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    Image Comics

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    well, to DC's credit, they're finally continuing the new paperback editions of the Starman omnibus after letting them stall and linger out of print for years...

    Just started reading hellblazer!

    in Hellblazer

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    Those final few stories from Jenkins will actually be landing in trade very soon (19th of January), and if the solicit is to be believed, will include the Hellblazer story from Winter's Edge as well.

     

    I think this means that 99% of the original 250 issues :wink2: will finally be in some sort of collected form...

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    Star Wars

    in Bring the Noise

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    I felt that the pacing was a bit wonky - going too fast in places and too slow in others, the plot was predictable since it followed the formula of a previous movie and some moments felt a bit contrived but to its credit it doesn't feel exactly the same in tone, but none of that mattered much once the familiar sound of starships flying in or lightsabers powering up happened. It's the most genuine sense of fun and wonder I've felt at the movies this year since Fury Road.

     

     

     

    Han's death was coming from a mile away, but damn, didn't make it hurt anyless when Kylo just rammed his lightsaber through his heart... well, Harrison Ford got what he always wanted, I suppose - a way out of this franchise... unless the force ghosts come a callin' in Episodes VIII + IX.

     

    I wish that we'd actually saw a bit of the New Republic in perhaps a "last days of Rome" scenario before it got blown up, maybe Leia arguing with the Chancellor to take the First Order more seriously, to better hint at how exactly a Neo-Empire could've risen to the extent it did (Given all the celebrations shown at the end of Jedi, I don't think people were in such a hurry to get the Empire back) and why the Resistance seems as underfunded as it did (what happened to all the other Rebel ships besides the X-Wings?). Although maybe it was for the better that we didn't see much of the Republic, given the prequels.

     

    The New Emporer, Snork, Snoke, Snoak (however his name's spelled), he was one of the things I was less impressed with in this movie. I'm sure Serkis can pull off a good job in the sequels, but his visual design was a bit generic - like a cross between Lord Voldemort, the lame CGI orc leader from the Hobbit movies, and the Engineer from Prometheus

     

    Did anyone else get a Boba Fett vibe from Gwendoline Christie's Captain Phasma? In that it's a faceless character there just to stand around and look cool so her armor can sell toys, without actually doing much, and then getting disposed of in a not-too glorified manner? Although apparently she's going to be back in the sequel... I suppose Phasma's escape from the garbage chute and then Starkiller as it blew up will be covered in the new EU sometime down the road... it's actually funny thinking about it, now that the old EU is gone Boba Fett once more is just the chump who got knocked into the Sarlacc to his death by a blind man as far as the movies are concerned.

     

    I'm also a bit disappointed that The Raid guys showed up for a cameo, but didn't do any hand to hand fighting before getting offed by the CGI Tentacle Monsters!

     

    I can understand where some of the complaints regarding Rey's character as too skilled at everything she does come from, but to the film's credit regarding the duel with Kylo Ren, it did set up enough threads to make it plausible that she could beat him. Kylo Ren wasn't exactly as badass and skilled as he'd like to imagine given his temper tantrums and insecurities regarding his legacy and past life, plus prior to the duel, he'd gotten shot by Chewbacca's explodo-bow, sliced a couple of times by Finn and he likely was emotionally traumatized by what he'd just done to his father dark side or not and in my own experience when you're acting on emotions you happen to act less rationally, tactically and more impulsively than you probably should be. Plus the line that he hadn't actually completed his training yet...

     

    Likewise with the complaints regarding Finn's character as incompetant and useless - yeah, he'll probably win a badge of shame for being the first character in all these movies to lose to a common stormtrooper, but Luke Skywalker wasn't exactly the galaxy's greatest hero by the end of his first movie either. Way I see it, this movie completed his character's initial development, the rest of the trilogy we can actually see him becoming the badass people wanted him to be. His character to me was the most admirable and best developed of the three new leads (although Poe is kinda more like a very prominent side character in this movie).

     

    I actually wanted more Poe than what we got. (Apparently he was meant to die in the original draft, which probably goes to explain his disappearance from the crash until the first X-Wing battle) Praises for Finn aside, Poe's my favorite of the new three and he and Finn had such a good buddy-buddy dynamic together it's disappointing they didn't get many scenes together.

     

     

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    X-Men: I'll be Back to the Future

    in Comics in other media

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    Well

     

    McAvoy looks rather weird bald but I'm sure I'll get used to it, like I got used to a tall Wolverine

     

    I hope that Cyclops and the rest of the non-Xavier/Magneto/Mystique mutants will have something substantial to do besides shoot stuff during the action scenes and occassionally say something.

     

    Since the movie takes place in the 80s from what I've gathered, I was hoping that Quicksilver would've updated his DoFP look... to resemble a hair/glam metal singer like the Twisted Sister guy but oh well can't always get what you want. I wonder if he'll get more than just one scene this time, though? Maybe a sly wink and cruelly-placed one-liner regarding the fate of his cinematic counterpart over at Marvel/Disney?

    Marvel's One World Order

    in Comics

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    I suppose Marvel wants to keep pushing their cross-media synergy, where more and more stuff matches up with the movies because I suppose they think this will make their comics more appealing to the movie audience even though I doubt that the movies attract that many new readers.

     

    These days you wake up and it turns out everybody that marvel has the movie rights to was really an inhuman instead of a mutant the whole time, or wow, here's an upcoming Spider-Man comic set in high school right about the same time Marvel has planned a new reboot of Spider-Man for the movies set in high school...

    SPECTRE (not Corrigan or the 70s show)

    in Bring the Noise

    Posted

    Jumbled initial first impressions:

     

    +Christopher Waltz as so-obvious-we-won't-even-bother-hiding-it in spite of the needlessly contrived backstory added to the character

    +The Mexico City opening, the Plane chase were impressive action scenes. Although the first car chase was standard, I did like the small bit of humor with Bond flipping the gadget switches - like an Archer joke.

    -Forgettable main Bond girl, didn't really feel any chemistry between her & Bond and any development in their relationship felt rushed. Any scene trying to play their "love" for dramatic tension... just misfires because of that for me. The scene where Bond finally gets into her pants felt it was a parody of a similarly-set-up-but-better-executed scene from CR. I notice that it was her introduction in the movie in which I felt my enjoyment begin to plummet... and then start to flip-flop.

    -Some of the writing... either just misses or just rehashes what was already brought up in previous Craig films like "oh noes Bond you're a mean killer how can you live like dis." I noticed in my theater that a lot of dialogue obviously meant to be humorous (like 009 stuff, whoever he was) didn't get any sort of response, not even an awkward giggle. Although, maybe that can just be pinned on us Americans burned out to the point of total indifference by recent events + probable shit on the horizon.

    -As a whole, there's less memorable sequences that come to mind in comparison with Skyfall and Casino Royale. Film feels less tightly constructed, although there are some nice shots.

     

    There seemed to be the return of some Bond tropes that weren't as apparent/missing entirely in Craig's previous films. [ Spoiler : The Mostly Mute Henchman with a killer gimmick (although I don't think Thumbnails - did he even have a name - tried giving Craig the eyescream), the Villain's Cool Evil Lair Filled With Matching Uniform Henchmen, Said Evil Lair getting spectacularly destroyed, Bond getting strapped to an elaborate torture device (well, elaborate by Craig film standards) ].

     

    I was expecting an OHMSS-style ending to come out of nowhere for this film's ending, but I guess there's always the next movie's opening.

     

    A low B- at most, average thriller with some highlights.

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