The good: I got issue #1 of Marvel Zombies 2 today. It was a fun, albeit quick read with very little substance to it. Which works just fine for #1 of a five part series. It takes place forty years after the first series and revolves around the Galactus-powered zombies returning to Earth after eating the entire universe. We also get a quick peek at what the remains of humanity have been up to on Earth all this time. Actually, the people on Earth have a lot more screen…er…panel-time than the actual zombies. The whole Marvel Zombies Civil War angle isn’t touched on at all in issue one but I’m guessing it will revolve around the Galactus zombies battling a few remaining zombies on Earth who have kicked their human flesh addiction like it was a drug habit. But who knows, it’s early. Either way I can’t wait to read more.

My prediction, a zombie version of Ego, The Living Planet tears ass through everything at the end.

The Bad: I watched the Transformers movie for a third time tonight. I decided to rent the DVD in the hopes that somewhere on it would be some sort of special feature or maybe some deleted scenes that pull the story together (and make it interesting) in a way that the theatrical version failed miserably to do. I was denied. Not one single special feature on the DVD. What a goddamned travesty. If anything I found even more problems with the movie this go around. I keep hoping that once I finally go into this movie expecting absolutely nothing, it will actually be fun. It was foolish of me to hope. How could things go so wrong? I blame the writers, who are now saying that Barricade’s (the Decepticon police car) mystery disappearance is a “thread for movie 2″. Which translates to me as, “oh shit, we forgot to film an entire scene! Now we have to explain it away in the sequel and try not to make ourselves look incompetent.”

Bastards.

I do have to say that the movie is much, much better when you can skip through all of the human heavy scenes. In fact, I realized tonight that I cannot physically sit through the first 45 minutes of this movie ever again. Ever. At least not all the way through. From now on, if I ever watch this film again, I’ll watch the opening Blackout attack, fast forward to the Scorponok fight scene in the desert, fast forward to the BumbleBee/Barricade fight, watch the Autobot introductions, and finally fast forward to the action at the Hoover Dam. Sure that only makes the movie like an hour long, but that just shows you how much of this film they could have not even bothered filming and then put that money into extended fight scenes, or, you know, actually making the Transformers the stars of there own movie. This is not Transformers. This is Sam and the Transformers with the “and the Transformers part of that title coming in a little tiny subtitle after the word “Sam” in gigantic letters. Well supposedly there are at least two more TF movies on their way. Let’s hope that the entire thing somehow takes place back on Cybertron and all of the humans from the first film have long since died. I hate Sam. And the military guys. And John Voight. And Mojo the fucking Chihuahua.

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