Showing posts with label 2010's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2010's. Show all posts
Monday, July 30, 2018
Super Reading: Action Comics #1001
Script: Brian Michael Bendis
Art: Patrick Gleason
Colors: Alejandro Sanchez
Letters: Josh Reed
Cover: Gleason & Brad Anderson/ (variant) Francis Manapul
Associate Editor: Jessica Chen
Editor: Michael Coen
Group Editor: Brian Cunningham
You know, I liked this issue. Quite a bit.
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Super Reading: Superman #1 (2018)
Superman #1 (2018)
Script: Brian Michael Bendis
Pencils: Ivan Reis
Inks: Joe Prado
Colors: Alex Sinclair
Letters: Josh Reed
Associate Editor: Jessica Chen
Editor: Michael Cotton
Group Editor: Brian Cunningham
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
PODCAST! Marvel Watch: Ant-Man and The Wasp (2018)
Watched: 07/15/2018
Format: Alamo Slaughter Lane
Viewing: First
Decade: 2010's
It's a PODCAST! Starring our own Jamie! As the Ant-Man partners up with The Wasp, so we team up with our better half to talk big about getting small. This one is a bit shorter than other podcasts at a trim 35 minutes, so jump right in to hear the good, the bad and the tiny of Ant-Man and The Wasp (2018).
Monday, July 16, 2018
Super Reading: Man of Steel #6
Man of Steel 6
Writer: Brian Michael BendisArtists: Jason Fabok
Colors: Alex Sinclair
Letters: Josh Reed
Associate Editor: Jessica Chen
Editor: Michael Cotton
Group Editor: Brian Cunningham
Cover: Ivan Reis, Joe Prado and Alex Sinclair
Friday, July 13, 2018
Television Watch: GLOW - Season 2
With Emmy nominations now announced (GLOW received a few, including Best Comedy) and a few weeks passed since the second season arrived, it feels fair to talk a bit - but in no way comprehensively - about the show.
So... Every once in a while when I'm watching GLOW, the fictionalized show about a real women's wrestling show that aired in the 1980's, I think about the Coen Bros. film, Barton Fink.
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Sunday, June 24, 2018
Monday, June 18, 2018
Super-Comics Talk: Man of Steel # 2 and #3 (2018)
Man of Steel 2 and 3
Writer: Brian Michael BendisArtists: Issue 2 - Doc Shaner, Steve Rude, Jason Fabok
Issue 3 - Ryan Sook, Jason Fabok, inks pages 12-12, 15: Wade Von Grawbadger
Colors: Alex Sinclair
Letters: Josh Reed
Associate Editor: Jessica Chen
Editor: Michael Cotton
Group Editor: Brian Cunningham
Cover: Ivan Reis, Joe Prado and Alex Sinclair
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Super-Reviews: Man of Steel #1
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Pencils: (mostly) Ivan Reis and 2 pages by Jason Fabok
Inks: Joe Prado
Colors: Alex Sinclair
Lettering: Cory Petit
Editor: Michael Cotton
Associate Editor: Jessica Chen
Group Editor: Brian Cunningham
Well, it finally arrived.
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Okay Watch: Revenge (2017 - US Release 2018)
Not all movies are for all people. Sometimes a movie, despite a rip-roaring ad, when I see the movie, in practice, I am fifteen minutes in and realize "oh no..." but there you are.
Monday, May 7, 2018
Marvel Watch: Avengers | Infinity War (second viewing)
Jamie and I went and saw Avengers: Infinity War (2018) again. And realized we were glad Thanos was not a fan of beat poetry.
Sunday, May 6, 2018
Superman Comics Talk: Action Comics Special #1 / DC Nation #0
Superman variant for DC Nation #0 by JLGL |
With DC's Rebirth event now a couple of years in the rear-view mirror and a status quo set-ish for the DCU at this point (at least until the next reboot), the Superman books seem to be on solid ground, even as they head into the next series of changes as Brian Michael Bendis arrives at DC and takes over both Action Comics and Superman.
I've been considering writing more often on Superman comics the past year, but it was impossible to write about them without spending half the post explaining to anyone not reading Superman titles what was going on - continuity wise - in the comics. Tomasi and Gleason's take on Superman and Dan Jurgens and a rotating group of artists' run on Action Comics worked very well for me, messy continuity and all - but getting past the "now Superman is married to Loid with a 10 year old son" bit - not that hard, but he's from another dimension (no he's not!), he lives on a farm except when he lives in Metropolis... all that stuff was hard to talk about, and, frankly, when Superman and family didn't just make the jump back to Metropolis and the Daily Planet the way I expected, began to feel a bit like a holding pattern awaiting some coming change. Still, the tone was right, the adventures depicted hit the right Super-buttons, and I returned to regularly reading comics (because I always start my stack with my Super-books).
Ancillary titles have been shakier, with occasional highlights. Supergirl isn't exactly critical reading, but found footing in recent issues. I am so far behind on Superwoman and New Super-Man that I can't comment.
Action Comics Special #1
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Ho, boy. We Should Talk About "Krypton" on SyFy
The most exciting thing in this show is a piece of fabric |
Ignore Jamie's guffaws to the contrary, but I quite like being proven wrong about (some) things. Example: I started watching Supergirl because I like Kara Zor-El quite a bit as a comics character (and mad props to Helen Slater for being better than her bad movie). I found the first couple of episodes of Supergirl hilariously bad, and then the show start playing against expectations and I found myself enjoying Supergirl in a sort of "this is okay TV and pretty fun" sort of way. It's not exactly The Americans, and it can't sustain 22 episodes per year and I wish they'd cut it to 13, but it's in my TV rotation.
So despite the David S. Goyer association and SyFy channel "we're doing serious Sci-Fi now" and some pretty boring adverts for the show (which, weirdly, ran incessantly during the Winter Olympics on NBC), I wanted to give Krypton a try. Sure, it looked plodding and joyless in the vein of Goyer's Man of Steel work, selling that "but this is seeerious, Mom" vibe that one can only get when everything is gray and poorly lit like a nightclub that will have a brief but forgettable existence.
Krypton has an uphill battle no matter what. It's not a mistake that DC Comics has only explored Superman's home planet in bursts via single issue appearances and the occasional brief mini-series. If the stories don't arc toward Superman - you're more or less looking at a planet knowing "oh, you guys are boned". After all - the point of Krypton (the planet, not the show) is to be either a near Utopia that made some critically bad choices about getting out of Dodge, or to exist as a highly advanced planet that should have been named "Hubris".
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Marvel Watch: Avengers | Infinity War (2018)
Watched: 04/28/2018
Format: Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Lane
Viewing: First
Decade: 2010's
Warning - this write-up will have spoilers. Do not read this post until you've seen Avengers: Infinity War (2018).
Monday, April 30, 2018
PODCAST: Laura M-S and Ryan talk HIGH SCHOOL MOVIES! "Brick" (2005) and "Lady Bird" (2017)
Laura M-S has been around the blog since time immemorial. But did you know she and I went to high school together? It's true. We also live in the same area here in modern times, and decided to get together for what will be the first in a series on High School Movies.
To kick it off, we decide high school movies are a poor reflection of the high school experience - so what movies do reflect those crucial years (for us)? We talk 2005's "Brick" (dir. Rian Johnson) and 2017's Oscar contender "Lady Bird" (dir. Greta Gerwig).
Friday, April 27, 2018
Belated Oscars Watch: Lady Bird (2017)
Watched: 04/27/2018
Format: Amazon Streaming
Viewing: First
Decade: 2010's
Watched this one for an upcoming podcast. Saving it for then, I'm afraid.
Monday, April 23, 2018
I think March 30th was the 15th Anniversary of the Start of my Blogging
So, I guess I missed my own 15th Anniversary of blogging. We were over at League of Melbotis back then. Here's a link to the first batch of posts.
Back then, kids, we had no facebook, no twitter, barely had iTunes and it took me forever to figure out how to upload photos and have a comment section. I was a lad of about 27 and living as a Texas ex-pat in Arizona at the time. I was busily learning about Superman and comics, and I was oh, so, sweetly naive. Reading those early posts is sometimes a teeth-gnashing experience but also a journal of what was going on in my head in the blogging salad days.
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Marvel Watch: Black Panther (2018)
Watched: 02/15/2018 and 02/25/2018
Format: Alamo Slaughter Lane/ Alamo Village
Viewing: First/ Second
Decade: 2010's
I'm supposed to schedule with AmyC to do a podcast on this film. I need to get that done. In the meantime...
Writing about Black Panther (2018) is, perhaps, not terribly useful at this point. The movie is a legitimate phenomenon in box office and in cultural conversation. Both of these things are yet another sign among many of the past few years that we're undergoing some tectonic shifts in Hollywood, unlearning the rules of the industry when it comes to what audiences actually do want. As of this writing, Black Panther had raked in $700 million worldwide, and, if my sold out 7:00 on a Sunday show was any indication, shows no signs of stopping.
As a white dude who is as much of a white dude as you're like to meet, I get the basic contours of what this film has meant to a Black audience, in America and abroad, but I won't pretend to have been more than an observer.* By this late date, it's possible or likely you've seen photos of people who've "dressed" for the movie, watched video of kids attending crowd-funded screenings... and more than likely you've read one or five of the dozens and dozens of think pieces circulating. So I don't know what new I can add, and I'll try not to belabor those points.
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