Archive for July, 2008

The Dark Knight

Dark Knight was clearly an awesomeish kind of movie. Director Christopher Nolan seems to more or less know what he’s doing, now that he’s got the hang of showing movies in proper chronological order. But having carefully watched the movie several hundred times now, I think I’ve worked out where the next flick in the [...]

A Brush With The Law

With nothing more than a hand-held mirror, a small palette of colours, my own body as a canvas and a display of audacious brushwork reminiscent of a young, stereo Vincent Van Gogh, I was able to complete my transformation. And yet, all to no avail. For even as I daubed the finishing touches on my [...]

I Ache, Therefore I Break

Just listening to Achy Breaky Heart by a certain Billy Ray Cyrus and one question immediately comes to mind. What sort of inner body communications system did he have that you could tell his arms, feet, lips, eyes, mind and fingertips that they were through but his heart wouldn’t find out?

For that matter what kind [...]

Final Crisis: Issue Two – Ticket To Bludhaven

Onto the second issue of Final Crisis, which begins, without a lick of explanation, in Japan. Japan’s greatest superhero (Rising Sun) is laying down all kinds of verbal smack on the young Japanese superheroes who are bringing such shame to their ancestors. He calls them ‘posers’, ‘feckless’ and ‘needlessly obsessed with nightclubs and dance music’. [...]

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