Friday Night Fights Round 10!

It's Friday and it's time for some violence!

For those of you not in the know, every Friday Spacebooger presents what he likes to call Fight Night Fights. It's been a tradition for a while and it's far past my time to throw my hat into the ring, and I finally found an appropriate fight for this 'fight music' round.

Tonight's fight come courtesy of Scud: The Disposable Assassin #14, by the always blood-drenched (I'm guessing) Rob Schrab and Dan Harmon.



Yeah, let's give him some music. How about a little Gap Band. Namely: You Dropped a Bomb on Me.



You were the girl that changed my world
You were the girl for me
You lit the fuse, I stand accused
You were the first for me
But you turned me out, baby

Take it Scud Lite!





Good times! Now that's a way to start a weekend!

The Fantastic Four...

will force you to take their drugs.

Things I missed in San Diego in Three Panels

Or, you know, pictures. Whatever. I make the rules here, I can do what I want!

1-

Marvel's Marvelman Announcement.
I mean, it's only the biggest announcement to come out of San Diego in years. Finally I can finally get my hands on the end of the Alan Moore run.

Please...

2- The World Premiere of Iron Man 2 Footage.



Somehow it doesn't look as polished as the first one. I hope they can save it in post.

3- Uh... Not much really. I don't know if it was because I've been overly busy the past few days or what, but I wasn't really jazzed about anything coming out of San Diego this year. I'm intrigued by World War Hulks, but for all the wrong reasons; I really want to see the Avatar footage, but I know a trailer will be out in a month; and I would really like to get those new X-Factor Minimates, but it's not the can't-wait-to-have-it set of fall 09. I don't know what happened, but it seems like there was a lot of hype coming into San Diego this year, but not a lot of substance.

It's probably all them Twilight kids fault. We'll just blame them for the whole thing.

Fantastic Fiftieth Post!

Can you believe it, I'm a regular blogger at this point, Who woulda thunk it? So in celebration of my fiftieth post, I thought I'd post all the fiftieth issues I have in my collection. Lucky for you!


Wolverine # 50 was one of the first special issues I ever got. I remember reading it over and over again as a kid as I tried to figure out who this Logan guy was. Little did I know that he was just some punk farm kid from Canada, and not a badass from birth. Sigh...


I remember I bought this because I had some extra money and it was shiny. I still contend that one day it might be worth something.


Yeah, there was a span there when I was a Spawn kid. As a matter of fact, right around the time this came out, I sat down and read the entire series up until this point. It was pretty alright I remember, but everything hinged on the one issue I didn't have, Issue # 4. I feel like after this issue everything devolved to Spawn somehow moving deeper and deeper into the alleys and constantly complaining that people were coming to him to help. Oh Spawn, the apathetic hero to dwindling thousands, how do you do it?


The first appearance of Post! OMG! POST! He's totally going to be the next big thing. Bigger than Bishop! Bigger than Cable! Bigger than Gambit! Bigger than... Oh. He's dead now, never mind.


I honestly don't remember what this one was about and I'm too lazy to read it. we'll just move on.


Ugh... Double pass. I think this was that period that I was still getting X-Man but I didn't know why. The less said about this the better.


The start of my four year run on Spider-Girl and the beginning of the end of the greatness of the title. But really solid stuff in this issue that got me hooked for a while.


Technically I own this in trades, so I might not know what happens exactly in this issue, but I'm sure it involves some great revelations, some witty dialogue, and ends with a knockout cliffhanger. I miss BKV books, I wish he'd come back to comics...


Another one of those technical owns via trades, but I know what happens in this one. Kirkman shows the freedom you can have with creator-owned stuff and shakes everything up for his anniversaries.


Not as extreme as the last Kirkman book, but it was still a pretty big status quo change. I wish Mark didn't change his costume though.


Okay, and technically I don't have this one either, but what's an anniversary post without some Galactus action going on? Right?

Here's to at least Fifty more, I think I got at least another three months worth of blogging left in me.

Your Monthly Dose of Throg!!

Throg shows off his greatest power in the latest issue of Pet Avengers: The Look.



The lesson: Don't ever question the Frog of Thunder.

Galacta: Daughter of Galactus

Get ready for the internet's next big sensation, Galacta is getting her own digital series.



For those not in the know, Galacta first appeared a few months ago in the Assistant Editor Presents specials in a short 9=page story written by Adam Warren. The story goes that she's the web2.0-savvy, 20-something looking, normal sized daughter of everyone's favorite planet devouring force of nature. But instead of just eating whatever she comes across, Galacta is a tad more picky with what she eats. Imagine it this way: Galactus would be the kind of guy to hit up a Sizzler for it's All-You-Can-Eat buffet, while Galacta would rather devour smaller, but more tasty morsels at a Wolfgang Puck's or a Mario Batali's.

Should be a fun book. And if you're too cheap to sign up for Marvel's Digital Comics, don't fret, it ought to be released in good ol' fashioned print before too long.

Until then I should start thinking of another one of these that involve Galactus' daughter:

Marvel's Motion Comics

Marvel released a trailer for their new Spider-Woman motion comic:



And it looks pretty rad. Finally a medium that will totally work for Bendis' style of action (See the three page slow pull out of craziness during Secret Invasion as an example of his excess). Color me excited.

But since when has Spider-Woman been British-ish? That threw me for a loop.

Harry Potter and The Mediocre Summer Blockbuster

As a decently sized fan of Harry Potter, I was kinda excited about Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince. The book was an exciting and action-packed return to greatness after the slowness of The Order of the Phoenix. The movie was the total opposite.

The short version: It wasn't very good, don't go out of your way to see it.

The long version, there be spoilers ahoy. I'll catch up after the picture



The problem with The Half Blood Prince is that it misses the point. It tries really hard to hit all the big story points from the book, but does so in a sloppy, half-hearted fashion that left me feeling empty and unsatisfied.

Case in point: The Half Blood Prince Potions Book. In the novel, Harry happens across a textbook with all the answers previously owned by The Half-Blood Prince which Harry, being the sad orphan he is, believes belongs to his Dad (Spoilers: It doesn't!)**. The movie abandons all this and feels genuinely shackled by the whole thing. Gone is Harry's infatuation with who the Half Blood Prince is; gone is Harry using Dumbledore's flashback-o-matic machine to learn about James (his Dad), Siris, Snape, and Lily back in the day; and gone is the emotion punch when it's revealed that Snape is the Half Blood Prince. It's just... ugh. It's just something that happens, but I can't find the reason to care and it gets worse.

After the last five installments to the series setting up the villainy and ne'er-do-well-idness of Voldermort, this part was supposed to really show what the man could do. We had heard, in hushed tones, the horrid tales of He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named had done the last time he was around, and now he's back with a vengeance. What catastrophes will be wrought against the world of man now that Voldermort is back? Apparently nothing that bad, according to the Half-Blood Prince. A collapsed bridge, a couple burning buildings, and making a mess in Hogwart's Great Hall, while kinda not cool, aren't necessarily the stakes-raising, horrible deeds that strike fear into a generation.



When it comes down to it, it's clear that the filmmakers would rather focus on Harry and the gangs burgeoning sexual tensions that they could care less everything else. That would be fine and dandy, except they screw most of the love stories up too. Harry is shown to have more than a hefty interest in Ron's sister Ginny, which results in a bunch of false starts that everyone can identify with. However they never do anything really substantial enough to show that say Ron has a huge issue with the idea. I wouldn't gripe all that much, except they jam a reference to the whole Ginny/Harry/Ron relationship at the end of the movie and it comes out of nowhere.

One minute they're talking about Dumbledore getting killed and then they suddenly change the subject to "you know Ron's cool with you dating his sister, right?". And then the credits roll. There was no big throwdown with Ron about him not being okay with it, no indication that he'd have a huge problem with his best friend dating his sister, no nothing, just a small awkward (intentionally so) scene about half way through the movie.

It's just not a good flick.

Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince is a jumbled mess of teenage angst, goofy scenes, and neutered scenes of terror that completely miss the point of the story. This was supposed to be the first real showing of Voldermort's evil, something that should make us all afraid of what he could do and make us really fear for Harry's survival, instead I walked only fearing for Harry's fine China.

Sigh...See you in line for the seventh one!

** It's been brought to my attention that this isn't true and I'm misplacing my memories from The Order of the Phoenix. Harry thought the book belonged to his Dad for all of three seconds before remembering that his papa was purebred. Instead, Harry felt a connection with the the former owner of the textbook because he too is a half-blood prince of sorts. So when it's revealed that Snape is the Half-blood Prince, it really hits Harry because suddenly he has way too much in common with Snape than he ever wanted. Details aside, my point still stands: They totally missed the point of that answer-filled textbook.

Harry Potter and the Midnight Screening

Tonight I'm seeing the midnight screening of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince with the woman and some friends. I'll try to whip up a review of it tomorrow for a fresh post. Until then, enjoy this poster:



I think Harry's getting a bit fat. Maybe they should retitle the next movie Harry Potter and the Weight Loss Program...

Chaos Theory

I have random thoughts. Here are some:

-I watched the first episode of G1 Transformers the other day and noticed something:
All the Autobots are cars, while all the Decepticons are everything but. Does that mean the Cybertronian Civil War is a race war?

-Do you think Spider-Man will have foot problems later in life? The sole support in the Spider-Costume would probably be like it is in Converse All-Stars. Maybe that's why he hangs upside down all the time, because his feet hurt.

-With the amount of souvenirs in the Batcave and the Fortress of Solitude, I can only conclude that Batman and Superman are huge packrats. Remind me not to help them move.

-With it's Gothic architecture, above ground trains, shady docks, and affiliation with organized crime, Gotham City is 100% supposed to be Chicago, Illinois, don't let anyone tell you any different. I bet they have great pizza there.

-Marvel needs to release a new Nextwave mini-series like yesterday. I really want to see those crazy Warren Ellis fueled antics on the backdrop of Dark Reign. I bet Dirk Anger and Norman Osborne would get along smashingly.

-Call me a crazy person, but I'm not all that worked up about the increased cover prices on the mainstream books. Yeah it sucks that the prices went up, but it's totally inline with the general price increases since 1961. Every ten years or so, the price doubles. Check it out here, and try not to be too surprised when we have eight dollar books in 2020... Assuming we still have a paper distribution method.

-I would love to see Marvel to release a 'Wolverine Family' book, wherein Dakken, Logan, and X-23 have a violent family reunion. Throw in a crazy Uncle Deadpool and a newly resurrected Uncle Sabertooth, and it's a guaranteed sales bonanza! They should make it a Christmas special just to take advantage of the 'claws' puns they could make.

-I would love to see a Galactus/Ego The Living Planet team up book. It's the original odd couple. They could be hard traveling cosmic heroes slowly solving the mysteries of the universe while having amazing inter-entity banter.

-I'll bet ten bucks that if GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra is successful, we'll see a deluge of old animation properties brought back to the big screen as live-action blockbusters. Here's hoping that when they make Silverhawks, they don't give them black suits. Also that they don't change Mon*Star's Squid Space Ship...

-You heard it here first, the next big taste sensation to sweep the nation is Twinkies and candied bacon. You turn your nose up in disgust now, but you just wait, four years from now it'll be the hit at all the state fairs.