Oh, for the love of…
From Friday’s issue of The Age:
Marvel in the Middle East
March 23, 2007 - 12:01PM
Bam. Zap. Splat. Kpow!
Fans of comic book superheroes Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and the X-Men will be able to see their favourite characters when a new theme park opens in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates by 2011.
(Full article here.)
My excitement at the news about Marvel-land is overshadowed by the backwards attitude towards comics. Same old ‘wham, bam, pow!’ attitude that the media have had towards comics for so many years. It’s depressing. No matter how far the industry and the form come, it seems we’ll never get away from that campy 60s Batman show.
Shakespeare and Rembrandt could come back from the dead, start collaborating on a new series for DC (with covers by Escher), and the news stories about it would still open with sound effects.
What is it about Dubai, though? Michael and Jermaine Jackson are hanging out there, now Marvel’s opening a theme park… why are all my favourite entertainment icons going all Lawrence of Arabia? (Yes, I realise the irony of my complaining about an anachronistic viewpoint and then referencing Lawrence of Arabia in relation to the Middle East.)
Meanwhile, back at Gitoku’s hideout…
I don’t really understand the way the media works. I mean, surely journalists exist in our world too, yet they seem completely behind the times on every bloody thing! Or they make stupid predicions about what will take off ie SOON EVERYONE WILL LIVE, WORK AND PLAY IN THE VIRTUAL WORLD!
Journalists need to get some friggin’ perspective…
And on the rare occasions where they actually get onto something in a timely fashion, they beat it do death. I defy you to open any metropolitan paper, broadsheet or tabloid, and find a page without an iPod reference on it.
I just read the final paragraph of the full article:
‘Marvel is a character-based entertainment company’
I had NEVER thought of Marvel that way before!
Why aren’t people flocking to your blogs and commenting? I think Crommo is stealing all the comments.
I’m not doing anything! I’ve been wondering that same thing as you Blobs! I reckon he’s on hols or something. Away.
Has Daniel gone AWOL again?
Nope, I’m here. Private Daniel85 reporting for duty, sir!
…Then why aren’t you blogging. You always have stuff to blog about.
Yeah, but all of my blog entries are what you guys refer to as “HABs”, so it’s no loss.
What’s a HAB?
Nah, HAB’s are fine. They’re all the rage. Do it!
WHAT IS A HAB!!!
A Half-Arsed Blog, heavily reliant on YouTube embeds. (Paraphrased from the Word of Ed.)
I guessed that was what it meant…I’ve seen blogs worse than HABs though…Far worse.
Everytime I try to embed something in my blog all hell breaks loose and I just have to delete it. Oh well.
I have FOX News journalists embedded in my blog…
Hahahahahaha - Gitoku I laughed out loud.
Hey anyone - I just put up an article on SMC about Trapper Keepers, and it made me want to make a whole site about them due to the complete lack of info on the net. If anyone has any stories, memories, pics, or whatever, let me know, I want to make it a collaborative effort.
Ps- Anytime I mention SMC on X-entertianment, Matt deletes my post. I don’t know what his deal is.
Yeah, Trapper Keepers were never a big thing in Australia.
And about your posts on X-E… I dunno, I guess maybe he sees you as competition. That’s a good thing, right? Dude is the king of nostalgia sites, after all.
Yeah I guess, I’d love to have a fraction of his audience.
When are we all going to the footy at Skilled again? I know Jhools is in Perth, but we can mock-up a nice dummy to hold his place while he’s away.
Wow!….just wow!