Monday, July 30, 2018

Happy 43rd birthday to myself!


There!! Properly got it on the right day this time.

Saturday was my party, and it was....eeennhhh....
I'll be honest, I didn't get to enjoy it, because I busted my ass the whole time.
Kinda ruined it for me.
The rotten humid heat didn't help either.
So, pppttt!!
Kept playing "it's my party, and I'll cry if I want to", in my head.
Ah, well, the kids had a good time, that's all I care about.

But, today's my real birthday, so I'll try to have the fun today.

Let's just do the birthday haul.


Ghostbusters: 
Displaced Aggression (2010)


Talked about it a bunch here.

If Rachel Unglighter is being canonized by "Crossing Over", then this is the prequel to "Crossing Over".
I loved the story before, but now it's part of lore, so I needed the hard copy.


Ghostbusters: Mass Hysteria! (2014)


Broken up into 2 volumes.
I stitched the covers together, so you can appreciate the mural.

This came out for the 30th anniversary of the first movie, and it's the movie sequel we should have gotten.

Overall gist is, Gozer's sister Tiamat shows up to mess with the Ghostbusters.
Tiamat actually hates Gozer, and doesn't mind that they destroyed him, but humans suddenly having the tech to be able to fight a demigod has her curious.

It's a fan feast.
They tie in both movies, the '09 video game, the cartoons, the toys, all of it.
All of it up to that point, anyway.

There's a deleted scene in GB2 with Eugene Levy as Louis's uncle, and that character pops up, becoming retroactively canon.

And in GB1, they tried to get Paul (Pee-Wee) Reubens to play Gozer, and we get the Evil-Pee-Wee version of Gozer in this as retroactively canon.

It's chock full of deep cuts like that.
Damned good book!!

Anyhoo, Tiamat has been revealed as the puppet-master villain  in "Crossing Over", so I needed these as prequels too.

Hmm, biologically, Rachel Unglighter is half-sister to Gozer and Tiamat, so Rachel is probably gonna fight Tiamat.
*Rubs hands* oooohhh, this is gonna be good!!


Ghostbusters:
Answer The Call:
What Dreams May Come
(2017-2018)


Talked it to death here.
Got the hard copy now.

So, I'm all up on my Ghostbusters books until the graphic novels of "Crossing Over", (another 2 volume one) drop next year.


30 Years Of Garbage:
The Garbage Pail Kids Story (2018)


This is on order, but I have no idea if or when its coming.
I'll update.


So, that's it.
I'm a man of simple pleasures, as long as I got to shoot the shit about Ghostbusters for a little while, I feel better about things.

I'll probably go movie shopping with card money sometime this week or next, so there'll be a part 2 to this.
*Sigh* I was chore-monkey-ing so much, I didn't even get to open cards, and thank people.
Goddamn it.
I look like an asshole.
Now I'm melancholy again.
Fucking life.

Well, at least I am alive.
Heard about a guy I went to school with overdosing yesterday.
I mean, he overdosed awhile ago, but I heard about it yesterday.
I didn't like him, so I'm not sad.
Every dickhead I outlive is a good thing.

Funny thing, at one point, he was on the stage of his rehab where he had to make amends, and he apologized to our fucking bus driver.
The bus driver???
You go far enough back for the bus driver, and not to me???
Fuck you, pal.
Good riddance.

Well, that's a dark way to get myself laughing again, but damned if it didn't work.

Yep, I'm alive, a jerk is dead, and I've got more Marvel movies and Ghostbusters books on the way.
It's a good day.
A goddamned good birthday.
Hooray for me.

*Smirks, nods, kicks up feet*


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Friday, July 27, 2018

Big 2018 Movies Part 9.


Gout, heat wave, burned lip, license renewal, hypochondriac relatives, I got waylaid by jackassery as usual.
But I got out to see the last movie on my list.
....and missed my second viewing of Solo forever.
...well, until September, when the Blu-Ray comes out.

ANYHOO!!


Incredibles 2 (2018)


Loved it!
Better than the first one!

Um....what's not a spoiler?
Um....
  • Everyone's as great as last time, it's like the last 15 years never happened, and the last movie picked right up where it left off.
  • Fun new characters.
  • Jack-Jack steals the show.
  • The short before the movie "Bao", might make you misty-eyed if it hits you just right.
  • I didn't time things right, and drove like an action movie hero, and just barely made it.
  • There's no after-credits, because Brad Bird despises them.
  • Definitely go see it! ....fuck it, I'm late as fuck, you all probably already did.

Soooo, with "Solo", no longer an option, I guess I'm done with this summer's movies!
Unless I want to do "Teen Titans Go! To The Movies".
And I don't.
So I'm done!

Soooo...guess there's nothing until Venom & Aquaman.
See you then!


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Thursday, July 26, 2018

Pop culture updates #7.


Penthouse (the company) news!!!!



First of all Caligula is finally being restored to the director's original vision!!!

See, it got stolen from the director, Tinto Brass, halfway through, and Bob Guccione finished and edited himself.

Film fans wanted a director's cut based on Tinto Brass's notes, but the necessary film elements to do so were assumed lost and destroyed forever.

Well, a German film geek came to the newly minted female CEO of Penthouse, and they got digging, and they found a film vault Penthouse was paying to keep around they didn't even know they were paying for, and it had all the lost elements, so it's finally going to be restored.
Glad I held off, now I get to buy the final ultimate edition!!

Here's the Projection Booth episode of Caligula where they go through the winding history of all the different cuts in mind-numbing detail.

And here's the updated Projection Booth episode where they go through the saga of the fan who found the lost elements, and then Kelly Holland's saga of how she acquired, lost, and regained the company, before finally meeting up with the film geek guy, and finding Caligula.

In it, Kelly Holland mentions a lot of her dream future projects for Penthouse, one of which is to revive Omni, both in magazine form, and maybe to spin it off into a "Black Mirror", style Netflix or Hulu sci-fi anthology show of stories written in Omni.

So, Caligula and Omni fans rejoice!!!
And hoo-fucking-ray Kelly Holland!!



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Monday, July 23, 2018

Pop culture updates #6.


Comic-Con recap!!


Star Wars.


Clone Wars is coming back to tie up all the loose plot threads they didn't get to finish.

Trailer.


DC



DC practically had the place to themselves.

Shazam trailer.

Aquaman trailer.

DC/CW sizzle reel.

Supergirl season 4.

Arrow season 7.

Black Lightning season 1 recap.

Flash season 5.

Legends Of Tomorrow season 4.


Marvel


Marvel fired James Gunn over some politically motivated bullshit engineered by the guy who invented "pizzagate".
Fuck this country.

Marvel technically officially didn't show, but Sony did a loophole around them.
They revealed "Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse", is not only going to have classic Peter Parker, Miles Morales, and Spider-Gwen, but Spider-Man Noir, Peni Parker, and.....SPIDER-HAM!!

Yep, Marvel thought of Spider-Pig decades before Homer Simpson did.
He started as a parody, but in the books, he's dimensionally crossed over with regular Spider-Man, so he's real.

Well, now he's coming to a movie.
Now we just need DC to put Ambush Bug into a movie, and all the weird obscure comedy characters will be mainstream culture.


Ghostbusters


Fuckin' nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No 4th movie, no new comics after "Crossing Over", fucking nothing!!!!

Well, there was some more talk of the phone game, but I don't care.
*Sulks*


All the rest

Doctor Who season 11 trailer. (Girl Doctor!!)

Star Trek Discovery season 2 trailer (Captain Pike!)

Glass trailer. (Unbreakable 3!!)

Disenchantment trailer. (Third Matt Groening series!!)

Godzilla: King Of The Monsters trailer. (Godzilla vs Eleven!!)

Alita Battle Angel trailer (just dropped this minute)

And John Schnepp fucking died. :(


Aaaand, that's it.



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Thursday, July 19, 2018

Disney/Fox Part 6: IT'S OVER!!!!!!!!!!


Previously-


Yep, our first Comic-Con present dropped, and it was a doozie.

Comcast finally threw in the towel, and gave their real concession speech to Disney.
They want to focus on buying Sky, which is the piece of the pie they wanted all along.

NOW you can pop open the champagne, and start planning all the fan crossovers you want to see.

And invest in a welding mask so Avengers 5 doesn't melt your face off.

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Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Happy 10th anniversary, The Dark Knight!



The old review.

The best Batman movie to date.
...well, the best live-action one.

We'll see how Matt Reeves does.

The same year saw Iron Man, which gave birth to....


....the whole goddamned MCU.
And I did that anniversary in May.

So, I'm doing Dark Knight's anniversary to see how DC has stacked up in comparison.
We'll go through how many Batman and Batman-adjacent films have come out since 2008.

For live-action wide-release theatrical films, we have...



...four.

Dark Knight Rises, Batman v Superman, Suicide Squad, and Justice League.
Batman/Bruce Wayne just cameos in Suicide Squad.

4 flicks in 10 years?
Not so good, DC, not so good.
Counting the Hulk cameo, Iron Man is in 9 of the MCU movies.


So, let's try to fluff up the count, let's do wide-release animated theatrical films!


The Lego Movie, and The Lego Batman Movie.

Suh-weet!
...but that's still just 6.


All right, now animated straight to video.
From 2008 onward, and just counting ones I reviewed for the blog....











Ones I didn't do...

Batman vs. Robin
Batman: Bad Blood
Batman: The Killing Joke
Batman and Harley Quinn
Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight
Batman Ninja
Justice League: Throne of Atlantis
Justice League vs. Teen Titans

And I've seen them all but the Harley Quinn and Scooby-Doo ones.
They've all been pretty great...except Killing Joke.
*Heart breaks all over again*
*Sighs*

Anyway, that's 26 goddamned movies with the goddamned Batman.
That crushes even the MCU's movie count.
If that ain't enough to feed your fix, seek counseling.


Then, finally, on TV, we've got....


...Gotham, which is coming towards its 5th and final season.

And coming up, the CW/DC universe is adding Batwoman to their roster, and she's getting a spinoff.
So, soon as we lose Gotham, we're getting another Batman-adjacent show.

Also, there's supposedly a prequel series about Alfred coming to the DC streaming service.

So, despite lagging behind Marvel at the multiplexes, Batman did pretty fucking well for DC in the last 10 years.

And we owe a good chunk of it to Christopher Nolan.
Batman had a damaged brand-name until "Batman Begins", came along.

Cheers, "The Dark Knight".


And happy Batman, everybody!!


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Sunday, July 15, 2018

Happy 2nd anniversary, Ghostbusters: Answer The Call!




Previously-

Year 1.

What's happened since last year...

Buildup to today-

So, where are we this year?

Its pretty much done its run on Starz.
You can still call it up on on-demand, but I never see it in regular broadcast rotation.
But it's a shitty non-HD copy now for some reason.
May as well watch the blu-ray.

As mentioned above, its coming to FX.

A lot of people who were scared off by the hater-train during the theatrical run are catching it on Netflix, and saying they were pleasantly surprised.

The haters have moved on to "Star Wars: The Last Jedi", and now that Star Wars fans are getting a taste of toxic fandom, NOW they care.
They didn't care when it was GB:ATC.
I was warning everybody that this was a canary in the mine.
Well...I warned people about Trump too, but those third party and non-voters were heroin-high on self-righteousness, so...*shrug*

The cast of "Oceans 8", were on Today Show, and they brought up not just the hate for GB:ATC, but the harassment of the cast online, and how the media practically took the side of the toxic fans, trying to examine how it effected the poor little men.
Then they mentioned how this was pre-#metoo, and they wouldn't cover it that way now.
So, they got a little zing in on the media too.
Sweet, I loved it.
Kinda wished I saw Ocean's 8...but I haven't seen the others.

I almost ranted more on toxic fandom, but I think I said it all in the GB2/ATC essay.

Fuck 'em, let Star Wars fans deal with 'em now.
I finally get to enjoy Ghostbusters in peace.

Anyhoo...
I did the big all three movies marathon for the Ghostbusters anniversary.
Then the cut-scene movie for the '09 video game.
Then I spun RGB again over the next week.
Ahh, happy.

I worried last year if my love of ATC would wane.
Yes and no.
The stuff that isn't great makes me wince more, the parts I love I love more.
So, it's leveled off to tied with GB2.
I definitely love it more now that I found all those RGB parallels.
Also, GB:ATC:WDMC comics antidoted one of the jokes that used to make me cringe.
The only other cringe joke left is antidoted by the alternate takes in the bonuses.
So, I'm good.
Still dig the flick.
My fandom is locked in.

We're 4 issues away from the conclusion of "Crossing Over".
That's gonna be split into 2 graphic novels like "Mass Hysteria", was.

Still no goddamned word on the animated 4th movie.
Hoping for something at San Diego Comic-Con, but I don't find it listed.
Either as outright Ghostbusters, or as a Sony Animation presentation.

We've got to see something soon.
If it's supposed to come out in 2019, we need to see something now.
A title reveal, some stills, a teaser trailer, something.
And if it's coming out later than 2019, or not at all, we need to hear THAT!
Give us something, Sony!!

Well, we heard nothing about the animated Spider-Man movie for years, then we heard casting, then nothing again for another year, then BOOM, the title and trailer dropped out of nowhere.
So, Sony's sneaky with their animated stuff.

No word yet on what comics are coming after "Crossing Over", or if GB:ATC:WDMC gets a sequel.
The writer of "Crossing Over", said they were going to save it for the big 35th anniversary, but his partner said "no, fucking do it now", so I have no idea WTF they can do as a topper for next year.

I guess that's it for now.


How long will I do anniversary updates of ATC?
Until the new material for it stops, which doesn't seem like anytime soon.
It's a franchise within a franchise now.

If it were really the "worst movie in the universe", this sequel comic stuff wouldn't have an audience, and wouldn't exist.
Sony just did crappy marketing, and let trolls control the narrative.

Also, they spent too much.
ATC had to make fucking Ant-Man money to break even.
That's ridiculous.

We'll see if they learn their lesson next time around.


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Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Pop culture updates #5.

  1. I don't h8 Twin Peaks anymore.
  2. Fango lives!!!
  3. Couple other random pop culture updates.
  4. 90's TV revival updates!!

From 4 years ago here...

Well, the casting is officially out, and yep, Hamill, Fisher, and Ford are in.
As are Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Peter Mayhew.
No Billy Dee Williams though. :-(

Well, 4 years, and four fucking movies later....

BILLY DEE IS IN EPISODE 9 AS LANDO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


About. Fucking. TIME!


And, in news that only I care about, but I want to time capsule it anyway....

Rachel Unglighter is in Ghostbusters: Crossing Over!!!!!!


Yep, this preview image went up on Twitter, and has spoiled that starting in issue #6, Rachel Unglighter is going to be part of the big uber-crossover of every Ghostbuster from every medium.

Rachel comes from a graphic novel where the Ghostbusters were sent to different times in history by a demonic spell, and a student of Egon, Rachel, rigs the Ecto-1 into a time machine, and goes to get them back.
She becomes a temporary 5th Ghostbuster, and an almost love interest for Peter, but sacrifices herself at the end.
But, in a vague comic book-y way that she could come back.
And, she clearly has.

Anyway, that book was "Ghostbusters: Displaced Aggression", and it was really fucking good, and a lot of fans, myself included, have both wondered if it was canon, and if not, wished it was canon.


With Rachel in the mix, yes, it is.
It's canon.
So, permit me to fangirl for a second.
SQUEEEEEEE!!!!!
*Hops up and down clapping hands*
Ahem, okay.

I know, I'm the only Ghostbusters expanded-canon nut in my circle of friends, but this excites me as much as the Billy Dee news.

Call me a weirdo, but there it is.

So, that's those two things.


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Happy 10th anniversary, Harry Hembock: Dark Designs!


There!! A decade of the one true blog-exclusive Harry comic.
What was I thinking saying last year was the cutoff point?
What a dummy.

I'll do the text version, and compile it (and this post) into the book whenever I get to it.
I got other secret projects I'm working on now.
A shitload of 'em.
I keep coming up with them, and it's hard to pick which one to stick to.
Although, I've got a pretty damned good idea which.

Anyhoo, a hard cider toast to the one idea besides Jade-Shade that cut through all the other bullshit distractions I wandered into.
Hopefully, the next thing will be even more cohesive.
Onward and upward!

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Friday, July 6, 2018

Big 2018 Movies Part 8.


Between a long-ass gout attack, and the heatwave, I've been fucking housebound.
So, with the middle movies I had planned snipped out, we come around to...


Ant-Man and The Wasp (2018)


Previously on MCU phase 3....
And previously with Ant-Man...

And now the rundown...
  • Ehhhh, s'alright.
  • I mean, it's good, it's more Ant-Man, it's everything you liked about the first one.
  • It's just....Infinity War is a tough act to follow. 
  • I thought I'd see it, and go "oh!! HERE'S the reason they had to put it after Infinity War!!". Nope. Not really. 
  • I guess they thought we needed the humor chaser for the Infinity War ending. 
  • Stay tuned for both stingers. 
  • Okay, now for theater stuff....
  • I've bitched about parents not watching their small kids, on a similar note, don't take your mentally challenged relative out if you're not going to take care of them. There was a challenged dude who had a shit fit over something during the wait through the credits, and his people were pretending they weren't with him like fucking cowards. God, that pisses me the fuck off. 
  • Drive home was like a dangerous video game.
  • Y'know, I'm going to the other theater for awhile. The main theater I like to go to is nicer, and has the assigned seats, but some shit always goes down either there, or with traffic. The last 3-4 times there's been bullshit with people, or traffic, or both. I never have those problems with my backup location. Fuck it, next 4 movies, it's backup location. I need a vacation from bullshit. 

So, yeah, it's a fun flick, go see it, you need it for your Marvel collection at this point.
All Marvels are required homework now.


Next, I have to retroactively catch up, and do Solo again, and Incredibles 2.


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