Random thought

My comic-twitter-pated friend here at work handed me "Last Son," a Superman story wherein Supes babysits a Kryptonian boy and it's all awwwww, ain't it cute but ultimately tragic because of course this can't last.

All I could think of afterwards is: Maybe all his "kids" turn into disaffected, bitter freaks, but Batman is so totally a better father than Superman.

Even I think I'm wrong about that, yet I cannot make myself refute my own brain-dropping. So, yeah, there it is. Supes is just too...not good at the parenting thing. Bats might be hella demanding, demeaning, and intimidating, but if the end result is more superheroes, it's hard to fault the guy, is it?

Rewatch alert: The Crow

In exchanging my comic collection with my work friend, I stopped to re-read The Crow the other week. Naturally, I then had to watch the movie again. It's still almost entirely brilliant and heartbreaking, for all that it should so overwrought it collapses under its own weight. I guess it pays to beat the emo train into the station.

What makes the difference between a good movie and great movie is that a great movie keeps getting better, keeps being different with each viewing. (The same is true of any work of art, really.) ( This time, I saw faces. )

It's so hard to parse a film that was interrupted prematurely, but I have enough faith in this director that the choice of having Eric's naked face almost never shown was intentional as much as it was necessary. Such a shame that Brandon Lee's last movie would obscure him so, but it is a better metaphor for it.