NitztheBloody
| Real Name: | Neil Kapit |
| Age: | 27 |
| Gender: | Male |
| Web Site: | http://nitzthebloody.deviantart.com |
About Me
English/Creative Writing Student at Claremont Graduate University, fan of comic books since Calvin and Hobbes, poster at Alvaro's ComicBoards.com since 2000, and breatharian in training
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Comment on 4-18 of Princess Chroma
NitztheBloody, 18 May 2013 05:45 pm
You've really topped yourself with your coloring skills here! Especially the immediate switch from moody cool to ass-kicking warm.
NitztheBloody, 18 May 2013 05:45 pm
You've really topped yourself with your coloring skills here! Especially the immediate switch from moody cool to ass-kicking warm.Comment on Nanomachines, Son! of Ruby Nation
NitztheBloody, 18 May 2013 05:37 pm
Ruby Nation 5-4 Talkback
The game Elise is playing is, if you hadn't already guessed by the strip's tagline, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. The particular scene is the final boss battle between Raiden and Senator Armstrong. It's not every game that has you fight an obvious parody of the American Tea Party who presents as a cross between Stephen Colbert's Colbert Report Character and Greed from Fullmetal Alchemist. Only awesome games worthy of the Metal Gear name, despite Kojima not being director.
NitztheBloody, 18 May 2013 05:37 pm
Ruby Nation 5-4 TalkbackThe game Elise is playing is, if you hadn't already guessed by the strip's tagline, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. The particular scene is the final boss battle between Raiden and Senator Armstrong. It's not every game that has you fight an obvious parody of the American Tea Party who presents as a cross between Stephen Colbert's Colbert Report Character and Greed from Fullmetal Alchemist. Only awesome games worthy of the Metal Gear name, despite Kojima not being director.
Comment on Innocent Jackson Kitten of Poet Kitties
NitztheBloody, 17 May 2013 03:17 pm
1964-2009, singer-songwriter, dancer, producer, and all-around King of Pop
And yes, I know that Michael Jackson was likely responsible for stealing the innocence of several children, but like most predators, he was a victim of abuse as a child himself. Michael never had a happy childhood himself and was candid about that, so the quote still holds.
NitztheBloody, 17 May 2013 03:17 pm
1964-2009, singer-songwriter, dancer, producer, and all-around King of PopAnd yes, I know that Michael Jackson was likely responsible for stealing the innocence of several children, but like most predators, he was a victim of abuse as a child himself. Michael never had a happy childhood himself and was candid about that, so the quote still holds.
Comment on It's Not Iron Man 3 of Ruby Nation
NitztheBloody, 11 May 2013 08:31 pm
Ruby Nation 5-3 Talkback
Some days I am very grateful for the fact that I do an independent webcomic, with no content beyond what I create, no editing beyond what I choose, and no readers beyond a small few devoted and cherished fans. Yesterday was one of those days, because it was the day I finally saw Iron Man 3.
Iron Man 3, directed by Shane Black (replacing Jon Faverau), is not a bad movie. It has the same cast of the previous Iron Man movies (which I really enjoyed, albeit with reservations), and it had a few new characters who were played effectively. It even had some good ideas, such as Tony Stark's anxiety attacks following the events of the Avengers. However, none of those ideas got any space to breathe, and the Hollywood formula smothered the movie so that everything potentially interesting about it was diluted in a stream of explosions and one-liners.
If Iron Man 3 were played as a completely straightforward superhero movie, such as Captain America, it could've excelled at that. But the more thoughtful bits raise important questions and take them absolutely nowhere. Tony's anxiety attacks begin as a serious issue, showing a tortured mind whose view of a rational universe has been shattered in the wake of discovering gods and aliens, and who builds armor after armor in a compulsive attempt to regain his security. This is in the first act; in the second act, Tony's anxiety attacks are just reduced to comic relief as he flips out in front of a little kid, and by the third act, he's completely "overcome" them (as if you can just punch emotional problems into oblivion).
(NOTE: EXPLICIT SPOILERS FOLLOW)
The intriguing start and piss-poor payoff continues through the rest of the movie. For example, the Mandarin is brought in as a Bin Laden-style terrorist, releasing viral videos of his deeds with messages about America's sins (such as a reference to the Sand Creek massacre, as an allegory for the casualties of America's nation-building in Iraq). In the second act, we see that this new interpretation of the Mandarin is just a smokescreen, as he's really just an actor hired by the main villain to distract from his real activities. This is a clever twist that plays on Orientalist fears, but it's ruined by some painfully extended comic relief sequences with actor Mandarin, and then it's completely dropped when the real villain turns out to be just another monologuing jackass, whose speech about the power of anonymity is completely ruined by the fact that he's GIVING A FUCKING SPEECH. What's more, the present-day implications of the genocide against the indigenous Americans are completely dropped, even when there's plenty of appropriate subtext (such as Jim Rhodes/War Machine going on a wild goose chase for the Mandarin while in his new Iron Patriot suit, giving third-world citizens the sight of a red-white-and-blue death machine breaking into their homes and threatening them without warning).
Everything in the movie follows this pattern. The Extremis formula, used in the comics for an interesting exploration of transhumanism (as well as its inventor Maya Hansen, a great example of a once-idealistic scientist corrupted by the military-industrial complex), just serves to make flaming villains here. Tony's compulsive armor-building, a sign of emotional turmoil, turns out to be just the thing needed to save the day in the Obligatory Climax Explosion Orgy. Even the humor scenes fail, because of how scripted they feel. Where Jon Favreau made even the weaker parts of his Iron Man movies entertaining thanks to all the ad-libs, you can tell here that there's a heavier directorial hand, and the situations (such as all the time where Tony fixes his armor with the help of the little kid) show us just how tightly they're sticking to the script and telling us THIS IS FUNNY.
It's all smothered by cliches, robbing it the opportunity to be even an interesting failure. It's not a bad movie, and I don't hold anything against its cast and crew. It's just a mediocre movie clearly ruined by the process of executive meddling, and again, it makes me very grateful I don't have to deal with that shit.
NitztheBloody, 11 May 2013 08:31 pm
Ruby Nation 5-3 TalkbackSome days I am very grateful for the fact that I do an independent webcomic, with no content beyond what I create, no editing beyond what I choose, and no readers beyond a small few devoted and cherished fans. Yesterday was one of those days, because it was the day I finally saw Iron Man 3.
Iron Man 3, directed by Shane Black (replacing Jon Faverau), is not a bad movie. It has the same cast of the previous Iron Man movies (which I really enjoyed, albeit with reservations), and it had a few new characters who were played effectively. It even had some good ideas, such as Tony Stark's anxiety attacks following the events of the Avengers. However, none of those ideas got any space to breathe, and the Hollywood formula smothered the movie so that everything potentially interesting about it was diluted in a stream of explosions and one-liners.
If Iron Man 3 were played as a completely straightforward superhero movie, such as Captain America, it could've excelled at that. But the more thoughtful bits raise important questions and take them absolutely nowhere. Tony's anxiety attacks begin as a serious issue, showing a tortured mind whose view of a rational universe has been shattered in the wake of discovering gods and aliens, and who builds armor after armor in a compulsive attempt to regain his security. This is in the first act; in the second act, Tony's anxiety attacks are just reduced to comic relief as he flips out in front of a little kid, and by the third act, he's completely "overcome" them (as if you can just punch emotional problems into oblivion).
(NOTE: EXPLICIT SPOILERS FOLLOW)
The intriguing start and piss-poor payoff continues through the rest of the movie. For example, the Mandarin is brought in as a Bin Laden-style terrorist, releasing viral videos of his deeds with messages about America's sins (such as a reference to the Sand Creek massacre, as an allegory for the casualties of America's nation-building in Iraq). In the second act, we see that this new interpretation of the Mandarin is just a smokescreen, as he's really just an actor hired by the main villain to distract from his real activities. This is a clever twist that plays on Orientalist fears, but it's ruined by some painfully extended comic relief sequences with actor Mandarin, and then it's completely dropped when the real villain turns out to be just another monologuing jackass, whose speech about the power of anonymity is completely ruined by the fact that he's GIVING A FUCKING SPEECH. What's more, the present-day implications of the genocide against the indigenous Americans are completely dropped, even when there's plenty of appropriate subtext (such as Jim Rhodes/War Machine going on a wild goose chase for the Mandarin while in his new Iron Patriot suit, giving third-world citizens the sight of a red-white-and-blue death machine breaking into their homes and threatening them without warning).
Everything in the movie follows this pattern. The Extremis formula, used in the comics for an interesting exploration of transhumanism (as well as its inventor Maya Hansen, a great example of a once-idealistic scientist corrupted by the military-industrial complex), just serves to make flaming villains here. Tony's compulsive armor-building, a sign of emotional turmoil, turns out to be just the thing needed to save the day in the Obligatory Climax Explosion Orgy. Even the humor scenes fail, because of how scripted they feel. Where Jon Favreau made even the weaker parts of his Iron Man movies entertaining thanks to all the ad-libs, you can tell here that there's a heavier directorial hand, and the situations (such as all the time where Tony fixes his armor with the help of the little kid) show us just how tightly they're sticking to the script and telling us THIS IS FUNNY.
It's all smothered by cliches, robbing it the opportunity to be even an interesting failure. It's not a bad movie, and I don't hold anything against its cast and crew. It's just a mediocre movie clearly ruined by the process of executive meddling, and again, it makes me very grateful I don't have to deal with that shit.
Comment on Paranoid Heller Cat of Poet Kitties
NitztheBloody, 10 May 2013 05:53 pm
Quote by Joseph Heller
1923-1999, American novelist and playwright best known for Catch-22
The cat used is modeled from, of course, Conspiracy Cat.
NitztheBloody, 10 May 2013 05:53 pm
Quote by Joseph Heller1923-1999, American novelist and playwright best known for Catch-22
The cat used is modeled from, of course, Conspiracy Cat.
Comment on Stogie of October 20th
NitztheBloody, 06 May 2013 09:13 pm
So who's gonna be the buzzkill and say " I regret not kicking my tobacco habit " ? :)
NitztheBloody, 06 May 2013 09:13 pm
So who's gonna be the buzzkill and say " I regret not kicking my tobacco habit " ? :)Comment on 4-16 of Princess Chroma
NitztheBloody, 04 May 2013 07:19 pm
Someone left the cake out in the rain....
NitztheBloody, 04 May 2013 07:19 pm
Someone left the cake out in the rain....Comment on Ruby Nation FCBD 2013 Edition of Ruby Nation
NitztheBloody, 04 May 2013 04:11 pm
Ruby Nation 5-1 Talkback and Thanks
Enjoy this free Ruby Nation comic for Free Comic Book Day! Except that webcomics are inherently free, so every release is a FCBD release.
NitztheBloody, 04 May 2013 04:11 pm
Ruby Nation 5-1 Talkback and ThanksEnjoy this free Ruby Nation comic for Free Comic Book Day! Except that webcomics are inherently free, so every release is a FCBD release.
Comment on Hiding Steinbeck Cat of Poet Kitties
NitztheBloody, 03 May 2013 12:38 pm
Quote by John Steinbeck
1902-1968, American writer of many classic books including Of Mice and Men, East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, and twenty-four other published works
Cat in question is, of course, Allie, sitting in his cat tree.
NitztheBloody, 03 May 2013 12:38 pm
Quote by John Steinbeck1902-1968, American writer of many classic books including Of Mice and Men, East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, and twenty-four other published works
Cat in question is, of course, Allie, sitting in his cat tree.
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