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domarzione* The Spider-Man: Far From Home international trailer (which apparently has a few extra bits than the US version -- Eurominutes?) Which looks well enough, although a pal thought there was something off and disjointed about it. My response was that you have to remember that the movie (1) has to pretend that Peter did not have the most dramatic death scene in Infinity War and yet is alive now in a movie that is in MCU continuity as after it and (2) comes out three weeks after Endgame and cannot spoil anything apart from the fact that Peter's not dead anymore. There's only so many scenes they can pick and choose from.
* I am so chuffed that the cat in the Captain Marvel trailer, the one that Fury's so fond of, gets a one-sheet. And that his(?) name is Goose. Because of course it is.
* People give me strange looks when I tell them that The Flintstones was possibly the best comic I read last year. They are possibly going to give me strange looks in 2019 as well because I just got my hands on Volume 2 and I'm even more in love.
Saying that it's the Flintstones fanfic you never knew you wanted is deeply underselling it. It works so well because Russell goes all-in and what comes out is an ingenious combination of razor-sharp social satire and life-affirming faith in humanity that even the best TV sitcoms can hardly reach. It never loses the goofiness of the cartoon or the surreality of television co-existing with saber-tooth tigers, but it also takes itself completely seriously and that makes everyone pop as people instead of just as sitcom characters. Fred has some post-war trauma issues, Wilma is figuring out how to follow her dream... and the appliances talk to each other after the humans have gone to bed. The appliances possibly have the best arc in this volume, certainly the most deeply-felt, but the humans do pretty well here, too. There's an alien thing happening that sounds like it could be series-killing awful but turns out brilliantly (hey, Dino!) and there's a story about faith -- and faith and science -- that does not go anywhere you think it's going to go. Also a history of economics that doesn't quite become the broadside on capitalism that it appears to be, plus a sharp satire on consumerism (a recurring theme.) There's a parable about domestication. And Carl Sagan and Werner Herzog and Tony Danza are in it. What more do you need?
* I am so chuffed that the cat in the Captain Marvel trailer, the one that Fury's so fond of, gets a one-sheet. And that his(?) name is Goose. Because of course it is.
* People give me strange looks when I tell them that The Flintstones was possibly the best comic I read last year. They are possibly going to give me strange looks in 2019 as well because I just got my hands on Volume 2 and I'm even more in love.
Saying that it's the Flintstones fanfic you never knew you wanted is deeply underselling it. It works so well because Russell goes all-in and what comes out is an ingenious combination of razor-sharp social satire and life-affirming faith in humanity that even the best TV sitcoms can hardly reach. It never loses the goofiness of the cartoon or the surreality of television co-existing with saber-tooth tigers, but it also takes itself completely seriously and that makes everyone pop as people instead of just as sitcom characters. Fred has some post-war trauma issues, Wilma is figuring out how to follow her dream... and the appliances talk to each other after the humans have gone to bed. The appliances possibly have the best arc in this volume, certainly the most deeply-felt, but the humans do pretty well here, too. There's an alien thing happening that sounds like it could be series-killing awful but turns out brilliantly (hey, Dino!) and there's a story about faith -- and faith and science -- that does not go anywhere you think it's going to go. Also a history of economics that doesn't quite become the broadside on capitalism that it appears to be, plus a sharp satire on consumerism (a recurring theme.) There's a parable about domestication. And Carl Sagan and Werner Herzog and Tony Danza are in it. What more do you need?
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Date: 2019-01-16 18:55 (UTC)I want to know how old the cat is supposed to be. Is Carol the cat's human? Will she be remembering Goose as a much different size?
Maybe in March we will get answers.
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Date: 2019-01-16 19:48 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-16 20:10 (UTC)That does imply that in the comics, Carol thought of herself as Han. ;)
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Date: 2019-01-16 23:34 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-17 12:08 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-17 06:26 (UTC)I didn't get as into Snagglepuss, but if not for Mark Russell I definitely wouldn't have read a Hanna-Barbera version of Tennessee Williams in the Red Scare last year either, so fair enough.
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Date: 2019-01-17 12:10 (UTC)I've read a couple of scanned pages of Snagglepuss and was fascinated by them, so I'll probably give the full tpb a look when it crosses my hands, as it inevitably will because of where I work. I mean, the premise is so insane and yet....