The Penance Stare works on hippy thieves too

Anybody see Ghost Rider this weekend? I did. Along with $42.5 million worth of other ticket holders, once again proving that nobody really listens to critics anyway. Apparently they pretty much straight hated it.

WaffleMovies had this to say:

"I kept hoping the Scooby Doo gang would come out, rip the mask off of Cage and reveal Ghost Rider really is crazy old man Ben Affleck! That would explain so much."

Kudos to WaffleMovies for conjuring images of Freddy Prinze Jr. and Ben Affleck together in my head without making me vomit like usual.

In all reality it isn't insanely bad. Nicholas Cage's acting was the best part, surprising as that may be. But even with his mad acting chops, I couldn't get into it. There's just something about the way Ghost Rider does battle on screen just takes away any semblance of serious action.

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I'd avoid laying eyes on Ghost Rider 'till you flip past it on TBS sometime next week.


PS. Mary, if you're reading this - I apologize. I figured that 42.5 million would be enough to let you keep your job and everything. That and, there's like ... two people who read this blog anyway.

Plagiarism is Fun

I've recently rediscovered my love of comic books, in no small part due to the TV show Heroes. I've heard some people call that show the new Lost (although I'm still absolutely on the Lost bandwagon), and I've heard other people claim it has already jumped the shark.

Regardless, I watched all the episodes online, then pretty much went straight to the nearest comic book store and picked up some Spidey comics. Then I decided to sketch some of the pictures directly out of there and show everybody how well I can draw... things that other people already drew... better than I did.

Anyway, here's some Cyclops and Spider-Man goodness.

I apologize for the half naked dude in this post. My bad.

That's Colossus in the background of the Spidey image. I always love how Spider-Man's cloth eye holes can change size to express his emotions. I wish they would have figured out how to do that in the movies. Apparently here, Spider-Man is confused. Or he's got some dust in his right eye.

In the hopes of not completely alienating the few readers I have by turning this into a blog about Spider-Man, if anybody has a request for a sketch of something or whatever, throw a comment my way. It'll be good practice.