combonight:

This came up a few times today. As someone who is usually a dick (to people who are dicks themselves), I really want to address why we, as comic fans, shouldn’t be such condescending assholes to people who like the movie adaptions of our favorite heroes but haven’t read the comics.

1. Everyone started somewhere. It’s impossible to come out of the womb with a copy of Essential Iron Man and every important Batman event in comic history. For a lot of people (observed from experience, so I’m sure everyone is different), cartoons served as the gateway for their love of these characters. Batman: TAS, Justice League Unlimited, Teen Titans, X-Men: TAS, etc etc etc. Being introduced to these shows introduced a lot of people to the expanded universe these heroes lived in. And good for them for picking up more reading. If they chose not to read comics, how does that hurt? My baby cousin (okay, 8, whatever) loved Batman: Brave and the Bold and I would never dream of scoffing at him because he doesn’t know some of the characters like I do. What a dick move, right?

2. Maybe we can take this chance to introduce them to the comic universe! Superheroes are more mainstream now, and that’s fantastic. Instead of treating the comic fanbase as some exclusive “READERS ONLY, NO MOVIE FANS ALLOWED!!1!!” club, we can actually take this opportunity to lightly suggest some comics to people. Your friend is really excited about the upcoming Spider-Man film? Suggest Spider-Man: Blue. Someone is a huge fan of the Nolan Batman films, you say? Let that person know you have a copy of The Dark Knight Returns if they’re interested. Don’t just shut them out because you don’t see them anywhere near you local shop, but don’t flip your shit if they aren’t interested in the reading.

3. Lol please, don’t tell me you’ve read all the stories that inspire films you love. If you have, then congratulations. That’s pretty awesome, actually. But there are so many pieces of literature that have been made into movies and shows that it’s kind of impossible that every viewer would have read them all. Same goes for comics. And you know what? Some of those movies are damn great.

You know somebody who wears Avengers shirts because they’ve watched the movies of the individual team members a million times over and they’re super hyped for the film? Good. Looks like you’ve found yourself a movie buddy. Maybe they don’t like reading or have no access to the comics and you do. Answer their questions if they have any. Tell them awesome little tidbits of information when the situation arises. But don’t you dare act holier-than-thou just because they don’t read the comics and you do. 

The comic fanbase still struggles and being an asshole to people who haven’t gotten the chance to try the reading material isn’t gonna help at all. We’re making ourselves out to be the stereotypical, narrow-minded fanboys that some people unfortunately imagine us to be. That’s not us. You know it’s not. So let’s stop being dicks, okay?

I reblog this because I want the hardcore comics fans in the 5000+ people who follows me to read this and learn a thing or two. My respect goes to you Combonight you make some very valid points in this amazing post.

I usually don’t break the fourth wall, since this is a comic related blog and all the interaction I do with my followers is kept private. I spent almost 4 days without login in because of work and when I come back I find some senseless discussion about what I assume must be kids talking trash about the Batman movies made by Tim Burton. I’ll be very blunt, you may want to dissagree, I won’t care even one little bit.

You owe the modern comic book movie trend to Batman by Tim Burton, yes you just read that.

While the trend for modern comic book movies was started with Superman (1978), it took a major motion picture studio another 11 years to try his luck again, by that time Batman wasn’t the bulletproof property that it is today, the movie was a development hell and it paid off in every single little way it could.

Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992) both had some of the most solid castings you could have in those days in a movie, hell it’s some of the most solid castings you could have TODAY in a movie!, thus making both movies a couple of very well aged masterpieces. Since both films were approached as artform based on a comic character, both movies feel like something straight out of the comic page, with less focus on realism unlike the work of Christopher Nolan which I also enjoy. I think it’s very unfair to even compare the works of both directors for the character, since they are almost generational in approach and very different in tone.

Last but not least let’s not forget about something here, the minute somebody stars talking shit about something because “it’s old and dated” you batter have a goddamn better reason than aesthetics to trash a incredible piece of cinema. Batman by Tim Burton is without a doubt one of the most accurate and faithful representations of the character in a medium outside of comics. One of the greatest comic book movies ever done. Period.

Starfire // artwork by Steven Purtill (2007)

So this week we learned that Starfire is very loose with her sexuality in the new DC launch of “Red Hood and The Outsiders” a book that is basically about a line-up of grown-ups Teen Titans. Controversy followed (as usual), this time however DC hadled the problem by stating the obvious on twitter: “We encourage people to pay attention to the ratings when picking out any books to read themselves or for their children.”

And you know what? they are damn right about it. I must be one of the very few who actually enjoyed the book, I mean it’s not the next Watchmen or anything like that, but it gives you some solid entertainment. In the end that’s all I want from my Comic Books.

Star Wars // artwork by Drew Struzan (1977)

Did you know that George Lucas made at least 10 new changes to the original Star Wars trilogy for the upcoming Blu-Ray release? (on top of the changes he did in 1997 and 2004). click on the image or here and read a solid rant of why Star Wars might be dead for some of the most hardcore fans.

Aquaman // artwork by Ivan Reis and Joe Prado (2011)

People always dismiss Aquaman as a joke, the guy you can mock in the DC universe because he has the most useless powers on the JLA, I blame Cartoon Network and the old Superfriends cartoon of this, hell even shows like Bing Bang Theroy dismiss the guy like if he was nothing!. 

Maybe the new series by the main man Geoff Jhons will make people remember that this guy is a powerhouse in the DC Universe for a reason. Aquaman, very much like Marvel’s Namor The Submariner is royalty. He is the King to all Atlanteans and lord of the seven seas in the DC universe, this guy may not fly but he can swim in 70% of the planet like nobody’s business, he commands all sea life with a though (alive or dead), and in land he can use his telepathy to hurt whoever the hell he wants, this guy skin is as thick as Superman’s and he has almost the same strength of his JLA partner. He also can stand the deepest pressures of the ocean with no need for special equipment, plus he carries around a big golden trident to kick your ass and look good doing it! Let’s give the king some respect!

I don’t usually reblog these kinds of things, but with this one here I agree a 100%, Batman & Robin was one of DC’s greatest reads of the past two years, the dynamics that Damian and Dick had as Batman and Robin were such a breath of fresh air, and I think is such a damn shame to see this partnership go, DCnU be dammed, first you take away Secret Six, now this!

Just what I needed to ruin my summer completly, In this house we are fans of comic book movies, hell, even my mother and dad tag along any time a new Iron Man or Hulk movie comes along, even the bad ones! for reasons unknow to the general public, Paramount will halt all the screenings of their movies in my country as you can see here and here. What does this mean? I don’t get to see the most waited movie of the damn summer for me (Bye Captain America!) and If this doesn’t get sorted out, I won’t be watching “Avengers” in theater either! This fucking sucks!

This of course disappoints me to no end, but after a little digging with friends in the back stage of Venezuelan media, it seems the real reason that Paramount has to stop business with Venezuela is because they had been having a hard time getting their royalties back in dollar form, for those unfamiliar with this, the Venezuelan government has an “exchange control” where we are not allowed to freely use dollars for any kind of business, and those who want to do so, have to go through bureaucratic hell, I guess Paramount just had enough of it and we, the loyal fans are to ones who pay for it, a damn fucking shame if you ask me!

…when I crop and post a specific image and somebody else just plain steal it and post it without leaving the original link for credits.

I look for good artwork to post, sometimes I find it as parts of comics, so I take the time to look for the scan and make the proper arrangements to crop it and put in here, but more than once I’ve see how some people just will take the image and post it as his own instead of hit the reblog button, furthermore, they remove the credits I give to the artist involved in said image and the company who owns the copyright to the character (if there is one), that’s rude and disrespectful man, I do this because I love comics, and I’m grateful for those people who do all this hard work for our visual delight, if you are gonna appreciate their work, they deserve your respect, or at least that you know their names.

Don’t remove credits guys, the artists and myself put some hard work to bring it to you!

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