Monday, June 30, 2008

Y: The last man Vol 7 Paper Dolls

OK all the Monday review for you is Y: The last man Vol 7 Paper Dolls.

This book is the opus of Brian K Vaughn and Pia Guarra (sorry if i spelt that wrong but i am feeling lazy hence no name checking and no cover art)

The art is amazing.  IT is a little different then most vertigo books that seem to make the art an afterthought. Pia is on top of her game.  (There is also a fill in artist but again feeling lazy and whoever it is meshes so well with Pia that it is hard to tell the difference.)

The writing is amazing. Next to preacher i think this is the best thing that Vertigo has ever put out.  This is a great science fiction political satire.  Vaughn really now how to mesh high drama with humor and not let political ideals get in the way of the story telling.  Through all seven volumes the reader really begins to feel for the characters and learn their motives (you think).

The story in this one was just OK. Vaughn has a way with playing with the time stream where each section takes place at a certain point of time but is not necessarily linear. If you go into the book not paying attention to the section where he puts "5 Months Ago" or hell even "30 Minutes ago" you really can get a lost feeling.  There were points in this volume that i found myself getting a little lost but that may be because of my mind set going in.  We learn a lot of the back story of 355 which was great and we also meet a character that we haven't seen in a while and boy has she changed.  There is church allegory (more specifically catholic allegory) that is kind of witty and not off putting if you are a strong believer in that faith. Anyway this volume was good to move the story forward but not nearly as good as Volume 4 which is still my favorite.

No a little side story.  My wife is a big reader (big as in reading a lot not as in size because my wife is a little thing). She is a fan of Jodi Piccoult and Lifetime (you know guys the channel we try to block on our cable list) put on a movie of her latest book "The 10Th Circle." Like the good husband i am I DVR'd it for her and she watched it last night.  As she was watching I read this trade.  In the background i get the gist of her story.  A HS student is distraught over her boyfriend breaking up with her.  She then get drunk at a party and gets raped by said ex boyfriend. The police are investigating it and this guys life is ruined to the point where it looks like he kills himself.  We later find out (do you all mind if i spoil this chick flick) that the mother pushed the kid off the bridge but it was an accident and nothing happened to the family.

No here was the mistake i made.  After the show was over I turned to her and said "Man you sure read a lot of Drivel."  Mind you I said this while i was reading a science fiction book where all males are destroyed by a virus except one and his pet monkey and we come to find out that the monkeys poop is what is the savior of mankind.  man was she pissed. Oh well

Talk to you later,

TJ

Sunday, June 29, 2008

New Feature on side

So I was reading Living Between wednesdays today and i was looking over some of the features she has on her blog.  One was a pull list... well... list.  I thought this would be a great edition to my site so yet again i copied her and added it to  the right.

Oh and you guys should read her blog.  She is very witty and funny.  (and she was at heroes con.  Fuck I forgot to go say hi to her.)  You can either reach her by going to the link on the right or going to http://livingbetweenwednesdays.blogspot.com.

Talk to you later.

TJ

Friday, June 27, 2008

Final Crisis 2


OK Today's review is Final Crisis 2

Written by God and Drawn by his son.

JG Jones is an amazing artist.  His pages are great.  I know there was some people who were questioning his ability of doing sequential art after years of doing mostly covers but man this guy has not lost a step.  Each page is great.  The only pages that kind of had me scratching my head was the semi-splash page that involved the Japanese super team.

The writing is amazing. Each character moves into each other and you can read the words even if the art is jumbled (which it is not for the most part) and still understand what is going on. I know , I know usually people use this as a way to judge the art but i am saying the opposite so fucking deal with it.

I am not going to go into the story much but holy fuck.  Remember what i said before (way back about a month ago) that if you are not steeped in DC knowledge then you may want to jump off or read this with wikipedia open... well I take that back. Fuck the DC Universe if you are not aware of the small little section of the DC Universe that I like to call the Kirbyverse then get the fuck off. (or you can still drool over all the pretty pictures.)  There is so much New gods shit in here that I am sporting a chubby reading the whole thing.  I mean Glorious Godfrey shows up. We learn about Granny Goodness, Simyan and (one of my personal favorites) Mokari, we meet sonny samurai who is being speculated to being the most famous of the sons of the new gods. And there are rumors flying around about the Police Detective that is sort of our eyes for part of the story.  And to end it all we see a certain speedster out racing the Black Racer.  Fuck what a good book.

So that is that. Go get the book and read with your wiki.

Talk to you later,

TJ

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

My Haul and DC Continuity starting to piss me off a little bit.

OK Folks First My haul:

Amazing Spiderman
Superman (looking forward to see what James Robinson does to this title)
Green Lantern (please end this origin retcon and get on with your fucking story Johns)
Flash (yes I'm still reading this)
 and that's it

Yep Nothing else

Did anything else come out?

FUCK Y"ALL OF COURSE I GOT FINAL CRISIS 2.  

This book was so crazy that i need to read it again and then dedicate a whole blog posting about it.

No what i am going to blog about today is all the wacky shit going on with DC Continuity.

Most specifically i am going to be writing Justice League of America, Booster Gold, Death of the New Gods, and Grant Morrison.

OK so I'm sure you read the interview with Grant Morrison where he came out and said Final Crisis was done before (or at least a good part of it) before countdown and death of the new gods even started.  He also said that the continuity he is going with is the continuity from before either of these "events".  OK i am willing to put these two things aside and just go with Morrison Continuity because we all know "In Morrison I Trust."  Well here is a little problem because DC can't decide which they are going with.

This weekend i read Booster Gold 10 and Justice league 21 (i think, its whatever one had the fucking sightings shit on top) In Booster gold He is rounding up the old JLI crew.  When talking to Mister Miracle he is apologizing for Barda. OK in this book Death of the new gods happened.  In Justice league The trinity are talking about expanding the roster and Dr. Choi is brought up.  Bruce doesn't want him because he believes the the spot should be open for Ray who hasn't been found... i repeat who hasn't been found yet... What the fuck you assholes.  Weren't you there in the Darkseid/Orion battle where Ray was coming out of Jimmy.  Wait a minute in your mother fucking world this battle never happened because Orion Dies in issue one.

I don't care if Morrison wants to ignore the continuity of these two things (hell i think i even prefer it) but can you please have your other fucking books tie into this and not let your writers pick it all willy nilly (yes I said Willy Nilly)

Oh well more posting later probably tomorrow.

TJ

Friday, June 13, 2008

X Factor PHC Maddrox


Been a long time for one of these motherfuckers huh?

Well today My review is for the first X Factor Premier Hard Cover : Maddrox Multiple choices. (seriously did we need that much in a fucking title this book has two fucking subtitles)

This is written by Peter David and Drawn by Pablo Raimondi.

The art had a classic crime movie feel. This is perfect because that is what this is. Well its not a fucking movie people its a comic Follow me people Jesus. While I feel that this art wouldn't fit a book like (holy shit i don't think marvel has a light hearted book, what gloomy dark motherfuckers they are over there) Superman. It is perfect for this one.  A little scratchy at times but not too much and great faces.

The writing is pretty good.  I am not ready to anoint Peter David as the next coming of (insert great writer here) he is definitely adequate.  ( i think i just heard 1000 fanboys' mouths gaping open). He writes Maddrox very well  and gives each dupe such a distinct personality, you know it isn't the original but not so different that it becomes distracting.  i just re read that and my writing is very confusing oh well I'm paid to edit not write. (and you can tell by the grammar in my blog that i have duped the fuck out of these people at this job).

The story centers around Jaime Maddrox and his forming of the XXX Mutant investigators.  He is basically getting the band back together when a dupe that has been knifed shows up and dies.  maddrox , having the ability to get the memories of the dupe, see flashes of Chicago and the murderer and decides he needs to investigate.  Well not to spoil to much he finds the killer and all is good including the Cheesy as ending where someone (sorry x folk way to many people for my corroded mind to remember) says "Jaime we changed the name of the agency to something a little different" and we see them closing the door and it says "X Factor"  Almost made me throw-up in my mouth a little bit.

The one thing that annoyed the fuck out of me and actually dragged me out of the books sometimes is You could tell that David was going for a film Noir style with the title.  You can not only get this by reading the book but David has Maddrox say every fucking moment he can " This is so film Noir." I mean come on man,  if your fucking readers are too stupid to not get what you were going for leave them behind.  There was one specific issue where it seemed like in a two page spread maddrox says that 5 times.  Don't treat your readers like an idiot,  i can get it and don't care if someone can't.

Would i recommend this book,  Hmmmmmm.  Well it is right on the fucking cusp falling towards the good read side.  If you can get it at a really good price it is definitely worth the read.

TJ


Tuesday, June 3, 2008

My Weekend of fun

So this past weekend was spent with the in-laws (yes all of them) and good time were had by all (can you sense the sarcasm in my typing)

All four of my wife's sisters and her parents came over on Saturday and we headed out to long island on Sunday for her grandfathers 80th birthday party.

This is going to be a rant on a couple family members.  First off my Father-in-law.  This is a man with no social skills whatsoever.  He is truly an asshole and i can't stand to be around him.  i am not alone in this as his whole family feels the same way.  Even his parents questioned my mother-in-law whens she was going to marry him.  We were all sitting around BS'ing and doing family shit and all the man could do was look at my book case and pick up books to read.  Then after looking around and noticing that there were no seats in the living room, instead of bringing over the folding chair that he was seated on and joining the conversation, he went to his car and went to sleep.  He probably would have stayed there all night if my mother-in-law hadn't woken him.  

Let me tell you some stories of my father-in-law.  In my first trip to Maryland (a 5 hour drive mind you) with my wife to visit them (i had met them before at college but this was going to be the first "sleep over" visit), we drove down there and went to the zoo, he met up with us at the zoo and asked me where we were staying.  When i said me and Melissa had a hotel room nearby he proceeded with the "when did you guys get married" rhetoric.  I simply walked away my wife walked up to him and said "we're leaving".  That's right folks i drove five hours was there for less then an hour and we turned around and went home. (this is a mild story and there are a lot more that are worse but i will save those)

This shit happened all the time.  man do i hate this guy.  And he gets joy out of being an asshole.  He likes causing people pain psychologically.  This man couldn't die fast enough (did i just type that). (i just found out what i put there originally might have been construed as a death threat so i changed it.  Don't want to go to jail and all)

So they stayed the night at my place. (yay!)  Next morning we all plan to leave 9:30 but her sisters are not there yet so surprisingly her parents are ready to go at that time (did i mention that they are notoriously late for everything).  I tell him the best way to go.  For all of you who don't know the geography of New Jersey and New York, to get from my house to long island is pretty much a straight line if you take the GWB.  So anyway we leave a half hour after her parents leave and show up at her aunts house.  No parents to be seen.  They show up an hour and a half later because he decided to go south and drive through Staten Island and then through Brooklyn.  A fucking triangle when you could have gone in a straight line.  Fuck what an ass.  I believe that is was all done to avoid a $5.00 toll.  

And to cap a beautiful trip off my daughter decided all of a sudden to not like Car rides anymore and screamed for an hour and a half each way.  Man is that fucking draining.  When you go over the GWB there is a sign saying to report suspicious activity.  i was going to call on my daughter because at that fucking moment i truly thought that she was some kind of terrorist that used Sound Diversion techniques.

What a fucking hassle.  

Well talk to all you fuckers tonight on the show.

TJ

Monday, June 2, 2008

My Podcast

Well it has been out a couple days and I just realized that I didn't plug my own fucking show on my blog.

ME and a couple of buddies decided it would be a good idea to get our opinions out there.  My new podcast started last Wednesday with episode negative 3.  Yeah you heard that right negative three.  That should explain to all y'all the irreverence of the motherfucker.  

The show is called the F BombCast and it is released by my good friend James of The Comic Book Savant.  IN the first episode we explain the show a little bit, talk about beer, comics, movies, porno, and whatever our little vulgar hearts desire.

I will warn you now thought that this show is definitely NSFW (or for all you jerk offs that don't speak in letters Not Safe for Work)(i used to be part of that crowd and still am.  I hate shit that are just acronyms.  is our lives that fucking busy that we cannot say the whole words.  Then you come across One that you don't know and spend 20 minutes just thinking what the hell the letters can stand for.) 

Anyway.  Please give it a listen.


Fuck that was annoying, blogger changed the format on how you put links in here and it took me more then the 5 seconds that it normally does.

I am so tired today because my Daughter decided to be an asshole yesterday but just to me and my wife.  She was pleasant as can be to the rest of the fucking family.  Oh well such is being a parent.

Oh yeah before i forget the podcast also has a blog.  it is fbombcast.bogspot.com (there we go back to under five seconds).  On this blog you will not only find my ramblings but also the rambling of the co host Mike and Kevin.  (Which i am told write a lot like me.  Mike writes like me when i am going on a tear and Kevin when i am taking this a bit more seriously). 

Anyway, Talk to you all later.

TJ