re: Why?

For you.

For me...but for you.

pointless

What the hell am I doing here?

Blogspot RIP

Previously on Message in a bottle

Me: I don't want to leave DC!
Common Sense: Go to Micronesia with your parents!

3 months later

Me: I don't want to move to Hawaii! I want to go back to DC!
Common Sense: Go to Hawaii, find a job.

7 months and 3 jobs later

Me: I don't want to leave Hawaii! I never want to go back to DC!
Common Sense: Good, stay here and be patient. Great things will happen if you can wait.
Me: Screw that, I'm giving it all up now and going back to DC with no backup plan!

Now, 4 months and no job later, the story continues...

So why the RIP in the title? To much critical reception, writer Grant Morrison has more or less "killed" the Batman in an arc called Batman RIP (technically he "bought it" in Final Crisis 6 but whatevs).

From the wiki:

"Batman R.I.P." is a comic book story arc published in Batman #676-681 by DC Comics. Written by Grant Morrison, penciled by Tony Daniel, and with covers by Alex Ross, the story pits the superhero Batman against the Black Glove organization as they attempt to destroy everything he stands for. It has a number of tie-ins in other DC Comics titles that are not to be confused with the main story running in Batman.

In the story, the antagonists subject Batman to a series of mental assaults in an attempt to cause a nervous breakdown. Unfortunately for them, Batman is an unparalleled strategist and a paranoid sociopath so he created a brutal backup personality to counter any subliminal assualts and unleash a methodical asswhuppin on his persecutors.

Namely, the Batman of Zur En Arrh:
...arrrhh! That's right. He went out in public like that.

Anyway, I'll be taking a page from Batman's playbook by splitting my blogging persona into these 3 titles:

• Message in a bottle
• Punchlines
• Purgatario

This one will be the artsy geeky whiny one, Punchlines for the funny and Purgatario to sober up.

So in true RIP fashion, I'll rely on some crossover event of these three different blogs to give some resolution to the fact that I'm just too lazy to do any one of those three things consistently. Less is more...work. Trust me.

All Star Superman

I have been following Grant Morrison's All Star Superman line since before I left the mainland. Not very faithfully, mind you. But I've been trying to catch up here and there (sitting in borders/barnes reading month old back issues) and so far what I've seen has been just as impressive.

It's hard to imagine that anyone could incorporate some golden age elements into modern day storytelling without falling into something ridiculous or self-depricating, but Morrison does so gracefully.

Frank Quitely's artwork is an acquired taste but one that's had enough time to simmer and grow on me, I guess. His work on the Authority and X-Men was so graphic and violent that seeing his take on an essentially brighter and more upbeat flagship character kinda demonstrates a range that I didn't expect. Granted, most people's faces look like prunes when he draws 'em, I think his style compliments these stories perfectly.

In tribute, I made this desktop from pieces and parts of my local internet:




All Star Supes is good stuff. The GODDAMN BATMAN however...that's another deal altogether. And another post. Goodnight.

INDIANA JONES

...and the Kingdom of No Refunds. There's nothing I can say about this that isn't being expressed better all over the rest of the internet so I'll just stick with a rating: 2 out of 5 stars.

In order to make myself feel better about a movie that I walked into with no expectations and out of with unprecedented disappointment, I went to blockbuster for a reminder of teh cool...


My favorite of the Indy movies, one scene in particular kicked it all back into perspective for me with an ultimate (unintentional?) zen epiphany:


And then...


So finally...



Thus concluded my saturday night. Also there were some fireworks and I went to church.

THE END.

IRON MAN

Winner. My only regret was not sticking around for the end credits for the big Sam Jackson Nick Fury cameo.

I guess we'll just have to see it again.

And by we I mean me. Alone.


Also, Stark can build an selfpowered artificial heart in a cave using fire and a hammer...but he still rolls in an R8?



Not that there's anything wrong with this hotness but I figured he'd have built himself something that could transform or travel through time or bust ghosts or something.

In any case, the movie was good. Great start to the summer movie season.

I'm sorry

I got carried away and forgot the choice I made.

The choice we made.

I am strong, I'll be better now and remember where the lines are.



See you around.