I see some HEATED debates over the risks of “toying” with ouija boards in Halloween/horror groups I follow and I just want to say a ouija board is literally a toy for kids and if polterghosties existed I’d still seriously doubt that a piece of wood invented by Milton Bradley is a real magical conduit to their dimension
I just realized “I’ve survived the Mike Costa Transformers comic, I can survive whatever 2018 Marvel Venom dish out. It won’t be worse then that.” Must be a very confusing statement to comic Venom fans lol
LMFAO earlier today I was JUST thinking about what a bizarro plot twist this is, as a person in both of these fandoms?
2009: Mike Costa writes some of the actual worst comics in human history, so bad that their notoriety spread beyond the Transformers fandom. Mike Costa claims that the Transformers aren’t real people with real emotions, and can’t have relationships because there aren’t any girls.
2012: James Roberts swoops in with More Than Meets The Eye, decides that all the Transformers are actually gay and live in a homonormative society, and gives us a buffet of canon queer relationships.
(We cross over to a parallel universe or alternate timeline, probably)
2016: Mike Costa writes Venom and gives us a tender, domestic, and fully queer story about a man and alien being struggling to overcome their checkered histories to be better for themselves and each other. Eddie and Venom both make a real effort to improve the communication and trust in their relationship, grow together as people, and have a child that Venom wants to raise in Eddie’s image.
2018: Don Cates writes Venom and begins the process of aggressively no-homo’ing Costa’s run by looping us back to the 2000s and making sure to loudly proclaim how terrible Eddie and Venom are and always have been for each other, how they don’t even like each other actually, and how their whole relationship is in fact nothing more than a toxic metaphor for Angst and Darkness!!11!1
HAHAHHAHA THANK YOU FOR WRITING THE HISTORY OUT
Mike “Transformers can’t love because they have no females” Costa
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?? Alien abduction?? Some sort of Enlightment?? Mirror Verse Crossover??
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Mike “Symbiote and Eddie Brock are in love this is a love story” Costa
This is all I’ve been thinking since venom movie happened… “wait, THAT costa? Transformers can’t love because they have no girls Costa? I thought we weren’t talking to him.”
He learned a lesson, I guess o:
So my takeaway of this is that Mike Costa’s heart grew three sizes and somebody needs to yank the Venom comics out of Don Cates’ hands and give it to James Roberts.
James Roberts’ Venom would be a SIGHT TO SEE. Venom’s planet would gain this whole complex sociopolitical backstory, his romance with Eddie would be a 70-issue slow burn, there would be a mix of body horror and tentacled fan service …
I spent the entirety of yesterday watching all the Mad Max movies back to back to back to back and I’ve got something to say. I noticed something that I might have picked up on before, but never really processed. At the end of the first three movies, Max ends up alone. At the end of TRW and BT, he’s remembered as a legend of the wasteland.
At the end of Fury Road, he’s not alone. He’s in the crowd. This, I’ve noticed before. But what I didn’t quite process is what it means to have Furiosa see him in the crowd. Max isn’t just some legend to her. He’s real. He’s human. Sure, he disappears into a crowd full of people which can be interpreted as “he can be anyone”. But to Furiosa, he’s not just some myth or legend. Him being surrounded by other people in the end is visually indicating that Furiosa sees him as a person and forever will. Which is also why Fury Road doesn’t end with narration describing the events as a story, unlike the previous two movies. Max isn’t a story to her. He’s fucking real.
Excellent observations!
Fury Road is the first movie in which Max sees and is seen by other people on all sorts of thematic levels.
The imagery in the movie made that quite clear by emphasizing the eyes in color/lighting in the post-production.
Also, in this specific shot where Max disappears into the crowd, despite the distance, his face and eyes are crisp and clear, very much in contrast to the blurry crowd around him. Same with Furiosa’s face/eyes. They both caught a glimpse of the other and gave away glimpse of their very own core of self.
Those eyes are rotoscoped to pierce right through us, looking directly in the camera, at us, the audience. We can feel the connection established between the characters over the course of the movie.
Compare that to the first glance Max and Furiosa exchange in the movie!
Both their faces are obscured in shadows, and neither of them is looking directly at the camera, at us, but ever so slightly off (especially Furiosa).
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