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Have you seen hal jordans hair recently ?
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| 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.
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| floooooowing ! |
Be better green lantern. Please ? For
the old days ?
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.
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| 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 !
Monday, 6 January 2014
Comic book word talk. The first. January. 2014. part 1 of 1.
Backs.
Comic book quickies then ? Ayes ?
Cools.
I'm pretty sure these comics came out
this week. But you know. Time. That whole thing. Not really sure how
it works any more at the best of times. Then big x-mass hit and I
have no idea. Like its Sunday as I sit here and jab my hand sausages
on the keyboard to type this outs but it may as well be Tuesday or
some shit for all it feels like.
So ayes. Comics. Cracking stuff. Lotta
stuff going on in them. I think. Probably. Its been awhile since I
did a proper run down of a weeks comics. Stuffs apparently changed
man. I was operating under the impression marvel were the hated mad
men . Running about naked in some field somewhere killing off beloved
cultural icons and replacing them with mad scientists. But of course.
I was wrongly wrongers on the most basic of basic fields. Fields of.
Like. Reference . Not sure what I'm trying to say any more. Basically
folk hate DC and not marvel. Well people prolly hate both. But people
are hella hateful hipster fucks. So that's a given. I can kinda sorta
see what folk are saying about DC . I can. They seem to have weird
relations with there creative teams. And theres been a slew of
cancellations. Then there's the out right dickish bat woman affair.
Don't care though. Genuinely don't. Iv become something of a DC fan
boy over the past few years. Not sure how or why. Probably just find
there books more entertaining. Like marvels entertaining ayes. But in
that special lunatic way we discussed before.
Comics !
The flash #26
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| low five ? |
written by christos n. gage art by neil
googe
Mmm. Good comic. Hella gid comic. Its
got all this crazy amazing goodness all up in it. Goodness that I'm
trying to explain here. The pages. They had this thing in them.
Goodness ! Ill stop now. Well. No. ill still be talking what with
this being the first entry. Barry. Allan. Full. Stops. Barry allan is
a bloody machine of good times. He turns up. Dose SOMETHING.
Anything. normally running but not always. And then things just tend
to work out well. He's just the single most solid guy in comics. As
iv very likely harped on about here before. Of course I have. There's
not been a bad issues of the flash since the reboot. That could well
change though. That cracking first run came to an end last month ish.
So I had my reservations about this isssue. Those reservations were
hella fucked up during the reading process thankfully. Because flash
#26 is Barry Allen is the solidest guy ever- the issue. It helps that
its just stand alone filler. This like evil pilot woman is aww going
about being a thief and a killer and such. But like as a SKY PIRATE.
Ayes. Perfect. Job done. Ima going hame. When I got hame I read on.
And my word. The whole issue is basically look what the flash can do.
Like aye he's super fast yeah. But he's also you know. Basically a
god. With the most broken power set in the history of. Of. Of. Em.
History ! Barrys cutting about running on CLOUDS. Straight up. Hella
just running on clouds. To catch a plane. There's even a wee flash
fact box there. Explaining that yes. Barry is basically god. Well
worth a read. Not a jumping on on point what with it being stop gap
filler so its more a stand alone treat for the senses. Sense ?
Vision ? Senses I guess if you also make your own sound effects to go
along with the comics. Which I of course. Totally do.
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| swim in the sky ! fight dah powah !! |
aquaman #26
written by jeff parker art by paul
pelletier and netho diaz
Ahh duuno. It was like aquaman. Its a
comic. It has pages and panels and coulers and like lines and guff.
I ain't in no frame of mind to judge the quaintly of anything right
now. I'm still crazy buzzen from Dat flash issue. Like damn sons. Its
kinda the prefect comic. That iv read. This month. Its a shame likes.
Id totally put it high on my list of the best comics of 2014. but I
totes wont remember it loikes in December and of course I wont make a
best of list. I don't have that amount of dedication or effort in me.
Don't be ridicules. Oh ayes. Aquaman. Big aquaman. Cool guy. Kinda
gets hella fucked over as we well know. By popular culture and that.
I likes him though. He's like. Got a trident. Annnnnnnnnnnnd. Hes a
cool guy. Ayes. This issue big Arthur curry fight like a giant squid
/kraken /cuthulu/ kanju beasty. Which. Aye. Of course he dose. Its an
aquaman comic. Not much to report really. It was pretty dullish.
Again. Like not really bigging up aquaman here as I prolly should.
Its hard. Iv always said they should have taken the opportunity of
the reboot to make the new 52 aquaman basically the same as he is in
the brave and the bold cartoon. Big and brash life of the party
legend of human being fish man thing. But naws. They went the
acknowledging him as a joke route. Which . Ayes. Did work out pretty
well for a while there. Mainly what with it being a goff johns book.
But the goff lads hella left nows. It looks to be pretty stormy
WATERS ahead for the new creative team. Yes. I'm very proud of the
thing I just said. What of it.
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| patty cake ? is that what that hand game thing is called ? |
superman unchained #5
written by scott snyder art by jim lee
Not sure if iv reported this here on
the auld blog. If I have I'm sorry for repetition . I am truly sorry
if there's repetition here. On the auld blog. But we have to talk
about it. See lex luthor. The arch Nemesis of the man of steal. Lex
lets cut about in green in purple power armour luthor. Lex luthors
SUPER into papercraft. Like big lex was using papercraft things to
explain shit to super man in issue one or two . Back then it was
only like a page or mibby two of lex with like a pop up book style
thing that he had obviously made during his time in prison. It was
weird then. But like only kinda. It wasn't a big deal then. Like it
wasn't charter defining. Then that last issue happened. And yeah. Lex
luthor is SUPER into paper craft now. Like has these wee bone tools
specially for it SUPER into it. Like his papercraft has articulation
SUPER into it. Its kinda the most magical thing. I don't even want
lex to be a villain now. I want his entire deal to be paper craft. I
want him to just be cutting about the dc world. Being the go to
papercraft guy. Teaching classes. training noobs. Sadly as aww fuck.
Lex Luther the paper craft king isn't in this issue at all. Aww we
get are plot points from the first transformers film/ overtones of
the over arching plan of the reapers from mass effect. And superman
being superman. Which ayes. I do hella appreciate that. Kinda just
wanted an ish of lex carefully folding up his own set of justice
league papercaft dolls. Always next ishh. Always have to hauld on the
the hope.
I
here comic sans upsets folk. Dont particularly get it myself.
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