Imagine if you were named a really horrible name at birth by your parents. Like maybe they had been watching too much of The Simpsons and took advice from Bart Simpson’s prank calls to Moe’s Tavern. It happens to real people as with the case of Al Caholic
and Amanda Hugginkiss. How about the parents who named their children after diseases like Cholera or Mumps. Then parents have named their children after the seven deadly sins and Lucifer. Apparently the Homunculi in Fullmetal Alchemists don’t have oringal names. What kind of parents would do this to their child? There’s more at The Worst Baby Names of All Times. I hope your parents named you well. If they didn’t or if you know of someone with a terrible name just post it here.
I was at The Japanator, a really neat blog with stuff about anime, manga, and Japan in general and I saw the cutest history explanation ever. All the ~stans in the middle east and America were transformed into manga form. The situation in the manga is made cute while the real situation is written next to it. It was so cute I couldn’t help reading it and in the process I learned a lot about Afghanistan. The site where it can be read is a PB base photogallery. Tell me what you think about the point of view taken. This comic was translated from Japanese so its original target was Japanese people.
This summer so many hero or superpower movies with a heavy emphasis on comics are coming out its ridiculous. What exactly does this say about our society? Are we in a desperate search for a hero and why? Unfortunately I can’t answer these questions I can only list the upcoming films and give a suggestion. Maybe we feel that the world is coming apart around us and we have no control over it.
Iron Man Not as popular as Spiderman or Batman. Let’s see how he does.
Indiana Jones Number 4 in the series. It has the Soviet Union (Thank goodness no Nazis) and Shia LeBouf (Hope he’s better than in Transformers)
Incredible Hulk Yet another Hulk movie I hope it’s better than the last one.
Wanted A young man is trained to be an assassin with super powers after his father his killed. His life was mundane until he meets Fox aka Angelina Jolie. The special effects and stunts look awesome for this one. This movie has a nemesis that already came out Jumper. It’s basically Samuel L Jackson versus Morgan Freeman. Look at their hair.
Rambo How Old are you Sylvester Stallone?
Hellboy 2 I liked the first Hellboy, but I didn’t know that it had done well enough to make a second film.
Hancock Will Smith as a super hero need I say more?
The Dark Knight I’m expecting this to be good. Heath Ledger was apparently so scary as the joker in one scene that Michael Caine forgot his lines.
There’s also movie called Hero Wanted. Kung Fu Panda and Prince Caspian have heroes as well.
Kagehime
Did they do the spoof too early? I’m sure this movie season will be spoof worthy as well. Think there’ll be a superhero movie 2? Or is that asking too much of these serialistic spoofs.
There are several similarities between the TV shows Pokémon and Lilo & Stitch concerning the nature of the characters, the nature of the enemies, and plot. The main character, a human, seeks as many made-up creatures, which can be identified by name or number, and which live in balls, as possible. However, in Pokémon, the main character, a 10-year-old boy named Ash, captures and uses the Pokémon for battle, and the main character in Lilo & Stitch, a young girl named Lilo captures and finds jobs for Dr. Hämsterviel’s evil “experiments” that would benefit society. Both shows feature enemies who are bent on stealing the main character’s fictional creatures. In Pokémon, Team Rocket (consisting of Jessie, James, and a Pokémon called Meowth) is intent on stealing Ash’s Pokémon, and in Lilo & Stitch, Gantu and his sidekick, and “experiment” called Reuben, plan to steal Lilo’s “experiments” and return them to Dr. Hämsterviel. Both shows also have characters whose purpose is to ostracize the main characters: in Pokémon, Gary Oak brags to Ash that he is better than him. In Lilo & Stitch, Mertle Edmonds and her friends constantly mock Lilo by saying she is weird.
Lilo & Stitch is very similar to Pokémon. In both shows, the main character strives to get as many
creatures as possible while warding off someone who attempts to steal his or her creatures.
Although Lilo & Stitch was based on a book, it is quite possible that Disney allowed Pokémon to
As I was cruisin through the net, I came across this interesting site. Apparently, the study of comics is actually a scholarly endeavor, which is interesting since we are trying to start a comics magazine. Here is the url:
I had always disliked Superman for varied reasons, mostly because l hated the simplistic good vs. evil framework and Superman’s omnipotent alien powers (t did not hurt that I liked Batman and Spiderman better, as well). At last, I had found something that articulates my thoughts here. An excerpt
“It almost goes without saying, but if your hero cannot possibly be killed in any instance which does not somehow involve an incredibly rare space-rock, then you’ve got one boring-ass hero. It’s sort of like watching Neo fight all the agent Smiths in The Matrix Reloaded: we know our hero can’t possibly die, and he doesn’t act like he’s in any danger whatsoever, so the entire fight is a foregone conclusion and the audience becomes bored out of their skulls.
I mean, yeah – we obviously go into most superhero stories more or less positive that the hero won’t die, but they still entertain us because the hero doesn’t know that. Spidey is always scared, even if only a little, that one of the Green Goblin’s pumpkin bombs will be the end of him; Daredevil is fully aware that a well-placed projectile from Bullseye could kill him. As a result, these characters act with restraint and forethought; since Superman knows nothing bad can happen to him no matter what, he acts with no such subtlety. He flies headlong into every conflict, fists thrust forward, because he knows he’s in no immediate danger. Thus, we know he’s in no immediate danger, and we get bored out of our fucking skulls.”
Well Venezuelan TV just took the Simpsons off air because it was consider to inappropriate for children. Which may be true, considering how many parents here didn’t let their children watch simpsons when they were growing up. But it wasn’t like they put something more child friendly in its place. They just put on Baywatch: Hawaii. I understand its an 11 am time slot and here that’s around the beginning of soap opera time. What do you think about switching The Simpsons for Baywatch? Do you think it was just that they think children were more likely to watch Simpsons because its a cartoon and they just replaced it with something they don’t think they’ll watch?
I just saw Persepolis and I liked the way they kept the feel of the Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novels about her life in around and her experiences leaving it. It was co-directed by her so she was able to make sure the art and humor were the same and flowed the way she wanted it to, although there differences between the novels and the movie. For one there was the music that really enhanced the whole feature. It went from the eye of the tiger which is one of my favorite scenes to really hard core rock. The movie’s in French with some sprinkling of English. It’s also entirely in black in white except for the scenes that take place closer to the present.The movie managed to show that as a child that although she really didn’t understand what was going on around her that it all affected her behavior directly.
Here’s an article with some more background info on Satrapi and its correctly named Confessions of Miss Mischief. I think its awesome that she speaks six languages. I would like her to speak at commencement, but what’s the chance of a small college in Virginia getting her? We’ll probably get some weird political dude instead. I think she would be an awesome speaker. I mean she outwitted Stephen Colbert on his own show. If the college doesn’t get her to speak maybe the comix club here could find her. I wonder how much it would cost to bring her here. I doubt the club has enough money, but maybe if we worked with others we would have enough. I wonder if she would be willing to speak though. It would be awesome if she did or if I had the chance to meet her.
Well here’s a short comic of Satrapi’s preconceived notions of going to West Point, what she wanted to happen, and what actually did. I hope that if you haven’t read any of her graphic novels or seen the movie that you do. If you have then feel free to comment.
Kagehime
A scene that was both funny and kind of scary at the same time as was much of the movie which shows that she has a great sense of humor.
Like Megaman? Well New Horizon is the place to go. It has links to fan comics such as Bob and George which are really funny (especially if you love Megaman). Get your rockman info there and chat with other fans.
I unfortunately am not a hardcore fan of Megaman, but I found this site to be kind of cool. The fans absolutely love him.
Megaman NT
Megaman
So which do you like better the original Megaman aka rockman or the new NT version? Oh and has anyone beaten those notoriously hard games?
Did they do the spoof too early? I’m sure this movie season will be spoof worthy as well. Think there’ll be a superhero movie 2? Or is that asking too much of these serialistic spoofs.
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A scene that was both funny and kind of scary at the same time as was much of the movie which shows that she has a great sense of humor.
Megaman NT
Megaman
