My three star Letterboxd review for the movie, "River" As with the director's previous film, this has a really interesting premise, only for the wind to be taken out of its sails the more we find out the nature of the mystery.
Always and forever.
That new Massive Attack & Tom Waits track is powerful stuff.
Shit's so fucked, Tom Waits came out of retirement.
4 panel comic P1: a guy from the chest up, with a big smile on his face, points up at something off panel, as he excitedly says "LOOK! Up in the sky!" P2: We shift to a POV looking up at obelisk-black skyscrapers, straining toward a blood red sky. They draw our eye to what looks to be Superman, framed by an intense yellow full moon. A caption box reads "it's" P3: we close in to reveal that the figure isn't Superman, but a series of sinuous tendrils formed into a vaguely Superman-like shape. The tendril-thing speaks a spiral shape. P4: we cut back to the excited by-stander, who has now been Junji-Ito'd into a series of dripping spirals.
DO NOT BEHOLD THE SKY
4 panel comic P1: a title reads "Batman v Superman." Beneath it are two simple versions of Batman and Superman, fists raised P2: closeup of the caped crusader, as Superman's open hand flips into frame P3: Supe's hand gently lands on Bats' face with a "plap" P4: Superman looks on in embarassment as Batman's head leaves his shoulders
6 panel Superman parody comic P1: A wide shot of the Kent farm. Ma & Pa Kent stand with their backs to us in the foreground on the right. In from of them is their Very Large Son, Clark, dressed up in a very makeshift looking Superman costume. Clark says "the costume is swell, Ma, but how am I going to disguise myself?" Ma Kent replies "hmm... hey, Pa--" P2: "--give those here." She swipes Pa's glasses off his surprised face. P3: a profile view of Supes, from the abdomen up, as Ma places the glasses in his huge right hand. "Try these son." P4: The large boy brings the glasses --dwarfed by his huge steaks for hands-- up to his face, looking at them with curiosity. P5: He then crams the glasses in his mouth, and starts eating them. "AWWM, KRONCH KRONCH" P6: we bring the POV back, as Supes happily eats the glasses with an "mmm, yum." His parents just stare at one another with a look of exasperation on their faces.
4 panel comic P1: a very Silver Age, old-timey looking Superman stands in front of a young boy, who looks up at him in awe. The former holds out a glass of milk in his left hand as he says "hey, Billy! Did you know that drinking a cool glass of milk daily will make you SUPER, like me?" P2: a close up on Billy, as he gazes up, eyes wide with innocent wonder. "Gosh, REALLY?" P3: A beat, as Supes knocks back the glass of milk. P4: a look of pure arseholery on his face --milk dripping from his mouth-- Supes says "nah" to a crushed Billy as he throws the empty glass over his shoulder.
a super food for super people
panel 1: “For today’s assignment, I want you all to draw what you think your 30’s will be like,” a teacher says. “Huh,” the kid says. panel 2: “Think about what will change about you and the world,” the teacher says. The kid begins scribbling. panel 3: SOME 30 YEARS LATER… “My old drawings!” panel 4: “Eerily accurate,” he says looking at the drawing. It is a picture of himself, bald, with multi-function arm canon, saying “everything is bad except for video games.”
the future (IMAGINE!)
scraggly dog
saw him this AM
I looked the reporter up on here, and of course
b+W pic of a muscular and stout man who is shirtless, in sandals, and has a sort of lion's mane ponytail deal
drawing of a hunched man in a sort of martial arts stance that looks like it wouldn't balance properly. He has an eyepatch, some red and blue shorts, and hand and foot wraps
2 Street Fighters from last year
Also, I don't know if it's just me, but it feels like the time between me opening my Kindle's cover and the device kicking me back into the book I'm reading is that bit faster than it was pre-jailbreak.
One thing I really like about KOReader is just how much you can change every ouncee of it to your liking, right down to the margins in the books.
It can be overwhelming at first, especially if you're just used to the default Kindle experience, but the amount of control it gives you is impressive.
Photo of a Kindle being held up by my left hand. On the screen, we see the home screen for KOReader, which is pretty minimal with a selection of books laid out vertically.
Tinkered a bit with KOReader on my jailbroken Kindle, and while I'm enjoying the app for reading books, I wanted it to look less obviously like I was just looking at files in a folder when I'm on the home screen.
So, I installed the "ProjectTitle" plugin, and it's exactly what I wanted.
Whoever recommended Vernor Vinge's 'Fire Upon the Deep' to me a couple of weeks back, thank you! The climax of the book, in particular, is one of the most tense things I have read in a while.
You ever notice how in the Superman the Movie poster, he's got one fist out, and on Superman II he's got two fists out? Well BUCKLE UP, I gave him three and four fists for Superman III and Superman IV, respectively. Hilarious!
They're cowards for not doing this.
On a darkened road, a car with a smear of blood on it sits in front of a large donald duck mascot costume, bloodied. The people in the car ask "oh my god, did we hit it?" "poor thing." "It feels horrible seeing it like this." "How did a mascot get all the way out of the park?" "It's just so sad. But how can it survive in a world it just wasn't built for?" "That's just nature, I guess."
did we hit it
the aliens when it hits
Feck that golden record we sent into space, just send this.
So lucky to be in the mix of cover artists on this AMAZING book!!! Check out the latest from me and @dcjosh.bsky.social!
oh my god
is done
Closeup of Edward Rackethands
I found a slightly higher res version of the image, which really lets you bask in the horror of it all
...
though maybe I should just post that screencap of the guy with the tennis racket hands. No text. Let the picture do the talking.
I was tempted to go leave a comment on their Facebook about this, but what's the point. They never listen, or will play the "boohoo, we're just little guys" card.
Every single small local fair/festival is advertised like this now, and I hate it.
hell yeah
hey now, be proud of who you are
