or if Marvel is parodying women? And then giving Marvel props for trying to reach a female ( ... )

the_croupier July 15 2009, 01:52:04 UTC

Sorry, I'm unable to respond to this because I'm too busy watching Katara, Suki, and Toph (Toph! <3) kick ass. =)

Marvel What-was-that-now?

It's 2009, and there are too many better things around now to have to waste our time with tired titles geared to aging, behind-the-times fanboys.

Well, since you SAID IT kali921 July 15 2009, 02:50:59 UTC

Suki is will-kick-your-ass-five-ways-to-Sunday love. Katara is centered and focused love. Toph is snarky love with dirty feet.

See, now, if Marvel had done Marvel Divas where Angelica, Patsy, Monica, and Felicia had crossed paths because by happenstance they wound up chasing the same group of people? Then we had five issues of intelligent, taut action while the girls bonded via non-stop asskickings while they traversed the globe in hot pursuit of their prey and Monica periodically stopped to shout "MICROWAVE STORM!!" and "ULTRAVIOLET IS NOT JUST FOR ANDY WARHOL!!"? THAT would have been a series worth picking up. Oh, and we wouldn't have called it Marvel Divas. We would have called it Can't Shop Now, Too Busy Rhyming, Stealin', Burning, and Blowing Shit Up.

I find it sad that a year ago you were enthused about Marvel and embittered about DC. Now you're bitter about Marvel - have we come full circle?

It's hard out here for a fangirl and fanboy, isn't it. :-(

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neo_prodigy July 15 2009, 01:40:45 UTC

Don't even get me started on BET!!!!

kali921 July 15 2009, 02:43:38 UTC

What amazes me about BET is not that it's still polluting the airwaves -- that's a given in these dark times, times when we are SO close to the abyss -- but that people still actually find the energy to craft wonderful rants about it. I just assumed everyone was so world-weary about BET that we all just pretended that it doesn't exist.

neo_prodigy July 15 2009, 02:45:44 UTC

But you also have to remember too that BET is supported by self-hating blacks and legions of racist whites who thrive on the oppression of black people.

Did you ever see the Boondocks episodes about BET?

YOU WANT TO KNOW THE TRAGEDY? kali921 July 15 2009, 02:54:55 UTC

Yes, I've seen the Boondocks episodes - but not in a while! Where are they uploaded?

You want to know what kills me? As if BET being BET wasn't enough?

THESE PEOPLE ARE IN CHARGE OF BLACK PANTHER. Reginald Hudlin took a character who was rocketed back to the A-list by Christopher Priest and MAIMED him almost beyond repair. Hudlin turned Wakanda from a futuristic technotopia with incredible grace in its collective cultural pride -- a people who simply were awesome because they are awesome -- and morphed them into a state of regressive paternalism, racism, and patriarchy.

So, yeah. These assholes are the ones producing the Black Panther cartoon.

FUCK BET.

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