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After seeing all your "favorites" list, I couldn't help but wonder what some of your "worsts" would be. What are some of your least favorite comics, movies and books?
After Hellboy yesterday I actually had that thought -- maybe a "worst of" list would be fun. Thanks.
I second the 'worst of' lists idea.
U2 fans...
I picked up the Deluxe Remastered Editions of their first 3 albums yesterday. You can get them for about 20 bucks at Best Buy and the packaging alone is worth that. Each album comes with a bonus disc of rarities, b-sides, live recordings (the one with Boy is the best... and even though the War bonus disc is mostly remixes... they're damn good remixes). They have new liner notes from friends/historians of the band and The Edge (who oversaw the remastering) They sound great and, for the first time in the states, we have the original cover art for Boy!
Geoff: Did you catch the Avatar series finale last weekend? If so, what did you think, and will you be doing any kind of review/analysis of the ending and/or the series as a whole?
I LOVE Avatar, but am watching on DVD rather than on Nick's stupid schedule. So I will see the whole thing by the end of the month.
Re: Avatar let's see if you cry at the same moment I did.
"Sozin's Comet" may be the best final episode of any series ever.
Every comics fan on the planet saw The Watchmen trailer right?
I find myself incredibly uninterested in a Watchmen movie and cannot imagine why anyone anywhere would want to make it.
Worryingly, Morrison's secret hidey-hole blog thing throws up some strangely ill-conceived thoughts on the Watchmen footage he got to see while in LA:
"In fact, the crystalline, kaleidoscopic, hi-def hyper-reality [Moore] imagined is right here, onscreen. The eye-blistering, infinite depth-of-field detailing that CGI allows in every shot might almost have been created with WATCHMEN’s miniature, contained, and semantically-dense world in mind. Moore has a lot to be grateful for and a nice big smiley face might be appropriate."
"Hi-def hyper-reality" and "eye-blistering, infinite depth-of-field detailing" just seem entirely the wrong way of looking at Gibbons's work to me. Still, at least he didn't use "sherbert-bomb" or talk about "pop" or the Millennium. (Although he does use the Morrison-by-numbers "thoughtcuttings" at one point. Ugh.)
It seems like a sad attempt at winding Moore up, being enthusiastic for it, painting him as some obstinate, grumpy old man. But as if Moore remotely cares.
Amusingly - the Watchmen site refers to it as 'a graphic novel drawn by Dave Gibbons.' No mention of who it's written by. A weird disconnect, Orwellian Memory Holes that I'm sure Moore was hoping to conjure.
Every comics fan on the planet saw The Watchmen trailer right?
I find myself incredibly uninterested in a Watchmen movie and cannot imagine why anyone anywhere would want to make it.
Worryingly, Morrison's secret hidey-hole blog thing throws up some strangely ill-conceived thoughts on the Watchmen footage he got to see while in LA:
"In fact, the crystalline, kaleidoscopic, hi-def hyper-reality [Moore] imagined is right here, onscreen. The eye-blistering, infinite depth-of-field detailing that CGI allows in every shot might almost have been created with WATCHMEN’s miniature, contained, and semantically-dense world in mind. Moore has a lot to be grateful for and a nice big smiley face might be appropriate."
"Hi-def hyper-reality" and "eye-blistering, infinite depth-of-field detailing" just seem entirely the wrong way of looking at Gibbons's work to me. Still, at least he didn't use "sherbert-bomb" or talk about "pop" or the Millennium. (Although he does use the Morrison-by-numbers "thoughtcuttings" at one point. Ugh.)
It seems like a sad attempt at winding Moore up, being enthusiastic for it, painting him as some obstinate, grumpy old man. But as if Moore remotely cares.
Amusingly - the Watchmen site refers to it as 'a graphic novel drawn by Dave Gibbons.' No mention of who it's written by. A weird disconnect, Orwellian Memory Holes that I'm sure Moore was hoping to conjure.
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