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May. 18th, 2007 11:00 amSoul Mole tonight, hurrah! And happy birthday to all the birthday people, also.
Like all great zombie stories, the message of 28 Weeks Later is that, while humans may not be much improved by undeath, they're pretty atrocious to begin with, and in some situations there is nothing you can do that will be right. ( spoilers )
Perhaps not quite the pummeling experience I'd been led to expect - it's not Aronofsky - but as close as a big action film is ever likely to come to it. Great cast, too - Augustus Hill from Oz in the chopper, Stringer Bell running things, and the extremely good (and very gorgeous) Imogen Poots (whom obviously I checked was legal beforepublicly admitting to fancying her).
From 28 Weeks Later to 28 weeks late, or thereabouts - the final issue of Ultimates 2 finally arrived yesterday. Scriptwise, you know by now whether or not you like Ultimates, and this had the same mix of glossy ultraviolence, knowing and slightly cruel wit, and general dumbness. I like it. But the art! What has Bryan Hitch been doing for the last however many months? Half the time, these people simply weren't people-shaped. And if Hitch isn't about glossy, astounding but believable physicality, then what exactly is he for? He's heading dangerously close to early Image territory in parts of this.
Possibly even later, but arriving in the same blue moon shipment - All-Star Batman And Robin The Boy Wonder, which I increasingly feel would be awesome if only it came out on a sane schedule. Frank Miller's not trying to do the definitive version, like Morrison is in All-Star Superman. Why would be bother? Miller's already done the definitive Batman. Twice. He's doing an insane, turned-up-to-11 hyperpulp take on Batman, and that's fair enough, and good fun to boot. But you can't do trashy hyperpulp and take closer to a year than a month on each issue.
Meanwhile, in the field of comics which come out promptly but nobody ever seems to talk about anymore, Ultimate Spider-Man's new issue continues a recent tour-de-force of treachery, flawed heroism and the reality of what would happen when low-level superheroes trying to confront a corrupt businessman. Not that Miller didn't tell some great Daredevel vs Kingpin stories back in the day, but so far this looks to me a lot more like how it would actually play out.
Like all great zombie stories, the message of 28 Weeks Later is that, while humans may not be much improved by undeath, they're pretty atrocious to begin with, and in some situations there is nothing you can do that will be right. ( spoilers )
Perhaps not quite the pummeling experience I'd been led to expect - it's not Aronofsky - but as close as a big action film is ever likely to come to it. Great cast, too - Augustus Hill from Oz in the chopper, Stringer Bell running things, and the extremely good (and very gorgeous) Imogen Poots (whom obviously I checked was legal before
From 28 Weeks Later to 28 weeks late, or thereabouts - the final issue of Ultimates 2 finally arrived yesterday. Scriptwise, you know by now whether or not you like Ultimates, and this had the same mix of glossy ultraviolence, knowing and slightly cruel wit, and general dumbness. I like it. But the art! What has Bryan Hitch been doing for the last however many months? Half the time, these people simply weren't people-shaped. And if Hitch isn't about glossy, astounding but believable physicality, then what exactly is he for? He's heading dangerously close to early Image territory in parts of this.
Possibly even later, but arriving in the same blue moon shipment - All-Star Batman And Robin The Boy Wonder, which I increasingly feel would be awesome if only it came out on a sane schedule. Frank Miller's not trying to do the definitive version, like Morrison is in All-Star Superman. Why would be bother? Miller's already done the definitive Batman. Twice. He's doing an insane, turned-up-to-11 hyperpulp take on Batman, and that's fair enough, and good fun to boot. But you can't do trashy hyperpulp and take closer to a year than a month on each issue.
Meanwhile, in the field of comics which come out promptly but nobody ever seems to talk about anymore, Ultimate Spider-Man's new issue continues a recent tour-de-force of treachery, flawed heroism and the reality of what would happen when low-level superheroes trying to confront a corrupt businessman. Not that Miller didn't tell some great Daredevel vs Kingpin stories back in the day, but so far this looks to me a lot more like how it would actually play out.
