February 21, 2020

JOKER (no NOT the movie review just as of yet!)

Hello from the CLOWN PRINCE OF CRIME HIMSELF....                                                                         "So it has come to my very deranged attention that you have been trying to learn about me through my old dead foe at least  I really want HIM to be in that position so very soon! Still  I  know that you  and many others admire that floppy fool for always trying to catch yours truly.... as always I am very much like an eel and shock both of you to your bloodied cores.... So I will bid you farewell before you get lost in my bedeviling trade named after me so get on without me if you dare with JOKER seen here with my face on the cover 

               seen here. I will be seeing y'all for as the title of this blog says for my movie ta-ta till then!"                                                                                  Boy that was rather scary giving the opening prestation to a madman huh?, like he said let's not hold back in getting into his story that is by writer Brain Azzarello and artist Lee Bermejo. It came out originally when Christopher Nolan's second film of BATMAN'S twenty oh eight. "Oh wasn't  Heath great as me, Mister Byrd...!"Still here are you JOKER?, I thought you had decided to do something fun while waiting to get into a debate about your own personal experience of watching your film with me very soon. "Just remember now that you are capable of being killed if I don't love this upcoming release of my book you have been warned sir!"                                                    As I was saying JOKER is part of Decetvice Comics Black Label imprint an has a low life thug named Jonny Frost seen here 
 waiting for our man of the hour to come walking out of the gates of Gotham's mental instainty intuition called ARKHAM ASYLUM.
 The Joker and Frost set his plans in motion of reclaiming his strength on his old territories of crime throughout Gotham. We see that on top of being a wee bit crazy Joker is... "Teaming up with my pal Penguin is so rather cartoonish don't you know..." Mister J can I please continue, he is giving me the middle finger with a sly slime, so I think we are okay I hope! He is on the lookout for his foes mostly the BATMAN while he is also after a certain attorney known as Harvey Dent who has a beef with his latest protege Mister Frost. Jonny it seems isn't just a want be upcoming punk, he has a petty personal problem         

with his ex wife... something called a divorce in the works. The more that Jonny is with Joker he sees.... "Tell them what happens to the Frosting bad boy..." Joker is blowing at his pointer finger, Well okay if you really want to leave the best part out, I just guess it will have to be as you want Joker! So the Joker proves that he really is insane by shooting Frosting  boy while in a fight with the BATMAN then of course returning to ARKHAM!                                        The art in this by Bermejo sets darkness all over each character like they are diseased with no hope of any cure whatsoever. Just like in BATMAN YEAR ONE but this time it is reversed that BATMAN is merely hinted at.... "Now whose the insane one now MATT?" As Joker walks away from the body he just left hanging in an ice house with a ice pick through the heat... he laughs a low gritty bit of air from his lungs. "Well I think I won't be surprised if you can see my new film after all"

February 12, 2020

BATMAN YEAR ONE

BAT FANS,  ( OR THE SIMPLE COMIC BOOK READERS and readers of this very blog)                           Have I Mister Matt Byrd ever gone into my whole history of knowing the history of BATMAN or his true self better known as Bruce Wayne... maybe in parts I have. Yet I do know that at the same time I have not as well...and still that will be a blog post for another time. For right now besides trying to decide when the latest film of his arc foe simply known as JOkER will be view by me is as I said last month in "As Promised,before heading to Adventures..." that I have two more comic trades to punch myself over the point of reading before seeing that movie. Here's the very two of which I am deducting in my edvicde files 
 must informed set of overall demanding detailed information on both case studies of said adversities... with that being said we are looking  at the one on the far right.                            BATMAN YEAR ONE came out in nineteen eighty six after the company wide crossover event called "INFINITE CRISIS". Which Dectevicte Comics put out to do two things, which was to go head to head against Marvel's SCERET WARS  twelve iusse miniseries at the time, and to finally separate the many decades of their heroes histories so that readers of their books could understand their favorite heroes in current times.  The Genesis of this story was coming from the mind of Frank Miller whom had grand stuff over at Marvel with the lesser known character known as Daredevil. What does he know of BATMAN your wondering well... it just so happens that he wrote and drew BATMAN'S last story where the character of Bruce Wayne comes out of retirement simply called "THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS". He was more than excited to take on a new way of experiencing BATMAN'S origin, still this time around he only wanted to be the writer and was paired with David Mazzucchelli for the art chores of this project. Which was presented in single iusse form of the BATMAN comics # 404 through #407 with these as the covers of each part of                                                       
                     the single iusse format. As I said both Wayne and Gordon are besides not having directly met in this yarn but they will before all is complete... each has personal goals and objectives that they realize hope and fear of their honing their skills become the best of not just partners or somewhat friends they understand how very much each man is just an individual human being.                                                 There is something very surprising in this that Frank gave the reader that is a great twist on a certain other relative of BATMAN'S James Gordon character. I'm not going to spoil that surprise for anyone of you who may want to pick up  this trade. As to how much does any of this really relate to the JOkER.... I will say since it's the beginning reimagining of an eigty year old set of characters he's only hinted at with Gordon waiting for his new friend on a rooftop.... 

                                 

February 10, 2020

Looking for something new on Netflix....


Hey there everyone who is or isn't a binger watcher of your added streaming services whatever they maybe!                                                        Okay so it just seems a little off beat that I would be making a blog entry in the middle of the day right...and I should be at work at Albertsons right?, well today they have me scheduled at one for my starting time, I have been watching what I normally do to ten in the morning then I went looking for a DVD set to start or re watch again for the first time in a long time. The DvD series currently on yours truly brian of late is the series seen here 
 the ones on the top are the HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE set from 2007 through 2008 that ran on the cable channel Cartoon Network. Yet that is a another blog posting on its own making.                         Today's blog post as I said is about something on Netflix  and yes knowing me as most  of you do that this series is comic  book related, but  it  is not super hero infused at all. I have to admit  that  I only have very little true knowledge about this story as whole other  than that it was written by author Stephen King's son Joseph Hillstrom better  known to book readers as Joe Hill and comic artist Gabriel Rodriguez on a project called     "LOCKE & KEY". Here is the hard cover trade,   I have   
                                       that contained the first six iusses of 

February 05, 2020

Goodbye Kirk Douglas

Hello movie lovers,                                                         I was just doing my looking on my Facebook personal page doing my thing of checking out my many updates with family and friends of also seeing what my future is like by playing a game on there. It was while looking through my friends updates that a family friend posted her most current update of the passing of Spartacus star 
 Kirk Douglas. I really know him best from Disney's live action movies from the nineteen fifties called 20,000 leagues under the sea, I remember watching it on an old VHS cassette tape in nineteen seventy nine  when movies really made me truly believe in storytelling. I had later heard of Spartacus but still till today haven't seen it. I am deeply saddened for Kirk's family because I know that they are going through hard and sorrowful moments of great fun with their dad and Granddaddy's death.                                                                I want to say that when anyone human being dies and weather they are famous or not, it gives those of us who knew them time to reflect on why we loved  them outside of just our feelings. We do know most everyone tires to make their mark of being remembered by their every day line of work, and if they can try to make ourselves comfortable and contented by having families. We all have the greatest opportunity on the part of when we have FAMILY that we have learned every life lesson and have passed it on to our children so that they can make the difference we choose not to in making the world a lot better place for their families as well.                                                                               Sorry I didn't mean to go and make this a time to share about my beliefs on how we should understand living life is or should be. I just know that in the coming weeks, I want to see some  of Kirk's work and appreciate his characters he worked at portraying. 

February 02, 2020

Football is many things.....

Hey Super Bowl fans,                                                      To all who love the game of Football I do hope that you are enjoying the 54th Super  bowl even if you're team didn't make it this given year. It  is between the San Francisco 49rs and Kansas city Chiefs. I am sure that anyone who knows me that sports of any kind are NOT MY THING! I don't  want everyone to think I hate sports I just find other things more fulfilling but I  want to say what I feel about Football in prictual in general of why it is better than even you or I are aware of if it is okay with you!                                                                                  Football is very good for keeping people of all sizes and ages from adults to children thinking about being strong about exercising your legs and arms in being active in taking what they learn from practicing and applying it to understanding every day life. Football is always if you take a moment of looking at it is men fighting against each other in the context of it being all out war in the safest way possible of in the end each team has put their  ultimate Best effort in building up hope and confidence in their hearts and souls. Still there are things about Football that are sad as well that is when any player is hurt. I love that the game gets so many people of every team excited for loving their teams all that much more...but does that give those fans the rightly means to brag about their teams, I wouldn't know because I am a man who hopes all is grand in everything we as a society do.                                                                                         I know that even Football players may at times let their egos get the better of them at times, but I have to admit we all have to remember being humble is what keeps us positive for all hopeful bits of life. It looks like the final score is KCC 31 and the 49rs 20. Have a great ground hog day as well all!