I'm not much of a video game fan, but this is really cool.
What's surprising is that, if you watch through the whole thing, it becomes evident that whoever made those characters (sprites? I don't know the technical term) weren't just casual fans but huge mega-fans. I'm not sure why that should me surprise me so much, but it does.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Trinity Thoughts
Seeing as how I spent an obsessive amount of time mulling over the identity of Kurt Busiek's "Mystery Project", I feel the urge to comment on it now that it's finally been revealed.
I'm a bit wary. I'm not a fan of DC's Trinity concept, largely because its existence is due to reasons outside the stories. They're the Big Three in-story because they're the Big Three out-story, because they're the three characters who've made the most headway into John Q. Public's conscious. If Green Lantern and not Batman was known by every boy and his brother, then he'd be in the Big Three instead. Or, if Green Lantern was equally as well-known as Batman, they'd be not a Big Three but a Big Four. The decision to group Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman -- those three characters specifically -- into the Big Three wasn't made for artistic reasons (at least not entirely) but for meta ones. They weren't chosen for their specific qualities, their personalities and backstories and identities, but for their publishing histories. I can't help but approach an idea with such origins with skepticism.
I'm also not fond of referring to them by the term "trinity". It's too... portentous? Stuffy? As far as the title of the weekly goes, I definitely preferred some of the discarded titles Busiek mentioned in an interview: DC Superstars, DC Nation, etc.
Really, this book's whole concept doesn't appeal to me much, but I'll give it a try because of the creative team involved. On the main story, Busiek's on writing and Bagley's on pencils, and those are both pluses. On the back-up, Nicieza's co-writing with Busiek. Yes, that surely means "screen time" for Nightwing, a character I've always found bland. Still, I enjoyed the fruits of the two writers' collaboration on the Superman books, so this sounds good too. The two back-ups pencilers so far (and there might or might not be more) are Tom Derenick and Scott McDaniel... Okay, that gives me some pause. I'm not a fan of McDaniel's art (except for, oddly enough, his covers), and I googled Derenick, who I'm unfamiliar with, a while back. It was strange because some of what I found online I really liked and some I thought was just awful. Still, overall Trinity looks promising enough that I'll give it a try. At any rate, I can't imagine enjoying it less than the previous weeklies, both of which I dropped early on.
Here's hoping.
I'm a bit wary. I'm not a fan of DC's Trinity concept, largely because its existence is due to reasons outside the stories. They're the Big Three in-story because they're the Big Three out-story, because they're the three characters who've made the most headway into John Q. Public's conscious. If Green Lantern and not Batman was known by every boy and his brother, then he'd be in the Big Three instead. Or, if Green Lantern was equally as well-known as Batman, they'd be not a Big Three but a Big Four. The decision to group Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman -- those three characters specifically -- into the Big Three wasn't made for artistic reasons (at least not entirely) but for meta ones. They weren't chosen for their specific qualities, their personalities and backstories and identities, but for their publishing histories. I can't help but approach an idea with such origins with skepticism.
I'm also not fond of referring to them by the term "trinity". It's too... portentous? Stuffy? As far as the title of the weekly goes, I definitely preferred some of the discarded titles Busiek mentioned in an interview: DC Superstars, DC Nation, etc.
Really, this book's whole concept doesn't appeal to me much, but I'll give it a try because of the creative team involved. On the main story, Busiek's on writing and Bagley's on pencils, and those are both pluses. On the back-up, Nicieza's co-writing with Busiek. Yes, that surely means "screen time" for Nightwing, a character I've always found bland. Still, I enjoyed the fruits of the two writers' collaboration on the Superman books, so this sounds good too. The two back-ups pencilers so far (and there might or might not be more) are Tom Derenick and Scott McDaniel... Okay, that gives me some pause. I'm not a fan of McDaniel's art (except for, oddly enough, his covers), and I googled Derenick, who I'm unfamiliar with, a while back. It was strange because some of what I found online I really liked and some I thought was just awful. Still, overall Trinity looks promising enough that I'll give it a try. At any rate, I can't imagine enjoying it less than the previous weeklies, both of which I dropped early on.
Here's hoping.
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