Article: State of the Heart (yep, another opinion piece)

[Le Messor]

You can view the page at http://www.alphaflight.net/content.p...opinion-piece)

[S.B.i. Design]

I'd actually have to agree with this.
Comics were never really suppose to be SUPER realistic.
I find with the movies though, to make everything more realistic, makes it easier to show. In the Dark Knight, Joker should have been rocking a huge straight nose and yellow coloured eyes, if we were focusing on comics and cartoon series. But instead of doing that, they simplified his appearance and made it more realistic. Despite the change, I actually really liked how he appeared and his 'new' background story.

Comics shouldn't have the same feeling though. Art frees you from any real restrictions that a live-action movie would. I think that's why I really like the new Iron Man movies, it's realistic but also kinda shows how Iron man is like.

[Le Messor]

Yeah, the Iron Man movies strike the right balance, I think. Though they also include something else that often seems to be missing from this new style: humour.

Oh, and the music of Queen... um, you really don't always expect that in comics, though, do you? Though it does happen...

- Le Messor
"I ain't gonna go and see Queen no more!"
- Queen, I Go Crazy

[Muerman]

I find with the movies though, to make everything more realistic, makes it easier to show.

I totally agree with this statement, the whole reason they adopt a more realistic look is that it is easier to achieve in a believable way. I think we'll all agree that if the X-Men movies were true to the costumes of the book, it would stand a good chance of coming across as looking a little cheap. (Keep in mind that I LOVE those costumes, I just can't imagine a way of pulling it off).

I do, however, also hate when the styles of the movies get adopted by the comic books, I don't know if it's to cash in on the fans the movies create, but it kills me when things developed in the movies find their way into the books. (The uniforms in the X-Men title when it becomes New X-Men for a time is the perfect example of this.)

I miss the days of more developed stories, the "major" events every few months is really starting to get old. I'd prefer some good story telling above the "next big monumental shift" any day. Honestly, how many upheavals can really happen in such a short period of time? I suppose I'm speaking more directly to the X-Titles... but it's pretty rampant.

[Flightpath07]

Rampant = A social insect with elbowed antennae, on a steep incline. May come with a safety helmet and a wee little motorbike.

[DIGGER]

Could you imagine Wolverine in the sewers beneath the Hellfire Club in his leather movie costume? Gack! Rampant then by definition would be named EVIL BOWHEIVEL?

DIGGER

[Flightpath07]

Rampant then by definition would be named EVIL BOWHEIVEL?

[Le Messor]

FP: It's an Evil Kinievel joke. No, I can't spell that.

if the X-Men movies were true to the costumes of the book, it would stand a good chance of coming across as looking a little cheap. (Keep in mind that I LOVE those costumes, I just can't imagine a way of pulling it off).

Apparently, when First Class comes out, you won't have to.

- Le Messor
"Help me out here, Spock, I don't speak loser."
~ Spike

[Flightpath07]

LM - got it, thanx. I was just pondering a comeback to it, and got stumped.