The COMICS MONTHLY MONDAY THREAD

[ljacone]

Hey Scott, for the opening segment of the show, you should steal it from The John Boy And Billy Big Show and call it "Yuck-It-Up Time" since you guys are so scattered.

[NewFun#6]

Who's "scattered"?!!

[NewFun#6]

[rd666]

Just f'n around the intarwebs and saw this nifty little Asylum Films abortion that is on its way:

http://www.mtv.com/videos/movie-trailer ... thor.jhtml

Kevin Nash - yep, Diesel is Odin! Holy Balls! WTF?
Richard Grieco as Loki (who actually looked the okay in the trailer)
Some dude named Cody Deal as Thor - Super Meh. Cody Rhodes woulda been way more exciting.

But - the trailer does have Thor in full sprint with a fucking UZI! I thought it was an acid flashback, so I watched it again. Yep. Thor with an UZI.

I wonder if they will maybe do a $3 version of Liefeld's bastardized Fighting American in time to skim a few Cap Dollars?

[TheDLA]

[ljacone]

[NewFun#6]

Ugh. Richard Grieco.

[Arthur Ratnik]

[NewFun#6]

Yesssss. :sigh: It's hard to believe that the same place that spawned such wonderful things as the Pine Tree Car Air Freshner and the... ummm... and... um.... well, it's hard to believe that douchebag is from there.

[rd666]

Richard Grieco!

I remember the 30 seconds that he was touted as the 'New Johnny Depp' circa 1988.

I also have a hazy recollection of being heavily sedated and repeatedly confusing him with the guy who played Krycek on the X-Files.

[panpan23]

About 30 minutes after that last post, Joel McHale made a reference on The Soup to If Looks Could Kill.

A movie, btw, that I saw in the theater (note to self: rent If Looks Could Kill. Write blog entry.).

Anyway, a post over on "Comics Should be Good" got me thinking about a Top 5 for you guys: bad plots in great creator runs. I'm blanking on one right now that doesn't involve the Titans, but I'm sure that you guys could come up with something.

[NewFun#6]

[ljacone]

I am tired of Daredevil being considered a "bad comic book movie." Daredevil was a good movie and the Director's Cut is even better. And considering how little I like Daredevil as a character, that I enjoyed this movie is a testament to the fact that's its a solid super hero romp.

Also, Scott, while I get your point about Superman shows introducing other heroes, I don't know that I agree with it. S:TAS was very much focused on Superman. That they had team-ups and such was indicitive of the fact that the creators were given free reign to expand into the DCU at large. Superman does not exist in a vacuum; he's the front and center of the entire DCU. But the focus was always on Superman. I mean the hero who guested the most on S:TAS was Dr. Fate (I think) and his whole schtick was to be the guy who advises Superman on magic, much like Emil Hamilton was for technology or science. Even B:TAS introduced some other DC characters in the same manner; they had less freedom to do so but we did get Jonah Hex, The Creeper, The Demon, etc.

And I know you don't watch Smallville but it's the same way. For a long, long time he was the only hero, and when they started introducing the others, the only one who became a regular is Green Arrow. And GA is presented as deeply flawed and certainly not the star of the show that Clark is.

The problem is that while you, me, Mike, Chris, and other geeks recognize the inherent appeal of Superman as the "good" guy is seen as passe and cliched by John and Jane Moviegoer who don't read comics and think that comics are only for kids etc.

The strongly immoral world we live in does not understand the basic concept of "doing the right thing because it's the right thing to do."

[panpan23]

[NewFun#6]

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[ljacone]

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[ljacone]

[Dan North]

Thanks to you guys I've started to read through the Walking Dead, and today I realisized that in issue 28, the helicopter that falls down and the governor kidnaps the man and the woman driving it was the helicopter from the end of Dawn of the Dead. Right? Apparently the Governor says they worked in a TV station!