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Comics You Should Read: Daredevil

by on Oct.09, 2011, under Marvel, Reviews

I tried reading Daredevil before, during Ed Brubaker’s run on everyone’s favorite blind swashbuckling superhero. Brubaker at the time was my favorite writer, and his now-classic Death of Captain America storyline convinced me that Daredevil’s the next book I should follow. I admit that I haven’t read too much Daredevil before, except for Jeph Loeb’s Daredevil: Yellow (back when nobody considered Loeb to be a hack) and Frank Miller’s Man Without Fear. I haven’t read Born Again simply because I can’t find a copy anywhere. Anyway, I found Brubaker and Miller’s work on the character brilliant, but it never really connected with me. Daredevil was far from my favorite character, and I honestly won’t be bothered to follow the title. Especially when you see that the comic becomes progressively depressing to read. There’s something about making a character’s life even shittier than Spider-Man’s that gets to me. (continue reading…)

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Russell Crowe as Jor-El in The Man of Steel!

by on Oct.07, 2011, under DC, Movies

So here’s a set picture of Russell Crowe as Jor-El in the latest Superman film, The Man of Steel. I dunno, he reminds me of a hobo. I wonder why.

Seriously, what the fuck is he fucking wearing? Was he drunk and did he stole one costume off the Thor set? Explain this monstrosity, Zack Snyder. EXPLAIN!

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Snap Judgment: Bunker of the Teen Titans

by on Sep.28, 2011, under DC, DCnU

 

So one of the new characters to join the Teen Titans is Bunker, a flamboyantly gay Mexican teenager with forcefield powers. All diehard Teen Titan fans I’ve talked to have come to the same conclusion when they heard the announcement about him:

Why is Tim Drake trying to give him a crotch-hug?

He’s doomed.

It’s not a judgment on him – we have yet to see him in action – rather, it’s a judgment on both his writer and the company publishing him.

Scott Lobdell has not shown mature handling of sexuality lately (see: Starfire in Red Hood and the Outlaws and the ensuing controversy) which is a far cry from his great work in the 90s handling Generation X and Alpha Flight. Now, I know that writing straight female sexuality and gay male sexuality are very different things, and some people can fail miserably at one while acing the other (Hi, Judd Winick!) but the Starfire issue, combined with his comments in interviews where he’s bragging about how diverse his cast of Teen Titans is and how Bunker is going to be flamboyantly gay, because that’s how gay people are, does not give me much hope.

(Also, is it just me, or did his interview feel like he’s taking potshots at Marvel’s teen gay superheroes – Wiccan, Hulkling, Karolina Dean, Anole, etc. – who while being gay, aren’t stereotypes?) (continue reading…)

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So I tried reading X-Men again..

by on Sep.27, 2011, under Marvel, X-Men

 

And I am angrier than ever. Why are X-Fans such masochists? Even more than Teen Titans fans but slightly less than Legion fans. God damn.

 

 

I’m an on-off X-Men reader, but I haven’t kept up in the last few years. Mostly because, well look at the cycle. So before going back, I asked longtime and hardcore X-Fans what I should expect. Most wondered why I even do this, I get more than enough masochistic RAGE from Teen Titans.

So here’s what happened while I was away:

 

Shadowcat is back:

We last saw Kitty Pryde at the end of Joss Whedon‘s very successful run in Astonishing X-Men, arguably one of the best arcs in the past decade. She’s freed from her giant intangible hollow bullet circling space forever and is back on earth, but with a catch: she’s stuck in her intangible form and can’t speak without wearing a suit. But she gets better. Don’t ask how but she does. But who brought her back?

Magneto joins the X-Men:

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Anne Hathaway as Catwoman in Full Costume!

by on Sep.25, 2011, under DC, Movies

Remember the last time Anne Hathaway’s pictures as Catwoman were leaked? I was pretty much disappointed because it was just a girl in a leather outfit riding a bike. There was nothing special about those pictures, really. I am ever so glad to see new The Dark Knight Rises set pictures of Anne Hathaway dressed up as Catwoman – and this time she has the mask and cat ears!

If you’re wondering why the cat ears look stupid, I’m guessing those are actually the goggles we saw in the first set of pictures before, and they’re just sitting on her head.

Now excuse me, because I’ll be in my bunk.

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