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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Revolution of the Mask Issue #1 Text Review
After a near 6 month hiatus from me doing text reviews of comic books I decided I would review a comic book reviewers comic book. The Revolution of the Mask art by Leonardo Freites and story by Lewis "Linkara" Lovhaug.
To start off lets talk about the artwork.The style is black and white which if done right can be gritty or beautiful, in this case its done okay my biggest issue with the black and white is the shading something that is a slight problem in this book. The textures just don't show up as good as they should which can be a real down point. What I do like is the character design, a mix between silver age comics and manga . The mix between what is known as an anime template and the classic DC style really adds some interesting eye candy .
The Story is an interesting thing to talk about. It is a good story but seems so brief even for only one issue of twelve. The Story is great for how little is really exposed, which is a good thing. There is a slight homage to V for Vendetta, and the waking up to a world that has always been around you that you never noticed does seem a little like Wanted. The story is good id even say great, but it didnt do the little extra to make it amazing.
To summarize, the first issue would be good for a vet in the industry, but it came from two people who have never published a book professionally before. The fact that the first issue was this good gives me high expectations for what is to come. While I do think the illustration needs work and the story isn't word heavy enough I would have to give this book a solid 85% for the first issue. Well worth the digital download price.
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Watchmen Movie Review
After my review of the graphic novel you knew this was coming.
The first area I want to talk about is the cast. The main cast is Billy Crudup (DR. Manhattan) Patrick Wilson (Nite Owl) Malin Akerman (Silk Specter) Jackie Earle Haley (Rorschach) and Matthew Goode (Ozymandias). I have a few problems with the cast such as THE FACT THAT Malin Akerman CANNOT ACT, Jackie Earle Haley's voice can be a bit to crackly, and Matthew Goode's inability to show emotion when needed.
Another point I want to touch on is the cinematography. While this movie is literally dark you can make stuff out usually and its not depressingly dark. The green screen works with the actors while never seems out of place. The best piece of film comes from the intro where it combines slow motion shooting with exposition in the background and foregrounds of the environments.
The script has flaws a perfections. The positive's are how true it stays to the graphic novel, The great dialog(sometimes misdelivered by Malin), and the character development. There are really only two negatives I can think of the lack of moral ambiguity and the love scenes that were just there to say WE ARE R-RATED SCREW YOU BATMAN.
-----------------Spoilers IF you haven't read the comic book or dont want to know the changed ending-----------------------------
[spoiler] The ending is better in the movie then it is in the GN. The ending is changed to make people think that Dr. Manhattan is the worlds new enemy thus the world unites way better then the RETARDED OCTOPUS in new york i mean wouldn't Russia just think we were faking if the Octopus was only in New York. I think the world would be more likely to unite if they thought Dr. Manhattan was watching them like an overlord. [/spoiler]
-------SPOILER ENDS---------
Altogether I have to say this is a GREAT Superhero movie better then the overrated Dark Night don't take your kids unless they like blood and blue penises but besides that altogether I recommend this movie to everyone except kids under 11 (sorry no blue penis for you). I give this movie a 96%
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It was about November 2008 when I heard about Watchmen for the very first time, It was on G4 (I know I watch G4 still but I wished I lived in Canada so I could watch G4 Tech TV) Attack of the Show was exclaiming and raving over this as if it was a master piece of art and fiction and how they were anticipating the theatrical release based upon said graphic novel. Another two months passed and I was sitting down watching one of my nightly shows when I watched the first real trailer for Watchmen. Needless to say I was amazed by it. One more month passed and I decided I could no longer wait to see the movie but no pirated or otherwise versions were out there, so I read the graphic novel even though I am not a comic book fan. This is my review of the Watchmen graphic novel.
1986's Watchmen focuses on the idea of what if superheroes were real? What Events would be changed in world history? Where would we be? It answers these questions in this epic 411 page graphic novel full of dark, gritty, and sometimes disturbing moments.
The story follows the exploits of former "Masked Adventurers" (some still active) as they try to stop World War 3. This book rivals Tom Clancy's stories of conspiracy while maintaining a a love story the likes of which no soap opera or teen drama could even come close to.
This finely wrapped package of drama, action, fear, life, and a million and one other things combined is aided by the use of in universe news articles, scrap books, books, and documents teaching you about how the world got where it was. One of my favorite quotes from the novel is from the fake book Dr. Manhattan Super-Powers and Superpowers; I never said, "The superman exists, and he's American." What I said was,"God exists, and he's American."
On the subject of this book looking like fine art I cant agree more. Artist Dave Gibbons manages to make a dark world that isn't to dark and dreary to be off putting. The character design is probably the best I have seen in a long time. If you look in the backgrounds you can truly see the amazement about how much you can learn of the universe of watchmen just by looking around. My favorite drawing in the book is Archie Nite owls aircraft/submarine/awesome mobile. One last thing to comment on in the art direction taken are the panels from Tales of the Black Freighter just excellent is all I can say.
The next person to talk about is Alan Moore famed writer of Watchmen. Moore is single handedly responsible for creating the dark age (named that way for two reasons) with Watchmen and ending it via Youngblood Judgment Day, Leading way for the modern age of comics. With watchmen Moore created a story so excellent and well rounded it launched most of today's newer comic book writers. My opinion is that the story is amazing the only issues I have is that at some points near the end you don't get enough development near the end as if he was rushed. Some minor grammatical slips happen in a few issues but nothing to bad. I loved when Dr. Manhattan is on Mars and he tells is story it sounds so...haunting so...dark so...amazing.
I am overwhelmed by how good this Graphic Novel is. I recommend you buy it now hell I recommend you buy 10 copies and give the other 9 to your friends and family its worth a read if you are a comic book fan or just a fan of good literature altogether. I give Watchmen a 97%
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1986's Watchmen focuses on the idea of what if superheroes were real? What Events would be changed in world history? Where would we be? It answers these questions in this epic 411 page graphic novel full of dark, gritty, and sometimes disturbing moments.
The story follows the exploits of former "Masked Adventurers" (some still active) as they try to stop World War 3. This book rivals Tom Clancy's stories of conspiracy while maintaining a a love story the likes of which no soap opera or teen drama could even come close to.
This finely wrapped package of drama, action, fear, life, and a million and one other things combined is aided by the use of in universe news articles, scrap books, books, and documents teaching you about how the world got where it was. One of my favorite quotes from the novel is from the fake book Dr. Manhattan Super-Powers and Superpowers; I never said, "The superman exists, and he's American." What I said was,"God exists, and he's American."
On the subject of this book looking like fine art I cant agree more. Artist Dave Gibbons manages to make a dark world that isn't to dark and dreary to be off putting. The character design is probably the best I have seen in a long time. If you look in the backgrounds you can truly see the amazement about how much you can learn of the universe of watchmen just by looking around. My favorite drawing in the book is Archie Nite owls aircraft/submarine/awesome mobile. One last thing to comment on in the art direction taken are the panels from Tales of the Black Freighter just excellent is all I can say.
The next person to talk about is Alan Moore famed writer of Watchmen. Moore is single handedly responsible for creating the dark age (named that way for two reasons) with Watchmen and ending it via Youngblood Judgment Day, Leading way for the modern age of comics. With watchmen Moore created a story so excellent and well rounded it launched most of today's newer comic book writers. My opinion is that the story is amazing the only issues I have is that at some points near the end you don't get enough development near the end as if he was rushed. Some minor grammatical slips happen in a few issues but nothing to bad. I loved when Dr. Manhattan is on Mars and he tells is story it sounds so...haunting so...dark so...amazing.
I am overwhelmed by how good this Graphic Novel is. I recommend you buy it now hell I recommend you buy 10 copies and give the other 9 to your friends and family its worth a read if you are a comic book fan or just a fan of good literature altogether. I give Watchmen a 97%
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Sunday, August 2, 2009
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