Intro for a new story arc…
- Richard: I’ll be back tomorrow. Have fun watching your new movie!
- Sandra: I’m sure I will.
- Sandra: “A friend told me it has…
- Sandra: … an intense, dark atmosphere…
- Sandra: … and surprising plot twists.”
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![[0052] The Dark Knight](/comics/2009-04-20-[0052]-the-dark-knight.png "[0052] The Dark Knight")
[0052] The Dark Knight
└ posted on Monday, 20 April 2009, by Novil
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Ghehe ^^
Firstly, a good choice of film and secondly an even better sneaky trick 😛
lol talk about slow had to re-read the strip to see it another way, didnt realise that was her dad on the 3rd panel looking all sinister in the night sky… and the red lipstick? Is there a woman involved with him? :O
I’m guessing Sandra is as clueless about the ordeal as I am 😛
Careful, Sandra, I’ve seen “The Dark Knight” and it’s pretty scary stuff!
She should see the first movie first. Although she can’t get lost if she doesn’t know batman’s background.
Dun Dun DUN!!!
I’m not sure I’m ready to see Sandra in clown makeup, telling Woo how she got those scars O.O;;;
Hooo boy.. This WILL be interesting.
It took me a while to catch what you were doing there, but I do like the sudden art shift to a sort of Noir style. It’s pretty powerful artwork and shows your range there.
You’re thinking it’ll be Sandra with the make-up/scars. What if it’s Woo? And what if the scars were from Sid escaping from him and Shadow during last week’s strip where they were attempting to dine on Sid? (chuckle)
I think it means that a woman was staying with Sandra’s dad the previous night (Sorry to be the dull one).
Also, am I the only one who hated Batman Begins and Dark Knight? Seriously, the plots were far too convoluted and the ‘action’ scenes were ridiculously flashy and uninspiring.
The makeup might have belonged to Sandra’s Mom.
Eh, the reason The Dark Knight was so good was Heath Ledger. On this showing, he could quite possibly have been a very good Richard III.
“Also, am I the only one who hated Batman Begins and Dark Knight?”
Yes. 😉
“Eh, the reason The Dark Knight was so good was Heath Ledger.”
Yes. 🙂
I love you, keep drawing!
Sandra & Woo is the most lovable comic on the internet, IMHO!
No, really. It beats “Ozzy and Millie”.
There is not actually another comic out there more cute than Sandra & Woo. Keep up the good work!
I haven’t seen Kung Fu Panda yet, but this comic will sustain me until that day comes.
The very shadowy play in frame three and the sole use of red in frame four. Oh, how much more that is like The Shadow. (Just released on home DVD, mere days ago.)
Let’s see…Kung Fu Panda in “10 second movie footage” style…
“Dad. I have a dream…
…family dream? Yay! Go sell.”
“Big event’s today!”
‘million stairs’
*Bump, bump…fall
rince, lather, repeat*
*bam, thump, slap, slam*
“Ugh!”
“I have chosen!”
“HIM!”
*bam, thump, slap, slam*
“Ugh!”
“I must die.”
“This is my room.”
*bam, thump, slap, slam*
“Ugh!”
“Double the guard!”
“Oh, no! He’s out!”
“…Wow…” – Neo
*credits*
Uhu, i sense a disturbance…..
“I haven’t seen Kung Fu Panda yet”
You totally should. The story might not be as innovative as the one from “The Incredibles”, but the jokes are good and the graphics are the best of all animated movies I have seen. Like most other people who have seen it I would also give “Kung Fu Panda” 5 stars.
@Novil: You obviously haven’t seen Advent Children.
Also, it just irks me that Dark Knight and Iron Man came out at practically the same time, but because of Heath Ledger’s tragic death Dark Knight got all the media attention, shoving the much better Iron Man to the proverbial sidelines.
@Mr GHB-Not so fast Mr. Fancypants!
Advent Children may have been great visually,but it was far from being a kid film considering the many of the themes and elements presented in it.Also,unless you played the games and/or read up on them along with all of the other media on the series,wouldn’t have an idea what was going on.Also I don’t consider FFVII the best FF game,it was just the most accessible from for the series and the PSone at the time.
On another note,partially true on the Iron Man thing.Even though the Dark Knight was the bigger winner,Iron Man still got an incredible amount of praise as did the Hulk even though not nearly as much as the former two movies.Also I still need to see all three movies along with Sin City and the Spirit since this strip is reminding me of them so much.
Funny, a friend told me the same thing about this arc. 😉
liked the first movie,However the second was a bomb. The second was good visually, the action and acting was spectacular. The story just outright sucks out loud. The movie is depressingly negative.
Visually, Advent Children was amazing. However, I’ve seen one that was so on-spot to reality, I questioned repeatedly and throughout if it was real or CG. Beowulf. (When I caught it from the RedBox machine over six months back, there were appearantly two releases. One is a live action movie. The other, CG. Which is why I had to question if this was done in artificial visuals. The thing was just so perfect…aside from the occasional weirdness to the movement of some things.) 2008 production, I believe. Be warned, not child friendly. For Pete’s sake, the man hides no shame in combat, as the classic poem demands.
@Jup-Reindeer: Beowulf doesn’t count, since all of the CG was essentially pasted on top of the live-action version. Advent Chilrden was created completely from scratch on computers.
@A.L.
Novil never mentioned kid films, just animated films.
@-GHB-Sorry,I thought that was the correlation he was making.If you are talking animated,then by means it would probably be Advent children,unless you want to say animated overall and not just CG then anything Hayao Miyazaki would be up your alley along with just about anything with Shirow Masamune’s name on it.And no I’m not mentioning the magical kingdom,they can go suck a fat one.
That explains why it looked like it did.
AL: Pom Poko? 😀
(saw that while I was away on vacation, ironically enough in a drastically overdeveloped hillside resort – I had no idea before I put the disc in! very odd film, but the animation was sublime; I’d rate it as one of the studio’s better efforts in fact, too bad it’s not one I think I could share with my grandparents or younger cousins)
Yeah I know the Tanuki’s a somewhat different animal, but there is a good resemblance.
Be interesting to have a side by side comparison of the animating skill displayed in those two movies, or even a wider subset of the better 2D and better 3D films (as well as overall quality of the work). It’s more or less a different medium once you’ve got your basic character/scenery design outlines, movements and story sorted out. CG for some reason seems to encourage very lazy and awful production values (because it takes so much less effort to make something that seems superficially “polished” until you actually pay attention, whereas an awful lot of work has to go into even the cheapest-looking cartoon), but when the film makers put the work in, it’s epic.
I’d still probably go for either a “painted” movie, or at least a Pixar CG (as they carry over a lot of the values of the old medium) as “best” animated-film choice however. Beyond a certain point, it’s all algorithms. That said, I haven’t seen KFP yet, but the trailers make it look excellent in a way they just couldn’t for, say, Hoodwinked.
extension after reading prior comments back:
Disney have been responsible for some horrendous crimes against film-making over the years, it’s true (and you couldn’t get me to watch the Disney Channel without putting me in a Clockwork Orange type harness; the trails alone, for _everything_ on it, make me want to kick the TV in then render myself literally senseless)… but at the same times works of great and groundbreaking beauty. So it’s hard to hate on them absolutely. At least, if you’re handy with the mute button or a pair of earplugs; Snow White is brilliantly made, and seeing Beauty and the Beast properly for the first time (randomly at 4am, half drunk at a university ball – bit strange I know) gave me a new appreciation for the work they put in adapting these classics. But it still couldn’t bring me round to the twee, midwestern america showtuney nature of it all 😉
And Shirow has some great stuff, but for some reason the anime adaptions of everything except Ghost have never come out very well to my mind. Appleseed et al when put on the screen just ended up ugly and stilted. I’d LOVE to see a well-made animated picture of something like Black Magic that stayed true to the original art AND moved nicely AND had decent voice acting, but it’s probably cursed not to happen.
reindeer: you mean “The Spirit”, right? Missed that at the cinema to my great chagrin. DVD time now, I guess! Though of course it was sin city first…. all of it coming from the style of the comics of SC itself, and of course the epic Dark Knight book that first reassured me of the awesomeness of man-bat after a brief peptalk from the similarly take-no-prisoners early 90s cartoon.
And as regards Beowulf … I can forgive a lot of things in animation, both hand-drawn and CG, but if stuff doesn’t move “right”, then it’s failed, bigtime. That’s why Studio Ghibli’s films work so well despite their cartoony, everyone-looks-the-same nature and often low framerate – the movements, and therefore the characters themselves, still feel *real*. Similarly a lot of Disney cartoons and Pixar CG, although the movements are often exaggerated, they still have some weight to them, still work in relation to the environment. Whereas you then get something like The Spirits Within, or your choice of 100 different cheaply CG’d kids shows that have recently sprung up (mostly seeming to use the ugly default body meshes from *insert modelling program*) where you’d think it’d be quite easy to overlay a realistic physics model complete with friction, gravity, semi elastic collisions, rebounds etc with hardly any input required from the animator………. and it looks like crap, for all its shiny rendering. Cars handling as if they’re in a Micro Machines game (no … worse than that), slithering about as if they’re on metal tyres and the steering wheel isn’t connected to the roadwheels, people running across a scene and appearing to moonwalk Scooby-Doo style, and all sorts of other breaking of the illusion. If Beowulf does similar then I’m not sure if I can be bothered with it. That and Ray Winstone’s wibbly bits, by the sound of it. Even a Mystique-clad Jolie can’t protect against those combined forces. Even the purposely over-exaggerated characters of The Incredibles seemed to “work” within their world; and Porco Rosso is a dab hand at jack-knife tail-sliding old trucks as well as the various aerobatics 😀
*nods* The Spirit, indeed. Not The Shadow.
:p
not like I don’t do similar all the time!
Sorry Heath, you did a great job, but Mark Hammill’s version of The Joker is still my all time fave. It’s all about the laugh.
I’ve seen both Final Fantasy films, and I like Advent much better, but that’s because I adore Final Fantasy VII, it’s my favorite of the series, followed closely by VI. It’s not impossible to follow Advent if you’ve never played VII, it’s just that you’ll miss the deeper meaning behind a lot of things (like the shots of Zack’s sword).
I just discovered this site three days ago and lost my entire weekend to it…but it’s just so GOOD! I’m glad I finally took the plunge and clicked on the link. It’s much better than I was expecting.
Oh no I hope Sandra doesn’t dress as the Joker!
Amazing movie. The fact that Batman turned out to be Jewel was the biggest eye-sore.
TEEHEE. Am I the only one who’s reading this in ’11?
System Error 1337: Awesomeness overload
sub: WTF/HSQ exceeding safe parameters
sub: Genre parameters broken
mindstatus: blown
I don’t get it.
Dark Knight was such a great film, and so was Kung Fu Panda. Heath Ledger and Jack Black are both great actors. Too bad Ledger died. He was the best version of The Joker ever!
Kung Fu Panda is the better film.
+1 to not being a huge fan of Heath Ledger’s Joker. Don’t get me wrong, he played the part wonderfully, but “the part” wasn’t what I’ve come to think of the Joker as being. Too subdued, he lacked much of the dark humour and charisma the Nicholson and Hamill Jokers had. You could really believe that they could inspire a gang of nutcases to follow them on “jobs” that really weren’t your profitable mobster fare. Ultimately, I think he was written that way to fit in with the dark (even for Batman) feel of the films, but the Joker’s strength has always been that he doesn’t fit in like that, he’s a manic contrast to Batman’s grim brooding.
There need to be more superheroes with tiger themes.