Won’t spoil the movie yet. The full review will be on Monday. Be sure to go see Iron Man 3.
I will am tired, but the day was worth it.
Tons more on Monday. Have a great weekend everyone. Time to nap.
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Oh! Also, Happy Birthday to my wife.
You know this guy. The one who has never read a comic, but wears the shirt. I hate this guy.
Who doesn’t wish they could fly? I dream about it daily.
Flash is a jack-of-all-murderous-trades.
I am all for this change. I hope for well-written Star Wars, with good direction, and great actors. It is a good time to be a geek. A golden age of geek.
Lisa Charland: Guest Blogger
As Greg’s wife, I get dragged to a lot of comic book movies. Many of them have come out the first weekend of May, which is my birthday weekend (We’re seeing Iron Man 3 for my 30th birthday… yaaaaaaaaaaayyy). The Dark Knight Rises is the first comic book movie I’ve seen multiple times WILLINGLY.
Why? You all know why. Christopher Nolan is a genius, all the actors are excellent, and the story is powerful.
And let’s face it… Tom Hardy is super hot.
I don’t usually go gaga over uber-muscular men (Greg is so insulted by that last sentence). Tom Hardy turns me into a sex-crazed teenage girl. It’s embarrassing. I grew up Catholic and you just admit stuff like that.
Greg had doubts about Tom Hardy playing Bane after we saw him in Inception. Of course, Greg is a fan of Batman comics and knows how huge Bane is in the comics. Hardy looked like your average dude in Inception, but he was fully clothed the entire time.
Then we saw him in Bronson (don’t watch Bronson unless you want to be acquainted with Tom Hardy’s junk and you enjoyed A Clockwork Orange).
Then we saw him in Warrior. And we began to believe in Tom Hardy, and his Mount Everest of a torso.
Looks aside, Hardy is a wonderful actor. I liked him as Bane. Some folks, like my friend over at Everyday I’m Tumblin’, took issue with his voice, because it was more funny than scary. I think it was a nice touch. Hardy made Bane likeable. I liked that I questioned whether or not he was REALLY that bad of a guy. There’s more to him. He is a modern, complicated, and relatable villain. I liked that I could understand why people followed him and died for the cause.
Anne Hathaway was brilliant as Catwoman/Selena Kyle. Every other Batman movie director has made Catwoman into a dull sexpot, which insults my feminism. Women deserve better heroes, and Nolan and Hathaway delivered. Yes, Catwoman still looks good in leather, but what made her sexier this time around was that she was intriguing, smart, and strong.
We’re going to See The Dark Knight Rises again this weekend. I can’t wait!
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Lastly, it’s hot out there. Drink lots of water. The summer is a dangerous time for us geeks. Beware the evil sun and its wrath.
I just started a summer marketing class. Five days a week, for four hours a night. Yikes. It will be over in a flash. I wasn’t very well prepared to start classes again. My mind is still set to vacation mode. I will have to get it in gear. I need these classes so that I can be done with school by next spring.
Speaking of class, I am trying to write and listen at the same time and it’s not working very well. I should be paying better attention because this is a marketing class. We need better marketing … buy our shirts … here at Five and Dime. It’s not that we don’t appreciate your reading … buy our shirts … but we can’t do this for free forever.
I don’t often use content from real life. I don’t want the Zack and Flash to tell “inside jokes.” This is one of the few things from our lives that can translate into being funny for others. Rob also helped sell it by how funny Sloth looks in the last panel.
It will always be a great line. I’m glad I found a way to work it into a strip.
*** I’d also like to mention that we sell shirts. Go buy a shirt from us and show the world how cool you are. If you don’t do it soon, you won’t be able to claim you liked Five and Dime Comics before it was cool. We don’t want you to lose street cred. So go buy a shirt. ***
The Labyrinth arc continues.
I wanted to spend one blog talking about how great Jim Henson is. He is, and always will be, one of the top 5 creators I would want to meet.
Like most great artisans, he was driven. Consumed by his work. He was always challenging himself to push his puppeteering to new heights. He didn’t settle for keeping his creations behind a solid wall. (In the first scene in The Muppet Movie he is in a oil barrel under the water manipulating Kermit.) Aren’t we all glad he didn’t settle? What if Yoda didn’t lift an X-wing out of the water? What if there was no Super Grover or Kermit on a bike? We all would have lost so much. Jim Henson was well ahead of his time.
As a creator, I hope to leave that kind of legacy. I’m not sure I’m always that driven, but I hope Rob and I are together. I hope Five and Dime will be around for a long time. If we can get you to love Five and Dime even half as much as I love Kermit, I will consider us a success.
Top 5 Creators I’d want to meet:
1: Chuck Jones
2: Jim Henson
3: Dr. Seuss
4. Jack Kirby
5. Charles Schulz
