The Bin–3/5/10
Mar 05
Back in the day, we used to just like stuff every week. We still like stuff, but now we mix in links, videos and other random claptrap. We call it the Bin, and it will steal your heart away.
Lost 6.5, “Sundown”
Mar 04
I try not to read much of what other writers have to say about a show I’m reviewing until after I’ve written my own review. But my friend Dan Carlson posted a link to his write-up of the season six Lost ep “Sundown” for Pajiba and his post title was too spot-on to miss:
“In Every Possible World, Sayid Is A Killer”
Just about says it all, doesn’t it?
First look at US Spaced remake
Mar 04I think I burned out my geek-rage gland. Not over the subject of this post, mind; just in general. It might be an age thing. Inspiring any nerd passion in me requires that it involve something close to my heart, and even then, I often default to a (shrug) “What do they know? They don’t get it and I’m not interested in explaining it to them” position.
So, it is with complete and utter raising of one lazy eyebrow, that I repost this YouTube clip from Frederico Dordei’s website – It’s a 5 minute sampling of the US remake of Spaced and Dordei plays the role of Brian/Christian.
So Hey…
Mar 04I (Jeff) am looking for an artist to help me out with a 4-8 page sequential thing that I’m doing for the next issue of Grok. It might end up being the first glimpse of the Secret Comic Book Project thing that we’re working on at Alert Nerd, too – a little side story focusing on one of the minor characters from said thing that Matt and I really dig.
Hit me up at J.Stolarcyk(at)gmail(dot)com and we can talk more.
FOR JUSTICE
Mar 04So, JLA: Cry For Justice #7. What in blue fuck was that!?
In the first act of the Alien Vs. Predator: Requiem, the filmmakers do the inviolate – they kill a kid and his dog. We’re not attached to the kid or the dog – I couldn’t even tell you their names – so the act basically serves as a message to the audience that, for the next hour and thirty minutes, we will not be fucking around here. It is a moment full of declarative force and while it’s shocking, it’s also happening in a monster movie that is a response to a bowdlerized AvP as much as it is a sequel to it. It makes sense. It has an impact because it makes sense.
Did I just defend killing kids? Well, fictional killings and fictional kids, but I’m not going to write the whole idea off with a “NEVER!” There’s always at least one good use for even the worst idea. Angelina Jolie married Billy Bob Thornton.
Why do I bring this up? So that you know where my limits are when I tell you that the cheap and thoughtless killing off of Lian Harper is crass, insulting bullshit storytelling and that whatever member of DC’s Powers That Be who said “Yes, that’s an excellent idea!” should have one final, fleeting moment of humanity as they lie down in a casket filled with the rich and loamy soil of their homeland as the dawn approaches and stake themselves.
I mean, I guess that we should maybe be thankful that Doctor Light wasn’t involved. Right? I guess we should be thankful that Mirror Master didn’t do a line of coke off of her eight year old corpse, or that Superboy Prime didn’t squash her head like a grape or that Deathstroke the Terminator didn’t brainwash her with syringes full of mind control drugs or whatever. At least she didn’t grow up into some hateable melange legacy character called “Red Cheshire” who’d get ignominiously executed during a linewide “Crisis” event. At least it was just a bomb.
Fuck you, DC Comics. I don’t even like Roy Harper – NOBODY likes Roy Fucking Harper, for crying out loud, but you’ve just gotten rid of the one thing that makes him interesting that isn’t a crippling heroin addiction or a severe case of juvenile overcompensation. Congratulations.
