The New Doctor is…a Guy I Know Best from Doctor Who!
The new Doctor was announced on Sunday, and I’ll let him introduce himself. Though don’t watch or read if you don’t want to be SPOILED!
I looked up him up on IMDB and saw that I know him best from a previous episode of Doctor Who, as the father in the Pompeii episode in season 4. So cool. He’s got a fun voice and a neat look. And clearly they’re going for a Doctor with more character than looks this time, which is an OK choice. Between David Tennant and Matt Smith, the new series definitely wanted a young, hunky Doctor. But when you look back at the classic series, a lot of the Doctors were older men. So I think it was a specific choice to go older and more whimsical-looking than keep things hunky.
I’m slightly disappointed that they didn’t go with a female Doctor or a Doctor of color, but only slightly. I didn’t expect them to do something so radical. But it would have been neat if they had.
Anyway, I am optimistic about this guy, so we’ll just have to stay tuned to see how he does! What do you all think of him?
Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 8/3/13
If you’re reading this Saturday morning, then I’m well on my way to the Boston Comic-Con! Woot! Should be a fun time. I’m going in costume as an X-Men character, and I’ll be posting pictures and sharing stories sometime next week, once I’m back home. But for now, I wanted to keep up the comic book reviews so that my blog isn’t totally dead. I’m a hard worker, like that. Though because I left on my trip on Thursday, this week’s reviews are going to be pretty short, since I didn’t have a lot of time to work on them. Thankfully, being a fifth-week Wednesday, there weren’t too many comics released this week anyway.
The comics that were released include some of my favorites, like FF, which takes a turn for the meta this week, and Uncanny X-Men, which continues my love of all things Cyclops. This week also sees the end of the first major storyline in the new X-Men, as well as the end of Grant Morrison’s entire run on Batman with his final issue of Batman Incorporated. How does it work as an ending? Well…it’s fine. I’ve been saying this for awhile now about Batman Incorporated, and it really holds true for the final issue, but this series has lacked any sort of excitement or momentum for a long time now. The air has been let out of the tires and the energy has just been sapped.
Oh well. Morrison’s run was a lot of fun overall. As for Comic Book of the Week, I’m gonna toss it to Uncanny X-Men, simply because nothing was all that spectacular this week.
Comic Reviews: Batman Incorporated #13, FF #10, Uncanny X-Men #9 and X-Men #3.
Honest Trailers Tackles the Big One
I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve seen from the Screen Junkies team, and now they up the ante by giving the Honest Trailers treatment to the worst superhero movie ever made. I’m talking, of course, about Batman and Robin.
I can’t believe young, teenage Sean loved this movie, and Batman Forever. I’m fairly certain I was just blind and dumb as a kid. High school straightened me right out. Now I dislike and giggle at these films with the appropriate amount of disdain.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
I remember reading ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ back in high school English. And I remember hearing about how it was in development hell for the longest time, possibly with Jim Carrey to star. Well now it looks like they’ve got Ben Stiller in the lead role, and it comes out this December. The first trailer looks amazing.
That looks exactly like the kind of movie I love. Well-known comedic actor in a serious, magical role? Count me in! And I already love that song they play in the trailer.
The Artsiest Fan-Film You Will Probably Ever See
The following 17-minute movie is about a comic book character, but I’m not going to spoil who. You’re just going to have to watch and enjoy.
The little movie is written and directed by Joe Lynch, the same guy behind that Punisher fan-film Dirty Laundry from a few years ago. This film is long, sure, and it’s in an odd black and white style, similar to a classic foreign film called Man Bites Dog. But don’t let that scare you. Like I said, it’s the artsiest and neatest fan film you will probably ever see.
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