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The Cipher 03/09/11: “I got a story to tell”

March 9th, 2011 by | Tags: , , ,

a strange form, something kinda lyrical

created: You think a crackhead paying you back? Forget it.

biggie the bastard, sadat’s kind of spiritual

consumed: Number nine shoulda been number one to me.

-I saw Adjustment Bureau. It was pretty cool. I haven’t read/seen much of Philip K Dick’s stuff directly, just secondhand via Grant Morrison/Ellis/whoever. It made me want to read the novels/short stories in the end, so mission complete, I think.

-What did I do over the past week? I can’t remember for the life of me. I know I did more than see Adjustment Bureau, right?

-I spent a lot of time on Killzone 3 multiplayer.

-Oh! I beat Killzone 3. The ending is awful. I didn’t play any of the campaign when I owned KZ2, and I sorta wish I’d done the same for KZ3.

–Thrillzone 3 multiplayer is dope, though. They shoulda called it Illzone 3 (Trillzone 3, Realzone 3, Krillzone 3, Forrealzone 3). Tons of fun, and easy to get into and run a casual game with friends.

-I’m seriously at a loss here. What did I do last week? I just got off work, and today has been a Day, but I can’t have put seven whole days out of my head.

-I did get Joe Casey & Dustin Nguyen’s Wildcats Version 3.0 Year Two in the mail today. I’m happy to have that and Wildcats Version 3.0 Year One, even if I went out and got my issues bound. Those comics were great, and will be making an appearance here sometime soon. I’ve been doing some thinking on them and Grant Morrison’s New X-Men.

-The future was then.

-You know what I miss? Frank Miller and Jim Lee’s All Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder. I just skimmed this essay I wrote about it last year, and the essay isn’t half bad. I got a lot of what I wanted to say in there. There’s a whole lot to like about that series, and honestly, the only Bat-books that have even come close to being as exciting and compelling as ASBAR‘s ten issues was that sublime bit toward the end of Morrison’s run on Batman & Robin with Frazer Irving.

-Don’t even bother mentioning Paul Dini or Tony Daniel’s run. I read those comics, and now I break weed up on them.

-I’m really looking forward to Dark Knight: Boy Wonder. Just wanted to let you know.

-I also bought The Pin-Up Art of Dan DeCarlo 2. I was expecting to see some Archie style cheesecakey gag strips… but Dan DeCarlo drew some absolutely ridiculous breasts. Carnival boobs. It’s funny, though. A lot of the jokes revolve around sexual harassment in the workplace (including a pun about “arrears” [ayo]), and it’s weird to see the Archie guy drawing what’s basically outlandish cheesecake from the ’50s, back when all girls were gold diggers and dudes were just like the wolf from Red Hot Riding Hood.

-Christopher Wallace, bka The Notorious BIG, Francis MH White, Biggie Smalls, Big Poppa. 1972-1997.

-N-O-T-O-R-I-O/ U-S, you just/ lay down slow.

-I can’t remember what I did, but tell me what you did, and we can conversate in the comments.

well “in god we trust”, guns i bust

David: Batman, Inc. 3
Esther: Batgirl 19, Batman and Robin 21, Batman Incorporated 3, Birds of Prey 10, Superboy 5
Gavin: Batman And Robin 21, Batman Incorporated 3, Booster Gold 42, Justice League Generation Lost 21, Incredible Hulks 624, New Avengers 10, Punisher MAX 11, Venom 1

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8 comments to “The Cipher 03/09/11: “I got a story to tell””

  1. I dunno, I quite liked Dini’s run. I always like it when writers try to do one-and-dones instead of big arcs. There’s something to buying a single issue and not having to buy any more to finish the story.

    Plus, even if a story is crap, you know you’ll get a different one next month.

         by Nawid A March 9th, 2011 at 19:16 --replyReply to this comment

  2. I don’t think I’ve read “The Adjustment Team”, the Dick story the movie was based on. But from what I have read of Dick and from others, “A Scanner Darkly” is the only one that is noticeably similar to the source material…

         by LurkerWithout March 9th, 2011 at 21:53 --replyReply to this comment

  3. I’m not big on that Jadakiss line, if only because I make it a point to break weed up on shit I actually like, like Kirby Vionaries vol2 and Come Home With Me on vinyl.

         by Adam K March 9th, 2011 at 22:38 --replyReply to this comment

  4. Hey David, you mentioned getting your Wildcats 3.0 issues bound. How did that go, were you happy with the result? I’m trying to find some way to reconcile my trade and floppy collections, and am interesting in getting some of my singels collected.

         by Alex March 10th, 2011 at 07:53 --replyReply to this comment

  5. Yes, All Star Batman and Robin was the last Batman book I was really invested in. I just never really got into Morrison’s stuff, and he’s been steering the ship for a good while now.

    If it wasn’t for Batgirl, I wouldn’t care about Gotham at all.

         by Kenney March 10th, 2011 at 08:30 --replyReply to this comment

  6. Really? ASBAR?

    I only read the first trade, but it felt like a joke about Max Payne as much as it did a comic about Batman.

         by Durandal4532 March 10th, 2011 at 10:02 --replyReply to this comment

  7. Killzone -> Thrillzone -> Thrillhouse -> Simpsons ref

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlRKIjc-mlU

         by Ben March 10th, 2011 at 12:18 --replyReply to this comment

  8. @Alex: The binding was nice, yeah, but my excitement was dampened when they announced the official trades about five months later. They’re bound like old school encyclopedias, ads and all, though you can strip those out if you want. If I had to do it again, I would pull the ads rather than leaving them in. My binder went out of business, but I’m sure there are more out there.

    @Durandal4532: Yep.

    @Adam K: Come Home With Me is a goodun. But some things are just written, produced, and pressed to become coasters.

    @Nawid A: That’s true, but done-in-ones aren’t much solace when you don’t like any of them.

         by david brothers March 10th, 2011 at 12:38 --replyReply to this comment