Monday, 28 December 2015
Wednesday, 23 December 2015
Sunday, 16 August 2015
Have you seen hal jordans hair recently ?
sweet lord |
Look I know nobody cares about green
lantern any more but for us madmen incapable of dropping the book its
been one hell of a ruff ride. Which is a shame cause it started ok.
Ish . For me anyway . Like it was always going to be difficult coming
off of big goffs jons run but damn son. Shits been grim. The writers
basically set about destroying everything fun about about gl.
starting with the base concept of silly syfy space cops cutting about
with power bling. There was a whole arc about how using power rings
was draining the light reservoir. Because silly fun has to have a
cost? Its one of my most hated tropes in fiction . Limiting the use
of your gimmicks to seem more mature. Like when warp speed was
tarring holes in the universe back in the next gen. Did anything ever
come of that ? I hope not. A trip to memory alpha may be needed.
Also all the blue lanterns died . Yes .
Even that elephant guy. Cry.
I feel the rest of the cores are down
too buy I honestly couldn't recall from memory what there up to. I
think the red lanterns became all about moustaches for a bit.
Oh yeah and every green lantern but hal
is dead. Even mogo . Again . Hal seemingly killed kiolowog
accidentally himself.
Sigh. Well comics are comics and
everything will be fine eventually. Everything always snaps back to
the status quo or there about's eventually. That said green lantern
is the poster boy book for my theory of DCs stratagem of letting
everything go to shit after a big writers run. Cause its always going
to be a tuff act to follow right ? So why not lean into that. Just
ruin everything that made fans love that property before bringing in
a new team and righting the ship. I feel bad about saying that.
There has been parts of the current run that Iv quite liked. Its just
soo ruff to see gl in this state. Under goff it somehow became the
red ranger franchise of DC . For a bit . Shaping events like blackest
night. Crazy days indeed. The constant death and rebirth of the
green lantern corps is a definite thing . Lurching between universe
ending events was what it was all about for sure. Its probably a
symptom of my compressed memory but to see it dead AGAIN feels too
soon. Like it never felt like the corps had time to breath and be
space cops. And not a space army. Witch is the dumbest and most
angering thing. Stop referring to the gls as an army in your not at
all down with the yoof DC YOU marketing DC . Is dumb.
Anyway. Hal jordan is not captain kirk
currently. He's a off brand star lord cutting about in a trench coat
in a space ship with a passive aggressive A.I not even slinging the
ring but instead packing a power glove. Its something new and
different at least ? Kinda ? Its super neo 90s anti hero comic in
design. Its kinda scary that creators are taking stuff from 90s
comics in a serious way . Though I guess its only fair since all of
that silver age plundering. Maybe we'll get guy gardener producing
guns from his flesh at some point again . Dreams.
Anyway. Have you seen hal jordans hair
recently ? Sure it was anti hero long. A little wintery soulgury if
you as me. But last issue it went full hair metal ! Id be impressed
if I wasn't soo sicked by how far gl has fallen. This issue it went
totely out of control ! Its like that kind of weird not actually a
mullet but its definitely the kind of hair cut that would hang out
with mullets. Our would at least by a mullet a drink if it saw one
down and out in a bar somewhere. Its far from the worst thing to come
out of this green lantern run we haven't even talked about that whole
stretch of time when hal was actively space hitler but I feel its
emblematic of the problem of where the books at and how DC feels
about it.
floooooowing ! |
Be better green lantern. Please ? For
the old days ?
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Sunday, 11 January 2015
2014 one year anniversary post ! Baron Weirwulf's Haunted Library no.54
Oft what a year of content loikes.
Outstanding. Breathtaking even. Pish. But we're back in the game !
Lets have a wee talk about comic. Not
because iv been staggeringly ill and have nothing left to do but
because comics are pretty damn neat and need a good talking about.
SLOSH SLOSH CREEEK |
Baron Weirwulf's HAUNTED Library !
What a title ! Not only this landowning comic enthusiast a wear wolf
his lie berry is also haunted for some reason !
Hella tree house of horror three spooky
scary story's horror anthology e em up ! Linked / narrated by this
weirdly un-legit ghost lady
Story number ones like a standard evil
hitch-hiker story but he's such a cool dude. Looks to be a loop of
horror with the pro tags doomed to repete the mistakes of the spooky
spectre but for what ever reason the story has a super happy ending
ware the hitch-hiker ghost saves the day ! Yaaay ! Well . He's still
a ghost. And his family's dead. And the pro tags houses and probably
all there posetions have burnt down . In the grim ass 70s. Still
there alive tho ! Niffty.
Story twos about the devil or some
such. Salem witch trails things going on. Its pretty weakly grim I
feel . There's this cursed girl who is cursed and this means she's
evil ? But then everyone's evil and then satans about looking a touch
like big Dracula. Prolly the weakest of the 3 tales of terror but
that sudden devil just rocking up was fairly neat.
Then there's like one page splash of
aliens being a things. Apparently there a thing.. far more disco than
you'd expect too.
Story number three is the cover story
of evil triangular toy clown who like a lot of people I know dosent
actual like being outside in the rain . Good on him for working those
mittens on the door handle. That was prolly mad locked given he's a
evil as shit possessed living doll nightmare . That door sure as hell
locked. Concealed lock pick on the spooky mitten ? I assume so.
Pretty niffty to the point scary comic story. Some kids cant sleep
cause he thinks monsters are in his room . And well. Yup they are.
Not to worry though there mad shite and dad soon beats it doon with a
bat . Easily defeated evil ! My favourite kind !
Id say have a rake !
Oh ayes . And there's some horrible
racist add on the back cover. BOOO ! You gotta take a long hard
look at your self 1970s. Ur a mess !
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