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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2015 9:08:04 GMT -5
I for one have never gotten the Ewok hatred. You even hate Wicket? I think I always kinda liked them because I was the perfect age for it. Return of the Jedi was the first Star Wars film I vividly remember seeing in the theater at 5 or 6 in 1983. What if they came up with a bad-ass Ewok bounty hunter with an attitude -- the kind that shoots first and asks questions later -- that's addicted to spice and has a gambling problem? I was in my early 20s when the 3rd Star Wars film came out and I loathed, really really loathed, the Ewoks - it was a standing joke in my circle at the time that the film's title was a typo which was supposed to have read "Return of the Teddy". There's a school of thought on this side of the Atlantic that thinks that American film & network TV makers can't see any script* without thinking it could be improved by adding a cutesy kid, a funny robot, a schmaltzy heart-warming ending or some syruppy morality tale: eg Ewoks (who I hated on sight), C3PO (who I've found progressively more tiresome as I've aged), the robot from Space Camp, the spaceship in Last Starfighter, every episode of every TV sitcom in the 70s in general, but Diff'rent Strokes in particular, etc etc In general, our attitude to all cuteness is "kill it! kill it with fire!", which I think is a pretty sound policy, and would apply to all Ewoks, even one that was a cross with Lobo (who we also hate) * We strongly suspect that there is a draft somewhere out there of No Country for Old Men which has a sad-eyed dog and his plucky freckled schoolkid owner as major characters |
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Post by Nowhere Man on Dec 11, 2015 23:33:17 GMT -5
I guess I'll always have a soft spot for the little fuzzy bastards since I was the perfect age to appreciate them. It is funny looking back at the contrasts between the goofy humor of the Ewok scenes and the darkness (the darkest Star Wars got at that point) of the Luke/Vader/Emperor scenes.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2015 4:07:09 GMT -5
I haven't been keeping up with any current comics for several months, but multiple "best of" lists are being circulated around Facebook right now so I think I'll give some a try come January.
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Post by Gene on Dec 16, 2015 22:33:07 GMT -5
I just finished volume 8 of The Walking Dead. The series reads well in trades, and it's different enough from the show that I don't feel like I already know what's going to happen.
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Post by Dizzy D on Dec 17, 2015 3:08:37 GMT -5
For those interested, the Humble Bundle this week is celebrating 10 years of Boom comics, so getting the Bundle will get you various trades of Boom comics, including Irreedemable and Lumberjanes.
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Post by batlaw on Dec 17, 2015 4:38:41 GMT -5
I just finished volume 8 of The Walking Dead. The series reads well in trades, and it's different enough from the show that I don't feel like I already know what's going to happen. Same. Its cool how the show differs from the books with just the right balance. Ive enjoyed a lot of the turns and changes the show has made. I don't think I could read TWD in single issue installments. It just wouldn't offer enough IMO. |
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Post by batlaw on Dec 17, 2015 4:41:22 GMT -5
Just caught up with Star Wars / vader / vader down. These books are still good but losing a little steam for me. They're starting to reach a little far and dip into the silly justva tad IMO.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Dec 17, 2015 10:08:59 GMT -5
So anyone here tried either of these...
The Life After from ONI (now Exodus: The Life After)
Johnny Red from Titan
I cant recommend them highly enough. Johnny Red is Garth Ennis revamping the classic British war comic strip, beautiful art, amazing aerial battles, well written. Ive bought them on Comixology but they really need to be read on paper.
Both are well worth a try IMHO.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Dec 17, 2015 11:07:22 GMT -5
Just read the for issues of Big Man Plans  Bought those blind, mostly to get re-aquinted with Eric Powell whom I've just happened to have stoped following, and here I was in for a surprise. This book is gruesome, I mean, really reallyy violent, not for the fainted of heart. The story is nothing spectacular but flows smoothly to its epic and sad conclusion. The premise of a dwarf's hard life is interesting but ends up not that essential to the core plot. Yet it makes for some really unusual scenes... Quite happy with that purchase!   |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Dec 17, 2015 11:48:50 GMT -5
Seperman American Alien #1  That max Landis comic... Well, it was quite alright! Nothing new or earth-shattering, but a very nice piece of americana that would have made for 2-3 great scenes in an origin movie, when Kal-El was a kid. Maybe the greatest part of this was the 2-page annexe, a board with newspaper clips and post-its giving background on the Kents and their life prior to, a very neat trick of storytelling. |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Dec 17, 2015 11:56:43 GMT -5
Batgirl Endgame #1 So I follow the ongoing since Cameron Stewart, Fletcher and Tarr took over, and I've been quite pleased with it. I got this one shot from the Endgame event I know nothing about, mostly because of the art from fellow frenchman Bengal. He's recently took the mainstream US by storm with his kinetic yet delicate art, somewhat reminiscent of Jason Pearson, so I thought I would try it out in the context of a self contained story. First off, I got no background on the Endgame storyline, but I guess it didn't matter as this issue was a conceptual one : Batgirl is trying to rescue from distance a young girl surrounded by zombies joker-victims and cannot communicate with her appar from with gestures and hand signs. That makes for a very visual story, a quite effective one, but in the end, however well crafted this is, it's just one big long action scene, something I don't really want to put my money in. So all in all, nice artwok and storytelling for a highly forgetable story.    |
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Post by Action Ace on Dec 17, 2015 14:33:55 GMT -5
You can check out Bengal next in the first three chapters of DC's new digital Supergirl comic. IGN story |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Dec 17, 2015 22:23:45 GMT -5
Paper Girls #1 and #2  Brian K Vaughn and Cliff CHiang, color me interested... After reading those two issues, I'm almost convinced. Set in 1988, this plays the nosalgia card, and the geek one. Yes, this feels like an Amblin pastiche, Stand By Me meets The Twilight Zone, but hey, nothing wrong with that, right? OK, it's not as original as it wants to appear like, but it's a darn good read, with great characterzation , very nice artwork and already tons of mysteries and stakes. Issue two slowed down a little, but it was nevertheless quite enjoyable. I think we got a real winner there.   |
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 17, 2015 22:45:47 GMT -5
After not reading Detective Comics since about #18 of The New 52 reboot, I picked up the last three issues.
The rumors are true! Batman is now Bat-Bunny and the guy wearing the new suit calls himself Jim Gordon!
(It wasn't that bad, honestly, as modern comics go. I have so many questions though! The kind of thing that used to be answered in the caption boxes on the first page of every issue.)
The latest issue guest-starred the JLA and I'm kind of intrigued to read the rest of the storyline.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Dec 21, 2015 11:52:08 GMT -5
Just read Huck #1 So Mark Millar snatches one more top artist with Rafael Albuquerque. Albu got his US start with Blue Beetle but really broke out with American Vampire. He added a few great Batman short stories to his resume. He basicaly owes his star career to The new Mark Millar, Scott Snyder. But Millar won't have it and will snatch every collaborator that shines with Snyder. That's not a bad plan and it would be good news for us readers if he turned in a good story. With Huck, we almost get that. As with most of Millar's recent work, it is obvious this was written with the big screen more than a little in mind, but again, I won't hold it against him if I get a good book. Huck is another case of Millar's fascination with Superman. So far, we get an inside glimpse at the life of orphan supposedlu simpleton real life hero, like Forest Gump meets Superman, really. The comic hasn't got much more to offer except great artwork, but I have one supision and one hope : there are clues that the story might be more about the local community surrounding the deeds of the hero, and that might be very interesting. In the end, this is a pleasant "we'll see", but Millar and Albuquerque only have a few issues to come up with a striking plot and a good story. They have the potential to pull it off, but Millar's recent track record shows a certain amount of lazyness in his story conclusions, one that fits the big screen but less the comic pages...    |
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