Posts tagged: comics
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HOLY MONKEY REBLOGGING FOR THE AMAZING QUACKERJACK ADDITION
Some Variants doodles.
Today’s the last day for the Kickstarter, so help push it over the top, won’t you!
Back this show! It’s silly and great!
Here’s my old post about it - The more money they get they’ll be able to do a new more episodes. Do it up!
“I don’t see how that’s a party.”
WATCH the making of for this showdown right HERE!
Yes yes yes yes yes.
Salutations! This is a reblog from my THIRD blog (I was this bad on blogger too, which if the Hulk thing has posted you’ll see my blogger account which I’m actually going to write more things for or something). This blog is mostly just for me to write about positive things but I may write about something negative to make the positive stand out that much more. I’m trying to not focus on the negatives here as much as I may on my main blog or on twitter and I’m trying to focus more on the positive and good things in my life. I’m hoping to use these posts are armor against my wandering depression, if I can’t listen to myself in the present maybe I’ll believe my past self because it all comes down to me when I’m depressed and what I think is going on. Updates are sporadic and are most likely written on the phone and not the laptop so there may be errors that I need to go back and fix.
This is the most recent one from this past Tuesday where I wax romantic on my seemingly undying love of a horribly flawed movie and I reminisce on the first time I saw it.
My Tuesday was honestly not a bad day but stupid little, petty things brought me down. I finished reading Catching Fire and spent some time criticizing it on my second twitter. Considering the flaws and discussing them, even if alone there, was fun. I got to talk comics history and art with one of my teachers. I can rally appreciate his knowledge and I think I impressed him with my designs for my prints and my knowledge of comics of the 1920s and not just contemporary work.
I’ve realized I’m unhappy because i’m not drawing enough so I decided I needing to go and finally get a table or desk to work on, and my dvd player had been a cunt for the past few weeks so I decided to get a cheap new one. Rather failed me and the walmart across the street had what I was satisfied with. I’m listening to the Chris Rock WTF w Marc Maron - that was good but then I get on the worst line.
The cashier was far too slow, there were only three of the 25 registers open, the four people in front of me were buying do much shit and the one directly in front of me was buying a fuck ton of baby food, the individual jars, diapers and similac and she bad those stupid coupon-checks for them. They need to be filled out for each type of item.
It took about 40 some odd minutes for me to wait in line to buy 2 things. Sering the line next to me, just to my left flying added insult to injury so I was in a hateful and bitter mood, which meant that instead of making good food for dinner, I ate like I was five.
Fuming and bitter I put in The Shawshank Redemption. The last time I watched it wad about 4 years ago, my sophomore year of college. I fell in.
I forgot how much I love this movie and I can remember the first time I saw it. Sometime around 2000, my mon is braiding my hair down for church the next morning and it’s on AMC or one of those channels that shows heady movies like that. I missed the set up of the murder and trial but I see all of Andy in Shawshank, with commercials, to the end of the film. it’s late afternoon, early evening, by the time the movie ends as Andy’s clever escape is shown. I marvel at it. The set up, how he’s vindictive but not malicious, it’s calm, beautifully nuanced and so fucking clever.
Andy was never really bad, he was clever and a bit of a prankster, and diligent. The time to make that tunnel, funnel the money into the fake name and then just let loose with it when he realizes just how big if a cunt bucket the warden is. I like that Morgan Freeman isn’t too far the “magical black guy” a little bit, but in Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, Red is a short Irish dude. I like the artistic license.
Watching the movie again tonight was almost as good as the first time. I loved it as much again as have in the past and I’m going to bed a far less bitter individual.
I will always love this movie.
I’m reblogging this because I forgot that I wrote all this. Twitter can do that.
Finding out about Hawkeye’s 70’s miniskirt costume is one of my favorite things that has ever happened to me.
Odin says it like it is.
There is no joke.
The jokes of “The Gutters” comic - explained!
Ree is the best
The Avengers opens in theaters in the US on May 4th, and it’s going to do blockbuster business. The individual films featuring these characters have already grossed more than $2.2 billion dollars - that’s greater than the Gross National Product of almost half the countries on Earth - and it’s not unlikely that The Avengers will earn a hundred million dollars on its opening day alone.
This represents a pretty big payday to a lot of people - the actors, obviously, will take home pretty big paychecks. The director and the writers are well-compensated, and certainly the executives who greenlighted this project get to sit back and rake in large bonuses and healthy salaries.
Well, you know where this is going; shamefully, the people who aren’t making a big profit from these movies are the people (and the families of the people) who did the essential work of creating them in the first place. It’s not just Jack Kirby, either, or (Black Widow and Hawkeye co-creator) Don Heck, but also Steve Engelhart, Peter David, Herb Trimpe, Jim Steranko, Roy Thomas and dozens more - the artists and writers who refined and defined the characters appearing in this movie, who fleshed out the original creations and molded them into the figures we cheer for when we see them on the screen.
Some very sensible people are calling for a boycott of this film on those grounds, but I think it’s fairly obvious that a boycott of idealistic comic fans isn’t going to accomplish much - it’s not only comic book fans who’ll be dropping a collective billion dollars over the next eight weeks to see this movie, it’s going to be a lot of movie-goers who haven’t read a comic since they were kids, much less know anything of the controversy.
Plus, of course, you - the collective “you”, representing comic book fans all over the world - want to see this movie. And you’re going to, most likely, right? Even though you know of the morally shady practices of Marvel towards its creators, they’ve got you hooked. Don’t be ashamed, they’ve had you hooked for years. It’s what they do.
So how about this: You’re probably going to go see The Avengers and, judging by the early reviews, you’ll probably enjoy it. How about - as a thank you to the creators who brought you these characters in the first place, who gave you something to enjoy so much - you match your ticket price as a donation to The Hero Initiative?
THI is a charity which provides essential financial assistance to comic book professionals who have fallen on hard times; for decades, the comic industry provided no financial safety net to its employees, most of whom it regarded only as freelancers and journeymen, meaning they were offered no health insurance, no unemployment insurance, no retirement plans - none of the financial support most of us enjoy from our jobs and careers. A small donation will help this agency provide a valuable safety net in times of need to these beloved entertainers.
I don’t plan on seeing The Avengers, but I’ve donated $15 - the price of a 3-D ticket - to Hero. If every concerned comic fan - every superhero aficionado who learned to live by the lessons of altruism and sacrifice taught by these comics - donated the price of their ticket, well, it may not hit a billion dollars but it’ll bring in a lot of money for a good and relevant cause.
One last note: Remember what Spider-Man always says? “With great power comes great responsibility”. The lesson in that is that everyone has great power. Spider-Man’s great power is being able to lift a bus. Your great power is the ability to help good causes do good work for good reasons - so why not go be a superhero instead of just watching them on the screen…
(PS: “Liking” this post is nice, thank you, but reblogging/retweeting it helps get the message out and would be even more appreciated)
GOOD IDEA. If you care at all about the artists and writers who’ve been building these imaginary worlds for you over the last half-century, kick the cost of a ticket over to The Hero Initiative. I’m definitely not missing out on a Joss Whedon Avengers movie, dudes, but for crying out loud, the creators who MADE THIS STUFF UP often die in poverty, because the system is set up to exploit creativity for corporate profit rather than live up to the ideals espoused by the two dimensional heroes the Big Two think they “own.” Seriously, do this. Good idea.
