Frank Miller's looking a lot like Old Man Freddy Krueger w/o his trademark make up these days.....

                   I swear they look like they could be twinsies!

"What do you think of Frank Miller Doing the JLA?"

TGIF People!

Welcome to a very rare Friday edition of the House.

You all know by now that unlike the honest working man and The Beatles, I, Mr.Morbid, prefer to work 4 days a week, instead of the customary 5 or in some cases 8. But with my mind buzzing and working overtime about certain events and topic in the comic world, I felt I couldn't wait until monday to unload my thoughts and opinions on at least one of these topics.

What topic I'm am I talking about?? How about this already hot topic I read from Bleedingcool.com, that's proving to be so hot, it's positively incendiary!

Undercover movie execs apparently went to some random comic book stores to gage fan/store owner interest in what the ideal JLA roster would be for them if and when DC ever finally puts out a JLA movie.

So despite doing a horrible job of trying to pose as random comic fans(go figure), the topic soon took a rather nasty and unexpected turn, when the question was asked "What do you think of Frank Miller doing the JLA?"

Yeah. That was an actual question, by actual movie execs.

Quickly, but not unsurprisingly, many fans and industry professionals alike all had an opinion on this, and also not unsurprisingly, it wasn't all positive.

Take legendary comic artist Kevin Maguire for example.

Here's how he feels about the whole thing:

Kevin Maguire‏@maguirekevin

NO FUCKING WAY!JUST NO FUCKING WAY!-- What Would Be Your Reaction To a Frank Miller Justice League movie?http://bcool.bz/SrDwGf 

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24 SepDon ‏@Secretoriginz

@maguirekevin Like excited or angry?

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24 SepKevin Maguire ‏@maguirekevin

@Secretoriginz Angry. Miller doesn't love the characters, he shits on them.

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I couldn't have said it any better myself.

But I will expand on those thoughts with some proof provided by Miller's own work.

Of course who doesn't already know and love his legendary "The Dark Knight Returns" work right?
Well what were the JLA doing in that story? Anyone?

Nothing, because they were disbanded by order of the US Government. They let themselves, in the story, be   told what to do and when to do it by a single government, even if it was our own. As we all know, that's not how the League really works, since they're supposed to be above all that, and not solely employed by or be mandated to any country's government.

On other words, they're the ultimate in independent workers.

But not in Frank Miller's world they weren't, especially Superman, who was reduced to being used as a blindly loyal government lapdog.

What's worse, is that that line of reasoning was used in Darwyn Cooke's excellently written and drawn New Frontier story.

In the very beginning of that one, Superman's used primarily as a tool of the US Government as well. But unlike Miller's Superman, Cooke's Superman quickly realizes he's been duped, and decides from there on, he's nobody's lapdog or tool.

Later on, in the 2005-08 abortion of a series Miller worked on called All-Star Batman and Robin, Miller once again ridicules and belittles the Justice League by choosing to portray them as Stupid, petty, and disorganized gods with power. Basically treating them as nothing more than jokes, as pointed by that series' Batman.

So basically, would you trust this man with DC's biggest franchise outside of Superman and Batman?

Yeah I don't so.

Let's hope enough dissenting fans and comic industry professionals let their voices and opinions be heard, so that this little scenario never, ever becomes reality, no matter how desperate Warner Bros. might be at the moment.

Have a good Friday, and an awesome weekend folks!:)

"Pictures at an exhibition"

Feeling lazy today.
Well yeah, that's my usual default mode, but today I'm really feeling it.

To amuse you all though, here's some more artwork of mine. Hopefully if you all look at the pretty pictures, then you'll forget about the pure amount of laziness that runs throughout this whole post:)

First up is a piece I call "Frank Miller Time." I did this one a few years ago, using just the Paint.net program. The use of shadow, the Frank Miller lighting, so to speak, is where the title comes from.

And of course like most works I do, I usually do a few variations on a theme, you know, because a girl has to have variety right Starr?:)

Next up is a recent piece starring the brand new rebooted Captain Marvel/Shazam bust. I liked it so much I snatched up the picture and went from there.

 Yeah, this is pretty much what CM would say concerning his reboot. Well at least the Johns' version would, since he's supposed to be more "mature" and adult-like now. Bitch please;)

And here 's the lighter version. I couldn't decide which version to stick to since I liked them both.

This next one's based off a silly pic taken of me. I call it "All up in my brain!"
Again, just using Paint.net, and the Glass tile plug-in function that I was massively in love with for a while as you can tell.

I was probably in making CD/Album cover art state of mind with this one.

Here's a very early attempt at what I normally do now, with action figure skits. Yeah it's slightly out of focus and crude-looking as fuck, but you have to start somewhere:)

More Frank Miller Time variations.

Here's a recent piece I did. The actual spider picture is real, as I took it while in the backyard. I guess I was trying to go all National Geographic or something, but I was really amazed at catching the spider in the midst of wrapping up his dinner/leftovers. 

And who better to stick next besides an actual spider, but Spider-Man right?

 This is the original one, while the one up top looks like a still from a video or film.

 And finally, because I just had to go there.......

Wouldn't you?

Does the title of this post sound vaguely familiar? No? Maybe if you were a big ELP, or Emerson, Lake, and Palmer fan you would.

It's cool, they not as popular nowadays as they were back in their hayday, but they still rock. 

To me, they're on par with Pink Floyd in the experimental, wall of sound/atmospheric way they compose their music. And they should, since they're both labeled Progressive Rock, or Prog Rock for short.

And if any you smart-asses out there mentions a certain band with the letter R in their name who's also considered Prog Rock, I swear to Jeebus, I'll kidney-punch you through the screen until you piss blood for a month!

And on that cherry note, here's some outro music for you all while you eat your high-classed cheese and crackers and sip your wine......you know, because that's what art-lovers do when there at a exhibition. Well at least that's what I've been told:)

Here's some ELP, with "C'est La Vie"!

Yes the video's kind of gay, but the song isn't, I assure you:)