Multiple Me
Comics May 19th, 2009
Ever since Heroes took off a couple years ago, there had been a surge of interest in super powers. Flight. Mind reading. Super speed. Strength. With that, people have been asked what power they want. A friend of mine even wrote (or is in the midst of writing; it’s been on hold for-like-EVER) a story of us and our college mates with powers—manifested when we drank a tainted case of, ugh, Miller High Life. 
I was fortunate enough to have suggested my own power for the story. And it’s the power I would pick over a super healing factor, invulnerability, or mastery over space/time.
Tags: Comics, Dr. Manhattan, Multiple Man, self-duplication, super-powers
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Who Watches the Watchmen?
Comics, Movies December 6th, 2007
I heard about the announcement made at Comic-Con, but I hadn’t really tried read too much about it: The film adaptation of one of my favorite graphic novels of all time, Watchmen. I didn’t want to get too excited about it just yet, mostly due to the handling of writer Alan Moore’s other comics-turned-movies, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and V For Vendetta. But with the success of 300 and Batman Begins, Warner Bros. was convinced to finally put some serious money into Watchmen.
Watchmen is one serious comic book. Yes, it does have superheroes, but the setting and story is just so grim and depressing at times. This is not a comic book I’d think any kid would like to read. I won’t go into any details of the plot and characters. Instead, I’ll just say: Go read it. Pick it up at the bookstore and read it. I seriously, seriously, SERIOUSLY recommend it. Give it a chance. It is not like your garden variety Spider-Man, Superman, or even Batman stories.
I finally visited the official site and saw some of the production photos. I am totally blown away by what they have so far. It really does look like it’s straight from the comic book. I’m getting really excited about it now. I’m not familiar with the people they casted, but I trust that they made some good choices. And I am really psyched to hear that they’ll be filming the Mars scene. I hope they do a good job on the Doctor Manhattan/Silk Spectre II scene… the dialog from that scene is one of my favorite parts:
"Thermodynamic Miracles… Events with odds against so astronomical they’re effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing.
And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive, meeting, siring this precise son, that exact daughter…
Until your mother loves a man, she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged.
To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold, that is the crowning unlikelihood.
The thermodynamic miracle.
Come… dry your eyes, for you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly.
Dry your eyes… and let’s go home. "
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