Friday 28 December 2018

Aquaman More

Superman came from space; Aquaman's mother from the sea. A hybrid should be sterile which means no heir.

The conflict in Aquaman manages to be about issues:

pollution;
environment;
land and sea;
personal loyalties versus social obligations.

Where is Earth's Core? Is it ERB's? Are the absurdities part of what makes the film good? I would not go that far. Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Frank Miller transcended comic book absurdities.

There are good DC continuity references to Galaxy Broadcasting and Coast City. There has been no Green Lantern in this movieverse yet although there have been intimations.

What more appropriate meeting place for a surface dweller and an amphibian than a lighthouse?

The Atlanteans are like an anthropomorphized environment striking back but does their undersea technology pollute?

Thursday 27 December 2018

Aquaman

The Atlanteans have to divide into both bipedal and fish-tailed merfolk so that both Aquaman and Lori Lemaris can exist.

The DC movieverse has had:

three single hero films
Superman
Wonder Woman
Aquaman

two team films
Suicide Squad
Justice League

one team-up film
Superman and Batman, guest starring Wonder Woman

Other heroes also cameo - in Batman-Superman and Suicide Squad?

Do I want to see Shazam?

Sunday 28 October 2018

"IT'S OKAY."

Garth Ennis, Darick Robertson, The Boys, Volume Four: We Gotta Go Now (London, 2009), Conclusion, p. 15, panel 5.

Godolkin: ...IT'S OKAY.

The Boys and the G-Men are about to fight.
Black helicopters have just arrived.
Godolkin recognizes a guy in a helicopter who waves at him.
Godolkin tells the G-Men that it is ok.
Then men from the helicopters kill all the G-Men with flamethrowers.

Did Godolkin think that it was ok because he did not realize that they were about to be killed - or because he did realize that and wanted it?

Saturday 15 September 2018

Fables: Confusing Characters

See here.

Beauty of Beauty and the Beast.
Sleeping Beauty aka Briar Rose.
Rose Red of Snow White and Rose Red.

The same Prince Charming married Snow White, then Briar Rose, then Cinderella.

Jack of the Fables is every storybook Jack.

Sunday 19 August 2018

Ant-Man And The Wasp

In the quantum realm, particles begin and cease so there should be discontinuity, not duration. If there were duration, then it could not possibly have a one-to-one relationship to macrocosmic duration. Surely the speed of spinning particles entails that quantum duration would be like reverse time dilation?

The ending neatly links this film to Infinity War. An enjoyable evening of cinema superheroes.

Thursday 31 May 2018

Infinity War

The idea of killing half the cosmic population to prevent cosmic overpopulation is absurd. Try utilizing all stellar energy first. Also, people in affluent societies control family size.

What is good is how Marvel has combined all these characters in a single continuity comprising so far nineteen feature films and one (later: many) TV series.

Apparently, the symbol on Nick Fury's phone refers to a Marvel Comics female Captain Marvel. There is a distinguished literary sequence:

Hugo Danner in Gladiator by Philip Wylie;
Superman;
Fawcett Comics Captain Marvel;
Mick Anglo's Marvelman;
Alan Moore's Marvelman.

This sequence has many offshoots, including Marvel Comics Captains Marvel.