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July 4, 2005

COMICS 101 is in Session

Samuel L. writes: Hey there. I have never really been that big on comics and superheroes but thanks in part to the new JLU show and your column, my interest has increased ten-fold. Great stuff, I check it out all the time, keep updating! Now here's the questions...

1. Are you ever gonna cover the TMNT? I recently read some of the original Mirage comics a while ago and I found out the turtles here were much more interesting characters than the ones I used to watch as a kid. The new TV show ain't bad though.

2. What do you think of "The Batman" on the WB? Personally I think it's pretty embarrassing, I've seen a few episodes and I can't find a whole lot I care for. I give them credit for not trying to rip off B:TAS but I really don't like this new direction either.

Tipton: Been intending to get to TMNT but haven't yet.

Not a fan of the new BATMAN WB series. Feels very much dumbed down, and blatantly intended to sell toys.

Glad you're enjoying the column. Thanks for reading.

Walter writes: Didn't Green Arrow die in the final issue of CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS in issue #12? He was killed by one of the shadow beings while screaming out to Peacemaker, then later it says on a news paper that he is among the dead. Was this an Earth 2 Green Arrow or what?

Tipton: Correct, that was the Earth-2 Green Arrow.

Erik B. writes: Good day. Do you have any plans to do a write up on the Marvel GI JOE series? It was a favorite of mine a long long time ago. Thanks, and keep up the good writing.

Tipton: Those Marvel GI JOEs, particularly the first few years, were excellent. I'll definitely be covering them.

Adam F. writes: i'd lay money on the SSoV archives thing being a pre-empt for Grant Morrison's new uberblockbuster billion-part thingumy under the title Seven Soldiers of Victory. WHich to me just seems like a way to get people to shill out uberbucks for something that'll be pretty incomprehensible in the long-run.

Tipton: Yeah, I doubt it would ever have been collected without the new Morrison book.

John S. writes: Love the column, look forward to more, etcetera, etcetera...

BUT...I just read your most recent column on Green Arrow. Now, not being familiar with the character I was fascinated with his history as you presented it. Until I got to your coverage of "The Longbow Hunters". As you may have guessed, we part ways in our opinion of Mr. Grell's work.

I knew of Green Arrow prior to my hiatus from comic reading, but only as the goofy second string character with the boxing glove arrow.

Years later I was revisiting my youth and writing a paper for school on comics as an art form. And I came across "The Longbow Hunters" TBP. Now even if you hate the story you have to admit that Grell's artwork is spectacular, and each page could be framed. What I liked about the story is it was the first work (other than Neil Adam's Continuity Comics) that treated the reader like an adult.

Green Arrow was having a mid-life crisis. He is tracking a serial killer while his girlfriend is investigating a crack ring. No super-villains in sight. He's pushed emotionally when he sees his love tortured and acts like any man would.

I feel this isn't a departure for a character as much as it's a maturation of one for modern readers. While I realize I'm not going to be changing your mind, I wanted to mention why I actually found the story one of the best in a long while.

Keep up the good work.

Tipton: Oh, there's no question that the art is stunning. And I think I conceded in the column that the series was effectively carried out. I just didn't find it completely consistent with the character's past, and didn't think some of the content was appropriate for the character.

MJM writes: Thank you for a great column. I like it a lot. Quick question: do you think DC will ever collect the Justice League series by Giffen and DeMatteis, other than the book that contained the first few issues? I liked Justice League International a lot and I miss it. The humor was great.

Tipton: I don't know. The series seems to have fallen out of favor with DC, particularly in the wake of the ultra-grim IDENTITY CRISIS. I think not collecting it is a mistake, as those books would most definitely sell.

Darcey M. writes: I always enjoy your column and when you began your look at Green Arrow I was really looking forward to it. In particular, I was waiting for your take on the Grell/Seattle Era.

I was quite surprised to find you disliked Grell's version. I loved Longbow Hunters and the monthly series that followed. In fact, it may be one of my all time favorite comic book runs.

Reading your reasoning for not liking (or at least being disturbed by the series) and looking back over the first two parts of your Green Arrow profile, something occured to me.

You clearly have a love and appreciation for this character. You know his past, you understand his motivations. You know what to expect from Oliver Queen. Grell essentially took the character in a completely new and unexpected direction for you. It was hard to understand how this could be the same character.

When I picked up Longbow Hunters, I wasn't that familiar with Green Arrow. Yes, I'd seen some of his pre-Detroit era stories in Justice League of America. I'd also read, and been less than impressed, by his back-up run in Detective Comics. Still, most of what I knew of the character came from Who's Who.

So when I picked up Grell's version of the character, I was going in almost fresh. I was able to judge the book almost entirely on the merits of the writing and art.

This, to me anyway, brings up an interesting debate that has raged among comic fans when it comes to continuity. Do you stick with a consistent history and characterization to appeal to hardcore fans, or do you give creators freedom to tell the best story then can with a character or group of characters?

I don't have an answer. Usually I fall in line with the die-hard continuity folks, but this column certainly got me thinking about it.

Tipton: I think there's a middle ground to be drawn when revising a character, and I think Grell's Green Arrow was the best way to go about it: it took the character in a new direction which I didn't particularly enjoy and didn't think was altogether consistent with his past, but it didn't outright contradict the past and try to say that those stories I preferred "never happened." It revitalized the character while playing fair with his history, and I while I didn't like the book, plenty of people did, so that's cool.

Jason S. writes: A few years ago, Tempest followed Aquaman through a portal to Warlord's world (Skendaris?). When Aquaman first met the Warlord (Travis Morgan?), he thought he was Ollie.

Was this a joke because they look so similar? Has this similarity been mentioned before (I seem to remember the Warlord remarking that he had heard it before)? Is there any connection between Ollie and The Warlord?

I believe this story took place in The Titans, but it may have been in Aquaman.

Tipton: No connection between the two other than the fact that the Warlord was a creation of Mike Grell, who later wrote and drew Green Arrow. It's definitely a joke on their similar facial hair. Chuck Dixon did the same bit in the Connor Hawke run on GREEN ARROW.

Matt M. writes: Questions:

-What the funk is up with the red and blue Supermen? I kind of remember him being broken into two separate Supermen, but I don't remember. It couldn't have been for long.

Tipton: There was a storyline stunt in the late '90s that involved Superman's powers and costume changing, after regaining his super powers in the wake of the Sun-Eater's attack in THE FINAL NIGHT. Later, the energy Superman split into two beings, Red and Blue (this was all in reference to a famous Superman Imaginary Story published in the early 1960s, by the way). Eventually everything was put back to normal. It didn't really leave much of a lasting impression.

-In the Death of Superman story, at the very end when he fights the cyborg and the orange dude in the giant building, isn't that Hal Jordan helping him? My question is therefore, when and why did Hal Jordon go nuts?

Tipton: Hal Jordan went nuts shortly after that, in reaction to those events in SUPERMAN in which his hometown of Coast City was destroyed.

-Can you explain to me how Lex Luthor went from old and bald to young and red-headed? As well as prez of the USA?

Tipton: Luthor was dying from cancer due to radiation poisoning from the Kryptonite ring he always wore. He had his brain placed into a younger clone of himself and posed as his own son for awhile. That clone body later degenerated, after which Luthor made a deal with the demon Neron to be returned to relative youth and health, and used phonied-up documents to reclaim his real identity. He was able to run for president and win because no criminal charges had ever stuck to him, and he ran a strong campaign with rumors of voter fraud.

Stephen S. writes: Was reading the DC Encyclopedia the other day and read the Dr. Fate entry. Wow -- talk about a f-ed up mishmash. Can you do something on this character in the future?

Tipton: Yeah, I'll have to get to that. Dr. Fate has probably one of the best original costume designs of the Golden Age.

Andy B. writes: Loving the GA column. I've been really into the character due to his recent appearances in JLU, Identity Crisis, and in his own title w/ Winick as a writer. And JLA 8 & 9 are a personal fav of mine as well. Anyways, the beginning discussion of post-crisis continuity in your latest column led me to ask if you could elaborate on this topic maybe in the mail column. The simple answer seems to be that DC didn't have any hard rules for this and that each writer went their separate ways. One specific question I had was who is the Black Canary we see in Green Arrow and Birds of Prey today. Pre-crisis, she's Dinah Lance who leaps from Earth-2 to join the JLa on earth one. However, I remember a scene in Mark Waid excellent JLA: Year One where the 1st black canary (Dinah?) was talking to her daughter about the old days and then her daughter joined the JLA. Was Waid's interpretation generally accepted?

Tipton: Okay. Sitting down? Here we go.

Pre-Crisis, JSA member Dinah Drake Lance (Black Canary I) jumped from Earth-2 to Earth-1 following the death of her husband Larry, and the trip somehow gave her the "sonic scream" power. Later (by about 15 years of real-world time, but still pre-Crisis) in order to explain Dinah's relative youth compared to the other JSAers, it was revealed that Larry and Dinah had had a daughter who was cursed with the sonic scream (which was uncontrollable) by JSA enemy the Wizard, and her fellow JSAer the Thunderbolt put the child in limbo for her own protection, and erased all memories from her parents. When Black Canary passed over from Earth-2 to Earth-1, it turns out she had been mortally wounded in the battle that killed Larry, and the T-Bolt, at her request, retrieved the daughter from limbo and had her take her mother's place. Consequently, for years the second Black Canary, Dinah Laurel Lance, thought she was her own mother.

For once, the CRISIS made things much simpler. In the new version, Dinah Drake Lance served in the JSA as the first Black Canary, and her daughter Dinah Laurel Lance served in the JLA as the second Black Canary. This is the version you see in BIRDS OF PREY and JLA: YEAR ONE.

Make sense, or did I confuse you more?

TV RECOMMENDATIONS

"Efumf" writes: From your review of "Supernatural":
"After all, the WB has a long history of offering up shows that mix the supernatural with teen angst; BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER; ANGEL; CHARMED; even SMALLVILLE."

Have you ever seen an episode of Angel? What teen-angst? The show's about a 200 year old vampire who runs a detective agency (and later a law firm). His co-stars are in their mid-late 20s, and the only teenager that appears in the show is Angel's son, who doesn't show up until late season 3. Hardly your typical WB teen-angst show. But then that's probably why it was cancelled.

Ryall: Nice to see you're not nit-picking or anything.

Chloe writes: OMG you said you have met Andy Milonakis before!? Wow! You are the luckiest person alive! I wish I could meet him......he is sooooooo cool! I love his show and I love all the stuff he makes and puts on the internet. ESPECIALLY his crispy new freestyle. And the superbowl is gay. I wish I could meet him. Me and my friend are obsessed and haven't missed a show since it has aired for the first time! (even the ones at 3;00 in the morning!)

Well thanks for listening to me obsess over Andy....if you know how I could talk to him tell me!!!

Ryall: I've met and hung with Andy a bit a couple of times. He's friends with a friend of mine, a screenwriter chap who used to do the Monkey Man strip at the Web site.

Andy's awesome, yeah--his show's a blast, too. He posts a lot at the screenwriter chap, whose name is Brian Lynch, at his message board, if you want to post to him there. I think his screen name is Andee.

http://www.angrynakedpat.com/wwwboard/index.php

Robert H. writes: Can you please help me find an e-mail address or two of someone that could help me find out about something extremely strange in the footage from a show you mentioned in a recent column? It was an episode of "I Dare You! The Ultimate Challenge" aired 6/19 on Spike TV.

A stuntman (Craig Hofski sp?) landed a plane in the back of a moving semi. Just after he was extracted and as the plane door closes, a large projectile richocets off the truck between two men helping to extract him (we estimate it at 140 miles per hour). I got a few people involved in this, and we're all stumped. Can you please help us? Information i found about the show says its from season 1, initially broadcast 25 Jan, 2000.

Ryall: You'v got me. Maybe someone else can help? Anyone from Spike reading?

BATMAN BEGINS Again

Mike S. writes: I'm not really into comic books, but I'm a sucker for comic book movies.  Just thought I'd throw Damian Lewis' name into the ring as a possible Joker.  You know Lewis.  He's the ginger-headed lad who played "Winters" in HBO's Band of Brothers series.  I don't have any real justification for this suggestion, other than the fact that he's a pretty good actor with an already Jokeresque grin.  Well that, and I thought he showed good range in the mess that was Dreamcatcher.

Speaking of Dreamcatcher alums (Quality actors in a shit movie -- Who knew?), I'd like to see Timothy Olyphant in the Batman series at some point.  He has this ability to be hilarious one second, and scary as fuck the next.  I'm not quite sure he'd work as the Joker, but hopefully there's a role that fits him better somewhere down the line. (See, this is the part where I'd suggest a different character for him to play if I knew anything about comics.)

Ryall: Damian Lewis is a wild-card choice... no one that ever occured to me, but it's not bad.

I keep thinking someone who's not overly familiar, like maybe Lewis--or Josh Lucas--would be better than a Sean Penn type, personally.

Joseph A. writes: Why does Batman feel he has to reveal his identity to every love interest that comes along?  Jeez.

Ryall: In Peter Parker's case, I understand. he's just a regular shlub, and telling a hot girl you're Spider-Man, you're guaranteed to get some action. But yeah, Bruce is a millionaire--he shouldn't have to work so hard to get a girl. But we've all revealed too much while in the presence of cute, young Scientologists before, so I cut him some slack. he never should've told Kim Basginger, though--you tell a reporter that kind of secret? Not smart.

Joe R. writes:
"Greg S. writes: Wasn’t sure if I should email you or Tipton about this but I figured since you are the television guy I might as well start with you. Any word on if they will release the previous seasons of Justice League in DVD. I started watching this season based on Scott’s long running Justice League discussion and because it seems to be done by a lot of the same people who worked on the Batman Animated Series which I loved as a kid. Anyway all I can find are DVDs with two or three episodes on them. What’s up with that? Three episodes for like $30 hardly seems like a fair deal."

Can't remember where exactly I read about this, it may have even been in one of Tipton's articles, but 'somewhere' I visted online recently, it was 'suggested' that the JUSTICE LEAGUE animated full seasons wouldn't start showing up until after Warner Brothers was done putting out the Animated BATMAN season sets and/or the older Justice League/Superfriends cartoons. Since they still have at least one more (I believe) Batman set (which would be THE NEW ADVENTURES OF BATMAN & ROBIN) to put out, and they just recently released the second edtion of SUPERFRIENDS (which streeted the same day as BTAS set 3)- hopefully, it won't be much longer in the making.

I too, would very much like to get "full season" JL sets, as I've been very impressed with the show, especially lately in it's current JL UNLIMITED run. I love the fact that you never know what hero/villian will turn up next - and I've liked all of the choices so far. It's nice to see DC take full advantage of the wealth of charcters at thier disposal. Plus, the latest voice talent they've gotten for the show has been top notch. Amy Acker ("Fred" on ANGEL) as Huntress, the ever impressive Jeffrey Combs as The Question, and most recently, a mini FIREFLY cast reunion of sorts - with Nathan Fillion ("Malcolm") as Vigilante, Gina Torres ("Zoe") as Vixen and Morena Baccarin ("Inara") as Black Canary.

Ryall: Yeah, I'd say the voice work on that show, always solid, has never been better than this past season.

While I also agree that "three epsidoes for $30 hardly seems a fair deal" - I have to wonder where Greg S. is shopping for the currently available DVDs? Most places I've seen them at, they are generally $15 or less - with most first season discs going for about $10. Still, this is the EXACT same tactic they used with BTAS epsiodes - at first, before they finally wised up to what the 'fans' wanted. I think that WB tends to forget that the people who mainly watch the show, and buy these DVDs are actually adults, and not children - although I'm sure they enjoy them, too, and provide ample marketing via toys and such.

Believe it or not, because of my recent positive reaction to BATMAN BEGINS (and JLU), I've taken quite the interest in something I never really did before - and that being BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES. Until recently, and with the purchase of the first 3 season sets - I'd never actually seen much of this show, even though I knew of it's exsistence. I guess it was mostly because it original aired during my absence from reading comics, and/or at a time that wasn't convinent for me to tape/watch. I think the first thing I actaully saw was the "Mask Of The Phantasm" movie, and while I quite enjoyed it, at the time, it still didn t move me enough to delve deeper into the series - which then had run it's course, and still only had limited VHS copies of episodes available. But I finally decided to take the plunge, and am quite happy I did. One of those, "What was I thinking / I can't believe I missed out on this" moments, that, thanks to the magic that is DVD, I no longer have to.

Ryall: Always something nice about discovering a great show or comic late, knowing there's just an abundance of material waiting for you to consume it as fast as you want to.

Lastly, about who should play the Joker in the next Batman flick? Man, at this moment in time, I seriously don't know. Sean Penn is an interesting choice, but I'm not sold on it yet. The role definitley needs someone who can do a bit of comedy (but not too much, ala Jim Carey as The Riddler) as well as drama, and someone who is able to go from a fit of laughter to a vicious sneer at the drop of a hat. Mark Hamill pulled off a good perfomance of the character on BTAS, so it would be interesting to see what he could do 'in the flesh'. I've been racking my brain on this one - and gotta say I''ll have to get back to you on it later.

EPISODE III Talk

Joey B. writes: I don't know if you recall or not, but I wrote in months ago about some Star Wars topic or another, trying to explain or defend something.  Anyways, after reading this weeks Mail Shoot, I couldn't help but realize the error Eddie C's mentality.  The one line that really got me was "The final scene where Vader breaks free of his manacles was stupid and unlike the Vader I knew and loved," namely the latter part of the sentence.  Dear Eddie, that was the whole point of the prequels.  They were supposed to change the way you view Vader.  He's NOT, read again, NOT supposed to be just some badass in black.  He's supposed to be a tragic hero, and now that we have the complete saga, it's actually evident at what specific point Anakin actually dies and really becomes Vader.  In the very scene Eddie's bashing, Vader's first words are about Padme.  We've never heard Vader EVER speak about someone else like that, not even about Luke(until the end of ROTJ).  That's because that was still Anakin.  That was that little bit of humanity left inside that Padme told Obi wan about as she died, and that Luke later relied on to turn his father back to the light.  When Anakin realized he had "killed" the only person he truly loved, what else did he have to live for?  He had nothing left, and was thus consumed by Darth Vader.  The next time we see Anakin is debatable(either mid-Empire or Jedi).  And that's part of what makes that scene so powerful-We see the good man(albeit confused and crispy) that was Anakin Skywalker finally die. 

Ryall: He shoulda just cloned Padme... he joined the team with the clone technology, after all. But yeah, beyond just the jerky Frankenstein movement and "NOOOO!", both of which just felt odd, I'm with you on this part.

  Let's see what else I can pick apart...Ah yes, Obi wan leaving Anakin burning on the lava shore.  You have to realize that Obi wan's whole point in going to Mustafar was to kill Anakin, and thus destroy the Sith.  But Obi wan's personal feelings for Anakin seem to be preventing him from truly trying to kill Anakin.  Not having seen the duel recently, I will daresay that most of what Obi wan does is in self-defense, including cutting off two legs and an arm.  While yes, I was rooting for Obi wan to reach down and grab Anakin's hand so they could mend their wounds(literally and figuratively), you have to think that at that instant, Obi wan has finally accepted what Yoda told him-That Anakin is no more.  I mean, what else is he supposed to think after 20 or so minutes of his old friend trying to kill him?  Personally, I believe that had Obi wan showed the compassion Anakin so desperately needed at that moment, things might have been able to go a little bit differently. 

Ryall: I don't know... dude DID just cut off Anakin's arm and legs. If someone did that to me, and then reached out to give me a hand not my own, I might've still held a grudge. I'd say by then it was too late. The best thing Ob-Wan could've done was just to kill the guy then, but as you say, his feelings for who he used to be prevented him from doing that. Instead, he chose the more merciful route of... letting him be consumed by lava...

  I do agree that the need for exile should have been explained and the cut Qui gon dialogue should have been included.

Ryall: See the next letter for a solid explanation about the exile thing.

  I will disagree with the tie-ins comments.  I think the set-up for all of them was great.  I've always wanted to see Alderaan and I'm glad we got to.  And the final shot, seeing Owen and Beru holding little Luke as the Tatooine Suns rise(yes, it is a rise, as opposed to the setting suns in ANH) as the music swelled was incredible.  That to me, is one of the best endings to a movie, and a saga, ever.  I don't know, maybe I'll just defend the prequels to my death because they're MY generation's Star Wars Trilogy(although Jar Jar is inexcusable).  Sure they have their faults, but too many people are obsessed with things always remaining as they were when they were children-They're too stuck on the original trilogy and how it made them feel to accept the prequel trilogy and realize that things NEEDED to change in the Star Wars Universe.  If Lucas had made carbon copies of the OT, the same crowd that is flipping out because of the PT would once again be flipping out because Lucas didn't give the PT their own identity, and that's exactly what he did. 

Tom A. writes:
"The final scene where Vader breaks free of his manacles was stupid and unlike the Vader I knew and loved (I'm aware it wasn't Hayden at this point, but he was whining all movie long). "

It was Hayden in the Vader suit in the final scene, and what mystified me even more was why, in his rage, he didn't kill Palpatiene (How's that for colateral damage?)  In all seriousness, read the excelent novelazation by Matthew Stover, and while it won't take the whineyness away, it does go a lot further to explain why he was so whiney.

"The scenes between him and Natalie Portman are not only devoid of chemistry, but sickenly annoying "

Oh yeah, the movie definatley ground to a halt for me in those scenes.

"Into exile we must go." Okay then, and why?"

Cause you have a hundred million (or however many) Clone Troopers folowing Order 66 and hunting down your ass with shoot on sight orders.....that's why!

Where on Earth (or Google) is Swifty Lazar?

Susan H. writes: This is an oldie and a moldie, Chris, but it's really freaking me out. I just finished "Swifty: My Life and Good Times." It was on the 3 for $1.00 wall at my local toy store (go figure). I asked the man, "Are these really three for a dollar?" and he said, "They really are." So I read the thing and it was OK. Just wanted to know more about this weird-looking old guy whose picture appeared in People every year with the stars.

So yeah, he used to be HUGE, in the literary, theater, and movie world as an agent, I mean really freaking huge, and so…why are there no pictures of him on Google Images? You get his gravestone. And "Irving Lazar" doesn't get much better – no pix of him. And nothing at all for "Irving Paul Lazar."

I think his wife Mary must have contrived to keep them all off somehow. There were no kids. I don't know how but I'll bet they have ways. How did they do it? Whoever "they" are.

Great site, by the way. Someday I intend looking at it.

Ryall: I know, right? It really bothered me, too, that the guy had a career that lasted maybe 172 years (or so), and yet there aren't any photos of him to be found on Google. Is it some great conspiracy? Is it that he was actually a vampire and didn't show up in pictures? I don't know. But I WILL find out some day... Google has photos of, like, the Garden of Eden and chupacabra, but none of Swifty... it's really puzzling. I'll try to re-open the case and see if I can find anything out.

How You're Spending Your Summer Vacations

Matt L. writes: Well, it's been a while since I've shot you an e-mail, so here goes. I'm knee deep in my summer movie watching excitement. Having already seen Star Wars 3 times, and just having seen Batman and Land of the Dead, I'm pretty satisfied with the newest batch of summer movies. Batman was great, Star Wars was great, and Land of the Dead was...decent. Not being incredibly familiar with the previous entries in the series, I was a bit underwhelmed. John Leguizamo pisses me off, and overall, the movie was too short to make much of a statement. Just my opinion, but I stand by it. I'm looking forward to War of the Worlds this week. I'm going to have see Fantastic Four even though it just looks so goddamn bad. With Batman, Spiderman, X-Men and even Hellboy showing us how comic book movies can be done right, it's going to be all the more painful seeing one done so so wrong. Then I think the Devil's Rejects is next on my must see list. That is going to be all kinds of good.

Ryall: Seeing FANTASTIC FOUR tomorrow, so we'll see on that one... regardless of that, and the, er, "over-exuberance" of one of the WAR OF THE WORLDS cast, the Summer's movies thus far have been, well, about like I expected, actually.

It's also a pretty good concert season so far. Having seen Rilo Kiley last weekend was a great kick off to the summer for me. They were fantastic. And July has Beck and Built to Spill(who I will be giving a second chance to after the disastrous showing that I saw in November of last year). And The White Stripes in August, and perhaps Oasis in September(even though having Jet opening for them is really turning me off to the idea of going.).

TV is weak this summer, with reruns of Seinfeld, The Simpsons and That 70's Show taking up most of my time. But August promises to be an expensive month for TV shows on DVD. New Simpsons, Curb Your Enthusiasm and The OC promise to be great. As well as the unveiling of Undeclared on DVD. If they do half as good a job with this as they did with the Freaks and Geeks DVD, it's going to be fantastic.

Ryall: I never caught UNDECLARED before, so yeah, I'm looking forward to it.

So overall, this should be a good summer for entertainment and I am looking forward to it. And if you're interested in reading them, I have some ramblings that I've been writing lately up on the 'net. The address is: http://mlemos101.blogspot.com/ If you have the time to, check it out and let me know what you think. Other than that, I'm out. Enjoy yourself.

Freewheel Burnin'

elmiguelgordo writes: Oh, and that Ghost Rider poster screams Rob Halford, and not in a good way. (Is there ever a good way?) Ghost Rider is going to need more denim and less leather if he's going to capture the Slayer demographic. That's just Basic Metal Marketing 101.

Ryall: I don't know... Halford is back touring with JUDAS PRIEST this summer, and SLAYER is... where? Doesn't really matter anyway, since they've said the GHOST RIDER movie will be filled with a "Southern rock" soundtrack. Yep, flaming demons from Hell and Skynyrd, now that's the recipe for a successful movie.

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