Recent content by Gwynplaine

transmetropolitan. nuff' said

The book ending was bleaker.

The part in Apocalypse Now:Directors Cut, where the crew of the boat encounters those French people still holding onto their land in the jungle, that whole sequence is thirty minutes long adds nothing to the story and really takes you out of the surreality that the rest of the movie had been...

Hentmas, American superheroes are the same. Thors hammer, Iron Mans suit, Green Lanterns ring, the common link between Japanese and American superheroes is the idea of normal people gaining great power. You could make the argument that Mutants are different but they still receive their "power"...

American culture has not been around long enough to really get a good crop of heroes. America, as a nation of immigrants, has the seeds of the storytelling tradition of every country in the world.

I think it's because Americans have always enjoyed larger-than-life characters and personalities. And as technology made the world smaller and smaller the mythic framework jumped from being based on true life, (Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, John Henry) and into the fantastic, (Batman, Superman...