Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday

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In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.

Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.

It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.

The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than me.

If you're in the UK and not yet resistered to vote for the General Election, we actively encourage you to do so, to participate in the democratic process.

Doctor Who revealed it's season big bad guy, and it's a BIG bad guy, one we haven't seen for around forty nine years, and they got the original actor to return to voice him at the age of 91.

In light of the announcement of the new Watchmen animation, let's petition for the release of the original

Comments

[tripodeca113]

Well it was difficult reading the last chapters of the Terry Pratchett biography....

Oh look they've put out a casting call for live action Toph. Finally it's her chance to be ruined in live action.

The library had the first collection of Hellblazer.
"I stopped these bloody demons, but Thatcher won another blinking term in office!"
It introduced two new old friends of Constantine who both died in this volume. I suspect most of the recurring character introduced here got killed off.
Constantine seems more out of his depth than he did when Alan Moore was writing him. I suppose you could say that in Swamp Thing those were all situations he'd planned out and studied in advanced, while in his own title these are mostly situations he happens to stumble into.
so...Swamp Thing hijacked his body so he could get Abby pregnant......um.....

I didn't like the artstyle of the animated Watchmen movie, and I don't have high hopes for it because these films have been pretty artless.

Finished The Hobbit.
How can our heroes stopped Smaug????....oh a guy introduced four pages before shots him with his family's magic arrow....you could get away with that in 1937.

Oh boy! A $3 copy of the Call of Chtulu black and white short film from 2005...why does the back cover call Lovecraft the "Father of Gothic Horror"?
That's the wrong genre and he's at least 50 years too late (even if we assume they mean "guy who wrote several prominent examples of the genre" rather than "the guy who created the genre")

[llordllama]

I had the same problem with Pratchett's biog - knowing what was coming, was not fun. Kept putting off reading that last few chapters and then binged them late night all in one go. Very moving.

[super_fly]

I had the same problem with reading the Shepard's Crown, the finality of it.

[llordllama]

I confess I've never been able to bring myself to read it...knowing it's 'the end'.

[full_metal_ox]

Oh boy! A $3 copy of the Call of Chtulu black and white short film from 2005...

The 2005 Call of Cthulhu movie is one of my go-to examples of how imagination and ingenuity can make the best of a literal backyard budget; the decision to execute the film as it would’ve been made in the late 1920’s, embracing their technical limitations, was sheer brilliance (leading organically to the use of askew Caligariesque imagery to portray the non-Euclidean architecture of R’lyeh.) It’s my favorite cinematic Lovecraft adaptation.

…why does the back cover call Lovecraft the "Father of Gothic Horror"? That's the wrong genre and he's at least 50 years too late…

Something like a century and a half too late; that title would go to Horace Walpole, with The Castle of Otranto (1764) (and let’s not forget that the genre had founding mothers aplenty, Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley being the most prominent.)

…(even if we assume they mean "guy who wrote several prominent examples of the genre" rather than "the guy who created the genre")

Exactly; Lovecraft was the Trope Codifier (the term I think you were groping for) of cosmic horror.