Posts Tagged ‘Comic book’

Cross post

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Head over to the “Bully Says” blog and readJohn DiBello full post

Comics oughta be fun. Comic book conventions ought to, as well. But as long as harassment goes on and there is no clear-cut official written rules on convention behavior and what to do in circumstances or physical or mental assault, our hobby runs the risk of alienating and endangering those within it.

I’ve put a word across to a friend who’s involved in the business. If you’ve got contacts for events like these who work in the management teams, pass the link onto them, and pass the link around.

(Thanks to kalinara@WFA for the headsup)

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Iron Man: Spoiler Free Movie Review

Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Iron Man and War Machine in a 1995 episode of the Iron Man animated series.Image via Wikipedia

“War Machine is in my list as a favourite, and he’s a reason for me to hang out for Iron Man 2″ – DS Post, Apil 18

Rhodey was awesome.  There’s a moment in the film where I was making incoherent squeeeing and fanboy flailing, and you’ll so totally have to see the film to know where and when, and OMG YAY! (A possibly spoilerish pic from IMDB helps with a clue)

In other news, as a Marvel lightweight, and mostly DC fanboy, this film seriously left me feeling that it’s pretty much over for DC now.  After Christian Bale hangs up the Batcape, the DC comics cinematic tour is over.  There’s nothing or no one in the stable that’s going to compare to the strength of the Marvel movie making machine.

There’s enough hat-tips and subtle cues in the Iron Man movie for deep level fanboy reference, and a damn fine ride of movie for the rest of the universe.  All up, it’s nice to have a comics movie that made me feel happy about comic books.

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My Comic Hero – War Machine

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Source: WikipediaI figured I’d do an occasional run on my favourite comic book characters who don’t always see a huge amount of headline space.

Starting the series, is War Machine.  I’ll be watching Iron Man 2 in the hope that War Machine gets a decent role.

Who: War Machine (James Rupert Rhodes)

House: Marvel Comics
Moment: In the animated Iron Man series, James Rhodes was struggling with claustrophobia and still showed up to work the Iron Man / War machine suits.  Plus, as an African American pilot, and offsider for Tony Stark, he was given the WarMachine which was the heavy firepower armour.  Sure, the spin off series of the WarMachine comic suffered cross-over-itis, and the usual “Replace Armour with Alien” emergency plot device, but still, War Machine is in my list as a favourite, and he’s a reason for me to hang out for Iron Man 2: The Quickening.

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