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Post by K-Box on Mar 26, 2011 4:25:12 GMT -8
Excellent.
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Post by K-Box on Mar 20, 2011 0:41:20 GMT -8
Which is what makes you a good journalist, Jens.
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Post by K-Box on Mar 20, 2011 0:39:18 GMT -8
Oh, and a non-comics example? Gary, a.k.a. FORMER Henchman 21, in the "Operation P.R.O.M." episode of The Venture Bros.Really, a TON of characters got some bad-ass moments here, from Brock first motorcycling, then just flat-out RUNNING to the compound to save everyone's lives, to Treister shooting himself out of a cannon into space with a note saying "FIX IT!" taped to his chest, but more than anyone, THIS was the episode where Gary grew up, and laid a verbal smackdown on The Monarch that was an entire SEASON in the making.
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Post by K-Box on Mar 20, 2011 0:25:25 GMT -8
Lex Luthor confronting Death of the Endless in Action Comics #894After so many writers reducing him to a Silver Age-style mad scientist or a Donald Trump TO THE EXTREME, Paul Cornell gives us the ultimate nemesis of Superman — who, let's not forget, is the DCU's own Jesus Christ — as ... the ultimate atheist superhero. But do you reconcile atheism with a world in which Gods, PLURAL, have not only been PROVEN to exist, but also frequently fight both with and against superheroes? "Deciding on atheism isn't a logical choice. It's an ethical one." And after Death has done everything in her power to get him to come to terms with his own mortality, not to mention the prospect of having his life's choices judged by a higher power, how does Luthor respond? "I'm not going to participate in this 'process' of yours. I'm never going to accept it. I'm not going to bow my head. To anyone. So do what you're going to do. Send me where you're going to send me. I'll find something to do. I'll find something to win. Even when I'm dead." THIS is the attitude of a man who not only believes that he CAN kill the world's greatest superhero, but that he also has a MORAL IMPERATIVE to do so. THAT is how you write a supervillain.
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Post by K-Box on Mar 15, 2011 22:30:49 GMT -8
John Carpenter's The Thing, retold from the point of view of The Thing.Sci-fi has gotten so caught up in homages and remakes and tie-ins and navel-gazing at its own genre tropes that, when you encounter a story that actually sets out to realize and convey an entirely alien perspective, it's refreshing in and of itself, but when it succeeds at such a goal as well as this story does, it's absolutely stunning to behold, because in reading this retelling, I actually felt the horror that The Thing must have experienced, once it finally understood what sets the fundamental nature of humanity irrevocably apart from its own. And yes, I recognize the irony of me saying this about a story that ties into a decades-old remake of an even older sci-fi classic.
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Post by K-Box on Mar 14, 2011 18:12:06 GMT -8
As much as I never warmed up to Six, that speech was, sadly enough, the moment that Colin Baker finally sold me on him being the Doctor.
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Post by K-Box on Mar 14, 2011 18:02:00 GMT -8
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Post by K-Box on Mar 11, 2011 18:37:09 GMT -8
Then again, Moff brought back the Daleks WITHOUT making them the Big Bad for the S5 finale, so it's entirely possible he's downgrading the Master to One Of Many in the Doctor's rogues galley, just as he did with the Daleks.
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Post by K-Box on Mar 7, 2011 16:05:14 GMT -8
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Post by K-Box on Mar 5, 2011 12:39:04 GMT -8
Good luck! Remember, the more you write, the easier it gets.
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Post by K-Box on Mar 4, 2011 17:12:41 GMT -8
What's interesting about Jubilee's current status (not that it will last) is that she's kind of become Logan's biggest failure as a mentor; Kitty made it through the other side of the grim-and-gritty mutant drama mostly unscathed, if only because of how many fanboys will never let go of their hard-ons for her in her Shadowcat phase, which means that she's never incurred any damage that's stuck around for long, but Jubilee - who in some ways was even more of an innocent than Kitty - has now become the ULTIMATE in "darkened" characters (turning a teenage girl with a canary-yellow raincoat into a vampire is basically going emo-goth times ELEVEN with the character), so in a sense, Logan is now facing up to all the shit he failed to protect her from.
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Post by K-Box on Mar 4, 2011 17:05:51 GMT -8
... Goddammit, I actually want to see those as movies now. Especially the Hulk/FF one.
All the Terminator ones remind me of this:
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Post by K-Box on Mar 4, 2011 16:44:45 GMT -8
It's almost enough to make me forget how disappointed I am that we'll be focusing on a younger Superman yet the fuck again.
But yeah, between Diane Lane and Annette O'Toole, Clark is practically swimming in adoptive MILF pussy at this point.
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Post by K-Box on Feb 23, 2011 2:14:44 GMT -8
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Post by K-Box on Feb 22, 2011 18:04:09 GMT -8
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