Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

Wordle 802 2/6

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After a week to sit and cogitate on it, I think the Mario Puzo drafts of Superman are less "throw stuff on the wall and see if it sticks" but a fundamental difference in ideas of what a "comic book movie" entailed.

Mario Puzo was writing a "comic-book movie featuring Superman." Having so many little episodic adventures mimics how comics were in the 50s and 60s: each issue a self contained story which usually had a lead in to next month's comic. The script is a series of filmed comic book adventures.

The Tom Mankiewicz/David & Leslie Newman/Robert Benton scripts, which resulted in the Superman movies we got, were a "movie featuring comic book hero Superman." Focused on telling a story about Superman, versus emulating a comic book.

I don't blam Mario Puzo for going the episode comic book route - this was really one of the first comic book movies, and the genre was still in flux. At least until Superman was released....

Weather Report: "Slight chance of thunderstorms."
Jenn: "I'll believe it when I see it."
Weather: ::BOOM::
Jenn: ....................................... :D

Current mood:

@webcomictalk - These days, I use GIMP for the art. I use Scribus to assemble it into the final comic.

This is from 2016, and I'm a Linux user now, but the method is still the same: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W0PBkK5-qM

#webcomicTalk

@TonyaMarie - I've been meading to make some Soda Bread. It was big on the Oregon Trail, and I believe I have an Oregon Trail recipe for it....

@socketwench @ami_angelwings - "Coffee. Extra black."

@socketwench @ami_angelwings - "How can you blame me for all this? All I did was play an alien abduction prank on some random woman in 1930s New York. Do you know the odds of that being Edith Keeler? JUST WHEN SHE'S SUPPOSED TO DIE?! Now we've all created the Mirror Universe, and Kirk of all people...KIRK!...has been lecturing me non stop about temporal violations, and this Spock doesn't even have the sexy goatee! Now help me make a working time portal out of these stone knives and bear skins!"

@ami_angelwings - The USS Aya Nakajima

#obscure

@Tekk - Oooooooh, where?