I feel that today is going to be a long day considering that my back is really killing me but then again I guess I am to blame for sleeping in a position that makes most gymnasts look like amateurs lol. On a more brighter note, things are looking up and I have started talks to move into a job role that I think would better suit my mental frame at IBM. If all works out well then the blog will become more active as I will have more time to type and actually cover things that I have been dying to cover for a long long time.
Todays title is something that I have been passionate about since my childhood, comics. I remember spending hours upon hours reading away while my parents told me to sleep or eat or take a bath (thank god i listened sometimes lol). Most people take comics as a creative gateway for artists/writers/inkers to show the world their talent. I think that with the amount of evolution we have seen in graphic novels (what they are called these days) this statement no longer holds true. As a clarification I would like to say that when I talk about comics I am not talking about Tin Tin or Asterix or those lame-ass Archies that have filled people's bookshelves for the longest time possible. I am talking about real writing .. Batman Year One/Marvel Knight's Peter Parker/Fantastic Four EX/Etc. These writers have grown up with the readers who adore them and are now at a stage where its not just heroes beating villains or getting the girl at the end of the day. Moreover, they deal with real-life issues, Peter Parker not being able to support Mary Jane and her modeling conquest or Bruce Wayne having flashes about the way in which he has dealt with his parents loss and his choice to become the Dark Knight.
It really hurts fans and people like me when movies like Spiderman 3 come out and totally ruin the image that these artists have worked so long to create and display. Directors like Sam/Ang/Brian etc have got so much material to work with that having great script writers becomes a no-brainer, yet they go and gear these movies for the pimple popping generation we have now. I do not see how making these movies in pure 60s fashion is going to garner new fans and show them the evolution of these heroes and I don't see the point in bubble-gumming the entire situation.
I can only hope that Ang does a good job when IH2 comes out because hes got a great casting call in Eric Bana and Jennifer which should not be wasted. Bruce is a complicated character and should be treated as such. I don't really care if the movie ends with a big bang or we see spectacular SFX. I just want to see heroes being heroes and not the childhood style crap we are seeing from these mediocre directors.
Music listened to during the write of this blog - Velvet Revolver - Money
Phrase for the day - Your going to die anyways why not enjoy yourself and fuck the rest of the world for thinking they are going to live forever
Melroy Coelho Firmware Version - 1.0+
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