This movie can not come out fast enough. May 7 is too far away. I’ll happily give up my birthday (March 14) in order for this movie to come out faster.
I’m mostly excited to see War Machine, because that shit looks bad ass. ScarJo never excites me, but maybe she’ll be awesome in this.
And now, some unrelated Siler Surfer thing:
-Lauren
I can’t wait to see what the final price is on this game. This game came out a year after I was born. Anyhow, I did play Nintendo as a child, and to this day I still enjoy my original NES over my XBox and Wii. Something about the simplistic controller, the 8-bit pixels is still really appealing to me. I also finally beat Super Mario Brothers two years ago. Yes, I’m well into my twenties, and yes, the game is really old. Don’t judge me.
-Lauren
This is brilliant:
Question time for all of you: Are you a Betty or Veronica and why?
-Lauren
I love visiting random comic book stores that I happen to find while traveling. The smell of the ink always hits you when you walk in. Sometimes fanboy funk hits you too, but for the most part it’s just ink. I’ve noticed over the past few years, that most comic book stores do not really carry older back issues, meaning books from the silver age and back. Lots of places carry mostly new comics and graphic novels. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing. The graphic novel is really replacing back issues, and the need to buy single copies of comics all together.
However, I collect GA and some SA books. I know I can just buy online from various places, and I can always look at various cons, but there’s nothing like finding a SA issue of The Sub-Mariner at a shop when you really weren’t looking for anything special. Comic shops themselves are a dying breed, but thats a topic for another day. I don’t really buy new comics, and the ones I do buy I get from the comic store I’ve gone too since I was 6. Action figures aren’t my thing either. So what’s a girl to do?
While I’m grateful for conventions and dealers such as Metropolis, I still enjoy the thrill of finding old comics at a store. I’ve been luckier at antique stores, which I think many comic fans may over look. Talking to some of my non comic collecting buddies, many of them would never even think to look for comics at an antique store. I’m not sure why, since some comics are antiques. Plus you never know what kind of awesome crap antique stores have. Yet I realize that older comics are harder to move in an average comic store, so I can’t be too bitter.
So, to all of you comic shop owners who still have older comics, I thank you from the bottom of my heart, and wallet.
-Lauren
If you have not been reading Blackest Night (and why haven’t you?!), you may not know this. Wonder Woman, after becoming one of the Black Lanterns, was turned into a Star Sapphire because of how much she loves Earth. I adore this a great deal, because Wonder Woman is a bad ass, as are the Star Sapphires. However, her key point in turning into a SS…was by kissing an imaginary Batman.
Wut.
I know I’ve been out of the loop for a long time, but I don’t ever recall Wonder Woman and Batman ever having feeling’s for each other aside from friendship. I simply don’t like the idea that the writers decided she needed a “kiss” from Prince Charming to become a super-super hero. Was her own will and love not strong enough to prove her having a ring? Is Batman’s kiss really validating her to become a guardian of love? It’s pretty insulting to assume that Wonder Woman really need’s a dead guy to prove her awesome abilities, and she really is a strong enough character on her own where they could have made her a Sapphire without Batman’s (or a man’s) help. So, Greg Rucka, shame on you.
-Lauren
I love The Dark Knight. I think it’s one of the best comic book movies ever made, IMO. However, Batman’s voice is stupid and was really funny when it clearly wasn’t meant to be funny. Thankfully, I’m not the only one who thought so. All of these videos were made by very talented guys and gals, who know how to be funny:
-Lauren
When I was younger, so much younger than today, I was really into anime and manga. A little piece of me still loves it because of how happy it made me, however the fan base is mostly made up of kids 10 years younger than me who don’t know how to behave in public when no adult’s are around. I’m not saying I was an angel at that age, but I wasn’t a fuckwit who would jump on strangers backs in a tackle hug (or “glomping”) nor did I whack strangers with paddles that said Yaoi on them or whatever. I also never got into the hentai thing. I like real porn, for the record.
However, I can’t deny the enthusiasm these fans show for this stuff, and it’s not really a bad thing so long as they eventually stop acting like fucktwits. And let’s be real, Japan gave us giant robots, Godzilla, and Power Rangers. Those aren’t so bad! Since my man deleted all of his old anime con photos, we’ll use my shitty ones from conventions of the past:
Yea, this motherfucker is my hero for going to Otakon like this.
If you don’t like Sailor Moon, fuck you.
You’re going to laugh, but that’s me. Yes I’m pale, I’m an Irish Jew so I’m naturally a pasty shade of paste.
I’ll end it here, but I literally have a few hundred photo’s. Maybe someday I’ll post them all up, or maybe I won’t because I’m lazy.
-Lauren
I love Wonder Woman. She’s a bad ass motherfucker who isn’t afraid to beat the fuck out of you. She a dynamic force of love, justice, and ass kicking. However, she baffles me at the same time.
One, she has an invisible jet. Much like Aquaman and his stupid giant seahorses, Princess Diana flies around in an airplane she can’t see, yet can run without an issue. In certain episodes of Super Friends, the plane turns some parts of her invisible as well. That’s kind of bad ass, but I wouldn’t be able to fly it since I’d probably mistake the toilet for the captain’s chair.
But, Wonder Woman can fucking fly by herself. Yes, she’s such a bad ass that she can goddamn fly without the use of said jet. I don’t know about you, but if I could fly, I wouldn’t bother with a fucking airplane. Bitch, stop being modest. Oh, and also? Start being real. You seriously wear heels when fighting crime. I can barely walk down to my car in heels without fear of falling the fuck over, much less kicking someone in the face. Maybe that’s why she’s such a badass. Or maybe she’s just stupid. I don’t know, but I still love her.
-Lauren
Well, where do I begin.
I originally wanted to go since Willem Dafoe was a guest. However, he cancelled, so I was thinking of skipping it. That was until they announced William Shatner as the guest of honor…And I needed to be there. My Dad is a die-hard Shatner fan, so I wanted to get him an autograph. So I convinced my boyfriend we needed to go, so we went with two of my friends.
We left Baltimore at around..7, got to New York around 9:30, got to the con by 11. On Saturday. We made excellent time if you ask me. However, it wasn’t good enough. Whomever coordinated the guests decided they would have their main goddamn guest attraction only sign from 10-11am, on Saturday, the busiest day of any convention. The peak times at a con are usually n the afternoon, so why not maximize people’s money (since you had to pay for an autograph) and get him then. No where on the website did they have times for when he was signing, and every ninny working the con didn’t know either. Not only was I profoundly disappointed, I was pissed off.
Big Apple, for me, has a history of being the worst con ever IMO. I went in 08 and hated it. It was held in what seemed like a crowded attic with no air flow. However, I decided to give it a second chance since I don’t hate Wizard World Cons. I should have followed my gut instinct and said fuck it from the get go, but what can you do? The con itself was mostly a media con, although there were some good dealers as well, but I rarely buy actual comics at comic cons. We left after a few hours, and enjoyed the rest of New York.
Would I go back? Maybe.
-Lauren
So I would like to take a break from comics for a second to give a shout out to all of those who are currently living through SNOWMAGEDDON 2010. I live in Maryland, and we got hit with around 24-30 inches of snow. I haven’t seen this much snow since the 90’s. Tuesday and next weekend we’re supposed to get more! Oh well, I can deal. Here are some pictures of my amazing dog Spencer enjoying the snow:
He is a 2 year old Samoyed, and he is amazing.
And now I will leave you all with something comic book-ish, just to keep up appearences!
-Lauren
Girls With Comics 