3-07-10 Coming Soon To A Theater Near You

Frank Miller is a tricky topic in the Mc$oss universe. Paul has always maintained a healthy distaste of Mr. Millers work, while I fondly look back at The Dark Knight Returns and Daredevil: The Man Without Fear as great stories in comic history. In recent years I have soured on not only Frank's comic work but his film work as well.

Sin City was a great film in my opinion. It translated the essence of the comic directly to the silver screen like no other movie before or since. 300 was a bit over the top for me, but still a money making film and received critical acclaim. Then came The Spirit ... let's just say that this movie REALLY took some creative liberties with Will Eisner's source material. Luckily for the movie-going public the movie tanked, halting any hopes that good ol' Frank would get his hard-boiled, grim and gritty hands on another classic property. But ... what if it did well? What other movie could get the Miller-Noir treatment?

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2-13-10 Living Death

The morning after. The infamous words, "I'm never drinking like that again." All empty promises.

-Gint

2-21-10 We're Not 21 Anymore

My brother, 9 years my junior, is a fairly good gauge of what I am and am not capable of at my advanced age. Youth is truly wasted on the young.

-Gint

2-3-10 The Good Son

I find it hilarious when someone else is the unsuspecting victim of this particular brand of brotherly humor.

-Gint

1-26-10 A Good Cry

In January of 2000 Mr. McGinty and myself began to have classes together as Graphic Design students at Pittsburgh Technical Institute. Beside the awful girl problems we had in common we also shared a love of pop culture and 80's cartoons. One of the moments that solidified our friendship, I believe, was the process of revisiting “Transformers: The Movie”.

Of course we both remembered that a few bad things happened in this feature film, supposedly created for the viewing of small children. Surely we both exaggerated the devastating effects this flick had on our childhood, right? Nope. Within the first 15 minutes of the movie all of the characters we all knew and loved had been brutally murdered before our eyes and replaced with posers like Wheelie and Galvatron. I'll never forget the moment “shit got real” for me when I watched the red mist seep out of Prowl's dead eye sockets as Megatron gunned him down in cold blood. But now that I think about it, that kind of tough love in my cartoons got me ready for the harsh reality of the real world. The generation of today will have a REALLY bad time dealing with the realities of job loss, failed relationships, and AFC Championship game loses. I guess we were lucky.

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