"Ultimate Fantastic 4"

Bendis, Millar, Ellis, Kubert and Immonen. This cannot goint to go wrong. And this works, of course. Another brilliant re-start to the oldest group of Marvell superheroes.

"The Sopranos" First season

After "Twin Peaks" this was the first series of our moder times. Was with HBO open the gate to a new generation of series, a new kind of see and narrate. Without "The Sopranos" "The Wire" were impossible.

Yeah, Sopranos lack some things of old series. First season have secondarie plots that are a crap, and some actions are unmotivated and bad showed. But despite this, this incredibly worked. And I know because I have seen chapters of the third season, the series is getting better. This is just the beginning.

"1985" By Mark Millar

A 3 number limited series. Millar tell us a story about his (shared) love about superheroes comic-books. One of the best Millar works. 1985 the year of marvel's "Secret Wars" -the best of the decade.

"If don't a tear loose at the end of the story, you're not one of us" says the Spanish editor of this comic. Probably he is right.

"Memories of Murder" by Bong Joon-ho

I love Bong Joon-ho's "The Host". Maybe this one is better. The dark side of "Se7en", one of the most interesting movies about serial killers. "Memories of murder" looks-like a copycat but it's a sublime piece of art who center his plot on the South Korean police and the dangerous relationship with his North's neighbor.

This is Special DVD Edition Cover is a marvelous joke. Kang-ho Song is a incredible actor, one of the best. If this man was probably the U.S. was recognized as a Philip Seymour Hoffman. It's a real crack.

"Celebrities: Alan Moore"

And here's come the man

"The Walk" Robert Walser

The masterpiece by Walser. Marvelous. Bigger than life. And so...

I said many time that i admire and envy this people. I dont envy his life, of course (I don't gonna be mad on my 30). I envy that they can do works so perfect, deliver and how are you beautiful. Talking of what we are all human beings. It reminds me of my complete inability to make a brief comment to fictional way what the world is.

Moreover, 'The Walk' is a sublime beauty be authentic. The short walk and brief as an allegory of our existence. He's not the flaneur of the French, is another type of tour.

By the way, who represent the monkey and the razor in the covert book? I don't have f**** idea.

"Bob Roberts" by Tim Robbins

A 1992 movie that I saw many times. It's very actual and very current. Bob Roberts looks-like a PP boy who have learned the pose and the imposture of a young rebel like Bob Dyland (and here's the Bob in Bob Roberts). But He's a dark Dylan who sing to the capital and to the neocon values songs like this:

Some people must have.
Some people have not.
But they'll complain and complain and complain and complain and complain.

Some people will work.
Some simply will not.
But they'll complain and complain and complain and complain and complain.

Like this: It's society's fault I don't have a job.
It's society's fault I am a slob.
I have potential no one can see.
Give me welfare. Let me be me!

Hey, Bud, you're livin' in the Land of the Free.
No one's gonna hand you opportunity!

Some people must have.
Some never will.
But they'll complain and complain and complain and complain and complain.

I don't have a house. I don't have a car.
I spend all my money getting' drunk in a bar.
I wanna be rich. I don't have a brain.
Just give me a handout while I complain.

Or this: I wanna stay in bed and watch TV.
Go out weekends in a limousine
And dance all night takin' lots of drugs
And wake up when I wanna.

Hey, Bud, you're livin' in the Land of the Free.
No one's gonna hand you opportunity!

Some people will learn.
Some never do.
But they'll complain and complain and complain and complain and complain.
Yeah, they'll complain and complain and complain and complain and complain.

Sí, ellos se quejan pero en realidad se lo merecen. como diría Esperanza Aguirre A very very scary movie "Bob Roberts", indeed. Lead and directed by Tim Robbins its count with many of his friends (many impressive cameos). And this was made in a hard time: EEUU started his first war agains Irak and many countries support this atack on the idea that Irak cannot invade Kwait. This was the start of all the things you-know-what.

Another songs to the neocon you have inside your heart (indeed, all the movies songs, I think):

"1001 Nights of Snowfall" by Willingham

Guille gave me. It's another postmodern adaptation of "The 1001 nights". This time it's funny and in some way interesting. Some short stories are better than others and is a good start to the Bill Willingham's "Fables" world.

"Bartleby, the scriverer" by Melville

Well maybe i shuld to do a complete review about this amazing book from this stroy by Melville but I would prefert not to.

My edition includes 5 stories (Bartleby, The bell-tower, The two temples, The ligting-rod man, The fiddler) I would prefert not to comment.

I think i'm going to sit in an armchair and watch through my window the pass go by. Doing nothing. But, I would prefert not to.

"Spiderman" by Straczinsky

8 Volumen with the work by J.M Straczinsky, the man who renew the Spidey comic-book. The volumen includes the 11-S special (a wonderfull work of art, a testimony of the moment) and the incredible #500 (the picture is from this mumber)
Spidey is the emblem of Marvell since many years. Before Staczynsky the colection were on the bottom of a dark pit, whit all the (forgotten) villains like The Matador or The Spot. With Strac the comics rise from it to the point that Spiderman deserve. This 8 volumens narrate who aunt May knows that Spiderman is her grand-son Peter Parker.

Incredible well crafted by John Romita jr. (one of my most beloved artist on comic-books) Spiderman by Strac are a very recomendable reading.

"Borges" by Rodrigo Garcia

Another by Rodrigo García. It's seem interesting too.

I'm boring to do a lot of entries on this way. In the most of the cases I don't have nothing interestig to say about. In others my english are fucking awful to say the things that are on my head. In other way: Read it somebody? Matters it?

Instead of writings silly things about the work of others, I should doing be my job.

Crap!

"Agamenón" by Rodrigo Garcia

A good play by Rodrigo Garcia. It's seem like it have got a interesting play-on. I did't know, I only read it.
By the way, I love the actor in tis picture.

"The Real Thing"

We can see that the script by Tom Stoppard's 'The Real Thing' was good. The on-stage work awful, awful, awful. With horrible moments that made me laugh unintentionally (like a desesperate Javier Cámara behind a screen like a chinese shadow figure while a Bonny Tyler's song broke my ears). Incredible crazy thing. Poor Stoppard.

"Calderon" by Passolini

An interesting play from Pier Paolo Passolini in the spanish's post-war scenario. About about liberty dreams and broken revolutionary hope.

"Un Prophète"

Like I said in my previous post: This is a almost perfect film. Impressive Tahar Rahim. A script very well crafted. It's alike "Miller's Crossin".

"Celda 211"

I liked Daniel Monzon's work. I liked the look-like Philip K. Dick work "The Warrior's Heart". "Celda 211" its a great piece of work.

But, like almost all spanish cinema: What fuck about the script? Yeah, this isn't bad but it have many whys?

Why Malamadre, the worst convict, are so Buenamadre? Why decided to be so good with the new prisioner? Why chaos reign in Spain because 3 ETA convicts are taken like hostages by the others convicts? and so on and on...

And most important: why exist a tradition in the artistic representations in Spain that in case of this always the bad guys are the cops? Since Eloy de la Iglesia (and more far far away in time) the spanish artist dignified the bad guys, the thiefs, the outsiders -in the bad way- and point to the autorities how the mother of all the problems. Yeah, the thiefs are thiefs but the cops are worse.

All right, there are bad cops, and very bad politicians, and corrupt judges, and an unfair justice system and become worst people in jail. But not always. Not on black and white. Because of this is stupid that Malamadre be better than the whole system.

Why is he so bad? Because of his voice and his acts don't fit. He's a good person, only you have to see how he act with the main character. Malamadre knows that he is a undercover prision officer and don't do nothing. Inexplicably they conect on a strange way. This don't have any sense.

The movie are really good indeed. But in the same day i've seen "Un Prophète", maybe the best movie I've seen in years, with a similar motif. Yeah, we make better movies: "Celda 211" is a good example, but we are a long way to do "Un Prophète", where criminals are criminals.

"The new avengers. vol. 3: Secrets and lies." by Bendis

Look Here.

"The new avengers. vol. 2: " by Bendis

More here.

"The new avengers. vol. 1: Breakout " by Bendis

Va a ser de las pocas entradas que haga en español. Y es necesario para entender cierta chapuza que se hizo hace muchos años y que ahora irónicamente gracias a esta colección, podemos disfrutar.

A long time ago, Forum decidió publicar las dos colecciones de los Vengadores que estaban sacando en USA. "Avengers" y "Avengers West Coast". Decidieron traducir "Avengers West Coast" por "Los nuevos Vengadores". Siglos después USA saca una colleción nueva capitaneada por Michael Brian Bendis a la que llama "The New Avengers" con los persoanjes favoritos de Bendis (Spiderwoman, Luke Cage, Spiderman, Lobezno, Iron Man y el Capitán América"). Afortunadamente, Forum (ahora Planeta) ya no lleva el tema de los Superhéroes Marvel sino el problema con las traducciones hubiese sido morrocotudo.

Sobre el Comic decir que me siguen maravillando. Es cuioso cómo han cambiado (o cómo cambiaron las cosas). Sin que el nivel sea para morirse de envidia tipo Alan Moore, Bendis y el equipo de dibujo hace un trabajo más que correcto, adulto (o maduro, según se vea) y entretenido que es lo mínimo que debería pedirse a un tipo de cosa así.

No es de extrañar que si el Comic Marvel se miró al espejo del cine hace siglos ahora se asome a la verdadera revolución en términos de historias que son las series de TV. Las colecciones se plantean por arcos argumentales y se desarrollan con la paciencia de una buena serie, destrozando las estructuras previas (sobre todo el narrador mnisciente que solia bocadillear las viñetas con texto inutil en la mayoría de los casos) y haciendolos inesperados. Ahora puedes leer un Comic de superhéroes donde no haya peleas. Cosa inpensable en los 80 donde había mínimo 2 por número. Como a veces eso era insostenible se tenían que inventar fintas estúpidas como una nueva pelea en la Sala del Peligro o cosas por el estilo (que se zurrasen entre ellos, etc.)

No sé, creo que es otro momento brillante de esta forma de arte. No creo que haya muchos que compartan esta fascinación que estoy sintiendo (otra cosa es que venda mucho, que de eso seguro).

"Mithago Wood" by Holdstock

An amusing book by the recently deceased Robert Holdstock. "Mythago Wood" containg the better and the worst of fantasy literature. Have people who enter in magic real (very interesting realms by the way), chosen ones, and strange loves.

Split in three parts the first part are the best. A World War II soldier returns home to find her brother obsessed by hers father's work about the medieval wood who surround his Manor. A wood that materialize ancients leyends in flesh-and-bone dangerous people.

The other two parts are few interesting for me: all the things are predictable and lack few space for surprises. Anyway, the story is interesting.

This is the first book of a tetralogy... I dont think that I'll read more. One it's enough.