An October Suprise: A Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations Gaiden -03

An October Suprise:

A Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations Gaiden -03

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In October there’s a few different drawing challenges where you’re suppose to draw something everyday. This is my attempt to weave 3 of them ( Inktober , Drawtober , & Drawlloween ) into a story.

Oct. 3

#Inktober / @inktober: Frankenstein’s Monster [Note: I’m not using the official Inktober prompt but a different one]
#Drawtober / @drawtober : Double, Double Toil-N’-Trouble
#Drawlloween / @drawlloween : Tombsday

An October Suprise: A Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations Gaiden -02

An October Suprise:

A Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations Gaiden -02

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In October there’s a few different drawing challenges where you’re suppose to draw something everyday. This is my attempt to weave 3 of them ( Inktober , Drawtober , & Drawlloween ) into a story.

Oct. 2

#Inktober / @inktober: Ghost
[Note: I’m not using the official Inktober prompt but a different one]
#Drawtober / @drawtober : Stitched Together
#Drawlloween / @drawlloween : Summon Day

Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 260 – The Minstrel, Admiral Star, & Freedom Female On…

Criminal And Crimefighter

Conversations 260 – The Minstrel, Admiral Star, & Freedom

Female On “Pictures”

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Geez! About this time last week I talked about doing something for October with drawing challenges like Inktober… October first is SUNDAY! I’ve only started to write for it so if I’m really going to do this I gotta get to work. That’s it for this week. Check out new “Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations” on Tuesdays-Thursdays. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 236 – Admiral A, Admiral Star, The Good Knight & Slowku On …

Criminal And Crimefighter

Conversations 236 – Admiral A, Admiral Star, The Good Knight & Slowku

On Offers They Can’t Refuse

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Getting “Meta” With “Batman”

One thing I get to in this comic is the idea that “Batman” is a “metahuman”. “Metahuman” for those of you not up on “DCComics” lingo is “people with powers”. It has something to do with “Hawkman” metal or something, but it doesn’t matter. What is with “DC” and undermining the entire point of their characters? If “Batman” has powers he’s not “Batman”. If he kinda sorta has powers then there’s no point in saying he does. If “Batman” murders people like in “BVS” he’s not “Batman”. While we’re at it:

  • If “Superman” is a guy who constantly scowls he’s not “Superman”
  • If “Barry Allen” is some young isolated weirdo he’s not “Barry Allen”
  • If “Aquaman”… Actually who cares. Though “hook hand” “Aquaman” kicked ass

At least they’re not doing what “Marvel” is doing with “Secret Empire”. How long is that going to take to end? That’s it for this week. Check out new “Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations” on Tuesdays-Thursdays. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 230 – Perfect Spiderous-Man, Freedom Female, Admiral Fire, & Spiderous-Man On Going Too Far

Criminal And Crimefighter

Conversations 230 –(Perfect) Spiderous-Man, Freedom Female, Admiral Fire,

& Spiderous-Man On Going Too Far

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Admiral Star has made quite a few enemies since she first appeared in the 200th comic. Those enemies seem to be coming together and wanting some payback. They include:

  • Special-Girl – They immediately got off on the wrong foot when Special-Girl tried to boss hog her as Trump’s Czar of Superpowered Bitches. This is settled when Special-Girl realized she was an associate (she’s actually her leader) of the at the time more famous Admiral A. Since “Admiral A” became a judge on “Talentless Americans Trying To Get A Crappy Vegas Show” (more on this later) they issues again. This time of who Slowku was living with. They eventually settled on “splitting custody”.
  • J-Pop – They also immediately got off on the wrong foot when J-Pop treated her poorly and talked down on her when she wanted to meet Admiral A. When J-Pop did meet Admiral A she rapped a sexual and politically charged verse for Admiral A. Admiral Star berated her for it and this became a viral sensation that landed her the job as judge on “Talentless Americans Trying To Get A Crappy Vegas Show”.
  • Admiral Fire – These two have always had a contentious relationship as Fire constantly questions her leadership. This intensified when Fire asked Star to help her get on “Talentless Americans Trying To Get A Crappy Vegas Show” to help fulfill her dreams of being a singer. Star used this as an opportunity to embarrass Fire by faking that she got on the show only to use her audition as a joke
  • Spiderous-Man – A minor issue was her and Slowku eating most of the ice cream at an ice cream party thrown by Freedom Female. Spiderous-Man then was going to have a segment on “Talentless Americans Trying To Get A Crappy Vegas Show” but Admiral Star put a stop to it because she thought it would be corny. She then this week pull a prank by having The Innovator say he wanted Spiderous-Man to join the Revenge Squad
  • (Perfect) Spiderous-Man – “Regular” Spiderous-Man is his man. He rides with him
  • Others? – We’ll see…

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That’s it for this week! Check out new “Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations” Tuesdays-Thursdays. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 226 – (Perfect) Spiderous-Man, Freedom Female, Admiral Star, & Spiderous-Man On …”Plants”

Criminal And Crimefighter

Conversations 226 – (Perfect)

Spiderous-Man, Freedom Female, Admiral Star, & Spiderous-Man

On …”Plants”

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What’s Wrong With “Spider-Man: Homecoming”

  • The Vulture – Though Michael Keaton plays him well his whole deal doesn’t make any sense. With the tech him and his people are able to create there’s much easier (legal or illegal) ways to make money
  • Hacking – Pretty much all shows with tech people are guilty of this type of stuff, but still we’re supposed to believe some high school kid can hack into a suit created by one of the smartest people in the world. Get the hell outta here!
  • Zendaya’s Character- She’s annoying and then they reveal something about her that makes it SO much worse. It’s like “Robin” in “The Dark Knight Rises”. That still annoys the hell outta me
  • “Flash Tompson” – I give em’ credit for trying something different than the stereotypical “jock bully”, but this didn’t quite work.
  • Needs more “Iron Man” – Not really the movie’s fault, but yeah just give us “Iron Man 4”.

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Again decent flick, but not particularly great. Tomorrow we swap out Admiral Star for Fiddy Fo’ as these guys discuss “handling a problem”. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 221 – Special-Girl, Freedom Female, & Admiral Fire & Spiderous-Man On Admiral Star

Criminal And Crimefighter

Conversations 221 – Special-Girl,

Freedom Female, & Admiral Fire & Spiderous-Man On Admiral Star

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“Sailor Moon S” & “SuperS” : From Bad To Worse

Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 221 – Special-Girl, Freedom Female, & Admiral Fire & Spiderous-Man On Admiral Star

I’ve now watched “Sailor Moon S” and “Sailor Moon SuperS”. These are season 3 and 4 of “Sailor Moon” if you don’t know. They only put of the second part of the “Viz” dub for “S” last week so I’ve only watched the “Cloverway” dubs… Gotta say “Sailor Moon” goes from bad to worse here…I’ll go into more detail about each season later but generally:

With “S”:

  • The new “Sailors” “Uranus” and “Neptune” take up way too much of the spotlight. They’re also not very interesting characters. These are the famous lesbian “Sailors”. The “Cloverway” dub tries to avoid the lesbian stuff. They then make the strange decision to make them cousins. For a big part of the season they won’t tell the other Sailors what they’re up to. Even though it would take them like 5 minutes. It’s dumb
  • I will say though I dislike “Rini/Chibiusa” less in this season. It’s funny that her powers don’t work most of the time and only cause pain without harming enemies.
  • At a certain point “Sailor Moon” has to transform, go “Super Saiyan” then do her one-hit kill move to kill enemies. This is also dumb
  • There’s a “Sailor” of destruction that it able to destroy an entire planet?! Why?! Again I say, WHAT IS THE NATURE OF THEIR POWERS?!
  • They commit the ulitmate sin here… They leave the big final fight as something you can’t see. In fact the whole last fight with the big bad is SO cheap. They use A LOT of still photos instead of showing action. That’s bullshit, man!

With “SuperS”:

  • For a while the show becomes like a bad American girl’s cartoon from the 80’s. There’s even a villain with a weird voice and a sidekick and a flying horse. This person isn’t the “real big bag” though. With the now obvious pattern of this show the “real big bad” shows up about halfway in. She’s “Queen Beryl 2”, the less interesting version. Time also gets wasted with every useless side character that should’ve disappeared forever by now
  • There’s some CREEPY stuff going down with “Rini/Chibiusa” and “Pegasus”. ESPECIALLY in the “Freaky Friday” episode where she and “Sailor Moon” switch ages
  • The name of the attacks at this point have become self-parody
  • They just say eff any thought about how gravity works in the last episode

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That’s it for this week. Check out new “Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations” on Tuesdays- Thursdays. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 220 – Special-Girl, Freedom Female, & Admiral Star & Slowku On “Getting Around”

Criminal And Crimefighter

Conversations 220 – Special-Girl,

Freedom Female, & Admiral Star & Slowku On “Getting Around”

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“All Eyez On Me” : Back Reincarnated

I know I’m repeating myself, but I have say “All Eyez On Me” is a pretty good movie. It’s imperfect and not a “polished” as “Straight Outta Compton”, but it’s still pretty good. I’ve already covered the main legitimate complaint of critics which it’s a bit “jumpy”. Generally, they are WAY too harsh on this movie for some reason.

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I’ll move on to the “civilian” complaints. Most of the complaints I’ve seen are nitpicky at best. Most of this is 2pac “Stans” trying to prove how much they know. Half the time they’re either wrong or are guessing about things. None of that is important because YES the movie uses creative license with some events. Here’s some random complaints I’ve seen:

  • Jada Smith’s complaints- There’s a scene where 2pac read her a poem that didn’t actually happen. Also there a scene where her character confronts 2pac backstage at a concert. Okay this is here to show 2pac’s poems without having to go into a long backstory about them. With the confrontation it’s to show she disapproved some some things Pac was doing. Which she did. All this is is saving time by condensing. There’s nothing “hurtful” like she claimed
  • Anachronisms- People have said some uses an “Iphone 7” and “NBA2k” game was in it. I didn’t notice either of these. If true it’s a genuine gripe. Not movie ruining but a couple real flaws
  • So I started watching one “Youtube” review about the movie and it starts with them going on and on about how 2pac worked in pizza shop. I stopped the video soon after that. That’s how trivial some of the complaints are. Sad part is the movie DOES acknowledge it.
  • “Hail Mary” performance- There’s a concert scene where the song is performed. The song wasn’t released until after 2pac and wasn’t performed at this specific concert. It was a way to include a performance of a fan-favorite song. Dumb complaint.
  • “Death Row East” – There’s conflicting reports about Pac wanting to leave “Death Row”. In some of his last interviews Pac talks about “Death Row East” and seem to want to work with “Death Row” for the foreseeable future. In the movie Suge offers to be partners with Pac and tells him he can run “Death Row East”. People say the “Pac running “Death Row East” thing isn’t true. Story-wise it simplifies the matter and gives Pac a concrete reason for staying with “Death Row”. Right or wrong it’s a choice that works to me
  • “Final Car Ride With Suge” – In the car ride before the 2nd shooting Pac plays some new (as in present day) song by his group “The Outlawz”. Supposedly, they were actually bumping “Hail Mary” at this time. The current “Outlawz” song is kinda shameless, but whatever those guys deserve some shine. Also when “2pac” is shot gospel music plays. I’m up and down on that choice, but again not a movie ruining thing.Tommorow, Special-Girl and Freedom Female return with Spiderous-Man and Admiral Fire. They discuss issues with Admiral Star. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

 

In the end if you want accurate accounts of 2pac’s life there’s MANY movies people’s personal accounts of him. And MANY interviews with his own word. I think people wanted a movie as great as him. It’s not possible. Just the amount of material alone is too much for a single film. It’s a solid B movie, and if you haven’t seen it I recommend it.

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 219 – Special-Girl, Freedom Female, & Admiral Star & Slowku On “Tony” & “Carlito”

Criminal And Crimefighter

Conversations 219 – Special-Girl, Freedom Female, & Admiral Star & Slowku

On “Tony” & “Carlito”

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If you follow these comics or my posts on social media you should get the sense I love both comics and rap. Also anime, genre-shows and other elements of “nerd culture” as well. Mixing all these elements make the strange (but tasty?) gumbo that are these comics. One thing I’m about is bridging any gaps between “nerd culture” and “hiphop culture”. They are similar and cross into each other in many unexpected ways. Make no mistake, GOOD rappers are nerds.

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They are people obsessed with pop culture and vocabulary; and they put real research into what they rap about. Also comic writers and artists much like rappers are often completely screwed by the companies they work for. That’s a whole other topic for another day though.

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Tomorrow all these characters return to get into why Slowku left Special-Girl to live with Admiral Star. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 218 – Special-Girl, Freedom Female, & Admiral Star On Slowku & Other Issues

Criminal And Crimefighter

Conversations 218 – Special-Girl, Freedom Female, & Admiral Star On Slowku & Other Issues

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I figured once Slowku and Admiral Star met they should hang out. Admiral Star now hosts this world’s “America’s Got Talent”. That show is known as “Talentless Americans Trying To Host A Crappy Vegas Show”. So it would make sense that she’s space for him to stay with her. Since he was living with Special-Girl she would have a problem with this. Of course having him go home to his actual family wasn’t even a consideration.

That’s it for this week. Check out new “Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations” on Tuesdays-Thursdays. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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