Lit MACLUNKY -- The Lit Forum Maclunky Thread, v3

Yeah the way the run was put out was really confused. I find that initial arc to be utterly brilliant. Such a good update of Golden Age Superman for a modern age.

 

If you don't mind sharing... which office? And what kind of job? I can understand if you want to keep it private though.

 

Just a committee internship. Nothing that special.

 

That's still impressive. Congrats dude!

 

Thanks everyone!

 

From Thrawn (not plot-related, non-spoilery):

...I had to read that sentence three times until I finally got that it does NOT say "and/or".

 

While political cultures and environments can vary quite a bit, one general rule that ought to be reliable for you is: Develop a reputation for being discreet, do what you're asked to and do it well - those two things should be enough to hopefully open a few doors in the future.

 

After finishing the various Han Solo and Lando Calrissian books, I reread Star Wars for the first time in a while a few days ago, and just started on Splinter of the Mind's Eye for the first time today.

 

Nice. Splinter is a very good sci-fi adventure story. Feel like an old pulp at points

 

Splinter IS old pulp.

Just got back from Wonder Woman. I'd put it up with the top third of MCU movies, similar but inferior to Captain America. Still a little too much with the DCDark look and feel, leans a bit heavy on the visual effects spectacle for the major battles (a problem in some of the Phase 3 marvel movies as well, but Marvel is already self aware- seethe intro to GotG 2), and the overall message still falls into the classic DC vs Marvel story divide, but the characters are done far better. More natural, with more humanity and depth than any DC movie since Dark Knight at least.

 

I guess I don't know what this even means, anymore. What about WW was "DCDark" in either look or feel? It felt no different to any of the early Marvel films in general tone. Cap wasn't "DCDark" and neither was this.

If anything, it was so vanilla MCU-y that it was difficult to imagine it was taking place in the same universe as MoS.

 

Not tone in this case, but in look. The cinematography and color filters may have been chosen to add to the WWI feel, but the mix of filters, camera movements, and cgi spectacle all evoke other DC films.

 

Really? I felt like it was incredibly different from the others. The stuff on Themyscira is so vibrant and gorgeous

 

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Just got informed that my paper submission for the Armitage Symposium of NecronomiCon Providence was accepted. For those who don't know, NecronomiCon is the biannual big HP Lovecraft convention in Providence, RI and the Armitage Symposium is the academic conference attached to it. My paper is an argument on how Mars influenced Lovecraft's works, why it's almost entirely absent from them, and why At the Mountains of Madness can be read as HPL's version of the many contemporary pulp space operas set on Mars.

 

Sure but the rest was not colorless either. The contrast works really well cause we are in a dark time in history. It is very similar to how half of First Avenger is shot from Steve's pov and the other half is with a more realistic color pallet. The colors are never muted in the war stuff just grimy which is fine cause it serves a purpose. The reason the darker pallet is frustrating in other DCEU films is it never fit the movie, they always did it seemingly for no reason. Here it is part of a deliberate contrast.

 

DP. Man this lag is annoying

 

"NecronomiCon" is an awesome name.

 

Another good turn for the day... dropped by my local comics shop and they had a big box of old comics for a dollar each. Including most of the XWRS Mandatory Retirement and TOTJ Redemption. So picked up that entire run in original single issues for $5.