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June 29, 2011 4:12 pm Beautiful.  After seeing this and Transformers 3, my patriotism is through the roof.

June 18, 2011 5:11 am Totally agree with the state this series is in.  There was so much excitement leading up to Blackest Night, and I was loving the additions of the new corps, but after Blackest Night lost focus on just the Green Lantern side of things and became a very heavily DCU-involved event, I started to lose that excitement.  I haven't read Green Lantern since the end of Blackest Night, and there seems to be too much going on for that to change.  I think out of all the reboot titles, Green Lantern is the one I want to pick up and read again the most, but I just hope there's a reason to.

June 18, 2011 5:02 am I think the first point you make about this film possibly being an anachronism is very insightful and accurate.  Not only was it a bit underwhelming technically/visually (constructs were cool), but just compared to the coherent, fun, and substantial stories we've seen told in recent superhero movies, this one tastes very bland.  Personally, I enjoyed watching it, especially for the actors, but I can't say this was more than mediocre.  I think the fun I had watching was very superficial and in-the-moment based.  Several years ago, as one of the first superhero flicks, this would have been more excusable, but not in an age that has already seen the likes of The Dark Knight and Iron Man, the latter of which is probably what they should have emulated.

I also feel like this film could have benefitted from being even at least 15 minutes longer, which would put it near the length of Iron Man.  There were many holes in this arc that needed to be filled somehow, so I wonder why those voids were either deemed negligible or just given less priority to creating a shorter film.

June 15, 2011 2:30 pm Great review.  Just reading some of your synopsis brings back good memories and feelings of reading the first Invincible stories.  And why did I stop buying this in issues...worst trade-waiting decision ever.  I haven't even gotten the latest trade yet.

February 17, 2011 11:52 pm Total nerdgasm.

February 14, 2011 10:47 pm This is by far the greatest thing I've read in weeks.

February 4, 2011 9:04 pm I enjoyed this.  Pretty much Smallville Inception, but more than anything, I'm just happy Chloe is back.  Heartwarming ending too.  And again with the teasing of Clark flying!  Love how the writers are so blatant about it.

January 16, 2011 1:35 am Thanks!  Yeah, that's really the first infomercial I thought of.

Thanks also for mentioning that about the art.  I wasn't sure how he did it, but all I could say was that it had that watercolor feel.  Props to Ward for achieving that look with the digital brushes.

January 16, 2011 1:32 am Thanks.  I think those bits of cheesy jokes work because he only says that stuff as the Hobgoblin, which is sort of his other personality.  Along the lines of Superman/Clark Kent, Phil becomes much more insane and sinister when he's the Hobgoblin.  It's like the chains are released and he can say these cheesy bits of dialogue that are cleary evil and sometimes ironic at the same time.  He's like that cackling fool always trying to be funny in a twisted way, which I guess is an extension of that "twisted journalist" type like you mention.

December 24, 2010 3:29 am These made me very happy.  Thanks guys!  Happy holidays!