Thursday, March 16, 2006

Please Buy My Raffle Tickets

No puns or jokes here, just a despate plea. I just need to sell my raffle tickets for CHSR. The prizes are three lots of comics:
1. The Alan Moore Collection, which includes Across the Universe, The Killing Joke and Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow.
2. The Ultimate X-Men Collection, which has Ultimate X-Men 1-4
3. The Big Collection, which includes a ton of different stuff including: Batman: Mad Love, Metabarons, Simpsons Round Up, Rex Mundi, Dr. Spectrum, Ultimate Nightmare, Superman - Secret Identity issue 4 and a couple other things I forgot.

The draw is on April 3rd and it's two dollars a ticket. Just throwin' that out there.

Also, Nathan drew my attention to this a while back. Funny, usually I find these things out for myself. Anyway, Frank Miller was once a great creator who seems to have gone, fittingly enough, bat-shit insane. Despite bringing some of the greatest comic stories of all time (The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: Year One, Sin City, Ronin) he's had some flops, but no really big ones until The Dark Knight Strikes Again, his 2001 sequel to the 1986 classic Dark Knight Returns. That was a frustrating work because it wasn't all bad. There were some brilliant moments (the Atom trapped in a petri dish fighting microscopic monsters, Captain Marvel's death, Frank Miller's rendition of Plastic Man), but the book felt hectic, disorganized and it seemed as if Frank was trying to throw as much ideas into one book as possible. Plus, it has a really bad story and very unsubtle and juvenile social commentary. Plus Lynn Varley's weird ass colors and pixels is pretty questionable.

His work on All-Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder is currently sucking at a 12th grade level and though he was the man who revitalized the Batman character in the eighties, he writes the character as extremely unlikable and inconsistantly amoral. And while he has done some great satire in his day, it doesn't look that's were he's heading with Holy Terror, Batman! There's a chance that he's actually planning to surprise the readers with clever story, but I'm becoming doubtful of his talents despite all the credit he's built up. This is what I'm expecting from it.