#August2012
‘BORDERLANDS 2’ Mechromancer is for people who suck at shooters. Sign me up.
I’m not good at the first-person shooters. I love them shit out of them, I really do. I also find myself looting when I should be shooting, and running into walls, twirling in beautiful stupidity. Gearbox got me covered. Read the rest of this entry »
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JOE KUBERT has passed away. Pour out your beverage of choice for the legend.
Another comic book legend has embraced eternity. Joe Kubert, legend unto himself and father of two of comics’ biggest artists has passed away. So it may go, but it is still a bummer.
‘BREAKING BAD’ graffiti. It’s mad old, but it is Sunday. Love it.
Mad old, but I was thinking about it today, and never posted it. Love it.
You can buy an “XBOX ‘DURANGO’ DEVELOPMENT KIT” on eBay. Uh, you do it.
There’s totally an Xbox “Durango” development kid on eBay. It totally has to be real, legit, and quantifiable. That said, how about you go and buy it, and let me know how gnarly it turns out to be. I’ll bring the popcorn and we can program Dong Wars xx69. You just need to front the overhead.
WEEKEND OPEN BAR: Sequel Superiority!
[WEEKEND OPEN BAR: The one-stop ramble-about-anything weekend post at OL. Comment on the topic at hand. Tell us how drunk you are. Describe a comic you bought. This is your chance to bring the party.]
It was during the 8th century BCE that the Greek poet-Jedi known as Homer detailed the events of the Trojan War with the Iliad. An impassioned narrative of a conflict between kings, warriors, gods, and mortals, Homer’s epic poem has been celebrated since its inception. However, the readers who stop after reading the final line of the Iliad (“Thus, then, did they celebrate the funeral of Hector tamer of horses.“) has only treated themselves to half of the story.
The second half of the tale comes in the form of the Odyssey, an epic which follows Odysseus on his dangerous voyage home. Odysseus is a hero of the Trojan War (like the Trojan Horse? Yeah, that was his idea), but he’s slipped into a slick puddle of shit-luck. As such, his return to Ithaca has been delayed by incredible storms, man-eating monsters, an encounter with Polyphemos that ends with being cursed by Poseidon, the allure of Sirens’ songs, and more than a few battles. Oh, when Odysseus finally gets home, he has to figure out how to kill all of the assholes that’ve been depleting his estate and trying to court his wife.
But don’t worry – Odysseus pulls it off, and in style!
“’Dogs! You thought I would never come back from Troy, so you have been carving up my substance, forcing the women to lie with you, courting my wife before I was dead, not fearing the gods who rule the broad heavens, nor the execration of man which follows you for ever. And now the cords of death are made fast about you all!’”
Not only is the Odyssey a mythological tour de force that’s still read and studied and imitated today, it’s also the first documented sequel in the history of narrative. And it’s bad-ass. Hell, many believe it to be equal, if not superior, to the Iliad.
Sure, there’s an argument to be had that most sequels are cheap cash-grabs that capitalize on the popularity of great works. There’s no denyin’ that much of the direct-to-video market is built on this premise. But with the Odyssey having been established nearly three thousand years ago, there’s a time-tested precedent that sometimes sequels are worthwhile continuations.
So here’s our topic of discussion: What is your favorite sequel?
Matt Fraction and the curious case of being awesome. [Avarita #4 Edition]
I finally, finally, finally gave Casanova: Avarita my first complete read through last night. It’s some delicious hypertextual insanity, at times sacrificing coherence and character development for kinetics out the fucking ass. That’s fine with me. It does some really interesting things, especially when it gets metatextual. Sometimes the ponderings are centered around the act of creation, and sometimes the ponderings take such a form as the image above. It’s the sort of effervescent insanity that Fraction has to staple down for the most part in his Marvel marvelings, which is unfortunate because it is here where he really hits his stride. He’s been able to channel it in the (sadly nixed) Defenders, and I’m anticipating his collaboration with Allred on FF will continue in such a spirit.
‘BILL & TED 3’ totally happening, with ‘GALAXY QUEST’ director helming. Gnarly. Righteous.
C’mon! I can’t be the only one who is excited that Bill & Ted 3 is happening. Especially since they’ve tacked on a pretty gnartacular director on to helm the antiquated son of a bitch.
Google to punish pirate sites in search results. The future recoils, aghast.
Getting harder and hard to pirate that copy of Flo Rida’s latest single. Demonoid is down, and now Google is punishing pirate sites in their search results. I just want to Flo, shit! How can one Flo in this day and age? Buy it? Kiss my ass!
Cosplay: FEMALE VENOM is liquid latex pants explosion. I objectify, but I swear I’m deec.
Shit. I keep forgetting to put this armada of pants-breaking Venom cosplay. Mayhaps it is because every time I take a look at it, my loins begin to thrash. I have to attend to rituals. Offer supplications. Seriously though, this is amazing. Read the rest of this entry »
Demand the last ‘GAME OF THRONES’ S2 recap from Budrickton. Do it!
Look at this sad ass shit. You know what’s been sitting in drafts for like, two months? Budrickton’s final Game of Thrones recap. I was perusing the OL back channels today when I came across it, and I was like four seconds from deleting it. Then I thought to myself, I will take it to the people. We all know how funky fresh his other recaps were, don’t we? So I implore you folk. The good denizens of OL. Help me guilt Budrickton into generating this final S2 wunder-fest. It’s not the recap we deserve, it’s the recap we need.
