Ha-ha!

I am triumphant! I have a room for Comic Con. I even have the first room I tried to get. I am obviously cashing in some karma chips or something.

I have created a Danny Kaye channel on Pandora and have thus defeated my ear worm. Mostly. It is funny when one of those songs comes up on the station... but still, this is fun and it adds in a lot of good music to this channel that I hadn't been listening to at all. (It doesn't hurt that it gives me musical music as well. Love me some Guys and Dolls.)

I am determined to hold onto a positive outlook today. Yesterday felt like there was a heavy weight pushing me down. I get the feeling a lot of people had that sort of day.

Tonight, I'm going to the George and Dragon to watch the first Sounders game. I'm looking forward to this very much. I hope I can get there early enough.

I love you SpaceBat. http://i.gizmodo.com/5175346/spacebat-tribute-video-will-make-you-cry-like-we-are-the-world

A thoughtful sound

Sean McKeever announced in a message forum post last night that he is leaving “Teen Titans” with May’s issue #71. I didn't like McKeever's Titans much. I might pick it back up, depending on who pick it up.

Brett Ratner seems to think all of the good comic book characters have already been adapted into movies. Way to go Brett. “I was so upset when I left ‘Superman,’” said Ratner. "Singer has his ‘X-Men,’ Nolan has ‘Batman‘ — there’s nothing left. ‘Hulk‘ has been exploited already. There’s nothing left for me.”

The first review I've seen of the new Muppets movie script is positive.

It was announced today that Disney/Pixar's Up will premiere in Digital 3D as the opening night movie at this year's Cannes Film Festival in Digital 3D, even. This will be the first time an animated movie has opened the festival.

The live action Green Lantern movie will officially begin shooting in mid-September. We must be closing in on casting btu I haven't heard anything official.

For today and today only, there is a 10th anniversay Farscape shirt on sale here: http://www.zazzle.com/farscape. I'm actually tempted by this. Because I really like the quote they put on the front.

Huh. Interesting.

So, CNN put up a story about comics and hard times and how usually comics do better in ahrd times. There are a lot of things I can nitpick about the article but I can usually do that when any major news outlet writes about comic books in general. There have been a lot of responses to this article, though. And one of them is from James McPherson. He is an author and a blogger and a college professor. His blog is here: http://jmcpherson.wordpress.com/

The article that got my attention was the one titled: "Can a Christian lesbian Latina superhero save us?"

My first reaction, to the title was, "Well, if Montoya wants to save me from something, with or without her face, I'd be more than happy to let her." Because, well, there you have it.

I was annoyed, though, by "On the other hand, maybe the misadventures of the Bush administration should have taught us that traditional superheroes can’t always save us, that might can’t always make right, and that it’s time for us to put away the comic books and grow up." Most of the time, I come to grips with the idea that a lot of people have a hard time taking comics seriously and that there is certainly enough fodder for people to think of them as popcorn fiction.

Then again, there is Maus. And Pride of Baghdad. And a ton of other examples I could pull out that deal with serious issues and are fantastic works of fiction. It is all about what you put into it and what you want to get out.

And I really need to improve that icon.