Friday, April 29, 2011

This is Entry 196: A New Follower, Linkage & some Music

This my 3rd entry this week. Normally I'm good if I even make 1 post a week but I guess I had stuff to say/show this week! :)

First off I want to welcome my 6th follower: Neil Kapat/Nitz the Bloody, a guy I know from a message board I frequent. He is the creator behind the online graphic novel called Ruby's World & has his own blog Handi-Capeable which is a blog about Comic Books & it's depiction of the Disabled. He also has other stuff post on his blog like his ongoing review of the Sonichu series.

If you don't know what Sonichu is, you should be glad. If you want to know what that is, you can go look it up but be warned: your better off not knowing. :)

Next up...

*Confetti goes everywhere while a monotone yet feminine voice announces* We have Linkage!

It's been a long time since that alarm has gone off. I wasn't even sure it was still working. But for the only the second time since I've started this Blog I've been referenced on another blog. Well... it's the second time I know about. The first time was back in way back 2007 (and I made a post about & that post is Entry 18). If you scroll down a bit you'll see that I have made 2 posters promoting this blog. Well, I made a poster for a friend of mine's Blog & she (yes, She) posted it to her Blog, The Girl on the Milk Carton, her self described "feminist mormon vegetarian geek blog".

Lastly, I'd like to share with you all a song. I didn't make it but I do think it's pretty darn cool!



It'a song about Booster Gold & they manage to an overview of his whole career in a few minutes. The song came from a self titled E.P. by the group Spoiler Alert! & you go hear the other 2 songs from the abum by clicking on the link (The other 2 songs are about Batman & Blue Beetle).

I think that's all I have to link you today. Until next time: Stay Jazzy!

- Brian

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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

This is Entry 195: Brightest Day

Today the 25th & final issue of DC Comics' Brightest Day (but it's marked 24 because their was an Issue 0) came out in your local comic book store. What did I think of it?

meh. & huh?

What did I think of the story as of a whole? uh... Not sure. My feelings are leaning towards not good. It had it's moments (and most of those only involved 1 character from the book). But coming off the pure awesomeness that was Blackest Night, Brightest Day wasn't as good. I've thought about why it wasn't good.

Why did I think one was awesome where as the other was not awesome. It think was the length & width that really killed it for me. Length as in 25 issues long & Width as in had a lot of people in the series. Having a bunch of people in a book can work but if most of your characters from the book don't interact with each other that can be bad.

Brightest Day was all over the place, in terms of location & what it was doing. There was no one set storyline. We had like 5 or more story lines going on at the same time which can be annoying & confusing. Or, I know annoyingly confusing!

Brightest Day was annoyingly confusing & not so good!

What I think would have saved it a bit (for me at least) if they had done it a different way. If there had been a series short mini-series (3 or 4 issues long) with 2 books bookending the series. One to start off all the story lines (which what 0 was) & one to tie up all the story lines together (which the last few issues & Issue 24 tried to do). The mini-series would have been about the different characters: One for Hawkman/Hawkwoman, One with Deadman, Hawk & Dove, One about Martian Manhunter, One about Aquaman & One about Firestorm(s). This is sort of how the series went anyways there were certain issues that only featured a few characters & you had no idea what what those that weren't in the issues were doing.

Also what made Blackest Night good was that it 7 issues so the story clipped along, going from awesome thing to awesome thing. There were various tie-in mini series that helped fill in some gaps that weren't really necessary to the main book (which almost of the tie-in stuff I read was cool). With Brightest Day it was 25 issues & just took a stroll to the endpoint. I didn't really see any tie-in mini series. In BD, Stuff happened in each issue but you had to wade through a half dozen issues before something major or a plot point happened. I think stuff major happened in Issue 0 & then the next time something major happened was in Issue 7 by that issue BN was done & over. I was willing to let this happen in BD: it was a longer series, there was a lot to set up & other excuses I said as I started to read this series.

By the mid point I was lost. I'd read the latest issues, put it down I wouldn't know what I had just read. I found myself thinking over it in my head & it wasn't making sense. I found myself wanting to yell at the book: EXPLAIN, BRIGHTEST DAY, EXPLAIN!!!!!!!!! WHAT ON RAO'S GREEN KRYPTON IS GOING ON??????? WHAT IS YOUR POINT????????

And for the most part, the events of Brightest Day just seemed to be happening in it's own world. You didn't see the events spill over into the Batman books, Superman books, Wonder Woman, the Green Lantern Books. Or even some of the series that were launched a result of the aftermath from Blackest Night (BD was a result of BD).

I'm not even sure what the point of the Brightest Day was other then to kill off Hawkwoman (again), introduce a new Aqualad (who didn't really do anything), bring back Swamp Thing (Why?) & have an excuse to launch a few new titles. Which wasn't a bad thing: Justice League: Generation Lost is awesome! The Flash book is pretty cool, too.

At the end of Issue 24 there wasn't one. There was no end, just a "story threads from here will be continuing on elsewhere. Have a nice day! :)" That's fine but you have to have an ending to your book! Give the readers (i.e. Me) a feeling that reading this series was worth it?

WHAT WAS YOUR POINT?

TELL ME!


We'll be soon going into DC's next major event Flashpoint which from all that I've seen could be awesome! And it playing one one thing i really like in comics: Alternate Timelines! But I don't think I'll be picking it up in the individual issues. I don't have enough money as i once had. I wish that I could use all the money I spent on BD & spent it on FP.

*sigh* If I only knew then what I know now.

Well, until next: Stay Jazzy everybody!

- Brian

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Sunday, April 24, 2011

This is Entry 194: Hyping the Blog part 2

Here is another promotional poster for "Living for Wednesday":

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Most of these "quote" are fake & made up by me. The 1st quote is a mixture of quote from the back of a 1960s' era book I have & was the inspiration for this poster. I had originally planed on making all the quote positive but felt it was funnier if they got less positive as you went down the poster. :)

I have few more poster idea which I post as I make them.

Until then: Stay Jazzy!

Oh, yeah.. Happy Easter! (if you celebrate that sort of thing)

- Brian

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Monday, April 11, 2011

This Is Entry 193: Hyping the Blog

I created this Poster to promote my blog & to poke a bit of fun at what Marvel is doing with the Fantastic Four comic book. I am enjoying what they are doing with it. It was just that this was a joke that I couldn't pass up on.

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I have a few other Promotional Poster ideas that when I get them made I post them.

Until then Stay Jazzy!

- Brian

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