8.08.2003
Ok. Here is my review for Green Lantern: Circle of Fire Tradepaperback. Crap! My minds a blank. I can't think of anything to write. Be right back. Let me grab a cold pizza in the fridge. Maybe that'll help.
Ok I ate rice and corned beef instead of cold pizza for breakfast and I still haven't got anything to say about it. I'll lie down. Maybe that'll help.
Two hours later...
I'm back. I think I can get start this now. Not much to say about it now that i think about it. I mean it's not really a jumping-on point for new readers but its good enough and this story was marketed more of a major event in the current Green Lantern's life, Kyle Rayner. The tradepaperback consists of Green Lantern: Circle of Fire # 1 & 2, Green Lantern/Atom #1, Green Lantern/Power Girl #1, Green Lantern/Adam Strange #1, Green Lantern/Firestorm #1, and Green Lantern/Green Lantern#1, One thing thats as close to a flaw as it can get is varying artists for each issue. Makes the overall storyline substandard. But in this case it doesnt work that way. No one has to read the #1 issues of GreenLantern/? to be able to understand the entire story. Just reading Circle of Fire 1 and 2 will work themselves out. On the other hand. It gives readers some characterizaiton and good storytelling with some established characters in the DC Universe in the team-up books pairing one of the Green Lanterns with their respective partner in the title.
The story here is: An interstellar menace called Oblivion is making his way to Earth for death and destruction. The premiere superteam of the world, The Justice League of America, meets Oblivion and is defeated. They fail. It now falls in the hands of Kyle Rayner to defeat this bad guy as evidence points out that Oblivion is actually a childhood drawing of Kyle's given life. He inadvertently summons various Green Lanterns from different time periods and dimensions to aid him in his cause along with Firestorm, Atom, Powergirl and Adam Strange. The kicker here is Oblivion's and the various Green Lantern's connection to Kyle Rayner.
One team up book to read is the Green Lantern/Green Lantern #1 written by current GL scribe Judd Winnick (Sidenote: Winnick is the winner of the GLAAD Award for three consecutive years). This particular issue has Kyle Rayner teamed up with the Green Lantern of another dimension which happens to be his dead girlfriend. Its has a solid story of two lovers who have never met. One is trying to move on and the other is trying to rekindle what they had between them. Some good stuff.
All in all, regular readers of GL will like this book. New readers can get on the book and start from there. Its a pretty good book. Give it three lanterns out of five.
Ok I ate rice and corned beef instead of cold pizza for breakfast and I still haven't got anything to say about it. I'll lie down. Maybe that'll help.
Two hours later...
I'm back. I think I can get start this now. Not much to say about it now that i think about it. I mean it's not really a jumping-on point for new readers but its good enough and this story was marketed more of a major event in the current Green Lantern's life, Kyle Rayner. The tradepaperback consists of Green Lantern: Circle of Fire # 1 & 2, Green Lantern/Atom #1, Green Lantern/Power Girl #1, Green Lantern/Adam Strange #1, Green Lantern/Firestorm #1, and Green Lantern/Green Lantern#1, One thing thats as close to a flaw as it can get is varying artists for each issue. Makes the overall storyline substandard. But in this case it doesnt work that way. No one has to read the #1 issues of GreenLantern/? to be able to understand the entire story. Just reading Circle of Fire 1 and 2 will work themselves out. On the other hand. It gives readers some characterizaiton and good storytelling with some established characters in the DC Universe in the team-up books pairing one of the Green Lanterns with their respective partner in the title.
The story here is: An interstellar menace called Oblivion is making his way to Earth for death and destruction. The premiere superteam of the world, The Justice League of America, meets Oblivion and is defeated. They fail. It now falls in the hands of Kyle Rayner to defeat this bad guy as evidence points out that Oblivion is actually a childhood drawing of Kyle's given life. He inadvertently summons various Green Lanterns from different time periods and dimensions to aid him in his cause along with Firestorm, Atom, Powergirl and Adam Strange. The kicker here is Oblivion's and the various Green Lantern's connection to Kyle Rayner.
One team up book to read is the Green Lantern/Green Lantern #1 written by current GL scribe Judd Winnick (Sidenote: Winnick is the winner of the GLAAD Award for three consecutive years). This particular issue has Kyle Rayner teamed up with the Green Lantern of another dimension which happens to be his dead girlfriend. Its has a solid story of two lovers who have never met. One is trying to move on and the other is trying to rekindle what they had between them. Some good stuff.
All in all, regular readers of GL will like this book. New readers can get on the book and start from there. Its a pretty good book. Give it three lanterns out of five.
Labels: Comics
8.06.2003
I have witnessed it for the second time. Racism in the philippines! (audience gasps in dumbfoundment, and disgust I suppose). Or something as close to it as it can get (other than in call centers based in the country with a black man at work).
Ok, heres how it went down. Black guy going down the stairs of the poorly designed Quezon Avenue MRT Station (as soon as you read black guy, you know its a race thing). Rain falling. I walk up to the intersection of EDSA and Quezon Ave. to catch a ride on an FX to get home. I got in one, and 'lo and behold, the fuckwit of a driver waited until the he can cram all the passengers that he can inside the vehicle. While waiting, i see the black guy again and he's asking for directions on how to get to someplace. First some guy directed him to get on a jeep. Then the foreigner gets off. Now he's talking to the same guy he was talking to earlier and directs him to ride in the FX i'm waiting in. At this point there are two passengers up front, two at the back and three in the middle (for anyone outside of the philippines reading this e-mail me personally and i can give you some more info on what you don't understand). The black guy got in and sats in the middle squishing everyone inside. he's not big, but four people in the middle seat of an FX is still a stupid-ass idea. So, as the foreigner tries to close door, the Filipino he was talking to earlier yells out 'American' to some of his mates ushering potential passengers to ride a jeep or FX. that to me was just distasteful. The old guy in the backseat was saying in Tagalog that he can't fit because he's big in a very condescending way.
Now the black guy closes the door and says 'Philcoa'. He said it in an accent other than American. (ok he might be an American who hasnt got the accent yet). The Driver looked at him and just looked. Didn't respond or anything, just looked. Then goes back into driving.
Nearing Philcoa, the driver is nowhere near the side of the road to be able to stop in the unloading area. The Black guy asks in the direction of the driver if he is going by Miriam College? No one answers. he asks it a second time and i answer 'No he's not'. He asks it a third time. I answer again 'No, he's not'. Right then i felt the driver fumbling for something to say. He instead, just tries to manuever through traffic to stop the vehicle in the intersection of a Y-shape of the road. Black guy asks's 'Can you tell me? He's telling me' driver stops the vehicle at the Y-shape intersection. Black guy gets off and hand the driver 20 philippine pesos. Absolutely more than what he needed to pay.
Ignorant old guy at the back rang out comments like hotcakes. Like the black guy smelled bad. The driver now just smiles at the passengers sitting beside him. The passengers ignored him. From this point on the driver spat out car care tips, because the road has become a little bit flooded in some areas. But probably more out of desparation to have someone respond to him. Everyone ignored him the rest of the ride.
Don't know if the foreigner got to Miriam College or not but i can tell you that this is one of those bad experience stories in the Philippines he's gonna be tellin' the staff at Miriam College let alone his mates in his country.
This is just sad. Sad, sad, sad. Ignorance is the mama of racism. So, to all the Filipinos reading this. got any racism in the company you work for?
Sidenote: August 27. Mark your calendar. The Male populations home planet of Mars will be so close it'll be almost a quarter as big the moon on that night. That will be as close as Mars will get to the earth until the next 5000 years or so. Some of us can get home finally. Watch the skies. i'll send an article about it to anyone interested.
Take care! ('coz i don't)
Ok, heres how it went down. Black guy going down the stairs of the poorly designed Quezon Avenue MRT Station (as soon as you read black guy, you know its a race thing). Rain falling. I walk up to the intersection of EDSA and Quezon Ave. to catch a ride on an FX to get home. I got in one, and 'lo and behold, the fuckwit of a driver waited until the he can cram all the passengers that he can inside the vehicle. While waiting, i see the black guy again and he's asking for directions on how to get to someplace. First some guy directed him to get on a jeep. Then the foreigner gets off. Now he's talking to the same guy he was talking to earlier and directs him to ride in the FX i'm waiting in. At this point there are two passengers up front, two at the back and three in the middle (for anyone outside of the philippines reading this e-mail me personally and i can give you some more info on what you don't understand). The black guy got in and sats in the middle squishing everyone inside. he's not big, but four people in the middle seat of an FX is still a stupid-ass idea. So, as the foreigner tries to close door, the Filipino he was talking to earlier yells out 'American' to some of his mates ushering potential passengers to ride a jeep or FX. that to me was just distasteful. The old guy in the backseat was saying in Tagalog that he can't fit because he's big in a very condescending way.
Now the black guy closes the door and says 'Philcoa'. He said it in an accent other than American. (ok he might be an American who hasnt got the accent yet). The Driver looked at him and just looked. Didn't respond or anything, just looked. Then goes back into driving.
Nearing Philcoa, the driver is nowhere near the side of the road to be able to stop in the unloading area. The Black guy asks in the direction of the driver if he is going by Miriam College? No one answers. he asks it a second time and i answer 'No he's not'. He asks it a third time. I answer again 'No, he's not'. Right then i felt the driver fumbling for something to say. He instead, just tries to manuever through traffic to stop the vehicle in the intersection of a Y-shape of the road. Black guy asks's 'Can you tell me? He's telling me' driver stops the vehicle at the Y-shape intersection. Black guy gets off and hand the driver 20 philippine pesos. Absolutely more than what he needed to pay.
Ignorant old guy at the back rang out comments like hotcakes. Like the black guy smelled bad. The driver now just smiles at the passengers sitting beside him. The passengers ignored him. From this point on the driver spat out car care tips, because the road has become a little bit flooded in some areas. But probably more out of desparation to have someone respond to him. Everyone ignored him the rest of the ride.
Don't know if the foreigner got to Miriam College or not but i can tell you that this is one of those bad experience stories in the Philippines he's gonna be tellin' the staff at Miriam College let alone his mates in his country.
This is just sad. Sad, sad, sad. Ignorance is the mama of racism. So, to all the Filipinos reading this. got any racism in the company you work for?
Sidenote: August 27. Mark your calendar. The Male populations home planet of Mars will be so close it'll be almost a quarter as big the moon on that night. That will be as close as Mars will get to the earth until the next 5000 years or so. Some of us can get home finally. Watch the skies. i'll send an article about it to anyone interested.
Take care! ('coz i don't)
8.01.2003
Almost forgot. There was a sort-of coup-de-tat in Makati City Saturday and Sunday last week right before the state of the nation address by gloria (i don't call her the president) last Monday. the coup wasnt really thrilling, no bombs or guns going off even after the junior officers planted bombs in the mall area of Makati City. didn't really watch any news about it, didnt really care about it. god, i wish assasination politics is being done somewhere in the country. scare off the fucking politicians why stop at scaring? why not go all the way and bet on which fucker dies next? i get really romantic like this when there's watered-down beer in me.
Just saw Bad Boys II last week. can't say much about except that i enjoyed it, i liked it, the car chases are action packed. its a cool movie to watch. but before watching the movie, mike mirasol, claire leelin, isaac sarion, ricko borja, ricko's cousin honey, francis dictado, orson and I ate at Bubba Gump. its a shrimp restaurant based on the Forest Gump movie. the menu was full of different ways shrip can be cooked. being allergic to shrimp i ate a non-shrimp meal. i ate a humungous burger, which i forgot the name of. it was good though. well, about the restaurant, its located at g3, everything in the restaurant has something to do with the Forrest Gump movie(licence plates, knick knacks on the wall, ping pong paddles with the drinks menu, and the food in the menu has names familiar from the movie, it's freakin' expensive but the food is excellent, and they got a couple of cute waitresses too. they also serve bottomless iced tea so thats good, and there is a lot in each serving. I think the restaurant's main target market are foreginers with, to us filipinos, big appetites. anyway, the next time i eat there, i'm takin one of those restaurant glasses home.
after the movie, we all went our separate ways. Mike, claire and orson went home, ricko and honey went to timezone arcade to play a bit of percussion freak and zac, franz and i came along with them to get a game in. we three decided not to in favor of playing ragnarok online. on the way to the 24-hour internet cafe near franz's place, i regretted not trying to chat up this cute girl i saw playing in timezone arcade. so if i see her again, which is like a gazillion to one, i'll chat her up. anyway, on to Ragnarok Online. fuckin' cool game. we stayed for about two hours which got me hooked instantly. online rpg game with anime style graphics and an easy battle system, well actually there is no battle system, your just left- ckick on the creature you wanna attack and your will attack it, Point and Click System if you wanna call it that. don't know the overall mission of the game though but us guys are gonna play it again next week when we watch Bulletproof Monk. Another comic book turned into a movie, now thats what i'm talking about. i havent read the Bulletproof Monk comics yet but i intend to when i find a copy in one of the comic stores here. thas all for now!
after the movie, we all went our separate ways. Mike, claire and orson went home, ricko and honey went to timezone arcade to play a bit of percussion freak and zac, franz and i came along with them to get a game in. we three decided not to in favor of playing ragnarok online. on the way to the 24-hour internet cafe near franz's place, i regretted not trying to chat up this cute girl i saw playing in timezone arcade. so if i see her again, which is like a gazillion to one, i'll chat her up. anyway, on to Ragnarok Online. fuckin' cool game. we stayed for about two hours which got me hooked instantly. online rpg game with anime style graphics and an easy battle system, well actually there is no battle system, your just left- ckick on the creature you wanna attack and your will attack it, Point and Click System if you wanna call it that. don't know the overall mission of the game though but us guys are gonna play it again next week when we watch Bulletproof Monk. Another comic book turned into a movie, now thats what i'm talking about. i havent read the Bulletproof Monk comics yet but i intend to when i find a copy in one of the comic stores here. thas all for now!
Labels: Movies
