Month: October 2007

  • “It’s Only a Fleshwound!”

    Seeing Spamalot tonight. Yay. For free. Double yay!

  • More Hipness.

    The Titans are trying to break-up an annual beach rave (really, they use the term) that always ends in a “rumble” between two rival schools. First they try to be hip to the whole school scene by wearing letter sweaters. Really. Oh yeah, I see what the kid on the right is saying. Those purple…

  • Double-Standard Sense, Tingling.

    In ASM #82, Peter and Gwen are dating. MJ, shameless flirt that she is portrayed as at this time, continues to make passes at Peter. This is okay with Peter. Gwen also seems to take it in stride, despite catty joking (they’re supposed to be bestest buds). What is not, apparently, okay, is for someone…

  • Panels Presented in Actual Order.

    Panels Presented in Actual Order.

    Beast Boy is very upset. He’s off to show Larry that he’s as good a D.P.er as the next guy. How? Okay, yeah, I’m trying to think of anything freakier than D.P.ing your foster mom. It’s a short list.

  • Suspension of Disbelief.

    The below panel utterly broke my Suspension of Disbelief. If you think anyone is going to tip a NY cabbie that little and live to tell about it, you’ve never actually taken a cab.

  • Oh OW.

    This is painful to look at? Scant seconds later, the Titans fell to their death as the non-invulnerable Wonder Girl’s hair (and a lot of skin) was violently torn out of her scalp.

  • Curt Conners is Just Making Stuff Up

    Actually, no. Lots of lizards live in arid environments. Crocodilians, which is what The Lizard most resembles, would be mostly aquatic, yes. But they aren’t lizards. So say it with me kids, all lizards are reptiles, but not all reptiles are lizards!

  • Late Post Today.

    Documents To Go is refusing to open again. It’s an odd bug that happens whenever I sync from my laptop, then my home machine or vice versa – I have to reinstall the prc files before it will open. Very odd. In other news, awesome friend Merey is sending us a used digital camera. YAY!…

  • Flip for Me, Baby.

    In Showcase #59, the Teen Titans meet “The Flips”, a “hip” band (dig it, daddy-o). This story has been already been mocked on the web, but I just have to include this one page. I love the continuing “realistic” teen/guardian interaction. I am also amused by the fact that they have television in Atlantis and…

  • Egocentric, Much?

    Betty Brant is almost as self-absorbed as Peter Parker. “They keep putting their lives in danger? WHY DOES THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN TO ME?!”

  • Donna Troy: Hussy!

    On her first adventure with the Titans, Donna is already causing trouble. “Tommy’s daddy has to be innocent! Because Tommy is cute! Cute people’s dads just can’t be criminals!” “Legally Amazon” ? coming soon to a theater near you.

  • So True.

    I love this. Peter Parker really is “whitey”, on so many, many levels.

  • Medusa Learns Her Role

    It’s Spider-Man vs that uppity Medusa. Medusa’s going to put that pig in his place, oh yes she is! Oh. No. She isn’t. Hey, here’s a fun fact ? when Spider-Man talks non-stop, he’s “bantering”. When a woman does it, it’s because she’s a “yenta”.

  • Photoshop Phriday, WWTT Edition.

    Marvel really, really wants people to have fun with this. Gentlebeings, start your Photoshops.

  • Thorsday Returns

    I’m not the biggest fan of self-inserts. Usually, they’re clumsy and annoying, pulling you out of the story. A good example of some bad self inserts from an otherwise good writer can be found in the early career of Warren Ellis. There was a time when it felt like every title he took over suddenly…

  • Contrasting Mentors.

    Brave and the Bold 60 features a great sequence where the Titans are called off. We get to see their mentors reactions to the team? The boys get “just be careful” ? Donna gets “Oh but you’re just a girl!” Which is even funnier when you consider that it’s coming from the leader of an…

  • I Fear Kraven.

    Kraven scares me. Always has. Not because he’s the world’s greatest hunter. Not because he’s obsessed with capturing and killing Spider-Man. Not even because he smells like lion pee. All that pales before the terror of? ?HIS NEFARIOUS NIPPLE RAYS! Noooooo!

  • “Hip” Comics.

    How hip were the original Teen Titans? They have runaway notes? in jive! Or? do they? Yes, that’s right they’d use hip language. Like calling each other “fellows”!

  • MJ Speak.

    Every time early MJ has dialogue, I get a headache. I was going to clip out panels, but this entire page is just? too, too much. Please, reassure me that no-one who wasn’t high ever spoke like that. Here’s another example from two issues later: I wish l’d had an aunt I could discuss my…

  • Daredevil: One Lazy Hero.

    Evidence: Amazing Spider-Man volume 1, issue #43. The Rhino is lose in NY. His attorneys, Nelson and Murdock (don’t ask me how he afforded them), are lamenting the fact that he’s escaped, ruining their case. “Sure, countless lives could be lost and he’ll more than likely cause millions in property damage, but what can I…

  • Mutilation

    Some “Criminal Masterminds” aren’t very good thinkers. Yes, because no bank teller is going to react to a large wad of taped-together bills. [Posted with hblogger 2.0 http://www.normsoft.com/hblogger/]

  • Life is Cruel

    Poor Peter. He just wants to be treated like a piece of meat. Is that so wrong?

  • What an Obliging Foe.

    The Scorpion may not be the classiest guy in the world, but he does seem to have some concept of etiquette. He just stands there, waiting for Spider-Man to finish. How nice.

  • Lingual Shift.

    Everyone’s run into an old schoolmate on a street corner, right? Not like this. Where I come from “working girl” meant something very specific. Peter protests the presumed lack of interest, btw. “Great. Can you do me a favor and ditch my pimp’s enforcer? Thanks.”