Triple Threat – Ghost Rider trailer
May 24
And here you thought you’d have to wait until Friday, at X-Men 3, to see the Ghostrider trailer – not so! Apple has it available now. Interesting point – the High Definition trailer and the low definition trailers aren’t the same. Similar, but with a couple of shots different, and a different layout.
Chris – I liked it right up until the gun made out of chains. Shades of Constantine. A guy made of flame, who can drive his motorcycle – also made out of flame – anywhere… and he needs a gun. Bah. I asked, when they first announced it, how do you make a comic book movie where the actor doesn’t get to show his face in super hero-mode – what actor will agree to that? When they announced it would be Nick Cage, I said, “Oh, ok – Cage is one of us. He’ll play the game.” Now, it looks like maybe not, or at least they’re bending the rules – I’ll bet anyone a Happy Meal that the scene with the gun of chains, is a big, dramatic moment in the film, and so they wanted Cage’s face involved.
Matt – I think I’m down. I’m not a drooling Ghost Rider fanboy, but the visuals have sold me big-time. Then again, I didn’t bother to see Daredevil when it was at the show (for you non-midwestern types, “show” is our hunky-dory term for “movies”) so maybe this one will come and go without my involvement. I think Nicholas Cage looks cool, I think the FX kick my ass, I think Donal Logue is perfectly cast, as always. But more than anything else, ANYTHING, I will see this movie for the great Sam Elliott. I hope he asks Ghost Rider where he can get himself some good sasparilla.
Sarah – The flaming skull-head effect is pretty darn cool — ever since the project was announced, I’ve been doubtful that they could pull that off without being 100% Gouda-licious. They did and it works. So half the battle won there, but to be honest, I don’t like Nic much when he’s super, SUPER serious. I do LOVE Donal Logue no matter what he’s doing, though. I guess I’m semi-intrigued, but this isn’t quite X-Men/Superman-level for me.
Report, ensign.
May 24While my E3 2006 experiences were limited, Wil Weaton tread the pseudo-halls, and then wrote about it for The Onion’s AV Club – as I’m a big fan of “I’m just a nerd like you” attitude, I thought I’d point at it.
This is me pointing at it.
Free Piece of Paper Day
May 24I keep forgetting to post about this…but NO MORE!
One of the two shops I hit on Free Comic Book Day a few weeks ago had a novel, funny, and sharp promotional gimmick from an intrepid indy creator–a Free Piece of Paper.
That’s right. Just a xeroxed sheet of paper with a funny cartoon on it. It’s a promo for In My Lifetime #1, coming out in June from Silent Devil Comics.
Just wanted to mention it because I thought it was so goddamned clever, and I wanted to promo the book a bit more, cause it looks funny. And Warren Ellis seems to like it. Which means it must be fucking GOOD.
UPDATE: Here’s the damn single-sheet comic itself.
There's a sitcom in here somewhere
May 23I’m posting the links here, because I think it’s one of the more pointless, yet amusing things I’ve done in ages, and it seems a shame to leave it in the 1up ghetto.
Item for the day – perspective
May 23As I’d mentioned before, When Fangirls Attack! continues to be a wealth of good reading, but it also from time to time highlights that online commentary can be a little narrow beam, if you follow my meaning.
Post Modern Barney took a stab at men who are raped in comics – or at least that was the title. It turned into a short list of male characters he could think of that had either been raped in jail, abused as a child (which is a pasty way of saying raped in childhood) and torrmented because Garth Ennis / Mark Millar think male on male rape is really, really funny. I half expected at this point that Dorian (site author) would deconstruct the list – there was certainly a lot to loook at. The use of child abuse as character definition, especially when applied retroactively to a character. Rape in prison – what’s it all mean? And why are Millar and Ennis such prats by times? To be sure, he does take a look at those topics, but not in much depth (and the Millar / Ennis bashing was sadly left to the comment discussion.
