Sunday, July 02, 2006

Why?

You know, I want to know why Ebert and Loder (of ALL people, who died at MTV and made that bag of bones a movie reviewer?) are completely down on Superman. It's starting to piss me off.

Kids, it's a comic/action flick. It is 99.999% not going to be an Oscar contender. We, the comic geekful, are not going to go and watch it expecting a performance on par with (insert Academy Award Winner here). There will be those comic purists who will be outraged by something non-canonical as well; big deal, it's a fucking MOVIE version.

Take it for what it is: a damn hot, strapping young man in blue tights who delivers his lines decently and with a decent plot and kick ass action sequences. Grab the popcorn!

I feel bad for Supes. A real nice dude (except for when you left Lois for five years, you jackass), saves the world a lot...and he's always alone.

Personally? I want another Superman movie in the works like now. And when is Lois going to wise up that Supes is Clark? Eh?

Now, a question/comment directed to Sullivan. I'd like to read more DC stuff, like Superman or Wonder Woman, but why do they make it so damn difficult by publishing 50 frikkin different Superman, Batman, etc., etc., etc., titles, all with different histories, retcons, whatever?! It's like why get invested? I'm trying to jump on board the new Wonder Woman volume but I've got my doubts. How long until they just pull some other "Infinite Crisis" and cancel/reboot again? It's too hard to keep this shit straight.

1 comments:

m said...

OK

First, reboot. Things are in good workable shape after Infinite Crisis, which didn't really reboot at all...all it did was tweak a couple of things here and there. The changes are VERY subtle for the most part. I doubt YOU specifically (or a casual DC reader generally) wouldn't really be able to pin down a change in continuity.

The single biggest change is that the murder of Thomas and Martha Wayne was identified and captured, whereas since 1986 it was the opposite). That's not something you need to know to get into Batman.

Yes, get on Wonder Woman, the first issue is great and everything you need to get caught up on events in that character's world is exposited in that issue. You'll dig it. Good starting point.

Batman and Detective will very shortly begin runs with their new permanent writers (like in the next month) Grant Morrison on Batman (and it's going to be crazy) and Paul Dini on Detective (he'll be doing done-in-one stories I believe). I have reason to believe I won't like Dini's stuff, in fact I expect I will, but Morrison is a MUST READ. Once they are started, i don't think there will be crossing back and forth going on, so read one or read both.

Superman...not really reading him, so...eh...

I know a few people who are reading 52 without a lot of DC knowledge and are enjoying and finding it to be a crash course in DC (even has informative back-ups in it).

It's 8 weeks in, spend the 20 bucks and get caught up now and you'll have something new to read every damn week for the next 10 months.

And next time your in DL, take down the first Manhunter trade and sit at the table and read the first issue, see if you dig it. Charlie hassles you, kick him in the shins.

Now, it's been a long weekend at HCon, so do as you're fucking told.


New Justice League starts soon too, probably a good place to start there