* Recently on Robot 6: So Wonder Woman is getting a new look and new origin. More reactions here. Best headline here.
* From the ridiculous to the sublime: Kevin Huizenga makes minicomics from scrap paper and uses them as sketchbooks.
* Matt Seneca on a variety of comics of interest, from those strange Silber Media ultra-minis to the Frazer Irving issue of The Return of Bruce Wayne (which I thought was hamstrung somewhat by how hard it was to tell Bruce apart from his equally jut-jawed, furrow-browed puritan antagonist).
* I read Paul Cornell and Pete Woods’s Action Comics #890 today and it was very entertaining. Here’s an interview with Cornell about it, conducted by my indefatigable, inescapable pal Kiel Phegley. It’s good that Cornell’s in DC’s bullpen in case, you know, certain things don’t work out.
* One other quick Superman note: I’ve been a supporter of the New Krypton material over the past couple of years, and I certainly enjoyed reading it as it came out, but I have to say the ending kind of smushed it all for me. That’s a lot of time to devote to a story in which the combined efforts of every character in the DCU who wears an S on their chest fails to save 100,000 people.
* In the interest of equal time, wow, that was a lot of talking in Avengers #2.
* Real Life Horror: Here and here you can find a pretty breathtaking look at how abjectly the four widest-circulation newspapers abandoned the plain-truth description of waterboarding as torture once the United States started doing it.
* Well holy smokes, look at this mash-up of Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese movies. Here you have over seven minutes of scenes from basically the best movies ever made by my two favorite directors of all time. I could do a little dance, this made me so happy. SPOILERY AS ALL GET-OUT for GoodFellas, The Departed and probably lots and lots more besides. (Via everyone.)
Kubrick vs Scorsese from Leandro Copperfield on Vimeo.
WOW i guess i’ve never seen goodfellas. ha!
You’re right, the conclusion of the New Krypton mess was awful (but I was never a fan of the storyline to begin with). But you had to know the fix was in from the start – they had to do *something* to get rid of all those surplus Kryptonians, and short of exiling them to the opposite end of the universe, mass murder was the most expeditious way to escape from the narrative corner.
Yeah, I probably should have seen it coming. I mean, I DID, I knew they couldn’t keep 100,000 Supermen in the DCU without totally upending everything, but it was still unnerving to see what went down go down. They could have just depowered them somehow–that would have been less icky.
Wow, that Kubrick/Scorcese film was bloody brilliant and genuinely moving. I had to watch it twice, I enjoyed it so much.
Sometimes you forget how many great movie moments film-makers like those guys have created and there is nothing like a good compilation like that to remind you of their brilliance. Even in their worst movies, there are moments of genius.
Bob: Did you notice it avoided some of the most famous stuff, too–the little girls from The Shining, the eye-opening apparatus from A Clockwork Orange, “You talkin’ to me?”