Myspace Blogposts Part Six

I am about to delete my myspace account, but I figured I would share with you some of blog posts I wrote on there.  Do not judge me.


Problem of Immortality
One of the hardest things about being immortal:  the constant planning.  You always have to be on your toes, especially nowadays.  Scientists would love to get ahold of an individual like me and figure out why I cannot die.

I create fake identities all over the world, in case I am discovered, I can just disappear for a few years.  If that fails, I have built an underground tomb which I can seal myself in with a timed lock for one hundred years.

That idea came to me from back in the 1500s.  A village discovered that I could not die and instead of doing the normal thing, like burn me as a witch (which takes forever to heal from), they instead bricked me inside an old tomb.  I was trapped in there for like ninety years.  Luckily some grave robbers happened to come by and well let me say they got quite the surprise.  The only negative to that situation was that my mental state was somewhat deteriorated, and I spent the next few years wondering around Europe.

Anyways, I hope this helps any of you.  If not, you are probably not immortal.  This definitely does not apply to vampires, you may not age, but you can most certainly be killed.  Plus, you cannot enjoy the sunlight, which life is not worth living without seeing a great sunrise every once in awhile.  Remember vampires, leave me alone, and I will not go back to my early 18th century ways of being a renowned vampire hunter...

Myspace Blogposts Part Five

I am about to delete my myspace account, but I figured I would share with you some of blog posts I wrote on there.  Do not judge me.


Eating The Souls of Small South American Monkeys
Yesterday I woke up to find my apartment completely gone.  Not destroyed mind you, just missing, disappeared.  A figment of my imagination.  At that point I did the only thing one can do in said situation.  I walked away.

I decided to walk south.  Why south you ask?  Well, why not?  Along the way, I met many interesting people, and soon they began to join my ranks and followed me to my destination:  Corpus Christi, Texas.

Outside of the city we camped, preparing our weapons for the assault.  My army numbered around 20,000.  The cities walls and defenses would easily be overrun.  I am sure you are wondering where the weapons came from and the only answer I have is that this is my story and stop asking so many damn questions.

The battle did not last very long, and soon the city was left in ruins.  The people of Corpus Christi would have been better served remembering their history:  invaders always come from the North.  Let this be a warning to everyone out there.

Myspace Blogposts Part Four

I am about to delete my myspace account, but I figured I would share with you some of blog posts I wrote on there.  Do not judge me.


What am i reading?
Marvel's Civil War
Here is the story so far.  The Warriors have a reality TV show in which they capture supervillians, but since they are not powerful heroes, they only go after minor villains.  But, when they come across a house of villians that are extremely powerful, they decide to attack them.  Long story short, the villian known as Nitro emits a blast so powerful that it kills most of the town, about 800 people, including a playground of about 60 kids.  After this happens people want superheroes to register.  The government starts working on the Superhero Registration Act (much like the Mutant Registration Act), which would force superheroes to register with SHIELD and become paid government employees.  Some heroes are all for it, while others are against.  Iron Man goes on TV and shows his support for the project and then unmasks himself to the media, saying he is Tony Stark.  The head of SHIELD asks Captain America if the bill is passed will he be able to take down the heroes who resist.  Cap tells them he will not arrest anyone because he does not agree with the law, he says it is unAmerican.  When they try to arrest him, he escapes and begins recruiting soldiers to his camp.  The heroes he finds on his side, are the ones like Luke Cage, Daredevil, Falcon, the Young Avengers, Cable, and Goliath.  Iron Man has an advantage, he is able to appeal to the scientific heroes, such as Mr. Fantastic, Yellow-Jacket (Hank Pym), or to heroes like Ms. Marvel and Wasp, who are used to taking orders or being public heroes.  At the end of the second issue, we know that Cap and Iron Man have both talked to Spider-Man.  On the final page, Spider-Man comes to a press conference with Iron Man and unmasks himself, admitting to the world that he is Peter Parker.  In the third issue Cap's team is out fighting, not the other good guys, but instead still fighting crime.  When they intercept a distress call about a fire they immediately respond, but they find that it is a trap.  Iron Man offers amnesty if they surrender, he says he just needs 5 minutes to explain everything to Cap.  Cap agrees and shakes his hand, but instead places an object on IM's palm.  The device was designed to shut down IM's suit if he ever went rogue.  While he is down the battle begins, but since IM powers back up and begins kicking Cap's ass.  As Hercules and a few others go to rescue Cap, the commander of SHIELD gives orders to release a secret weapon, we see a bolt of lightning and then the last page shows Thor, who has been dead for over two years.
Okay so that was my quick synopsis of the story so far, haha.  Now my thoughts on it.  I absolutely love it.  There is conflict between friends, even between family.  Wolverine hates the idea of the registration, he doesn't understand why people are not out trying to punish Nitro, he makes it his personal mission to kill Nitro.  Reed Richards is helping Tony develop something crazy, maybe a super prison, who knows, but Sue hates it.  She saw what happened to her brother Johnny after Stamford (the town destroyed).  He was outside a club, and people attacked him for being a hero, called him a babykiller.  Many of the resistance fighters believe the government will start using them as weapons, since they will be employed by SHIELD.  The X-Men want to stay out of it, but eventually something will change (I'm guessing Cyclops would lend support to Cap, since the SHRA is like Mutant Registration Act, and mutants hated that idea.)....McNiven's artwork is fantastic.  This is definitely a book you should check out.
Here is a book you should not even waste your time with.  Squadron Supreme.  This is a remake, or revamp of the original.  The idea is that the superheroes (who resemble the JLA) use their powers to take over the world and create a utopia, but sometimes they go a bit too far.  In the new book, J. Michael Strysynkakdivn (i can't spell it, JMS), basically rewrites Rising Stars, with different characters.  I enjoyed the first part of the book, just called Supreme, but now, eh, it's grown tiresome. I'd delve deeper into it, but just trust me, read Rising Stars, read the original, and then combine them....

Myspace Blogposts Part Three

I am about to delete my myspace account, but I figured I would share with you some of blog posts I wrote on there.  Do not judge me.


x-men 3
okay, so i know that everyone i know went out and saw the movie x3.   i'm not going to talk about the movie. as i've said, i want to talk about comic books. but, it's obvious that no one is reading this, so i'll just post something about x-men.
if you are one of the people out there who loves the x-men movies, but doesn't read comics, then i have the book for you. ULTIMATE X-MEN. here is the deal with anything you see from marvel with ultimate in front of it. basically a few years ago they realized that young people, and people who were not comic fans were not reading their staple books.  so they released the ultimate line. in the ultimate books, the characters are stripped back to their roots. for examples, in ult. x-men the characters are young, it's the core team, with a few added twists. it's not a retelling of the stories, it's more of what would a modern day story look like with those characters. hard to understand? let me elaborate:
in the first trade paperback, we find a young xavier assembling a team that is going to thwart Magneto, who has a terrorist group. he believes that homo superior will overtake homo sapien sapien, but Xavier believes that both species can live together (integration).  we find the characters young again, we see cyclops as a team leader (star quarterback type character) who is still nervous about asking jean grey out.  we meet wolverine, who the US government created to be the perfect assassin, employed by magneto, who wants him to kill xavier. but wolverine realizes that xaviers ideals are worth fighting for. we get to see character growth.  the stories are great, but you don't have to know who everyone is, because they are all new basically. it's not like if you pick up Uncanny X-men 47X and they say "oh well character Z did this three years ago", which if you are new to comics, you wouldn't know. with the ultimate world you get to experience these characters victories and defeats in a modern setting without the super long backstories.
i would sit here and tell you about great stories in this book, but i don't want to. i want you to either go buy the trade paperbacks, or ask me to borrow the first one. trust me, you'll like it (oh and by the way, movie studios like using things from the ultimate universe, look at spider-man...).....i have no problem with people reading my books, but if you do, i want you to go buy your own, maybe not what i'm reading, but at least something that i can borrow. basically don't be a mooch. if you want to get into comics, then i can help you, but i won't be your freepass because these great writers and artists are not like musicians and actors, they need people to buy the books or they do not get paid....

Myspace Blogposts Part Two

I am about to delete my myspace account, but I figured I would share with you some of blog posts I wrote on there.  Do not judge me.


testament and new avengers: illuminati
As i said earlier i would like to tell people about different comics i am reading.  the first one is Testament by Douglas Rushkoff and Liam Sharp.

the story is set in the distant future. the US is still at war and are instituting a draft.  young people are being implanted with RFID tags, which allow the government to keep track, to help against missing children, but it also allows for the draft and will make it much harder to dodge.  The main character is Jake, whose father just happens to be the scientist behind the tags.  Jake does not have a tag and belongs to a group that protests the tags.  Now so far this doesn't sound all that interesting, i know.  The cool part of the book, is it also shows scenes back to biblical times, and the characters from the now are also then. in the first issue we see abraham about to sacrafice jacob (and its the same jake as our main character), jake wakes up and thinks it was a dream.  these flashback scenes also show the goddess astarte and baal manipulating events to go against yahweh. 

here is what i enjoy about the book so far (only on issue 4):  i enjoy seeing the connection between the past and the present, as if all this is happening again, but maybe this time baal/astarte will win.  the downside to the book is that it's sometimes hard to follow, for example, there is a scene where jake and a girl are having sex, and time kinda stands still, we see all kinds of weird things, and each scene is in a bubble around Astarte. but, other than a hard format to follow this book is great.

The next book is New Avengers: Illuminati by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev.  if you are unfamiliar with their work, stop reading and go pick up their amazing run on Daredevil.  anyways, this story was a nice prelude to the Civil War series thats about to start.  as always Maleev's art is stunning, especially the last page, which is all white, and has iron man sitting in a chair, saddened saying "It sure was."  The story shows the relationship and history of the group in marvel who have been meeting secretly to change the world (Iron Man, Reed Richards, Professor X, Namor, Dr. Strange, Blackbolt)...Iron Man is confronted by SHIELD to find a way to solve the Hulk problem.  the group agrees, well namor is opposed (which is odd since he hates the hulk, and everyone else really), to send the hulk into space, where he can't hurt anyone.  this is not a book full of action, but dialogue, which with bendis is always superb.  the problem with this is, if you are not a big comic fan, or not into superhero books, then this one may not really tickle your pickle.  however, if you want to give something a try and see beautiful artwork and excellent writing, well look no further.

Myspace Blogposts Part One

I am about to delete my myspace account, but I figured I would share with you some of blog posts I wrote on there.  Do not judge me.


Rising Stars
Okay, so a coworker let me borrow J. Michael Straczynski's Rising Stars.  I finished reading books 1-3 and was quite impressed.  the only things of his i had read were Midnight Nation (Excellent) and Supreme.  Now i originally liked supreme, which was a remake of the 80's book Squadron Supreme.  after reading rising stars i now realize that JMS just reincorporated the same ideas of that book and made supreme with new characters.  it makes me not want to read supreme anymore.  okay, so the superheroes make the world a better place. they stop being reactive, they become proactive.  what if every book alan moore wrote was just like watchmen? or all warren ellis books were basically transmetropolitan? 
the state of comics right now is weird. there is so much potential for good and yet so much potential to screw it up.  DC has already started going downhill. they were in the right direction after identity crisis.  writers could have built off that, but no, DC jumped right into a megaevent (Infinite Crisis).  it seems like a great idea, but its not. i'm unimpressed.  then we have marvel, i'm not sure, but they have huge events going all over the place, the civil war idea sounds cool, but it could really turn out to be crappy. who knows though...but then there are still the people who keep me happy:  warren ellis, grant morrison, bk vaughn, bendis (although his departure from DD was a sad day, lets see if brubaker can live up to it), millar...
in fact here is a small list of books i am reading that you should be:
Nextwave, Blackgas, Planetary, any Ultimate books, Daredevil (brubakers first issue was good...), Red Sonja, Conan, any of the Seven Soldier books, walking dead, fell, desolation jones, 100 bullets, fables, y:the last man, american virgin...
okay i'll stop there. tomorrow i will probably by last weeks comics and hopefully get a post to everyone about what i felt for some of the books.  also, if you know anyone interested in comics, tell them to read what i am saying. hopefully in the future i can put down more about different comics, but right now i just felt like something small to start. also i enjoy hearing what others are reading. i want this to be a discussion, tell me the books you enjoy, should i read them?