The Mighty Avengers #3 Review

This issue is mostly a holding issue, not much happens with the whole Ulrton Babe. The Sentry and the Ultron Babe slug it out for a bunch of pages. The carrier almost crashes...again. And the rest of the Avengers just stand around.

-Hank Pym and Tigra-nice to see them back together again. It's not out of left feild, they have had a fling in the past. The whole ex-wife joke was not all that funny, though.

-The Helicarrier Falls--Not so exciting drama, however. The helicarrier is SHEILD's diamond elephant, it can't be destroied or even damaged much. When you see SHEILD you must have the helicarrier there too.

-They catch the falling Helicarrier--Please. Even if Sentry and Wonder man can lift the tons of weight...how do they fly and lift the weight? Why does not the helicarrier break up? nothing so big and massive could be held by something the size of a man. Chances are they would just go through the hull, still holding the chunk they have thier hands on.

-When the Ultron Babe takes over the helicarrier's computers, it uses the real Ultron face.....why?

-The Black Widow takes charge--it's a nice bit where she takes command. We know she has the strgenth and personality to do this, and all. I wonder how she is a 'level ten' though?

-The Sentry vs. Ultron Babe fight-- is just boring. They puch with 'all the power in the universe'.....and knock each other down.

As not much happens, this is just a holding 'C'.

Knight Rider 2008 Review

---So the New Knight Rider was on last night. It was not so bad, over all it gets a 'C'. As a plot movie, they had to take a lot of time to just introduce all the characters, so there was not much plot or story. Evil warriors for hire trying to take over the world has been done to death...but guess they needed a easy bad guy(s).
-K.I.T.T.-now he is a diffrent car and computer and all. He has fancy nanites that fix him up in seconds and let him change colors and make a tail fin. He can also make cell phone calls, uses GPS, satalitie up-links, and hacks other computers. That's it though. I missed no Turbo Boost.
-Mike-He is an ex-ranger who knows lots of women. The movie did not make it clearwhy he was the lone knight. He of course has a 'thing' for the female co-star.
-Sara-your standard attractive super smart woman.
-F.B.I. Lady-well shw was on the show and is a lesbian.
-Garage buddy-the guy on the show for comical stuff.

--Plot Oversights--
-So the old guy had no security for his computer program that can destroy the world? Sure he lost power...but he had a back-up. And no robot guards? And why no emergency escape plan? And why did he not have even a cell phone?
-The daughter looks a bit young to be a proffessor?
-Once they all meet up at the motel...they just stand around and get caught. They knew the bad guys were there...yet they still stood around.
-How did the daughter turn K.I.T.T. back on? Did she even know about the car? The show is a bit unclear here...was she not talking to her dad or were they working together on the car?
-The cops sure show up seconds after the big crash.
-Why did Michale Knight have to go 'away'?

--Equipment Oddities--
-The chase is odd. You have K.I.T.T. a multi-million dollar super car. Lets say he can go even just 100 miles and hour(though 300 is also possible). How do the bad guys stay in the chase? They are in a normal car. Normal cars can't even go 100 mph+. And then there is the matter of control on the crazt mountain roads. You don't get much control at 100 mph...and you have to slow down at turns.or your flip or worse. Yet...the bad guys easly chase K.I.T.T.
-Even after 25 years...K.I.T.T. still has no weapons. OK so the creator is a peace loving guy and all....but there are tons of non-lethal stuff he could have. Sonics would be a good choice
-So the car needs the nanites to be bulletproof? That's odd. The old tyme car was just normal bulletproof
-How did K.I.T.T. absorb the impact of the crash. Sure the nanites fix the car....but how did the car stay on the road? What fancy technology could make the tires stick to the road? Nanite treads?
-So the new K.I.T.T. drops out of a plane. OK...guess that works...but where to you land the huge cargo plane in the first place. People kind of notice huge cargo planes. And unless the plane will just circle in the air all the time...it can only land at air ports. That makes it easy for the bad guys to find you.

--Sad Signs--
-The love between the daughter and Michale. Sigh..it's just an over done plot.
-They use the 'we can't figure out how to end the story, so we get the good guys caught' horrable plot cheat.
-When they esacpe we get the weak daughter stop Michale from killing the bad guys.
-Mom gets killed for no reason.
-Michale races after the bad guys to get vengance for his mom's death......and does nothing.

--Well, let see if it becomes a show

The Mighty Avengers #2 Review

-This issue starts off a bit slow, showing Wonder Man joinning. Then it's back to the Ultron Babe battle. Here we get a little recap of each Avenger, via the little Stark Log boxes. I find theas logs odd. For Wonder Man, and only him, it lists the other groups he was a member of in the past. Why not for everyone else? And again, why does not the Stark computer know who Mole Man, the Molanoids and the monsters are?
--Then we get to it was the Ultron Babe that attacked Subterranea. With the wild weather, I guess. And naturaly when attacked by wild weather, Mole Man strikes back and attacks New York...right.
--Then we slow down again and show the Sentry joinning. I just don't like this type of format.
--And back to the battle. When we see all that wasted time they took to have a dynamic team, was worthless. The 'Strong Guy', 'Thor', 'Ninja', and 'Wolverine' team with the 'best' Avengers, no less, can't do anything against the Ultron Babe...except fall down.
--And slow down to the Black Widow joinning...sigh.
--Then we get to see Ares attack! Yea! Of course he just breakes his axe and gets zapped..but he tried. I wonder if he had a 'magic' Olympian axe, or just a normal one?
--Then slow down and show Wasp joinning.
--Then back to the so called battle...where the Wasp notices that the Babe looks just like her, and that it's 'Ultron'. And Ultron loves the Wasp?

--In all not so much happens in this story. Every couple of pages things slow down to show you how everyone joined. I would liked it to be all the slow stuff in #1 and #2 the Ultron Babe. The Mighty Avengers themselfs, just sit around...or fall down in this issue. I'll still give it a 'B' though

The Mighty Avengers #1 Review

This issue opens with a spalsh page showing all the (new) Mighty Avengers. The first thing I don't like so much is the little Stark File boxes. I don't mind the information, but it's just a waste of space to put thoes little 'click tab for more information'. Someone should tell them you can't click a tab in a printed comic book. And then we get to see all the Mole Man's monsters attacking, again.

Then we get the flash back of Iron Man and Ms. Marvel forming the team. They talk about how they will pick a team and not let fate do it. Then it's a couple of pages back to the fight. And back to the forming of the team. They talk of how they need a dynamic team, not just all one type of person. Then the 'hunt down the New Avengers' forshadowing is done. And back to the fight.
Then we get the split pages of picking the team and showing them in battle. Then they have the 'we need a Wolverne and a Thor and a ninja' chat. Then they recruit Ares. Go back to the fight for a bit. Then the weather of the wold goes wild. Mole Man pops up with some vague 'you killed my world' speech. And Iron Man morphs into the Ultron Babe.
I've never been a fan of this type of flashback storytelling. I'd be fine with a dozen team forming pages and then the dozen battle pages.

The Team-

-Iron Man-No problem here, founding member and is in charge and all. And I do like Iron Man.
-Ms. Marvel-Why back to Ms. Marvel? I liked the name Warbird much better. Guess it's 'Marvel' comics os it's 'Ms. Marvel'. I like her has team leader, she has come a long way.
-The Wasp-I've always liked the Wasp. Always one of my favorate Avengers. Though I'm not sure she was the 'best' Avenger
-Wonder Man-He is OK, I don't like or dislike him. And the team does need a 'Strong Guy'.
-The Sentry-Ugh. I have this character. Such a lame Superman clone. And a Lame '1950's pulp' story. And he is crazy too. Guess he will 'die' soon enough though.
-Black Widow-I like her too. She has that nice, hard edge.
-Ares-I have no idea where he came from. Sure I've seen the God Ares a bunch of times in the Avengers books....but the Ares living on Earth with a kid? I don't read every Marvel book..and I don't like it when I miss stuff. His character is tough enough for a 'Thor' and 'Wolverine' character.

The 'Thor', 'Wolverine' and the 'Ninja'. A ninja? In 2008? Ninja's are so last century. I just don't think they are 'so cool' anymore. A 'Thor' I'd guess is seprate from a 'Strong Guy' that every team must have. Thor for the vague mystical commection? And simple brute force? And the 'Wolverine'. This is the worst one. Even Wolverine is not Wolverine, not in a group. It's not like the group will let Wolverine BE Wolverine. Wolverine understands that to save lives/the world you might need to kill, not just knock the bad guys down. The rest of the group will never go for this, so why bother having a 'Wolverine' there at all. Say Doctor Chaos shows up and wants a zillion bucks or he will crash the moon into the Earth. 'Wolverine' runs up and beheads him. Will the rest of the Avengers pat him on the back and give him a cigar?

Polt Problems-Why was Mole Man attacking again? Just to have a monster bash?
-Why did not Iron Man or Wonder Man or The Wasp figure out that they are fighting 'Mole Man ' monsters? They have all fought them before. Why does not the 'Stark Log' identify them?
Ultron-so now ultron is a 'Termanator' type Babe? What? Why? Ultron is a metal robot, with an iconic look. If your going to make a whole new character, why not give them a new name? This was not Ultron, at least Ultron in name only.

In all I give it a 'B'. There are problems, but not too many big ones.

Fiction Descriptions (1)

A list of fictional descriptions I use for various things found in fiction, be it Movies, TV shows, Novels or Comic Books.

Cabbagehead-This is where a character, who should know better, plays dumb and acts like they don't know something they should know. This is typicaly done to give the readers/viewers information they need in the plot.

Technobable-This is meaningless science sounding talk.

White Elephant-This is an important items that is lost accendently, often by carelessness, to draw out a stoerline.

Diamond Elephant-This is an important, iconic item that the character can never, ever loose. No matter what the character wil get the item back by the end of the story.

A Causal Effect-This is where something happens to a specific item or character becasue it won't matter in the long run.

G-Clothing-This is odd clothing that no matter what covers a characters private parts.

Deep Pockets-This is the ability of a character to carry around a large amout of bulky items unseen, until the plot calls for them.

Phantasmal Death-This is a dramatic looking death for a character, at least when it happens. It gives a false sense of drama at that time. Though the character will pop up later, having just ducked in time or whatever.

Anything Power-This is a power that can do anything. Almost.

Anythingneasha-This is when a character forgets they have an anything power and what they can do.

"The pen is mightier then the sword, if it has been sharpened to a fine point, dipped in deadly poison and is thrown from ten feet away. But really, you're better off with a sword"--Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

"The perfect society will occur only when kings become philosophers and philosophers are made kings" --Plato

My first comics

I've been reading comic books for a long time, for just about as long as I can remember. My first two comic books were G.I. Joe and Transformers.

G.I. Joe-as a kid I was naturaly into G.I. Joe. Not many boys can resist the cool military stuff. And I watched the cartoon. During the cartoon I saw commercials for the G.I. Joe comic. The first ever TV commercials for a comic book. Then were short cartoon teasers of the story line and cut off with a cliffhanger that froze on the cover of the comic book. So I ran out and got the comic.

Transformers-I always liked the idea of shape changing robots. I was a Transformers fan from day one. It was not long until I found the Transformers comic. I can remember finding the four-pack of issues one through four at Bluelers. Then came out issue five and I was hooked.

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"--Neil Armstrong

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"--President Franklin D. Rososevelt

"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration" --Thomas Edison

"Strive to be the greatest man in your country, and you may be disappointed; strive to be the best and you may succeed."

--Benjamin Franklin

Reports are that Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow! Guess we are all in for more winter.

Yo Joe

Guess it had to happen...a G.I Joe movie.

I've heard theas actors(might) be in it..
Dennis Quaid … General Hawk

Channing Tatum … Duke

David Murray … Destro

Arnold Vosloo … Zartan
Joseph Gordon-Levitt … Cobra Commander

Sienna Miller … The Baroness

Marlon Wayans … Ripcord

Rachel Nichols … Shana ‘Scarlett’ O’Hara

Ray Park … Snake Eyes

I'm not even sure who most of theas people are...

The American Flag

The Super Hot Sara Evans Picture!

This is the picture from Sara Evans Greatest hits. The picture that was 'too hot and sexy', and was quickly pulled off the store shelfs.

Signs your dating a loser

Not surprisingly, losers come in all shapes and sizes. You have the cheaters, the nut-jobs, and--who could forget--the high-maintenance members of imaginary royalty. Often we can mistake pet-peeves and quirks for loser-like qualities: they’re a little messy when they eat, they have an obsession with High School Musical , or they have serious addiction to shopping. These things can be annoying and silly, but we all have things that make us who we are.


Relationships are meant to be about compromise A person who also seems to hide behind their exterior-side (AKA clothes, music, extreme desire to be different/fit in) can show that they are not comfortable with who they are. Some losers can be more detrimental than others. While some signs signal the conceited and emotionally-needy, others are red flags for abuse.

So watch for these clear signals:
1. Rough Treatment-They will hurt you on purpose. If they hit you, pull your hair, kick you, shove you, or break your stuff!
2. Quick Attachment-I Love You on the second date? Uh oh, sounds like shallow emotional and codependency! Run, run, run!
3. Frightening Temper-If they’re scary, you’re allowed to be scared. Anger happens, but don’t get that confused with hostility.
4. They Kill Your Self-Confidence-If they repeatedly puts you down, blames you for things you didn’t do, or is so self-involved that they ignore your feelings they’re emotionally abusing you. If they think you’re “not good enough” for them, it just goes to show they’re not good enough for you!
5. The Reputation-They have one, and it’s not good. Some losers will even elaborate on past bad stories, seeing them as victories or war-wounds that lead them to future entitlement. They’re not winners, they’re just plain losers.
6. The Mean and Sweet Cycle-One minute they’re happy, the next they’re sad. One minute they’re nice to you, the next, they hate you. Sound familiar? Don’t let them apologize for repeated behavior. Take it as a sign that they’re just unstable.
7. They Want Your Life-They’re paranoid when you’re out, they want you to hang out with only them, drop all your outside interests, and are making you crazy. Before you go psycho, get out!

So take a look at the person your dating...see any of the seven signs?

Porn on the Internet

With the advent of the Internet, porn is everywhere. A recent study found that there are 4.2 million pornographic websites on the Internet. That means that 12 percent of all web pages on the Internet are porn sites. Another neat statistic found that 42.7 percent of all users on the Internet look at porn.

The anonymity allows anyone with an Internet connection to have free reign to all porn that exists on the planet. Whatever you want, it’s yours. So that’s great. Porn is easily accessible and caters to whatever desire you have, totaly.

A Deadly Chemical

A new, deadly chemical has made the news. Dihydrogen Monoxide!
--It is found in the tumors of fatally ill cancer patients
--In it's gaseous state it can cause severe burns
--Excessive inhalation can kill
--It is a major component of Acid Rain
--It can devastate entire communitits

And what is this chemical, Dihydrogen Monoxide? Water.

"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all" --Aristotle

A Chely Wright Picture

Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson

Four US Navy SEALS departed one clear night in early July, 2005 for the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border for a reconnaissance mission. Their task was to document the activity of an al Qaeda leader rumored to have a small army in a Taliban stronghold. Five days later, only one of those Navy SEALS made it out alive.

This is the story of the only survivor of Operation Redwing, fire team leader Marcus Luttrell, and the extraordinary firefight that led to the largest loss of life in American Navy SEAL history. His teammates fought valiantly beside him until he was the only one left alive, blasted by an RPG into a place where his pursuers could not find him. Over the next four days, terribly injured and presumed dead, Luttrell crawled for miles through the mountains and was taken in by sympathetic villagers who risked their lives to keep him safe from surrounding Taliban warriors.

A born and raised Texan, Marcus Luttrell takes us from the rigors of SEAL training, where he and his fellow SEALs discovered what it took to join the most elite of the American special forces, to a fight in the desolate hills of Afghanistan for which they never could have been prepared. His account of his squadmates' heroism and mutual support renders an experience for which two of his squadmates were posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for combat heroism that is both heartrending and life-affirming. In this rich chronicle of courage and sacrifice, honor and patriotism, Marcus Luttrell delivers a powerful narrative of modern war.

Another Sara Evans Picture

The Famous Double Standard

We live in a world fueled by entertainment, that much is obvious. Whether it be who's screwing who, or who just got divorced after knocking up another person, they are constantly on our minds.
You hear all the time people saying "Celebrities are people too".
We say this all the time, but I wonder if anyone has even bothered looking deeper than the orginial context. When we badger celebrities for an autograph or their latest personal gossip, and others reply, saying, "They're only human, and we should treat them as such." Well, why doesn't that little saying carry over to when our infamous little celebrities get into a wee bit of trouble?
You can't tell me that if I got pulled over while driving and I got a DUI, that I would be told to go to rehab and that's it. Plus, if I was caught using drugs while still on probation for that little mess up earlier, they'd send me right back to rehab. Look at what fame and fortune can buy us...a "Get Out of Jail Free" card.
I totally agree that all people should get second chances, but what makes me upset is when celebrities get a few more second chances than others. If they are just people, too, as everyone claims, then let them fall for their own mistakes and go to jail, and atone for their actions the way we have to when we screw up.
What are our future generations going to treat the famous like? Will they just get a slap on the wrist and a stern talking-to? These questions have to come to mind when you think of our children and what they are being raised around. People like Paris Hilton, Britney Spears , and Lindsay Lohan, are setting horrid examples for the future leaders of our country.
Corruption is digging its roots even deeper to the psyche of the human mind, and telling us that it's all right to do these things, as long as you are rich or famous.
In conclusion I restate my earlier comment: If celebrites are people too, then treat them EXACTLY the same way we are...the good and the bad.

Sara Evans Biography

Sara Evans was born Feb. 5, 1971, in Boonville, Missouri, and raised on a farm near New Franklin, Missouri. Two of her brothers began playing instruments, at when Evans was 4, her mother discovered that her daughter could sing.Helping to support the household, earning $50 a night. When Evans was 16, she began performing every Saturday night at a club near Columbia, Missouri, a gig that lasted two years.

Sara Evans moved to Nashville in 1991 and met a musician from Oregon named Craig Schelske who had a band with his two brothers. She headed back with them to Oregon in May 1992 but returned to Nashville in 1995 to record demos. In late 1995, songwriter Harlan Howard heard Evans sing a new demo of his classic "I've Got a Tiger by the Tail" and said, "Girl, I have been looking for you for years to sing my music. You're great!"The tape of the song was passed along to RCA, which released her retro, twangy debut Three Chords and the Truth in 1997. It failed to make a commercial impact but was praised by critics. For her second album, Evans tried mainstream contemporary country, and took "No Place That Far" to No. 1.

The title track from her third album, Born to Fly, also reached No. 1. Restless arrived in 2003. In 2004, Evans was the most-played female singer on country music radio and also performed at the 2004 Republican National Convention. In 2005 Evans released the album, Real Fine Place, was propelled to No. 1 on the country charts and No. 3 on the pop charts.


Then she released Feels Like Home through Cracker Barrel stores. People magazine named Evans among its annual "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" for 2005. In 2006, R&R announced Evans as Female Vocalist of the Year in its 2006 Readers' Poll. Evans married Craig Schelske, an aspiring politician, in 1993 and filed for divorce in 2006. Evans and Schelske have three children: Avery Jack Lyons (born 21 August 1999), Olivia Margaret (born 22 January 2003) and Audrey Elizabeth (born 6 October 2004).

Sara Evans Picture!

This is Sara Evans, one of my favorate Country music sinngers.

Texting

The internet and texting has brought on a whole new way of communication.
Check out this text message, for example:
sew lyke i totlally saw my bf jamey hangin wit kathy n i told dat ho 2 get away from mi man. WtF M i RiTe????1/?! i told the grrl that i wuz gunna KiCk hEr AzZZz ~~**LoLOLoL**~!!1 wut shud i do next??? luv <3rebbeca<3

I just don’t understand what Rebecca’s thinking here.(Note that Rebecca is not a real person)
No no, I can see why she wants to kick Kathy’s ass; it’s completely understandable to feel angry toward someone who you perceive as trying to steal a loved one away from you. The thing that confounds me about Rebecca is why she writes that way.
You’ll notice thousands of people text similar to this. The Internet’s degradation of the English language has become at once bad and familiar.

Who cares though, right? What’s the big deal if it doesn’t even matter? Well, it does matter.
If this nonsensical phrasing to continue, it’s going to spill over into places where it doesn’t belong. But before we tackle how to stop this problem, I’m going to show you why it’s a problem. Let’s analyze this entire trend of abuse towards language, shall we?
Here are the problems I see with the whole thing:

1.It’s difficult to read. Maybe I’m just too old to understand what you hip teens are doing these days, creating your own Internet terminology. When did the English language go out of style in favor of the complete bastardization of coherency? I challenge anyone to be able to read a passage like the aforementioned above without pausing to try to figure out what is being said at one point. Perhaps when typing something out like this, you’re attempting to stand out from the crowd and make yourself look more interesting than you are? Well, here’s the kicker about that—if you’re trying to stand out from the crowd, you’re only lumping yourself into a crowd of people that appear to not be able to grasp the concept of correct pronunciation. It does not look special. Ok, admittedly, I have seen some cool things done with ~~*things like this*~~ that have looked nice, but that only is acceptable in sprucing up your name to look pretty. Other than that, it is UsELeSs.

2.Complete lack of aesthetics. As mentioned above, there are rare instances when this works. However, 99% of the time, it renders whatever you are reading into an abomination of sloppy characters. It gives a connotation of immaturity, or even stupidity, as many probably assume that you cannot craft a sentence on your own. It’s ugly and makes you look stupid.

3.It’s not practical! The amount of time it took me to write that entire first paragraph is probably the same length of time needed to write the rest of this article. For a final payoff that is both obnoxious and difficult to read, why do so many continue to waste precious time purposefully misspelling words and adding random capital letters where they don’t belong? Do some of you honestly not know how to spell some words so you just make up how they sound through fonetix (spelled incorrectly to prove a point)?

4.You’re hurting your future. Typing in such a fashion, you grow accustomed to the constant use of poor grammar. What happens when it’s time to buckle down and write that huge research paper you left til the last minute? You’re going to have a much harder time than usual completing it because you will not be used to using proper grammar. P.S. Til is not a word!

5.Overall, there is no point.



So don’t just do yourself a favor, do the world a favor. Write and txet the right way. The future of the Internet is in your hands.

A class project gone wrong

An elementary school class started a class project to make planters to take home to their parents. They wanted to have a plant in it that was easy to take care of, so they decided to use cactus plants. The students were given green-ware pottery planters in the shape of clowns which they painted with glaze.

The clown planters were professionally fired at a class outing so they could see the process. It was great fun! They planted cactus seeds in the finished planters and they grew nicely, but unfortunately, the children were not allowed to take them home. The cactus plants were removed and small ivy replaced them and the children were then allowed to take them home instead.

The teacher said cactus seemed like a good idea at the time!

Look I now have a Blog!