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… when you take the collector aspect out of comic books.
You wouldn’t buy two digital copies of Deadpool #45 just because one has an alternative cover featuring whatever character has either a movie coming out or is a) Wolverine or b) Deadpool (an alternate Deadpool comic book cover featuring Deadpool… how meta) but there are plenty of people who appear to buy the physical version for collector and investment reasons.
Well that gimmick probably won’t work, I say probably, I mean …
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I’ve been buying a few DC comics titles over the last couple of months which is unusual for me as I grew up a DC guy then crossed over to Marvel (although I’ve always been an Iron Man fan). So when I look over the comics I intend on picking up tomorrow I’m surprised that once again DC features at least equally with Marvel.
Batgirl #1
I’ve always had a soft spot for Batgirl, ever since Babara Gordon (who was Batgirl) was crippled by the Joker. For a while there any reference to Batgirl was a reminder that bad things happen in the Batman universe and they stay happened although Jason Todd being brought back to life kind of tarnished that (I try not to think about it to be honest).
I’m hoping whoever actually turns out being Batgirl has a close relationship with Barbara, who is still fantastic as Oracle but I want to see her as more of a mentor (I missed a lot of Birds of Prey so maybe this already happened). I’m breaking my rule here and starting a new ‘monthly’ book rather than waiting on the trade paperback.
It doesn’t hurt that the cover looks pretty special too.
Deadpool: Suicide Kings #5
Again with the rule breaking, I just know that next week the five issues of Deadpool Suicide Kings is going to show up in hardcover and will work out cheaper than buying all five issues of the mini-series. Happy to be proven wrong.
A year or so ago I didn’t know shit about Deadpool but over the past twelve months I’ve really become hooked on the character and his often ridiculous situations and laugh out loud dialogue. The art in Suicide Kings has also been top notch and is what sucked me in to pick up the reprints of the first three.
I noticed that Deadpool is appearing in a few series lately, he might want to watch himself lest he become Wolverine and appear in pretty much every comic in the Marvel house (I’m surprised Wolverine didn’t show up as the Lion in the Wizard of Oz series).
Wow, those are the only two locks I have this week. I’m also considering the Batman Streets of Gotham #3 but only because the cover art (which we’ve discussed before) is so damn nice. I expect though that sanity will prevail and I will wait until the trade paperback on those ones.
Apart from that I might try a bit of pot luck and see what graphic novels they have in stock.
What books are you picking up this week? And how sweet is that Streets of Gotham cover!?
Well I’ve done the ‘good’ list for movies this year so it seems only natural and fair to draw up the naughty list of movies before the year completely comes to an end.
This is potentially a much harder list as I generally don’t like to hate on too many films but there were at least a couple of films this year that deserve to get lumps of coal in their stockings or at the very least a good frowning. I’m sure there are some worse films too but I had to limit it to what I’ve actually seen and not just assumed!
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine – This is a really bad-ass character, everyone generally loves him, he’s on nearly every cover for Marvel, so why then did we get a weak ineffectual version of the character? I mean it’s not the actor who has already shown he can play the character? The writers just seem to soften the character so he was all bark and no brain popping claws through the jaw. And then the film degenerates into a who’s who of mutant appearances including a very young Cyclops who later on doesn’t recognise Wolverine because he had his eyes closed. So I guess no one liked Cyclops back then enough to describe the guy who saved them?? Oh yeah and if there was an Academy Award for worst way to handle the character Deadpool then this film would have it in the bag!
- Watchmen - Great comic book translation onto the big screen for Watchmen fans, horrible film for everyone else. I don’t mind Watchmen as a film, I’ve revisited it and grown to appreciate it as a literal translation onto screen. For anyone else though it is confusing, awkward and hard to get into. I completely get that. Maybe Alan Moore was right, it was never intended for any medium outside of comics.
- Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian – The first one was generally funny, not the greatest comedy in the world but certainly enjoyable. I have no idea why this one apart from financial concerns would ever even considered being made. It doesn’t add anything to the storyline and you know what Hank Azaria, you do voices, fine we get it, we got it, practise some restraint now.
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – The absolute best bit of the film: giant robot balls. The worst part? The fact that the best part was giant robot balls.
- Terminator Salvation – I feel bad putting this on the list now because I bought this today on Blu-ray, but only because I have the others including T3 and I think it’ll look pretty on the big telly. Other than that to me this film shows why Bill Murray might have head butted McG. There are a lot of dumb ideas in this film designed to look good only so that idiots will buy it on Blu-ray because it looks pretty… hang on… doh.
And there you have it. So any films that should be here that I’ve missed? Any films that shouldn’t be here? Let me know your biggest let downs when it came to film in 2009!
