Coraline in 3D is awesome, Neal was not taken with Liam Neeson in Taken, Michael Phelps should be allowed to smoke as much weed as he wants, Hulk Vs. Wolverine is just okay, Eulogy is quirky but funny, Rob Schneider in The Hot Chick gets funnier with time, Neal enjoyed The Cleaner, Keanu Reeves in Cowboy Beebop, Battlestar Galactica finally gets some action, My Chemical Romance suckles from the teat of Watchmen, Black Panther #1 is an excellent issue, X-Men: The Times and Life of Lucas Bishop #1 is pretty good too, and Kyle Baker can pretty much do whatever the hell he wants in comics.
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The Wrestler and The Foot Fist Way were watched by Neal. Nick and Neal disagree about the quality of News Radio but they do agree that French Stewart is lame, Ludacris is best as a guest, and Big Stan finally comes out in March. Neal is scared of yellow food but he still manages to review new music by Ciara, Fleet Foxes, and Jamie Foxx. Nick and Neal argue about female rappers and their business decisions. Nick saw Frightened Rabbit play live in Philadelphia. Neal read Dark Horse Presents and Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse. And, oh yeah, Final Crisis #6 SPOILERS!!!
Video game documentaries The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters and Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade show two different versions of Billy Mitchell, Bigger Faster Stronger makes Neal want to take steroids, Kinamand makes Nick hungry for Chinese food, the Death Note live action films have sweet computer graphics, Neal can't stop watching Dark Angel and Jessica Alba, Nick hates Pixar's WALL-E, Busta Rhymes' "Arab Money" is ignorant, Neal discovers Borders is trimming their graphic novels section, and Nick can't stop thinking about War Machine.
For the third week in a row, I don't have much time to write posts (although you'd never guess looking at the comment feed). The streets is tough - and covered with snow thanks to that motherfucker Jack Frost.
Anyway, the snow (and the exceedingly s l o w drive home today) got me thinking about Greg Rucka's upcoming (Well, Sept 11 2009 isn't exactly close, but whatever) arctic thriller Whiteout. The art was cool - if a little hard to see considering the format - and the story kept along at a decent clip. As I recall, the book was an engrossing read. Fast forward a couple years and BAM! it's movie time. I hold to what I said a year ago in Podcast 007 and I am excited to see good a story reach the silver screen.
But Kate Beckinsdale in the lead? I'm not entirely sure about that casting choice - couldn't they get Lena Headey? Lena has been utterly destroying tough girl roles lately in 300 and The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Interestingly, both are British, but Headey kicks much more ass.
All I have seen are a few production stills, and I haven't been following the news - but I am kind of excited to see this. Superhero comics and movies are great, but when graphic fiction makes it to the screen because of their superior storytelling and concept alone, I think that is just the fucking coolest. Nick said it a few weeks back, comic books are the new spec scripts. So, maybe you should go out and pick up the trade paperback. I'm sure there are a million of them on the racks at B&N, right next to all the Watchmen and Sin City books. And if you like Whiteout, you may like Queen & Country (it's a lot more involved though).
Kanye West is drenched in auto-tune on 808s & Heartbreak, Ashley Simpson and Pete Wentz join the long list of celebrities who give their children eccentric names (in this case, Bronx Mowgli Wentz), Neal has a 72 hour crush on Hillary Duff and he's pretty sure that Sean Connery is an aphrodisiac, watching the Nick Fury movie is like putting your head in a bag of shit, Watchmen has graphic novel variant covers, and Dynamo 5 #18 is awesome.
Watchmen, Red Sonja, Avengers, X-men Origins, blah blah blah I hope you aren't sick of comic book movies yet - because the hits just keep on coming. Martin Anderson over at Den of Geek just served up a list of 75 comic inspired movies that are in the works. Some of these are sequels, i.e. Sin City 2/3 and Iron Man 2, but I haven't heard of at least half of these books.
I'm curious to see if Y The Last Man ever really gets made and does anyone really care about Green Lantern? Of course, there are some stinkers on this list and I never did like Akira. Still, cruise on over and see if your favorite comic has sold out for a slice of that big money pie.
Personally, I won't be satisfied until the long awaited Cerebus vs. Judge Death comes out.
Yeah, so last week I ran The Top 9 Reasons Why Comics Don't Need to Be Saved - Part One, which consisted solely of reasons nine thru six. Why? Because I'm a dick.
And now, for your consideration, are the decidedly more irreverent Top 9 Reasons Why Comics Don't Need to Be Saved reasons five thru one:
5. Newspaper comic strips are dying because fewer and fewer people want to read newspapers, not because they don't want to read comics. Now they go and read this stuff on the Internet. They're called "webcomics" and those are doing just fine.
4. Seriously, Hollywood wants to give comic books fellatio right now. In fact, they may have already finished the fellatio and moved onto the hardcore doggiestyle section of "Filmstriptease presents Cramming Comics vol 1." Soon they're going to be finishing off vol 1 with a spectacular facial (which could be as soon as Watchmen or as far away as the Avengers movie). It all depends on how long Hollywood can keep it up.
3. Single issues are really a niche product at this point and I don't think there's anything that's going to change that. I'm part of that niche audience and I love the singles, but most people want a bigger chunk of story. If that's the case, let the singles slowly fade away and bring on the graphic novels because...
2. Graphic novel sales continue to look hopeful. Bookstores are carrying graphic novels by the hoard and putting them up in huge floor displays all the time. I don't think that would happen if there wasn't some serious coin to be made. Guys whose names have been on the tip of my tongue for the majority of my natural life are slowly becoming adored literary idols for a new generation of readers. Fuck, I just saw Watchmen sitting on a shelf in Borders in their "Bestsellers" section when I went to buy the Iron Man DVD.
1. Comic book storytelling continues to improve. I see it every week when I read my Wednesday haul of new comics. And at the end of the day, it's all about good content.
Next: The Top 9 Things That May Have Gone Wrong with Last Defenders - Part One
Why the Top 9? Because 10 is too many and 9 is better. 3 X 3 = Awesome. Now that’s what I call math.
The blogosphere is buzzing about Zack Snyder's "faithful" adaptation of the Watchmen mini series into a film. When I say mini series, I mean it. Watchmen is, in fact, a collection of single issues as opposed to an original novel-length work. But "The Most Celebrated Comic Book Mini Series of All Time" isn't as impressive, so I understand why it's universally referred to as a graphic novel. Watching this movie is supposed to be like the comic moving before your eyes (though they already did that with Warner Premiere's Motion Comics and it looks like poop).
Truthfully, it all leaves me feeling cold. If the movie is just a direct adaptation of the comic, then who gives a shit? I already read Watchmen. It was great. I don't need to read it again, let alone sit as a captive audience member for some ungodly length of time in a movie theater. By the way, three fucking hours??! Snyder, are you out of your gourd? I sat thru 2.5 hours of The Dark Poop and I almost screamed in pain after 1.5 hours. If Watchmen is going to be 180 minutes, then split it in half ala Kill Bill so I can go home for a couple months in the middle.
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