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Wednesday, August 04, 2004
I was dreamin' when I wrote this/Forgive me if it goes astray
Bet no one's ever used that for a title of a post. I am freestyling here, so if this whole thing sucks...whatever.
A) I picked up the Superman Julie Schwartz tribute book today. I've got them all except the Hawkman one, mainly because I heard it sucked.
The Stan Lee/Darwyn Cooke/J. Bone story was really fun. I haven't read anything this man has written that wasn't made 40 years ago, but this was pretty good. The story felt like a lost Superman Adventures book, and feels like a fitting tribute to one of the crafters of the Silver Age of superhero comics. The Paul Levitz/Keith Giffen story is not as good. They take the idea of a Phantom Quaterback and put it into a story that's seems very serious and humorless. In every way it is the opposite of the first story, which is not a good thing.
In fact, this book seems to follow the trend of all the Schwartz tribute books I've read: one good story, one not-as-good story. I think I would have preferred it if these books just contained one single story. I did like the Alan Moore obituary. That, and the Grant Morrison/Jerry Ordway story, will probably be remembered as the high points of this whole project. Adam Hughes did a good job on the cover taking after Nick Cardy's original drawing.
1) What else came out? Oh, The Milkman Murders #2 I liked. It took the psychotic family stuff from issue #1 and now gives us a Mother who isn't going to take any crap anymore, abetted by a foul-mouthed June Cleaver-like spirit. There doesn't seem to be much of a presence of a Milkman in this series (only the last page in #1 and the first page here) but I like the take on the family. In fact, before I read this issue I thought it would be cool if there was no murder plot, just a depiction of this insane family and they're inevitable implosion. Maybe that's what Joe Casey and Steve Parkhouse are going for here.
Also, Parkhouse draws just some wonderfully ugly people. He should win some type of honor for that.
I) Majestic #1 has a good story and art in it. I don’t really have much more to say about it than that.
!) This month’s Y the Last Man #25 was pretty weak. Still, it’s a great series and we get to find out what happens to Yorrick’s girlfriend Beth. I liked the Amazon characters in the first appearances, here I don’t think they were used here that well. The factoid about Magdalene Asylums seems a bit forced, which is a shame because that’s what Brian K. Vaughn is good at avoiding most of the time (see: Ex Machina). Ah what am I talking about? I can’t hate a book that opens with a post-coital scene in a graveyard.
In other news, the trailer for Closer is up. I really liked the play; hopefully the movie won’t fuck anything up. I like Mike Nichols’ directing and it’s good to see original cast member Clive Owen is in the film. Having Julia Roberts in the film, though, is enough for me to worry that the studio will take most, if not all, of the cynicism of the original story out. Of course if everything stays the same (and playwright Patrick Marber is writing the screenplay) we’ll get to hear Ms. Roberts compare the taste of Owen and Jude Law’s semen and watch Owen and Law have cybersex. That is, if we’re lucky.
Oh, and the super-hot Natalie Portman plays a stripper in the film. I’ll be honest with you, that alone is going to get me to see the film.
If you read this post over again this isn’t the end.
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