6 Places I Want to Visit Someday
It’s been a week since I got back from London, and I can say in hindsight that the trip was really fun. We went on the Harry Potter Studio Tour, checking out the sets, costumes and props from the movies. We took an open-bus tour of all the major landmarks. We ate fish & chips in a British pub. It was a hoot. It was also the first time I’ve traveled internationally (Canada doesn’t count). For this week’s List of Six, I’ve decided to share some of the other places I’d like to visit in my lifetime.
The world, as if you needed a reminder
I don’t travel much. That’s partly by choice. I like where I am. I’m also largely broke, and money is usually a big part of traveling. But hey, a fella can dream, right? Isn’t that the point of owning and writing in a blog? To dream the impossible dreams and write about them? Someday I’ll be rich and handsome and will be able to travel the world. And these are the six places I want to visit!
Feel free to share some of your own dream destinations in the comments!
The Warcraft Trailer Again in Super High Definition!
I was in England when the Warcraft movie trailer hit the Internet, so I wasn’t able to share my thoughts — good thing I randomly stumbled upon this super high definition version yesterday! You’ve got to use the little gear button in the bottom right corner, but you can set this trailer to play at 1440p! Apparently that’s a thing now, and it’s beautiful!
The trailer looks amazing! The detail, the imagery, the iconic characters, beasts and locations, baby Thrall! I think Warcraft has become my most anticipated movie of 2016. We all know that Captain America: Civil War is going to be awesome. Warcraft is more of a gamble, and I like that. A gamble that looks like it’s going to pay off!
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A Pretty Amazing Miles Morales Fan Film
If the major studios won’t bring Miles Morales to live action, the great geeks of the world will do it for them!
Solid work by Bard Tales Productions! The acting is stellar, the special effects are outstanding and the whole thing comes together quite nicely. This is what the Internet was made for.
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Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 11/14/15
Comic reviews are back! After a whirlwind vacation in England, I’m back reading comics and sitting on my butt in America! I missed a lot of good titles last week (including the long-delayed Uncanny X-Men #600), but I’m hopefully going to make up for that with some solid comics this week. I’d review Uncanny X-Men #600…but I wasn’t impressed. It wasn’t worth the wait. And the new Extraordinary X-Men left me a little cold. Not a good time to be an X-Men fan, I don’t think.
Anyway, this week has a lot of goodies! We’ve got the All-New, All-Different Avengers, we’ve got the All-New Wolverine, we’ve got Web Warriors, and we’ve got a bunch of goodies from DC Comics. This was definitely a good week to come back to, I’d have to say. I missed comics!
Comic Book of the Week goes to All-New Wolverine #1. I rather liked this story, despite not being a particular fan of X-23. But I like the idea that she’s going to carry on Wolverine’s legacy.
It’s her favorite part
Plus, Angel makes for a really great sidekick.
Comic Reviews: All-New, All-Different Avengers #1, All-New Wolverine #1, Batman #46, Starfire #6 and Web Warriors #1.
Review: Teen Titans #13
In my last review of Teen Titans, I said the immortal phrase, ‘We’re through the looking glass here, people’, partly because it’s one of my favorite phrases, and partly because it’s so, so true. Teen Titans went off the rails in the last issue, with a sudden, seemingly random cutaway involving Harvest, probably my least favorite DC super-villain. Fortunately, no less than Scott Lobdell himself showed up in the comments of the last review to explain that DC higher ups wanted Superboy out of the comic, and he and Harvest were their way of doing just that. Makes sense, and I appreciated the helpful explanation. When the bosses say, ‘let’s do something else with Superboy’, you say, ‘how insane can we get in removing him?’
Teen Titans #13
Though I don’t know to what extent writer Will Pfeifer can blame editorial for the continuing insanity in Teen Titans #13.
Comic Rating: 3/10 – Bad.
I’m going to keep the phrase ‘We’re through the looking glass here, people’ in effect for this new issue, because everything is just kind of wibbly wobbly in this issue. Continuity is a little thin, characters move randomly through the issue, and once again, a big hand-waving explanation seems to come out of nowhere to reverse the entire flow of the story. But considering all the shake-ups recently, I can’t be sure if the reverse was always planned, or if Pfeifer is just scrambling to fix his story. I assume he’d planned to end things properly with Superboy and is now being forced to come up with a whole new ending to his prison story on the fly. Very weird, but that’s editorial interference for you.
Speaking of which, we’ve got three different artists this issue, and all of them are pretty bad. The art is maddeningly wild and doesn’t do the issue any favors. Nothing does this issue any favors. I can only hope that Teen Titans comes out of this mess in one piece, and maybe we’ll get some kind of renewed focus going forward. Because if nothing else, I remain eternally hopeful that things will actually get better someday.
Someday…
