Assessing my collection. (Superheroes)

So, I did En-Mike-lopedia 1, and looked over every superhero movie ever made, and then boiled it all down to my favorites.

And, over the last couple years, I've gradually been pecking away at it, buying up those favorites, and...as observed last review, I think I'm just about in the home stretch!

So, thought it might be fun to go back over that.

In the order of En-Mike-lopedia 1, but linking to the collecting reviews (where applicable).


Gladiator (1930)

Got it.


Christopher Reeve Supermans (1978-1987)

Got 'em.

Didn't intend to get 4, but some dipthong shipped me 4 in the the box for 3, so had to order 3 again to actually get 3, and then, I printed out the right DVD art for 4.
Well, 4 is interesting for the commentary if for nothing else.


Superman Returns (2006)

Got it.


Man Of Steel (2013)

Seen it.

Can't buy it yet. Soon...


Superman: Doomsday,
All-Star Superman

Got 'em.


Adam West Batman (movie) (1966)

Need it.


Keaton/Kilmer/Clooney Batmans (1989-1997)

Got 'em.


Nolanverse Batmans (2005-2012)

Got 'em.


Kevin Conroy Batmans

Got 'em.

Except for "Mystery Of The Batwoman", but I don't want it.


Batman: 
Year One, Gotham Knight, Under The Red Hood, vs. Dracula.
The Batman Superman Movie, 
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, 
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse.

Got 'em.


Justice League:
Secret Origins, The Brave And The Bold, Unlimited, 
Young Justice, Starcrossed. 

Got 'em.


Justice League:
Crisis On Two Earths, Doom.

Got 'em.


Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

Got 'em.


Watchmen (2009)

Got it.

Boy, do I ever...


Swamp Thing (1982)

Got it.


Wonder Woman & Flash

Need 'em.


Raimi Spidermans (2002-2007)

Got 'em.

Had 'em all along.


Sony Spiderman

Seen it.

Don't want it.
Think I'm bailing out on the sequels too.


Hulk series (1977-1982)
Hulk TV movies (1988-1990)

Got 'em.

Hoo boy, do I ever.


Ang Lee Hulk (2003)

Got it.

Had it all along.


Avengers: Phase 1 (2009-2012)

Got it.

Up next, Avengers phase 2, starting with Iron Man 3.


Tom Jane Punisher. (2004)

Got it.

Had it all along.
Natch.


Transformers (1986)

Crappy bootleg, needs an upgrade to the good one.


Robocop (1987)

Got it.


The Toxic Avenger (1986)
Citizen Toxie (2000)

Got 'em.


Ghostbusters (1984)
Ghostbusters II (1989)

Got 'em.

Had 'em all along.


Unbreakable (2000)

Got it.


Hellboy (2004)

Got it.

Had it all along.
Eh...keep not getting Golden Army to go with it for some reason...


Kick-Ass (2010)

Got it.


Super (2011)

Got it.

Fucking worship it.


Defendor (2010)

Got it.


Hero At Large (1980)

Got it.


The Greatest American Hero (1981-1983)

Got it.


The Return Of Captain Invincible (1983)

Got it.


Flash Gordon (1980)

Got it.


The Wraith (1986)

Got it.


Dredd (2012)

Got it.


The Incredibles (2004)

Got it.

Had it all along.


Heroes (2006)

Got it.


And...that's that.
I'm pretty happy with how that's worked out.
I'll update this as the gaps are filled.

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Adding to my collection (Part 10)

So, as with last time, ran right up to Bullmoose with a mission.

Couple hours after the last review, actually...


Dredd (2012)

Bam.
Yeah, that's right.

See here.

Features include several mini documentaries, and....NO commentary?!?!
Ah, well...


The Wraith (1986)

See here.

Features include several mini documentaries, and a commentary.

And, that does it.
That completes my superhero flick collection.
I did it, the journey's complete.

Hmmm....okay, the Adam West Batman movie, gotta get that...

And, I'd like Wonder Woman and Flash to go with Hulk and Ralph...but those are shows.

Okay, 98% complete.

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Superheroes 2.4 Part 11 (addendum, Dredd)

Firstly, forgot to add here, the Dredd remake/do-over.
(See here, for the Stallone version rant)

So, this is that, plus the review, cuz I've finally seen it.

Dredd (2012)

Um, well, I dug it, a lot.
It's hard R rated no-apologies 80's style fun the likes of Robocop, but way beefier.

If you like your superheroes lethal, and uncensored, with none of the edges sanded off, this is the one you've been waiting for.

I highly recommend it.
I wish I had seen it at the theater.
But, well, stuff was going on.

The reason I'm um-ing about it is, I really can't add much more than everything Hyla said.
He went absolutely bananas for this film, so, he deserves the spotlight.
I'll hand it right over...

• FEEL THE DREDD !
• ANTICIPATION and DREDD . . .
• THE SENTENCE IS . . . AWESOMENESS!

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The pale blue dot rant.

One of the most liberating and joy-bringing things for me to contemplate, is how little human beings matter.
Warms my heart like a hug.

So, I thought I'd share.

Do you realize, that the Earth is basically like a grain of sand compared to our sun?

And that our sun is a booger compared to an average star out there?

The Earth is a dust speck in its own fucking solar system.
Nevermind the whole galaxy.
Compared to the galaxy, the Earth is next to nothing.
Compared to the entire universe, it's a vast decimal place.
Less than nothing.

So, anyone who has a big ego?
They're objectively wrong.
They lose, they're just fucking wrong.

All the fucking tinpot dictators, all the presidents, all the senators, the judges, the pope, and all his little henchmen, all the mullahs, all the idiot fucking celebrities, all the dumbass athletes, all the uppity stuck up snotty doctors, all the uppity stuck up journalists, all of 'em, wrong.

Everyone who's full of themselves is fucking wrong.
It's not a matter of opinion, the universe wins, they're scientifically, carved-in-stone wrong.
Colossally wrong.
Embarrassingly wrong.
Humiliatingly wrong.
Cosmically fucking wrong.
Literally.
Cosmically wrong.

And if they're wrong, all the insecure pathetic nitwits chasing after that station in life, are fucking idiots.

All the ones willing to throw their convictions under a steamroller to get there, they're not just wrong, but doing it for absolutely nothing.
So, they're REALLY fucking idiots.

All the people that grovel and suckle up to those people are even more of a bunch of fucking idiots.

All the people in your life who ever beat you over the head, and told you were a bad person for not striving to be these fucking people, you guessed it, they're fucking idiots too.
I don't care if they were your parents.
I'll flat out put it to you this way; your parents are stupid, and wrong about everything.
I'll repeat it for clarity.
Your parents are stupid, and wrong about everything.
Mmmkay?
Mkay.

And that's the "legitimately", famous!
Imagine what I think of fucking reality TV people!!

Now, this doesn't mean I hate celebrities.
Many of them seem quite pleasant, and would probably be great to hang out with.
I just won't bow and scrape to them, or treat them like fucking messiah figures.

No one deserves the messiah shtick, sorry.
No one.
Not Jesus, not Oprah, not any of 'em.
Fuck 'em.
Fuck anyone who tries that shit around me.

More fundamental than that, no one's fucking "worth more".

Now, at the same time that I respect that we're just a speck of dust in a ray of sunshine, I also realize, that as animated sapient clumps of atoms, we're the universe contemplating itself.

To my way of thinking, that obliges us to explore that universe to properly do our job.
So, our ultimate destiny ought to be to become an interstellar space faring race.
Or, fucking die trying.
And, that's a whole other rant.
You may have seen it before, but there it is again.

Sooo, as you can imagine, I don't hold in anything resembling a high sense of esteem, anything that hinders us from those appointed rounds.

And everything about "the American way", fucking is that.
The nationalism, the superstition, the bullying, the cowardice, the greed, the proud ignorance, the lies, the propaganda brainwashing, the fear-mongering, everything I've ranted about elsewhere.

It's not hard to find in the archives, you've seen it.

So, that's the vantage I look at it from, and that's why I'm completely disconnected from all of it.
I have no stake in it whatever.

I realize, I make my own meaning, I contain everything I need for my happiness, all this external bullshit is just this big ad campaign that makes someone else that isn't me more empty fucking profit.

I'm totally divorced from it.
Can't relate to it at all, don't want to.
Done trying, was done with it years ago.

And it's fucking bliss.
I recommend it highly.
I think it's the wave of the future.

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Superheroes 2.4 Spiderman (Part 1, addendum).

First, see here.

Well, I said there I was in no hurry to see it, and, given that was winter of last year, and this is summer of '13, I really didn't hurry.

I can't really say it better than I just did on Facebook, so, I'll just paste that.

Just finally saw "The Amazing Spider-Man". ...eh. 
*Wavey hand* 
Oh, sure, up against "The Avengers", and "The Dark Knight Rises", it gets creamed. 
But...as its own thing...eh. 
I didn't get the boiling hate Red Letter Media dished out on it. 
I mean, yeah, Sony are cynical assholes, but you can't take that out on the art. 
The Raimis are better, no doubt. The Raimis made you feel things, this didn't. 
It tried in spots, and failed. 
But...if I were a little kid, would this make me dippy about Spiderman? 
Yeah, sure, why not. 
It felt like an issue of the comics. It got it's basic job done. 
A pity they pissed away the first hour of the over 2 hour runtime rehashing the fucking origin though. 
Jayzus. 
I would not buy the DVD, but it didn't ruin my fucking life, or anger or bore me. 
Just...eh.

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Harry Hembock: Champions Of The Weird.

Ah, what the hell, I mentioned it here, may as well show it off.
What special occasion am I saving it for?

So, that's the title graphic I made up for it.
The episodes were going to be called "macrosodes", instead of minisodes.

Here's the test one.

So, yeah, it would have picked up right from minisode #100 with Harry being CEO of Hemtech.

See, I joked somewhere, I think in the commentary episodes, that the next chapter was going to start right in with 30 pages of mindless slaughter to make up for the lack of action in the finale of Dark Designs.
So, this was going to lead right into that.

The creation date on the file says January 5th, 2011.
So, wow, it got that far away from me.

Casting my eye back through the wayback machine, that would have been between when I was bitching about the guy in the ICU waiting room, and when I was wasting time spitting on random ad campaigns (this and this).
Well, that's it right there, the year of hell was going on, and it decimated my fucking creativity.
I just had nothing left at the end of every rotten day for fucking Harry comics.

I obviously would have wanted it started in time for Harry's 22nd birthday, but that clearly didn't happen.

Well, looking at the strip, it looked like Harry's mission was to make the 10's the decade of Hembock.
So...what, he was going to go from CEO to revolutionary?
It doesn't quite work.
Yeah, better that I'm coming at that angle with Jade-Shade.
Where I'm at creatively doesn't work spoken through Harry's lips anymore.
It's obvious now, but it took me forever to figure that out, and start from scratch towards what I really wanted to do.

And, for that macrosode at least, I seemed to want to (defiantly so) preserve my sloppy hand drawn overlapping pages panel design.
Dunno if I would've kept that or not.
I do know I was sick of the prefab nine panel grid I used for Dark Designs.

So, anycrap, I guess this was one of those evolutionary steps.
Didn't pay out immediately, but pointed me in the right direction, even if I couldn't see it at the time.
Or even for the next couple years....
But, I got there, Jade Shade is what I want to be writing.

I do like "champions of the weird", though, I might recycle that somewhere...

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