Can't Blog Clown Will Eat Me!

Well, I don't really have much to say today. So, I just thought I'd write up a few remarks on how big comic book movies have gotten over the past few years. Of course, the funniest thing about this phenomenon is how Hollywood has viewed comic books in the past and how us comic book fans knew better. We've know for awhile that if the companies used the right stories and spent enough money to do them right, that comic book movies could be completely awesome. No matter what genre the books were and I think we should all take a little pride in the fact that Hollywood really doesn't know anything. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing. It really is only a bad thing when the moguls, producers and, stars think they know something about what people want to watch. Of course, if true Redacted or Stop Loss would have made more than $15(combined). I think one of the many problems throughout the entertainment business (including comics) is when they try to stick with a certain formula because they think that it was that formula that made the project work. when in reality it was the project that worked and the formula was just a way of getting from point A to point B. I also think these industries have a problem with trying to find new and better material rather than doing retreads or figuring out that "winning" formula. I feel they should take more risk and throw more ideas against the wall to see, what sticks. After all Watchmen wasn't a good comic because it was "grim and gritty" it was good because Alan Moore is an insane genius. Well, that's my two cents have a good weekend.

Pop cultures most onesided fights

I'm in a bit of a silly mood today (well, to be honest it's actually more of a I need to be in a sillier mood) and in that spirit I thought it would be fun to list a bunch of onesided fights using characters from movies, TV and comics and maybe even one or two that could happen in real life (or already have). So, before this gets to be too long of an introduction...and away we go...
(FYI - The winners named first)

1) Guy Gardner vs. Boba Fett - That's right, the crazy GL vs. the guy who was knocked into the sarlac pit by a blind Han Solo.

2) Hulk vs. Willy Wonka - Hulk Smash! Then eat oompa loompas!

3) Alan Moore vs. Joe Quesada - one is a scary ass dark wizard that worships a snake god of his own creation, while writing crazy ass comics and the other guys is... well... Joe Quesada.

4) Dignity vs. Jimmy Fallon - If only he knew just how onesided this fight really was/is.

5) Mongul vs. Rictor - Boy, I bet he wishes he hadn't lost his mutant powers.

6) A DHL truck vs. Ch'p - Poor, poor Ch'p :*(

7) The Maxx vs. Sanity - PWN'd!!!

8) Scorpion vs. Phillip J. Fry - Get over here!!!

9) Cyborg Superman vs. Dr. House - If you stop beating me with my own leg I'll share my vicodin...

10) Firestorm vs. Emperor Palpitine - Force lightening...Not so good when you're figthing the nuclear man.

well, there you go some of the most onesided fights I would love to see and one or two that already have happened. In any event the thought of these folks fighting each other made me giggle and I figured I'd spread the funny.

I don't care if it's literature, I just want to know if there's any action and maybe a little meladrama

With all the stuff floating around about Final Crisis and the fact that nobody reads this I thought it was a good time to speak up on what I think about some of the "genuis" writers in comics. No doubt this will make some people angry but, then again it's not like they'll read this so, i'm not too worried about their wrath. I guess I should start with Grant Morrison, I think he's an alright writer but, certainly not as great as everyone else seems to think. His run on JLA was okay, I never read his run on X-Men because the art was terrible and his run on Batman was decent but personally, I liked Paul Dini's stuff on Detective better. Alan Moore, again I think his work is a bit overrated. I really dug his Superman stories and The Killing Joke was pretty good as well. Even The league of Extrodordanary Gentlemen had its moments and my only real complaint about The Watchmen was its shear density (and no I'm not talking about its near phonebook size). He's definitly a good writer but, I don't really see what all the fuss is about. Then there's Frank Miller, His run on Daredevil was great and so was The Dark Knight returns but as far as I'm concered that was his peak. Everything since then seems like retreads of the stuff he did in those books. Personally, I prefer the journeymen writers like Chuck Dixon, Keith Giffen, The Simonsons, Goeff Johns, Peter David, etc, etc. I don't know know I've just never been into the stuff (in movies and comics) where critics and fans are like "Now this is high art." Me, I'm like "Meh."