I shall have ultimate knowledge, a demon servant, AND a T-shirt!

Ok, so I was resisting posting about this all day. Partially, because I feared no one would understand what the hell I'm talking about. And partially because I didn't want to spoil anything. I'm not so sure I really *can* avoid spoiling anything since this has actually made national news (!), but now an idea has come up that's so good, it simply has to be done.

Rude Mechanicals, those involved in FAUSTUS (especially jcsbimp, and those not afraid of comic spoilers, read ahead.

( SPOILER ALERT )

DENNY'S!!! NO, SHIT! HELL! I MEAN HELL!!!

morganashkevron honored me by metaquoting my entire 300 review. Based on the comments, I think I made a funny.

That said, I had neglected to remember one idea that came to mind after seeing the film. I just wondered what would happen if Leonidas were to meet Samuel L. Jackson. Sadly, I am still bleary and underfed (it's my one day off, sue me for sleeping in) so as such I have not the brain-power nor wit to speculate what possible dialogue might occur.

Instead, I shall leave you with something offered to me by the wonderful seangrimm

Quotes of the Day

You guys know the theory of the Uncanny Valley? How an artificial representation of a person becomes more relatable the more human it looks, until it hits a point that's so close, the only thing that stands out are the differences and it becomes something repulsive and uncomfortable to look at? That's what Marvel has become. It's a world smack dab at the bottom of that valley, with NBC's “Heroes” up on top of one side and Kirkman's INVINCIBLE on the other. It's a world that is ugly and bitter; a world that has taken characters older than I am and turned them into something so far removed from their original intent that they've become something monstrous.

--"Vroom Socko," reviewer for aintitcool.com's comic reviews.

Word. (although I still have yet to sit down and watch give myself a HEROES marathon) But WORD nonetheless.



On the other hand, we have Devin at CHUD.com, who writes:

Recently Marvel editor Tom Brevoort answered some questions about Marvel’s Civil War event, specifically about how long it would take Marvel to ‘reset’ all the changes that happened at the end of the series. Brevoort said that they don’t have any plans to reset anything any time soon, but that he has no illusions that one day the Marvel Universe will look more like it did before Civil War. And he said that it’s a function of serialized comic storytelling – the truth is that if you’re cynical enough to be upset about the eventual return of the status quo, you’ve probably been reading the books for too long. The industry is sick because it has ceded itself to the people who are too old to be reading these comics as religiously as they do, and these overgrown fanboys demand that this form of storytelling conform to their ideas of continuity. DC has been especially awful with this, with their big event Infinite Crisis riffing on convoluted continuity understandable only by the most socially challenged readers. It’s not just that comics are competing with other mediums for the entertainment dollar, it’s that they’re not making themselves accessible to any new people who might want to jump in.

Devin's (spoiler-filled, but does anyone care anymore?) essay is as arrogant and preachy as any of his rants, but he raises several good points. I think he may be right; I'll certainly be pondering this.

Because you know the thing that's really sticking with me over the controversial issue in question (by which I mean, CAPTAIN AMERICA # 25)? I think... it was actually well done. It had less to do with the clusterfuck that is Civil War and more with Cap's own book, and what Brubaker was building up to for two years. It was handled in an unusual but rather (I think) fitting manner with real emotional impact.

My initial instinct was to be the jaded comic fan and go "Huh, how 'bout that, whatever." But thinking about it for the past couple days... I think it was pretty damn good. Much, much better than if it had been done in the actual final issue of CIVIL WAR.

Thoughts, folks?