culturebloggin'

We interrupt this Bonnaroo stuf to write down the cultural stuff I can recall:

COMICS:

-Secret War - Not my favorite Marvel book, but it was painted rather than drawn and thus is very beautiful. Also, it's sort of important for those who want to understand what's going on in the Marvel Universe right now.
-Young Avengers - Another one of those "so much better than you'd think" books. The characters are really well done and feel like real teenagers. It deals with things like race and sexuality while still having kickass fight scenes with Kang the Conqueror. What more could you want?
-Marvel Zombies - Hilarious. It's worth it simply because The Hulk eats a bunch of flesh and then turns back into Bruce Banner only to have his stomach rip open because he ate too much food.
-Planet Hulk - So maybe the story of Hulk being imprisoned on a foreign planet, then becoming a gladiator, then rebelling and becoming the emperor isn't the most original thing ever written, but it's told well enough that you won't notice. It's the Hulk story that actually gives the Hulk something worthwhile to do. It's kinda sweet. (That's an understatement.)

MOVIES:

-Transformers - I saw it at 10:30 AM this morning. It was both the dumbest movie ever made and the coolest thing I've ever seen.