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Aug. 8th, 2012 08:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkat1. Apparently Joss Whedon has finally achieved his childhood dream of not only writing for Marvel comics, but also making movies and tv shows of Marvel Universe Comic Book characters. This amuses me to no end. Why? I stopped reading Marvel comics when I became obsessed with Buffy the Vampire Slayer in 2001. It sort of replaced my comic book fetish. Had a brief fling with the Marvel Universe when Whedon decided to write Astonishing X-Men. Then finally gave up - due to disappointment, there comes a time in which you start to wonder how many times they can recycle the same stories and same villains. And how long these characters are going to stay in their 20s unless of course, they start out as babies or little kids - then they get sent to some other realm and come back a whole lot older.
This has nothing to do with Whedon, but superhero Comic books are a bit like Daytime soap operas - they make no logical sense, are based solely on emotion or whatever issue is in the writer of the moment's mind, are insanely inconsistent and often have characters act out of character...plus sigh, the insane retcons. On the plus side? They are definitely unpredictable. On the con side? They often make no sense and tend to become insanely silly. My favorite writers and the most consistent were Chris Claremont and Jim Lee back in 1980s-1990s. They also held the reigns for the longest.
Anyhow...kudos to Whedon. He worked hard for this honor, folks. (I'm not being snarky or facetious, he did.) Started small - wrote portions of the first X-men script, then X-men comics, then a few other comics, then did a few tv directing gigs, then a few independent movies, his own comic book series based on a tv series, and finally The Avengers.
I just wish this happened 5-10 years ago when I still cared about the Marvel Verse. OTOH, maybe it's a good thing it didn't? Whedon and I don't appear to view the characters in the same light. Like I stated previously - I preferred Chris Claremount and Jim Lee's view of the Marvelverse. Whedon preferred Grant Morrison, who I didn't like all that much. Although Morrison did make Scott Summers and Emma Frost more interesting. I'll give him that. No one appears to know what to do with Wolverine - whose story much like Magneto, Rogue, Mystique, and Jean Grey has been ret-conned so many times now that it's hard to figure out what the actual back story is.
2. Weather is muggy again. Humid. Sucks the air right out of you. Maybe I'll see a movie this weekend. Bro liked Dark Knight Rises. That film has been getting mixed reviews. Fandom has been odd about it - preferring The Avengers to Dark Knight...not quite sure why.
It's not clear. The critique appears to be more emotional or subjective based than objective in regards to both films. For me? I'll probably like Dark Knight better simply because I'm not a fan of the Avengers. And for other reasons that I won't bore you with.
3. Every time I turn on the Olympics, Beach Volleyball is on. I've seen more beach volleyball this year than in my entire life. As I told my neice, no interest in watching beach volleyball - more fun to play than watching. Swimming just made me nostalgic. As did Track.
4. Slowly getting burned out on the romance novel genre, I'm thinking of going the literary route soon. There's a few I haven't read: Thackery's Tess and Far from Maddening Crowd, DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Tolstoy's Anna Karenia, Elizabeth Gatskill's North and South, and Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (which isn't exactly a romance, but whatever).
Literary genre often has a bit more going on, even if everything ends tragically. Not always the case, but often.
Of the modern romance novelists I've read, the best is Sherry Thomas, Rosemary Rodgers and Loretta Chase. The worst...sigh, the erotica novels I read for 99 cents and 1 buck that I can't remember the names of the authors. But you might want to avoid His Indecent Proposal,
Dom of My Dreams, The Marriage Bargain, The Initiation Series, The Story of O, and Perfect Match.
I'm of the opinion that a lot of fanfic is better than what is actually published in the romance genre. The much maligned romance genre is maligned for a reason.
5. Have discovered new lj site - political cartoons:
http://politicartoons.livejournal.com/3200620.html
The link above takes you to a rather funny one entitled - Mars Wants Libertarians. (Warning may be offensive to the Republican Libertarians.)
This has nothing to do with Whedon, but superhero Comic books are a bit like Daytime soap operas - they make no logical sense, are based solely on emotion or whatever issue is in the writer of the moment's mind, are insanely inconsistent and often have characters act out of character...plus sigh, the insane retcons. On the plus side? They are definitely unpredictable. On the con side? They often make no sense and tend to become insanely silly. My favorite writers and the most consistent were Chris Claremont and Jim Lee back in 1980s-1990s. They also held the reigns for the longest.
Anyhow...kudos to Whedon. He worked hard for this honor, folks. (I'm not being snarky or facetious, he did.) Started small - wrote portions of the first X-men script, then X-men comics, then a few other comics, then did a few tv directing gigs, then a few independent movies, his own comic book series based on a tv series, and finally The Avengers.
I just wish this happened 5-10 years ago when I still cared about the Marvel Verse. OTOH, maybe it's a good thing it didn't? Whedon and I don't appear to view the characters in the same light. Like I stated previously - I preferred Chris Claremount and Jim Lee's view of the Marvelverse. Whedon preferred Grant Morrison, who I didn't like all that much. Although Morrison did make Scott Summers and Emma Frost more interesting. I'll give him that. No one appears to know what to do with Wolverine - whose story much like Magneto, Rogue, Mystique, and Jean Grey has been ret-conned so many times now that it's hard to figure out what the actual back story is.
2. Weather is muggy again. Humid. Sucks the air right out of you. Maybe I'll see a movie this weekend. Bro liked Dark Knight Rises. That film has been getting mixed reviews. Fandom has been odd about it - preferring The Avengers to Dark Knight...not quite sure why.
It's not clear. The critique appears to be more emotional or subjective based than objective in regards to both films. For me? I'll probably like Dark Knight better simply because I'm not a fan of the Avengers. And for other reasons that I won't bore you with.
3. Every time I turn on the Olympics, Beach Volleyball is on. I've seen more beach volleyball this year than in my entire life. As I told my neice, no interest in watching beach volleyball - more fun to play than watching. Swimming just made me nostalgic. As did Track.
4. Slowly getting burned out on the romance novel genre, I'm thinking of going the literary route soon. There's a few I haven't read: Thackery's Tess and Far from Maddening Crowd, DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Tolstoy's Anna Karenia, Elizabeth Gatskill's North and South, and Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (which isn't exactly a romance, but whatever).
Literary genre often has a bit more going on, even if everything ends tragically. Not always the case, but often.
Of the modern romance novelists I've read, the best is Sherry Thomas, Rosemary Rodgers and Loretta Chase. The worst...sigh, the erotica novels I read for 99 cents and 1 buck that I can't remember the names of the authors. But you might want to avoid His Indecent Proposal,
Dom of My Dreams, The Marriage Bargain, The Initiation Series, The Story of O, and Perfect Match.
I'm of the opinion that a lot of fanfic is better than what is actually published in the romance genre. The much maligned romance genre is maligned for a reason.
5. Have discovered new lj site - political cartoons:
http://politicartoons.livejournal.com/3200620.html
The link above takes you to a rather funny one entitled - Mars Wants Libertarians. (Warning may be offensive to the Republican Libertarians.)