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Snowed in again. XD

pensive1  be patient with me it might take me a little longer to get your book out to you than I would like but I will get it to you within this week. :D Promise! I was hoping for today but that's when the massive snow storm hit us again. Bear with me. :)

So this is funny I stumbled upon this deadpool rant thanks to me seeing the Lady Deadpool channel of a girl named tallestsilver. Note I know nothing of this girl and I had no idea there was this whole giant deadpool youtube channel thing going on at all. Literally. I'm a big comic fan but my circles online have generally been contained more towards my own general friend list than massively going out there on message boards and so forth. I'd love to go to more cons but and I know this is weird but I don't have a regular con buddy to go with so to be honest with you it's kind of harder for me to pull off. It would be interesting to go to SDCC at least once but I'm sort of in the mindset of toss the coin and see if it ever happens. I would really love to go to Heroes Con this year though but my comic guy and his group decided to head for another con so I'm sort of not sure if that will happen. Who knows maybe I'll get a wild hair about myself and figure out a way to get there on my own but I have no idea where I'm going around there. Me wandering around by myself in someplace I'm not familiar with umm..it would be interesting.  

I digress though.

They're talking about the Deadpool corps in these videos and I'm only on part two but it is interesting how Deadpool is hitting this over saturation land in quick manner. I swear to you if Joe Kelly had this back in the day Deadpool would have had a easier road ahead of it back in the day. The main reason it survived as it is was just on sheer it just did barely enough that they could maybe keep it. From what I remember it was more of a editorial liked it and wanted to find ways to keep it going. The legendary Deadpool month for example which I do own most of that outside of the Widdle Wade one shot. I own everything else from that month though. So much fun.

Right now though Deadpool is in a massive cycle of being pushed to the moon and I'm curious to see where this is going. If the movie hits in the next couple years and it hits big then it'll all be worth it. If it bombs well oh crap that would just be in a whole new direction eh? I love Deadpool for he is a great character and was one of the gems of the universe and now to see him get his due is awesome. I just hope it doesn't hit the factor of Deadpool overkill. For I see the potential for it. I'm of the opinion of it'll go either way. I'm curious about the other opinions on this. I'm on the fence but I'm curious in the other views out there. Just what do you think of Deadpool o'rama? Fire me a comment and let me know.

This is the story of how I gained a pure appreciation for some truly bad movies for the first time since my days of watching MST3K. I went over to my old friend Michael's apartment awhile back and he had this movie he mentioned called Fantasy Mission Force. So one day we made a big trip up there and we watched a few movies that day but Fantasy Mission Force made me just..wow. Put it this way when my reactions were along the lines of, "What the?" "Ya..what in the world?" "Gah..how, what, where?" and eventually he just told me to watch movie.

Let me post a clip of one sequence up here just to give you all an idea of it,


Just watch the title sequence and it will give you an idea of just the pure unadulterated madness that lies within this movie. Oh yes and did I mention it does have Jackie Chan in it? But only for about 25 minutes? Maybe? Not a lot of screen time but it's usually put under his name since he's the only recognizable to american audiences star in it. It's absolutely nuts. Story will not matter to you when you watch this film but let me see if can I cobble a synopsis for you all.

Group of Generals being the Super Major Generals get kidnapped and a man has to gather a team of people who are from everything from spies, kilt wearing soldiers, and a bad ass lady with a giant rocket launcher. This all does take place within World War II...kind of. The team has to go rescue the Generals and yeah. Within a strange context of running into Amazons, Nazi's in K-Cars...umm..Ghosts and the music stolen from the movie Halloween. Yeah. Just yeah.

There's no way to explain this fully outside of watching it and embracing the insanity.

Oh my God....It's all online! Oh dear lord it's all online. You can watch this movie online in full! I will post a link for you all. :D

http://www.sling.com/video/show/225802/34/Fantasy-Mission-Force

Yes you too can watch this movie. I'm not sure how it's going to work internationally but I get the feeling it shouldn't be a problem watching this in any country. It's Fantasy Mission Force. It's absolutely insane and if you do end up watching it and I mean really if you end up watching it and you watch it in full I will reward the person in some way. That's right if you watch this I will reward you. Now of course you actually have to attempt to explain it and prove to me you actually watched it.  Now I wish I could watch it with you all and see your reactions but I'll just have to embrace them from afar. I can't really do much in rewarding but I'll come up with something.

Until next time! :D

My post ideas for the weekend will have to hold for a short bit since honestly I'm pretty beat. That and half the planet is either watching the Super Bowl or at a party for the Super Bowl, working,, or asleep. *laughs* So I shall wait till probably tuesday night. Here are the posts in my head so one I don't forget them and two so you know what to look forward to.

How Avatar ended up being the number one movie and in turn beating the Dark Knight: Mostly inspired by the fact that my friend Greg wouldn't see Avatar because he didn't want it to beat his movie. (He's a big Batman fan so bat-fan loyalty. hehe)

The curious nature of the Heroic Age and just how in the world it's going to work out: Just my ideas in further with the recent developments of the Heroic Age of Marvel and also I'm starting to wonder where this will all go.

My hopes for future animated movies of Marvel and DC: The stories I want to see animated and stuff I know could be done.

Things in entertainment that broke me: Like the title says things that made my head hurt very much and kind of broke me into a gibbering mess of random words.

In other news I went out today to go eat and ended up stumbling upon a cool something for pensive1  and I saw a couple things there but I should avoid going too overboard with books since right now I got a lot of stuff to go through as it is. Oh by the way the Solomon Kane trade "Castle of the Devil" is awesome and if you're in the mood for a classic adventure story then you're in luck. It's based off the Robert E. Howard stories of Solomon Kane who on his basic terms is a puritan who's a fighter who is a soldier of God and by nature is a decent man yet if something strikes him foul and he knows you're on the side of the devil you are absolutely screwed. I dug it a lot and it is a fun read. Check it out. :D

I'm going to end this post here for now and I shall catch you all tomorrow, bye for now! :)

So I was talking with my Mom and she said, "Doris (my great aunt) went to the movies and she saw this awful movie...." so I ask, "what is it?" and she couldn't explain it to me outside of Dennis Quaid being in it and involving a girl being pregnant and angels going after her.

Me: My great aunt saw Legion!?

That's right my great aunt who rarely goes movie watching somehow saw Legion.

I could have told her to avoid that land of pain. Wow...

I still can't believe my great aunt saw Legion. Wow.

Oh yes and it looks like I'm going to be snowed in this weekend...massive winter storm.

This could be my big comic weekend it seems. *laughs*

I just got Planet Hulk on Blu-Ray via Netflix yesterday and I just finished it today. I'm very impressed by it. I expected some of the differences from the book for I was very sure they weren't going to do World War Hulk after this. Still though I liked the changes overall and it did leave out a few things but it doesn't bother me for it gave me some really cool geek out moments. There's some fun cameos in the Gladiator sequences for if any of you do plan to watch it I won't spoil for you. Needless to say if you're a fan of the cosmic verse and Thor you are going to geek out severely for this.

They do the setup nicely from the book of the Hulk being sent to a desolate planet for him to find peace via Iron Man, Reed Richards, Dr. Strange, and they silhouette the other members just loosely showing you the Illuminati. The animation for this is very well done and the voice acting is pretty solid for the most part. Miek reminds me of Miek and so on. Good Hulk voice too and I was impressed by the Hulk voice. Battle sequences made me very happy in this film for there was a great energy to them and I loved those immensely. I want to re-read Planet Hulk again just so I can remember some of the finer points. The Silver Surfer for example is in the Planet Hulk comic and the replacement for him in the Gladiator battles I did get a massive kick out of and I'm a bit of a fan of this character and when you watch it you'll know who it is. ;)

"Okay so the Silver Surfer is out but...Hell yes!!!!" Needless to say to any of you Walt Simonson Thor readers and so forth..it's a great appearance. hehe

The movie worked for me and it's awesome and it's the first of the Marvel films to make me go, "Okay this is awesome well done."

So if any of you are in the mood for a movie go watch Planet Hulk and check it out. I think you'll be pleased.

Just imagine my reaction later whenever more of you read it for bluntly....well when you read it you'll understand when I say remember the Thor chump beatdown?

Yeah this sort of amplifies the Thor chump beatdown in spades.

Seeing the segment that I don't mention for huge spoiler theater on that one...well since I'm not sure how many of you have read Transmetropolitan just think of like this,

Spider Jerusalem when a president in his world got elected as he nicknamed the Beast he posted an entire column consisting of the f-bomb written a lot of times. It was that sort of moment when I saw the segment. Hoo boy...Bendis you came close my boy this close...and I tried oh did I try. Bah! Bad Bendis!

It involves Ares and that's all I'll say. Ares and the Sentry....BAH!

Gotten from hawkwitch  and superfan1 


What would be the words you'd use to describe me?

You've never met me.
Just based on what I "speak" and how I speak.curiosity

I'm quite fascinated by this so go for it and let's see what you all describe of your humble host. Catch you all later in the day.

Now these are just bits I can remember from my relatively short period of playing WoW. They are culled from my time on Bronzebeard, Gorefiend, and Dethecus.

Story one: The Silent Girl...I think she was a girl.

This was when I was playing Blueobsi on Dethecus and wow you know I had some unique experiences with this character but none really matching the silent girl. Mostly silent. I was wandering about doing some questing and this girl asks me to group..so I'm kind of bored and I decide why not? After the request I say Hi..nothing. Then try to talk a little more....nothing. So we just quest. Pure silence. Endless silence. Just wandering through a quest and her only words she would say was, "Here" and then that's all she would say whenever we saw something pertaining to the quest she just said, "here" eventually I got her to say"hehe" for something I said amused her. lol I don't know what it was but it was nice to get her to say something outside of "Here" after the quest of hunting down things ended and it took awhile. It was funny because another friend of mine on there was private messaging me and I was telling her this and she was just going, "Weird..." and that was about an hour of this. Just this endless strange quest. Of pure chat silence outside of "Here". I sort of adapted to it after awhile. It became almost a Zen experience of "Here", "Kill" "attack" and that was it. I was her attack dog. I was playing a Warrior so mainly I was pure muscle and tanking. I was a decent bit of a killing machine in my time. I had fun with Blue and it was fascinating. Maybe she was shy I don't know but I was polite and helped her out and she did say thank you and went on her way. The Silent Girl - I still wonder who she was...

Now onto further news: Dante's Inferno is next week and I cannot wait to play that game!  It's probably been one of the more recent satisfying demos I have played. It's that and Bayonetta that made me one happy gamer over the past weeks. Bayonetta though flawed on the PS3 I heard the recent patch makes it a lot easier to deal with so we shall see. I heard the main reason the patch happened is because in Japan the game sold more on the PS3 than it did on the 360 therefore patch came into effect. It's going to be interesting seeing Dante's Inferno since it seems EA put a good bit more into the PS3 version than the 360. We shall see. I'm excited though. :D

Oh and by the way anyone who has a PS3 and wants to add me to their list look for NeoZuzu and just put a note saying, "LJ friend" or something like that. I also have friends wanting me to get M.A.G at some point which I'm not a big shooting game person but it would be interesting to try. Fun fact is sometimes I'm surprised by games I normally wouldn't play. One of my friends had UFC Uprising that he was downloading and another friend of ours was over and he and I decided to try it and lo and behold...we could not stop playing. It was absolutely addicting. To this day whenever we have a game night at his house UFC Uprising is usually game of the night since literally none of us will stop playing. *laughing* What cracks me up is the fact that you can knock someone out in ten seconds. *run run run* PUNCH! *knocked out* There's always a good bit of WTF!!!???? on those situations.  Of course there's another person there who was the one who I first played the game with Travis who seems to be the one that I end up having these epic brawls with. These long matches that just go on and on and never end.  He's better at submission than I am so I sort of adapt my game and suddenly it takes a turn.  I'm unpredictable when I play a game for I try to adapt to the situation and just see how it goes. I try not to be predictable since I like to see just what a character can do and see what the game will let me do.

Another game that gets a good bit of play is Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe and I suck at that game. Oh my God I suck at that game. I mean not just suck I suck. If I had more time with it I might would figure it out but I'm not that great at it and it's not really a pleasurable game since the Mortal Kombat fight system isn't much fun to me. It's okay but I liked the first couple of Mortal Kombat games and yes kids I have seen the movies and they hurt like fire. The first one is okay  but the second...GAAHH!! I've only seen bits of it and never want to deal with much more than the bits. Huurrtttssssss....

I mainly play the DC Characters though and Deathstroke is actually kind of fun to play. Joker is strange to play but neat once you get the hang of it. The worse part was when I first played and I was doing okay actually and then I said the legendary words of, "How do you block?" and I'm not really much of a block person so how I managed in the early part was a riot. Of course now thanks of UFC I've become more block oriented since believe me if you don't block in that game you will get hurt. Very very hurt.

So tomorrow is comic store and I also have Planet Hulk on the way from Netflix so I will be watching that tomorrow! :D yay! I will let you all know what I think of it.

Ending post here for now.

Tomorrow is work and then Wednesday I'm off and this comic day is one I am looking forward to since honestly...:D I will be tearing through bits of the Captain Atom collection at my store since I got a good chunk of it from the 25 cent bins of the almighty at Half Price.  I loved those bins...:D

This week is going to be a decent one in new comics,

Buffy The Vampire Slayer #32: It seems people are giving some excellent preview buzz on this so I'm hopeful this will be a great final arc for this season of comics. 

That's one of the biggies and okay for me being a Deadpool fan..umm...ummm...there's a lot of Deadpool variants out there. I mean a lot, they're literally all over Marvel right now. Deadpool here, Deadpool there, he's everywhere I tell you. Boy it just goes to tell you how a movie can change the fortunes of a character eh? Oh and Ultimate X..I'm torn because one it has awesome Art Adams artwork but on the other end it's well...LOEB! So it goes back and forth on that front.

Siege this week and also..there's one quirky release that is out in manga form that if you all get the chance skim through it and just sort of look in pure what the? It's Ultimo via Stan Lee's mind with the creator of Shaman King writing and drawing from there. It's a strange book...really strange book. I read through it in books a million and wow...different experience to say the least. All I can say is kids? Wesley has his limits. I so have my limits. lol...It's not bad persay but it's a little strange.

Scattershot post on this one but I'm going to settle down here in awhile and be watching Chuck and then sleeping soon enough.

Bye for now!

I was in a Half Price Bookstore today and the store was doing a comic book clearance and well...oh my God you would not believe what I stumbled upon...25 Cent Comics galore! :D

I loaded up on Captain Atom comics, Firestorm, Checkmate, Solo Avengers: Hawkeye, and then saw some holy grails. The holy grail I will tell is the digest DC Comics. Oh hell yes! Those things are awesome! If you ever stumble upon those grab and enjoy the madness! They are so much fun. Then the coolest thing also was old school marvel novels. I found a Dr. Strange novel and Incredible Hulk novel. More to come on those later. I also ended up with paperback reprints of Doctor Strange and Captain America in full color. Those things are just neat. :D

Of course the worse part about it was where the comics are is inconvenient to say the least. It's right in front of the register line so I got hit by purses, bumped into and all sorts o fun. I just adapted and kept looking. So many nifty treasures that people were overlooking in the comic pile. The half price employees liked me this day since I eliminated a huge chunk of their comics. They gave me a box. Did I mention they gave me a box? Yes a box. I had a box. Go me. XD hahaha.

Since I wasn't driving I also read the final volume of JMS's Thor run and man...He will be missed. Fraction has a hell of a run to live up to. Honestly I'm surprised they didn't give it to Gillen since he's proving himself nicely. Of course Fraction is the bigger name right now so we'll see what happens. I think I'm still cranky S.W.O.R.D got cancelled honestly. 

Oh and Johnathan Hickman's Fantastic Four...it's okay. It's fun in parts but it has a long way to go. I hope it turns out okay but at least art wise with Dale Eaglesham on it makes it absolutely awesome to look at. There are great ideas in it just there is so much more to do and go with this book. Secret Warriors his other book is a series that is all over the map. The first storyline is solid and a good read and now it's just bouncing all over the place and just starting to get a solid footing. I liked this last issue in parts and I want to see where it's going. Especially with a reveal that they also really need to get a steady continuity in where things are happening in the timeline here for considering where we saw the character last it's a little quirky. I'm not sure how many of you read the book so I'll avoid spoilers in general and if you want to know who the character is.

Bye for now!

In 1985 Marvel released a comic caleld Heroes for Hope starring the X-Men that all the proceeds of the book were donated to Africa and then a year later in 1986 DC released Heroes against Hunger under the same concept of all proceeds going to Africa. What's interesting about these books is one just reading about the cause and learning more about what was going on at the time and also seeing how the characters were portrayed then as compared to now.

The Heroes for Hope was fascinating in seeing the X-Men team of 1985 being a powerless Storm, Shadowcat, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Brown Costume Wolverine, Rachel Summer Phoenix, Rogue and Magneto leading the team. That was the wild part of this one for me and the way they handled the issue was odd. Both comics are jam issues in which different writers and artists work on a 2 or 3 page section of each book. The artists though are quite cool to see and in anything the art is well worth the buying of these books You get a cover done by Art Adams with a Jim Starlin Back Cover. The DC one you get a Neal Adams and Dick Giordano cover with a Bill Sienkiewicz back cover. Those are cool in themselves. 

Getting into the stories of each book, the main enemy of Marvel's book is hunger and while the DC book has their main enemy being The Master. In one book it's just the hunger that's the bad guy while the DC book it has an actual villain to fight. The stories are okay but there are fun segments here and there in each title. In the Marvel one Stephen King does a small segment that's genuinely scary and quite well done. You also have a Harlan Ellison segment with Wolverine that's intense. I loved the segment of Heroes for Hope with a suspiciously looking like stan lee ringmaster doing an appearance haunting Storm. For the deal is the villain of this being Hunger it visits each of the X-Men and confronts them with their worst nightmares. It can be strange getting used to the art changes in each book and also writing styles but in just witnessing what they pulled off is pretty fascinating.

(side note: When 9/11 happened I still own the Heroes poster book, the 9/11 Spider-Man issue and the 9-11 graphic novels.)

I compare that one to a degree because while the 9-11 was rushed out in a pretty quick period of time the Marvel book and DC Book took about between a year and then a year and a half. Getting all these artists and writers together is fascinating in itself. Also check this out, in the Marvel book Alan Moore does a piece in there. That's right Alan Moore.

Here's the Wiki entry for Heroes for Hope since I figure you all will want a fill list of creators, it's staggering and quite fascinating.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_for_Hope

I wish I could get you one for Heroes Against Hunger but there's not a full listing set up for that one yet.

Are they worth getting? I would say for the art value and parts of the story and just as an interesting time capsule I'd go for it. If you can find a good price on either. 

Till next time!

Tomorrow shall mainly be a comic reading day at least I hope so. I might be going out a little bit tomorrow but mainly I just want to be at home and reading comics. Endless amounts of comics. Then outside of a small shift sunday more than likely I will again...just want to read comics.  It was weird today I saw a couple old co-workers of mine and it was pretty fun actually. Of course the second one being a absolutely gorgeous girl named Katie who I won't be ashamed to admit I still have a bit of a crush on. She worked at my store for awhile and then she left and well..did I ever hold a torch for that one. That was before the saga began with my ex, way before that whole thing started. I knew nothing would happen since she had a boyfriend at the time but well...if you ever saw her...wow..absolutely freaking gorgeous. Yes if she knew this live journal existed she'd probably not be surprised that I really think she's absolutely gorgeous. I wish I had her number or that I hope I could get it...alas I put her in the out of my league syndrome.

To be honest what I need is one weekend to refocus myself on everything. The past week has been hectic but a good aspect on getting some stuff resorted at work but now what I need is a refocus into everything else. Yes the podcast is still in the works and now I might even push into the realm of video since I saw my cousin did a video of himself with a show on youtube called the Ramen Chef which is cool but it makes me want to push further into my programming.  A network of Wesley. *laughs* I guess I'm trying to regain the ambition side of myself. I don't really have it as much at work outside of just getting through the day but in my own life and pushing into a better direction that is where my ambition lies.

So end of February..yep that';s the goal for at least the podcast. It's going to be the killer month leading into inventory for my store but I'll be good. :D Let's rock this joint.

Since I saw the commercial for Psych the other day I've had Private Eyes stuck in my head and it's in my mind. *laughs*

You know I say a lot of the time that I was born in the wrong time period. I wish I could have been around in a bigger presence in the 80's. That would have been absolutely fascinating for me. Of course I think some of my quirks wouldn't have been appreciated then or maybe I could have innovated them onto a new age. hehe..

I'm really looking forward to Saturday since it'll be quiet day for me. I need it pretty bad. It's just been a bit of a strange week on this end and it's been okay but I just want away from things for a bit. Okay and now I'm listening to Maneater. Oh lord have mercy it's a hall and oates kick day. Do you all have any music that you just listen to and you like and you just have a certain reason or no real reason at all you like it you just do?

There's a lot like that in my realm.  XD

Oh and by the way I jsut read about the Green Lantern and Flash rings upcoming for the Brightest Day books. I want! :D I so wish I could get a black ring but alas I am deprived of a black ring...of course I am deprived of being a soulless husk of black lantern. 

This is a ridiculously random post because I have no real topic in mind outside of pure strange and quirky. I am literally all over ze place. haha

I'm ending this post here and hopefully tomorrow will be more focused.

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/at4w/16466-ultimates-3-one-and-two

Alrighty not much to say this evening so I give you all something to watch. This is atop the fourth wall and the review of Ultimates 3  #1 and 2 and it's going to end up leading into the ultimatum review. Lord help us all...o.o;;

So I saw force_oblique 's comment on comics for a rookie and instead of a quick comment I figured why not go for the gusto and do a full post eh? :D

For this is a question I occasionally get and it's a weird one for you have to one figure out what the person is into and suggest from that ground view in my land. Or there's also the if it's just a good comic it'll work no matter what. 

Say you have someone who's a fan of supernatural? Well hey give the comic book adaptations of Supernatural a shot for they are solid and it gives a new comics reader a look into comics while getting into a story at the same time. Reading comics at the core is about learning a storytelling language. For some people comics are an obscure art and some people can't grasp words and pictures working together to tell a story. I have had that conversation before and it's interesting for there are just some people who can't grasp that the two things can work together.That's why with a new comics fan you have to pick wisely and also figure out what they're into and at the same time let them get a feel for what they might want to read from there.

I would say one solid comic series for a new fan to check out is Queen and Country. One the first story especially is a great spy story and is ridiculously smooth to follow. Clear and crisp artwork with a good storyline to boot. It gives you the feel of a great tv series that you just want to devour more of. Make note in this I'm not going to give detailed looks just sort of snippets as to why I choose these titles as great starter books for people.I can get into more details in later posts as I go through and it will give me an excuse to re-read...*grins* Since I've read the first story of Queen and Country quite a bit.

Now say you have someone curious about superheroes but don't want to try and grasp onto all the continuity quite yet and just want a starter into it. To get the feel for it so to speak. There's of course the perennial Watchmen and even Kingdom Come and Marvels. All three excellent starter stories for your burgeoning comic fan in training the first two covered in college literature classes. V for Vendetta is a great book in itself as well and if you've especially seen the movie you might want to see where it started from. The New Frontier that Darwyn Cooke did is actually a great look into comics that's a look into the Silver Age of Comic books and gives you a great look into it without you feeling like you have to absorb a thousand years of continuity. That should be a new starter comic for even if you don't know the characters you can get into it fairly easily.

Oh and yes I would lose my nerd card if I didn't recommend the Sandman series for anybody. For it is very user friendly. The stories are contained within that series and you could read the ten volumes in any order but you would want to read them from the start since it would just make more sense. It's a beautiful book and I remember finishing reading it while I was in Cleveland in a hotel room. There's also the Death stories that are collected in trades themselves and would be easy user friendly reading.

The newest one is Fables which is awesome and I've gotten a few new readers to try out Fables. Generally it seems to go over very well with new comic readers. The aspect of Fairytale characters living in the modern world seems to click with people. I had a few people surprise me with how much they got into it. I got hooked into it and never let go of the darned series to this day.

One more I would be neglecting if I didn't say it would be Transmetropolitan. Just because of the fact that it is just so much fun and if you get that right person that say had an interest in fear and loathing in las vegas and likes a more insane journalist character well not insane but you'd have to read the book to get more of it but yes Spider Jerusalem is awesome. 

This is just a look into what you might want to look into for either yourself for an established fan or for a friend who might be curious. Happy Reading. :)

I'm working on titles for my official review section for this so let me know what you think of the title and from here we'll go on with the review. :D

Recently I read a title that I had been wanting to read since the first time I read an interview on it. It's called, "The Life and Times of Savior 28" and it's the history of the world's greatest superhero and what happens when really all he knew was just one big lie. It takes a look at a superhero going through his history of over sixty years of his time. The main reason why I picked it up in the first place was because of the writer being J.M. DeMatteis who you all probably know of from his time co-writing the JLA/JLI with Keith Giffen or his stints writing numerous books over the years and also his work on Abadazad and The Stardust Kid. He's written a bit of everything over the years. The artist is a newer name named Mike Cavallaro who's part of the Act-i-vate.com collective which I now need to start reading but his other published work is Parade (with fireworks) which I also own of his and I never caught on that this was the same artist who worked on that book. Generally because his style is quite different from that book and I didn't put two and two together until now.

Now I'm going to break this down into three categories from Writing, Art, and the overall rating.

Writing: This book has a lot to play with and in lesser hands this might not have worked as well but in this one it did. It goes into the aspect of realistic issues with Savior 28 mingling with the world leaders mixed in with slam bang super heroic action and his general life. What fascinated me is how the book mixed all these aspects together and blended them around swimmingly. That's not an easy thing to do and yet it managed to work out. It's a dark book yet it's more of a real life aspect and probably one of the more real life aspects of a superhero I've read. He doesn't go into the obvious directions and you don't see everything coming from a mile away since the book pretty much shows you what happens but you read through just seeing how it all turns out. He writes the character through the ages of the late 30's and into now and it's clever to see how the hero evolves and devolves at the same time. For yes he might be the ultimate hero but he's still human and he's not afraid to show that aspect. He got turned into from a 39 year old drunk in 1939 just sitting near the radio and dreaming about things and having this stone called "The Master Stone" put into him and making him into the ultimate hero. Like I said ultimate hero with a nice little frailty in him. He really genuinely is a hero yet he has the ego that rivals his powers. He writes within this aspect and making you feel the same way the narrator does being his ex-kid sidekick of loving and hating him all at the same time. Yet he sort of lets you form your own opinions about him.

The story itself flows nicely right into the end and the way this book is paced it could have been weird but it worked for me.

Art: Oh sweet lord the artist on this had a lot of fun on this book. He could go in either direction and make it look great either way. From realistic situations to the knock down drag out superhero battles he did it all. There's great double page spreads mixed into great multi-panel character and awesome silent moments. The way he handled all the different times of Savior 28 is great. This is just good work in itself. Cavallaro already has done some awesome work but now I'm curious as to where he'll go next from this title since this was impressive in all the things handled. He even went into near Jack Kirby like levels of energy for some of the battle sequences and even in the darker sequences when you see a character in a goofy costume in a scary situation it still managed to work as genuinely freaking scary.

In Closing: Definitely get this book. It's well worth your time, well worth your money, and it's just danged good.

So let me know what you all think of this and what you would like me to work on and leave your comments and opinions below. :)

Out and about for a little bit today and I end up at mall around here called Northgate Mall. Not the greatest mall but it has a few little stores in there. Since there's no real games I'm hunting for I end up wandering around a small store called Sci-Fi City. It's not great in the way of comic books but if you're heavier into miniatures, board games, or Dungeons and Dragons they're quite solid. Of course I manage to stumble upon the 3rd volume of Atomic Robo by some mad fluke. I swear to you how this store got it I have no idea but there it was and I was not to doubt. I grabbed it and was quite pleased. :D

Today here it's quite rainy and it's been a time and a half to stay remotely awake or at least slightly wanting to do anything outside of kind of sit about. I had a short day at work so my general day was work and then home then out for a bit and back home again. Not really much going on. Considering the strange week I had last week and into this one I've been glad just to be in my own quiet lands to be honest with you all. All I did today was focus on my job and that was it. That's literally all I would do most of the day was work and talk bits about The Hurt Locker which is an awesome movie if you're in the mood for intense military drama. For it involves a Bomb Squad in Iraq and the intensity this movie does with that aspect is impressive to say the least. Great job with scripting and music overall. Dear lord the music should be a star in itself in just the atmosphere it creates for the movie.

I think I've seen more movies in the past few days than I have in ages. hehe

Random thought: How in the world can the D&D game on Facebook be shockingly this fun? XD

There's a lot of stuff going on lately that I'm unsure about and yes I haven't mentioned the podcast but I am still working on it. The one thing I wish I had is a better graphics program to make a logo. It kills me on that front. I just need to sit down with gimp and see what I can do. If anything I can find some generic artwork and make a temporary logo until I can get something more solid together. One thing I want to do is script out a few episodes and get that. I've even got ideas for a video series in my head now. It's weird but the past week has made me focus that much harder on my other projects.

For now you all I'll be ending this post here. Bye for now. :)

I just actually woke up from a ridiculously long nap and I'm not a big nap taker but when I'm tired it seems if I need to sleep by golly my body will let me sleep a bit. So methinks I'm going to be up awhile. Oh and I did read the Blackest Night: Flash earlier in the afternoon and...wow this issue was awesome. I think the way I see it is if the third issue ends as strong as how this issue hit we will have one heck of a series. I'm still not exactly happy in the whole weird Flash situation we have at the moment but at least this mini series has been probably one of the best out out of the Blackest Night tie-ins.

Avengers vs. Agents of Atlas #1 was absolutely danged near perfect for me. A ton of fun with the comic and the lead up into the end made me really happy. Really not much more to say about that one. I'm going to have to detail these more in the future but I'm still kind of waking up here.

There is a post I want to do that involves a comic I read that actually might interest a few of you on here. It's called The Life and TImes of Savior 28. Fascinating little book and I think it does warrant it's own sort of review post so more on that one later.

Quick post nothing really fancy on this one.

Let's just say it's been a strange day and we'll go from there.

After I left work I sat down and read Dark Reign: The Hood at a local bookstore and wow..I'm going to have to own this at some point. For this was really good. I really liked it a lot. I was impressed at the artwork as well and the story was fascinating. Now I want to finally read the Hood's first story for I have his storyline he appeared in called Beyond that Dwayne Mcduffie wrote. Really good story by the way if any of you haven't read it yet. A quirky sort of odd Secret Wars homage if that makes any sense. :)

I also just finished watching 9 and I had a good bit of fun watching it, different story but also gorgeous and I mean gorgeous animation. Oh my goodness awesome animation. :D

Outside of these small things not much to report I'm pretty drained right now.

Happy Birthday pensive1  and I shall catch you all later. :)

I just read Dark Avengers # 13 and Dark Wolverine # 82 so here's my views on both books. Spoiler Warnings ahead.

( Dark Avengers #13 )

( Dark Wolverine #82 )

That's my looks on this one more to come as I read through my comics. :)