Lists, we love them don't we.
Everywhere you look these days there is a list in some form or another all because;
1 People have short attention spans
2 People like instant gratification
3 People like to agree and/or disagree with other's opinions
4 People like order
Look, there was another list, right before your very eyes, hidden in plain sight, waiting to jump out from behind a web page and shiv you with it's wild claims.
On that note, let me introduce you to the first of two pieces carved from my own word mound, which the fine folks at Den Of Geek have seen fit to publish.
The 10 Worst Comic-Book Adaptations of All-TimeIt is undeniably a list, although I shunned the convention of numbering, because if something is truly terrible and deserves to be on a list like that then a rank is arbitrary.
Now, whilst it didn't break anything, it certainly roughed-up some areas of the internet and it's shiny Armani suit, leaving it with knee bruising and sore opinions, but maybe a little wiser and with a bittersweet, yet crooked smile.
The Internet BEFORE the List
The Internet AFTER the List
Once that was written up I spent much of my time glaring woefully at the internet wondering what was happening to my youth and dreams of the outside world. I soon snapped out of it though and was forming nouns, verbs and adjectives into ill conceived sentences,quicker than you can say
opinionated man-child. After further wrangling, words became paragraphs and they were soon converted into on-screen data that shall henceforth be known as my review of
Brave & The Bold: Without Sin.
The book is very much a tale of two halves and my thought on it went a little something like this...
The Brave And The Bold has a long history and comes with the tinted spectacles that only years of nostalgia can bring. Its original run spanned 30 years, a team-up book which brought disparate characters from the DC universe together in new and unusual adventures. Over the course of its history, many famous creators have tenured, most notably Neal Adams, with his storylines from the Sixties/Seventies setting a standard for many years to come. Most recently, Mark Waid revived the title and has just finished a popular run, which returned to the nostalgia and fun inherent to team-up format. Waid’s departure posed questions as to the future direction of this book and is where Without Sin picks up.
In the eponymous story from writer David Hine and artist Doug Braithwaite, The Green Lantern, Phantom Stranger,and later Green Arrow, band together to investigate the plight of a severely crippled girl named Cora who lives in a sinister orphanage. Of course, she is no ordinary little girl. She has mysterious powers and a dark message buried deep within her subconscious and attempting to discover the truth leads two of the team off-planet and far from earth. It is there they meet an alien, known ominously as The Purge, who is committing mass-genocide in the name of spiritual purity. This intergalactic mass-murderer, his connection to Cora and unpleasantness at the orphanage leads to a finale where the fate of all mankind hangs in the balance.
Gosh, it's about to get exciting isn't it...Dare you read on? Well yes, it'll be fine, honest.
Just go and check out the rest of it, right now.
That's all for now, but I hope you like the new fancy-dan look, blog templates - I spit in your eye! Also, keep a look out for the all-new twitterfeed (which you should see somewhere on the right-hand side) as that is where I tend to whine and link in the most consistent fashion.
Have a week.
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