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Wednesday, September 26, 2007

A Hollow And Soulless Mockery Of Blogging

What up? Just dropping in to give you a heads up of what to expect from This Sentence No Verb this coming weekend. But first let's ramble on nonsensically for a while!

Anyway, today is another one of those times when I want to write about something but all I've got (apart from the one or two big posts that are still being worked on) are lots of half ideas. I watched the Superman Doomsday film last night and as much as I want to discuss the highs and lows (mainly lows) I can't because, well, there's really not that much to it. Seriously. The fights were OK I guess but in true fanboy entitlement fashion I can't get over the fact that...oh, wait -


- there we go. Yes, I can't get over the fact that Mercy gets shot in the head. Not cool. Not cool. I also watched Heroes Season 2 Episode 1 and it was pretty good but if it stays true to form and Season 1 was a Watchmen/Days Of Future Past type affair then I have the horrible feeling that Season 2 is going to be a Legacy Virus/Contagion thing. And nobody wants that.

I also kind of want to do a thing about the Black Canary and Green Arrow Wedding Special too but...I didn't like it. I didn't hate it either which leaves me very little opportunity to attempt to be entertaining about it. All I can say is what has already been said elsewhere on the interweb - Amanda Conner Draw Pretty. Look at her absolutely perfect Wonder Woman and Superman:

Man, I would love for AC to be the artist on my ill-conceived Hela mini-series.

True dat Captioning John. Y'see how cool that looks? That's what I want to see more of in my comics. Smiling. That's Wonder Woman right there. Is she on the art when Gail Simone takes over Wonder Woman? Or is it the Dodsons? It'd be both boss and mint if AC was on there. It's like everyone else has been saying - she's as good as Maguire. Although one thing that nobody else (that I'm aware of) has mentioned is her take on Deathstroke the Terminator.

He's so cute! Look at his little legs dangling! Awww!
I want a Deathstroke the Terminator plushie now!


I also found a wonderful page that I could grab an out-of-context-panel from too when I was composing my list of Top 25 Marvel and DC characters for Jon Carey's Maths and I was thinking about Batman's best ever love interest - Sasha Bordeaux/Cover.* Thing is, it's just a very poor piece of innuendo that ruins what is otherwise a 3 page sequence of serious Comic Book Badassery. I kid you not, this moment is up there with Steph's reaction when Batman said she could be Robin and I don't know if I can cheapen that. It wouldn't feel right.

I, however, have no problems with cheapening it! Let the lowbrow commence!

Yeah, that is pretty lowest common denominator, isn't it? What next,
we going to make jokes
about Liefeld's inability to draw human anatomy?

Err...

Weak dude. Weak.

This Weekend On This Sentence No Verb: JLA/Hitman, JYD Loves Hela and Mirror Match!

*Seriously. I say best because she very quickly outgrew the Love Interest cliché and became one of the top characters DC have right now. Unlike others who we may think aren't "good enough" for the Batman, with Sasha it's very apparent that he isn't good enough for her. Talia, Selina and Silver can bugger right off. Especially Silver. Go on, get out of here! Scat! At least those other two had more to their character than generic love interest! *waves stick* We don't need your stereotypical ways round here you yacht riding dilettante! Go on, scram!

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Incredibly Subtle Linkblogging

After last night's entirely valid but funny-free post I resolved to actually entertain you with this evening's post and I was planning to write one of the funniest things that has ever been uploaded to the InformationSuperM62Corridor. That was the plan.

Then I read this. Once again, Chris Sims (the Batman of the comics blogger world) just gave the world some gold plated Fabergé comedy and frankly, there's no way I can compete. I can't compete even at the best of times to be honest but this entry was so funny it made me get in trouble at work for laughing too much. Fun is obviously not something that is allowed at the Sinister Corporation I work for. Disheartened I thought I could pick up on a theme from last night for an alternative post topic - I can explain some of the joy that is Walt Simonson's Thor. "So..." I thought, "I'll work out what I'm going to talk about tonight as I go through my daily ritual of checking all the Comic Blogs I read." Of course, in doing so I came across this.

Mike Sterling had beaten me to it. Unsurprising really - if Sims is the Batman of Blogging then Sterling is the Superman. Trying to write about Simonson's Thor after he's already put something on ThE iNtErnET is like trying to follow a 3 hour Prince gig when all you have is a comb, some paper and a mentally challenged backing singer called Bubba.

Seriously, I got nothin'. Today is one of those days where everyone is on fine form. Scip's destroying sanity with his post about Jean Loring and Jon is helping him, Devon is rocking our aesthetics and funny bones with his Sketch-A-Palooza and Kalinara is (deservedly) laying into Starman. Even my livejournal friends list contains the awesome, Philippos42 made the best used of the Strikethrough tag that I've ever seen. I could just about deal with that were it not for the fact that Leigh, Richard and T-Dawg have all finished their own meme that I originally got from Ami and as I predicted they're all far funnier than mine. Not only that but their selections of characters show that they're also well rounded indivuals and choose people other than robots and vikings.

T-Dawg and Katie are on their way round tonight for a few light ales so I don't even have much time to post something that can keep up with any of that. Dammit! I wanted to amuse people tonight! So I gave up. I decided that I'd break my 7 Days of Content pledge and just read some randomly collected comics.

Fortunately, one of them was an old Superman.

Yes Superman, all the fish look like Lois. I'm sure if just some of the fish looked like
Lois then it'd all make perfect sense to you, but all of the fish? Madness!


God bless the Silver Age!