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This just in from Comic-Con 2008:

Gone To Comic-Con

Hey... Binkley and I will be at Comic-Con for the rest of the week. We might be posting a few updates in the evenings if we get a chance.

Finally, someone agrees with me about 300

Finally, someone agrees with me that 300 was not the greatest movie ever. Nor was it a great comic book. No one has agreed with me in the slightest since they watched the movie and fell in love with Leonidas of the pointy spear.

Well, now someone agrees with me. And it's Alan Moore. Oh, yes, that Alan Moore. You know, the guy who wrote Watchmen, V for Vendetta, From Hell, Swamp Thing, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and The Killing Joke? Go ahead, look them up if you haven't heard of them. More than one of them might rank in the ten greatest works in the comic book industry.

I admit: Moore has been openly critical of movie adaptations in the past. His own works have had a very bad history, to the point where he has given up on them. But what's important about a recent EW.com interview with Moore is that he criticizes 300 as a comic book, not just a movie.

I'll just let him have at it:

... I didn't particularly like the book 300. I had a lot of problems with it, and everything I heard or saw about the film tended to increase [those problems] rather than reduce them: [that] it was racist, it was homophobic, and above all it was sublimely stupid.

There, that about sums it up. I've long maintained that Frank Miller isn't nearly the genius everyone thinks he is. I certainly won't deny him his dues (The Dark Knight Returns was and continues to be one of my all-time favorites and I know his work on Daredevil was a huge step forward for the industry), but 300 was overrated in almost every way.

And, yes, I give this quote credence despite any possible idiosyncracies the man may or may not have.

Will the Dark Knight Rule it All?

Why are you reading this site? Go watch The Dark Knight!

It's just a name...

The new Bioware RPG is going to be called Dragon Age: Origins.

I see what Bioware's doing with this. Even before you've played the game, you're expecting a sequel. What's up with that?

And why is it that they are telling us about the beginnings or origins of the Dragon Age? I would like to know about the Dragon Age. I mean, it's not like the time period immediately before the Dragon Age was cool enough to get its own moniker. They didn't call it The Age of Phoenix Knights. If they did, then wouldn't the game be called that?

My point is, if you're inventing a fictional universe, do it properly. I don't want to play an Origins story to start my time investment into a franchise. I simply don't care. I would much rather play in the Dragon Age. And if I am going to be doing that, then the name of your game is undeniably idiotic.