I'm a professional comic book writer and artist (native Australian living in the US). I've created content including:
- Comics - Video games - Movie posters - Storyboards, and - Advertising campaigns...for:
- DC Comics (Wonder Woman, Joker/Harley) - Movies (Spider-Man, Justice League, The Martian, Hunger Games) - Videogames (Shadow of Mordor, League of Legends), and - TV shows (Heroes, Game of Thrones, Walking Dead, Castle, Arrow, The Flash)
My goal with my career... and this channel... is to bring you as much joy and value as possible.
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46:05 when wonder woman started out, she was nothing more than a glorified super model dressed in a star spangled swimsuit who was always getting tied up for reason. This is one of the things I hate about the early wonder woman stories. For me, wonder woman didn't become enjoyable until she appeared in darwyn cooke's amazing new frontier comic. My other favourite version of wonder woman is her new 52 incarnation where she not only got to use a sword and shield, but she was also taking on characters from greek mythology. Oh and in response to Scott's comment about a sword being a supposed "masculine weapon", tell that to the thousands of Celtic and Norse women who happily wielded swords on the battlefield. A sword is a sword, no matter whose using it. Read a history book and get over yourself.
8:52 man of steel is one of my favourite Superman comics right next to the Superman earth one mini series. I personally can't for when the MCU gets to introduce alpha flight (fingers crossed we get a buffed up Peter Dinklage as puck).
Oh man, Alpha Flight. Honestly. Wasn't on my list. Then your Peter Dinklage casting and now I'm PUMPED! I'm actually working on a retelling of Man of Steel. I'll be drawing it on twitch and releasing it as a free online comic. Hope you can check it out!
LOL I had friends who played Fallout but I never did. I watched the show and now I've gone back to play and that's how I found this. Thanks for t😊he fun and awesome video for a total noob!
The hate is strong with this one! Seriously, I'm sorry you didn't enjoy the movie and we're not jumping on the "hate bandwagon". Wishing you well and hope there's something else we've done that we can agree on.
Can I just say: who died and made people like Martin Scorsese the authority on what is or isn't cinema? So films like the MCU don't cater to intellectual snobs like Scorsese or even Francis Ford Coppola. Big deal. Does that stop them from enjoyable? Hell no! I personally can't wait to see what Kevin feige has in store for us. He's the creator of the MCU and he seems to know what he's doing. If anybody has a problem with that, that's their business. Fun fact, Alec Guinness once famously denounced star wars as "fairy tale nonsense". Well the joke's on you Alec. That "fairy tale nonsense" has blossomed into a billion dollar franchise of movies and TV shows that continue to be enjoyed to this day.
I agree. But I also think that when these movies are at their best: MCU and Star Wars is when they've nailed their characters. The original trilogy for all it's Force and Lightsabers and Tie-Fighters is deeply bound by intense character arcs. My favorite MCU movies are the same. And I pose to you the idea of swapping the term, "Cinema" with "Character Piece". Can something be great and not be a character piece? Of course. But is it better if it is both? Gimme a hell yeah. Thank you so much for watching and commenting! I really appreciate it.
I enjoyed it, but D&W is terrible aside from the fight scenes. Bit character are character assassinated, the plot makes no sense, and the writing is mostly crap.
This is both a harsh and a fair reply. I find it funny that I thought the fight scenes were the weakest. The writing is on one hand doing an incredible lift, but also stumbling many, many times. Thank you so much for watching and commenting. If you get a chance, love to know what you think of my second D&W video where we really dig into a ton of what you said.
2 things! 1: Joker|Harley looks really cool, def gonna look for it next week 2: i agree with Jason's take. i put this one above Deadpool 2, and sometimes i put it above even Deadpool 1 but i think that's just pure excitement. it's the first movie in a long time that i want to see again as soon as i walk out of the theater. it's such a fun movie. i loved seeing Gambit on the big screen again too
Thanks so much for checking out Joker/Harley! Remember, it's a REAL WORLD TAKE. We had actual psychiatrists using modern mental health models to create these characters. Also, grab the softcover as it has a bonus story in it. If you ever bring the book to a convention I'll sign it up for free. And if you show me this post, I'll even do you a free sketch on the inside cover! Thank you for agreeing! This is TOTALLY better than Deadpool 2 by every conceivable metric. As I mentioned, DP&W is more fun. But DP1 is technically a better movie. Thank you so much for commenting and watching! New upload incoming.
The issue with this is that the marketing of Cyberpunk 2077 sold the direct opposite idea. Remember that Keanu Reeves ad for CP2077 that said "In Night City you can be anyone you want, any-thing". If you had to deal with the actual weight of your actions in such a fuked up scenario the game would be been trashed a lot more it already did and as you said in a previous video. CDPR has a fame of not making happy endings, and the endings on Cyberpunk is a subject that has pissed off many fans for basically making the whole gameplay story hollow and pointless. But TBH, the more that I know about Pondsmith work that inspired the game the more that I realized that CP2077 was meant to be a disaster from the very beginning since many things just don't make proper sense.
Rubyzkarlet! Thank you so much for watching my Cyberpunk 2077 videos. When you referenced this AND another one of my vids... I gotta say... You might have reinspired me to finish my thoughts on this game. I still have tens of thousands of words written... That I still have to edit. The key is that unhappy endings can still be great endings. They can be unhappy but still emotionally satisfying. I don't believe 2077 has great endings. Pondsmith's world is unique... But CDProjekt RED took it in some directions which stretched in very, very thin. Thank you again SO much for watching and chatting here!
@@jasonbadower Yeah you mentioned it. And one that comes to mind is the "ending" of Street Fighter 6's World Tour. The "base" ending is sad, but not necessarily one that's bad per se. Is just how things were bound to unfold. But at least YOU, the character, still have a path to follow and continue even if sader and uncertain. Cyberpunk's however leaves no room for actual hope and that's not sad. That's disappointing. BTW I'm glad to have inspired you to give the Cyberpunk stuff an extra thought XD Glad to help, even if unintentionally :3
You're totally right! There's so many vectors to measure these films by. And I agree with every one of your choices. The plot of D&W is not great. In my next video, I'll propose a way that the film might end in 28-29 minutes. Can't wait to see what you think. Thanks so much for watching chatting!
Days of Future Past is like a breath of fresh air after years of mind numbing MCU content. I can't believe just how well these X-Men movies have aged. After years of being shoved garbage stories that have 0 weight, watching the whole X-Men line of movies up including Wolverine's movies because he's really the protagonist of it all, it's a silver lining, it all comes so very well together in this movie. Patrick Stewart rules any scene he's in, and I think it was a good idea to bring him in to give hope to younger Xavier because he just has weight. I think the issue with the idea that Wolverine would make younger Xavier believe and hope again is that Wolverine's a pretty depressing man, why would a depressing man take advice from another depressing man? People don't go to sick doctors to become healthy. "I don't want your pain, I don't want your suffering". Sentinels in this movie are probably even more powerful than Nimrods, I mean it doesn't really matter. If they were weaker, if they were stronger, at the end of the day why Sentinels take over is because they're being created at a scale that can overwhelm the whole Earth and destroy everyone. Mystique in Fox's X-Men is a sort of joke, the previous actress did a far better job of being an absolute menace. But also Mystique's an opportunist, not a good person. There are a lot of issues with Bryan Singer's interpretation of the X-Men but this movie was by far the best. His X-Men movies do have a heart, a feeling to them that the MCU doesn't, a feeling of home and family. It will be one of the issues that the MCU will face, because X-Men tonally needs to be a different beast. For all it's failings, this movie is a proper conclusion to the Fox era. (if you don't watch the total garbage that is Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix which no one should)
Hahahah! My friend says, "You don't go to a sick doctor or a poor investor". And totally agree, no one should watch Apocalypse or Dark Phoenix! You're right. There really is something here that I was unable to communicate in the wave of technical flaws that overwhelm this movie. Despite all those, there is such a different feel as you said... Of family and home. Thank you SO much for watching. What'd you think of Deadpool & Wolverine?
@@FifthEmperor56 OH yeah!!! I'm editing our scene by scene breakdown of the opening right now. I cannot wait to show you what Scott thinks of that opening! Thanks for letting me know!
I love this so hard! You're totally right! Tyler is an unsung rockstar. He's done so much. Whenever I see him, I'll let him know what you said! Thank you so much for watching and chatting!
First of all, fellow Australian here. Secondly I've never been a fan of Deadpool. The first comic of his I actually read was this omnibus I bought years ago. I ended up skimming the entire thing and regretted wasting money. Then I had the misfortune of purchasing a digital copy of the Deadpool game on my PS3 and turned it off after the first or second level, due to the atrocious design and horrible script. To this day I cannot understand how or why Deadpool is so popular. He's essentially a cheap ripoff of Deathstroke. Thank god Rob liefeld also created domino, cable and heck even Youngblood (yes I enjoy Youngblood so what). Fourth wall breaking is a very tricky thing to pull off. To my knowledge, one of the few who mastered it is John Byrne with his sensational she hulk series which made me a she hulk fan (I was especially pleased with how Jen was introduced in her own MCU show). Apologies for the rant. I just feel deadpool is like ambush bug or bat mite. He's an annoying character only good in small doses.
Hey mate! (Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!) Omg yes. I feel the same. Good in short doses. Like this movie! And yeah, John Byrne absolutely crushed the fourth wall antics. Seen Deadpool/Wolverine yet?
@@jasonbadower unfortunately yes. I think the only selling point was hugh Jackman in the wolverine costume. The cameos weren't that impressive and the fourth wall jokes just came across as really annoying and obnoxious. Overall entirely forgettable. I'm actually looking forward to Captain America 4 and the upcoming fantastic four movie.
That is just one of the kindest comments! You made my day. I really appreciate you. We have SO much stuff I have to release. Hope to see you again... and thanks for watching!
I love you so much. Thank you again! I did credit you at the end, right? I'll get to this month's sketches for you right after Deadpool & Wolverine. I'm curious what you want me to sketch!
Prof X went on a journey. He needed to find hope in himself. I dont know what you're talking about. All of the other characters needed pointless subplots??? Talk about taking away from the cinematic journey. To me, Days of Future Past is the Casablanca of superhero movies.
I love that you love this movie. Most importantly: We're NOT trying to take away that love, but rather offer contrary views of the movie. All art inspires different things in different viewers. And this movie is absolutely art. We're just talking about what we get and don't get from it. Again, so glad you love this movie... And even more grateful that you watched the video and replied. Thank you.
I appreciate you so much! Heya... Start thinking of two digital sketches you'd like! Or... You can combine them into one nicer sketch (which I recommend). I'll reach out to you through the Patreon and get you Discord access too. Thanks again, so much!!!
Thank you so much! I listen to so many podcasts and video essays while I draw, I thought... Why don't I make a sort of hybrid of the two? Really appreciate you watching uh... listening!
Some time codes! Probably doesn't need to be this detailed, but I hope it helps! 0:00 - Introduction 1:27 - Overall Thoughts and Impressions on X-Men 2 2:43 - MCU parallels and equivalents? 5:00 - The state of Comic Book Movies at the time 6:42 - The Strengths of X-Men 1 and what they abandoned in X-Men 2 8:26 - This movie never got a "Splash Page" Like in Avengers 10:00 - Costumes Chat! 10:42 - Behind-the-scenes story about Bryan Singer and the Cast 11:50 - Opening Nightcrawler Scene Chat 13:45 - Wolverine in Canada 16:45 - Smithsonian Scene- Leech? 17:41 - Jean Grey Telepathy Talk 19:50 - To Me, My Chair? Behind-the-scenes Professor X Chair Story 20:20 - There's a Character Arc! Maybe more? 21:00 - Back to the X-Mansion, Poor Cyclops, and Who is Halle Berry playing again? 27:47 - Magneto in Prison, is it Mastermind or Legion? 31:28 - Stryker Comic parallels/differences 33:09 - Cut back to Cerebro 34:21 - Mystique Infiltration, Easter Eggs! Nightcrawler Chat 36:00 - Cyclops is taken out of the movie. 37:57 - X-Mansion Attack 41:18 - Quick Housekeeping! 41:35 - Back to it 45:00 - The Magneto Escape 47:11 - Bobby's Confession 50:11 - Back at Alkali Lake! 53:57 - Different actors playing the same character across the films. Continuity issues? 59:33 - The Ticking clock for the end of the movie has begun. 1:02:33 - Wolverine and Deathstrike Fight 1:04:54 - Magneto Grenades 1:05:44 - Some inside the industry chat on Wicked, Costumes, and Spoilers 1:08:24 - Character Arcs- One? Two? Two Halves? 1:10:47 - The Voltron Limping or Transformer version of a Story Arc 1:12:36 - Nightcrawler completes his character arc as we move toward the finale 1:13:24 - Finale character cowardice and heel turns 1:17:45 - Tying up the loose ends at the end of the film, but tease the phoenix 1:20:29 - Why cohesion is so important for characters. Evolution versus moments. 1:26:06 - Looking ahead to The Wolverine 1:26:48 - Game Masters For Hire! 1:28:38 - Alcohol Lake
Yeah, definitely a terrible movie. I'm curious what the Riff Trax is like on it. but I bet it couldn't even save it. For what it's worth, I think it's MCU, SONY, FOX, and DCEU in that order only because Spiderverse I'm counting as full length feature adaptations and that takes the cake over anything Fox did with X-men and F4, but Also can't be first because of the extended Sony Spider-verse movies that are absolutely horrible. Also as a different aside; I love the discussion, but for the long format videos, might some time stamps be helpful? i.e 1:36 - Scott and Film Introduction 2:26 - Hugh Jackman Buttocks Oscar Snub I know it's way more work I'm sure, but it could help people jump to various sections or reference specific discussions and things.
Oh man, timestamps are a great idea. I've just been pumping these out weekly and barely doing whats there. But I seriously need to consider that! Thanks man!
Lol. Underworld is absolutely a superhero movie. But also, I would posit that Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale and David Wenham (300)) is absolutely a Superhero movie as well. It's also a guilty pleasure because the movie is terrible, but I love it.
Huh. Maybe you're right! I mean, it's absolutely not a horror film- which is the normal genre for vampire movies. And 300 is pretty much a superhero film. Hmmm.... There's a deeper conversation here. Thanks so much for watching, dude!
It’s important to mention that if you start with less than 5 strength you WONT be able to use most stronger two handed weapons (like hunting rifles, combat shotguns, assault rifles) and even some one handed ones. Edit: I mean you will be able to equip and shoot it, but with a significant penalty to wielding it.
Nope not seen the Amazon prime series can’t afford Amazon prime and not interested in a fallout dweller with big bug alien eyes but thanks for the guide though it was awesome
@@jasonbadower yeppers no disrespect intended towards the lady but she looks more ai gen than ai generated lady’s trying to look human. It’s a strange universe we live in where we’re dead against ai but on the whole we’re trying to look ai generated. Double standards (photo shopping posters to remove a mole or a hicky) we’re def more ai than we used to be. Anyways it truly was a great guide. I showed it to my buddy and he’s going to use it as a starter for his RU-vid series. So yeppers thanks 🙏
I think this is still too much Quantum Physics for me :-) ... you talk about getting weapons from 3 place, the first being Arcite. you then ask how do you do that and he says turn right. I have to ask where is he? The Lord Shaxx in the video is in some sort of room, but in my game he's in the tower overlooking the city, with no Arcite in sight...
Thanks for asking! Yes! I was confused too. Shaxx has TWO locations. If you go back to those points in the video you'll see how to get there. But just to help: go to NEW LIGHT and theN CHAMPIONS HALL. Shaxx is at the end of the hall. Facing him and turn right you'll see Arcite. Did the rest go ok? Thank you for watching!
I journeyed to his remote cave in Tibet for this wisdom. I followed his ethernet cable for days to find he is a very good looking man and drops pearls of wisdom like bombs. Thanks for watching!
Making this was so much fun! Thanks for listening to me waffle on for hours, I hope the advice is good and still relevant. BTW I'd defnitely pick up the fully crafted and perk-unlocked Outbreak perfected - rewind rounds is going to be a GOAT perk on that (or headseeker for PvP). Also we REALLY need to do a vault cleaning video :)
Holy cow, I just snorted laughing so hard my drink went everywhere. Rockstar comment. Honestly. My mate was in town. He wanted to see Boston. He was a Fallout fan. So this is what we did. Two buddies goofing around.
another great video. Will I see you again at FanExpo Boston next month? The joker/harley poster you signed and customized the joker smile on is one of my favorite pieces hanging in my office.
Dave! You have made my day!!! I'm not conning this year. I'm hunkering down and working on TONS of new stuff and using RU-vid as my time to "hang with people". I'm also over on twitch.tv/jasonbadower. We're going through a bunch of Wolverine movies leading up to Deadpool/Wolverine. We're doing X-men tonight. Starts at 9pm EST if you're around. Thanks so much for hunting me down and dropping a comment. I hope we can stay in touch here!
Great video! Can't wait for the next one. Some friends and I were just discussing that one of the "misses" in the tv show was that I had no sense of the geography and it didn't feel accurate to Los Angeles at all. Even though it had the Santa Monica Pier, Hollywood, and the Griffith Observatory it didn't feel like they were laid out in a way that matched the actual geography -- which is something the games excel at (as your video shows!).
Oh man, I totally replied to this! What happened?! My god, you guys are so right! To see her actually trek through LA the way that we (tried) to trek through RL Boston would have been awesome. Thanks so much, man!
I get screen tearing/heatwave effect with mouse movement in x2 scaling on full screen. Anyone know a fix? All I have installed is fixt and hi res mods.
All I can suggest is remove one element at a time. Easiest is turn off x2. Then try turning that back on and removing the mods. I have a bad feeling that it's the mix between the two. You might only be able to have one or the other. I try to remind myself that mods are not professional releases. Thank you SO much for watching!
Oh hell yes! I totally forgot about Knightfall. I wasn't reading a ton of Batman comics at that time. You're a rockstar. YES. And thank you for watching!
Man that's exactly what I feel about Cyberpunk 2077 and you explained it so well, truly a great video imo. Cyberpunk 2077 was my most anticipated game ever back in 2020 and for like 7 years before that and even way more after playing The Witcher 2 and 3 especially which I found WAY better than Cyberpunk 2077 overall. Also of course after seeing the E3 2018 long gameplay trailer and of course E3 2019 when they revealed that Keanu Reeves would be in the game, the hype was through the roof for me and so many people of course, but It ended up being one of my biggest gaming disappointment because they delivered something very different than what they promised and It's really that simple really and I'm always baffled that so many people just don't understand that. I still to this day didn't finish Cyberpunk 2077 but I'm currently in a playthrough and I think i will finish it because I still really like the game tbh despite my initial huge disappointment that is still sour in my mouth and other issues I have with the game. Also yeah the Mass Effect LE and Fallout New Vegas are so much better imo at least in role playing.
Thank you SO much. I really appreciate this. I am so sorry that you still haven't finished Cyberpunk. The endings are unfortunately all big wet poops. The Phantom Liberty one is probably the best. I never watch trailers or any media before watching a movie or playing a game. This way I can play it for what it is. I am so sorry that their marketing department broke the game that the developers worked so hard on. If there's any way you can go back, I think there's something really special there.
@@jasonbadower Yeah well I just started the Phantom Liberty expansion and so far I think it's quite better than the base game imo. Also the thing is that they first announced the game in 2012, just one year after The Witcher 2 which I was a big fan of when it released back in 2011 so I was quite curious and then the creator of the table top Cyberpunk 2020 Mike Ponsmith talked about it with such passion and that he worked very close with cdpr so It got me excited even more and at that point we knew almost nothing about the game and there was like 1 min in total we saw of the game so yeah. Then well of course the rest is history but don't worry I learned my lessons and since then I don't hype myself very much at all before a game release even with Gta 6 that I wait since a decade like a ton of people, I'm quite worried since almost every big leads at Rockstar left and now there is only Sam Houser left. I mean I still hope very much so that the game will be good since I'm a huge Rockstar games fan but yeah.
But maybe we're in the darkest timeline and if we match things up perfectly we too can live in an idyllic post apocalyptic world! Wanna say thanks so much for watching! Hope you had fun
