The Humans was pretty cool. Plays out like a typical gang drama but the visuals help elevate it. Cool colours and interesting layouts. Thought the apes and 70s bikers vibe meshed really well. Be interesting to see where they go from here. Guess the final page is a big misdirect.
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COMICS! |OT| March 2016. It's your job to be great.
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I too finished the relaunched Waid/Samnee DD last nite and p much second everything t-rave said.
I wrote a thing that I don't think I ever posted but it was essentially an argument about how even though the ghost of "depressing" Daredevil comics hangs over this run, what Waid recognized about Born Again is that is it fundamentally has a happy ending. So where some writers understood the way that a man's life gets systematically dismantled on a whim, Waid remembered that it ends with the hero and his girlfriend reunited and walking down the streets of New York without a care in the world. The Miller/Janson run and Born Again are both fairly dark in places, yes, but they also have a full emotional spectrum -- and even though Waid/Samnee get a lot of talk about how it's a refutation of those depressing Daredevil comics, it's also the one that is probably the most similar to the old Miller stuff in terms of tonal range.
Yeah, it's not treading new ground (total genre piece through and through) but the fact that they're really well-drawn monkeys makes it a lot of fun and I'm glad it's coming back.
I wrote a thing that I don't think I ever posted but it was essentially an argument about how even though the ghost of "depressing" Daredevil comics hangs over this run, what Waid recognized about Born Again is that is it fundamentally has a happy ending. So where some writers understood the way that a man's life gets systematically dismantled on a whim, Waid remembered that it ends with the hero and his girlfriend reunited and walking down the streets of New York without a care in the world. The Miller/Janson run and Born Again are both fairly dark in places, yes, but they also have a full emotional spectrum -- and even though Waid/Samnee get a lot of talk about how it's a refutation of those depressing Daredevil comics, it's also the one that is probably the most similar to the old Miller stuff in terms of tonal range.
Yeah, it's not treading new ground (total genre piece through and through) but the fact that they're really well-drawn monkeys makes it a lot of fun and I'm glad it's coming back.
BKatastrophe
Member
We ain't talking about Buffy? Well then carry on.
We are talking about our Spike
there was a great story about Marko D shittalking JMS when he was peacing outta American comics a while ago which I thought was hilarious though I'm not sure if that was just Bleeding Cool fuckery
BKatastrophe
Member
Look I only pay attention like half the time
What have you said? I read something else while you talked.
BKatastrophe
Member
WadiumArcadium
Member
I can't wait to watch it again. It's too far away.
Freezasaurus
Member
What if our Spike and the Spike from Buffy are one and the same?
Hm. She may be my first Hot Toy. Believe it or not, I almost caved on that tacky Alien girl.
slightconfuse
Banned
Captain Britian and MI:13 getting a tv show
What a world we live in
What a world we live in
BrokenFiction
Member
QFT.
TheDarkKnight774
Member
I'm in the same boat. Can't wait
choaffable
Member
The most damning review of all...
I liked Watchmen
Me, too.
slightconfuse
Banned
BvS seems like a bigger mess than man of steel somehow.
DC needs to get rid of synder
Also watchmen was a good movie.
DC needs to get rid of synder
Also watchmen was a good movie.
Calcium
Banned
Yeah, I'll wait until it comes out on Bluray. Damn shame, was hoping I was wrong about it.
choaffable
Member
Watchmen is a good movie in the same way Arby's is real food.
I'm not gonna see it. Man of Steel was awful and this looks just like more of the same greybrown, dour, relentlessly cynical garbage that DC pedals onto its most iconic characters out of its eternal maturity crisis.
Marvel made all the money in the world with jokes and machine gun raccoons. Superman doesn't need to be such a grouchy asshole.
Marvel made all the money in the world with jokes and machine gun raccoons. Superman doesn't need to be such a grouchy asshole.
Depends on its box office and whether audiences actually like it. So if it gets a C- Cinemascore and underperforms, then WB will be taking a long hard look at their properties.
Man of Steel is awesome man. Also DC will always have my respect for the next two films in their slates having minority leads compares to oh so white marvel.
That Said I'm leaving the Internet until I see the film on Friday.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Yep, it was great.
Watchmen is a good movie in the same way Arby's is real food.
I enjoyed watching it. It has great visuals and was interesting to watch and a cool story. I dont need more to think a movie is good.
Not every movie needs to be a Nightcrawler, a Gone Girl, or something artsy, I can enjoy booth.
Man of Steel was shit. Shiiiiiiiiiiiit.
Agreed on Marvel movies being too white, though.
Spike Spiegel
Member
Capullo, what the hell.
News to me
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
yeah, I find it fun watching Batman beat people mercilessly
I don't need shitty Whedon "jokes" every 10 minutes
Batman can be intense and still be enjoyable. Snyder drained any enjoyment out of Superman in MoS and I feel confident he'll continue the same with Batman.
If you can't make a science ninja detective with infinite money drop kicking a murder clown in the face fun, then something has seriously gone wrong.
If you can't make a science ninja detective with infinite money drop kicking a murder clown in the face fun, then something has seriously gone wrong.
but...it isnt?
its like the difference bwteen Spider Gwen and Silk. One is fun, the other is Spider Gwen
Baron von Loathsome
Member
yeah but: what IS fun? how do you define it? how do you achieve it? when you praise Marvel movies for being "fun", what exactly do they do? I'm talking something substantial here, not just "fun" by itself, as an adjective that lost all its meaning through overuse
But it doesn't have to be fun to be good in the case of BvS
Sibersk Esto
Banned
I mean, I consider the Nolan Batman movies fun. There's an energy to the filmmaking style, a sort of momentum. It's difficult to explain, but it's about having a good time.