How do I get on the guest list?

So far I am unimpressed with the guest list for this years Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo. The only TV & Film celebrity I am looking forward to is William Shatner and Teddy Wilson from Space Channel. Other then that the only people I'm looking forward to meeting is creators. This is from the the case of last years where there were to many celebrities that I wanted to meet. Last year there was; Brent Spiner, Malcolm McDowell, Lloyd Kaufman, Kirby Krackle, Leonard Nimoy, and Billy Dee Williams, plus tie in the creators that I met it was just a great time. Now this year I'm stuck wanting for there to be some Star Wars actors, Patrick Stewart, and/or Stan Lee. I think this year I will be spending most of my money on comics and trades unfortunately. Well anyways this is just some of my thoughts on what I think this years Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo is going to be like. I plan on blogging the days events of each day of the expo that night. I will also be live tweeting each day. Anyways till next time true believers.

P.S. I really hope this year there isn't a identity theft scheme with the ATM's that was a major downer last year.

Ben Affleck could play the Shark from Jaws

I just finished watching the 2003 Daredevil movie staring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, and Colin Farrell, and its not half bad. Now Daredevil is not one of my favorite character, and yes the movie has some big flaws, but I still like it. One thing I love about the movie is the blatant name dropping of members the Daredevil creative team (as seen on the right). I really enjoy a lot of the acting in this film and I don't think they could cast this movie any better, I honestly buy Ben Affleck as Matt Murdock and I don't think they could have cast anyone better for Kingpin/Wilson Fisk then Michael Clarke Duncan. I remember being in some arguments back in 2003 about how Kingpin was the "wrong colour" but I don't think I can think of a single Caucasian actor that could better fill the role of the Kingpin even today. Now yes I know this film did more for the band Evanescence then it do for the careers of the actors, but I do prefer the actual movie to the sound track. Another thing I really like about the film is how they didn't overly beat into you that Matt was Catholic, but still having the evidence of his religious background still prominent. This is something a little more meaningful to me because at that time I was still somewhat religious, in that I was still grieving the loss of my Grandpa, who was my father figure since my actual father has had nothing to with me, also it didn't hurt that I was brought up in a Catholic family. Now I have changed my stripes on the issue of religion, but that's not something to talk about here since this is about the Daredevil movie. Now before I saw this movie I never cared for Daredevil as a character, and it hasn't been until now that I've ever really wanted to read about him. Thanks to the latest episode of Views From The Longbox I've gotten a lot more into the character. Anyways for a early 2000's comic book movie I really have to say this movie has held up well, and is a lot better then people tend to give it credit. I give it 3.5 braille covered stars out of 5.

Secret Origin

I had always been into super heroes from a young age, thanks to things like; the Ninja Turtles, Batman (movies, 60's Adam West show, and Bruce Timm animated series), Spider-Man cartoon, X-Men cartoon, and much more. But I started getting into comic books as a medium about four or five years ago, only buying trade paper backs to start off with, most notably; JLA Earth 2, Superman Red Son, and Justice League New Frontier. Then summer three years ago my neighbours gave me eight boxes of comic books, which were mostly X-Men and Spider-Man titles, but little did I know when I got them that there would be a series in there that would change my life forever. That series was 52, a book published by DC Comics, after reading it and hearing about what was to happen in Batman R.I.P./ Final Crisis I started picking up new comics on a weekly bases. For the most part when I started I was reading the Batman books that were available to me at my local comic shop and Chapters (i.e. Batman and Detective Comics) then shortly after that I made my way into more books, primarily Green Lantern and Green Lantern CORPS thanks to the Blackest Night event (but as that raged on I got into more and more books thanks to the cross overs, I started picking up R.E.B.E.L.S. & Booster Gold thanks to the cross overs). By the time winter of that year rolled in I got tired of just that one universe of characters, so that's when I started picking up the Hulk books. I started with the Hulk books when I made my way to Marvel because of the infectious love for the character that Michael Bailey and Steve Glosson showed for him on a hand full of episode of Views From The Longbox. From that moment on I did my best to catch up on the Hulk books, in fact now I am 6 issues away from having a complete Hulk run. Through those Hulk books I slowly got more and more involved in the Marvel universe, this lead me to picking up the Avengers titles, Captain America, and Black Panther, and my first Marvel event, Fear Itself.