E3 round-up – it's all a blur
May 15I was, as Matt mentioned previously, on the floor at E3, and I was workin’ like a dog. So my key thoughts and reactions to E3 are slightly limited and from a wierd angle.
I’ll write a few of them down here;
A Comics Linky Twofer
May 15If you like heroes being drawn in cutesy and unexpected ways:
Awww!
Claudia Black Rules
May 12Wow. I’m watching Stargate: SG-1 (not Regular Viewing but Viewing When I’m Home on Friday Night Blogging About Comics, Because I’m Such a RAWK Star) and Farscape hasn’t been on for a while and so I’d kind of forgotten how exceptional Claudia Black is. She almost died in this episode and I actually screamed at the TV, “NOT CLAUDIA BLACK!!!”
Claudia Black is fucking awesome, you guys.
Shut Up, Erik Larsen
May 12Hey, you guys? Does anyone know what the hell Erik Larsen is trying to say? Maybe I’m having a hard time following along because it’s so different from Cosmo and all those, you know, girl magazines I read. I’m trying to be extra super-careful in my response because I don’t want to take Mr. Larsen out of context and misinterpret whatever it is he’s saying, like all of us intarweb “anonymous killjoys” love to do!
Star Whoring Gets Weird
May 11I blathered just a few days ago about the strangeness of the new “Han Shoots First” T-shirt from the online Star Wars store, considering that it’s Lucasfilm’s goddamned fault that Han DIDN’T shoot first in the SEs in the first place, and of course, the shirt’s already been done.
Now, another indicator of LFL’s undeserved “ironic” touch: A new ad I’ve spotted in a comic (and which I cannot find online DAMN YOU TO HELL STAR WARS NERDS GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER AND SCAN EVERYTHING AVAILABLE ON THE PLANET SO I CAN LINK IT WHEN I NEED TO) that basically says, “Hey, we know we’re just churning out figures for characters that spent three seconds on screen in the films. Ain’t it kewl?!”
Y’know, people buy figures, collect Star Wars shit, that’s fine. I used to do it myself. Go with God.
But isn’t it kind of a kick in the groin for Lucasfilm to essentially say in its advertising, “We’re bilking you for every penny we can get, and you let us, and we like it, so fuck you?” In other words, BUY this “wacky” T-shirt that basically advertises how you’ll be repurchasing films this fall that you’ve bought five times already. BUY this action figure of a guy in a rubber suit who spent three seconds onscreen in a movie that’s thirty years old, just because we made it, and just because you collect shit. BUY these five action figures and send away for this rare sixth figure of George Lucas, which we’re promoting as something clever and unique, even though we sold you the same goddamned thing four years ago and told you it was clever and unique back then.
Geeks can be suckers. I know, because I often am one myself. Just don’t rub my fucking nose in it.
