Scott Pilgrim Is A Movie

Aside from being a comic book, Scott Pilgrim is a movie.  The movie is a separate entity than the comics.  The movie is a great comedy/action movie that feels like Manga brought to life.  It also uses fighting game cliches and indie music.  I enjoyed it.  It had a couple great dramatic moments, like when Scott dumped Knives, and Ramona leaving Scott.  I could relate to those moments quite well, I felt for them, as I’ve been there.

I already saw it twice, not like I was trying to, but I had 2 chances to see it, and I said yes both times.

The comic however, is different.  I can curl up with it and it’s intimate to me, it’s a special series, I feel it strongly.  It’s an amazing series.  It’s about more than just love and beating the exs to me.  It’s about trying to belong and find happiness.   It’s about trying to get past yourself and being a better person.  It’s still about love and action, but.. just something about it feels true to me, I’m still going to bust out my copies of it years from now.

Comics I Think Are Awesome

Cassanova – by Matt “I now write major Marvel comics” Fraction with art from the Brazillian Wondertwins of Ba/Moon. And spies.

Phonogram – Music, Magic and More good shit for people of quality from a Videogame Journalist/Guy who writes Thor some and Some very nice art.

Mouse Guard – Mice with swords and heroics.

Nightly News – Grim, crazy and featuring a great art style by Johnathan Hickman who is now doing major shit over at Marvel.

Incognito – A super-mafia goon in Witness Protection. Damn good comic and also a stepping stone between regular Super-hero stuff and Brubaker’s Criminal.

Planetary – Every single issue. Possibly the most important comic series to ME, Warren Ellis at possibly his best and John Cassiddy doing amazing art.

Daredevil – Pretty much everything from the Kevin Smith Relaunch to the recent end of it has been great, the parts that SEEM bad are good and only look bad due to what’s around them.

All-Star Superman – Grant Morrison’s loveletter to the Man of Steel and manages to be true to the ‘Classic’ world of comics and also throughly modern with Frank Quitely throwing in some super-detailed art.

Ex-Machina – The Mayor of NYC has a super-power. Mostly about politics, but really more about trying to do the right thing and believe in something larger than yourself. Brian K. Vaughn writes it, Tony Harris draws it.

Starman – Also drawn by Tony Harris. A long 80 issue DC series that is unique in that is has a proper ending. Possibly the only good thing to come out of the early 90s comics.

Brave And The Bold Rules

You have heard of “Batman: The Brave And The Bold”? It’s a kids TV show, that also happens to be the greatest thing ever.  Take the most recent episode “The super batman of planet X” wherein Batman gets teleported though a wormhole.  He was teleported while using his spaceship to fight against space pirates, right?  Then he ends up on another world with a Batman already, this other Batman is the Batman of Zur-En-Ah, just like in the comic books.

Anyhow, on this other world, Batman has super-powers like Superman, and Batman rids the world of crime and the episode is full of amazing Superman jokes and also contains the voice actors from the Superman cartoon.  I HAD A FANGASM.