ROB'S ON ANOTHER PLANETJessica Callan, Eva Simpson And Caroline Hedley
ROBBIE Williams is expecting a Close Encounter of the Third Kind.
The 31-year-old singer reckons an extra-terrestrial invasion is inevitable, saying: "I've been dreaming every night about UFOs, every night. I can't wait to go to sleep because my dreams have been so brilliant.
"I think they are definitely on their way, seriously. Mark my words. From now until 2012 - watch out, kids."
Haven't we already seen this somewhere?
― iodine (iodine), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 13:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link
We killed Chubby by not buying enough of issues of Seaguy to ensure the whole story gets told.
― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
it quite often veers into prog rock album cover territory, and everyone talks in post-modern slogans
Was this your first time reading a Morrison series, Joe? (Sorry, I just found this amusing.)
― Chris F. (servoret), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 03:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 03:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Leeeeeeeee (Leee), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 03:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 03:30 (eighteen years ago) link
-- Chris F. (nieman...), September 21st, 2005.
Ha ha, that could actually be an unkind summary of his entire career, couldn't it? I've actually read quite a bit of Morrison, and I do prefer his less self-indulgent, more narratively traditional work (Zenith, Invisibles Vol 1, Seaguy), staid old square that I am.
― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chris F. (servoret), Thursday, 22 September 2005 09:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 22 September 2005 12:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chris F. (servoret), Friday, 23 September 2005 05:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chris F. (servoret), Friday, 23 September 2005 05:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 23 September 2005 10:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Plus, I think it's time for me to do a reread on the last issues of Doom Patrol. The issues after that last Mr. Nobody story arc never sat well with me, but I was flipping through them today and found that I liked them better in the context of thinking about this stuff as of late. The Case/Woch art team maybe wasn't the best, but it still kinda works. Also, I think I'm over resenting GM for the less savory ways that his stance on mental illness in DP #63 can be interpreted ("a world where everything is alive and significant" is not always better than the alternative), especially in light of The Filth.
― Chris F. (servoret), Saturday, 24 September 2005 06:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Saturday, 24 September 2005 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Saturday, 24 September 2005 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Saturday, 24 September 2005 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chris F. (servoret), Sunday, 25 September 2005 07:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chris F. (servoret), Sunday, 25 September 2005 07:20 (eighteen years ago) link
The actual worst part of the Grant DP run was the Happy Harbor sex men story just after the Pentagon stuff (& the TOTALLY CLASSIC Beard Hunter one-off), that was dreadful and really felt like wheels spinning. Then the second brotherhood stuff was OK, the silver age issue was meh, I LIKED the Rebis moon issue though have never convincingly understood it, and after that it was plot plot plot and fite fite fite but those issues do read better now than at the time.
I read a GM thing last night - his "World Shapers" story for Doctor Who Monthly! Not exactly vintage stuff and John Ridgway was having a serious off-day but there were a couple of moments that were immediately Morrison, that thing he does where the reader and character 1 see something big and weird, and then character 2 treats it really matter-of-factly (which of course just increases the sense of wonder for the reader)
― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 25 September 2005 09:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 25 September 2005 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link
Yeah, agree and agree (the Beard Hunter was the issue that I started back up with!). The Shadowy Mr. Evans was supposed to be Red Jack pt. 2 or something but just came off as a boring manic asshole, Gnostic Christ or not. I guess you're right that the series needed a change of pace anyway, since when GM got back to the Weird Menace thing with those issues, it didn't work anymore (because he was bored with it? There's that Weird Menace red herring/autocritique bit that I think happens right before the Sex Men issues).
― Chris F. (servoret), Monday, 26 September 2005 06:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 30 September 2005 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link
1) Your ass must be a beautiful place.2) IT'S ON SON!
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 30 September 2005 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 30 September 2005 14:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 30 September 2005 14:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 30 September 2005 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 30 September 2005 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 30 September 2005 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chris F. (servoret), Friday, 30 September 2005 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― iodine (iodine), Friday, 30 September 2005 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link
I am very mad at Quitely for the super package.
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 30 September 2005 20:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 30 September 2005 22:29 (eighteen years ago) link
I just looked at this, and you're beyond right: some chimp has copy-and-pasted an on-model S-shield over the redesigned one that Morrison and Quitely designed! It's Kirby's Superman-faces all over again.
― kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 30 September 2005 22:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― dave k, Saturday, 1 October 2005 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Leeeeeeeeee (Leee), Sunday, 23 October 2005 06:21 (eighteen years ago) link
(And then, destroy, destroy, destroy...)
― Chris Freiberg (Chris F.), Saturday, 15 April 2006 08:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― c(''c) (Leee), Saturday, 15 April 2006 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Saturday, 15 April 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm glad you were able to find some good drugs in Mke, Chris. :>
― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 15 April 2006 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― c(''c) (Leee), Saturday, 15 April 2006 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link
Amazon dopes hate it b/c it violates narrative conventions: the story interrupts itself halfway through and goes in a completely different direction and it's the most Morrisony JLA trade, in terms of the density, Invisibles references (Darkseid invades in 2012, the same year of the end of earth in Invisibles and Terrence McKenna, etc.) and lyrical weirdness (GL is on the grail quest and, standing in a forest of dead superheroes made out of stone, and he tells the new Hourman that he dreamt he was in a field where all his desires have come true, but then notices that everything is green).
― kenchen, Saturday, 15 April 2006 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Yah, this city is great-- I'm so glad that it's my home town! (I'm a Cancer, BTW-- and yes, reading your horoscope in the weekly paper for shits and giggles sometimes is a part of dopey Morrisonmania.) Pt. 2 of My Greatest Adventure today has been even more exciting so far-- I just got back from hiking through the labyrinth at Grant Park down on the South Side. It happens to be the case that one of the Seven Bridges there is down for repairs, so I decided to hack my own way out on the hike back...
― Chris Freiberg (Chris F.), Saturday, 15 April 2006 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link
personally i think the art is awful and the story is terribly paced (no tension, all release) but there's some neat stuff in it for sure.
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 15 April 2006 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― c(''c) (Leee), Saturday, 15 April 2006 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 15 April 2006 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link