December 30, 2005

weirdest thing i've ever done on a Thursday night

i watched a collection of rap music videos with AK. yeah, you heard me.

a co-worker lent me a collection of Kanye West videos so that i may peruse them (since i'm such a big Kanye West fan), and AK happened to be spending the night. so i watched the video with AK and we critiqued a few of them. we agreed that the Chris Milk version of "Jesus Walks" was much more interesting that the safe-for-tv Church version, as well as the funnier, yet more literal Street version, in which Jesus (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) actually walked with Kanye West as he went around his neighborhood. best part of the video was when West opened his fridge and saw only two jars of mayo (two?!) and then closed it again. Jesus pointed at the fridge and West opened it again to reveal a fully stocked fridge.

AK's favorite video of the bunch? "The New Workout Plan." i actually detest the song, but the video is freakin' hilarious. it's a spoof of an infomercial for a workout video. and that's all you really need to know.

thecomicman spoke @ 01:50 AM |

December 22, 2005

Infinite Crisis #3

holy bejeezus!

SPOILERS AHOY!

Alex Luthor is the Other Luthor!

we were all so busy trying to figure out who the second Luthor was, we forgot to look at the second Luthor!

the other big revelation was that UPrime Superboy was responsible for the destruction of the JLA Watchtower at the end of Heinberg and Johns' storyline.

this, of course raises the question: if U2 Superman only busted out of paradise at then end of IC #1, how is it both Alex and UPrime Superboy were able to wreak havoc earlier?

the other cool thing found within was the machine Alex had created which housed the inert bodies of Black Adam, the Martian Manhunter, Breach, the Ray, and Lady Quark along with three other empty spots. you notice anything about those particular prisoners?

the Martian Manhunter: Earth-1
Lady Quark: Earth-6
Black Adam: Earth-S
the Ray: Earth-X
Breach: Earth-?

Alex mentioned he needed Nightshade, who was originally from Earth-4 and the other two spots are most likely reserved for Power Girl (from Earth-2) and UPrime Superboy. Alex, the only survivor of Earth-3, will probably be in this machine as well, but in a postion of power.

the question mark for Breach means that i don't know where he's from, not that he's from some Earth-Question Mark or something. i think Alex should target Plastic Man, since he's from Earth-Q originally.

on the subject, if someone could get me the companion book in the Absolute Crisis hardcover, that would be keen. i don't want the Crisis hardcover, i just want the companion book. it has a list of all the alternate Earths that i really, really want.

as for my previous predictions?

1. Crispus Allen, not Jim Corrigan, becomes the new host for the Spectre, possibly after being killed by Corrigan.
A: Allen was in fact killed by Corrigan in Gotham Central two weeks ago. And the Spectre destroyed Atlantis. i'm wating for a merging of the minds.

2. Superman-1 and Superman-2 fight for their respective Planes.
A: nothing on this yet, although i can feel it coming.

3. Power Girl dies in issue #5, and in fact, the cover will resemble CoIE #7's in that Superman-2 will hold Power Girl's lifeless body.
A: she did get knocked out by UPrime Superboy in the last pages of IC #3, in a prelude to being put in that machine. will the machine kill her?

4. Booster Gold does not become the new Blue Beetle.
A: IC #3 showed a kid named Jaime picking up the Scarab after it's fall from the Rock of Eternity, but IC #2 had Booster beginning to look for the scarab.

5. Half of Donna Troy's space team dies fighting whatever she's out there fighting, most likely Airwave, Shift, Bumblebee, Red Tornado, and either Firestorm or Supergirl; maybe even Donna... again.
A: they're all still alive, but there's still plenty of Infinite Crisis to come.

6. Bruce Wayne will go totally schizo.
A: slowly but surely. he did blow up at Alfred as he was trying to dress a wound

7. Many of the Amazons will die, including Artemis and Fury.
A: hurm... in IC #3 they all disappeared somewhere. Artemis said Wonder Woman would never be able to find them again. does that count?

8. Hector Hall (the current Dr. Fate) will die and be replaced.
A: i was half right. Hector died in the pages of JSA while protecting his wife Lyta from demons. Lyta, however, called on her son Daniel (the new Dream) to save them in dream form. as for being replaced, Nabu, the mystic presence within the helm of Fate said there would be no new host in this age. so, for the time being, Dr. Fate is a floating helmet, cape, and pair of gloves.

9. Wonder Woman will spend some time in prison.
A: nothing on this yet, but she has no back-up now that the Amazons are all gone.

10. Supergirl will become a pawn of Luthor-1's.
A: if Supergirl came out in a timely fashion, perhaps i'd have news on this.

11. The Flash will retire, at least for a little while, to help raise the twins.
A: Flash will end in January (there is but one issue left) and Linda, Wally's wife, is having trouble keeping the twins safe by herself.

12. A Luthor will die.
A: they finally met when U1 Luthor confronted Alex. Alex took down Luthor-1 with the help of UPrime Superboy, but Luthor-1 teleported away in the knick of time. Luthor-1 will probably use Superboy-1 again to beat down on Superboy-Prime.

13. The remainder of Giffen's League will band together since the big guns are busy fighting amongst themselves and save the Goddamn day, before being totally wiped out by DC editorial.
A: IC #2 did show Booster Gold coming back from the future and asking his robot Skeets to look for "his" League. FUCK YEAH! ...too bad his League is all over the place. Guy and Animal Man are in space, and not even remotely in the same sector; Fire's in the hospital; Captain Atom is still in the WildStorm universe; Power Girl is in Alex's custody in Antarctica; Captain Marvel's busy hunting down bad magic juju; Black Canary got severely beat by the Key under Gotham; and who knows where Elongated Man, Metamorpho, and Mister Miracle are.

good luck Booster.

thecomicman spoke @ 04:10 PM |

Tiananmen Square

Rick's latest blog entry got me rummaging around the web for video footage of the Tiananmen Square massacre, i'm not really sure why. the sum total of this was finding BBC reporter Kate Adie's "Tell the world, they said to us" report and the footage of the man blocking the tank of columns. i've heard tell of footage from before the massacre in which Chinese officials stop Dan Rather from reporting and also of Richard Roth getting arrested and then released on the night of the massacre. does anyone know where i could find that stuff? is there a good documentary that shows this stuff?

thecomicman spoke @ 03:57 PM |

December 08, 2005

Angry Poetry #4

Ode to the Front Left Burner in my New York apartment*

Fuck you and your ability to start for every goddamn person in the world except me, you whore.

*This thing used to work just fine about four years ago when i moved in. But then it up and stopped working for awhile. We (Sam and i) were at a loss as to what the problem was. Is the pilot light out? Is there gas coming out? Maybe it's perpetually wet? Who knows, i'm not a fucking a stove guy who knows stove things. Then, miraculously, it started working again. Sam could make egg-like things, and make me ramen, but i couldn't make ramen for myself. Sam suggested i should start the left back burner and then blow so that the gas from the front left burner would light. Yeah, right. What i have to do is introduce a completely separate fire, either from a match or a lit paper towel, and bring it to the burner. This of course singes my arm hair, and, on one exciting occasion, which was the stove's attempt to murder me, i'm sure, it singed my face hair.

thecomicman spoke @ 10:53 PM |

December 05, 2005

True Comic Book Clerk Stories #2

customer: hey, do you guys have Green Lantern #4? i don't see it in the bins.
me: these bins only have A-C of the alphabet, sir. Green Lantern will be upstairs.
customer: so you don't have it?
me: no, we do. it's upstairs.
customer: so it's not in the bins?
me: no, it is in the bins, just not the ones down here. you have to go upstairs.
customer: wait, you do have it?
me: yes, upstairs.
customer: hold on, start over.
me: for the love of God.

thecomicman spoke @ 01:10 AM |