Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Kosher Delis on OA

Moving house downtime, and I set my next post as a book review -- which I want to do right, so it'll be a while. A few random thoughts to fill the space.

1.) Last night's HEROES was a fine piece of televisioning. Just boom baby, plenty of revelations, all leading to deeper mysteries and re-arrangements of character dynamics. Some nice acting, to boot. Color me impressed.

2.) Paperback edition of Misquoting Jesus is out, and is my favorite book of the week. Regardless of where you fall on the church policy, this is a fascinating, beginner-level guide to how the actual ancient writings that became our Bible are examined and parsed out. Exactly the sort of detail-obsessive work I would have fallen into if I hadn't discovered a career of booze and cash payments, so I dig it.

2.) Blue Beetle #12 is out this Wednesday. The folks who built Jaime's sci fi bug suit show up, and are very angry. Leads into the year long invasion arc, with lots of DC guest stars showing up.

Also, if you're a comic book fan and a Mark Waid fan (which, are of course, synonymous), some notes on his new BRAVE & THE BOLD series:

WIZARD: So now that you are almost done with your first arc, what has been the most surprisingly fun team-up to write?

WAID: I think Batman and Blue Beetle have an amazing relationship as defined by Keith Giffen and John Rogers, mostly John. Their relationship is great. It’s unlike any relationship Batman has with anybody, and it’s so much fun to write because Beetle has the same weird, “creeped out by Batman” fear that everybody does, but Batman actually likes Jamie. He likes the Beetle. He’s not all warm and fuzzy around him, but there’s a nice scene in issue #3 where Beetle is just weirded out because Batman is being pretty forthcoming and not doing the whole creature of the night schtick with Beetle. There’s no need to. They’re on their way somewhere, but Beetle’s freaked out because this is not the Batman he’s heard so much about. So Batman says, “You want to see that? All right.” And we slam cut to an alleyway where Batman’s in full, raging creature of the night mode putting the fear of God into a mugger to get some information. And Beetle’s like, “Okay! That’s the Batman I know!”

There’s something fun about their relationship because they’re not buddies and they don’t banter, but you really get the sense in the dialogue and the actions that Batman has the same relationship to Beetle as he had to Dick Grayson. Unlike the relationship he had with Jason [Todd], unlike the relationship he has with Tim [Drake], this is a lot more reminiscent of him and Dick. That’s been the most fun to write so far.

WIZARD: That seems to fall in line with the idea that came out after Infinite Crisis where you writers kept saying, “Let’s lighten things up a bit and let the characters out of their shells.”

WAID: Yeah! Every issue of Brave & the Bold—despite the fact that the first six are a big arc and that there’s huge stuff going on with a bunch of characters—every issue at its core is based on a relationship between two of the characters. The first one defines the relationship between Batman and Green Lantern. The second one defines the relationship between Green Lantern and Supergirl. The third one is really based on the relationship between Batman and Blue Beetle, and that’s the story. It’s not the plot, but at its heart, that’s the story. I want you to come out of every one of these with an understanding of how these characters relate to each other in this sort of post-Infinite Crisis world.


Come, buy #12 and join the love train for comic's most famous teen Hispanic superhero based in El Paso!

3.) In researching BB #14, I discovered that the Guardians of the Universe, the dudes who run the Green Lanterns -- their appearance is based on Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion.

That means, in the DCU, the Jews just don't control the media, they control the UNIVERSE. Discuss.

45 comments:

Unknown said...

Kinda puts a whole new spin on the Phantom Stranger, doesn't it?

Anonymous said...

I had been wondering about wingnuts and their apparent belief in shaping reality by force of will paired with near knee-jerk support for the policies and actions of Israel.

They're trying to get their Lantern rings!

Ian said...

Yeah, "Company Man" is EASILY my favourite episode of Heroes so far. After two weeks ago, where I couldn't actually make it all the way through the show, it was nice to have an episode that kept me riveted all the way through.

The tighter focus helped a lot, too. I like Peter and Claude, I like Hiro and Ando, and I love the Bennett storyline (Mr. Bennett is easily the most interesting guy on the show). Everyone else I'd be content to have remain in the background.

Joshua James said...

The presence of Eric Roberts on Heroes seems to make a cosmic sense, loved it.

Anonymous said...

But the real question about last night's "Heroes" is: How did Eric Roberts get ahold of Peter Graves' hair - circa Mission:Impossible?

Anonymous said...

Last 4-5 episodes of Heroes were GREAT =) actually i thought Peter will rape Isaac in the beginning =)))

Anonymous said...

Misquoting Jesus: No pun intended, hell of a book. Makes you wonder. So this is supposed to be the Word Of God, yet He/She/It can't guarantee it doesn't get effed with in the paltry span of two millenia?

Makes me *want* to believe Cameron's found the Tomb.

Anonymous said...

"That means, in the DCU, the Jews just don't control the media, they control the UNIVERSE. Discuss."

Man, is Mel Gibson screwed or what?

Unknown said...

little known fact -- Waid actually does have a helluva set of pipes.

Anonymous said...

I had been wondering about wingnuts and their apparent belief in shaping reality by force of will paired with near knee-jerk support for the policies and actions of Israel.

They're trying to get their Lantern rings!


Actually, this might just be true.  My token wingnut marine friend is *obsessed* with Green Lantern, and really wants a ring no matter how much it impacts his sex life.

Anonymous said...

Very, very early in his career, Dave Sim did a short comic story on an astronaut that meets God out in some corner of the cosmos, and he's this short little guy who walks around kvetching and talking about how he and Satan have made up. Especially interesting in light of how Sim ended Cerebus.

Anonymous said...

...the Jews just don't control the media, they control the UNIVERSE...

ohhhhhh.... that's what that key is for!

Thanks!

Anonymous said...

Ah, the guardians of the universe, also known as "little blue morons
who have caused a startling fraction of the cosmic menaces the Corps was
set up to fight".

see also.

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ultraaman said...

In Secret Origins, Phantom Stranger got the entire issue with 4 possible origins. One cast him as the Wandering Jew so the Guardian link is interesting.

Oh, and Blue Beetle rocks!

Steve Bergson said...

verification of the fact that the Guardians were based on Ben-Gurion :

http://www.povonline.com/cols/COL234.htm :

"JULIUS SCHWARTZ: That originated in a science-fiction story, I believe, that appeared in either Strange Adventures or Mystery in Space. It was called "Guardians of the Clockwork Universe." That eventually lead into the Guardians that appeared in the Green Lantern series. Incidentally, why do aliens have to look different from the way we do? Maybe in this particular universe, all the aliens look alike. The Guardians of the Universe were all based on the prime minister of Israel, Abin Sur.

MARK WAID: No, not Abin Sur — Ben-Gurion.

SCHWARTZ: Oh, right! (Audience laughs)"

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