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NML was brilliant! (Cataclysm, OTOH, was one of the worst comics ever.)

From what I recall it was an 'effin mess creatively and for good reasons remains largely untraded.

If someone where to tell you the overall plot it would sound largely compelling the reality was all over the place.

I may be wrong though as it's been a while.

Oh no Batman Cataclysm, No Man's land 90's flashbacks.

Ah a brand new entry on my shit list...

I want to pick that up...does it matter if one does not read any other Flushpoint titles?

Whoa, whoa, whoa, Lou make sure you don't inadvertently look at the cover for the 3rd Dark Knight Flashpoint issue. Spoilers ahoy.

Dark Avengers, issues one to six.

 

Very enjoyable. More so than I have found most "Good guy" ensembles recently.

Did you read Warren Ellis 12 issue Thunderbolts run that sets ups the Dark Avengers and a few of the Marvels events?

Good fun, and featured the same artist too.

I hope that we soon get a new Joker, one that I'll enjoy more than Ledger or Nicholson (who I actually love).

I really don't. I feel no urge for yet another remake of Batman.

 

+1

 

I really don't think we need yet another reboot/remake at this point.

Sadly it's in the post.

$old....gonna go look for it at the LCS today.

Batman (I'm not sure if you know this series twist on him yet) is also the co protagonist in the main Geoff Johns Flashpoint series.

I think all he major plot Batman revelations fall into the first two issues of Flashpoint and it would definitely enhance the Azzerello mini.

Ergo I'd at least pick up those two issues.

While on the subject of Flashpoint, issue 3 is another solid Johns read and the alternate take on Superman is great fun, but the almost premature knowledge of the DC reboot has personally taken much of the wind out of the sails ending wise.

The oh-it's-just-another-alternative-world-tale-so-what's-really-at-stake question at Flashpoint's beginning may have been too thoroughly answered.

Still I had faith John's would do more than just another what if series in the beginning, so perhaps I should maintain it regarding the potential to still be surprised.

Cool! I can't wait for that.

Thanks for asking.

No problem, it was either that or just watching the light gleam off of his cranium.

He was quite chuffed to see that I had the individual issues of Flex Mentallo (Signed by Quitely), but then deflated that with what would be otherwise good news.

The long vanished series is to be recoloured and finally traded, news to me at least.

Most Morrison like line at the Book reading/interview/Q&A?

On how mobile phones were getting smarter and smarter, "See? In the future the robots don't want to kill us, they want to fuck us and we want to fuck them".

Quite.

Multiversal IS still on, as Flashpoint only effects Earth 1 or what have you.

It will adopt a Seven Soldiers bookended style structure and the first issue opens with a constipated Hitler on the bog reading action comics...

What about Multiversal? Is DC still doing that, or has Flashpoint negated any reason for that book?

I really wanted to read that. (Far more than WildCATS...)

What (Google notwithstanding) was Multiversal?

I'll enquire tomorrow.

So absolutely no Hellblazer to come, at all.

I think I almost ruined his day by asking.

Three more issues of Batman Inc than a further 12 with Chris Burnham, probably post the Action Comics reboot.

Still desperate to finish WildCATS.

Again it is offish, but there was no other mention that I recall of incest between Rosacarnis and her Father Nergal, so it would have had to work on that level.

Reading many of his adventures I have detailed a list of these problems which involve him being an incestuous, bi-sexual, voyeuristic, pompously arrogant, selfish, chain-smoking man who is afraid that the whole damn world is after him yet most of the time he plays like he does not care.

 

So I was wondering, not counting Demonstantine's recent encounter with Gemma, am I forgetting some incestuous event from the comics?

 

 

*well, in the loosest possible sense of the word)

If it counts during Carey's Run, John (Blood wise is part Nergal) sleeps with Nergals daughter.

It was also ominously portended earliar by Gant's demonic bones infusion, and worked well with the prominent reintroduction of Gemma at the time.

I really can't hpold out any hopde for the great director he once was, but I wish we'd get the "Tom Cruise in a bleak world" Spielberg more often, flawed as those movies may be.

Another "Munich" for me please.

Brave sure looks beautiful. lots of nw trailer in the past few days: Mission Impossible 4, which suddenly is interesting to me again after remembering Brad Bird is directing it:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0LQnQSrC-g

 

 

I'm so psyched - even though I know I shouldn't be, but i still have a soft spot for watching Cruise blow stuff up, and add to that Simon Pegg and Sawyer, and I can ignore all the rest.

I've only ever liked the Topkapi styled Mission Impossible 1.

MI3 had some nice set pieces but personally didn't gel as a complete film and Cruise was in extra overbearing mode.

The less said about the second instalment the better.

I could really do with less Simon Pegg in overtly comedic relief roles.

This review of Transformer 3 almost made me want to see it, for the hell of it. Lovely piece of writing.

It's so massively and excessively vulgar that it doesn't just flirt with self-parody, but chews it up and spits it out, and I'm not even sure that's unintentional. In food terms, "Dark of the Moon" is like going to TGI Friday's and ordering everything on the menu and then going to Krispy Kreme and doing it again. It's not worth doing, it'll definitely make you sick and a lot of it will taste bad, but as a performance-art act of juvenile Id-fulfillment, it's magnificent.

There was a similar Time Out review regarding the second outing in which the reviewer said that you just had to simply give up.

More battle porn then.

Off of the sexist robots for a sec, finally a real film.

The Messenger.

Even as a concept/pitch alone the Messenger is right up there on that why-didn't-I-think-of-that? level.

A returning Iraq soldier serves out the rest of his tour in the Casualty Notification Office where he is partnered with a jaded Gulf War One vet.

A unique but essentially obvious anti war angle.

The film episodically documents truly heartbreaking door to door visits with such raw power that I honestly felt like I was intruding on private grief.

Invariably in the pitch though, the younger soldier becomes attracted to a recently widowed woman.

However the film's real surprise is that, as with Ryan Fleck films (The personally loved Half Nelson and Sugar), it the quietly sidesteps and overturns various cliches and audience expectations.

The life between the script beats elevates this, possibly too long film, further above a pretty decent concept to begin with.

It's the first time I've seen Ben Foster, who I found affable enough in the past, truly dominate on screen, however it's Woody Harrelson (His partner) and Samantha Morton (The Widow) who are blessed with "complete" roles.

Hey I said I believe!

The STH powers that be should change this thread this thread to "The Boy who cried Morrison".

Foyles, the London branch are "selling" free tickets to a Morrison's reading of Supergods, on the fifth I believe.

I think they are both shit, in my opinion.

Hear, hear!

I generally enjoy tits.

I really like the Zep cover (and I am a big YYY fan, so that should come as no surprise) and the trailer is very well done too. It does look like David Fincher doing his typical blue/grey filter stuff on top of the swedish film/tv series though. And while I enjoyed that one (the two others were very hit and miss for me), I don't see much point in this.

 

but then again, I loved the Kenneth Brannagh Wallander adaptation the BBC did (is doing? wasn't there supposed to be a third series on its way?). better source material, in my opinion.

Absolutely, I was going to mention Wallander.

Add a "sexy" chick and get those marketing boys in and voila.

Loving the Return of Bruce Wayne and the relevant Batman and Robin issues. Truly masterful stuff. Can't wait to get my Cave Man Bruce action figure.

How's that reading order treating you?

Well, I meant crowded in the sense that Batman begins felt crowded to me at times - too many characters that needed servicing, and what little i liked of The Dark Knight was that they managed to avoid that.

I, wha-- wait, whaaaaat?

Probably the best rendition of the Joker outside of Bruce Timm/Mark Hamill and an excellent movie to boot, and you barely liked it?!?

If there are better superhero movies than Nolan's Batman flicks, I haven't seen them. Hell, they might even be the best comic book films ever made...

If I'm allowed to use this but 9/10ths of the first Superman film.

The ending however is the dumbest idea any human has ever had the audacity to put to paper.

Personally, Dark Knight was magnificent and the film of that year, but it took me awhile to get over Nolan's interpretation of Batman.

The shouting thug in a Robocop suit is hard to swallow, (Whereas Bale as Bruce is great)

Therefore I can understand Rogan getting stuck, if I may, on the Joker aspect of the film.