Thoughts on HEROES, Season 3, Chapter 3 - One of Us, One of Them

Okay. So we already know from the commercials that Sylar and Bennet become partners. That seems to be the first of the big "unexpected alliances" that is supposed to come out of this episode. But who else is teaming up or switching sides?



8:03 - I still think Angela is screwing with Sylar's mind rather than really being his long-lost biological mother. She's evil either way though.


8:04 - Oh yeah. Peter going Donnie Brasco - deep, deep cover - to stop the bad guys.


8:06 - Yeah. We saw this coming even without the previews, but yeah... Noah don't look happy.


8:13 - "What kind of overconfident nemesis are you?" Heh.


8:14 - Yeah. Hiro and Ando are carrying the show again. And hey - there's a Haitian!


8:15 - "I wind up the victim." Well, you're being written by Jeph Loeb, sweetheart. That's pretty standard.


8:16 - Okay. DEFINITELY not Niki. And we're heading back to New Orleans. I see a big freak out for Micah and family.


8:19 - Yeah. Does it speak bad of Parkman that I care more about the African painter guy than I do him right now?


8:23 - "Is he really?" That is the question, isn't it?


8:25 - Funny how Hiro doesn't consider the real Bruce Wayne option. He has his dad's fortune. She's a mercenary. Make her a better offer.


8:26 - Cool. Fuege state painting again. And man - how much does it suck for him that he keeps having to paint some lame white guy half a world away? Wonder who the blonde was supposed to have been?


8:29 - Heh. Agent Hanson. Name of that blonde FBI chick who was partnered with Matt in Season 1. Classic.


8:33 - Yeah. Peter being a hero. An idiot, but a hero.


8:35 - That was a fast trip. Damn. Niki DID die, I guess. Remarkably good condition for someone who died in a fire though. I suppose we'll never get an answer to that medium question now.


8:36 - Heh. I love how nonchalant Micah is about the whole situation being weird. "Yeah, kinda". And for a genius, he sure is quick to trust a stranger with the secret of his powers.


8:37 - Damn. Guess she IS a long, lost twin. Lame...


8:39 - Nice bullet time effect. You'd think Peter would trust his future self. I mean, it's you, right? Still, it looks like we are building to a big explanation for "this is why you can't take your past self to the future to show why they are being stupid".


8:41 - The look on Noah's face? Priceless.


8:47 - Think Meredith was a Company Agent at some point? She sure seems to know a lot about psychological warfare for a welfare lady on the run.


8:48 - Huh. I guess Claire does need oxygen. Another possible way to kill her? Suffocate the brain?


8:50 - Yeah. Noah REALLY not happy about this. And the fear guy got away. Nice to know Sylar isn't changing though. I'd have to scissor kick a bitch if they turned him good.


8:54 - Heh. Claire actually doing normal girl stuff? Don't you believe it!


8:55 - Hmmm... Matt finds a woman and she dies. I just thought... blonde woman.... could that be Audrey Hanson from Season 1?


8:57 - Oh man... Boys in Brazil. Or Girls in Beverly Hills. So she's not a lost twin but... a clone? I guess it makes sense, Ali Larter being the perfect Aryan Uberwench and what not...


8:58 - Nice one, Hiro. *sighs* As if we had any doubt left that Angela was full blown evil. Ten to one she's the one employing Daphne.


8:59 - Yay, Noah! Kill that psycho!


Final Conclusions: Lot of questions answered, though I'd still like to know...

a) how is Future Peter putting other people - body and soul apparently - inside other people?
b) who is paying Daphne to get the formula?
c) is that a red herring re: people getting powers artificially? Or is this really all Mohinder's fault?



Speaking of which, no sign of Mohinder or Mays in this episode. And there is much rejoicing. Yay!

Stephen Colbert, SHAME ON YOU!

How can you stand by and allow your name and image to be sullied by the godless heathens who did not respect the sanctity of the Spider-Marriage?!

SOURCE: Marvel Team-Up: Spider-Man And… Stephen Colbert?!






Note To Marvel: Sorry. Not even bringing Mark Waid in to write Spider-Man and teaming him up with Stephen Colbert will get me to spend money on one of your crummy comics.

Now, if you can pay my girlfriend's medical bills... THEN I might start reading Amazing Spider-Man again just because it would be rude not to after that kind of generous act of charity.

To Wizard Magazine: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means....

At the very least, we had different definitions of what is "Family Friendly".

First, earlier this year, Wizard World allowed a strip-club to have a booth at their convention in Chicago.

Now, I just had got this press-release in my e-mail. The full text is also posted at Wizard Universe. But for our purposes, we only need to look at the headline, part of the text and the tagline. The emphasis is mine.



WIZARD WORLD TEXAS TO HOST TEXAS FEAR FEST!

On top of the impressive list of comic book talent already attending at this year’s Wizard World Texas convention, Corey Feldman (“The Lost Boys,” “Friday the 13th 4” & “5”), Danny Trejo (“From Dusk Till Dawn,” “Rob Zombie’s Halloween”) and cast members from “Friday the 13th: A New Beginning,” “Monster Squad” and “Halloween 4” will be on hand to meet and greet their fans. In addition to the guests, there will be special events, including screenings of “Friday the 13th: A New Beginning” and “Monster Squad” and Fear Jam, a concert featuring Michale Graves, formerly of The Misfits, FirstJason, and The Horrifics with special guest Eerie Von of Danzig and Samhain.

Wizard World, the largest family-friendly comics and pop culture convention in the United States, returns to Texas November 7-9 at the Arlington Convention Center.



Now... explain to me... how partnering with a convention devoted to violent and frequently misogynistic R-rated movies... which in turn attract a LOT of people in bloody, freaky and just plain gross costumes is "family friendly"?

Fast Thoughts - The Week of 9/24/08

AMBUSH BUG: YEAR ONE #3 - This is probably the most coherent issue of Ambush Bug ever. Mind you, that doesn't mean it's any less crazy or nonsensical. After all, how can you possibly apply the word sane to a story that features...

* Ambush Bug having a drunken Vegas wedding with Inferior Five member Dumb Bunny.
* Ambush Bug - in a scene that just might be a swipe at the MARVELous competition of DC Comics - attempting to make a deal with Neron to take his marriage out of continuity.




* Ambush Bug impersonating the Kryptonian God Rao while shouting into the Bottled City of Kandor.
* Darkseid singing Tom Jones in Karaoke! And an appearance of Darkseid's long-absent wife Tigra!




* Superman's pet Super-Turtle going mad and attempting to destroy the universe.
* The revelation that Arrowette was dating the Super-Turtle in an effort to get more screen time. (Say it ain't so, ! Say it ain't so!)




* Ambush Bug getting more face-time... with the severed head of Pantha!
* Ambush Bug teams up with Jerro The Merboy (He's one of Supergirl's ex-boyfriends. Seriously.)
* the introduction of the greatest new character in years: Major Spoiler of 27th Brigade Grenadiers

I demand a monthly Ambush Bug title. Because in these troubled times, we need more comics that are willing to mock the comics that need mocking.


FABLES #76 - Mike Allred artwork and Gepetto dealing with a normal day in Fabletown. Much much greatness.


JACK OF FABLES #26- For a book with Priscilla on the cover, she's barely in this issue. And considering that she's supposed to be the shy, not-popular sister... well, I guess that's meant to be ironic. But it's hard to say in a story where manifestations of literal concepts are rounding up and/or destroying manifestations of legends and the whole thing is narrated by The Fourth Wall what is ironic or not. Still... good book.

One More Reason To Boycott Marvel

SOURCE: Spider-Man writer equates hating "Brand New Day" to liking Gay Marriage as if both were outright evil.


*sighs*

There's so much wrongness here. Even ignoring the comic book guy angle and pointing out that the Brand New Day pretty much downplayed Peter and Mary Jane ever being serious in the new reality... this is wrongness incarnate.

I think a chart made by sums up the "logic" here best.

I don't have anything else to say. I'm already raged out over the Bail Out. I refuse to get annoyed about a comic book right now past reaffirming by refusal to buy Marvel.