Seems like a comic news kind of day.  Then again I added several comic blogs to my rss reader today.  So looks like I’ll be mentioning quite a bit more about one of my favorite mediums since childhood.  So all of you out there, go and read some damn comic books.

I’m writing about something something I just just read over at the New York Times that really perked my interest.  Invincible by Robert Kirkman is getting the small screen treatment.  It’s definitely a fun comic and happens to be written by one of my favorite writers for the past year and half or so.  It’s really the technology that has me stoked.

But it’s not quite animation in the traditional sense. “I like to think of it as cinematic comics — digital cinematic comics,” said David Gale, executive vice president of MTV New Media, which is producing the episodes in partnership with Gain Enterprises.

I’ll be honest here I didn’t see the animation that was recently done of Astonishing X-Men #1, but it definitely sounds cool.  I may have to pop over to Marvel.com and check it out so I know what’s what with this style of animation.  The fact that they’re going to have up to issue #36 by september makes it awesome.  Perhaps when they catch up to #50 they will release new "episodes" as the issues are released monthly.  How cool would that be?

It’s been a pretty heavy movie time lately.  Been pretty burned out and don’t really feel like doing too much.  The things I do feel like doing I don’t have the time for, or I just don’t have the gumption after doing crazy amounts of work and frying the brain.  On one of our more recent trips to Hollywood Video we picked up Confessions of a Superhero.  It’s a pretty weird idea for a documentary but one that works none the less.

It follows four of the many street "performers" and pan handlers on Hollywood Blvd in Hollywood of course.  You have Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk.  Why they chose three DC characters at first is beyond me ;)  Maybe there’s really not that many Marvel characters out there.  I also doubt there’s many independent characters as well.

Each person has a very similar story.  They all want to be stars.  They all come from a strange background, or from a poor one.  The exception is Superman who claims to be the orphan son of Sandy Dennis, though her family claims differently.  Odds are, despite being a nice guy, he’s a bit of a nut case.

I do hope that the Hulk makes it.  He’s honestly trying hard and doing his own thing.  Was homeless for four years while pursuing his dream.  That takes a lot of constitution.  By the end of the documentary he did win a role in a pretty shitty remake of Bruce Lee’s last film.  Though you have to start somewhere.

Batman is just a fucking looney bin.  Has some serious anger issues, and alluded to killing someone in the 80s.  If that’s true, he’ll probably end up in jail.  Not get scott free as he claims because of the way evidence was able to be obliterated back then.  If anything now a days the cops are able to find more evidence from cold cases than they were back then.

I honestly really didn’t care much for Wonder Woman as a person.  She seemed like the spoiled little princess from a small town to me.  She seemed like a crazy and good sort though.  Willing to do things, like marrying someone four days after meeting them, that most people wouldn’t do.  She might make it, but the way she talked it seemed like she isn’t really going to push extra hard.

Superman is definitely obsessed with what he does.  15 years doing the same thing?  Yeah that’s a little nutty, I would have gone on to do something else with my time.  His apartment is also completely covered wall to wall, floor to ceiling with anything Superman.  Yegad.  Though it was nice that he married his lady at the Superman convention in Metropolis Illinois dressed like Superman.  I may be a geek and a nerd, but there’s no way in hell I’d go that far.