Erewhon, Samuel Butler (current)
* OK. Read if you have nothing else to read. Guy in Canterbury in late 1800s finds a Utopia hidden in the Southern Alps. In this land crime is treated as a illness and illness is treated as a crime to be punished. Maori are ugly and stupid the Erewhons are intelligent and look Italian.
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
Average. R
ead if you have to. The films tend to show dumbed down versions of the first part, there are 3 more. Political satire.
Utopia, Thomas More
Average. Read if you have to. More coined the term Utopia.
The Republic, Plato
Average. Read if you have to. The analogy of the line is good but I don't think the analogy of the cave stands up so well. Classical mythology is fun but I find the philosophy flawed.
The New 52
Basically DC Comics rebooted all of their titles about 10 months ago, I have read about half of them up to issue #6.
Action Comics 1#-6
Superman has been reimagined as a left wing struggling journalist (he doesn't work at the daily planet). Good premise but turns into pro wrestling by a few pages. Lex Luthor is played as a mad scientist. Legion members appear and confuse everything.
2 stars
Catwoman
Neckbeard porn. First issue ends with Catwoman mounting Batman - yes they are fucking.
1 star
Detective Comics
They didn't seem to reboot Batman except to make him younger - been a good run lately I guess they thought if it an't broke don't fix it. New villain called the Dollmaker and he cuts off Joker's face 'Face Off' style. I liked it.
3 stars
Justice League Dark
Basically Justice League style team but with supernatural heroes.
B-listers or heroes all the but the super-geek (ie me) will recognise: Madame Xanadu, Shade, Mindwarp, Enchantress, Deadman, Zatanna and.... John Constantine.
JC fans are most likely ganna hate this but they do play JC true to his original character as best they can in a superhero team-up. I thought they did OK considering how bad it could have been.
Peter Milligan. 3ish stars
Supergirl
WTF did I read this? Cosplay fetish? Im not even ganna attempt to try to justify it. Brony lit.
no stars
Wonder Woman
Before you judge me it was written by Brian Azzarello and drawn by Cliff Chiang. Surprisingly good. Love the art. Wonder Woman looks like an empowered feminist hero rather than some male jackoff fantasy. Azzarello has gone for the Greek god angle which I really enjoyed - Zeus is creating illigitamite children with white trash, his wife is pissed and his brothers Hades and Neptune want to take over. Great scene with WW, Hermes and Strife (Ares sister) hanging out in a grunge bar.
3.5 stars
Justice League
It was average - pro wrestling. All the heroes are younger and don't know each other. Batman tries to lead but no one really listens. Green Lantern is a arrogant (but funny) jerk. Flash tries to keep the peace. Wonder Woman is strong but innocent / naive - Superman is kind of the same. Aquaman is well ... boring. Cyborg is normal, gets wounded, gets made into a cyborg and enters the pro wrestling fight all in about 5 minutes.
GL: "Aquaman? I thought Aquaman was a sketch on Conan O'Brien."
Batman
Not bad I liked it. Introduces a new shady organsiation called "The Court of Owls" which has been manipulating Gotham city and the Waynes for over a century.
Worth a read.
3 stars
the build up to the New 52 DC reboot was called
"Flashpiont"
Basically a copy of Marvel's House of M
The reverse flash goes back in time and alters reality. Superman is gone. Bruce Wayne was shot with his mother and Thomas Wayne is the Batman. Wonder Woman's Amazons and Aquaman's Alantians are at war. Europe has been drowned and only the Flash remembers the real past. There are a shit load of tie ins and they all suck.
Rubbish rubbish rubbish I dont even remember how it ends.
I think its an apocolypse or something.
Utopia, Thomas More
Average. Read if you have to. More coined the term Utopia.
The Republic, Plato
Average. Read if you have to. The analogy of the line is good but I don't think the analogy of the cave stands up so well. Classical mythology is fun but I find the philosophy flawed.
The New 52
Basically DC Comics rebooted all of their titles about 10 months ago, I have read about half of them up to issue #6.
Action Comics 1#-6
Superman has been reimagined as a left wing struggling journalist (he doesn't work at the daily planet). Good premise but turns into pro wrestling by a few pages. Lex Luthor is played as a mad scientist. Legion members appear and confuse everything.
2 stars
Catwoman
Neckbeard porn. First issue ends with Catwoman mounting Batman - yes they are fucking.
1 star
Detective Comics
They didn't seem to reboot Batman except to make him younger - been a good run lately I guess they thought if it an't broke don't fix it. New villain called the Dollmaker and he cuts off Joker's face 'Face Off' style. I liked it.
3 stars
Justice League Dark
Basically Justice League style team but with supernatural heroes.
B-listers or heroes all the but the super-geek (ie me) will recognise: Madame Xanadu, Shade, Mindwarp, Enchantress, Deadman, Zatanna and.... John Constantine.
JC fans are most likely ganna hate this but they do play JC true to his original character as best they can in a superhero team-up. I thought they did OK considering how bad it could have been.
Peter Milligan. 3ish stars
Supergirl
WTF did I read this? Cosplay fetish? Im not even ganna attempt to try to justify it. Brony lit.
no stars
Wonder Woman
Before you judge me it was written by Brian Azzarello and drawn by Cliff Chiang. Surprisingly good. Love the art. Wonder Woman looks like an empowered feminist hero rather than some male jackoff fantasy. Azzarello has gone for the Greek god angle which I really enjoyed - Zeus is creating illigitamite children with white trash, his wife is pissed and his brothers Hades and Neptune want to take over. Great scene with WW, Hermes and Strife (Ares sister) hanging out in a grunge bar.
3.5 stars
Justice League
It was average - pro wrestling. All the heroes are younger and don't know each other. Batman tries to lead but no one really listens. Green Lantern is a arrogant (but funny) jerk. Flash tries to keep the peace. Wonder Woman is strong but innocent / naive - Superman is kind of the same. Aquaman is well ... boring. Cyborg is normal, gets wounded, gets made into a cyborg and enters the pro wrestling fight all in about 5 minutes.
GL: "Aquaman? I thought Aquaman was a sketch on Conan O'Brien."
Batman
Not bad I liked it. Introduces a new shady organsiation called "The Court of Owls" which has been manipulating Gotham city and the Waynes for over a century.
Worth a read.
3 stars
the build up to the New 52 DC reboot was called
"Flashpiont"
Basically a copy of Marvel's House of M
The reverse flash goes back in time and alters reality. Superman is gone. Bruce Wayne was shot with his mother and Thomas Wayne is the Batman. Wonder Woman's Amazons and Aquaman's Alantians are at war. Europe has been drowned and only the Flash remembers the real past. There are a shit load of tie ins and they all suck.
Rubbish rubbish rubbish I dont even remember how it ends.
I think its an apocolypse or something.
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