Birthday-a-pallooza!

Happy birthday to catcom around the world, pervert-about-town box_in_the_box, new writer and webcomicess ursalav and veteran fictioneer sartorias!

City of God

A look at life in the violent housing project of Rio de Janeiro. The narrator is would-be photojournalist Rocket who describes life growing up there. It also follows the near-sociapathic gang leader Lil' Ze and his friends and enemies...

The movie is over two hours long and drags a little bit in the middle. And the way the story will jump around in time to follow someone's backstory can be a little jarring. But overall an excellent if highly violent movie...

Who's a Tuff Lil' Canandian?

I want this soooo bad. Well, I can at least try for it when it goes up for bid...

New Comics Day 5/28

And a Marvel heavy set for a delayed new comic day. Starting with Guardians of the Galaxy which has a Warlock v. Vulcan throw-down and Phyla-Vell (Martyr) shows that she's much more impulsive mindset to go with her new powerset. Which probably isn't good...

Then in Nova Rich attempts to repair the damaged Worldmind/Ego amalgamation. While his brother rushes off to check for survivors from the butchered Nova Cohort 86...

Wolverine: First Class manages to again JUST stay on the pull-list bubble. Mostly because David can write a decent Thor. Plus Ulik the Troll. Marvel needs more Asgardian Trolls trashing stuff...

Avengers: The Initiative is pretty much all Shadow Initiative trying to survive against Hydra. Plus now that Mutant Zero has been outed its nice to see Typhoid Mary shine again. Crazy, crazy Typhoid Mary. Also Humberto Ramos' art actually looks fairly good this time around...

Lastly from the House of M comes Marvel Apes Gruntline. Which features Ape X vs. the Initiative. Also the Gibbon. And Gorilla Girl. And the Red Ghost's Super-Apes. Really, lots of Apes and people who become Apes. And the back-up story shows one thing for sure. Reed Richards is a giant tool on nearly every alternate universe. Except, ironically, the Ultimate one where being a tool seems to be standard. Also the Ape-verse Low Evolutionary is a great joke...

Between Entropic Disciple R@d-Ur Rezz, Congressional massacre-er Nicklehead and the Almight Decimator things really are looking fairly bleak at this point in G0dland...

The Literals continues "The Great Fables Crossover" with the Page sisters getting into a gun battle with the Genres. And Kevin Thorn struggles to overcome his twin brother Writer's Block...

And we finish up with the finale for Mouse Guard: 1152. With Celanawe the Black Axe fallen, Lieam must stand against the one-eyed owl alone. While a Hare-mounted rescue patrol goes out to find the missing Guards. They've got the hard-cover for this mini coming out this Summer, but no guess as to when the next (Mouse Guard: The Black Axe) will be coming out. I need to get a gaming group together, if only to try and convince them to eventually try Burning Wheel and the Mouse Guard rpg...