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Among other things, I saw this recently. It had some kick to it.
I also think that, collectively, Kill Bill is probably one of the best films made in the last decade. Not for the reasons you expect, though.
No, I don’t intend to clarify. Because. That would mean talking about it.
I bought a VCR today. The man said it came with no RCA cables, so he sold me some RCA cables that cost half as much as the VCR itself.
I assume you can guess the punchline.
We will take the cables back tomorrow.
Gladstone Comics is back in the form of Gemstone Publishing. Same people: Gary Leach, Susan Daigle-Leach, John Clark; it just seems that they have parted ways with Bruce Hamilton. They publish Don Rosa, William Van Horn, Daan Jippes, and everything. Seems that WVH now has a son named Noel, who does Mouse stuff. While he is not as interesting as his father, the influence is clear.
There are five books, in three formats, which more or less correspond to Gladstone 1′s original debut lineup: Uncle $crooge, WDC&S, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, and DD Adventures. (Curious, on that last one, that they chose not to carry over the numbering from the first two Gladstone runs.) The first two are in the deluxe square-bound format that you might recall from the last year or two of Gladstone 2′s lifespan. The next two are in a standard, less expensive, more mainstream format. The final one is in the thick-n-small digest format (with which, you might remember, Gladstone experimented in the mid-late ’80s).
Were these not so expensive, I would have subscriptions to them all. This is important stuff. As far as I know, this is the only place where Duck comics are published in English. And there should be a sizey backlog of Rosa material, that he has built up at Egmont over the last half-decade or so.
For those not in the loop, this is the stuff which defines much of my personality, vocabulary, writing style, and knowledge of the world. Barks, Rosa, Van Horn, Taliaferro, Gottfredson. They, along with Tintin and Groucho Marx, are inadvertently responsible for the core of my being. Everyone who reads this, I recommend that you go to a comics shop and pick up an issue of Uncle $crooge — particularly one with a Rosa story. If you don’t already know what you’re in for, then you just don’t know.
There is… more.
I would have never guessed you were into those kinds of comics.
And yeah, Kill Bill was pretty good.
I would have.
But then, I guess that would have been cheating.
I like things that are good when they become old. That doesn’t necessarily mean they have to be old, or that I like anything simply because it is old.
With that in mind, it was a bit more than pretty good.
I never knew Ebert could or did write – I have new respect for the man, who used to, in my imagination, sit in a movie theater all day getting brought popcorn and coke and giving none, one or two greasy thumbs up approximately every two hours.
Thanks for setting me straight.
Ebert is the man, man.
Kill Bill, yes. Very good. One of those movies I appreciated the second I stepped out of the theatre, and kept on appreciating every second since.
Hell yes, Ebert is indeed the man. I remember one night last winter (before I had a job and was enrolled in school, or doing anything else productive for that matter) where I sat at the computer for hours, typing the name of just about every movie that I could think of just to see what Ebert had to say about it.
I think I read too much Uncle Scrooge when I was a kid. I think it has something to do with my current obsession that screams “GET THE MONEY.” Only, because my wisdom came from Uncle Scrooge comics, in which Scrooge is shown as being rich and only appears to make money on crazy adventures to find jewels and such, this didn’t help me grow up. To find my MONEY, I go to far places in the world, and then find out that people, unlike cartoon ducks, can’t do impossible things.
It’d be nice to be able to read some of these comics again, with a more thorough knowledge of the world, and of narrative. I don’t have the money to do this, so I’m just going through, looking at all of the covers.
Except the Donald Duck ones. I find Donald Duck to be too much of a pansy.
I see, I think.
I thought Kill Bill was good, but probably not for the same reasons you do. Mind you, I haven’t seen any of the films that Kill Bill takes from, or any of the films that inspired Tarantino to make Kill Bill. I like it for what it is. I definately liked it enough to see it twice on opening night, that much I know.
Now I just need to see part two.
I did say “collectively”.
The first part was… interesting. The full movie is something else.
I have done this.
Have you seen his review of North?
No. But I will!
I like it when he barely mentions the movie in question.
I was always something of a Gyro Gearloose fan, when I was younger.
…
Okay, it was really his little helper that drew me in.
Still.
I owned — perhaps still own, although I will probably never be able to find out whether or not that’s true — a single Uncle $crooge comic as a kid. It had Scroogle and Glomgold on the cover, fighting over something while standing on a girder at a construction site. I forget everything about what the story inside the comic except for one detail: a one point, a CENSORED bar covers something that someone says (a police officer, I think). Due to a miscommunication between my mother and I as to the meaning of “censored”, I thought it was a bad word for a long time.
I liked the NES game, too.
And it looks like I might be able to see the full movie in one theater-sitting, this week, if I play my Tokyo right.
WOO!
See, lots of people think this. I remember when I first taught our good friend Balbanes-Eric about the wonders of Ebert. All he knew of the man before that mystic day was that Ebert gave thumbs up or down, and was respected by some kooky people for it.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FORMULATE YOUR OPINIONS BASED ON TELEVISION
I loved Tintin.
I thought he was pretty sexy himself.