The Stack (in the order I read them, with the best hypothetically saved for last)
Amazing Spider-Man #545, Countdown #18, Ultimate Power #9, Invincible Presents: Atom Eve #1, Authority Prime #3, Brave and the Bold #9, Green Lantern #26, Batman #672, Daredevil #103, Flash #235, Usagi Yojimbo #108, Thor #5, Ultimate Spider-Man #117 - BEST OF THE WEEK!, Action Comics #860, X-Men #206, Captain America #33, Legion of Super-Heroes #37, Pax Romana #1
First a quick note about last week’s comics since I took the week off for Christmas. We had the excellent (Iron Fist, The Order, Umbrella Academy, Grendel: Behold the Devil, Ex Machina) any of which would have been excellent candidates for Best of the Week, the good (New X-Men, Cable & Deadpool, Awakening, Iron Man: Enter the Mandarin) and the not-so-good (Countdown, JLA, Mighty Avengers and She-Hulk). JLA, Mighty Avengers and She-Hulk now find themselves all dropped from my pull list after rather lackluster performances the last few months. JLA and Mighty Avengers aren’t all that surprising but it pains me to drop She-Hulk with how consistently entertaining the series was under Dan Slott. Even more surprising is that I normally like just about everything Peter David does (X-Factor and Fallen Angel are excellent) but his She-Hulk has fallen flat in just about every area: Cheesy dialogue, uninteresting plot points and sub-plots, boring new characters, etc. I am shocked that the combination of David and She-Hulk has been as poor as it has been the last three months but I can’t keep buying the title in the hopes that it gets better. So, goodbye Justice League of America, Mighty Avengers and, sadly, She-Hulk. (Of course Countdown should have been dropped long ago but I pre-paid for it at a discount so at this point it is basically free every week, at least that’s what I have to keep telling myself so I don’t cry over having to bring it home every week).
So that was last week, how does this week’s Stack compare? Well, we sure start it off with a doozy in the form of Amazing Spider-Man #545. I was holding out hope that all of the hype around the dissolution of Peter and MJ’s marriage would be one big ruse to throw us off the real big deal of Aunt May dying, but no, they went ahead and had the happy couple make a deal with the devil to save the life of his geriatric aunt. I try not to swear too much on this blog because one of my teacher’s way back when told me it was a lazy way of expressing yourself… but for fuck’s sake, Marvel cocked-up the shit out of this one. Ahh… lazy or not, that felt good. I ranted at length about the previous issue of One More Day so I don’t have too much more to add here. I really can’t believe Spider-Man making a deal with the devil was the best way to go about getting rid of a marriage which didn’t need getting rid of in the first place. JMS was very smart to distance himself from this storyline because I have to believe it is going to go down in history with the Clone Saga as one of the worst Spider-Man stories ever. Having not personally read the Clone Saga it is without a doubt the worst Spider-Man story I have ever read. Quesada’s art was horribly rushed as he relied pretty heavily on stats (I counted over a dozen), which is a major pet peeve of mine, and dark shadows on every page as a way of skimping on detail. The Brand New Day stuff at the end did nothing to redeem the story that led up to that point and I can now safely say I will not be taking part in the thrice-weekly relaunch of Amazing Spider-Man. McNiven on art is tempting but with the travesty that led into it I just can’t support it. I never say never, but unless it receives unanimous rave reviews across the comics blogosphere I will be keeping my distance. This is all the more shocking because Marvel knows how to handle Spidey as we will see later in Ultimate Spider-Man but Marvel has done their very best to make me completely and utterly uninterested in the regular Marvel U Spidey. Well done Marvel. Damn, spent more time on that than I would have liked but apparently I’m not the only one upset.
Anyway, after a top of the Stack debacle such as that I was pleasantly surprised by what was the best issue of Countdown in a long time. It certainly doesn’t redeem everything up to this point but I pray to God that this is a sign that Dini and crew have a little something up their sleeves for the last few months of the title. What’s the secret this month? How about some actual storytelling as the bulk of the issue focuses squarely on Ray Palmer who has been MIA from the DCU for a couple years since Identity Crisis and we get caught up to speed here. It’s not an especially original tale as we just get a recap of how he got to the alternate world he has been inhabiting and what he has been doing in the meantime, but it is nice to have a sympathetic character in a book full of unsympathetic ones. The few Mary Marvel pages seemed a little out of place but with Jean Loring/Eclipso’s ties to Palmer that is forgivable. I could have done without the overweight Zatanna, not because I object to her being overweight, it just didn’t really seem to serve a purpose other than saying Hey look, when female superheroes stop heroing they get fat (or pregnant, like Harley Quinn). It just struck me as in bad taste like all of the homophobic jokes at Trickster’s expense. They serve no purpose, so why bother? Scott Kolins’ art was some of the best I have seen from him in some time. His angular style has softened a little bit, especially in his facial expressions, and it is for the better. So, I’ve said this before, but hopefully this issue of Countdown, which I might go as far as to call “good”, signals a change for the positive but forgive me if I am skeptical of that happening at this point.
Ultimate Power ended this week on a whimper. I didn’t expect much after the plot device of throwing the Hulk at the problem surfaced again at the end of last issue and this issue met those low expectations. The heroes team up to beat the Hulk, resolve their differences and the Scarlet Witch sets everything right. YAWN… The promised character swap between universes was interesting enough with a major player like Fury involved but Carol Danvers seems to be holding up quite well in charge of SHIELD over in the Ultimate Universe. Land’s art was acceptable but I ceased being wowed by his stuff a while ago so that isn’t any surprise. Loeb’s dialogue doesn’t quite reach Ultimates 3 #1 levels of suckitude but he certainly throws in his fair share of clunkers. Hopefully this will be the last Jeph Loeb script I have to read for a while. This mini-series ended up being much less of an event than I’m sure Marvel was hoping for but there really wasn’t much to it, certainly not enough to stretch it out over nine issues. I used to be a big fan of the Ultimate Universe but now Ultimate Spidey is really the only thing keeping me interested, which is a shame, because the entire line was of very high quality for a good few years. Guess that’s what happens when you get Loeb involved…
Next up is the Atom Eve two issue mini-series spinning out of one of my favorite titles, Invincible. Eve has been one of the strongest characters from day one in Invincible so it’s nice to see her get her time to shine. I was cautiously optimistic going in given my unfamiliarity with the creative team, but Benito Cereno and Nate Bellegarde turned in a solid issue worthy of its association with Invincible. The issue is a straight-forward origin which expands on the one page origin Eve was given back in issue 25 of Invincible. They don’t try to do anything revolutionary and they don’t need to since there is a solid story to tell and one that adds to the quality of the character we have come to know up to this point. There are some genuinely funny moments and Cereno covers a lot of ground in the 22 pages he has to work with. Bellegarde’s art reminds me of a slightly more cartoony version of Doug Mahnke and I can see his good work here evolving into very good in the future. All in all a pleasant surprise and a welcome addition to my Invincible collection.
I like to try and support just about anything with The Authority in it given my affinity for the characters but this is the third issue of Authority Prime and the team is STILL fighting Stormwatch Prime. That’s all the issue is: fight, fight, fight, with some mediocre (at best) trash talk thrown in. And what do we have to look forward to next issue? More fighting! Only this time with some Midnighter/Apollo doppelgangers and their old running mates. The intended emotion in some scenes, like the Jenny Quantam / Doctor fight, fall horribly flat and we are left with 22 pages of filler with some nice art. Darick Robertson is a consummate pro so he always does fine work and the pages are nice to look at, but that only gets you so far. To work well so long after their “cool” expiration date The Authority needs to be going in some radically different directions. This certainly isn’t it. All that said, it’s more disappointing than outright bad and I do want to see where this series is leading so chances are I will stick around for the latter half of the series, devoted Authority fan that I am. Hey, at least they aren’t using the devil to wipe away 20 years of continuity like happened with Spider-Man right? There’s always that…
This month’s Brave and the Bold is billed on the cover as a “Star-Studded Spectacular” but when four of the six “stars” are Blackhawk, the Boy Commandos, the Metal Men and Dial H for HERO your star-studded spectacular is looking a few deviled eggs short of a picnic. Throw in the thoroughly uninteresting Challengers of the Unknown who have a) the worst team costumes in comic book history (purple jumpsuit and white gloves/boots/belt) and b) the worst team nickname in comic book history (Challs) and we have an issue I am ashamed to admit I skimmed through. Each of this issue’s team ups seemed to offer little or nothing at all to the overall plot of the book so I had a very hard time caring what was happening to them. I am sure there are plenty of fans of these characters out there for whom this issue was a treat, I just can’t count myself part of that distinguished crowd. The last third of the issue with the team up between Hawkman and the new Atom was great given Hawkman’s history with the Ray Palmer version of the Atom. Being a pretty big fan of Hawkman I would have much rather seen a full issue of that instead of the small snippet we received. It goes without saying that George Perez’s art is gorgeous as ever and the effect of the villain made up of pages from the Book of Desinty is a pretty cool visual. Even the story itself is perfectly acceptable, I just had no interest in the characters populating the first two-thirds of the book which is unfortunate given how much I have enjoyed this series overall since its launch. The next issue features Superman with a sword and a shield with his trademark “S” logo on it so that alone should guarantee a return to glory for this series.
Green Lantern #26 served as a much more fitting epilogue than the Green Lantern Corps issue of a couple weeks ago. We get filled in on where the major players are at while still moving the plot along for the next storyline. Even though the cover asks the question “Who are the alpha lanterns?” that question goes unanswered as they only show up on the first three pages but luckily the rest of the issue holds its own well enough to forgive that transgression. The scene between Hal Jordan and Sinestro is well done and Sinestro remains a great foil even behind his green bars. The rest of the issue does a good job of functioning as a breather issue without falling into the trap of not actually being about anything interesting, like the aforementioned issue of Green Lantern Corps. The real reason to get behind this issue though is the work of Mike McKone on pencils. After high profile gigs like Teen Titans and Fantastic Four he has been pretty incognito but hopefully this issue is a sign of his integration back into the big time of the DCU. I am pretty sure Ivan Reis is still the regular artist on Green Lantern but this issue shows that DC needs to get McKone on a regular title and fast. He’s too good a talent to be relegated to fill-ins and Wildstorm titles. Hope to see more from him soon.
My enthusiasm for Grant Morrison’s run on Batman was pretty high after the amazing three issue arc with J.H. Williams. Unfortunately that enthusiasm was trampled over by the wretched Ra’s Al Ghul crossover which, given what I read on how it ended, I was wise to abandon pretty early on. So, Morrison’s back to his regular agenda but unfortunately he dives back in with an utterly confusing issue. The sub plot of imposter Batmen has popped up throughout Morrison’s run but now it seems to be coming to the forefront. Exactly what it all means has yet to be seen, so this might make quite a bit more sense in a couple months when the story is resolved but on its own is rather confusing. It is also a story that lends itself much more to a more sublime artist like Williams. Sadly, Tony Daniel’s straight forward superhero art, which was fine for a story like the Ra’s crossover, just isn’t up to the task. There is just too much subtlety in Morrison’s stories that the art has to be an active participant in the storytelling, not just showing what is happening. By no means is the art bad, on the contrary, it is some of the best of Daniel’s career. It is just poorly suited for the story which is the fault of editorial and the pairing of this creative team, not Daniel himself. I am still confident that this arc will be good, as this issue is certainly a fine read, but knowing that there might be greatness lying beneath the surface is a little frustrating.
Marvel is 0 for 2 so far this week so luckily Daredevil breaks the losing streak. This arc of Daredevil has been the weakest since Ed Brubaker took over but it is still head and shoulders above a lot of other stuff on the stands. This is also the best issue of this arc yet and with two parts to go Brubaker is playing his hand very close to the vest as the story could go any of a number of different directions. I like how Brubaker is taking Daredevil closer and closer to a dangerous edge but at the same time keeping the character perfectly aware of what he is doing. The circumstances are necessitating his actions, he isn’t acting rash or out of control, and that makes those actions all the more resonant. With the great work Brubaker is doing elsewhere on Captain America, Criminal and Iron Fist it is easy to overlook Daredevil but he is putting his stamp on this character as much as Bendis did before him and I have a feeling that down the road when I read his run in its entirety I will have an even better appreciation for the work he is doing on the title. Michael Lark and company also do their standard excellent job and this is one of those books with Brubaker and Lark that is an absolute perfect pairing of writer and artist. At least Marvel redeemed themselves for their books earlier in the Stack.
The Flash seems to have gotten a lukewarm response since Mark Waid took over but as a die-hard Flash fan I have been nothing but happy. This month’s issue is more of the same. The most interesting parts are still the family dynamic and I’m glad Waid didn’t continue to drag out the sub plot of Jai’s knowledge of the dangers of their powers. The JLA involvement lasted a couple pages longer than it needed to but it made for some nice looking pages from Freddie Williams II who continues to be a good fit for the title. I especially liked Wally’s interaction with Jai once he realizes the burden his son has been carrying. As a father of two boys Wally’s thought process and emotional roller coaster throughout the issue felt very genuine to me. The backup story was also as good as the previous two. It was bittersweet though as it feature Bart Allen in his Impulse glory days and only served to underscore how badly DC wasted the character by killing him off. I have to believe they are trying to figure out a way to get him back in action. With the speed force there are always lots of crazy outs to such nuisances as death so I might even be willing to overlook a wishy washy explanation as long as it gets Bart back as either Impulse or Kid Flash, where he belongs.
Over the summer my wife got me the first seven Usagi Yojimbo TPB’s and to my embarrassment I only got caught up on them last week. What amazed me was how consistently excellent the series has been since its inception over 20 years ago and what a rich tapestry Stan Sakai has weaved over the years. Going back through the older stories helped highlight how incredible it is that Sakai has managed to stay on top of his game for so long and the current Sparrows storyarc going on is one of the best in some time. Any time Usagi’s nemesis Jei is involved Sakai pulls out the big guns but this week’s issue in particular was the best issue of the storyarc yet. All the major players have come together and while I don’t know how long the arc is planned for it is certainly building to quite a finish. It was also great to see a picture of Sakai receiving another deserved award on the back cover. That more people don’t read this series is a travesty. Truly a remarkable work and hopefully Sakai will lead a long and healthy life and be able to tell Usagi’s stories for as long as he see’s fit.
The last issue of Thor was a bit of a clunker with some of JMS’s heavy handed political views thrown in to the detriment of the story. Luckily Thor is back on track this month with some interesting twists and turns along the way. Really the issue had me at the image of Thor checking his newly installed mail box on the second page. It’s just a great visual and serves very well to reinforce that this incarnation of the character will be very much based in the real world and not off in the nether regions as he has in the past. There was nothing wrong with those stories, it is just nice to have a change of pace. The series thus far has been slowly paced but it is still working five issues in and at least JMS is speeding up the process of recovering all the lost Asgardians. The solicitation seemed to indicate we were in for a Lady Sif re-introduction and that assumption was cleverly used to mask the return of Loki, shockingly as a woman. Surprisingly enough, for some reason Loki as a woman works for me, although I will be interested to see reaction elsewhere on the blogosphere. Also, after the clearly telegraphed introduction of the Warrior’s Three last issue the misdirection with Balder was welcome as well. Olivier Coipel continues to prove to be the perfect fit for this title and he does a great job both with the mailbox scene I mentioned as well as Thor’s fight with the Destroyer in the middle. Hopefully he can keep up a good schedule because any fill in artists are going to suffer a pretty harsh comparison to the great work Coipel is doing. A great return to form for Thor, now if only Lady Sif would return for real…
Ultimate Spider-Man has long been my preferred version of Spider-Man and this week’s issue confirms that Marvel still knows how to treat the character, at least with Bendis at the helm. But it also begs the question why all the marriage debacle in the regular Marvel U. was necessary when there is a perfectly unmarried version of Peter available to read about in the Ultimate Universe. I don’t want to get back into that but part of what made the Ultimate version of Spider-Man unique no longer exists. Anyway, maybe it’s because of what was done to the other version of Spider-Man but this issue hit all the right buttons for me. The fight between the Goblin-ized Osborn’s was appropriately heart wrenching and the abrupt resolution was just as shocking, but in a good way. Whether it all sticks is debatable but it certainly made for a strong scene. Not only that but it was followed by possibly an even stronger scene with Peter in school paying tribute to his lost friend. A lot of times these kinds of scenes can come off hokey but Bendis hit all the right emotional notes and the scene felt very genuine and served as a fitting end to a great first arc with Stuart Immonen on art. As great as Mark Bagley is on Spider-Man Immonen has quickly made the title his own. I don’t know if it is just from seeing Bagley draw this version of Spider-Man for so many years but Immonen’s art has a great energy to it that makes the title feel fresh again. While the rest of the Ultimate titles are drifting into obscurity it is nice to see Ultimate Spider-Man still blazing its own path and staying relevant for Spider-Man fans who would be otherwise disillusioned. Maybe my pick for BEST OF THE WEEK! is a little emotion-fueled this week but this is what a Spider-Man comic should be, so it gets the honor.
The Legion of Super-Heroes arc in Action Comics continues and gladly takes more after the first part of the arc than the second. Maybe I’m biased since my favorite Legionnaire Shadow Lass (aka Umbra) shows up, and looks amazing as rendered by Gary Frank, but this is what I was hoping for out of this arc. This issue is pretty fast paced, brining in new faces every few pages and provides some good action as well with a weakened Superman still holding his own. With how much Superman’s powers are taken for granted it is kind of cool to see him have to resort to hand to hand combat and get a little bloodied in the process. Any doubts I may have had about this arc were soothed with this issue. Even the characters I wasn’t familiar with like Polar Boy and Night Girl fit right in with the action and as a fan of Shadow Lass her pairing with Night Girl is a cool touch. I mentioned Frank knocked Shadow Lass out of the park but he does a great job on the rest of the issue as well. Facial expressions have always been a strength of his and he puts those skills to good use along with some great action. Frank is a perfect fit for this title and looks to be able to stay on schedule which is almost as important at this point as the art itself. Things don’t seem to be slowing down next month with the story moving to Colu, I just hope the other Legionnaries get plenty of face time because while this is a Superman comic, for me this story is all about the Legion.
The revitalization of the X-Men franchise, known as Messiah Complex, continues this week in X-Men #206. This issue is paced about the same as the rest of the storyline so far with just enough happening to keep things moving but still leaving enough time for some character moments. The crossover as a whole has felt paced pretty well to me and this issue is no exception. As a fan of Cable his part of the story is the most interesting to me so luckily he gets a lot of face time in this issue. Given that this was an issue of X-Men and not X-Factor I was surprised how much Madrox and Layla were featured and their scenes were very effective. The writers have done a good job so far of maintaining one voice from issue to issue which is one of the main reasons it has read so well so far. I have a soft spot in my heart for Chris Bachalo’s artwork even if he does go a little crazy sometimes but this issue is one of his more toned down efforts and it looks great. I particularly like his grizzled version of Cable, but maybe I’m biased. The cliffhanger at the was a genuine shocker, which is always welcome, so it’s a good thing each chapter of the crossover is shipping weekly. As a bit of a jaded X-Men fan I didn’t have very high expectations going into this crossover but to my surprise so far it has been one of the best X-Men stories in years and hopefully signals change for the better for the line of X-Men comics as a whole.
Despite the high quality of Daredevil, Ed Brubaker’s best title this week was Captain America which somehow, someway continues to get even better, now eight issues after Captain America’s death. Just flipping through the issue it is amazing how much story Brubaker crams in every month. The long-anticipated Winter Soldier / Iron Man throwdown doesn’t disappoint, even if it might not end the way some Tony Stark-haters might like. It doesn’t seem like much of a surprise that Bucky is being set up to take on the role of Cap but the fight with Iron Man does a good job lending credibility to his eventual donning of the red, white and blue (and black apparently). Winter Soldier has become one of the most interesting characters in the Marvel U. and I don’t know if this is what Brubaker had planned for him back when he re-introduced him but at this point I can completely see him carrying on the mantle of Captain America in this title, as crazy as that may have seemed even a year ago. Despite some qualms with the new shiny uniform Bucky is set to don, I am actually really looking forward to seeing what Brubaker has in store for the new Captain America. I should also note that as a fan of Black Widow it is nice to see her written so well in this title, as opposed to what we saw of her in the first arc of Mighty Avengers. But maybe that’s just because I prefer her with longer hair. Who knows.
I am a big fan of the Legion of Super-Heroes. If you’ve read a few of my previous posts that should come as no surprise but it does inform why this week’s issue of Legion made it so far down the Stack. My affection for the Legion started in their post-Zero Hour incarnation so I am not very familiar with Jim Shooter’s previous work on the characters but I certainly know it is held in high regard by other Legion fans which is reason enough for me to get excited. It seemed a little odd to pair the old-school Shooter with new-school artist Francis Manapul but once I saw the preview image that serves as the two cover’s for this week’s issue I had seen all I needed to see to be on board. So, big new shiny creative team in place, how was the issue. The answer: pretty good, but not quite great. My favorite part of the issue were the parts involving Karate Kid. He’s never been a favorite Legionnaire of mine but taking out the alien with an already broken arm and putting Lightning Lad in his place makes Karate Kid the star of the book for me. The plot was decent enough and it is clear that Lightning Lad is in way over his head which makes the return of Cosmic Boy seem imminent, but maybe Shooter will take it in a different direction. Just flipping through the issue there are a lot of word balloons so hopefully Shooter will get a little less talky but while reading the issue it wasn’t distracting. Manapul’s art was pretty good. He definitely has a Top Cow-bred style but aside from a cheesecake shot of Phantom Girl he stuck to telling the story and his action scenes were pretty impressive. As a pure Legion story this week’s Action Comics was better than this actual issue of Legion of Super-Heroes but this is Shooter’s first issue and definitely one that has me looking forward to more.
Finally this week we have Jonathan Hickman’s Pax Romana. I absolutely loved Hickman’s Nightly News (check out this great interview with him about that series here) and had very high expectations going into Pax Romana. The short story is that Pax Romana didn’t blow me away as much as the first issue of Nightly News did but I still enjoyed it and have no doubt that Hickman has much, much more up his sleeve in the issues to come. I think the reason I Pax Romana didn’t have quite the kick is that Hickman is taking things much slower with this series and has stated that he plans for it to be a series of mini-series like Hellboy whereas Nightly News was a self-contained mini and actually covered quite a bit of ground in six issues. There is a lot of information to process in this issue, as Hickman crams each page to the brim and even has a couple pages predominantly consisting of text. That might be a little jarring for someone expecting a traditional comic but being familiar with his work I prepared myself going in that Hickman’s comics just take a little more time and effort invested on the part of the reader but it turns out being more than worth it in the end. So, this may be a bit of a slow start but when we are talking about a series focusing on time travel and the Roman empire you can’t exactly just dive in head first. Hickman set the bar pretty high with Nightly News but I can appreciate him taking a different approach with Pax Romana as he seems like a creator who isn’t satisfied with a status quo, which is exactly what is so appealing about him.___________________________________________________________________
What Did Santa Bring?
This Christmas my wife went surprisingly light on comic-related items and more heavy on The Beatles and zombies. But more on them in a minute, we’ll hit the comic stuff first. I had read so many good things about the Scott Pilgrim series on Comic Pants and the ISB that I threw the series on my wish list and lo and behold my wife actually got me all four volumes. I am through the first three and it is readily apparent what the fuss was about. Bryan Lee O’Malley has a gem on his hands and with each volume he finds new and crazy ways to put Scott through the ringer. I was enjoying the first volume quite a bit but O’Malley had me hooked when Scott defeated one of his girlfriend Ramona’s evil ex-boyfriends and he poofed into some coins, straight out of a video game. How awesome is that? Very awesome. Things like that and one girl getting the highlights punched right out of her hair make Scott Pilgrim one of my new favorite series. It’s a shame it only comes out about once a year but I’ll be jonesing for the next one with all the other fans and the wait also gives those of you unfamiliar with Mr. Pilgrim a change to catch up. Check out a preview here.The other comics related item I received was a Marvel Legends action figure of my favorite X-Man Colossus. I don’t have much to say about him other than he looks bad ass perched up there on top of my computer desk next to The Flash, Madman and the Mignola Batman: Black and White statue (another awesome Christmas gift from a couple years back).
The Beatles CD’s and zombies may seem like an odd mix but I have been pretty obsessed with both lately as they represent my favorite band ever and favorite horror genre, respectively. It shames me to admit but most of my Beatles exposure over the years has been from the red and blue greatest hits collections. Only within the last couple years have I started acquiring the individual albums on CD and I got a huge boost this year with Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Let It Be. Since I know the hits on the four red and blue discs so well I love hearing the other songs on the albums for the first time. Not quite like living back in the sixties and having a new Beatles album come out, but close enough for me. In case you are wondering, my two favorite Beatles songs are Hey Jude and Help! Maybe they are vanilla choices but vanilla or not if I could only listen to two Beatles songs again for the rest of my life it would be those two.
Zombie movies absolutely terrified me as a kid, nightmares and everything, but they have stuck with me and are far and away my favorite horror genre. Maybe it has to do with Walking Dead getting really good again but I’ve been chattering about wanting to get more zombie movies so my wife listened in a big way. I am now the proud owner of Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead (original, special 4-disc edition), Dawn of the Dead remake by Zack Snyder, 28 Days Later, and Shaun of the Dead. That’s a lot of zombie movies, and I couldn’t be happier. I’m thinking I might need to have a little zombie marathon over at my buddies house since my wife doesn’t like to watch them. Nothing equals a good time like pizza, beer and zombies.
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