I’m sorry, I meant “graphic novel”. I’m pretty sure I understand the difference. My take on it is that a comic book is a part of a series. I have one of the Ultimate Spiderman books, and it felt like an episode. I’ve read one other, and though they shared the same setting and important facts (Peter Parker is still in high school, for instance), one is not a continuation of the other. A graphic novel, on the other hand, is different. It may be presented in episodes, but only a set number. It has a distinct beginning, and a distinct end, in which all the events and conflicts are brought to their conclusion (unless the writer wants to fuck with you). An example of this is V For Vendetta. And now, my recent favorite.

Wanted. As with most comic-movie relationships, it is infinitely better than it’s film counterpart. It’s dirtier, grittier, more grotesque, and has a deeper story. Plus, it has a character named Shit-head! And why is he named Shit-Head, you may ask? Well, because he is literally made up of feces from the 666 worst people to ever walk the earth. Yes, he’s got a part of Hitler somewhere in him. Isn’t that just lovely?

And Wesley gives badass points to every poor sod who got stuck with the name “Wesley”. Just kidding, there’s nothing wrong with the name. It’s William Goldman’s fault. But as I was saying, Wesley starts out as the ultimate pussy. But he is saved from all the crap in his life; a girlfriend who’s sleeping with his best friend, a boss who doesn’t hesitate to call him a pussy, and won’t shut the fuck up, and days of looking up diseases he may have/surfing porn on his computer. Brought to a world of killing (sometimes just for the hell of it), sex and pure adrenaline.

My favorite line (or at least my favorite line that comes to mind right now) is this:

Cop: “Where they gonna run?”

Wesley (covered in guns from the neck down): “Who’s running, asshole?”

A little reminiscent of, “SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!”

Alrighty, all done.

Fu out.

Note to self: Check back on the four year blog.

The first one I had seen before. Pirates of Silicone Valley. I had a new perspective on it this time. I realized that not only is Bill Gates an asshole, as I gathered the first time, but Steve Jobs is an egomaniacal asshole as well! True, this was just a movie. But I imagine it’s based on fact to some degree.

The second movie I saw was called Twilight. It’s about vampires. Cool. True, it was a bit hokey at times. But overall it was entertaining, and worth the rental.

Okay, done.

What can I say? I’m lazy. Sue me.

I’m aussieluc@comcast.net so you know who’s suddenly annoying you on MSN.

Grr. I hate this obsession of mine. I refuse to put any punctuation after an email address, so I’ll find ways of continuing a sentence, and without using a comma. It’s just as stupid as my always putting a space after “…”, just because my auto-spellcheck says “…something” is incorrect. I need to get over these issues. They are trivial.

Go check out Slackerz! It’s a web comic of awesomeness!

I forgot how gutbustingly hilarious the early ones are. KLINGON SPACE TOAST! It’s nice that I’ve forgotten most of them. I get to experience each one, new again. Happy feelings.

I saw on JulieMac’s blog that she had a bunch of RSS blogs posted on her page. I liked that idea, so I tried it with my blog. Bah! The Widget won’t work. I entered the information, but it won’t appear.

Julie, if you read this, help me out please. Is there some trick to it?

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What do you know? Julie helped me out! It is fixeded. Woo!

Well, that was… interesting. Very funny, indeed. My favorite part was when they released the “panthers” on two of the team members. Good stuff.

However, I didn’t like the sex scene. The first 10 seconds were funny, but then it went on too long, to the point of being boring. And maybe this was just in the unrated/uncensored version, but pissing and crapping on each other? Really? No, it wasn’t funny.

The best song was Montage. I think it was Trey Parker singing, right? Yep, singing about montage sequences, during a montage. Awesome.

Well, this was just a quickie. Not really a review or anything. That is all.

Fu out.

And of course, where there are ear infections, there are ear drops. They’re pretty annoying to put in. Better than eye drops, I suppose. No, eye drops are quick, though harder to do yourself. I’d take those over ear drops any day of the week.

To make remembering that four year blog easier, I will remind myself of it in every subsequent entry. Yay! You know, it’s funny. I don’t even know what I’m going to write in it. Maybe I’ll think of something by then.

Fu out.

The date is Friday, May 15th, 2009. I’ll come back to finish this in… four years. That’s Wednesday, May 15th, 2013. See you then.

… Probably.

I found this after exploring the squidi.net forums. I was under the impression it was based on Maxim, one of the heros of “A Modest Destiny”, one of the comics on that site. It turns out it wasn’t, but it’s still cool.

Hero Digital Test Sketch 1

Right, so this is about a film I saw called Wanted. It’s pure action, and the story is a little weak in parts. I mean, the premise is that a bunch of weavers decided to make a secret guild of assassins… um, okay. There are a few other weak points, but I don’t want to spoil them.

Now, my favorite way to describe this film is that they “reinvented The Matrix.” Not for the big shocking plot twist (which I won’t say in case someone somehow hasn’t seen it). But for little details of the story setup, for one thing. For instance, let’s compare Wesley Gibson and Thomas Anderson. What do they have in common? They both work dull office jobs they hate. They’re both losers; Wesley is a pushover who will never get anywhere in life, and Mr. Anderson lives his life on the internet as his hacker alias Neo. In other words, he’s a geek with no social life. Then, they’re recruited into organizations that scream badass. They realize their true potential; skill and power that they had all along, locked inside of them, waiting to resurface.

And then, the more interesting similarity between the two films is the characters’ ability to bend the laws of physics. In Wanted, one character jumps out a window in an office building, and lands on top of another building across the street. Characters make their cars barrel roll over other cars, without even trading paint. And the coolest feat, of course, is when they make bullets arc. If they need to shoot a target, but something is in the direct line of fire, and whip their hand around as they fire, like they’re throwing a curve-ball in baseball. It sounds really cheesy, but the director, or actors, or editor, or whoever makes it really cool.

I don’t want to spoil anything, so I’ll just finish by saying some of the actors. It has Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman, and  the main character, James McAvoy. McAvoy’s acting was a little stale at first, but he recovered quickly. Overall a great movie. Go see it if you haven’t. Not for children obviously.

Fu out.