Yearly Archives: 2013
I Hope William Shatner is Having Fun
To promote the new Star Trek video game, William Shatner has some fun with his old pal the Gorn.
I just like this commercial a lot. It’s just plain fun. And between this and Shatner’s appearance on the Oscars, I hope he’s having fun. He looks like he is, acknowledging the roles that made him famous with a nice tongue-in-cheek demeanor.
Review: Teen Titans #18
Maddening! This series is maddening! Sometimes Teen Titans can be pretty damn good, with solid characterization and the hint that something interesting and entertaining will happen. Then Teen Titans will shoot itself in the foot and run around bleeding everywhere because it just loves pointless cutaways and ridiculous character motivations. Evil Tim Drake continues to be a ridiculously stupid idea. Seriously, if Evil Tim Drake wasn’t in this issue, this would have been one of the best issues of Teen Titans to date. But he just ruins everything!
Teen Titans #18
But he’s not alone. If you were hoping Trigon might amount to something cool…nope! Or what about the two stupid new villains that were randomly and awkwardly inserted last issue? They show up again and are even more pointless than before.
And then there’s Lance. Fuck Lance.
Comic Rating: 2/5: Bad.
Sorry for the cursing. But seriously, to hell with that guy. Lance is the worst character in the New 52. Even worse than Rush! He makes absolutely no god damned sense! Scott Lobdell introduces him in Teen Titans as one of Amanda Waller’s agents. Fine. Even though he’s got a ridiculously generic costume and name, that’s still fine. Then Lance shows up and promises he can cure Solstice. Also fine. But then in that same issue, he’s pulled away by unseen forces to go off and appear in Birds of Prey. What!? Why!? I didn’t read about Lance’s adventures in Birds of Prey, but they were apparently important enough to warrant a one-panel cameo in the Teen Titans Joker issue, and then he’s mentioned again in this issue as having disappeared. What the Hell!?
Why bother bringing the character into Teen Titans in the first place if he’s not going to stick around or do anything, and instead is going to have a big story in Birds of Prey?
And Lance is just the tip of the stupid character iceberg. Teen Titans is full of them, and I’ll gladly point them out as we go through the synopsis. Sadly, it pains me to say that the stupidest character of them all is Evil Tim Drake. Even his haircut is stupid. But what makes it even worse is that for the first half of the book, he’s actually pretty awesome.
Join me after the jump for a full synopsis and more review.
The Last Days of Demon’s Run
The Doctor Who mini-sodes continue with an epilogue to my all-time favorite episode. This one reveals how Stax survived the Battle of Demon’s Run and joined Lady Vastra and Jenny in Victorian England.
Neat little epilogue there. I know we’ll see this trio again later this season, and they were awesome in the Christmas special.
Two The Wolverine Trailers for the Price of One
The first trailers for The Wolverine were released today, and I’m lukewarm to both of them.
First, the international trailer is longer and juicier.
Then the U.S. trailer is a little punchier.
For both of them, I think there are a few cool moments. I like the grounded, gritty take on Wolverine. I think that’ll be strong. But I’m a little worried about the over-reliance on really fake-looking CGI stunts. That fight scene on top of the speeding train looks ridiculous. X-Men Origins: Wolverine was filled with heavy CGI nonsense, I don’t want that to happen with this sequel.
Based on these two trailers, I’m not too excited with what we’re going to get.
The Wolverine comes out on July 26.
3D, of course 3D, dammit
The Second Kick-Ass 2 Trailer is Pretty Good Too
I loved the first Kick-Ass 2 Trailer, and this one is pretty good too. It focuses on Hit-Girl.
I’m definitely excited about this movie. What about you guys? Looking forward to Kick-Ass 2? I think it has the potential to be a sleeper hit, maybe even the best superhero movie of the summer. Kick-Ass 2 is only a sequel, while Iron Man 3 is the threequel. And we all know how well the third movie usually goes for superheroes.
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