The 6 Coolest Moms in Comic Books
I love my mom. She’s sweet, kind, caring and I know she’d do anything for me. She’s got questionable tastes in reality TV, but she’s easy to make laugh, so my family has a jolly good time with the jokes when we’re all back home for the holidays. My mom is pretty darn cool. And though it doesn’t come up very often, I’m fairly certain that she approves of my love of comic books. So she’d also hopefully approve of today’s list of the 6 Coolest Moms in Comic Books!
Moms = superheroes
Sometimes they’re good guys, sometimes they’re bad guys, but either way you’ve got to be super tough to be a mom.
May 12, 2000 – A Day That Will Live in Awesome History
Would anyone like to hear a cool Sean anecdote? I know my blog is mostly about geeky stuff and pop culture references, but it’s about me as well. And the story of May 12, 2000 is a pretty exciting tale. One of the busiest, wildest days of my life – though in hindsight, ‘wild’ is a pretty mild term. But still, it’s a fun story involving bombs, babes, tuxedos and dancing…it has it all!
Though it mostly has Seans
On the 12th of May, in the year of our Lord, 2000, your favorite blogger was the ripe old age of 16 and attending Dana L. West High School in the hamlet of Port Byron, New York. We have a Thruway stop, perhaps you’ve heard of us. Still basking in the glow of surviving Y2K a few months prior, I woke up that clear Spring morning knowing full well that my day was going to be pretty cool – I just had no idea how cool or weird it would get by the end.
For you see, the Gods of Scheduling had pulled a fast one. Despite having a full 365 days in a year, May 12, 2000 had been scheduled for both my Advanced Placement American History final and my Junior Prom.
So I already knew I was going to have a busy day. Click the jump to continue…
25 Blissful Minutes of New Cave Johnson Lines
Anyone who has played Portal 2 knows that Cave Johnson may be the funniest, most blissfully one-liner spouting fictional character of all time. Voiced by the immeasurable J.K. Simmons, Cave Johnson is the overseer of Aperture Laboratories, or at least he was back when the company was first started in the mid-20th century. So everything he says has a delightful old-timey feel.
The man, the myth, the legend
Well the latest Portal 2 DLC involves traveling through multiple dimensions, and each time you enter a new one, you get a new message from Cave Johnson. Then some amazing soul has taken all of those messages and put them together in this 25-minute long clip of just hilarious Cave Johnson one-liners. My God, this is brilliant. Listen to the whole thing. I wanted to blog it just to save it for posterity.
This is funny, funny stuff.
Review: Scarlet Spider #5
The latest issue of Kaine’s ongoing series (still weird to say it) is an entertaining one-off story that gets a little too big for its own good. Our hero saves the day in glorious fashion, but brief cameos by Iron Man, President Obama and the new SHIELD (featuring Fury Jr. and Coulson!) create a magnitude that is more jarring than exciting. If writer Chris Yost wanted to go this big this soon with his fledgling series, he should have given more time for the story to grow. Perhaps a two-parter.
Scarlet Spider #5
While this done-in-one story doesn’t feel rushed, it definitely feels like we’ve jumped into the middle of the action-packed story and are expected to catch up. And the flashbacks don’t provide nearly enough material to help in that regard.
Comic rating: 4/5: Good.
There’s also a new artist, Neil Edwards, who while not as good as regular artist Ryan Stegman, easily holds his own in the action department, and looks similar enough to Stegman that the change isn’t a problem. Although he’ll have to do, since Stegman got the bump up to the Fantastic Four. We won’t have him around much longer.
If nothing else, this issue is a fantastic look into Kaine’s mindset when it comes to being a superhero. He’s got a lot of great character moments throughout that show he’s not a goody two shoes like Spider-Man. He’s definitely an anti-hero, though the series hasn’t pushed him over the edge just yet. I’m sure it wants to maintain some level of decency in its protagonist. Still, he’s a lot of fun to read when he really lets the bad guys have it. And while I suppose I’d like to see Kaine interact with the rest of the Marvel Universe in time, this issue just gets too big too fast, but doesn’t do anything interesting with those high stakes – unless next issue follows up on some of these story ideas.
Join me after the jump for a full synopsis and review.
Marvel Superheroes are a Wacky Bunch
Somebody needs to give Imajunation a lot of money so that they can make a million more of these videos! A wacky, hilarious little clip show of wonderful Marvel superhero vignettes called ‘Disassembled’. DC may have the Super Best Friends Forever, but this video is almost as good. If you watch only one video on my blog, make it this one. Enjoy!
