Comic Books, Movies, Video Games, Animated Series...

Is there anything Spawn can't do?

Well, the movie left a lot to be desired.

And I believe the only sucessful appearance of Spawn in a Video Game That Doesn't Suck was Soul Calibur II.

But the animated series...

10 years after it premiered, Spawn: The Animated Series is available as a new, 10th Anniversary Edition, with all three seasons in one set. This isn't the first time all three seasons have been available, but when this set was released, I finally decided to pick it up.

I had two problems with Spawn: The Animated Series. The first was that I couldn't stop watching. I stayed up late a few nights just to watch an episode only to force myself to go to sleep at a reasonable hour. The second, and this seems to be an ongoing problem for many HBO series, it ended without ending.

Granted, the original Spawn comic book is still being produced; so it would be hard to come to a satisfactory conclusion for the series; but 18 episodes (six per season) is hardly sufficient to tell the story the way it deserves to be told.

I recently started buying the trade paperback collections of the comic series, and it's really interesting to see the source material for such a well-done animated series, and poorly executed movie. I'm digging the comics, althought it's making me want to read all the auxiliary material, such as the Violator, Angela, and Youngblood Series.

Well, it looks like eBay is an option. ;)

Did PAYBACK Give Up?!

Speaking of different plots...
I recently watched Payback: Straight Up -The Director's Cut. I had no idea that the director's cut was so different from the theatrical release. Kris Kristofferson wasn't in the director's cut at all, in fact, his character was played, well, voiced really, by Sally Kellerman, who never makes an appearance in the film. The whole thing about Bronson's son getting kidnapped wasn't in the director's cut at all.

It's really hard for me to say which cut I liked better. I really liked the theatrical release, and the director's cut was really well done. It's like comparing apples to oranges, almost. I really recommend watching Payback: Straight Up if you haven't seen it yet.

Latest Purchases

Well, I haven't posted in a while, but I've gotten a few new DVDs in the last month and a half since my last entry. I decided to purchase a few from Amazon.com with their 4 for 3 deal. I ended up getting the following:

• Communion
• Kentucky Fried Movie
• Marathon Man
• The Boys from Brazil

Also, since my last posting, I've bought Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters For DVD, which I have to say is just hilarious. If you've never seen the TV show, you probably won't appreciate what makes the movie just so freakin' funny. Although, most people don't find the show funny unless they're on some kind of controlled substance. Me, I don't need drugs to appreciate the absurd.

One of the interesting things about the DVD is that Disc 2 contains a "deleted movie." It's essentially a rough-cut of a slightly different plot for the ATHFCMFFT movie. Some of the scenes were spun-off into a separate episode.