Monday, May 23, 2005
Links & Comics
Links
Fogle & Spalding,
I added a few links to the left-hand column. I don't know what you guys see in your admin windows, if you want to add some. If you can't add any, let me know and I'll do it.
If I could ask you guys to please use the "about=_blank" after the link so they pop up in a new window it would be appreciated. Sorry, it's a pet peeve of mine.
Comics
I know Fogle dabbles a little and Spaulding you used to be a comic book fan, so I'm sure my rant is going to fall on deaf ears, but I have to get this off my chest.
STOP BRINGING BACK THE DEAD SUPER HEORES. Marvel and DC continue to hurt their respective universes through this practice.
Superman, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Colossus, Psylocke...I'm sure there are others, but these are the first few that spring to mind.
In each case DC and Marvel supposedly drew the curtain on these characters and in each case had theses charachters untie their own toe tag (OK Hal Jordan was technically an undead spirit, but that's still sort of dead).
I just finished reading "Green Lantern Rebirth" and it had to be probably the best "I'm dead but now I'm back" story I've read, but that still doesn't negate the fact that these stories are slowly killing comic books.
I read comics for the continuity. I like watching the characters change and evolve with each passing issue. Death is the natural course of life. Now, granted with super heroes you can break the laws of nature and get away with it to a certain extent. However, when these people return from the dead, all time is erased. They come back alive virtually unchanged. Not only does this practice obliterate the continuity it also takes away from the sense of peril that is the life-blood of any good story.
The next time any of these characters' lives hang in the balance, I'm really not going to care becasue if they do die, I know a resurrection of some ilk is right around the corner.
Fogle & Spalding,
I added a few links to the left-hand column. I don't know what you guys see in your admin windows, if you want to add some. If you can't add any, let me know and I'll do it.
If I could ask you guys to please use the "about=_blank" after the link so they pop up in a new window it would be appreciated. Sorry, it's a pet peeve of mine.
Comics
I know Fogle dabbles a little and Spaulding you used to be a comic book fan, so I'm sure my rant is going to fall on deaf ears, but I have to get this off my chest.
STOP BRINGING BACK THE DEAD SUPER HEORES. Marvel and DC continue to hurt their respective universes through this practice.
Superman, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Colossus, Psylocke...I'm sure there are others, but these are the first few that spring to mind.
In each case DC and Marvel supposedly drew the curtain on these characters and in each case had theses charachters untie their own toe tag (OK Hal Jordan was technically an undead spirit, but that's still sort of dead).
I just finished reading "Green Lantern Rebirth" and it had to be probably the best "I'm dead but now I'm back" story I've read, but that still doesn't negate the fact that these stories are slowly killing comic books.
I read comics for the continuity. I like watching the characters change and evolve with each passing issue. Death is the natural course of life. Now, granted with super heroes you can break the laws of nature and get away with it to a certain extent. However, when these people return from the dead, all time is erased. They come back alive virtually unchanged. Not only does this practice obliterate the continuity it also takes away from the sense of peril that is the life-blood of any good story.
The next time any of these characters' lives hang in the balance, I'm really not going to care becasue if they do die, I know a resurrection of some ilk is right around the corner.
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Hey Cheese-
I can't seem to add any from my admin page, so here are suggestions:
I have a couple that I think are good-
The first is Wikipedia.org:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
This is a great resource. If you haven't seen it before, it's an online encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone. It's got tens of thousands of articles in it. You can look up the Laws of Thermodynamics one day (with detailed equations and such), and then follow it up with a nice long article about the Yuuzhan Vong th next day.
The next suggestion I have is for the Internet Movie Database www.imdb.com It's the best web site I've ever seen.
I can't seem to add any from my admin page, so here are suggestions:
I have a couple that I think are good-
The first is Wikipedia.org:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
This is a great resource. If you haven't seen it before, it's an online encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone. It's got tens of thousands of articles in it. You can look up the Laws of Thermodynamics one day (with detailed equations and such), and then follow it up with a nice long article about the Yuuzhan Vong th next day.
The next suggestion I have is for the Internet Movie Database www.imdb.com It's the best web site I've ever seen.
I like alternate universes if they don't try and meld them with the existing continuity.
I think the publishing houses realized what an unholy mess alternate universes play and that's why you had an event like "Crisis on Infinite Earths".
I like how they handle parallel realities now as "one-offs".
Marvel has done a great job with "Exiles", which is a "sliders"esque group of mutants.
I don't hate alternate realities. I hate when they can't keep shit straight in their primary one.
I think the publishing houses realized what an unholy mess alternate universes play and that's why you had an event like "Crisis on Infinite Earths".
I like how they handle parallel realities now as "one-offs".
Marvel has done a great job with "Exiles", which is a "sliders"esque group of mutants.
I don't hate alternate realities. I hate when they can't keep shit straight in their primary one.
Uhmmm, ya all of the above. They are usually fairly consistent between titles. Trouble happens when you have a major event happen in another title but in the same city as your primary charachter.
Case Point: A year ago Magneto FUCKS up Manhatten. Takes out bridges, buildings, the whole shebang. Every X-Book deals with the ramifications of this event.
Head over to Spider-Man during this time period. Nothing, NY is fine. Not even a mention that Magneto has messed up half the city.
Apparently both of the big 2 are promising house cleanings this summer
House of M
http://www.marvel.com/publishing/stories/showstory.htm?id=22
Infinite Crisis
http://www.dccomics.com/features/countdown/
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Case Point: A year ago Magneto FUCKS up Manhatten. Takes out bridges, buildings, the whole shebang. Every X-Book deals with the ramifications of this event.
Head over to Spider-Man during this time period. Nothing, NY is fine. Not even a mention that Magneto has messed up half the city.
Apparently both of the big 2 are promising house cleanings this summer
House of M
http://www.marvel.com/publishing/stories/showstory.htm?id=22
Infinite Crisis
http://www.dccomics.com/features/countdown/
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