Thursday, July 12, 2007

Fantastic Four, et al.

I'm a lazy blogger this week. Mainly I've been spending my free time (what little there's been of it) trying to catch up on news from last week as well as keeping up with my responsibilities to Comic World News and Newsarama.
Couple of things you might be interested in though, as far as those sites are concerned. I did an interview with comics writer/inker Jimmy Palmiotti for CWN. He's one of the creators of the Painkiller Jane comic that's now become a TV series at the Sci Fi Channel, and he also wrote tomorrow night's episode (titled "The League") of the show. So, we talked about that and a ton of other stuff. Fun interview.

If you're into adventure comics at all, I wrote a review of Graphic Classics, Vol. 13: Rafael Sabatini for Newsarama. There's even some art from it for you to look at.

What else? I've deliberately spared you my thoughts on the Fantastic Four movie, but no longer. Like I said, I'm feeling lazy and this'll be easy to write about, if not particularly insightful.

SPOILERS FOLLOW.

My hopes for it went from "high" after seeing the trailers to "dashed" after hearing the initial reviews and learning how Galactus was going to be portrayed. Even with dashed hopes though, I still managed to end up disappointed thanks to several factors. Like the movie's heroes not contributing to the resolution of the plot in any meaningful way. Or Doctor Doom's squeaky-voiced reappearance, the incredibly annoying general, and the general's inexplicable desire to let Doom do whatever the hell he wanted even though he didn't help out the least little bit. "You're not producing results, Dr. Richards, so we're bringing in Doom. No, he's not going to actually help or even appear in any scenes with you. He's just going to disappear for a while until he needs access to a deadly weapon that he shouldn't be allowed in the same country with and we're going to let him have it out of gratitude for his -- I dunno -- just hanging around, I guess."

And, oh yeah, Jessica Alba's generally looking creepy.

If you want to make Sue Storm Latina, make her Latina. I don't care. You can even make her a Latina who dyes her hair blonde. That's cool too. But they went way out of their way to hide her ethnicity with those unnaturally blue eyes and it didn't work. It makes Sue look either fake or really ashamed of her heritage. I mean, they didn't try to make up Michael Clarke Duncan to look white in Daredevil, so why is Sue Storm any different? (And don't tell me it was because the actor who plays her brother is white. There's all sorts of ways around that.)

But I could have overlooked all of that for a shot of something that looked like this. Actually, I'd have even settled for this. (Thanks to Jamie Baker for those.)

But, no. We got the freakin' Weather Channel.

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