July 28, 2002

'Clerks'

i had purchased the 'Clerks Uncensored' DVD awhile ago, but i just watched it. that is one of the funniest cartoons ever. first i watched all six episodes with commentary, and then i watched the episodes again without commentary making it a grand total of 6 hours of cartoon Dante and Randall. there are tons of parodies ('JFK,' 'The Last Starfighter,' 'Duck Amok' cartoon, 'Temple of Doom,' and many others). plus, Star Wars references galore. and just 'cause i could, i watched the 'Clerks' movie afterward and realized something: Dante is a whiny bitch because he has to be. the movie wouldn't have worked otherwise. he's afraid of change and blames everything on others, and can't help any of it until he gets called on it, which Randall does at the end. this is great movie.

plus Silent Bob has one of the greatest lines ever: "You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you."

keep on truckin', Bob, keep on truckin'.

thecomicman spoke @ 12:57 AM |

July 24, 2002

and the damn book was done!

i have finished The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy. here's my review:

Ellroy has apparently forgotten how to craft a sentence. and a paragraph. and a chapter.

the characters (and the plot, for that matter) were pretty derivative of the first book American Tabloid.

people say 'nigger,' 'coon,' 'slopehead,' 'frog,' 'roundeye,' 'slanteye,' 'wetback,' 'beano,' 'spic,' and every other racial slur you can think of way too often.

and there's a stupid cat that fucks with my favorite character.

in short, i liked the book. MLK Jr. and RFK both get shot because of Mafia and FBI sanctioned hits. it was pretty mediocre, but the ending kicked ass.

plus, it's about conspiracies. i like conspiracies.

thecomicman spoke @ 01:33 AM |

July 23, 2002

an aside

i noticed you guys commented more when i had nothing to say. usually you just bitched about how i had nothing to say, but i had more pings on this site, than when i do post stuff. i wonder why?

thecomicman spoke @ 01:51 AM |

Anime

i am watching 'Lain.' it make my head hurt. ow. after 'Lain,' i shall borrow 'Cowboy Bebop' from a co-worker. the same co-worker who lent me 'Trigun.'

thecomicman spoke @ 01:50 AM |

AK vs. SF

i think i rate AK's blog the best. i tickles me quite often, plus it pisses me off just enough sometimes so that i'm mad, but i don't go into furious rants about my perceived state of the world. this is a good place to be in. i mean, if you have to be mad... i'm abandoning that last bit because it makes no sense and i'm not about to waste time trying to salvage it.

thecomicman spoke @ 01:47 AM |

hurm...

Rick says: "Pretty good, but I can't believe you forgot Silver Fox. She was a huge love interest in Wolverine's solo series (around issues 40-60, though mainly in flashback)."

to this, i say: FUCK!!! i can't believe i forgot her either! goddamn my crappy memory. FUCK, i say!

thecomicman spoke @ 01:44 AM |

gasp! not my X-men Trivia crown!

since Rick is threatening to usurp my throne, i shall answer his damn questions to the best of my ability.

Rick says: "name all the X-men from Giant Sized X-Men number 1 and then list what teams they've been members of."

i shall assume Rick only wants actual Marvel continuity, and not alternate dimensions (otherwise you get Sunfire in a team called 'Xen' and Storm as a Weapon X member). here we go:

Sunfire: X-men, Big Hero 6, Alpha Flight (but mostly he works for the Japanese government)
Banshee: Interpol (not really a team, but more of an international police force... hey! i just got that! Inter-Pol! International Police!), Factor Three, X-men, Generation X, X-Corps
Wolverine: Team X (CIA black ops), Weapon X program, Alpha Flight, X-men, Fantastic Four, X-men Blue, Four Horsemen of Apocalypse
Storm: X-men, Morlocks, X-men Gold, 'X-treme' X-men
Colossus: X-men, X-men Gold, Acolytes, Excalibur
Nightcrawler: X-men, Excalibur, Catholic Church (not a team, but he is an ordained priest)
Thunderbird: X-men (then he died)

then Rick says: "One more trivia question, name every love interest Wolverine has ever had. I don't know all the answers (obviously) but I know a decent amount. Let's see how many you can get."

in semi-chronological order:
Rose
Heather Hudson (aka Guardian aka Vindicator)
Jean Grey (the real one)
Mariko Yashida
Jean Grey (aka Phoenix force)
Yuriko (aka Lady Deathstrike)
Yukio (Japanese thief)
Jean Grey (again)
Domino (although it wasn't really love, but 'love')
... and that's all i know

bonus! the girls that Wolverine has been a mentor and father-figure to:
Shadowcat
Jubilee
Amiko (his foster daughter)

and i keep my crown!!

thecomicman spoke @ 01:00 AM |

July 21, 2002

Shakespeare was a dirty, dirty, old man!

he was, but that's not what this post is about. this post is about the awesome showing of Twelfth Night i saw in Central Park. besides having a kickass cast (including Jimmy Smits, Julia Stiles, Oliver Platt, Christopher Lloyd, Kristen Johnson, and damn near the entire cast of 'OZ' and 'Law and Order'), it was a comedy i hadn't yet read. and it's true, Shakespeare is soooo much better when seen on stage than when read. back to the cast, the little mousey dude that played Sir Andrew was awesome. he was the best guy on stage, and that's saying something when he's on stage with Julia Stiles, a Shakespeare brat (three movie adaptations and numerous stage productions!), Oliver Platt (dude's just cool) and Christopher motherluvin' Lloyd. plus, making the whole thing that much cooler, Stanley 'the Tooch' Tucci was sitting in the audience watching it as well. i am so giddy! the art direction was wonderful (especially after the intermission).

i must go see more of these Shakespeare plays!

thecomicman spoke @ 04:37 PM |

gah! it's blank!

so i was perusing blogs at work and found that mine was blank! i can only assume this was done by my archiving thingie. so i had to put this up real quick like.

thecomicman spoke @ 04:25 PM |

July 14, 2002

this is so me!

*eeep*
What fuzzy creature are you?

this is what the thing said when it picked me as a hamster:

"You are too lazy and carefree to know what is going on... toys are so much fun, aren't they?"

thecomicman spoke @ 12:47 AM |

i'm an anime bad boy

I'm just watching a bad dream I'd never wake up from.
Find out what anime bad boy you are.

i've not seen this anime, but he sounds like a badass. i was shooting for Vash the Stampede while trying to be truthful. it didn't work.

thecomicman spoke @ 12:40 AM |

July 07, 2002

the gauntlet has been set again!

Rick says: "What teams have the original members of the X-Men been members of?
Don't just answer in one long list. Do a list of the teams Cyclops has been a member of, the teams Beast has been a member of, etc."

here goes, in chronological order per person:

Jean Grey aka Marvel Girl aka Phoenix: X-men, X-factor, X-men Gold.

Scott Summers aka Cyclops aka Eric the Red: X-men, X-factor, X-men Blue

Robert 'Bobby' Drake aka Iceman aka Drake Roberts: X-men, Champions, Defenders, X-factor, X-men Gold

Warren Worthington III aka The Avenging Angel aka Angel aka Death aka Archangel: X-men, Champions, Defenders, X-factor, the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse, X-men Gold

Henry 'Hank' McCoy aka Beast: X-men, Avengers, Defenders, X-factor, X-men Blue

and i'm pretty sure that's it. let me know if it isn't.

thecomicman spoke @ 11:59 PM |

holy crow!

apparently, i'm getting better at lying or something. when Rick first posted, i thought he was kidding around too. i did slash my wrist, but it wasn't at all that bad. there was no trip to the hospital or nothing. i washed it off, felt woozy, and the guys nearly called 911, but i told them not to bother. i put some gauze on, and all was better. sorry for leading you all astray. i didn't think anybody would take me seriously.

but the power of my words... very interesting. maybe i should be a propoganda writer.

thecomicman spoke @ 12:18 AM |

July 06, 2002

what a mixup!

i apologize to both Donny-Clark and Erinesque for mixing them up. it was Erin, not Kerry, that refused to read Tokyo Suckerpunch because of its residence in the NYU Bookstore. again, i apologize for the mistake, but you could see how someone could make said mistake.

thecomicman spoke @ 05:25 AM |

i turn my back for two seconds....

what the good God happened to everyone while i was gone!? Maggie censoring, AK's weird rants on babies being parasites, and blatant lies about comics have all surfaced on your blogs while i was away! what happened!?

i'm calming down now.

my response to Maggie: "Though I disagree with everything you say, I will defend to the death your right to say it." --attributed to a student of Voltaire's, or, sometimes, Voltaire himself.

my response to Agniezka: i'm sorry that a woman's genetic and social duty is to have children. i wish it wasn't, but it is. this does not mean that you can't succeed. my mother has had two children, myself and the goober that looks like me, but it hasn't stopped her from continuing with college and trying to earn her bachelor's. something, i might add, she has no reason to do so, except to better herself. also, she has her eye on her boss' position, and she is confident that she can get it, once her boss leaves. again, no real reason other than to make herself feel better. having children is not the end-all, be-all you make out to be.

also, there are many men that will stay home and take care of children. if ever i become a writer (this means i can live off of my art and am published with regularity), i will obviously work from home, and can therefore, take care of any children that may be hopping about. my wife (or girlfriend, or however the hell this works out; i can't tell the future after all) would then have the abilty to do whatever she wanted, after the nine months or so of gestation, and and extra month or two for convalescing.
and women are moody and irrational while menstruating or pregnant, goddammit!

i've already replied to the inane comic book statements on the communal blog so i shall not do it here.

other things:

i beat 'Medal of Honor: Frontline'. i'm now going back and earning Gold (instead of Silver or Bronze) Stars on missions so that i can get more medals.

I have unlocked all the endings for 'Tekken Tag Tournament'. i watch the extra funny ones with alarming regularity.

Thursday night, Maggie cancelled Sci-Fi because she wouldn't be there. but she also decided to invite Case and 'Becca (who, i'm told, is not a ''Becca' at all, but actually a 'Rebecca'; phooey on that, i shall call her what i've always called her, 'Becca) over because other people would be over. they dropped by. i was the only one around. awkwardness ensued as we all simultaneously realized that we didn't know each other that well to spend a couple of hours in my house all alone. they left and have since hopefully yelled at Maggie.

i slashed my wrist at the store on Friday. i wasn't paying attention, and whoop! right in the vein. i bled a lot. comics were ruined; i was taken to the emergency room and stitched up. i didn't count how many times i fainted from blood loss, but i did manage to go into two separate, but equally annoying, panic attacks. which really effed with the attendants' ability to keep me from going into shock. but they managed. and then forms were filled. and then they gave me a lollipop. Tom, one of my bosses, said they'd pay me for the whole day (1 to 9), even though i was only there for three hours before the unfortunate self-shanking. he has, however, refused to foot the medical bill. all in all, a good day.

i'm done now. bye.

now reading: The Dark Side: Infamous Japanese Crimes and Criminals- Mark Schreiber

thecomicman spoke @ 05:13 AM |

July 02, 2002

'Bullitt's and Suckerpunches

i watched 'Bullitt' and thought it was an okay movie. to me, it seemed that everybody was way too stoic. the only people to really show any emotions were Bullitt's girlfriend (she cried and bitched in some scenes) and Councilman Chalmers (who was really only annoyed most of the time). the car chase scene was actually pretty good, but not for any technical or movie-lingo reason. the cars were cool and it took place in San Francisco, home to the most effed-up road planners in the US this side of the guys who did the West Village. the roads are insane in Frisco and the chase scene showed it.

i have also finished my book Tokyo Suckerpunch. it was very good. the ending was a little hurried, but whatever; it was cool. i suggest you all read it, including Donny-Clark who didn't read it simply because it was the NYU Bookstore. the sequel is out as well, Hokkaido Popsicle. i shall be picking that up sometime in the late future. for now, i have to read The Cold Six Thousand, then Cryptonomicon, which i'm sure will take me forever, and then American Gods because i promised Sammie.

speaking of Sammie, went to the NYU medical place to get her back checked. they gave her lots of pills that make her real sleepy and she has to go back for physical rehabilitation, or whatever that's called. she can't bend at the waist without crying in pain.

that's all for now, tater tots.

now reading: Tokyo Suckerpunch : A Billy Chaka Adventure- Isaac Adamson

thecomicman spoke @ 01:42 AM |