Since doomsie's back... THE OFFICIAL COMICBOOK/GEEK THREAD

[doom]

UM...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uxTpyCdriY&feature=player_embedded#!

[Goose]

I think I still have the same reaction now as I do the first time I saw that video.

Internet, seriously.  WTF?!

[r00]

thank you doom for reminding me that video still existed.  8'(

[doom]

its two things i enjoy, that do not mix well.
traumatized.

[TPD]

you know what does go together?

nin + whedon + avengers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zatgnqdIefs

awesome use of that song

[doom]

comic stuff + scarlett johansson + nin.

its...so...beautiful...

[rynne]

Warren Ellis' Supergod is an interesting read. The idea is that countries have developed weaponized superhumans, whose powers and motivations are so far beyond human conception that they are essentially gods. In semi-Lovecraftian tradition, the gods don't have any particular regard for human life. For example, Krishna, India's blue-skinned enhanced-clone/AI hybrid, decides that a good way to protect its territory from overpopulation is by violent eradication of the majority of India's populace.

Needless to say, humanity doesn't come out too well in the end.

[doom]

i might try and pick that up.

Walking Dead Season 2 starts tomorrow!

[doom]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewrQ0Dz8ssk&feature=player_embedded#!

[rynne]

Alan Moore has let me down.  I got the TPB collecting his two Cthulhu-mythos limited series, The Courtyard and Neonomicon.  The Courtyard was a decent story, if a bit slight and uninspired, where an FBI agent investigates bizarre murders and finds more than he bargained for (in a Lovecraft pastiche? No way!  ). As is Moore's wont, it's bursting with references to various Lovecraft Circle authors.

Neonomicon is kind of a mess. It follows the next group of FBI agents on the case after the first one (shock!) went insane. The female protagonist studied Lovecraft at college---yes, this is one of those universes where Lovecraft's real stories exist, just so someone can have a "OMG, it wasn't fiction at all!" reaction.  In the first of a series of disappointing moments, said FBI agent spends a page or two to directly cite all the references in the first story. Ugh. Then it gets stupidly meta. 

Moore takes the not-uncommon view that the notable lack of sex in Lovecraft's stories meant that *all* of Lovecraft's stories are about sex. He inverts the trend by making his story explicitly about sex. For no discernible reason he makes the female FBI agent a recovering sex addict. She is [spoiler]captured by cult members to be violently, graphically and repeatedly raped by a Deep One. Which, okay, I can sort of get---human/Deep One cross-breeding is canon and it's not difficult to imagine the couplings weren't always consensual. But then, when she wakes up from her multi-day rapey delirium still imprisoned with the Deep One, she gives it a handjob. She is impressed by how forcefully it spooges.[/spoiler] I am not kidding. What. The. Fuck. [spoiler]The story ends with her realizing and reveling that she's preggers with the second coming of Cthulhu.[/spoiler]

It's not so much that the story is incredibly misanthopic and in poor taste. It's that it's misanthropic and in poor taste while not being innovative at all. Every theme and idea in the book has been addressed more effectively in other stories, by worse writers than Moore. Moore doesn't add anything except the artistic clout to get a reputable company to publish drawings of a man-frog's erection.

[doom]

Childish Gambino is amazing.

[TPD]

comic stuff + scarlett johansson + nin.

its...so...beautiful...

i know... i didn't know what to fap to first

[doom]

The Avengers film
[spoiler]Spiderman shows up in the avengers film. Kind of want.[/spoiler]

[doom]

got a deadpool tattoo in my friends name. all money went to charity.
he got me into the comics and all.

[Static]

Neonomicon

There was so much wrong with that book.  After how good Moore's previous work has been, I felt incredibly disappointed with thie Cthulhu series.  Also, the points you spoilered, yeah, wtf?  It's not even as if you could put it down to some weird kind of stockholm syndrome, I feel even more offended that it just seems ok because she's a recovering sex addict.