movie time

I finally saw G.I Joe over the weekend.

It was pretty much what I expected of it. A lot of fighting, some good special effects. Just make sure you turn off your brain before you go into the theater, and as a favor to all of us don't take it to seriously.

Post July 4th shipment

Hey everyone, I just wanted to tell you that there will be no delay in the shipment this week due to the holiday. I hope everyone had a great 4th and enjoyed the fireworks.

Free comics and Star Trek

I know its a little late for the Free Comic Day review, but here it goes.

We had so many people come into the shop that it was standing room only, and you had to shuffle to get anywhere. I think everyone loved the comics on display, especially the new DC Blackest Night. I know this because we ran out of almost everything in about 2 hours. Next year I order more. I want to thank everyone who came out to see us, most of all the new people who used this as their first intro into the greater comic world. We hope that everyone had fun and we expect to see you come in soon.

Now as for Star Trek

As usual for a Star Trek movie the actual science is murky and there are a couple of plot holes,
But I coudn't care less. This was the most enjoyable release from the franchise in years. Everything from young Kirk and Spock to the return of Nimoy to the films just made me happy. There was enough action and drama to make this movie fly bye. I just hope that we can get more films based on the new Star Trek reality.

As always, enjoy your day

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battlestar galactica

Finally watched the last episode of battlestar. I enjoyed it but I did feed that most of the Caprica flashbacks felt like fillers to pad out the episode. I am not going to go into a long rant about what I felt everything in the series really signified so don't worry about that. I did feel that the ending was fairly abrubt. Look they found Earth, lets give up all our technology and live on the land with the nice primitive peoples. They only thing I really would like an answer to is what ever happened to the cylons that went off in the base ship.

I could watch a quick mini-series about that.

Watchmen

I know this review is a little late, but I'm lazy.

I thought the movie was incredible. It stayed true to the story in the book but changed enough to make it work in the theater. After all, would an alien really have worked at the end? Even though it was almost 3 hours I was never bored or temped to start dozing like with other movies that length.
The only downside I see is that if your not familiar with the book you won't enjoy as much as us comic geeks, and the hard R rating and run length will hurt it in the box office.
I can't wait for the extended DVD with the extra scenes and the Black Freighter story.

I am posting a link here to a newsarama story about the Planet Karen webcomic. It is a great comic and and horrible situation, so read some of the comic and donate what you can.

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/030902-Planet-Karen.html