Tonight...

[winneganfake]

The short list of stuff to take care of.

Laundry
Run over to the Dreaming to grab the small mountain of comics that's been building up
Once I get home, time for strong coffee and working on the next journal entry for VISION. (Riiiight, There's a fresh pile of comics in the house, and I think I'm going to be working? Heh.)

Comments

Re: man... it's all DragonBall to me ;)

[winneganfake.livejournal.com]

shielding eyes

Look, I could argue with you on that, but I'll agree there's a lot of crap out there- there's also good stuff too though:Ghost in The Shell and Voices of a Distant Star to name a couple of 'em.

Now marvel comics on the other hand: there's a load of cookie-cutter scrap paper that's barely evolved beyond an antiquated comic code.

Re: man... it's all DragonBall to me ;)

[templar46-2.livejournal.com]

oh i know... lol

and actually, for as much as i really loath anime on principle... i do in fact own and enjoy a few films (akira, ghost in the shell, etc..) but man... the crap to decent ratio seems pretty skewed IMO ;)

now marvel... yeah, i fully admit that they publish a whole lot of garbage... and my distaste for anything with a goddamn X in the title is well documented... but on the same note, i feel they publish some of the best stuff in comics ever (Captain Marvel, Thor, AVENGERS! \m/, Daredevil, etc...) But, yeah... it's mainly a matter of taste. Personally the "antiquated comic code" is something i relish and think on fondly in my nostalgia... the silverage of superhero comics is, IMO, where it's freakn' AT! yo... and the more modern "edgy" shit... like the punisher, and pint-sized-canadians-with-anger-issues make me want to fucking vomit. (that being said, i still hold that when done properly, the "dark/gritty" style can be insanely moving... a'la: Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Brian m. Bendis, etc...)

This is a big part of why i've been gravitating toward DC comics a lot lately as well... DC is definitely more of a surreal hero-fantasy style than marvel on the whole (Avengers being the exception, and still the greatest thing in comics EVER... despite how much i'd like to personally skull fuck the current writer with a 5lb. hammer).

Re: man... it's all DragonBall to me ;)

[winneganfake.livejournal.com]

Oh trust me, we're pretty much in agreement about comics as well, then- though I hold more with the even earlier stuff- the old pulp fiction styles of comics and writing.