* Today at Robot 6: Follow-up on Marvel’s Hitman Monkey, tracking Al Columbia, and linking the hell out of The Comics Journal #300, currently online in its entirety and as yet completely unread by me.
* Look, it’s Young Hans Rickheit! His photo of himself at age 17 is adorable, and his illustrations from that period are disturbing. That’s our Hans!
* Wanna rile up comment-thread nerds? Write a list called The 10 Longest and Awesomest Movie Fight Scenes of All Time for Topless Robot but leave off [INSERT YOUR FAVORITE LONG MOVIE FIGHT SCENE HERE], like my buddy TJ Dietsch just did.
* Joe Quesada says Immortal Iron Fist/Immortal Weapons is dunzo. 🙁
* Tom Neely has been posting a series of images called “I just figured it all out…”, all of which are headed for an art show in Stuttgart, Germany. Hie thee to Stuttgart, Germans.
* I like The Killing Joke a lot, which is why I enjoyed David Wynne’s apologia for the book for Trouble with Comics’ Alan Moore Month. Wynne defends the book against its critics (including its writer!) by saying it’s a powerful pacifist powerful. I myself like to look at it as a story about people locked in a relationship that brings out the absolute worst in both of them. It’s also a good fucked-up Joker story. And I’m sure someone could (if someone hasn’t already) draw some parallels between the shaggy-dog joke ending of Moore’s book starring a character called the Comedian and the shaggy-dog joke ending of Moore’s book starring a character called the Joker. Something for everyone! (Bolland’s colors > Higgins’s colors, though.)
* Johnny Ryan’s Gossip Girl. ‘Nuff said!
* I have no doubt that this really is how Dan Nadel spends his weekends.
I was gonna come down on Johnny Ryan for poor continuity since Serena has never really shown much interest in Nate, then I finished the strip.
I was gonna come down on Johnny Ryan for poor continuity since Gossip Girls has never been that interesting or funny, then I finished the strip.
Ha, thanks for the shout-out Sean. It’s kind of amazing how posters assume you’ve seen every movie ever. Good times.
Any list that has a John Ford movie, a Jackie Chan movie, and a Tony Jaa movie is fine by me. But, I have to say, after watching the three Matrix movies over the weekend, the Neo vs. Smiths fight is one of the weaker sequences. Replace that with the naked Viggo fight from Eastern Promises and we’re all set! 😉
Jon, I agree–I prefer any of the fights from the first film, particularly the subway fight, and the aerial fight from the third film, which is what Bryan Singer should have done with Superman if he’d chosen to make a movie in which Superman fights anyone.
Agreed on THE MATRIX. Any of the fight scenes in 2 or 3 were like a maraschino cherry pie. A nice idea, but just way, way too much of it.