Action Smackdown: Indiana Jones versus Ellen Ripley
ACTION SMACKDOWN!
This week, Indiana Jones vs. Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley vs. RobbieRobTown’s insane ramblings that you will no doubt hate more than usual.
Catwoman #1 Controversy Addressed in 3-minute Photoshop
Last week the DC relaunch #1 of Catwoman was the object of much controversy for a non-nude sex scene between Catwoman and Batman. I’ve always said that comics as a medium are not a child’s art form. This without further comment is the picture that appeared in my head as people got upset to an irrational level about a story aimed at adults.
Continuity Entropy (Or: “The nerdiest op-ed you will read all week”)
Continuity Entropy: a process of complication or muddying the history of a character to a point where all explanations of the character have to start with something like “well, when they restarted Wonder Woman in 1987, Steve Trevor wasn’t her boyfriend so …”
No matter how fresh your reboot, you only have a few years before your storylines become so integrated that you can’t possibly have a new reader jump on at any issue.
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The Correctness Round Table: Die Hard, How many times DID the same thing happen to the same guy?
As we prep for the big non-super action movie hero Smackdown, there was some discussion about the line John McClane says in the screen classic Die Hard 2: Die Harder, “How can the same s*** happen to the same guy twice?” and if in fact the same thing continues to happen for the next two installments or if it was two of the one thing, then two somewhat different things.
This led to a free-form Round Table discussion of Die Hard.
Internship position available: ROBIN
The new 52 DC books are only weeks away and DC answered this week one of the common questions raised by the new timeline – if Bruce Wayne has only been Batman for 5 years, why are there 5 Robins? The answer they have given is the Robin is an internship position for new super-heroes.
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