Comments on: 2008: The Year In Yeah

By: dan

dan — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:21:09 +0000

Janelle doesn’t quite have the voice to carry off “robot James Brown” but if there were ever a time to award points just for trying, that’d be it.

By: Kate the Short

Kate the Short — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:34:00 +0000

Wow, I love that video! Yeah, okay, the hook might be Sesame Street, but the staging and costuming for the video were *fantastic*. Complete high-fashion high-street stuff there, that.

By: Rian Fike

Rian Fike — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:20:18 +0000

You forgot the return of Marvel Masterpieces:

http://fullbodytransplant.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/weekly-wonder-word-masterpieces/

I forgive you.

By: Tenken347

Tenken347 — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:20:47 +0000

That’s a fair enough reason, Lister. Honestly, I’m not sure why I picked up the first issue myself. I’d stopped reading the last Excalibur series when Claremont came back to it (all due respect to him, but his best days are behind him), and I don’t have any particular love for any of the characters in the book. I didn’t read Wisdom, and I wasn’t familiar with the writer before this. I picked it up anyways, though, and I’m really glad I did. Somehow, all the pieces come together really well, even if they may not necessarily be your cup of tea individually.

By: Lister Sage

Lister Sage — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:16:04 +0000

My problem with Captain Brittain and MI:13 is that I’m not convinced that Paul Cornell is as great a writer as everyone says he is. Father’s Day was to melodramatic to be really good. Shadows of Avalon was to streched out for my tastes. Human Nature (episode) was pretty good, but I attibute that to him getting his exesses out with the novel ten years ago. Wisdom issue one was a decent read, but not enough for me to bother with any of the other issues. There’s nothing to draw me to it, characters, writing, plot or art.

By: Tenken347

Tenken347 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:28:19 +0000

While I simply cannot argue about Hercules being the best comic of the year, I have to point out that there was at least one strong (although still distant) competitior for that honor among the Big Two. Captain Brittain and MI:13 hasn’t been getting nearly enough attention considering how incredibly good it is. In the last issue, Blade attacks a demon with a paper mache sword made out of pages from a book of magic. That’s clever and awesome, and Blade even points out that it’s really impractical most of the time. It’s just a great book that everyone should be reading.

Also, if your only complaint is that Nova and Guardians are only as great as they’ve consistantly been in previous issues, then that’s not really much of a complaint at all.

By: Andrew W.

Andrew W. — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:00:34 +0000

My problem with the boys is that the only parts of it that people seem to ever talk about is the parts that are much too crude for me, and they never give the impression that Ennis dials it down from 11. That, and I read Preacher start to finish and didn’t like it one bit.

By: Redshendragon

Redshendragon — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:41:17 +0000

AAHHHH! stop Rap from steeling my childhood!!!
that’s the melody from sesame street god damn it!
ya know the funky pinball machine… 6 7 8 9 10 11 Tweeeelvvvve… doo do ndoo doo do
I’m going to kill myself if i here more ripped off music i swear… I hate them all!

By: Justin Mohareb

Justin Mohareb — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:35:18 +0000

Jassa:

Well, since they are apparently showing the epiosdes out of order, it’s possible they DID/WILL spend time on it.

By: Jassa

Jassa — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:27:15 +0000

1) It might be possible, but not in the time they show black hacker dude doing it. In the last episode I saw he managed to wirelessly hack into a bank’s security system, and alter the security video so it showed the judge as the bank robber. He did all this while outside, on a laptop, and in less than an hour.

In an earlier episode it took him a few seconds to wirelessly hack into Mark Sheppard’s car and have total control over it. What. And in that same episode Gina Bellman’s character was instantly transferred $12 million via a Blackberry.

I know I’m nitpicking, but you get the idea. It’s still a good show, just not as polished as I’d like

2) I guess that kind of makes sense (though I maintain that it’s out of character for Parker in particular, who loves money) but it’s the sort of character development thing I would really like to see the writers spend a little more time on.

By: Stephen Granade

Stephen Granade — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:19:44 +0000

I’ve been watching John Rogers since a friend said “watch this unaired pilot for a Global Frequency show” and I was hooked. His smart writing at Kung Fu Monkey stoked my geek love for him, and when he wrote a comic about Feynman and Einstein battling ninjas, well, that was it. So I’m pleased as punch at how great Leverage has been.

By: LurkerWithout

LurkerWithout — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:16:06 +0000

So The Boys is good because you found ONE scene that isn’t hateful and just mean? Its a comic with TWO decent human beings in it who you get to watch be dragged down into the shit by EVERYONE else around them. Its not funny, its not clever and I was saddened when another company picked it up after Wildstorm or whoever it was dropped it…

In Bruges IS clever and funny and at times sweet and dark and good…

By: MGK

MGK — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:52:23 +0000

Although Leverage is pretty good, it has some flaws which bug me – primarily the use of Magic Technology and the fact that this bunch of crooks never seems to want any of the profit for themselves any more.

1.) There is no Magic Technology in Leverage. The creators are very proud of that fact – there is literally nothing on that show that is not possible with modern technology. Some of it might be cutting edge, but it’s all real.

2.) It’s implied from the first show that the crooks skim a chunk off the top to cover operating expenses, and they’re all rich from their first score in the pilot so they don’t need the money – this is about feeding their need to be crookish.

By: NCallahan

NCallahan — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:46:40 +0000

Thank you for the new musical artist to love.

In Bruges was wonderful for me, not only because it was a masterfully done film, not only because it was one of the most effective yet subtle uses of symbolism I’ve seen, not only because it was a chock full of character without having to be chock full of the absurd, but because it really made me want to visit Bruges. I mean really really. Bruges is now on the list of places I need to see before I die. And not because of some nerdy movie fan-ness — because it makes Bruges look fucking beautiful. Like a fairy tale.

By: MarvinAndroid

MarvinAndroid — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:28:40 +0000

I played the Battlestar Galactica board game without ever having seen the show, and it’s still great.

Oh, and you’re totally wrong about Boomer. I played as her, and her ability to avoid a potentially terrible crisis once a turn, and COMPLETELY CANCEL ONE once per game (including Cylon supercrises) makes her an unexpectedly powerful character. Unless she turns Cylon, in which case her abilities are moot.