Friday, January 28, 2011

Poor Human Torch



Joey Q strikes again. That tool is so desperate for attention that he keeps destroying everything that makes Marvel Marvel. But then in a few months he puts it all back and goes just kidding Just kidding. You and Jeph Loeb and Dan Dido are blights on the comic book industry. You wreck everything just to get a mainstream media pop and shit on the fans who buy the books every month. Enough already. The vampires thing is bad enough and now you have another crossover coming. Tell you what, instead of doing something how you do nothing. the stories will have more impact if they happen every once in awhile instead of every friggin month. I swear, I cannot wait until someone with some sense starts running Marvel again. And see ya in 6 months Johnny and everybody welcome Deadpool and Wolverine to the Fantastic Four because they are in every other friggin book. Is this the 90's again? is Iron Man a teenager and is Captain America wearing some stupid ass armor and changing into Cap-Wolf?

This is just another annoying stunt that Marvel is pulling to drum up some kind of interest. I really hate it when Marvel/DC think that character death is the best way to do this. Remember when they killed Captain America? Or Aunt May? Or Hal Jordan? Or Barry Allen? Or even Superman? This means nothing. As a long time fan and I do mean long time, I am beyond burnt out on this unending cycle of 'look who is dying now' or 'this event will change the foundations of the __ Universe forever'. Do you know why people don't care about comics anymore? because of shit like this. By the way, next the big Marvel Storyline is the Death of Spider-Man. Yeah it's Ultimate Spider-Man but I don't have enough room to talk about how they ruined the Ultimate Universe.

I am just saying, in the long term death can be used as an effective storytelling device. And I agree Logan's reaction to his Elf catching one in the chest was awesome but there was no hoopla for it. No poly bagged super secret release. It happened during the story and thus it has more impact. I guess I just miss the old days when there was no internet to spoil everything. I remember during the Dark Phoenix Saga when Cyclops dropped dead during the Hellfire Club portion of the story and I was on pins and needles waiting for the next issue. Sure he wasnt dead but it knocked me on my ass. And now death doesnt do anything for me. One of the best parts of the Joss Whedon's X-Men run was when Kitty got launched into space and it felt like she was really gone. Hell the story was called gone. And then 6 months later, she is back. thus, effectively removing any impact the story had. And that's my point. in 6 months when they relaunch the FF and Human Torch is popping out of his casket, this wont matter.

In closing, another comic book character has been 'killed' because Marvel can't think of any new stories. But I am not worried because the summer is right around the corner and nothing says hot like The Return of Johnny Storm! Die Cut Glow in the dark, foil embossed hologram poly bagged with 7 variant covers! Written by Jeph Loeb and drawn by J. Scott Campbell!

Oh my god there was a new episode of Hellcats!!!





Well, everyone knows that I love some Hellcats and I even have an awesome Hellcats fanfic posted on the interwebs(just do a search on fanfiction.net or wait a few mins and I'll have some of them posted on here) and this week's new episode was pretty fun to watch.

Although, there were some moments, I could have lived without. Let's see if I can hit a few points...

1. The Savarti beef was resolved far too quickly.

Now, I do love some melodrama and I thought that maybe this would be the chance for some with Marti and Savannah being on the outs. They could have dragged out a little more. It just feels like a cop out like they could have any conflict between the stars. I know Savannah is a good person and her forgiving Marti is perfectly in character but still, this was a missed chance.

2. Is Alice a bitch or a misunderstood girl with a soft side?

It is established that every teen show has to have a bitch with a heart of gold but this is beyond ridiculous. In the span of one episode we go from feeling sorry for Alice and seeing how messed up her relationship with her dad to super bitch with Savannah to broken girl with Lewis. I understand developing a character but she is all over the place.

3. Lewis is...umm...I dunno what he is...

All I have to say about this is how many times do we have to see him do that darn 'Damn girl you know you be doing wrong' face?

4. Marti is still Marti.

Now this is my last gripe. I was just hoping that maybe we could see a little more of Marti as a character instead of the always confidant Marti. There was a moment when she said that 'He was my Dan first' and they totally blew by it.

The show is still fun and sexy and I'll keep watching the show. I just hope the writers will stop playing the 'fun and sexy' card and give me a little substance in the next few shows.


First day...

I never really wanted to have a blog or anything. 

But now that I have one, I think this is where some my super unfinished fanfics can go and where I can randomly talk about whatever I want. And this is somehow cooler than always trying to post things on Facebook. 

So anyway, thanks for reading and hopefully you like what you see. 

And if not, ah well can't please everybody...