The FAQ: Jason edition

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Permalink Reply by Lee McAlpin on January 9, 2009 at 6:02am

Jason love your open opinions on LEOG. Immortal Iron Fist is awesum jst started reading the 2nd trade and its very very nice. Also from LEOG 19 i picked up what u said was a must read Transmetropolitan vol 1 fantastic.

two questions

1. what was the first ever comic u ever read? mine was volume 1 of The Runaways and do u like Runaways or the ideas that series has.

2. Have u read DMZ by vertigo thats a really gud series if u haven't i wud recommend it it got a few of my mates into comics.

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Permalink Reply by Jason on January 9, 2009 at 8:47am

First comic I ever read? I think it was a Star Wars comic from back in the Marvel days. It was GI Joe and early Spider-Man that really got me hooked, though.

Runaways was great early on, but I haven't read it in a while. Bryan Vaughn is one of the best writers working right now.

You know, I read the first issue of DMZ. It was interesting, but not enough to keep me hooked. I remember having a particular problem with the motivations of the main character to stay in the DMZ. It felt kind of forced and unnatural, but I know I'm alone in that opinion.

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Permalink Reply by Christian Alvarez on January 10, 2009 at 4:13am

I have been meaning to ask you Jason, what do you think about The Lost Boys, the original, not the sequel.

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Permalink Reply by Jason on January 11, 2009 at 6:18pm

It's fun, but I don't know that it holds up as well as it used to. The spiky hair is just too distracting! Still, I think it easily qualifies as a cult classic.

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Permalink Reply by Christian Alvarez on January 11, 2009 at 11:34pm

Yeah it is kinda kitchy, the vampires look like 80's Metal Heads.
By the way, what is the selling point of Buckaroo Banzai, I am thinking about buying it on Amazon, so I would like to know what makes it great.

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Permalink Reply by Jason on January 12, 2009 at 2:00pm

Adventurous weirdness. It's the quirkiest kind of cool you can get in a film. Fun cast, a 'Doc Savage' premise, and a very odd sensibility.

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Permalink Reply by Snoopy on January 13, 2009 at 5:18pm

I see you got John Carpenter's The Thing on the list, that's one damn good movie, to bad people just undermined it :S.

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Permalink Reply by Jason on January 14, 2009 at 9:20am

Yep. Absolutely love that movie!

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Permalink Reply by Snoopy on January 14, 2009 at 9:41am

Same here, especially the part when Norris' body transforms and his head detaches from his body.
I also liked Steven King's IT thought it is a bad movie but heck, who dose not like a mass murdering clown?

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Permalink Reply by Jason on January 18, 2009 at 6:29pm

Yeah, 'It' *should* have been better, but made for TV in that day and age didn't offer much quality.

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Permalink Reply by Snoopy on January 18, 2009 at 8:39pm

true... Tim Curry did a great job as Pennywise the Dancing Clown thought...

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Permalink Reply by Jose Antonio Rivera on January 19, 2009 at 6:20pm

I LOVED "It" ! When I was a kid, my dad and I used to do a lot together. We liked watching scary movies and Stephen King stuff, while rare at that time compared to now, was one of our favorites. We saw the two-day mini-series and while it scared the living hell out of me, the movie was very effective. My dad had the book and it's literally in the bookshelf behind me, but I've never read it. I have a feeling had I read it and then saw the movie, the movie would decent, but not great.

I have a lot of memories attached to that movie and while it's not perfect, it will always remind me of a time when I could sit down with my dad to watch something that scared me, but made me love spending time with him.

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