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The Shameful Solipsism of Final Crisis
02.20.09 | Permalink | Comment?

“You know it, you show it.
The time has come to shoot you down, what a sound.
When the day is done and it all works out.
I’d love to do it and you know you’ve always had it coming.”
–The Stone Roses, Shoot You Down, 1989.
With issue 6 of Final Crisis having just recently been released to the [...]
Books, podcast
PODCAST: Batman Comics and DCU Continuity
12.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Listen here.
Movies
Best Actor Oscar Buzz For Ledger
10.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

As Bill Ramey is reporting on Batman-On-Film, Kristopher Tapley over at Incontention.com is suggesting that Heath Ledger could actually end up being nominated for Best Actor, as opposed to the previously assumed Supporting Actor nod. This could end up being a very interesting proposition and although it would seem to be a greater challenge to [...]
Books, Movies, Opinion
Veering Off Course - The Difference Between Nolan and Schumacher
10.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

This was an intended response to an individual who took issue with the attitude of the contributers in the Batman-On-Film podcast. I think it serves its purpose as a standalone piece so I will include it here.
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Dear Sir,
Thank you indeed for your correspondence, it aids both my failing ego and my chance to appear as [...]
Books, Movies
INTERVIEW: Bill Ramey of Batman-on-Film
10.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

This was an interview that I did with Bill for the first issue of the Score, where it appeared with many lovely Batman pictures. The link to download the first issue is a couple of posts below.
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This July, the second installment in Christopher Nolan’s interpretation of Batman will be hitting cinemas. The Dark Knight is [...]
Books
“In Continuity”
08.23.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Recently, I finished reading Crisis on Infinite Earths, the highly significant conclusion to the “Multi-verse” in DC Comics, from the mid 80s. The “Multi-verse” was once a major part of the heroes that featured in DC Comics. Crisis on Infinite Earths was intended as a massive, widely branching cross-over, hoping to involve as many (if [...]
Books, Movies
Fear
08.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

“People from your world have so *much* to lose. Now, you think because your mommy and your daddy got shot, you know about the ugly side of life, but you don’t. You’ve never tasted desperate. You’re, uh, you’re Bruce Wayne, the Prince of Gotham; you’d have to go a thousand miles to meet someone who [...]
Books, Movies
The Loner
08.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

“He’s a perfect stranger
Like a cross
of himself and a fox.
He’s a feeling arranger
And a changer
of the ways he talks.
He’s the unforeseen danger of
The keeper to the keys to the locks.
Know when you see him,
Nothing can free him.
Step inside, open wide,
It’s the loner.” –Neil Young “The Loner”

Having recently gotten a hold of Batman Black and White [...]
Movies
REVIEW: The Dark Knight
07.23.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

“When the chips are down, these civilised people will eat each other. You’ll see. I’ll show you.”
To say this is the greatest comic book film ever made is to be stating the obvious. Nevertheless, it needs to be said. This IS the greatest comic book film ever made. After seven decades of potential, finally the [...]