Random Musings
Nothing of import to write about today, just some random nonsense.
**I saw War of the Worlds over the summer and actually liked it. But I always wondered with movies such as these...they always make it a point with alien invasions that the aliens have been "watching us for centuries". In War of the Worlds they make a big production of the ships already having been planted here. If that's the case, why do they wait until we have all sorts of weaponry at our disposal to attack? If they wanted the planet so badly, why not take it before we crawled out of the primordial soup? At the very least, attack during the Renaissance when all we had were swords and catapults. Whoever is doing recon on these missions needs to be replaced.
** I'm going to try to spotlight books, movies, comics...etc that I think are of really good quality and may slipped under the radar...like Friday's BOX OFFICE POISON post.
** I watched a really good film on Thursday called IN AMERICA. It's about this Irish family (written and directed by Jim Sheridan of MY LEFT FOOT) who moves to New York in the 80's and their struggle in the lower class tenement housing. Excellent movie and definitely worth checking out on HBO.
** Right now I'm reading TRICKED, Alex Robinson's latest so I'm looking forward to delving into that. I'm also way into ASTRO CITY by Kurt Busiek which is set in this city where super-heroes are the norm. There are the classic archetypes based on known characters but all of them have a slight twist. The story is almost always told in first person, but never usually from the heroes themselves. A person on the street, a sidekick, a villain...they are the narrators. It's a great take on superheroes and what it would be like to live in their world. I recommend the trade paperbacks CONFESSIONS and TARNISHED ANGEL if you're interested in picking them up. I believe the entire previous two runs are in trade paperbacks and currently there is a huge storyline being started in the monthly comic called ASTRO CITY: THE DARK AGE.
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