Update

It’s been a looong while since the last post.  So instead of a single topic, this one will be a multiple-post-in-one

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POST FOR FEBRUARY 15:  GLEE!

After six weeks of not visiting the comic book shop, I was finally able to go back to Druid’s Keep.  I picked up more than 20 comic books and was fortunate enough to buy a new drawer-type box for my comic books.  Going back to the office, carrying the box with the comics inside, I realized that I am feeling something which I haven’t felt for a long time.  It’s like the feeling you have when you were just a small child and you were waking up Christmas morning and eagerly anticipating the gifts that you will be opening.  It’s like the feeling that you have when you were a small child and you were inside the department store in the toy section or inside the grocery in the chocolates and candy section.  It’s just one word:  glee.  And I suddenly understood what Ruel was telling me way back when he explained to me why he does not want to pick up my comics for me:  “I want you to experience that feeling that you get when you buy and smell a stack of new comic books”

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POST FOR FEBRUARY 25:  NICE HOMILY

This day’s gospel is about the temptation of Jesus in the desert by the devil.  I have heard this story many times and have heard the various homilies associated with it done by various priests in varying churches.  Then came Father Matthew in EDSA Shrine giving this insight:  this lenten season, we are being asked not just to turn away from evil but instead, to also start doing more good.  Nice idea, no?

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REACTIONS ON MARVEL’S “CIVIL WAR”

I’m going to keep this short since I don’t want to go emotional (ballistic) on the current crop of Marvel writers involved in this project.  Here goes:  the idea for the story is great.  Thought-provoking, actually.  I’m not much of an art person so I won’t comment that much but I do like the art.  It’s the execution that bugs me.  The story ended pretty “quickly” … and very “lamely”.  I’m not saying this because I’m anti-registration.  It’s lame because I read how Captain America defended his stand in “Amazing Spider-Man 537″ and the way he defended his point is nowhere consistent in how he acted in Civil War 7.  If there’s one thing I hate, it’s inconsistency.  Plus the fact that the underhanded tactics (cloning Thor and then Clor killing a hero, the act of hiring super villains to reel in the unregistered “heroes”, building the human rights-violating negative zone prison) of the pro-registration camp did not go “unpunished”.  I know, I know, the editorial board already commented that the ramifications of “Civil War” will be seen in future issues of  various Marvel comics but come on, be responsible in the message that you are trying to convey here because I am not seeing anything in the positive.  ==============================

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REACTION ON SPIDER-MAN UNMASKING IN “CIVIL WAR”

I finally found the right words to defend my stance.  My stance being:  that’s a load of crap!!!  Spider-Man would never have unmasked in public even if MJ and Aunt May “force” him to do so.  Spidey knows too well the (greater) danger that this stupid stunt will bring him and his love ones.  “With great power comes great responsibility”.  And in all my years of reading Spidey, his greatest responsibility is his family.

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That’s all for now folks

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