tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51220252473774388202024-02-20T21:24:51.023-06:00Event FatigueComic Books, Movies, Sports, and more.Warwick Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471279586974038153noreply@blogger.comBlogger128125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5122025247377438820.post-51995593390072739252010-04-19T13:04:00.001-05:002010-04-19T16:26:12.531-05:00C2E2: My Overview<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqld2eWexlKzIIqPxfwxtvOORWqrH39P9TrBgDdIF7XBwyXUAxdGBAfMcHKHADN5RaJbZ4_qXkeUAZ1vzOmbm_qiOZxBBGwyzXieg1nsaKD-2XWRRUfWH5-EUQLv9a-ikJTVU0Di_wawca/s1600/24179_545914536147_41600404_32134532_3184835_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqld2eWexlKzIIqPxfwxtvOORWqrH39P9TrBgDdIF7XBwyXUAxdGBAfMcHKHADN5RaJbZ4_qXkeUAZ1vzOmbm_qiOZxBBGwyzXieg1nsaKD-2XWRRUfWH5-EUQLv9a-ikJTVU0Di_wawca/s320/24179_545914536147_41600404_32134532_3184835_n.jpg" wt="true" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>It's a funny thing that happens when you are really looking forward to something for a long time. I find that I always build things up so much that it would be impossible for anything to match my level of excitement over something, especially with everything that's happened recently I found that I was projecting even more anticipation at how awesome C2E2 weekend was going to be. I had built it up in my mind so much, there was no possible way that it was going to match or surpass what I expected. <br />
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I was wrong. It was far better than I had ever imagined.<br />
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Yes, there was a lot of standing around in lines waiting to meet people. Yes, there was a large number of people that smelled as if they hadn't showered since the first day of Spring. And yes, there was an inordinate amount of people wearing spandex that should never be allowed to wear spandex. But that is all part of parcel of any and every comic-con, and honestly it's those little touches that makes cons so enjoyably bizarre and fun. But C2E2 stood out because of the atmosphere, the people, and most of all the quality of the show. I've been to numerous conventions before, almost all of them WizardWorld Chicagos from when I was a kid and that convention actually meant something and most recently last year's WizardWorld that was filled with wrestlers, bit players from Twilight, and the usual Star Wars actors that go to every con. I can unequivocally state that C2E2 was the best convention that I have ever been to by far. While there were some great news items announced at the con, which you can read about at a different comic book site, that wasn't waht made this the best con ever for me. And here's just a short list of the reasons why it was the best con:<br />
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-I got to meet 5 of my all-time favorite comic book artists and 3 of my absolute favorite comic book writers and now I have books signed by them that I will always treasure.<br />
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-I spent five minutes talking to the Marvel Editor-in-Chief about pizza, why I think Deep Dish is better than New York style, and where the best place to get pizza in the city is (Gino's East, if anyone is wondering).<br />
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-I got to ask a question at almost every panel I went to, and never felt like an idiot no matter how silly my question was (I was the one who asked where Captain Boomerang's fat went to after getting resurrected. I really want to know why he's suddenly skinny again!)<br />
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-I got to touch the original Batmobile.<br />
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-Ethan Van Sciver, one of my aforementioned favorite artists in comics, sketched a design for a tatoo that I'm going to get in the next year for free, and even gave me tips about what to do for the tatoo.<br />
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-I spent an inordinate amount of money, but it was all worth it for the seven pieces of signed art that will now adorn my apartment, not to mention my sweet ass Flash t-shirt.<br />
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-I got to talk to Alex Ross about living in Chicago and why it is awesome.<br />
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-I spent all day Saturday with my brother, and even though he had an allergy headache and I was exhausted and hungover most of the day, we still had an awesome time hanging out all day.<br />
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-While waiting in line for sometimes an hour or longer to meet people, I started a conversation with the strangers waiting in line with me and always had a fun and positive interaction with them as I realized that comic book fans are always friendly with each other, whether or not you like the same books as each other.<br />
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-I never had a bad time at any of the panels I went to, as there was always this fun, positive energy in the room, particularly at the Brightest Day and the Green Lantern/Flash panels but really at every one.<br />
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-Most importantly, I discovered that my hero and comic book writing legend Geoff Johns is an awesome guy.<br />
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First off, all three days Geoff signed at his own table and every single signing time there was a huge line despite him only being able to be there for an hour at a time. Friday and Saturday he also signed at the DC booth and again there were huge lines every time. On Sunday, the last day of the con, Geoff was only able to sign at his table because of the different panels that he had to be a part of. This was the day that I got my stuff signed by Geoff. Me and David got there at 10:15 for the 11:00 signing, and there was already a huge line that filled up an entire row. They had to stop people from getting in line almost a half hour before the signing was going to start, and even then it wasn't a guarantee that everybody was going to make it through the line. About a half hour/forty minutes into the signing I was a couple people away from the front when I heard one of the volunteers explain to Geoff Johns where they told people that there was no guarantee that they were going to get stuff signed by Geoff, and there was still a bit of a crowd past that point. At this point, Johns told the staff member that he didn't have to be anywhere until after 12:30, and that he was going to stay as long as he could to make sure no one waited in line for nothing. One of the chief architects of the DC Universe, a man recently promoted to be one of the head guys in DC Comics, was sacrificing for the sake of his fans. <br />
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Then, at the Green Lantern/Flash panel, Geoff started it off by asking around at who was the youngest person in the audience, with a bunch of kids that were all around 11 or 12 years old. Johns gave out white rings to them (which you can't get in any stores for another three weeks) and he also gave them signed copies of different issues of Blackest Night. Just because they were kids who came to the panel. When one of the kids who got an issue asked him what happens next to Sinestro, Geoff brought the kid up on-stage and let him read an un-colorized version of Brightest Day #1 (again, not being released to stores for almost a month). <br />
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The panel itself was tons of fun, and even though there wasn't a ton of new info or spoilers, everyone had a great time and there was a real lively feel from everybody there. And then, at the very end of the panel, Johns sat in the room with the fans that hadn't had the opportunity to get their comics signed by him, and he signed some more comics books for still more fans. This may not sound remarkable, but think about it: this guy is one of the most prolific names in the medium and he's just spent the last three days signing thousands of comic books every day for free (I'm sure he gets paid for an appearance, I just mean is that was no charge to the fans for his signature or taking a picture with him), and then on the last day of a long weekend he goes out of his way to sign comics for the unlucky fans that got turned away because there were already so many people. <br />
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Geoff Johns didn't have to do any of this stuff, he could have just worked his signing schedule, appeared at the panel, shook hands with his fans and be done with it. But he didn't. He showed just how much he cares for his fans in one of the classiest appearances I've ever and possibly will ever see from the biggest writing superstar in comic books. <br />
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All too often when we meet our heroes we worry that we've built up this person that we've never met to an unrealistic level, where nothing that they could do would match that which you've projected onto them. In this case, I was lucky that I got to see mine doing the exact same things that got him to this level of popularity; going out of his way to please his fans and make sure that everyone goes home happy. <br />
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There were literally hundreds of reasons why I loved C2E2, but I only need two words to describe to you why this comic-con restored my faith in comic books and has inspired me to get out of the funk I'm in and get everything back on track and better than ever: Geoff Johns. It's a Brightest Day indeed.Warwick Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471279586974038153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5122025247377438820.post-91012631915267250212010-04-13T10:29:00.000-05:002010-04-13T10:29:59.173-05:00C2E2 This WeekendI've been looking forward to this weekend for over 6 months now, but it is finally almost here. The debut of the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo is Friday and it runs through to Sunday. With Geoff Johns, Alex Ross, Steve McNiven, Ethan Van Schiver, Peter Tomasi, Joe Quesada, Garth Ennis, and so many more all going to be in attendance. I'm still a couple weeks away from premiering the new Event Fatigue, but I'm still going to be talking about C2E2 and doing a wrap up of my experience and my review of the con next week. For this week, I'm still very busy getting ready to hit up the con and dealing with the mess that has become my personal life, so this might be the only post before the con. However, I really wanted to do a post about S.H.I.E.L.D #1 (which was one of my favorite first issues of a comic since Thunderbolts #1), so if I have some time tonight I'm going to do that. Hope you guys have a great week, and if you're going to C2E2 then send me a message, I'll be there everyday.Warwick Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471279586974038153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5122025247377438820.post-67771067880694156202010-04-05T16:18:00.000-05:002010-04-05T16:18:58.583-05:00Comic Books I LoveI gotta say that I'm in a much better mood today: the sun's shining, it's opening day, the White Sox won 6-0 against Cleveland, and I finally feel like the old Johnson luck is turning around again and things are going well for me. So, I thought I'd make up for the "Doom and Gloom" of my last post by talking about some comic books that are out now that I absolutely love. Because too often I think I focus on the bad aspects of comics, like the rediculous love affair with the Silver Age at the expense of some of my favorite characters, that I don't spotlight how good comics are. So let's take a minute and do that shall we? Here's some of my current fav's in no particular order:<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Jonathan Hickman's Secret Warriors and Fantastic Four</span></strong>- I'm now a huge Hickman fan. This Wednesday marks the debut of his new ongoing series S.H.I.E.L.D and I couldn't be more excited for it. This guy can flat out write amazing stories that combine continuity with new ideas and layer in rich characters all the way through. Hickman writes possibly the best Nick Fury in comics, and his take on Mr. Fantastic in the first arc of FF was outstanding. Not to mention all of the great work he's done with the titular Secret Warriors, who are my favorite part of the book despite other people's objections to them. The most recent issue where J.T and Daisy go out to eat was just an incredible, sweet, and poignant moment that felt real. Do yourself a favor, if you love Marvel heroes than buy these two titles.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Rick Remender's Last Days of American Crime</span></strong>- The first issue of this just might be my favorite issue of any comic this year, as the deck is already stacked against our main character (no one would ever call him a hero) as he tries to pull one last great heist before a government signal prevents anyone from being able to commit crimes ever again. The art is great, in a gritty and twisted way much like the world itself.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Geoff Johns' Green Lantern</span></strong>- Say what you will about Blackest Night, and I'll have my review of the event as a whole up soon, but this title is consistently one of the best on the stands and now that it can go back to doing what it does best, I think it's really going to take off and soar. GL is always balls out outer space action with a likeable (surprisingly) Hal Jordan and it's got all of the usual Geoff Johns touches throughout. If you're like me, than you consider that a good thing.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Jason Aaron's Wolverine: Weapon X</span></strong>- This is just an amazingly fun and awesome comic book. Aaron is the master at crafting brutal and engaging characters and ideas that are so incredibly bizarre and twisted yet are so well-developed that you can't help but love them. The villains he's faced Wolverine with so far, especially Dr. Rutt, have all been top-notch and the stories themselves are fascinating. Plus, this is the first creator in a LONG time that just flat out gets Wolverine. I reccommend everyone read The List: Wolverine and see just how awesome Aaron is at creating Wolverine stories. You'll fall in love, I guarantee.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead</span></strong>- Who doesn't love zombies? And better than that, this series never lets up for a second, as no character is ever truly safe and you really witness the despair and hopelessness beset the survivors led by Rick Grimes. The most fascinating part of this comic is witnessing the slow death of the survivor's humanity as they give up every tenant of society in order to survive. It really is a chilling look at what this situation would do to someone.<br />
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Those are mine. I love these comics, and I shouldn't get too down about the state of my beloved medium if such terrific series are being produced.Warwick Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471279586974038153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5122025247377438820.post-19848941598921544102010-04-01T15:46:00.000-05:002010-04-01T15:46:13.546-05:00I'm BackHey guys. So I've clearly dropped the ball writing for my own blog that I started. It's been a couple weeks since I've posted anything, except for Pete's reviews going up last week. Now, I'm not the type to whine and complain about stuff in my life so I'm not going to. Shit happens to everybody and sooner or later every person gets knocked down in their life. The big difference between people is whether or not they can pick themselves back up and become stronger after getting knocked out. And that's what I intend to do. <br />
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Some things have happened to me recently in my personal life, almost none of them pleasant except for one potentially amazing thing, but also something happened to me that directly effects this blog: I've become disillusioned. With comic books in general, as honestly most of the books on my pull list I just flat out don't enjoy at all anymore. But, I also became disillusioned with this site, with my own blog, because I realized that I was trying to copy other people's sites and ideas and I wasn't concentrating on making my own stand out. The highlight of my year so far was getting my article on Dark Reign published at the Weekly Crisis, yet nothing I've written for my own site was anything like that article. <br />
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Let's start with the world of comic books though. My pull list up to a month ago was as follows: Dark Avengers, Siege, Blackest Night, Green Lantern, Green Lantern Corps, Secret Warriors. Out of those books, the only title that I really liked reading and really felt like I didn't waste my time or money on was Secret Warriors. Blame it on event fatigue (ha, that's the name of this... never mind), but I just flat out do not give two shits about either of the big events anymore, and thank god that Blackest Night is over with. But, Blackest Night #8 has left me completely at a loss as to why I bother reading comics. <strong>(SPOILERS FOR BLACKEST NIGHT #8) </strong>In this issue, there were several heroes and villains that were dead brought back to life at the end of the issue, including the male Hawk, the original Captain Boomerang, and the original Firestorm. Look, we all knew that Martian Manhunter, Aquaman and Hawkman/girl were all going to be coming back from the dead and I'm totally cool with that, killing J'onn was the dumbest move DC has made even though FC: Requiem was such a terrific issue. But I have a serious problem with Geoff Johns bringing characters back for no reason other than he loves using these characters and loves the Silver Age. Captain Boomerang had his story end in a great, touching way and we saw the mantle passed to his son Owen who had nothing but potential. But, Johns doesn't want to use Owen, he wants Digger so fuck the fans of Owen since they don't matter. Well you know what, I really liked Owen Harkness and I thought that he could've been a really terrific character and I loved his time on the Outsiders and the new Suicide Squad, but it doesn't matter since my opinion doesn't count. It's the same way that I can't read good stories anymore about my two favorite DC characters, Kyle Rayner and Wally West, because every comic is about how AWESOME Hal Jordan and Barry Allen are. That's what Blackest Night #8 boiled down to: Hal and Barry are awesome and save the day, and the Silver Age is the only viable age in the DCU. Now, I can read GL Corps for my Kyle fix, but in the Blackest Night mini (a Green Lantern event mind you) Kyle shows up a grand total of 10 pages in the entire 8 issues. Oh and Wally? He only shows up as Barry's second fiddle and doesn't have his own book or team anymore. <br />
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Frankly, the best comics I've read have been independent comics, some that don't have anything to do with superheroes, or the Rhino story-arc in Amazing Spider-man which I bought because I heard it was so great. So I've decided that I'm cutting the fat and severing all ties to shitty books that make me not want to read another comic. I'm not even going to bother finishing Siege or Dark Avengers, and you better believe I'm staying away from Bendis's Avengers books like the plague after the Heroic Age launches. Instead, I'm going to get the trade for Hickman's Fantastic Four and start buying the issues of that. I'm going to keep buying stuff like Last Days of American Crime and the Boys. I'm not just going to buy things because I've always bought them, and I'm going to make sure that when I buy comic books I buy them because I'll enjoy them and they'll make me happy damn it! And I'm going to buy Hickman' S.H.I.E.L.D book too, because that looks like the best freaking comic ever.<br />
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Now, as for this site. Don't worry, Event Fatigue will still be going and going strong, but I'm not going to be posting every day and will most likely only post once or twice a week. I'm going to put thought into my articles and write about concerns that I have with the comic book industry or pop culture or society in general. I'm going to write mostly opinion and editorial pieces about things that matter to me and things that I want to write about. And I'm going to start writing more plays and even a couple comic book scripts to further that part of my life. Peter will still be reviewing comics, but I'm doing away with most of the features for now, scaling everything back until I'm sure what I want to do. Sometimes you have to tear things down to build something up.<br />
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And that's what I'm doing, throughout my life. I'm commited to building the best things possible and to that end I first have to tear things down. But things will be better because of it. At least I hope so anyway.Warwick Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471279586974038153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5122025247377438820.post-16412821677314234282010-03-25T10:21:00.000-05:002010-03-25T10:21:21.733-05:00Event Fatigue Comic Book Reviews - 3/24Hello Event Fatigue readers. Before I get into my reviews I need to air a grievance I have with a trend very popular in comics(at least the ones I buy anyways). The trend I’m referring to is hero X is fighting villain X and at some point the hero will make some sort of comment about the villain not making any clever quips. This happens in every New Avengers issue and most recently in an issue of Siege. I just can’t stand it, expecially in a situation like Siege, that is supposed to be a dire battle between good and evil. It’s ok not to use the same tired joke in an attempt at humor. On to the reviews.<br />
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</div><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Siege #3</span></strong> <strong>$3.99</strong>- I’m still waiting. That is, waiting to be let down by this series. Already three quarters of the way done, Siege has been an almost perfect event book. Issue three comes in with the same great art Coipel always delivers. This book crams so much into the pages. Cap(original) enters the battle, Iron Man suits up, Thor and Sentry go at it, and Osborn finally stands revealed. Oh and Sentry does something for the second issue…IN A ROW!!! This is the event I’ve been waiting for, and it has things turned up to 11. <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Verdict</span></strong>: Buy 2 because you’ll want to read it again!<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Dark Avengers #15</span></strong> <strong>$3.99</strong>- Seriously weak reveal as to who is the wild card that Osborn has been keeping in his back pocket. However, Bullseye shines as the psycho that he is and proves just how crazy he is by not only accepting his marching orders but executing them(literally). <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Verdict</strong></span>: Because something actually happens in Dark Avengers, it’s worth it.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Ultimate Spider-Man #8</span></strong> <strong>$ 3.99</strong>- Great issue with one big flaw. Spider-Man and his amazing friends get their first battle against the all girl Serpent Society, which delivers both action and comedy. Iceman is starting to stand out with his horny fifteen year old schtick. However the big flaw is that the main character of this arc, Rick Jones, is so annoying. He is whiney in every panel and then his revelation at the end of the issue makes no sense. <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Verdict</span></strong>: Sadly, save your money.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Wolverine Origins #45</span></strong> <strong>$2.99</strong>: PLEASE LET THIS SERIES END. Just crap. Only one interesting twist comes to fruition in this issue, that being that Wolverine was smart enough to have someone else come up with a strategy Romulus wouldn’t expect. Other than that, this issue, like the rest of the series, is a waste of paper. <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Veridct</span></strong>: Unless you’re a glutton for punishment, skip this issue.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">DoomWar #2</span></strong> <strong>$ 3.99</strong>- I was nervous to read this issue only because issue #1 was amazing. By comparison issue wouldn’t be able to hold up, right? Wrong. T’Challa and his forces are in for a fight and Doom gets to showcase a different side of his cruel genius that doesn’t often get seen when he battles the Fantastic Four. Each personality that appears on the page gets fleshed out. Even Nightcrawler gets a moment to tell the reader who he is. An excellent read all around. <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Verdict</span></strong>: Well worth the money!<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Cable #24</span></strong> <strong>$3.99</strong>: If you want a review of this issue, read any other review I have written about Cable. This series is so disappointing. If you’ve read any of the last fifteen issues, you know exactly what is going to happen this issue. <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Veridct</span></strong>: Save your money.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Secret Six #19</span></strong> <strong>$2.99</strong>: Now that the Blackest Night is no longer interfering in the path of this series, Secret Six returns to it’s winning ways. Calariore is the perfect artist for this book. He renders the action well and the personal moments between team members. I love the triangle developing between Ragdoll, Bane, and Black Alice. And the cliffhanger at the end of the issue has me salivating for what’s to come. <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Verdict</span></strong>: Buy, buy, buy!<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">X-Men Legacy #234</span></strong> $2.99: Get me off the Rogue train. Rogue hasn’t been interesting for a very long time, and this series is dedicated to her. Her new role as a teacher has possibilities but it isn’t executed well. Here’s a big problem; Rogue grew up as a poor southern girl raised by Mystique. She joined the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants as a teenager and from there went on to the X-Men. Why the hell is she quoting Descartes? And why does she know so much about Hinduism? Somehow she knows everything. Just dumb. <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Verdict</span></strong>: Spending money on Rogue? Bad.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Green Lantern Corps #46</span></strong>: I used to think Blackest Night was on a good issue bad issue pattern. I was wrong. Blackest Night is a bad event filled with ridiculous moments that make no sense. Just look at this issue of GLC. Ice shows up as a Black Lantern. When did Ice die? A refrigerator shows up in space to taunt Kyle. I understand why that would bring up some emotions, but it’s dumb. The ‘dove bullet’ looks as dumb as it sounds, but you quickly forget how dumb it is when, on the very next page, the ‘Light Brigade’ vomits on the Black Lantern Antimonitor. <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Verdict</span></strong>: Garbage. Give me the money you want to spend on the rest of Blackest Night and I’ll punch you in the forehead and we’ll call it even.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Captain America # 604</span></strong> <strong>$3.99</strong>- Falcon gets to shine in this issue. Brubaker does a great job showing that the Falcon is no chump. The other parts of the issue are sort of generic. I really hope the Falcon’s death isn’t on the horizon, because he is just starting to come into his own. <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Verdict</span></strong>: Worth the price of admission.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">New Avengers # 63</span></strong> <strong>$ 3.99</strong>- Talk about a lopsided issue. The pages dealing with Cage and Jessica are spot on and come off very naturally. But Clint and Bobbi come off as one giant cliché. I hated the Hawkeye/Mockingbird mini because it was so emo. I feel like in this issue of NA, Dashboard Confessional showed up and wrote their pages. <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Verdict</span></strong>: Meh. Take it or Leave it.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Secret Warriors # 14</span></strong> $<strong> 2.99</strong>- Another great issue! Great characterization. J.T gets some life and delivers a beautiful monologue. What I love about this series is that the more is revealed the more questions there are. And not in a ridiculous Lost way. <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Verdict</span></strong>: Always a WOW.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Uncanny X-Men #522</span></strong> <strong>$ 3.99</strong>: I loved this issue. I loved it because Fraction brought back a beloved character, but he didn’t wrap it up neatly. There are consequences of bringing this character back that will have to be dealt with in the future. I really hope that the returned character and her beloved get a shot at happiness for even just an issue. They deserve it. <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Verdict</span></strong>: Great issue. If you like the X-Men, this is a can’t miss!<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Nemesis #1</span></strong> $<strong>2.99</strong>- What a fantastic book with a new concept. Let’s get the obvious out of the way. The art is gorgeous. Was there any doubt that it wouldn’t be? And of course, Millar delivers on the blockbuster action. The truly greatness of this issue comes from Nemesis and Morrow. I wish they belonged to the 616 universe. This story is one we haven’t seen before and everyone should be on board. <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Verdict</span></strong>: Brilliant and Beautiful. Buy this book!<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Green Lantern # 52</span></strong> <strong>$2.99</strong>- Same incoherent lameness as the rest of this series.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Verdict</span></strong>: Forehead punch!Peter Durkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562535839529937672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5122025247377438820.post-53991803233521155462010-03-19T15:56:00.002-05:002010-03-19T15:59:20.245-05:00Malevolent March: Day 19<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHCadltOoGqxdsJla0SPBxALTdI4kTve31m0exIMqy5cF14Ejm0EzK5bH6yEI7u34lTELqgGXoEb4m7QgilN4PalvTsJexip_MF_MQ698DIiJ_vB5xOjjeSQPyt4jx5DTSWNFkShZfSmv6/s1600-h/villain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHCadltOoGqxdsJla0SPBxALTdI4kTve31m0exIMqy5cF14Ejm0EzK5bH6yEI7u34lTELqgGXoEb4m7QgilN4PalvTsJexip_MF_MQ698DIiJ_vB5xOjjeSQPyt4jx5DTSWNFkShZfSmv6/s200/villain.jpg" vt="true" width="146" /></a></div>For the month of March, I'm going to try something new for the blog, so every day I am going to spotlight a different villain from comic books, movies, TV, etc. It's mostly going to be my all-time favorite villains, with some crazy random ones thrown in there for good measure, so check back every day to see the newest villain in Malevolent March!<br />
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I've had what can only be considered the weirdest and most turbulent seven days of my entire life. And I'm beginning to think that I've only reached the tip of the iceberg and shit's about to get real crazy from here on out. One day, I'm going to write a play about this past week but until then I'm afraid I'm just going to have to keep all the insanity bottled up inside me. So, to make myself feel better while maintaining my foray into a month long segment, I present today: Dr. Horrible. <br />
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<em><span style="font-size: large;">Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog</span></em><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Background</span></strong>: Look, I'm really worn out. I'm just going to copy this from <a href="http://www.imdb.com/">IMDB.com</a>: Dr. Horrible is an aspiring villain trying to get into The Evil League Of Evil. He has a blog in which he answers viewers comments to his plans to rule the world. So far things haven't been going so well for Dr. Horrible. But he is working on a new invention, a Freeze Ray, which stops time. When he isn't Dr. Horrible, he's just Billy a shy young man with a big crush on Penny, the girl from the laundromat. His archnemesis is Captain Hammer.<br />
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<object width="320" height="265"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ypp1y9zfAv8&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ypp1y9zfAv8&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"></embed></object>Warwick Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471279586974038153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5122025247377438820.post-18146652414752681322010-03-18T20:09:00.000-05:002010-03-18T20:09:36.836-05:00Malevolent March: Day 18<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIvC7iXFc5w2lFv0a40aSiuCOVso8Pm-BbnDGCTz4aXvm1v1fI4OxAG6wwcruIkzYC_b1wQC42fyRbceUIJJevtzY7vRFmfbxNqWL3e2_OZB6OMuehmPrI6EnNeWQQQlXpjIxCChYCQXKi/s1600-h/villain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIvC7iXFc5w2lFv0a40aSiuCOVso8Pm-BbnDGCTz4aXvm1v1fI4OxAG6wwcruIkzYC_b1wQC42fyRbceUIJJevtzY7vRFmfbxNqWL3e2_OZB6OMuehmPrI6EnNeWQQQlXpjIxCChYCQXKi/s200/villain.jpg" vt="true" width="146" /></a></div>For the month of March, I'm going to try something new for the blog, so every day I am going to spotlight a different villain from comic books, movies, TV, etc. It's mostly going to be my all-time favorite villains, with some crazy random ones thrown in there for good measure, so check back every day to see the newest villain in Malevolent March!<br />
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If you ever enjoyed the TV series Heroes, than you probably only really enjoyed the first season or the second season. The big reason for this? In my opinion it's because since then the best villain and arguably one of the best parts of the whole show started to get really overexposed and outright annoying at certain parts. But, today I want to honor the good parts of this villain, the man who is mostly known only as Sylar. <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Background</span></strong>: Sylar was once just an ordinary watchmaker known as Gabriel Gray. He was just an ordinary guy that dreamed of becoming something extraordinary, something greater than he ever dreamed he could be. Chandra Suresh, a scientist who specialized in discovering people with genetic abilities and trying to help them, discovered Gabriel and started to work with him thinking that Gabriel had these special abilities. But when Dr. Suresh tells him that he doesn't think that Gabriel has powers, Gabriel snaps and discovers that he can take people's powers by killing them and cutting their brains open. From that point on, Gabriel becomes Sylar and seeks out as many people with abilities that he can find in order to steal their powers. In this way, Sylar believes that he can become truly special but only if he steals everyone's powers so he's the only one left.<br />
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-Isaac Mendez: You're late. <br />
Sylar: I guess you know why I'm here. <br />
Isaac Mendez: You're the one who's gonna kill me. <br />
Sylar: That's true. This is usually the part when people start screaming.<br />
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-"I wasn't begging for my life. I was offering you yours."<br />
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-Sylar: It's just... maybe I don't have to be special. That it's okay just to be a normal watchmaker. Can't you just tell me that's enough?<br />
Virginia Grey [Mama Sylar]: Why would I tell you that when I know you could be so much more? <br />
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-"You're not hunting me, Noah. I'm hunting you." <br />
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-"You see me as a monster. And yet you did this to me. And before the night is over, I'm gonna prove to you one by one - that you're all monsters - exactly like me." <br />
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-"You helped to make me into what I am. I just wanted to return the favor." <br />
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-"When I was a kid... I used to wish some stranger would come and tell me my family wasn't really my family. Oh, they weren't bad people, they were just... insignificant. And I wanted to be different. Special. I wanted to change. A new name, a new life. The watchmaker's son... became a watchmaker. It is so... futile. And I wanted to be... important." <br />
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-Mr. Bennet: You'll find your abilities won't work. Not here. You're not going anywhere, Gabriel. <br />
Sylar: My name is Sylar. <br />
Mr. Bennet: Now it is. Wasn't so long ago that you were Gabriel Gray. An insignificant watchmaker. <br />
Sylar: I restored timepieces. You know why I was so good at it? <br />
Mr. Bennet: No, why don't you tell me? <br />
Sylar: Because I can see how things work. What makes them... tick. <br />
Mr. Bennet: Lucky you. We're interested in how things work too. Everyone else we've... met has had only one ability. You've taken on several. <br />
Sylar: Guess it's what makes me special. <br />
Mr. Bennet: It's important to you, isn't it? Being special. <br />
Sylar: It's important to everyone. <br />
Mr. Bennet: I think you're insane. I think the infusion of so many alterations to your D.N.A. has corrupted your mind - all this power is degrading you. <br />
Sylar: And yet, here I am, alive and well and as soon as I get out, I'm gonna collect one more ability from your daughter. Sweet, innocent... <br />
Mr. Bennet: That's enough. <br />
Sylar: ...Ripe, indestructible. <br />
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-"You see yourself as some sort of humanitarian, don't you? A do-gooder. A hero, kidnapping men and women who are different. Do they make you feel powerful? We're quite alike you know. You collect special people. So do I." <br />
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-"We're all at war with ourselves; that's what it means to be human. Trick is figuring out how to be on the winning side." <br />
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-Sylar: Haven't I killed you before? <br />
Peter Petrelli: Didn't take. <br />
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-"I know you don't understand me. But I wanna tell you why I'm helping you. It's that delicious power... You see, when I get my ability back, I'm gonna kill you - and your sister. And then I'm gonna take it all. And if I don't get my ability back, it's not a total loss. Maya's learning quickly. She's a shiny new toy. And she's all mine."Warwick Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471279586974038153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5122025247377438820.post-22815965023128733402010-03-17T19:55:00.001-05:002010-03-17T20:31:34.282-05:00Malevolent March: Day 17 - Single Issue Spotlight<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-_797k8eKTOeqBmAn8lkL18q7mMfLsWNzw_-Vt3N47IvEa5vC50M8RR1nYI_ICYZt4k_d2Y9sm7DqqDSxUwvOKJVtSJT3YO29zlWG-cfuSoRwpHhGK5LSxfmZuT86TtqeZp7eDDvvtPBM/s1600-h/villain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-_797k8eKTOeqBmAn8lkL18q7mMfLsWNzw_-Vt3N47IvEa5vC50M8RR1nYI_ICYZt4k_d2Y9sm7DqqDSxUwvOKJVtSJT3YO29zlWG-cfuSoRwpHhGK5LSxfmZuT86TtqeZp7eDDvvtPBM/s200/villain.jpg" vt="true" width="146" /></a></div>For the month of March, I'm going to try something new for the blog, so every day I am going to spotlight a different villain from comic books, movies, TV, etc. It's mostly going to be my all-time favorite villains, with some crazy random ones thrown in there for good measure, so check back every day to see the newest villain in Malevolent March!<br />
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Today is going to be a special day, as you're getting two features for the price of one! Today was new comic book day, and far and away the best issue that came out this week centered around one of Spider-man's classic villains, The Rhino. Hit the jump for the issue review and the rundown of the Rhino! <br />
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<strong>Background</strong>: Aleksei Sytsevich was a thug for hire working for an Eastern Bloc country. He volunteered to participate in an experiment that bonded a superstrong polymer to his skin and augment strength and speed, the character being given the alias the Rhino. He was a constant thorn in Spider-Man's side, willing to fight him and rob for money whenever the work was available. The Rhino has long been considered one of Spider-Man's dumbest (mentally) villains, but Aleksei has reformed and has his costume removed by spy organization S.H.I.E.L.D. and eventually marries. Sytsevich returns to aid Spider-Man against a new, more brutal Rhino created by Doctor Trauma on behalf of the Russian Mafia. <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Moments from the previous Rhino Story</span></strong>:<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: x-large;">"He never stood a chance, did he?"</span></em></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: x-large;">"Which one?"</span></em></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: x-large;">"Either. Both. Any of us..."</span></em></div>Warwick Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471279586974038153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5122025247377438820.post-39138772505369473162010-03-16T19:44:00.001-05:002010-03-16T19:44:47.374-05:00Malevolent March: Day 16<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSm_wxaMfU3-XD-zav5rTZF_QzXV7lcJFHyyMA6BuPgyUmas-xMS-qsfwVMw47UY1s6OPb6Dw6WwF53OK9mT_UEz_12XIA_gbOuWwDK-a0pue5EufqtGhVAgj6nK-oA9SgcRyvCRolyC-V/s1600-h/villain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSm_wxaMfU3-XD-zav5rTZF_QzXV7lcJFHyyMA6BuPgyUmas-xMS-qsfwVMw47UY1s6OPb6Dw6WwF53OK9mT_UEz_12XIA_gbOuWwDK-a0pue5EufqtGhVAgj6nK-oA9SgcRyvCRolyC-V/s200/villain.jpg" vt="true" width="146" /></a></div>For the month of March, I'm going to try something new for the blog, so every day I am going to spotlight a different villain from comic books, movies, TV, etc. It's mostly going to be my all-time favorite villains, with some crazy random ones thrown in there for good measure, so check back every day to see the newest villain in Malevolent March!<br />
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Today I've going to focus on one of television's greatest villains. He strikes fear into the hearts of his adversaries and will stop at nothing to eliminate the Ventures. Today's villain is of course, The Monarch!<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Background</span></strong>: A supervillain who is affiliated with the Guild of Calamitous Intent, The Monarch is obsessed with destroying who he believes to be his archnemesis- Dr. Rusty Venture. Venture wants almost nothing to do with the Monarch, and thankfully the Monarch is incredibly incompetant and therefore doesn't pose too much of a threat to the Venture family. The Monarch is allied with his wife, Dr. Mrs. The Monarch, and his loyal but inept henchmen who all also dress like butterflies. <br />
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-"You know what's insane? You dated a man who read a book entitled, "The Secret". You know what that "secret" is? Your ex-boyfriend is a loser. Oh, but don't tell anybody... secret." <br />
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-"I don't even feel like taking a whizz on this! I used to DREAM about taking a whizz on this!"<br />
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-The Phantom Limb: Revenge, like gazpacho soup, is best served cold. Precise and merciless.<br />
The Monarch: Yeah, yeah, you can never have enough precision in your soup. <br />
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Hank Venture: [interrupting] The piranha! <br />
The Monarch: No. <br />
Hank Venture: The shark? <br />
The Monarch: No! <br />
Hank Venture: ...The piranha! <br />
The Monarch: NO! And shut up! This isn't a quiz. <br />
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-Baron Ünderbheit: You have to give me this one. I've loathed Venture ever since college. <br />
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The Monarch: Oh, who hasn't, Ünderpants? What makes your case so special? <br />
[Ünderbheit groans, points to his metal jaw] <br />
The Monarch: Wow, you mean he did that? How? <br />
Baron Ünderbheit: Where I come from, a lab partnership is a sacred trust. One is always suppose to look out for one's lab partner. Venture did not. <br />
The Monarch: Fine, fine. But you have to understand you can't waltz into the middle of a delicate, high-stakes chess tournament and yell, "King me!" 'cause he bitched up your face. <br />
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-The Monarch: The usual he threw me in jail. He literally threw me right into the yard of the state prison and he shouts up to the warden, "looks like this one won't be causing any more trouble." Then he flies off with this gay salute <br />
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Dr. Girlfriend: Oh my god<br />
The Monarch: Apparently he's never heard of due process<br />
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-What can I do to Dr. Venture that life hasn't done to him already? <br />
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-Henchman 21: Here is where you are wrong, my friend. This woman has killed before. <br />
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Henchman 24: Allegedly. <br />
Henchman 21: Okay, whatever. But she was a big girl. We are talking about a large, healthy woman of questionable stability.<br />
Henchman 24: Oh, you are totally underestimating the never-say-die scrappiness of a survivor. <br />
Monarch: Hey, guess what? Nobody cares who would win in a crazy fantasy fist-fight between Anne Frank and Lizzy Borden. We never should have brought the henchmen! We're going to be the only ones there with henchmen! I'm gonna have to kill them. Pull over if you see a good spot to dump their bodies!<br />
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-Dr. Venture: You just won't stop, will you? You just keep pushing my buttons. <br />
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Monarch: You're my arch-enemy. That's what I do - it's my thing!Warwick Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471279586974038153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5122025247377438820.post-27671386317041448332010-03-16T16:00:00.000-05:002010-03-16T16:00:00.574-05:00Links You Should Know - 3/16<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIha08KHzrGTFq6pG60ObWjqcqZ0fDBl_-ARBiyOO0Ofd_Z4Z1UK0O4OeDb4UM3HytWd_7p6xh_P_QuGM5hI3jhbPR1EhYHVnG2XRQItVVhsA4-QLGWMWwbXAitc3HXqULk3gFuIwkqBQZ/s1600-h/2links.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIha08KHzrGTFq6pG60ObWjqcqZ0fDBl_-ARBiyOO0Ofd_Z4Z1UK0O4OeDb4UM3HytWd_7p6xh_P_QuGM5hI3jhbPR1EhYHVnG2XRQItVVhsA4-QLGWMWwbXAitc3HXqULk3gFuIwkqBQZ/s200/2links.jpg" vt="true" width="200" /></a></div>Hey, it's 3/16! Happy Stone Cold Steve Austin Day everybody! And anyone who chuckled at that is a wrestling nerd like me. Anyways, dorkiness not withstanding, I want to share with you guys my new favorite website today. It's called Once Upon a Win, and it is filled with epic wins from the 80's and 90's - filled with to the brim with nostalgia for any child of the late 70's/80's. Personally, I get a huge kick out of this stuff and I long for those days, things seem a lot simpler back then they do now. Oh well, relive the memories with this site! It's awesome.<br />
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Today's villain is a souless, ruthless automaton who only wants the destruction of all carbon based life-forms so he can replace us with robots patterned after himself and his own twisted family. He is one of the Avengers greatest villains, due in part to his being created by a founding member of the team. He is Ultron! Hit the jump. <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Background</span></strong>: Created accidentally by Hank Pym in an experiment to create artificial intelligence, Ultron's brain waves were patterned after Pym's own brain, but somewhere along the way Ultron became evil and lost all of Pym's morals and positive traits but kept his intelligence. Ultron now seeks to wipe out all organic life on Earth and the Universe. In Ultron Unlimited by Kurt Busiek and George Perez, Ultron wipes out an entire country, killing all of the inhabitants of Slorenia before the Avengers arrive to lay the smackdown on his robotic ass. But you can't keep a good (evil) robot down, as Ultron returned and took over Tony Stark's body in the first arc of Mighty Avengers, before heading into space and using the Phalanx to conquer the Kree empire in Annihlation: Conquest. Both times, though, Ultron was soundly defeated but you can count on Ultron returning sooner or later to menace the Marvel Universe.<br />
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Today, we're going to revisit another terrific villain from film, one where the performance earned an Academy Award for the performer. This was the performance that finally earned one of the most likeable and consistently great actor's in Hollywood his Best Actor Oscar. It's Denzel Washington's brilliant turn as Alonzo in Training Day. Hit the jump.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Background</span></strong>: Alonzo Harris is one of the premier Narcotics officers in L.A, and he runs a tight unit that pursues drug cases and has a really loose definition of the rules. Alonzo is the worst of them, using fear and manipulation to get whatever he wants from the people that he works with and polices. Alonzo killed a connected Russian mafia guy, and has a million dollar bounty on his head, so he's created a plan to get the money and save his own skin, regardless of the bodies that he leaves in his wake. Alonzo is single-minded in his pursuit of justice, willing to use anyone and everyone even if they are his friends or his enemies. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Great Quotes of Alonzo Harris</strong></span><br />
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-<strong>Jake</strong>: "That man was your friend, and you killed him like a fly."<br />
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<strong>Alonzo</strong>: "Why is he my friend, because he knows my first name? Roger sold dope to kids. The world is a better place without him. This man was the biggest major violator in Los Angeles. This is the game. I'm playing his ass. That's my job. That's your job. I watched that cocksucker operate with impunity for over 10 years, and now I got him. The shit's chess, it ain't checkers. What, we all of a sudden gonna roll up in a black-and-white?"<br />
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-<strong>Alonzo</strong>:"Give me 18 months, I'll give you a career. We're an elite unit. We make the big seizures. We make the big arrests. But if you're in my unit, you gotta be in it all the way or not at all. I thought that you was man enough to face that. I guess I was wrong. Five proven, decorated officers say that you're the shooter. The investigators are gonna want to pull a tube of your blood to check for intoxicants, and what are they gonna find, Jake? Do the math. You've been smoking PCP all day, haven't you?"<br />
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<strong>Jake</strong>: "You've been planning this all day?" <br />
<strong>Alonzo</strong>: "I've been planning this all week, son. You talk that crazy shit, I'll make sure that blood gets to the lab. You wanna walk your baby nuts around the block, you won't make it to the corner, but if you're cool, if you're cool... then you're a hero. You're a virgin shooter above suspicion."<br />
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-"You know I'm surgical with this bitch, Jake. How do you want it, dog? Closed casket? Remember that fool in the wheelchair? How do you think he got there?" <br />
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<strong>Alonzo</strong>: "What's wrong with street justice?"<br />
<strong>Jake</strong>: "Oh, what, so just let the animals wipe themselves out, right?"<br />
<strong>Alonzo</strong>: "God willing. Fuck 'em, and everybody that looks like 'em."<br />
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-"You ain't never killed anybody before, have you? It ain't like steppin' on ants, Jake. It takes a man to kill... you man enough to kill, Jake?"<br />
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</div>-"You gonna bust your cherry killing a cop? You know what you get for that, Jake? The gas chamber. You know what the gas chamber smells like? Pine oil. I'ma send you to a pine oil heaven. I'ma get get that gun and I'ma get that money, and you ain't gon' do shit 'cause you ain't gon' shoot a cop in the back."Warwick Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471279586974038153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5122025247377438820.post-92147735287827031412010-03-13T14:38:00.003-06:002010-03-14T15:40:38.964-05:00Malevolent March: Day 13<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZQuN6a0GT8amDRqEm-L0AIly6OHXvvUNNThgbAKzVBfzESi1LaJ52zjffwQx7R8HZE_SqN8iqb1IdHrmIWayAWxEhekJNBgYsrTF9zM93EPEQoMuJDic5rKk5-Pks0y5IFSm-LWwUIQbO/s1600-h/villain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZQuN6a0GT8amDRqEm-L0AIly6OHXvvUNNThgbAKzVBfzESi1LaJ52zjffwQx7R8HZE_SqN8iqb1IdHrmIWayAWxEhekJNBgYsrTF9zM93EPEQoMuJDic5rKk5-Pks0y5IFSm-LWwUIQbO/s200/villain.jpg" vt="true" width="146" /></a></div>For the month of March, I'm going to try something new for the blog, so every day I am going to spotlight a different villain from comic books, movies, TV, etc. It's mostly going to be my all-time favorite villains, with some crazy random ones thrown in there for good measure, so check back every day to see the newest villain in Malevolent March!<br />
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There are often times when the same villain will show up either in different films (like Hannibal Lecter, Jack the Ripper, etc.) or across different mediums (like vampires who are in books, televison, movies, comic books, etc). But there is one villain who appears in every medium and sooner or later rears it's ugly head to ruin the lives of our protagonists. Who is it? Who could be one of the worst villains in every medium? Who?! I'll tell you who. Hit the jump.<br />
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That's right. And I don't mean like the Secret Society of Super-villains. I mean you and me. I mean an abstraction of a collection of relationships between individuals, usually including distinctive cultural, economic, or political properties and vary greatly in complexity and scope. Today's villain is indeed Society. Think about it: whether it's two star-crossed lovers that can't be together, Swayze wanting to teach an underage girl the beauty of sexy dancing, or Jackie Earl Hayley wanting to jack off on a first date; Society is always there to get in their way. It's the reason why the rich girl can't dance with the handsome kid from the wrong side of the tracks. It's the reason that Mr. Darcy can't be with Elizabeth Bennet, or why Jane Eyre can't be with that dude that keeps his wife chained up in his house (whoops, spoiler alert). Granted, sooner or later they overcome these problems, but you could say that about every villain this month. None of them are ruling the world and doing whatever they want to. But Society is. Sure there's a couple times when the underprivaledged kids band together as one and learn life lessons and defeat the big rich white school in baseball/hockey/karate, but those instances are few and far in between. Society wins most of the time! And it must be stopped! Fuck you Society!!Warwick Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471279586974038153noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5122025247377438820.post-35136451781520594132010-03-12T19:00:00.002-06:002010-03-14T15:39:57.547-05:00Malevolent March: Day 12<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHslJBcEGswNDzySn6pubiNp1NWxBB1D3nmxogi7oDxf3ilSvEiODWovto0PJMOqssqWFXLmeq1oNwKuC7pq1ap0i8mJ-i30sq1hKG9oplAy751WZzcBIMk0Ik8jzy5RmqDX3EPqYQ45gs/s1600-h/villain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHslJBcEGswNDzySn6pubiNp1NWxBB1D3nmxogi7oDxf3ilSvEiODWovto0PJMOqssqWFXLmeq1oNwKuC7pq1ap0i8mJ-i30sq1hKG9oplAy751WZzcBIMk0Ik8jzy5RmqDX3EPqYQ45gs/s200/villain.jpg" vt="true" width="146" /></a></div>For the month of March, I'm going to try something new for the blog, so every day I am going to spotlight a different villain from comic books, movies, TV, etc. It's mostly going to be my all-time favorite villains, with some crazy random ones thrown in there for good measure, so check back every day to see the newest villain in Malevolent March! <br />
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Today, I'm going to shine a light on my favorite villain in the DC Universe. I know that I just did Sinestro recently, and as much as I love Sinestro (which is a lot) today's villain tops him. He's a normal guy who has a high-tech weapon, and a costume that is somehow rediculous and awesome at the same time. He's been a rogue to one of my least favorite DC characters and to one of my absolute most favorite characters ever, and every time he shows up (especially when written by Geoff Johns) than you can bet he's going to do something badass. Today's villain is Captain Cold. <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Background</span></strong>: Raised by an abusive and alcoholic father, Len Snart had a really rough childhood so of course he would one day turn to supervillainy. Snart built a gun that freeze something to Absolute Zero, the point at which molecules no longer move, and he donned a parka and some glasses and become Captain Cold. Cold was one of the chief rogues of Barry Allen's The Flash (blargh) as well as Wally West (Hoo-Ray!!), and is often seen as the leader of the Rogues or at least the guy that keeps them all in check. See, the Flash has one of the best rogues galleries in comic books, plain and simple, because they stick a strict code of how to conduct business. They never kill women, children, or innocents. They don't do drugs. They never kill the Flash cause they know that'll just bring the superheroes after them. Honestly, all the Rogues want is to rob banks and live their lives on their own terms, and maybe knock the Flash around if he gets in their way. Cold sticks to the rules the hardest and makes sure that no one else ever steps out of line, going so far as to beat Mirror Master for doing drugs and getting sloppy. Cold's sense of honor and code are what make him so fascinating, as he isn't a villain for the sake of being evil or hurting others. That's why Cold is the best. Plus, his costume is kinda badass.<br />
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Aside from Stringer Bell, today's villain is quite possibly my favorite from television in recent years. Like some of the best villains (Sylar) this character burned bright but he burned fast, to the point that I worried if he would be able to be sustained as the villain for the show as long as it was on the air. He was, thanks mostly to the terrific performance of Robert Knaepper, who is now trying to single handedly save Heroes, and because, sadly, Prison Break did not last nearly long enough. So here's today's villain from that awesome show: Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell! <br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuqqEU6KO2H7FFMml89y58Uqg3M39hCMjHVIIQLbEiIcY7dQhWMOHN-U0yUafyWmukFO24zBzLklAAmNw7HV8lDKM15YBhOhO_iTH5Ap_7Bjn7Y4atKd2m_XwtWx_xCjtemu4tcNRBLfiZ/s1600-h/594822111_small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuqqEU6KO2H7FFMml89y58Uqg3M39hCMjHVIIQLbEiIcY7dQhWMOHN-U0yUafyWmukFO24zBzLklAAmNw7HV8lDKM15YBhOhO_iTH5Ap_7Bjn7Y4atKd2m_XwtWx_xCjtemu4tcNRBLfiZ/s320/594822111_small.jpg" vt="true" /></a><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Background</span></strong>: A prisoner at Fox River Penetentiary, T-Bag is the worst of the worst. A pedophile, rapist, and murderer while also leading the white supremacy gang in the prison. T-Bag manipulates his way into Michael Scofield's plan to escape from prison with his brother Lincoln, and torments the brothers every step of the way, even long after they've managed to break out at the end of Season 1. T-Bag seeks revenge on a woman that he had fallen in love with, because she had turned him in for all of his crimes and was the reason for him being in Fox River in the first place. T-Bag raises creepiness to a whole new level, and he is completely without morals or scruples. He was the best reason to tune in to watch Prison Break every week.</div><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Best Quotes from T-Bag</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-"So you see "friends"... Either I'm through that hole with you, or I'm gonna sing like Johnny Cash!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-"Hey Bellick, Bellick. I got one for ya. What do you call a piece of white trash, that couldn't pass the cops exam, and now makes less then a mailman? A C.O." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-"Not that hot? [<em>Points to African-American cellmate</em>] When this guy woke up, he was white!"</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-"Just what I thought the piglets are scared of the big, bad wolf!"</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-T-Bag: "The boy's right. My hand says "I can't dig". I'll volunteer to keep her occupied."</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Michael Scofield: "You don't touch her." </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">T-Bag: "Who are you, Sister Mary Francis? I know how to play nice."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Michael Scofield: "I'll be watchin'."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">-"A full house. That's a concept a Mexican should be quite familiar with, hey Jesus?"</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-C-Note: "What the hell is up with you and Thailand, huh?"</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">T-Bag: "Black-market surgery, anonymous transplant donors, hes dressed like shes. What's there not to like?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-"If you shoot me, pretty here will be carrying around 170 pounds of dead Alabama flesh with him. And considering how much you need him to get this little Fibonacci vendetta of yours."</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-"Remember Pretty, I am serving life plus one. So if I get busted for attempted escape, I'ma throw in a homicide, no problem, that's like a parking ticket to me!"</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-"You in there, pretty? I know you're there. Just wanted you to know that I'm coming for you. You've got nowhere to run. You're trapped in that little hole of yours. Trapped like a pig ... that I'm gonna slaughter."</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-"I think that's where you're right... 'Cause when you sent me here... in this place... with these people... it brought that old dirty bastard right back home! Like there was a candle... in the window... just waiting for me to walk up them front steps... You know, I'm going to get out of here someday. And when I do... don't think I won't remember what your front steps look like, Susan."</span>Warwick Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471279586974038153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5122025247377438820.post-12112862870431859802010-03-10T18:07:00.002-06:002010-03-10T18:07:00.079-06:00Malevolent March: Day 10<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhwLA_ibIde9aOc_efj12UIX3tfkPtToHcU9ULCFaW2MQaYxPBxGX_JwkhLFyqCYP8Dk8WghwoOAJCzThHcBNWoRSjlTbPkqNRof8irp8AwB4Gs4sBKezc4X59Rr9FnhvI8cYqsx8vXA3g/s1600-h/villain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhwLA_ibIde9aOc_efj12UIX3tfkPtToHcU9ULCFaW2MQaYxPBxGX_JwkhLFyqCYP8Dk8WghwoOAJCzThHcBNWoRSjlTbPkqNRof8irp8AwB4Gs4sBKezc4X59Rr9FnhvI8cYqsx8vXA3g/s200/villain.jpg" vt="true" width="146" /></a></div>For the month of March, I'm going to try something new for the blog, so every day I am going to spotlight a different villain from comic books, movies, TV, etc. It's mostly going to be my all-time favorite villains, with some crazy random ones thrown in there for good measure, so check back every day to see the newest villain in Malevolent March! <br />
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If you just started reading comic books in the last year or so, then you would think that the Dark Avenger currently known as Hawkeye was the biggest pushover/punching bag in all of the Marvel Universe. But once, a long time ago it feels like, that man was once the most feared and badass assassain, the right hand man to the Kingpin back when that name actually meant something. Today's villain is one of my all-time favorites, Bullseye! <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Background</span></strong>: A sick, twisted, and psychotic sociopath. Bullseye only takes delight in causing pain in others, with the main source of his fixation usually being Daredevil. Bullseye has almost superhuman aim and can turn ordinary objects like playing cards, paper clips and pecils into lethal weapons. Bullseye was the chief assassain for the Kingpin before he was sent to prison by Daredevil and was replaced by Elektra. After Bullseye escaped, he got his revenge on Elektra for taking his place (shown below) in one of the most iconic showdowns in comic book history. Bullseye would kill another one of Daredevil's girlfriends in Kevin Smith's Guardian Devil storyarc, when he impaled Karen Page with one of DD's billy clubs. Daredevil did eventually get him back, breaking Bullseye's back and shattering a good number of his bones, but Bullseye was outfitted with Adamantium grafted onto most of his bones, making him an even more dangerous and unstoppable force. Bullseye is currently taking orders from Osborn and getting beaten up every week as a Dark Avenger, but soon Osborn will be out and my boy Bullseye will go back to being a force to be feared once again.<br />
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All that said, here's a hilarious cartoon my friend Bordson showed me at her Oscar party. I guess this comes from some guy was tripping on acid and commentating while his friends channel surfed, so they recorded it and animated what was going on. It's really freaking funny, and NSFW. <br />
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Turning my attention back to comic books today, I'm going to be featuring probably my favorite villain in comics right now. He was once not only considered a hero, but one of the greatest heroes in the Universe. Now, his name strikes fear into the hearts of his own people. He started a powerful Corps and named it after himself, in an effort to ensure order and prevent Chaos from spreading throughout the universe. Let's here it for Sinestro!<br />
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</div><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Background</span></strong>: Thaal Sinestro was once hailed as the greatest Green Lantern, restoring order to his planet Korugar and to all of Space Sector 1417 despite being a seemingly impossible task. Sinestro was best friends with Abin Sur, Hal Jordan's predecessor, and when Sur was killed Sinestro met and trained Hal Jordan and the two of them brought his murderer Atrocious to justice. Sinestro and Hal became friends, and after Hal agreed to visit Sinestro's home world he discovered that Sinestro had been ruling his Space Sector with an iron fist and turned the Green Lantern symbol into something to be feared. Hal defeated his friend and mentor, after which Sinestro became the first renegade Green Lantern and force to be feared in the universe. Sinestro bonded the Fear Entity Parallax onto Hal Jordan almost causing the destruction of the Green Lantern Corps, and years later he formed the Sinestro Corps who wield the yellow light of fear of the emotional spectrum in an effort to strengthen the GLC. Sinestro is one of those villains who do truly evil things for what they believe to be completely just and righteous reasons.<br />
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Today's villain is one of the best villains from one of the best shows in TV history. A cold and calculating man, he went from being a strong right hand man to running the biggest drug trade in Baltimore. Hit the jump for the villain! <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">Russell "Stringer" Bell - <em>The Wire</em></span></strong><br />
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Background: Jimmy McNaulty's archnemesis. Stringer Bell was best friend and number 2 to Avon Barksdale, the drug kingpin of the west side of Baltimore. Stringer and Avon have been friends since childhood, and they run an incredibly tight and well-thought out drug empire. Bell is incredibly well-read and has a thorough knowledge of business, but he has no morals and is willing to do anything to protect himself and his territory. Quick SPOILER Warning from here on out, so if you wanna see The Wire, stop reading now. After Avon goes to prison, Stringer takes over running the West Side and ruthlessly takes out any threats to his power, even going so far as having a 15 yr. old kid murdered for fear of him turning snitch. But even that can't compare to when he hires a thug to have Avon's cousin D'Angelo murdered in jail. Stringer is cold as ice, but some of the funniest moments from the Wire have stemmed from his struggles to make their drug dealers more like business men, going so far as establishing Robert's Rules of Order for their meetings. Bell's ruthlessness is portrayed brilliantly by Idris Elba, one of the best actor's in Hollywood today in my opinion and I hope he starts doing some really great films, and not just stuff like Obsessed.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-"While back, I took a stroll through the pit. I saw that kid we got running things down there, uh, Poot. Now, he got the cell phone I gave him for the business, right there on his hip. But, the nigga got another cell phone that only rang when the pussy called. Now, if this no-count nigga got two cell phones, how the fuck you gonna sell any more of them motherfuckers? That's market saturation."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">- Stringer: "Yo, Rock."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Shamrock: "Huh?"</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Stringer: "Be subtle with it, man. You know what subtle means?"</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Shamrock: "Laid back and shit."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Shamrock: "Robert Rules say we gotta have minutes for a meeting, right? These the minutes."</span><br />
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With the Academy Awards tonight, I'm going to spotlight the villain who is more than a lock to win Best Supporting Actor, making it the third villain in 3 years (after Anton Chigurh and the Joker) to win that award. Today's villain is the Academy Award nominated performance by Christoph Waltz for Col. Hans Landa. Hit the jump for the villain.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Great Quotes of Hans Landa:</span></strong><br />
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-"What a tremendously hostile world that a rat must endure. Yet not only does he survive, he thrives. Because our little foe has an instinct for survival and preservation second to none... And that Monsieur is what a Jew shares with a rat."<br />
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</div>-<strong>Col. Hans Landa</strong>: [giddy] That's a bingo! Is that the way you say it? "That's a bingo?" <br />
<strong>Lt. Aldo Raine</strong>: You just say "bingo". <br />
<strong>Col. Hans Landa</strong>: Ahhh! BINGO! How fun! But, I digress. Where were we? <br />
-<strong>Col. Hans Landa</strong>: What's that English saying about shoes and feet? <br />
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<strong>Lt. Aldo Raine</strong>: "Looks like the shoe's on the other foot." Yeah, I was just thinking that. <br />
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-"I love rumors! Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing." <br />
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-"I have no doubt, and yes, some Germans will die, and yes, it will ruin the evening, and yes, Goebbels will be very, very, very mad at you for what you've done to his big night. But you won't get Hitler, you won't get Goebbels, you won't get Goering and you won't get Bormann. And you need all four to end the war. But if I don't pick up that phone right there, you may very well get all four. And if you get all four, you end the war... tonight. So, gentlemen, let's discuss the prospect of ending the war tonight." <br />
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-<strong>Col. Hans Landa</strong>: 'Jew Hunter'? It's just a name that stuck. <br />
<strong>Pfc. Smithson Utivich</strong>: Well, you do have to admit, it is catchy. <br />
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-<strong>Lt. Aldo Raine</strong>: You know, where I'm from... <br />
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<strong>Col. Hans Landa</strong>: Yeah, where is that, exactly? <br />
<strong>Lt. Aldo Raine</strong>: Maynardville, Tennessee. Up 'ere, when you engage in what the federal government calls "illegal activity" but what we call "a man tryin' to make a livin' for his family sellin' moonshine liquor," it behooves oneself to keep his wits. Long story short, we hear a story too good to be true... it ain't. <br />
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Once again, today we've got a villain from film who earned the actor portraying them an Academy Award. Today's villain is considered one of the best in history, even beating out Darth Vader to be #1 on the AFI's Top 50 villains list. Here's Anthony Hopkins' award winning turn as Hannibal Lecter. Hit the jump for the villain. <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">Dr. Hannibal Lecter</span></strong><br />
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</div><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Background</span></strong>: Lecter is a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer, who takes a sick pleasure from tormenting law enforcement officers with riddles and games. While imprisoned for his crimes, Lecter has helped the FBI track down two serial killers, Buffalo Bill and The Tooth Fairy, but he primarily agreed to help so he could manipulate and mess with Clarice Starling and Will Graham, the latter of which was the man resposible for arresting Lecter in the first place. Lecter falls in love with Clarice during Silence of the Lambs, after helping her in exchange for her telling him about her childhood nightmares and fears. Lecter is different from some of the other villains this month in that he is incredibly charming and sophisticated, yet completely ruthless and bloodthristy. He's been shown cooking pieces of someone's brain while they are still alive and watching him eat it. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-<strong>Hannibal Lecter</strong>: "Why do you think he removes their skins, Agent Starling? [sarcastically] Enthrall me with your acumen."</span> <br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Clarice Starling</strong>: "It excites him. Most serial killers keep some sort of trophies from their victims."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Hannibal Lecter</strong>: "I didn't."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Clarice Starling</strong>: "No. No, you ate yours." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-<strong>Clarice Starling</strong>: "Where are you, Dr. Lecter?"</span> <br />
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We continue our march to the Academy Awards by spotlighting great villains that have won Oscars. Today is one of my favorite villains, from an absolutely terrific film that I think is often overlooked in regards to the 1990's. Today's villain is old West monster, someone who ran his town with an iron fist. Today's villain: Little Bill Daggett. Hit the jump. <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Background</span></strong>: Played brilliantly by the always great Gene Hackman, Little Bill is the sheriff of Big Whiskey and he rules the town with an iron fist and metes out harsh justice to those when he sees fit. He beats Richard Harris' gunfighter character severely for coming to his town to collect a bounty on cowboys who cut up a hooker. Little Bill is obsessed with his twisted version of law and order to the point that it becomes a perversion of itself, and he doesn't care when women's lives are threatened or when innocents get harmed because of his actions. When Eastwood's William Munny and Morgan Freeman's Ned Logan finally bring the cowboys to justice, Little Bill tortures and kills Logan and proudly displays his corpse as a warning to any other hired gun that would dare come to his town and subvert his authority. Little Bill excels at playing psychological games with his enemies, saying anything he can to get under their skin. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-"Look son, being a good shot, being quick with a pistol, that don't do no harm, but it don't mean much next to being cool-headed. A man who will keep his head and not get rattled under fire, like as not, he'll kill ya. It ain't so easy to shoot a man anyhow, especially if the son-of-a-bitch is shootin' back at you."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-"All right, gentlemen. He's got one barrel left. When he fires that, take out your pistols, and shoot him down like the mangy scoundrel he is!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-"I guess you think I'm kicking you, Bob. But it ain't so. What I'm doing is talking, you hear? I'm talking to all those villains down there in Kansas. I'm talking to all those villains in Missouri. And all those villains down there in Cheyenne. And what I'm saying is there ain't no whore's gold. And if there was, how they wouldn't want to come looking for it anyhow."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-<strong>Little Bill Daggett</strong>: "It's been a long time, Bob. You run out of Chinamen?" </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>English Bob</strong>: "Little Bill, well I thought you was, well I thought that you were dead. I see you've shaved your chin whiskers off."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Little Bill Daggett</strong>: "I was tasting the soup two hours after I ate it."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>English Bob</strong>: "Well, actually, what I heard was that you fell off your horse, drunk of course, and that you broke your bloody neck."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Little Bill Daggett</strong>: "I heard that one myself, Bob. Hell, I even thought I was dead 'til I found out it was just that I was in Nebraska."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-"I suppose you know, Bob, if I ever see you again I'm just going to start shooting and figure it was self-defense."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-"You been talking about that Queen of yours, again, Bob? On Independence Day?"</span>Warwick Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471279586974038153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5122025247377438820.post-25543394613194327162010-03-04T15:40:00.001-06:002010-03-04T15:41:51.134-06:00Malevolent March: Day 4<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMtN0dbQ3JCuGCtsDHF47hleSl80vxQg9GFcceNuI8J7Lns2l2UbIE86YhJHrRmxVAMWDkp1ce9MIiGTa4uZJkneTA1MrP9DCHr_CpGI38sZm2HvoyAMpcxOamTLYqiwfXXxZS5IhYPZy_/s1600-h/villain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMtN0dbQ3JCuGCtsDHF47hleSl80vxQg9GFcceNuI8J7Lns2l2UbIE86YhJHrRmxVAMWDkp1ce9MIiGTa4uZJkneTA1MrP9DCHr_CpGI38sZm2HvoyAMpcxOamTLYqiwfXXxZS5IhYPZy_/s200/villain.jpg" width="146" /></a></div>For the month of March, I'm going to try something new for the blog, so every day I am going to spotlight a different villain from comic books, movies, TV, etc. It's mostly going to be my all-time favorite villains, with some crazy random ones thrown in there for good measure, so check back every day to see the newest villain in Malevolent March! <br />
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Continuing our look at villains that have won the Academy Award, we look back today at another recent villain, someone who is more of a force of nature than just a regular human being. In fact, in the original book from which the character comes from, it is greatly implied that he almost takes on the same attributes as Death. Today's villain: Anton Chigurh. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-<strong>Chigurh</strong>: You need to call it. I can't call it for you. It wouldn't be fair. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Gas Station Proprietor</strong>: I didn't put nothin' up. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Anton Chigurh</strong>: Yes, you did. You've been putting it up your whole life you just didn't know it. You know what date is on this coin? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Gas Station Proprietor</strong>: No. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Anton Chigurh</strong>: 1958. It's been traveling twenty-two years to get here. And now it's here. And it's either heads or tails. And you have to say. Call it. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Gas Station Proprietor</strong>: Look, I need to know what I stand to win. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Anton Chigurh</strong>: Everything. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Gas Station Proprietor</strong>: How's that? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Anton Chigurh</strong>: You stand to win everything. Call it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>-Anton Chigurh</strong>: And you know what's going to happen now. You should admit your situation. There would be more dignity in it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Carson Wells</strong>: You go to hell. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Anton Chigurh</strong>: Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Carson Wells</strong>: Do you have any idea how goddamn crazy you are? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Anton Chigurh</strong>: You mean the nature of this conversation? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Carson Wells</strong>: I mean the nature of you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>-Llewelyn</strong>: If I was cuttin' deals, why wouldn't I go deal with this guy Chigurh? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Carson Wells</strong>: No no. No. You don't understand. You can't make a deal with him. Even if you gave him the money he'd still kill you. He's a peculiar man. You could even say that he has principles. Principles that transcend money or drugs or anything like that. He's not like you. He's not even like me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>-Anton Chigurh</strong>: So this is what I'll offer - you bring me the money and I'll let her go. Otherwise she's accountable, same as you. That's the best deal you're gonna get. I won't tell you you can save yourself, because you can't.</span>Warwick Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471279586974038153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5122025247377438820.post-79654468204655953682010-03-04T08:34:00.000-06:002010-03-04T08:34:34.521-06:00Event Fatigue Comic Book Reviews - 03/03<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDInACOGX3KM4Z3oGiWTT-F_lN2WC1uRkS1LJkJlEsUqEPIUi6lKuBblghj80YuoTTLtMw1gr9MrKADhj-WYUgoUnZ1jzg7Wz0ZGajR9_JxlrcpLuk4lcnnGCeD4DC7Ficq00VdlbyC2E/s1600-h/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDInACOGX3KM4Z3oGiWTT-F_lN2WC1uRkS1LJkJlEsUqEPIUi6lKuBblghj80YuoTTLtMw1gr9MrKADhj-WYUgoUnZ1jzg7Wz0ZGajR9_JxlrcpLuk4lcnnGCeD4DC7Ficq00VdlbyC2E/s320/images.jpg" /></a></div>All right readers, I’m sorry I’m late on reviews. That said I have a ton of books to get to, so let’s quit wasting time and get on to the relief.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Secret Warriors # 13</strong></span> <strong>$ 2.99</strong>: Hickman and Caselli do so much with so little. Each charcter in this series gets a few pages at the most to shine and every issue they do. Without fail every character that shows up is a fully formed person in this Secret Warriors universe. Sure, this series is lots of talking heads. Could it use two issues of revealing secrets and what code words mean and a couple pages of just knock down drag out fighting? Hell yea! But Hickman and Caselli are building to something and they are doing a fantastic job of getting there. Remember life’s a journey not a destination. Except for one Secret Warrior. He gets booted. And even that is done perfectly. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Transformers #4</strong></span> <strong>$3.99</strong>: Thundercracker just became one of the most well rounded personalities in all of comicdom. I know, who’s Thundercracker? Always relegated as ‘one of the jets’, Thundercracker is one of three Seekers. (the others being Starscream and Skywarp). This issue delves into Thundercracker’s mind. We find out that he is more than a soldier, but a warrior. This issue gives great insight into the mindset of the Cybertronian Civil War. If only every robot could get this treatment. Elsewhere, Autobots are being naïve and Decepticons are deceiving. I have been cold on this series until this issue. Hopefully this is a sign of better things to come. Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Verdict: Worth it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Verdict: Worth it for the French bashing alone.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Weapon X # 11</span></strong> <strong>$3.99</strong>: Jason Aaron puts out another issue that proves he understands how to write the Wolverine mythos. He examines how Logan has dealt with losing a comrade and how he is dealing with the resurrection of said comrade. This issue also gives the reader a glimpse of the friendships he has with two teammates. The best part of the whole issue is that all this wonderful character building happens during a bar crawl. Perfect. I’m hesitant about the developing plot since it involves time travel, but am salivating at the prospect of a Wolverine-Nightcrawler-Captain America team up. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Verdict: Pay up!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Verdict: Just barely worth it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>X-Men Legacy #233</strong></span> <strong>$2.99</strong>: I don’t like Rogue. She has bored me to tears for the last several years. However, Destiny is written well as are Magneto and Proteus. The art is good but not awe inspiring. This issue is just sort of there. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Verdict: Take it or leave it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Verdict: Meh</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Uncanny X-Men # 521</strong></span> <strong>$2.99</strong>: Fantomex stands out and does it in style. However, generic nobody villains take away from his heroism. The other plot developments are very interesting and Fraction continues to juggle the X-verse deftly. As always, Greg Land was put on this Earth to draw the X-Men. <br />
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Verdict: Worth the price of admission.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Captain America # 603</strong></span> <strong>$3.99</strong>: After the reborn debacle, I was worried whether or not Brubaker had lost his touch with Cap. Fears assuaged. Brubaker not only writes BuckyCap well, he handles crazy 50's Cap with respect, turning him from run of the mill psychopath, to a bad guy with a brain for strategy. And a worthy opponent makes for exciting reads. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Verdict: Worth it.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2009/346/5/9/Secret_Six_18___Blackest_Night_by_adonihs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" kt="true" src="http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2009/346/5/9/Secret_Six_18___Blackest_Night_by_adonihs.jpg" width="210" /></a></div><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Secret Six #18</span></strong> <strong>$2.99:</strong> Secret Six is a casualty of Blackest Night. The crossover seems forced and if not for Simone’s perfect characterization, this book would be a dud. Deadshot shines, but the rest of the book lacks the usual fun and wickedness I associate with the Secret Six. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Verdict: Worth it, but only out of loyalty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Blackest Night The Flash #3</strong></span> <strong>$2.99</strong>: Blue lanterns are confusing and Flash history even more so. If not for Captain Cold and the Rogues part in this series, this book would never make it onto my pull list. However, I love Scott Kolins art and the Rogues are such great villains. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Verdict: Lucky it’s only $2.99</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Invincible Iron Man # 24</strong></span> <strong>$2.99</strong>: Yes! The fever dream is over! No! Ghost gets punked by Pepper Potts and …a cell phone? Interesting way to end the issue. This was good in the sense that I can’t wait to see where the series goes from this point on. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Verdict: Sure, I’ll say worth it.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i.newsarama.com/images/124_ultimate_comics_new_ultimates_1a_02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" kt="true" src="http://i.newsarama.com/images/124_ultimate_comics_new_ultimates_1a_02.jpg" width="223" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>New Ultimates #1</strong></span> <strong>$3.99</strong>: NOOOOOOOO!!!! Jeph Loeb writing the Ultimates again. This can’t be good. Well. It’s not terrible. Thor has an interesting dilemma as does Tony Stark. The art is beautiful. Kazar and Shanna = Lame. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Verdict: Can’t believe it, but this issue is worth the price of admission</span>.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">New Avengers # 62</span></strong> <strong>$3.99:</strong> Hey, do you have one of the last twenty or so issues of New Avengers? If so, you don’t need to buy this issue, because the same shit happens…again. $3.99. You’ve got to be kidding me. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Verdict: Save your money.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Flash Rebirth #6</strong></span> <strong>$2.99</strong>: I can name three of the seven people on the cover of this book. Of those three people, all of them are the Flash. If that sounds confusing, then this series is not for you. It was not for me. The art was great and you can feel Geoff Johns’ heart in every word written, but if you aren’t a Flash scholar and you don’t really understand time travel and the speed force, how can you understand this series. I didn’t. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Verdict: Sadly, save your money.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Verdict: Save your money and bail on this series.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Dark Avengers #14 </span>$3.99</strong>: Sentry goes crazy and Norman Osborne talks him down. Victoria Hand steps up and shows some backbone. Lindy is scared. This is a repeat of the last issue with different art. Again, NOTHING HAPPENS! Bullseye gets some great moments but come on Bendis. Write something that actually happens. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Verdict: Save your money.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Green Lantern #51</span></strong> <strong>$2.99</strong>: Parallax doesn’t even last the whole issue and is defeated by, wait for it, tug of war! The Spectre becomes a red lantern for no reason. And…nothing happens! Notice a trend. This issue is just garbage. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Verdict: Save your money.</span><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Green Lantern Corps #45</strong></span> <strong>$2.99</strong>: The Guy problem should have been resolved an issue ago. Instead of creating a more three dimensional character, this red ring business did just the opposite. The two rings dumbed Guy down to a man who is either raging or gunslinging. No in between. And the worst part of the issue was the Mogo bath of life. Terrible. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Verdict: Save your money. </span><br />
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<em><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Want a second opinion on Blackest Night #7? Check out Warwick's <a href="http://eventfatigue.blogspot.com/2010/02/single-issue-spotlight-blackest-night-7.html">Single Issue Spotlight</a>.</strong></span></em></div>Peter Durkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04562535839529937672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5122025247377438820.post-2555859945540688932010-03-03T16:08:00.007-06:002010-03-03T16:08:00.806-06:00Malevolent March: Day 3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwYoh3W8kmz-XZQrIowyZvtowzqnTeNxOYAJhJmg4cPa_zO5tI5zfRbkWPildYIJZ4_489P-k_8pUEunA9KiHHeu2OOTSf4V-AxENglrJPwCaaJRKMj9eBi57WvFsfYJaeIViOVFYFQGcp/s1600-h/villain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwYoh3W8kmz-XZQrIowyZvtowzqnTeNxOYAJhJmg4cPa_zO5tI5zfRbkWPildYIJZ4_489P-k_8pUEunA9KiHHeu2OOTSf4V-AxENglrJPwCaaJRKMj9eBi57WvFsfYJaeIViOVFYFQGcp/s200/villain.jpg" width="146" /></a></div>For the month of March, I'm going to try something new for the blog, so every day I am going to spotlight a different villain from comic books, movies, TV, etc. It's mostly going to be my all-time favorite villains, with some crazy random ones thrown in there for good measure, so check back every day to see the newest villain in Malevolent March! <br />
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Because the Academy Awards are this Sunday, and the Best Supporting Actor Oscar is going to go to someone playing a villain for the third time in three years, I've decided to feature famous villains who's performances have won Oscars. Today, it's a villain who is from both comics and film, and is the most recent villain to have an Academy Award. This should be pretty easy to figure out. Hit the jump for the Joker. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>The Dark Knight</em> (2008)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Background</strong></span>: The Dark Knight followed the comic books and chose to ignore the Joker's origin and instead just depict him as he is, a sociopathic force of nature that is only interested in watching the world burn around him. The Joker has long been an interesting a compelling figure solely because he is the counter-point to Bruce Wayne's Batman: While Batman is the master detective and will do anything he can to figure out the world around him, the Joker is pure and unbridled Chaos who almost solely exists in order to confound the Dark Knight. While Bruce is torn between his private life as Bruce Wayne, his public life as Bruce, and his life as Batman; the Joker is only the Joker, with no secret identity to occupy the time he is not tormenting the citizens of Gotham. All great heroes need a polar opposite, and that is what the Joker is for Batman: the Yin to his Yang.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong>Greatest Quotes of the Joker (Dark Knight):</strong></span><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">-"I believe whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you... Stranger."</span></div><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">-"And... here… we... go!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-"I took Gotham's white knight and I brought him down to our level. It wasn't hard. You see, madness, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little push!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-"Do you want to know why I use a knife? Guns are too quick. You can't savor all the... little emotions. In... you see, in their last moments, people show you who they really are. So in a way, I know your friends better than you ever did. Would you like to know which of them were cowards?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-"People will die, starting tonight. I'm a man of my word."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-"I don't want to kill you! What would I do without you? Go back to ripping off mob dealers? No, no, NO! No. You... you... complete me."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-"Don't talk like one of them. You're not! Even if you'd like to be. To them, you're just a freak, like me! They need you right now, but when they don't, they'll cast you out, like a leper! You see, their morals, their code, it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these... these civilized people, they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-"You and your kind, all you care about is money. This city deserves a better class of criminal. And I'm gonna give it to them!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-"Look what I did to this city with a few drums of gas and a couple of bullets. Hmmm? You know... You know what I've noticed? Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all "part of the plan." But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds! Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos. Oh, and you know the thing about chaos? It's fair!"</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR8OoTUiHrst63vbZWUtORTG1lcoSfeiq0_h7KYOlvnqzOkGnWHy0W9sKk99mu9qxi3LQTLB9RK0qT04N53n9MKie5EKodj3lepVAF0X6EjzneWERKFR7huKCp57OVuFIxnmpw6SzoC5ON/s1600-h/the-dark-knight_the-joker_why-so-serious.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR8OoTUiHrst63vbZWUtORTG1lcoSfeiq0_h7KYOlvnqzOkGnWHy0W9sKk99mu9qxi3LQTLB9RK0qT04N53n9MKie5EKodj3lepVAF0X6EjzneWERKFR7huKCp57OVuFIxnmpw6SzoC5ON/s320/the-dark-knight_the-joker_why-so-serious.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">-"Wanna know how I got these scars? My father was... a drinker. And a fiend. And one night he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself. He doesn't like that. Not-one-bit. So - me watching - he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it! Turns to me, and he says, "why so serious, son?" Comes at me with the knife... "Why so serious?" He sticks the blade in my mouth... "Let's put a smile on that face!" And... Why so serious?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">-<strong>Alfred</strong>: "<em>Some men can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn</em>."</span>Warwick Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11471279586974038153noreply@blogger.com0