#Comic Books
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1: Make Mine Miles Morales.
You know the story. Marvel killed off Peter Parker, and replaced him with a half-Latino, half-Black character named Miles Morales. Divisive as fuck. Forced some claim, excellent others exclaim. This week the first issue dropped with him in it, and the question quickly shifted to: is this fucking comic good?
The answer for me? Absolutely.
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Face of a Franchise: Daredevil
[face of a franchise presents two individuals that’ve fulfilled the same role. your task — choose the better of the two and defend your choice in the rancor pit that is the comments section]
Since his debut in 1964, comics fans (especially those that love to exclaim Make mine Marvel, muthafuckah!!!) have been wowie-zowied by the antics of Daredevi, the man without fear! Despite hitting the scene in a costume ridiculous even by comics standards, Daredevil won over fans by beating all sorts of criminal ass at night while maintaining a successful law practice during the day as Matt Murdock.
Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good.
Also, the guy’s blind. Which makes his feats even more spectacular. I mean, Ray Charles was cool as hell, but I don’t think he’d handle a trampoline half as well as Murdock.
Also tack on the fact that bad-ass writers seem to gravitate towards Daredevil (historically – Frank Miller/recently – Ed Brubaker), and it’s clear why the character is afforded such genuine respect. The mouthbreathin’, anti-social panel-worshippers that I count myself amongst fucking love Daredevil.
Fortunately, the admiration for this Marvel Knight has been truly honored by the two men fearless enough to portray him in live-action.
If for no other reason, 1989 was a wonderful year because it saw the release of The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, a made-for-TV movie continuing the adventure that began in The Incredible Hulk series. Of course, any time that a Marvel character goes on trial, there’s only one man to turn to for help: Attorney Matt Murdock! The hero of Hell’s Kitchen was portrayed by Rex Smith, the only man brave enough to ride the Street Hawk! Although relegated to a supporting role, Smith’s interpretation of Daredevil as a ninjutsu-lookin’ legally-blind lawyer that helps a green gargantuan is simply chilling.
Whereas Rex Smith’s Daredevil is a one-round knockout, Ben Affleck’s portrayal is a twelve-round slugfest. After blowing away audiences with Reindeer Games, Affleck was given his second once-in-a-lifetime role in 2003’s Daredevil. In this dark vision of the Daredevil mythos, Matt Murdock not only has to fight Bullseye, but the entire Green Mile as well! Proving himself to be a world-class thespian, Affleck navigated his way through playground battles with Elektra, Irish guys with facial scars, and a soundtrack that includes both Nickelback and Hoobastank.
A miracle performance. Nothing less.
So who do you think is the superior Daredevil? The dude from the TV-movie that no one remembers or the dude from the movie no one likes?
Rex Smith or Ben Affleck?
Video: Wolverine’s Memory Loss Causes Drinking, Hot Red Heads, Stabbing.
Pretty funny video out of the Marvel camp. Wolverine has himself some brain dysfunction, but in this skit he uses it to his advantage. Drankin’. Jean Grey slammin’. Stabbin’. I laughed at this. Felt guilty doing it. But I did.
‘Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1’ Sets Digital Sales Record. Well Done.
I’ve been rather vociferous in my support for Miles Morales. I had an idea that just the hype (whether you liked the concept or saw it as shoe-horning) would push sales of Ultimate Spider-Man #1. I didn’t anticipate this sort of deluge.
Marvel Reveals ‘The Mighty’ For Fear Itself #7. How Is This Not A Rip-Off?
Marvel has revealed ‘The Mighty’ in advance of Fear Itself #7. I’m struggling to figure out how this isn’t a complete rip-off of Blackest Night.
Hit the jump to see for yourself.
Loeb and McGuiness Reveal ‘Avengers: X-Sanction’. Cable, Guns, Dumb.
I don’t want Jeph Loeb writing anything anymore. I know it sounds disrespectful, but I dread his work. A decade ago I would have swooned at the idea that he’s writing a Cable/Avengers crossover, now I’m just interested in a car crash sort of manner. Cable! He died. Somehow. Cable! He’s back. And he is looking as ludicrous on this side of Liefeld as you could imagine. Just look at the promo. Look at that gun. It’s enormous, and more importantly even disregarding its size it looks dumb. Man I’m cranky and hating.
So what’s the event about?
David Tran redesigns the X-Men. Take notes, Jim Lee!
David Tran has redesigned the X-Men uniforms, and the dude is talented like a beast. The outfits riff off of the gorgeous Frank Quitely redesigns that happened, what, ten years ago? Great. Much more fun than the Jim Lee redesigns. Though I mean, Tran! Where is the chitin armor? Jesus! And protective neckwear. C’mon!
Hit the jump to check them out.
Variant Covers: Spider-Man Goes Multiethnic, While DC Continues Its Regurgenesis.
The grinding in the temples reminds me that I’ve only slept for three hours in the past forty-eight. The pain in the clenched jaw. Life! Gets busy. How the fuck you doing? This is Variant Covers the column where we dance the dance of funny books, speech balloons, splash pages. And the et cetera. We tell the tale of what we’re buying this week. Quickly! We must do this quickly. The sleep approaches, but as per usual. There’s wood to chop. Always wood to chop.
Marvel Teases ‘Avengers’ Event In December. With Typical Awful Photoshop.
Marvel is beginning to excel at using awful, awful teasers to hype up events coming down the pipe. For every dope line of Fantastic Four #600 teasers, there’s putrid ones like this. No seriously, whose kid are they letting intern in the graphic design department?
Hit the jump to check it out.
Monday Morning Commute: rocket-burns and moonshine dreams
Welcome to the MONDAY MORNING COMMUTE! This is the feature I use as an excuse to showcase the various debris that’ll be keeping my brain-bone lubricated so as to avoid jamming up at the hands of the workweek. Some Mondays, I write a little story beforehand as a creative writing exercise and preface the post with it. On other Mondays, I start the post by jotting down an amusing anecdote
And then there’re those Mondays when I’m so tired that my eyes are burning and I don’t have any goddamn coffee filters so kickstarting my creativity with a caffeine-defibrillator isn’t an option and all I want to do is pass out and wake up in 2013 so that I can laugh at all those fucking doomsayers and tell them that their apocalypse wasn’t even worth being awake for.
Guess what kind of Monday today is.
Quit’yer dinkin’ around, let’s do this.
