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Post by jessebaker on Sept 21, 2008 22:11:38 GMT -8
I'm just shocked and suprised that Marvel hasn't ordered a full-scale interview embargo to the major comic fansites, since the writers themselves just keep inadvertedly burying OMD/BND with their pro-OMD/BND interviews defending the new status quo....
NOTHING they are doing is working and if they are taking an Ahabian stance that BND is never going to be reversed, why do they insist on letting their writers speak about the subject when it's just going to make things worse as far as driving sales further and further down and render writers radioactive on other projects?
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Post by jessebaker on Sept 21, 2008 17:50:39 GMT -8
Love that her quote was from "Heathers" too; people who haven't seen it get a little aghast when I describe it as 'Columbine as a comedy'. Wonder if it could have been made today? That question was answered years ago, when Tina Fey basically made a bowdlerize "Heathers" rip-off by the name of "Mean Girls". As for Coulter, I no longer can think of her without thinking of the way McGruder portrayed her on "The Boondocks", as far as being a caculatingly cynical "gangster-rap" fangirl who tells Huey Freeman point blank that you can make more money dooming the world instead of saving it, and moaning about the notion of having to take up stripping if the Iraq War ever ends.
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Post by jessebaker on Sept 18, 2008 22:01:38 GMT -8
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Post by jessebaker on Sept 18, 2008 20:09:21 GMT -8
BTW this whole thing shouldn't even stand past the last issue of BNWTD, since Andy Diggle of "The Losers" fame is taking over as writer of Thunderbolts after Secret Invasion and the solicitations have stated that Mac is still going to be Venom.....
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Post by jessebaker on Sept 18, 2008 20:08:41 GMT -8
No it isn't. Until there is a massive and public "We are renouncing the Republican Party and Bush and company and forming our own party" action, the sane conservatives are still the bitch boys for the neo-con war-mongering deficit creators, as far as them being pussies who won't put their money where their mouth is as far as destroying Bush and the Republican Party by publicly leaving it and denouncing Bush and company as the reason why it's happened.
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Post by jessebaker on Sept 17, 2008 0:18:48 GMT -8
If McCain gets elected, his reputation is destroyed. We are standing on the brink of America collapsing into a hell that would make the Great Depression of 1929-1941 look like Romper Room and McCain, as the self-out whore he now is, would bring us running straight into that apocalyptic doomsday point of financial ruin for millions.
If he loses, he'll go down as the guy who broke his principals and whored himself out to the right and lost. If he stays, he'll compound the evils of the Bush administration to the point of ruining America and even worse, be scapegoated by the Bush revisionalists who will try and scapegoat him for the failures of W as they try and rewrite history.
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Post by jessebaker on Sept 16, 2008 22:46:33 GMT -8
Back when Marvel was originally planning on bringing Harry back as the Judas Goat for the Clone Saga in 1996, that was the big plan. But Bob Harras killed that reveal and ordered Norman used instead, due to him not liking Harry.....
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Post by jessebaker on Sept 16, 2008 21:30:05 GMT -8
FWI from the December Solicitations:
1. More variant covers, this time themed to villains
2. We are finally getting answers on the Harry Osborn front; bad news is that Slott's writing it. Couldn't they have given this story to Roger Stern? God knows he's a more trustworthy person to write the explanation than Slott, who seems to be, if the solicitation is to be taken seriously, going to simply say that Harry just rematerialized and that everyone decided to not ask any questions, as if to play dumb about it.
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Post by jessebaker on Sept 16, 2008 20:44:32 GMT -8
Bill Paxton and Lance Henricksen, two of the stars of Near Dark also appeared in Aliens. --------------------------------------------------------------- Other movie stuff that everyone needs to see:
TCM recently played "The Women" last night. I HIGHLY recommend you all pick it up on DVD (and avoid the current remake like the plague as far as it sucking and blowing). The dialogue's great and the casting knocks it out of the park.
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Post by jessebaker on Sept 15, 2008 23:09:11 GMT -8
I still say Katma=White Lantern, if only because she's the HUGE fucking elephant in the room right now Green Lantern-wise. Hell, if Hal's barely legal gf Arrisa can be freaking resurrected, why not Katma? ESPECIALLY since more people would want JS and Katma together than to watch McDuffie ramrod Stewart into a relationship with Emo Hawkgirl, who is devoid of ALL of the traits that made JL/JLU Hawkgirl and the Hawkgirl/Stewart 'shipper pair popular......
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Post by jessebaker on Sept 14, 2008 21:29:19 GMT -8
1. IIRC Secret Invasion is eight issues long
2. Complaining about pacing in a Bendis book is like complaining that water beign wet.
That said, I'm utterly shocked at how Bendis seems to be restraining his destructive writing habits with Secret Invasion. That alone makes it better than Civil War, or even Final Crisis, which skips from scene to scene with the frequency of a cheap ham radio, leaving a narrative that is skeletal at best.
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Post by jessebaker on Sept 14, 2008 20:49:08 GMT -8
If that succeeds, anyone want to guess the over/under on Catherine Tate being offered a deal as far as HBO or Showtime offering her a developmental deal, in hopes of making Tate the next Tracy Ulman?
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Post by jessebaker on Sept 14, 2008 10:33:55 GMT -8
New shows:
Decent but slow moving, as far as pacing is concerned. Hopefully it will pick up sooner than later.
I'm more in line with it being crap. The concept (what if someone introduced synthetic blood, allowing Vampires to come out of the closet and live alongside normal humans) would work better in a humor/satire situation, what with the way that vampires have become such a major pop culture cliche.
Not really interested at the moment; I should note that I didn't really get into X-Files until midway through season one, but it will probably take some decent word of mouth as far as one-off episodes to get me interested.
Returning shows:
Is BBT on DVD? I've been meaning to check it out.....
Haven't watched the show in ages and even then, I only watch it for George Eades to begin with.
Still watch and love it (largely for Marcia Cross, who can do no wrong in my eyes as an actress), though I would love to see them drop Felicity Huffman's character down an elevator shaft.
For me at least, since Seth McFarlane has started using his AS contract to have the AS versions of the newer episodes be sort of "directors cut" episodes as far as having content not in the Fox versions of the episodes, I usually skip Family Guy in favor of taping Desperate Housewives and watch the new FG episodes when they debut on AS....
It's good but the show can be hit or miss at times, when they go for non-geek related bits.
South Park=Fail and AIDS when you compare it to Family Guy. How Parker and Stone have avoided career suicide ala Dennis Miller with their "We give Bush a free pass" card shit is beyond me.
Also, they've purposely stripped Cartman of any remotely redeemable qualities, turning him into an utterly unlikable sociopath. The "Imaginationland" trilogy, with it's plot point of Cartman wanting to orally rape Kyle come hell or high water was the turning point IMHO, since it took Cartman fully into the real of unredeemable villainy IMHO.
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Post by jessebaker on Sept 13, 2008 12:48:05 GMT -8
The only one I can think of to be "White Lantern" would be a resurrected Katma Tui, since she's dead and can as such, have mastery over the black death power of the black lanterns.
I'd also toss in this: what kind of hell is Bendis up to with Wasp in Secret Invasion, per the conversation between "Hank" and "Spider-Woman" in Secret Invasion #6?
Wasp is the real Skrull Queen and Spider-Woman is her proxy/stand-in?
Wasp is going to explode like an A-Bomb due to the "growth serem" she was given by "Hank"?
Wasp has been turned into a disease carrier, as part of a super-secret tie-in with "The Stand" comic adaption, as far as "Hank" giving her the Captain Trips virus?
Wasp has switched sides and will betray the heroes at a key moment in the fight to ensure Skrull victory?
Wasp is going to turn into a literal real-doll Ultron ala Tony Stark at the climax of the fight?
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Post by jessebaker on Sept 13, 2008 11:56:58 GMT -8
Jesse here, ready to be let into the Phantom Zone.....
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