Aloha Unbelievers!
Today marks the end of part two of Gabe Stein's
The Hunter and it also marks the beginning of a little hiatus for Untrue Tales on the whole. Got a lot going on these days, so I need a bit of a break on the Untrue Tales front for awhile. We will definitely return at some point, hopefully not too far down the road. Just got to wrap up some other projects and take care of some bill-paying gigs and we'll be back in the saddle. In the meantime,
Kung Fu Monkeyface will be picking up the slack, so there'll still be plenty going on at the site.
So here's your final serving of
The Hunter for the time what be:
The Hunter II page 28
And here's your latest helping of simian sweetness:
Kung Fu Monkeyface page 18
On another note, our good pal and fellow Hammerhead Rob Berry's been hard at work with the herculean task of adapting James Joyce's Ulysses to comic book format with
Ulysses Seen and he could use a helping hand from all the sequential art aficionados out there.
Check out the
Ulysses Seen Kickstarter page to find out how you can pitch in. And check in on the work in progress
here.
In movie news, seen a couple of good ones this week.
Robert Rodriguez' latest,
Machete, is pure unadulterated badassery.
You saw the Grindhouse fake trailer, right? Well, the trailer was so goddamn good they went ahead and made a whole movie. And it rocks. Don Johnson, Robert DeNiro, Steven Seagal, Jeff Fahey, Cheech Marin, and even Lindsay Lohan kick all kinds of ass in this flick. And towering above them all - Danny Trejo, the scariest man alive, as Machete. This one's just B-movie heaven. It's bloody, brutal and hilarious. Kinda perfect really.
The other movie I saw this week is probably my favorite movie of the year though.
The Kids are All Right with Annette Bening, Mark Ruffalo and Julianne Moore.
I loved this one for the acting. Everyone just does fantastic work. Annette Bening should get an Oscar I think. I loved the story and I loved the writing and dialogue. In case you don't know, it's about a couple of lesbians who had a couple of kids via a sperm donor and the now teenaged kids decide they want to meet the guy that did the donating. Hilarity and pathos ensue. The fact that this is my favorite movie of the year probably testifies to the fact that I am old and married. But oh well. I frickin' loved it. On a side note, while watching the movie I couldn't help thinking how glad I was that Josh Hutcherson didn't get cast as the new Spider-man. He's a fine actor, but all wrong for Peter Parker. While watching
The Social Network on the other hand, all I could think about was how perfect Andrew Garfield was for Spider-Man. So, in conclusion - I'm really looking forward to the new Spider-man movie.
Okay, how about some comics talk? Bought a whole bunch of Batman stuff at the con last month. Read
Death and the Maidens by Greg Rucka and Klaus Janson.
A bit disappointing really. The story seemed like it wanted to be a big deal but it never really grabbed me. Not Rucka's best work. Also thought Janson's art was pretty uneven. There's some great moody stuff going on, but a lot of the figurework seemed stiff and the characters often looked awkardly positioned. If you ask me, Janson does his best work as an inker rather than penciller. I did like it though, just not all that much.
Then I moved on to another Ra's Al Ghul sory -
The Resurrection of Ra's Al Ghul.
I liked this one a bit better despite the cavalcade of writers and artists. I like the whole Son of Batman thing, dig the concept and everybody does a pretty good job of selling it here. There's a few weak spots in the art, but it's mostly pretty good too. Jason Pearson sticks out as the best of the bunch and his chapter with Damian wrestling with ghosts in a graveyard is top notch. Don't know which book that originally appeared in, but it's pretty cool.
Moving on to
Battle for the Cowl - another entertaining read.
It hits all the right notes to get where it has to - namely Dick picking up the Batman mantle. Nothing special or essential, but entertaining enough, with decent art.
The first volume of
Batman and Robin is pretty good too.
Not anywhere near the fabulousness of
All-Star Superman, but I still really dig Quitely and. like I said, I like Damian too, so so far so good.
Still more stuff on the shelf to get around too. Kinda been a good year for Batman. But if you're looking for the cream of the crop, seek out any of the books by Paul DIni and Dustin Nguyen. That's the best Batman stuff around these days says me.
Okay, that's it for now. I'll still be blogging here and there when I got the time and something to type.
Have a good ol' good thing and whatnot.
