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| Friday, December 8, 2006 10:14 PM |
| A non-Wii related post |
 by Fëanor |
-My next graphic novel read was The House of M, which I thought was the Marvel equivalent of DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths, but it wasn't anywhere near on the same size, in terms of scale or length. CoIE included pretty much every DC character ever in all their forms and incarnations, spanned many universes, included many deaths, went back to the dawn of time, totally re-ordered existence, etc., etc. HoM does have a lot of Marvel characters, but the Fantastic Four are absent, Daredevil makes little more than a cameo, etc. The main characters are the core X-Men, and there are two, huge, world-changing events, but only the second one actually sticks, and no main characters die, as far as I could tell, although some go through some catastrophic transformations. Anyway, it was a much quicker and better read than CoIE. Really, it was better in every way - it was well written, beautifully drawn, an intriguing, effective, and believable story. Yeah, good stuff all around. I'm curious what happened in the comics after this story, as it makes some pretty essential changes to the nature of a few main characters, and leaves us unsure as to the location and state of Professor Xavier.
Next up in my graphic novel reading is The Death of Superman. I've started it, and the cheese and melodrama are already splattering all over the place. Argh! Hope this isn't another CoIE. I was afraid that after reading this, I would be disappointed and want to read the whole return of Superman story arc, with the four different Supermen and so forth, which I'm not sure is available in handy collected-into-one-book format, but if this book continues to be this bad, maybe I won't care about reading forward at all.
-Just finished watching Targets, an early film by Peter Bogdanovich, in which he and Boris Karloff essentially play themselves, though under different names. It's partially about movies - working on them, enjoying them, getting tired of them - but it's also about a very disturbed young man who freaks out one day and starts shooting people. Basically he becomes the sniper that was in all the papers some years back - this movie was ahead of its time. Anyway, this is clearly an early movie from a young director. The acting is often not very good, the dialogue a bit too earnest. He's just trying a bit too hard. But the whole sniper plotline is actually pretty well done and quite disturbing, and the final 20 minutes or so is really a pretty fantastic piece of suspense thriller movie making. Interesting flick. |
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