6 posts tagged “comic books”
You cannot call yourself a past or present comic book geek unless you have read Alan Moore's 'The Watchmen'. When I heard that movie was being made I scoffed at the idea.. there was no way this could be done. In fact I was almost right... this movie had been in the rumored status since 1986.... which at times feels like the often rumored but never seen 'Duke Nukem Forever' game. In other words... "There is no freakin-way this is ever going to happen"...
But it has happened.... it is coming out....
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Some of my favorite lines:
- Police Detective: I think you take this vigilante stuff too seriously. Since the Keene Act was passed in '77 only the government-sponsored weirdos are active. They don't interfere.
- Detective Steve Fine: Screw them. What about Rorschach? Rorschach never retired, even after him and his buddies fell out of grace. Rorschach's still out there somewhere. He's crazier than a snake's armpit and wanted on two counts of Murder One. We got a cozy little homicide here. If he gets involved, we'll be up to our butts in corpses.
- Happy Harry the Bartender: [scared] Ruh. Ror. Ror. Rorschach! Har Har How are ya doin', fella?
- Rorschach: I'm fine, Happy Harry. Yourself?
- Happy Harry: Fine! I'm fuh, I'm fine! And I'm, and I'm, and I'm glad you're fine too! And uh, and uh... Oh God. Please don't kill anybody.
When I saw the Jesus action figure, I really wanted one. I wanted to pose him on the top of a Dewback carrying Han Solo's blaster and take lots of pictures.
I had plenty of opportunities to buy the Jesus action figure, but it never happened.
However I have a new desire...
I want this comic book. I want to see God kick in a wall and beat the hell out of Hitler. Isn't this hysterical? I dare you to lie to me and tell me that this does not interest you.
I work with someone whom is slightly younger than me and I made the shocking discovery today that he has never read a comic book.
It started when I changed my wallpaper to Thor and he asked who that was. When I said Thor he asked... "Is Thor a girl?"
W-w-w-what?!?
I turned and looked at him in abject horror. And then the following exchange occurred;
Me: Have you ever read comic books?
Him: No
Me: How about as a kid?
Him: No
Me: No?
Him: No
Me: Spider-Man?
Him: No
Me: The Hulk?
Him: No
Me: The Fantastic Four?
Him: No
Me: Captain America?
Him: No
Me: The X-Men?
Him: No
Me: Superman? Batman? Aquaman? Justice League? Teen Titans?
Him: No, no, no, no and no.
Me: Have you ever tripped and fallen on a comic book and accidentally glimpsed one?
Him: No
Me: Are you human?
I used to work with someone who has never seen a single Star Wars movie. Not the original trilogy and definitely not the new one.
She is about my age as well.
How could you possibly miss out on something so imbued and anchored in our childhoods? It is like growing up and not ever seeing the 'Smurfs' or knowing who 'KIDS Incorporated' were... never sitting in front of the TV on a Saturday morning eating Lucky Charms and then going outside later and talking to your friends about what you saw on 'Thundarr the Barbarian', 'Dungeons & Dragons', 'Superfriends' or even the after school goodness of 'G-Force' or watching The California Raisins on TV ads.
What about 'Alf', 'The A-Team', 'The Misfits of Science', 'Duck Tales', 'The Dukes of Hazard', 'Hulk Hogan's Rockin' Wrestling', 'Robotech', 'M.A.S.K.' or 'Robocop'.
How about playing Pac-Man, Q*Bert, Dig-Dug, Pole Position, Star Wars, Pitfall, River Raid or Contra?
If you did not play, watch, view or access a handful of what I listed then you simply had to be living under a rock. 'Nuff Said.
There is no excuse unless your parents kept TV and basically life itself out of your field of vision.
I am not saying you had to watch them, I am not saying you had to be a fan... but you HAD to have known they existed. Right?
I look back at the media and toys of my youth and I get nostalgic for those years. My friends and I would talk and play for hours about the entire worlds we saw.
Dave Cockrum passed away.
Wow, I grew up on this man's illustrations. He did the X-Men... The X-men was a failure when it was first around and Cockrum along with Len Wein created Colossus, Nightcrawler, Storm and even Mystique.
He was a massive fan of comics and his creations really stuck with me
He passed away Sunday at the age of 65 due to complications from diabetes. He was wearing his Superman pajamas and was under his Batman blanket. Wow... what a way to go out in life. Surrounded by his wife and family and with his hobbies. How many of us get to do what we love?
I read this story and I began to tear up. Some people had Superman, Spider-man and Batman to grow up on, for me it was Cockrum's art in X-Men. He inspired me and I am a bit heart broken today at this news.
I have not collected Comic Books in over 10 years. I was a long time fan, I loved to read them then seal em up and put em away for a while and then I would pull them out and reread them. I was a collector sure, but I actually enjoyed my collection.
When I collected, starting at something like age 8, Comic Books were 65 cents an issue. When I finally got fed up and stopped was when they were $4.95 each and to finish reading a single story arc you had to jump from the X-men to the Avengers to Fantastic Four. I was downright sick of it all. If I decided to bypass getting those books to "complete" a story arc, I would miss everything that happened, because the very next issue was something else with different characters.
I walked away and I walked away fast.
Then the X-Men movies started to hit the screens and I really missed reading about my favorite band of mutants. I would go to the shops and just thumb through a few issues and I literally recognized about 2 of my mutants. There were hundreds of new ones... so I slinked away... disappointed.
This weekend I stepped foot into a comic book shop again and I was shocked and further let down by comic books. The art, they went Japanese. I love Manga and Anime, I really do... I love the style... but American comic books had it's own style. I enjoyed that style as well and my X-men were gone now, divided up into five or six different X-Men books.
Then my eyes landed on the Civil War mini series and I thumbed through it, there was the style. A little updated, but it was still there. I picked up the first three issues and I am really enjoying the heck out of them. While Civil War does cross over into a bazillion other comics, at least the story lines in this series are rather self contained.
I am going to get back into comic books again. Just a title or two.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Something that I can get into without paying an arm and a leg to get past issues?
I want something I can just pick up and get into and enjoy. If I want an entire story arc I will just wait for a trade paperback of it.
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