Moving on…Saturday was FREE COMIC BOOK DAY, and I hope you all got out to your local comic book shop to support them and pick up some of the new previews. I wanted to cover one in particular because I feel it is both silly and well….extremely necessary in some strange, demented way.
Stan Lee has produced a Manga. Yes, you have read correctly. The great Stan Lee has jumped on the Japan-trendy bandwagon and produced a Manga of his own. The work is titled, “Karakuridoji ULTIMO” and presented with Hiroyuki Takei (of Shaman King). It will be released in both Japan and America as a part of the weekly Shonen Jump (Jump SQ. II in Japan). Stan Lee thought the idea of “having a good robot fight the bad ones” would be a great concept for both countries, and I tend to agree. Takei is an AMAZING artist and I really like the art I got to see in Issue Zero.
Without giving any spoiler-tastic details I will tell you that Mechanical Boy Ultimo is “perfect good” and his counterpart is “perfect evil.” The robots were made by a samurai who looks…a lot like Stan Lee. In fact, if this samurai isn’t meant to look like Stan Lee then this was one hell of an accident. The first thing I said when I saw the comic book cover was, “SAMURAI STAN LEE! I MUST HAVE THIS!” The comic book store clerk probably thought I was crazy or some kind of nutty comic girl that had been in her basement too long (and hey, I didn’t live there for THAT long). I even got a cool poster insert with Stan Lee as his epic samurai-self (this samurai is actually an evil-genius-doctor named Dr. Dunstan...and someone please tell me why a samurai has the name Dunstan and I'll give you an insanity cookie).
Unfortunately…the first three panels show us that he’s not going to be sticking around for the series…but I got to see Stan Lee drawn as a samurai and quite frankly that made my day so it’s all good.
The dialogue is very true to manga-style and I have to say I think Stan Lee is pretty decent at writing a shonen manga. The intended audience is obviously slightly younger and male (like with Shamen King and other shonen manga) but I think this will actually be a pretty decent read. I plan on picking up a copy in July when it premiers here in America’s Shonen Jump Magazine (yes, I read Shonen Jump even though I’m female…it’s really not so bad. I promise. Honestly I prefer that sort of story to the ones in Shojou Beat because I’m just not very into that whole sappy romance manga trend).
So yeah, check it out. If you didn’t get a preview for Free Comic Book Day then shame on your for not going out on Saturday and make sure you start surfing the web to find all the cool shiny bits you missed this weekend.
In other news…I saw “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” this weekend, and I have to say it was pretty decent. I have heard many people complain that the action was too intense and that Deadpool didn’t get enough speech-time on screen, but I really don’t think these complaints are all that well founded. Since I don’t want to give any spoilers to anyone that didn’t see it opening weekend I won’t go into it too far…but just keep in mind that there’s cool stuff after the credits and they are making a Deadpool movie after all, so don’t throw yourselves all into a panic. Personally, I thought they made Gambit a total badass in this film and WAY more believable power-wise than in both the comics and the TV show, and Wolverine’s origin story was portrayed with some pretty good canon (though there are creative interpretations that deter from the canon so just keep an open mind). All in all I think it was decent and I rank it above X3, at par with X1, but still below X2 (because X2 rocked some serious awesome-sauce).
Stay tuned this week because I’m going to see the new Star Trek film in IMAX on opening night and that is going to be absolutely amazing. I have a feeling I’m not going to be disappointed (and I hope to the great Space Buddha I’m NOT going to be disappointed because there will be angry posts for sure).
Go check out free previews from Free Comic Book Day! What are you waiting for!?
Lady Jones
11 comments:
We're gonna have to see Wolverine again 'cause people at work keep asking me how it was and all I can come up with is "pretty!"
Curse you Hugh Jackman and your hypnotic hotness from Oz!
I probably would have liked it if I were a girl.
And didn't know who Deadpool was.
And didn't know who Agent Zero/Maverick was.
Dude....deadpool will be the Merc with the Mouth in his next movie. It seriously wasn't that bad.
So... you basically took our conversation about Wolverine and turned it into a post?
Also: Deadpool wasn't all that funny back in his genesis, Ian. It took a while for the Merc with a Mouth to come through and really shine. I'm totally okay with his depiction, if only because they'll do better in the next one. No Weapon X holding him back... Freelance Mercenary Deadpool, with his mouth open and never shutting up.
Listen to what Ryan Reynolds has to say about it in this interview with IGN:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9r3wm7brtE
He doesnt want to talk spinoff, but his insights into the character should help soothe the pain you seem to be experiencing.
Man, it sucks being a REAL comic nerd, im surrounded by people who dont understand things as well as I do, and feel an obligation to try and explain it to them. (not aimed at my hosts on this site, Ladies. You seem to get it most of the time. ;) Just saying, is all.)
I didn't have a problem with Reynolds' part in the movie. I had a problem with super-monster-deadpool with adamantium sword-bearing skeleton, built-in teleportation and laser feet. I hope if/when they do a Deadpool movie that they just do it as a stand alone and don't base it off this one.
Holy crap, Danicus I think you're the only male nerd friend I have that LIKED Deadpool in that movie! (Half of them also had to be schooled about Deadpool, the losers.) I was EXPECTING you to hate it! You astound me, sir!
Also, slicing a bullet in half? all kinds of chessy awesome WIN.
Don't get me wrong, i hated Deadpool just as much as anyone, possibly more, since I kinda project a bit, and to me, Deadpool is pretty much "Danicus with a healing factor"
Snarky, never shuts up, loves weapons... sound familiar? Huh? Huh?
If I got outraged at every detail that comic book movies get wrong, I would hate every comic book movie out there.
Green Goblin throws a girl off a bridge and she doesnt die? I CRY FOUL, SIR!
Tony Stark isn't sauced out of his mind? I SAY THEE NAY!
Rorschach showing emotions of any kind? BOO! HISS!
Frank Castle in Tampa, Florida? NO THANK YOU!
I'm willing to cut the movies some slack, most of the time, mainly because I understand. They need to appeal to a larger audience than JUST ME. I know, the quintessential narcissist, and I'm playing it cool here.
But honestly, a movie like Wolverine worked well for me, mainly because i FUCKING HATE Wolverine and Gambit in the comic book universe. Oh, how I hate Gamit. Worlds of hate. Wrote a whole essay on it, once.
...But anyway.
The movies made me actually LIKE those two. I found enjoyment out of, get this, altering the characters from their established canon and making them reasonably neat instead.
But I digress.
My main point is this was not Deadpool: The Movie. it was WOLVERINE'S story. So getting Deadpool wrong is a footnote, and one that will be very easily remedied in
DEADPOOL: The Movie, because there's no way in hell they'd do an entire feature film about the silent killing machine version.
I liked Creed, he was my favorite part. Wolverine...I don't think they can do anything original with Wolverine, so I was neither pleasantly nor unpleasantly surprised. I'm generally not picky about movies, but when I go in excited and hopeful and come out drained and grumpy, something definitely was not done right.
there's your first problem. NEVER go into a superhero movie expecting anything better than absolute CRAP because if you have high hopes, they WILL disappoint you.
Every Superhero movie you see should be entered into assuming it will be as bad as Batman Forever, Superman IV, Elektra, the Dolph Lundgren Punisher movie, etc.
That way, when you get out of the theater and it WASN'T a total train wreck, you're pleasantly surprised and can focus on the good things and the stuff they got right, instead of dragging the film through the mud for all the many and sundry things they did wrong.
Optimism by way of Pessimism.
that's not to say there arent amazing movies out there, but keeping your expectations low lets you enjoy even average films, not just the two or three AMAZING superhero movies that have ever come out, two of which starred Batman.
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