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If they're seriously taking any kind of cue from DC comics of the last five years, this Superman reboot is in deeper shit than previously thought.

Someone really needs to tell all those Republicans that Australia hasn't used criminals as the basis for their population since 1868.

You have given that design too much thought.  You're fired.

Handy how Kryptonian letters look just like their equivalent phonemes in the latin alphabet.

But that's how science works.
On Krypton.



Probably.

As an indy creator he's probably just sick of not getting shit done and doesn't want to encourage timewasters.  I've kicked around indy projects and had instances where I produced 12 and even 20-odd pages of artwork and then literally not heard a thing from the writer ever again, not even a terse "this isn't really working and you drink too much - now fuck off", which is pretty much what I expect to hear in some form most days so it's not really like I'd be upset or anything.

His project sounds like provisional stuff so far, so he's likely being very sensible to take the Drill Sargent route when he's essentially asking for untested collaborators.

I laughed my balls off for a full minute at that pic.

"He's supposed to be a Evil Superman, so give him a black Superman costume like that Venom guy, only with a backwards "s" only make the backwards "s" EVEN BLACKER than black."

That is so fucking ridiculous and unoriginal I genuinely think it is impossible to criticise it.  Snyder has literally become so shit the needle on the shitometer has swung all the way around through "shit" into "awesome".

If anyone can explain to me the difference between the activities of successive UK governments between 1985 and 2006, exchanging Saudi blood money for clean UK tax payer's cash via the exchange of oil - or how that gives the highest offices of state any more dignity or integrity than the porn shops organised criminals use to launder the proceeds of violence and vice - wins a special prize.

The army and police force are the means through which the state's monopoly on the use of violence to enforce its will is how we maintain a healthy democracy, and if you take that to its logical end, the state must be allowed the use of other acts - lies, murder, torture, theft - that would unconscionable if perpetrated by one citizen upon another.  The government is allowed to beat the shit out of you and bang you up for years if you don't cough up your taxes - a tithe they have not in any way earned which is taken from the poor and given to the rich - yet the small businessmen of the local mafia try this same tactic on a smaller scale and they're branded criminals - "one law for some" is hardly a new situation.

From experience, I have found comics writers to be horrible people.

[Strange Bedfellows]

Strange Bedfellows, the Aussie film that "inspired"* I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.  SB is an oddly melancholic film full of scenes where people just seem uncomfortable and there aren't many jokes, so it's possibly the only time in my life I will say with a straight face "the Rob Schneider version was much better."  Inoffensive enough, though - which is odd given it's a film about two blokes in a rural community pretending to be gay to get tax benefits, I'd chalk this up to being an interesting idea that wasn't developed enough in pre-production to be an interesting film.

* It says on legal documents issued by Adam Sandler's attorney.

Chesapeake Bay, wasn't it?  That or off the coast of Washington DC.  No-one was hurt, though, and no tsunamis happened and no-one was fishing within a hundred miles or swimming or anything.  It all makes perfect sense.

Depends how she's done.  The character has been mostly a bit shit in comics, with only the odd good run under Greg Rucka, Gail Simone or Chuck Dixon that usually got shot in the foot by her being drafted into some tiresome Bat-crossover and/or given a costume that shows more skin every time she looks like becoming popular with readers.  She probably best worked as a Catwoman to Nightwing's Batman (if you'll pardon the bat-family analogy) as the dodgy moral compass that made her interesting as a romantic/physical foil to the hero manifested as her being a potentially homicidal alternate of Batman rather than just an oversexed tealeaf with a broken zipper, but I don't see how that would be interesting in the context of Arrow seeing as he already murders dudes - I don't really see what the conflict will be apart from them having a race to see who can murder dudes first or something.  They'll probably just bung the Huntress name on a generic character.

Still: smexy ladies in tight leather?  LET'S GO.

If we want to go down that route nearly every DC and Marvel character would be in this catagory.

Like Green Arrow?

How can you say this is 2-dimensional telly?  It has a Chinese person dressed in white called China White - this is ambitious stuff!

I notice that article was written by a woman and thus it is immediately and forever wrong.  She sounds like a typical lefty lesbo out to ruin innocent nun-strangling fun by suggesting some kind of sinister subtext of objectification.  When will gaming sites understand that women don't understand games and that's why they write angry articles about them?
And is it really so wrong to have the ladies your character murders be dressed like sexy whores?  Maybe the ones who don't get shot in the face just want to look nice in their coffins - that's their choice.

Still don't fancy playing a Hitman game, though, as I find them a bit boring.  I prefer post-apocalyptic fistfights with giant scorpions over some baldy loner sneaking about a building for an hour just to end up throttling a housewife.

[2010]

I preferred 2010 to 2001.  I've always thought it was just more enjoyable to watch, though it is entirely possible to view it as a parody of Americans remaking arthouse movies as brash adventures full of hotdog-chomping baseball cap-wearing mavericks with a crazy idea in their head who's not going to let The Man tell them how to do things, and who will show the commies that their commie way of thinking is flawed.  I also recall being no age at all and the monoliths eating Jupiter made me frapp my pants.

Desk Sargent: Robo!  You know there's a warrant out for your arrest?
Robocop: Yes.
(lengthy pause)
Desk Sargent: Oh.  (pause) Well... just making sure.  What can I help you with?
(Robocop brandishes flamethrower and stomps towards a room full of corrupt cops)
Robocop: Call the fire department.

There is about 7 minutes' worth of a truly awesome film in Robocop 3.  Unfortunately Robocop 3 is two hours long.

The poor pacing and editing of what should have been an outrageous and exciting finale is unfortunate, too - it really does take a special kind of talent to make a fight between Robocop on a jetpack versus robot ninjas boring to watch, especially considering it ends with a nuclear bomb going off, but the film is awesome when he finally stops moping. Robo stands up after being damaged for a bit (classic bad Robocop scriptwriting is to damage him to put him on the sidelines for a while) and remembers this is a film about him so he should go do something, so he decides to find the dude who killed his partner and totally fuck that guy up.  When he tracks him down in a sleazy motel, instead of opening the door he shoots a Robocop-shaped hole in it and then walks through that, the guy in the room looks to his handgun on the table, evaluates his chances against Robocop and then jumps out the (second floor) window instead.  Two minutes later, Robocop is driving a pimpmobile that is on fire.  It takes ages to get to this sequence, but it is really, really fun, and even Fred Dekker's underwhelming action direction can't ruin it, but otherwise the good bits (and there are some entertaining moments) are stretched thinly over the film's runtime.

Issue "5/6" is in FP.  It's a bumper-sized affair that trumpets it's the last issue, but that the "road test" has been a success thus far.  Incoming editor Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf insists that things are looking up.