June 12, 2006

Dungeons & Dragons, bitches! of the Advanced kind, what!

today (after Mexico's awesome win against Iran), ET and i played D&D for the first time since Dan's unfortunate move to DC. we tried out two new players (whom i shall call L. and S.) who i think will work out wonderfully. Halifax has us playing with only one character each until the new kids get a better handle on rules and gameplay. ET played her kensai Wong, and i played my mage/thief Reynaldo. L. is playing a Pictish Druid named Shara and S. is playing a Russian thief named Vera. yes, they are both playing girls so this team has now become Reynaldo's Angels, with Rey's hireling, Conrad, playing the part of Bosley. we kicked Kobold ass and are in the process of retrieving a sword for one of Wong's Mason friends. a more detailed report shall be put up on the QuestWiki soon.

and just so you know, that is in fact how i roll (d6s).

thecomicman spoke @ 12:23 AM |

Ole, ole ole ole!
Ole, ole ole ole!

es la temporada más emocionante en cuatro años! la Copa Mundial ha llegado otra vez!

that's right kids, the World Cup is upon us like sweet, sweet ambrosia. can you feel the excitement in the air? the electricity in the streets? no? that's probably because you live in the US. but the rest of the world is totally feeling it. and i am too. especially after Mexcio won its first game against Iran this morning, 3-1. Sammie is trying to watch every game (i'm trying to catch as many as possible, but you know, work keeps getting in the way) and her team, England, also won its first game against Paraguay 1-0.

fair warning though, children, you may root for any team in the World Cup except for Brazil and Argentina. the only exception to this rule is if you or your parents are from either country. then it's mildly okay-ish, but i will still hate your guts until July 9th (which is when one of these two teams will probably win the whole shebang).

thecomicman spoke @ 12:06 AM |

June 04, 2006

X-men 3: The Last Stand

since the Rabbit is so totally out of her gourd on this, i have to counterpoint her entire goddamn X-men 3 review.

be warned, there will be a lot of cussin' and a lot of spoilin'.

"This movie violates everything that the X-Men should stand for."

first sentence and we're already wrong. the X-men stand for peaceful coexistence between humans and mutants. when Magneto tries to kill a lot of humans and Jean Grey goes nuts with the power to kill everybody, the home team's gonna go protect the civvies. it's what they fucking do.

"I went from contempt to rage when the X-Men decided to use the mutant cure on Magneto. I'm sorry, but no. They never should have used the mutant cure as a weapon. I can't see it as the heroic thing to do in any way whatsoever, especially in light of the fact that they were able to capture and contain him before. But then after they just neutralize their greatest enemy, what comes next? The entire battleground is littered with the cure and the only way to stop Dark Phoenix is to kill her?"

should they have killed him? would that have quenched your thirst for blood? the only killer on the team is Wolverine and he was busy having his metal body be controlled by the Master of Magnetism. of course the only humane solution is to make him human. and as for not humanely sedating Jean Grey: did you see how Wolverine's clothes and skin (except for the pants because this PG-13 here) were destroyed as he walked towards her? do you think a plastic mutant cure stick would have survived the trip there? no, her crazy disintegration powers have already disintegrated them not unlike Wolverine's skin.

"Rogue gets jealous because Iceman is friendly with Kitty and seems to be flirting with her. The obvious solution is to not talk to Iceman at all and just run away and get the cure?"

if you'd watched the whole movie, you'd have realized the cure wasn't about Iceman at all, but at this point you were already too busy making jokes up in your head.

"And not even a hint of a Kitty and Colossus thing. Colossus was just there to throw Wolverine in a fastball special. Lame!!!"

and why should there be? they are both brand-new characters here. but yes, let's try and shoehorn a romance in because the comic geeks have demanded one. and that's all Colussus is good for. the goddamn Russian was created to throw shit around and when someone figured out he could throw the short Canuck at things so he could kill them faster, the civilized world realized that's what the original intention for Colussus' was. and by original, i mean Biblical: "And God said unto them, 'Let Colossus throw Wolverine at things so they can die faster.' this was the original Death Plague, for fuck's sake!

"And why is there a Sentinel program in the Danger Room?"

and why do we care why? first you complain nods to the fans aren't in the movie, and then you complain they are.

"When did the Beast have time to fight with the team?"

IN HIS YOUNGER DAYS!!! HE SAYS SO IN THE MOVIE THAT YOU WERE SUPPOSEDLY WATCHING!!! FOR FUCK'S SAKE OVER HERE!!! do you understand that there is a past within the realm of the films? did you think all these mutants just hatched, fully-formed and in leather when the first X-men movie began?

"When did Kitty and Colossus get promoted to active duty?"

remember when Cyclops dies and then the Professor dies? then Rogue goes away? let's not mention how Nightcrawler isn't even in this movie. and then a whole bunch of mutants start walking towards Alcatraz so they can kill humans? and remember how now there's all of three active X-men (Storm, Wolverine, Iceman)? they got promoted right then and there, in the fucking hallway, after they put on the suits. that was it. desperate times and all. you really should have been paying more attention.

look people, was this the best movie ever? hell no. it wasn't even the best X-movie ever (but it wasn't the worst; anyone remember the made-for-TV Generation X? now that was bad). but to sit there and compare it what is arguably the worst comic book movie of all time in Batman & Robin is just ludicrous. The Rabbit and i agree on some things: the dialogue wasn't very good, they did fuck up the Dark Phoenix bit, and man-oh-man, it was super lame when Wolverine walked out from behind that head.

however, this movie was still enjoyable. the action scenes were good, the mutant cameos were sweet as hell (Madrox people! that was the motherfucking Multiple Man, bitches! he will destroy all y'all with his dynamic dupes! and did you see his shirt? they better make that shit so i can buy it), and the open-endedness was handled quite well, i thought.

but whatever, i'm tired now. if you people want to complain about how bad this was instead of complaining about the badness of actually bad films, then go the fuck ahead. i'm gonna go watch Snatch again.

thecomicman spoke @ 01:24 AM |