This totally explains my sex life.

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Top 70 Deadpool moments

Found this on the innerwebs.  It's pretty entertaining, check it out.

http://4thletter.net/category/features/top-70-deadpool-moments/

Bat Groper

I love the reaction from Batgirl, confusion and shock.

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Vacation Time

  Well, I'm taking the rest of August off.  Last week was a disaster, I was unable to hit any of my deadlines so clearly week to week doesn't work for updating the blog.  So I'm going to take some time to build up content and rethink some things.  I'd like to change up how everything looks as well so we'll see what happens.  I'll still be doing cosplay Wednesdays because that's super easy, I have the content and it seems to be the only thing people actually read on a weekly basis.  Also I might do a review of the Super Helicarrier that I managed to snag.  But everything else is on hold until the first week of September.  However that first week we'll come back with a vengeance.  I've got some new features in mind and a possible new author to join.  So, the two of you who actually visit the site look forward to that.

I, for one, am excited...

  So this appears to be the new crew (Brian Posehn, Gerry Duggan and Tony Moore) for Deadpool after Daniel Way and Ale Garza leave at the end of the current arc.  After a bit of Twitter nonsense it seems that some people are discouraged by this.  That they were hoping for a return to the early Deadpool, before Way took over.  Personally I've really enjoyed Way's interpretation of Deadpool.  I like Deadpool because it is a humorous book with dark elements to it.  For the most part it's Deadpool taking the piss out of everything, being the lone, crazy voice of reason in the, at times, absurd Marvel Universe.  I never really enjoyed the early Deadpool all that much so Way's interpretation was very welcome and it turned the character from a novelty to a must read and a character I could really like and relate to.  The Marvel Universe is full of cooler than life smart asses so it's nice to see what basically amounts to a super powered geek, full of self loathing and social awkwardness, run wild and point at all the ridiculousness that happens around him.

  That being said I've really disliked the last two arcs in Deadpool.  After 52 issues of awesome storytelling, with a few rough patches here and there, the book has totally fallen apart.  I was excited to see where Way was taking the newly de-powered Deadpool after what I thought was a totally botched conclusion to the strong starting "Dead" story arc (all that here).  But even after that I had faith that Way, haven proven that he could bring some really awesome storytelling in the past, would bring the awesome once again but the current arc is boring.  It's just lacking in that special something that previous story arcs have had.  It almost seems like he's bored of the book and is anxious to move on.  The book has gone from a must have the day it ships to a "I'll get it when I have time" title for me.  So this injection of new blood is exciting.  I know nothing of Gerry Duggan (other than he has an Attack of the Show! credit, so he has a pretty good understanding of pop culture, a must for Deadpool) but Brian Posehn knows comic books.  He's a comic geek, he understands how comics work and he has a passion for them.  His stand-up and comedy writing shows that he can mix sarcasm, comedy and drama quite adeptly and perhaps when tempered by another writer with a different perspective they can deliver some truly great stories that build on Way's Deadpool that we've come to love.  Tony Moore is a great artist who can do detail and dynamic, comic style action.  So, to me, this feels right for a new era of Deadpool and I'm really looking forward to getting that first issue and seeing what happens.

Cosplay Wednesday

This week we get a menacing as hell Black Adam who looks ready to take over the world.  Also we have the evil Mary Marvel ready to help him take it over.

Batman (1966) DVD

Rating:  3 out of 5 needlessly complex but easily solved riddles

Plot Synopsis: The rouges gallery gathers together in the ultimate attack against the masked Cossack.

Prometheus (2012) theatrical release

  Few movies in 2012 were as anticipated as Prometheus, a scifi/action/thriller that proposed to explore the origins of humanity and why, as always, we should have just stayed home. I had high hopes going into the theater- after all, this was a Ridley Scott film, the director of Blade Runner, Gladiator and of course Alien (from which Prometheus takes its universe). But instead of another classic I was treated to a two hour struggle between the characters and plot. Neither survived.

New Author

We have a new author joining the site.  It is The Number Of Man with a review of Prometheus.  Will we see more of The Number Of Man?  I don't know.  Just to let you know, I have no control over what he says, reviews or says in his reviews.  He's also expressed no desire to answer mail.  It remains to be seen if he'll reply to comments but he mostly just wants to post reviews.  So enjoy, his first review is quite nice, I'm jealous.  It's a different voice and a different tone which I think is good.  Just don't like him better than me.

Friday's with Blinky: Joker

  This week we take a look at the final Joker short film. Next week we'll round up the miscellaneous Blinky Joker stuff to continue with the Endless Knight theme. Then we might start with the Catwoman stuff.

  Made in 2006, before Dark Knight introduced a different kind of Joker this short brings us Bryan Bockbrader as Joker.  And let me tell you he is a hell of a Joker.  He's a little Ceasar Romero, a little Jim Carey and a little Jack Nicholson.  He's got a great laugh, delivers his lines with a pitch perfect craziness and has presence in his character.  I love the wardrobe on this as well, the Joker in his untucked dress shirt and loosened tie.  Anytime I look at a Joker character I looked for influences from comedians so when I see something I instantly associate it with a comic.  The look of this Joker is very 'late night comedian'.  He looks like he just finished a set at the Chuckle Hut, maybe he bombed, maybe he didn't, maybe he bombed but didn't think he did, anyway that's what he looks like.  Like a deformed psycho who just did 15 minutes on a mic in front of a brick wall.  Perfect.  It's hard to chose a favorite between Bryan and Chris' Joker performances, they're both very different so there isn't a lot of comparison.  It depends on what you like but there's time and room enough for both.

  Joker's the star so he's really the only character who get's time enough to shine.  Deanna Miller is there as Harley.  She's good, what few lines she has she delivers well.  The voice is really good, very close to the source material, which is nice.  She doesn't really get much screen time but she's not a distraction or a detriment, she does her part to carry the short.  Her costume could have been made a little more real however, Joker looks part of the real world but Harley's costume is straight from the animated series so she looks a little out of place.

  You can kind of tell this is early on.  The things Chris would get really really good at in the later short movies are present in this but just a little rough.  The soundtrack dates it a little but fits in with the tone and is thematically appropriate.  The camera work is good with it's low angle shots up at Joker, occasionally at a slight angle to make Joker both intimidating as well as depicting him as twisted.  It's well done and worth checking out.