I haven't had pulls in over a decade. Sadly.

The only comic books I'm following at all right now are Buffy S8 and Grendel: Behold the Devil.

I've been letting Buffy pile up because they were bugging me with the shortness.

Wagner knows how to pack a page, and the Grendels still go too quickly issue by issue, but I can't wait to read them. The urge to keep reading is too overpowering.

I really didn't like Superman Returns. In fact, the moment where he went into space and stuck his arms out like a Creed-lovin' mullet-man Jesus might have destroyed the very idea of Superman for me forever if not for Grant Morrison's pretty great All-Star Superman comic. I can't remember who recommended that to me, so if it was one of y'all, I owe you a word of thanks.

I was pretty ambivalent about V For Vendetta, too. There was some good in it, but all of the deviations from the comic made the story worse, not better. I mean, it's not like the comic is sacrosanct. There's certainly some room for improvement, but the romance made the central relationship even yuckier than the already-creepy one from the comic book, the police detective's arc was a loss, and they lost an important point about how fascists love machines. I like the little spray-painting girl, though.

I not only only read trades, I only read trades recommended to me and purchased by DH.

I have a feeling the points I've lost in geek cred over the years are more than made up for by the money I've saved.

Okay, just to get an idea of what was going on (and maybe I should move this to OM, but...) I just Wiki'ed Infinite Crisis and One Year Later and...

I'll just whitefont just in case folk talking about movies don't wanna be spoiled for comics...

IMPULSE IS DEAD?! IMPULSE? KID FLASH II IS DEAD?! WHAT THE FUCK?!

I may have to get the trades of these just so I can...get it...just...

...wtf?...

More or less in order:

I have deep love for Batman Returns because of Catwoman.

Unbreakable and Donnie Darko are my favorite comic book movies that aren't technically based on comic books.

I really like Batman Begins and V for Vendetta, despite their flaws. I'd put The Crow in here as well.

Men in Black and Tank Girl are fun.

I enjoyed watching Sin City. I don't feel much need to see it again, but I was sufficiently entertained. I'd probably put Spider-Man and Ghost World in the same category.

I saw Spider-Man 2 fairly recently and was stunned by how awful it was. It was part of a marathon with Fantastic Four, which was pretty goddamn bad, but still better than Spider-Man 2.

I think there was something I liked about From Hell. Besides Johnny Depp, I mean.

And then there's 300, which was made by aliens as some kind of psychological experiment. Rating it is like trying to determine how many stars to give a mugging.

Oh, MM. I am SO with you.

Not just Impulse, but also Superboy (Kon-El; Conner Kent).

So. Fucking. WRONG.

Sorry, my nom de Internet is Corwood Industries and I'll be playing the part of your grumpy old naysayer today.

all of the deviations from the comic made the story worse, not better

Oh, I disagree.

The romance was, no question about it, completely lame and stupid on every level. (Especially since it came out of NOWHERE and up until the "I fell in love with you! Er, at some point!" scene I'd been watching the movie on the assumption that it was still the creepy father-daughter relationship from the comic.)

But Evey in the first 2/3rds or so of the comic is so pathetically and 2-dimensionally written that it just makes me cringe every time I read it. So I was pleased to see that she'd been upgraded to a real person in the movie.

Everything you like sucks, Corwood.

Steph...

...but why?...