Since Batman: The Animated Series debuted way back when, I’ve been a big fan of DC Comics’ animation wing. They hit the bulls-eye almost every time. However, the first 5 or so minutes of Superman vs. The Elite had me nervous, but slowly, the flick laid all of those fears to waste.
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Tagged DC comics, Superman, Superman vs. The Elite, the elite dc comics
This is probably the oddest take on Superman I’ve seen… Not from a charter standpoint, but from a story arc. I enjoyed the flick, but it’s weird and in some ways, a little difficult to accept. I’d say this movie is for Superman and comic book fans only, but it’s certainly worth a look for its audience. The story points are a bit telegraphed, but the action is there, which is important for this sort of movie. I give All Star Superman a 7 out of 10.
It’s available on Netflix Instant.
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Tagged All Star Superman, DC comics, quick movie review, Superman
I think yesterday’s post made it clear that I don’t know jack about action figures or collectibles, but this is a whole new level of weird.
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Tagged action figures, batman, christian bale, collectables, comic books, dark knight rises, DC comics, Toys
I know this isn’t news, but Shaq really loves Superman; I thought he just had the tattoo, but it doesn’t end there. Continue reading
What to be a super hero, kids? It’s this easy: just cut a paper mask off the back of a cereal box. (That’s Honey Nut Cheerios, to be exact.) All that sugar and brown sugar syrup will give you the energy you need to fight crime. As a kid, these masks always got stuck in my hair or irritated my face, so kids of all ages should proceed with caution – or buy regular Cheerios, they’ve better for you.
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Tagged batman, comic books, DC comics, honey nut cheerios
I’m still pissed I didn’t do Halloween justice, so here’s this old post I never got to publish…
The New York Times has this blog about photography and what not, and they dropped this pic of Wonder Woman on her cell last Halloween. For whatever reason, I find this very funny – I especially like that her phone matches her costume.
In my ongoing effort to bring geeky information to those of you who don’t give a crap…
DC recently dropped zero issues for several of their books. Not all of them, mind you, but several. This baffles me.
In case you were unaware, about last year at this time, DC relaunched several of it’s titles, including stuff that had been running for seventy years, like Action Comics starring Superman. I took this as an opportunity to stop reading DC books with the exception of Justice League because how hard could it be to write a book starring Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman? (Not to mention Green Lantern, the Flash and [yawn] Cyborg.)
As it turns out, it was pretty hard. What followed was the most boring, plodding, ill conceived bunch of crap I’ve ever read. Seriously, no one has ever written a super hero comic storyline do dull.
Anyway, I told you all of that nonsense so that I could clearly and accurately express how FUCKING BIZARRE I find it that DC Comics is issuing zero issues now. Are they rebooting their universe annually now? I know reboots are all the rage, but give me a break.
If this makes sense to anyone, feel free to explain it to me.
At least it’s not an evil twin.
See, this is why I don’t read Batman comics anymore. I can deal with the silly costumes, ridiculous story lines and endless fake-deaths, but one thing I can not, will not tolerate is long lost brothers who are evil. If Bruce Wayne has to have a long lost brother, why can’t the guy just be an accountant from Metropolis who wants his half of the family fortune? I thought it was enough that he lived with a bunch of young boys he’d been collecting (Dick, Tim and Damian), but now they have to throw a brother into the mix… quite the sausage fest. Couldn’t they give Bruce Wayne a wife? Guess not.
Anyone, this one’s for you, Thomas Wayne, Jr.! (Imagine me giving him the finger.)
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Tagged batman, batman comics, bruce wayne, DC comics, thomas wayne jr
Look how fatigued! Look!
If you’re like me (and I pray that you are NOT), then you LOVE Batman but HATE Batman comic books. How did this happen? The answers lie here!
There’s just too many Batman comic books for me to absorb, so I just gave up – if you can handle the wave of Bat Books, then you’re a bigger person than I am… odds are, you’re a bigger person than I am, anyway.
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This was filmed using a Canon VIXIA HF M300 and edited in Adobe Premiere CS 5.5. I ended up with a ton of room noise when using the camera mic, so I had my boy scrub up the audio as best he could – it’s a bad recording, so there was only so much he could do. I did the over dub narration with a shotgun condenser mic because my SM 58 is apparently broken, but it seemed to work out fine.
There’s a quick behind the scenes video here if you want to see my pathetic attempts at lighting.
Here is a quick behind the scenes look at the upcoming video, Batman Fatigue Syndrome, which should be finished by the end of this month.
The Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster video was both functional and an equipment test, and the equipment did not receive a passing grade. Now that I’ve upgraded, the Batman Fatigue Syndrome video is also a functional equipment test, but it’s a lot more than that – it’s the beginning of a bold new era of video here at CreativeJamie.com!
Imagine you’re in charge of choosing the basic story for the Green Lantern movie. It’s a daunting task; after all, the first Green Lantern appeared in All-American Comics issue #16 in July of 1940 – I’m not trying to up my nerd credit (and yes, I get that the first Green Lantern from the Golden Age of comic books was quite different than the second Silver Age Green Lantern), but I just want to point out that there are decades worth of stories a screenplay could be based on – not to mention multiple Green Lanterns to choose from. As for me, I’m a John Stewart kind of guy, but that’s not the reason why I’m going to have such a hard time saying good things about this movie.
In fact, I very much enjoyed Green Lantern: First Flight, proving that I can enjoy Hal Jordan as GL, and I assumed, right up until the end, that we’d get a very similar movie… and I guess we did… sort of. But rather than a straight forward movie, I felt that instead, the producers assembled every possible idea, plot thread and character available, tossed them in a hat in an attempt to pick one – and instead, picked ALL OF THEM. Let’s see if I can weave my way through this unnecessarily complicated mess of bizarre execution and choices of what should have been a simple story about how a guy becomes an intergalactic cop, but instead is the story of a guy at odds with a girl he loves (?), at odds with a guy who is the main competition for said girl (and neither of them know about it?), but also has issues with is father’s accidental death… forget it, I give up.
Hal Jordan (and his daddy issues)
Ryan Reynolds pulls off the roll, but he’s severely limited in his ability to use his Reynolds-ness by a script that just doesn’t give him any opportunities to do much of anything. I guess he’s traumatized by his father’s death, which we got to witness in the most awkward of flashbacks in cinematic history, but although the movie constantly references it, they never really explain his feelings on it. And for a movie called Green Lantern, uhm, he doesn’t fly around a lot and do Green Lantern stuff. This was the sort of movie that needed that Superman montage of scenes where he flies around, stops jewel bandits, robbers on boats and gets cats out of trees – this wasn’t Iron Man, where we were enjoying the story and didn’t need Iron Man to blow stuff up every five minutes. I also don’t get why the Green Lantern outfits needed to be all digital and moving… that really added something to the movie… ugh.
Carol Ferris (and her daddy issues)
Blake Lively… I wouldn’t say she can’t act – that’s not a fair thing to say. Her character is written poorly and her dialogue is awful. “You have the power to overcome fear.” Seriously? Who wrote that? Who thought that was OK? Any speech any character gives in this movie sucks. And what exactly ended Carol and Hal’s relationship? And how long ago could that have been? Carol looks like she’s 22. And her relationship with her dad is… weird.
Hector Hammond (and his daddy issues)
Peter Sarsgaard is, like Ryan Reynolds, totally underutilized and under developed. And the character design is hilarious; this just isn’t the sort of character that translates to the screen. Didn’t anyone tell the producers that film is a visual medium and this was never going to look good? And the confrontation between Hector and Hal at the end of the movie sucks. It takes about 5 seconds for Hal to outwit him. And, for good measure, Hector kills his father in the second act of the film.
Senator Hammond (a dad)
So Tim Robbins plays Senator Hammond in this movie… I guess he’s a US Senator? I guess he’s on the Armed Services Committee? I guess. It’s Tim effing Robbins! Couldn’t they have found something better for him to do? It’s City of Ember all over again!
Sinestro
Mark Strong gave his usual attention commanding performance – he was one of the few big actors that was well cast, if under utilized. They did recycle that shot of him from that speech he gave near the middle of the movie: “Lanterns, we face an unprecedented danger… it seems that a giant calamari with the head of one of The Guardians is wandering the galaxy, devouring worlds! It makes Galactus sound like… I don’t know… the Nazis. Let’s go with the Nazis.” You know, the part where he raises his arms? Its in the trailer. Anyway, they used that shot again at the end of the movie. (Lazy!) It would have been nice to see him in action at Hal’s side once before he goes bad (as the credits so unnecessarily teased with no explanation whatsoever), so they could have established a bond… maybe they’ll squeeze it into the sequel. Whatever.
Sinestro... with arms wide open. (Twice.)
Doctor Waller (and her unnecessary family issues)
Angela Bassett is in this movie – it’s not your fault if you didn’t notice – and we see her family get killed via weird flashback. He inclusion seemed unnecessary; I felt like they were introducing her (like many other characters) so they wouldn’t have to do introductions in a future Green Lantern/DC Comics movie. Historically, I like this character a lot, but we just didn’t get much here. Her inclusion in the movie is a microcosm of the entire flick itself – underdeveloped and probably unnecessary.
The Guardians (who are daddies themselves, sort of)
So weird dudes with big heads run the Green Lantern Corps. Obviously. Their behavior was weird, their decision making process… half ass. Their decision to make Sinestro the fear ring seemed to be based on the idea that they couldn’t make a sequel without the yellow ring.
The Yellow Calamari Looking Thing (Parallax)
Again, didn’t anyone tell the producers that film is a visual medium and this was never going to look good? I don’t know much about Green Lantern, but was Parallax necessary? And like Hector, Hal didn’t have much trouble dispatching him, despite the immense ass kicking he gave to other Green Lanterns in just seconds.
Green Lantern is at a 26% from the critics and at 55% from the fans on Rotten Tomatoes, but I think reality lies in between – it’s not unwatchable, but I wouldn’t recommend that anyone run out and see it. (By the way, I saw it in 2D rather than 3D – the movie didn’t look like it was worth the extra money, and I stand by that decision.) If you want to see a movie about Green Lantern, I recommend you go rent Green Lantern: First Flight… from where ever you can rent movies from nowadays.
"This analogy will have to do."
It’s the 70th anniversary of the publishing of the first issue of Captain America, and Marvel Comics is partying it up! And by ‘partying,’ I mean they’re releasing an INSANE number of one shots and mini series as well as reprints and commemorative issues of Captain America – not to mention the Captain America movie.
Imagine that instead of releasing a bunch of comics that aren’t necessary in terms of story arc pertaining to Captain America (or the Marvel Universe overall) in any shape of the imagination, Marvel Comics hosted a birthday party dinner instead, but served up the same level of quality in terms of food as they are with this March’s comics. The main course would probably be a McDonalds Angus Wrap (looks like poop), a Dunkin Donuts cup of coffee (makes you have to poop) and for desert: dog poop (actual poop) – you’d say, “Wow, Marvel sure is serving up a big pile of shiz here,” and you’d be right.
Marvel seems to have decided it needs to do some kind of event that would coincide with a major story arc and the release of many ‘special’ issues every year, which sounds like a great idea, but in my experience, they’ve been largely unsatisfying – not to be confused with DC’s Return of Bruce Wayne “event,” which was just as uninteresting as Marvel’s events. During last year’s Daredevil “event” entitled Shadowland, I did a good job of picking up the bear minimum of books necessary to understand what was going on. During Marvel’s Siege event, I wasn’t so smart, and I bought a bizillion books that were all a huge waste of my time, Vantage Point style – I’m looking at you, Siege: Embedded. Now this isn’t the same situation; a bunch of unrelated Captain America one-shots is not the same as a multi-limited series event, but it’s not far off – particularly when it coincides with the end of the Captain America limited series “The Korvac Saga,” “Man Out of Time” and the near end of “Hail Hydra.” The insanity that has been the release of Captain America titles in March has been a big problem for specifically me because Cap has always been my favorite comic book character, and I have a hard time not buying everything he’s in.
And this isn't everything that Cap was in that was published in March 2011.
Rather than analyze each one-shot or limited series, it’d be faster to just say that any issues NOT heralding themselves as being written by Ed Brubaker pretty much suck; but, to at least do a half ass review of everything at once, I’ve group the comics into one of three categories:
note: as I read issues, I moved them from this category and moved them up to their spots above – hence, this post has been updated several times.
Under normal circumstances, I would conclude this post with a rant about how I can’t take it anymore, that there is such a thing as too much of my favorite character, but most likely, March is an aberration, and I’m never going to deal with a 13 issue month of Captain America again – and I didn’t even count The Avengers because Steve Rogers isn’t in that book at all; Bucky is still Captain America there, for now. I do think this is a ridiculous onslaught; a 70th anniversary celebration turned into an awful marketing scheme to sell more comic books, and I fell for it. But you won’t find any parting swears or vows to stop buying Cap books – first, because I love Cap and I can’t, and secondly, it’s not like this is Batman, and Marvel does this every single month! I’ll let Marvel slide for now, but I’ve got my eye on ya’ll, not to mention this year’s big “event,” Fear Itself, which will have Cap up front and center. (NOTE: I also didn’t count the Fear Itself Prologue, which also prominently featured Captain America, also came out this past March.)
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Why'd they put Two-Face on the cover? Way to spoil the ending, guys.
Batman: The Long Halloween is a graphic novel (trade paperback?) that compiles the thirteen issue limited series of the same name. Writer Jeph Loeb and artist Tim Sale worked in the continuity of Batman: Year One, created by writer Frank Miller, illustrated by David Mazzucchelli, colorist Richmond Lewis, and lettering by Todd Klein, although Long Halloween is superior to Year One in just about every way possible, although I would say Sale and Mazzucchelli’s artistic skills are fairly even. It’s not enough to say that Long Halloween is better than Year One; I have to make it clear that Long Halloween is probably the best comic book limited series I’ve ever read, and even that’s not giving it enough credit, because these days, Marvel and DC push out zillions of awful limited series every year, to the point where I had to stop buying them all together – see Batman Odyssey and Siege for examples of this.
If you read Batman: Year One, then you should be right at home with Long Halloween, but I wouldn’t call Year One required reading by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, I don’t have much to say about Year One – at least, I don’t have much praise to heap on it. I assumed it was going to be an origin story, but it really isn’t; essentially, we just see a young Batman who makes a lot more mistakes then we’re accustomed to seeing Batman make. Details and character development are not delivered to the audience in abundance, and ultimately, the book damaged my opinion of Frank Miller. Essentially, Long Halloween grabs the undeveloped mob characters from Year One and develops them. (If you’re interested in an origin story for Batman, you may as well go watch Batman Begins again – which borrows from Year One, but fleshes out the characters (especially Batman) in ways that Year One never even attempted.
Perhaps the greatest contributor to Long Halloween was Mark Waid, who did wonders for Captain America after Mark Gruenwald’s 10 year reign of terror ended with his untimely death. Waid suggested that Loeb work with Two-Face’s origin, and the rest, as they say, is history. There is a ton of Long Halloween in The Dark Knight’s script, and frankly, The Dark Knight is one of the greatest action movies of all time. But Long Halloween is more than a template for The Dark Knight; it’s very much its own story.
Although Long Halloween is said to focus on a younger Batman than we’re accustomed to seeing, it’s not really true, at least not in my mind. Batman is presented as the character we all know and love, it’s just that certain events haven’t come to pass yet in the Batman time line: Gordon is still Captain Gordon, not commissioner yet; Two-Face is still Harvey Dent, which is a major plot thread in the story; Dick Grayson is presumably on tour with his parents and the circus as he doesn’t make an appearance… Yet, nearly every major Batman villain is already established and presented in the story without explanation: the Joker, Poison Ivy, The Riddler, The Mad Hatter, The Scarecrow, Calendar Man and Catwoman are all in Long Halloween. I don’t have any problem with this, and the use of the Rogue Gallery is brilliantly done here, but I wouldn’t say we’re anywhere near the beginning of the Batman story.
"I believe in America - Gotham City. I meant Gotham."
One curious bit about Long Halloween is it’s over abundance of homages to The Godfather. The very first page of Long Halloween is Bruce Wayne saying, “I believe in Gotham City,” to Carmine Falcone, just as we see Bonasera say to Vito in the first moments of The Godfather. Falcone wears a similar suit to Vito Corleone, and his nephew is getting married, just like the first scene in The Godfather, except it’s Vito’s daughter who is getting married there. Pages later, after a shootout in Flacone’s office, he says, “In my home. On my nephew’s wedding day,” similar to Micheal’s reaction to his attempted assassination in Godfather II: “In my home! In my bedroom, where my wife sleeps! Where my children come to play with their toys.” The homages don’t really end there, but then, when you’re writing about gangsters and you choose to make allusions to the Godfather… it’s kind of a joke, but its well done, but it might also be viewed as cheating character development; you just immediately associate these characters with the characters from The Godfather… but it’s original enough to keep you interested.
For the most part, Long Halloween is a story about Batman, Gordon and Dent teaming up together to take down the mob, so you can easily see how the The Dark Knight they borrowed this angle. The movie adapts a scene where Dent and Batman burn down a warehouse full of mob money as opposed to The Joker doing so in the film. There are scenes up on the roof top with Batman, Gordon and Dent talking and planning (similar scenes appear in The Dark Knight), but their investigations and arrests provide little in the way of results. A killer emerges who targets the mob, always committing it’s murder on a Holiday (and the press so names the killer ‘Holiday’) and leaving both the murder weapon and a token that represents the particular holiday, like the jack-o-lantern that is left with the first victim, who was killed on Halloween. Wash, rinse, and repeat.
Yeah, the story is a bit repetitive, yet still engaging. I’d say it was a mistake to force 13 issues (I did say force… why do 12 issues when you can do 13? The Poison Ivy plot thread is as silly as the Scarecrow thread is useless) and given that I read the trade paper back (Graphic novel? Can I use those terms interchangeably or what?) rather than the individual issues as they came out once a month, I had to deal with quite a bit of reintroduction that could have been easily edited out, but wasn’t. I think I read that “Carmine Falcone is Gotham City’s
The tux, and the moment, is very Godfather.
Untouchable Crime Lord” about 20 times. Although they’ve packaged all 13 issues together, no effort was made to have it move seamlessly like a novel with chapters, and I guess that was intentional – they dropped in some cover art before each issue started, and I was glad to have it, but they could have stuck them all in the back and edited it together at least a little bit.
While I wouldn’t say that Batman: The Long Halloween is perfect, there is no doubt that it’s great. I loved it, and I look forward to reading it again – I guarantee you that by the end, you both WILL and WILL NOT have correctly identified the Holiday killer. Riddle that out! If you like The Godfather and Batman, Long Halloween is a no brainer, and even if you only like one of the two, I sitll recommend you pick it up.
NOTE: The girlfriend that gets you a graphic novel (trade paperback?) for Valentine’s Day really understands and accepts you!
MORE IMAGES FROM LONG HALLOWEEN:
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Given that I never got around to writing about RED when I saw it in theaters, now seems like the right time to get back to it, given that it came out on DVD last week – January 25, to be exact.
Yeah, I saw RED in theaters, if you can believe it – and we had to sit all the way up front as it was a full house. No, we weren’t late, the place was just blowin’ up with peeps. Any why? A star studded cast and a fine looking trailer looked like we were getting set for a comedic romp through shoot ‘em up and blow ‘em to hell country.
Well, it didn’t exactly go down like that, did it? The movie starts off in promising fashion: Bruce Willis, a retired CIA black ops agent is bored living alone in his house, so for amusement, he tears up his pension checks and calls the customer service line so he can chat with Mary-Louise Parker (frankly, I hear that), who is also bored to distraction at her job. This section of the movie is light and fun – I believe these characters exist and behave as represented – it’s really well done.
It’s pretty much all down hill from here.
Rather than summarizing the movie, suffice it to say that once the budding romance section is over, we enter the things start blowing up section of the movie. Now I love it when things blow up, but it has to be done better that it was in RED. The movie doesn’t get boring, but you start to care less about the characters. We slowly meet the rest of cast as the film plods along: John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, Karl Urban – hell, they even sneak Richard Dreyfuss and Ernest Borgnine into the damn movie! But all this does is keep you in your seat and your eyes front; it doesn’t draw you into the movie, it just keeps the damn thing on life support.
The movie makes weird choices – sometimes, people are around and they notice the insane comic book violence (which is fine – the movie is based off a comic book mini series of the same name), but other times, they don’t – like when Bruce Willis’s house gets shot to shit in the beginning of the movie, there isn’t so much as a whisper from his neighbors – or the cops, for that matter. But other times, there are screaming ensembles heading for the exits… now mind you, this isn’t what’s wrong with the movie, but more of a microcosmic example of a movie that doesn’t know what it is. Is it a comedy? A comic book movie? An action movie? A romance? It’s can’t make up its mind, and it doesn’t do any of them well. But it has wonderful moments, and the first twenty minutes is great. Oh, and any time Helen Mirren is on the screen, things are going well – there’s something about her in a dress firing high caliber automatic machine guns that just does it for me. (Remembering, of course, that they’re Retired. Extremely. Dangerous. They’re RED. Riiiiiiiiiight.)
If you love comic book movies, then you’ll want to see RED. If not, you might want to skip it all together – it’s a really tough call. For all it’s problems, it’s a likable movie and therefor gets my Coors Light recommendation: if it’s there and there is nothing else to drink, then pound it. At 111 minutes, it’s running a little long, and I could have done without that little vignette at the end; no one should ever have to see John Malkovich in drag – that was cruel… yet not unusual. (See Being John Malkovich!)
Welcome back to the journey into under appreciated creativity. This feature, Attention Must be Paid, will shine my (however brief and dull) spotlight on something that needs props. Mad props. Today, I’d like to shine the light on Air, published by Vertigo Comics, a subsidiary of DC Comics.
Air is great. It’s well written and the characters are vibrant. Now, what’s Air all about? Uhm, I’ll take some picks from Wikipedia and let them explain:
Blythe follows [Zayn] to Narimar, where she is designated by the Etesian Front a “hyperpract”, that is, someone with the power to move into different dimensions or realities.
As the story progresses, the ambiguous concept of ‘hyperpraxis’ is introduced, as what seems to be a supernatural form of teleportation. The story develops more eccentric and fantasy elements, introducing Amelia Earhart and Quetzacoatl as supporting characters.
Follow all that? And yes, I am openly praising a comic book that features Amelia Earhart as a character, not to mention Quetzacoatl. Air is a great example of a book that shows you how you can do whatever you want, just as long as it’s done well. Blythe is an excellent character. She’s smart, powerful and vulnerable all at once – not to mention other things.
The author of Air was G. Willow Wilson, making this one of the only comic books I’ve read that was written by a woman. Unfortunately, the book has been canceled after 24 issues. =( Why, I don’t know – it always sells out at my local retailers. Wilson should obviously move to Bergen County, NJ, where her genius will be appreciated. Air is getting the graphic novel treatment, though – the first volume is available at Amazon.
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Tagged air, amazon, Amelia Earhart, bergen county, comic books, DC comics, G. Willow Wilson, nj, Quetzacoatl, vertigo comics
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