The Hilarity of Jon Peters.

There was once a man named Jon Peters who made movies. This man wasn't necessarily bad at his job, but neither was he the best. The world of Superheroes eventually came to the movie makers door, Superman, to be specific. Though many find Superman to be a boring character who has outlived himself, the truth is that he stands beside Batman as the literal king of Comic Books.

Peters would work with Kevin Smith to create the movie. He told Smith to include a scene where Superman fought a giant robot spider, something I personally think would be cool. However, as it turns out, Mr. Peters was not at all good at making a Superman film. He requested that Lex Luther own a space dog which would sell the film to kids, give Brainiac a gay robot sidekick, and have the popular villain fight a pair of Polar Bears. He then decided that he also didn't want Superman to wear a costume, and chose Sean Pean as a suitable actor because he knew he could portray a ruthless killer very well. Oh, and he wasn't allowed to fly.

In other words, Jon Peters should never be allowed to make any more movies. Yet, for some reason they let him work on Superman Returns...that explains a lot.

Now, I have a lot of unhealthy obsessions, but when you try to put a giant spider into every film you ever make, I foresee a problem. He tried to do this with The Sandman.

The Wisdom of Kirkman.

A while ago I dispensed some information about the comic book Invincible written by Robert Kirkman. Since then I have read about two issues of the series. Not because I grew bored of it, but because the comic store is always freaking sold out! You may also know that the comic book business has recently been considered a dying industry, movies, TV, the internet and small handheld devices starting with the letter I taking there place.

Companies obviously aren't very happy about this, remembering the days when kids would rush out from school to the comic store to read the adventures of whatever nut in a costume they had thought up this week. Obviously comics aren't only for kids any more, and a good majority of them are definately a no go for that anyway. But still, technically kids could still go out and read them if their parents said yes. So why aren't they? Well, Robert Kirkman sums it up in one sentence:

"When I was reading comics when I was 15, Superman didn't deal with rape so much, you know?"

He has a whole monologue on the subject. If you want to read it, check it out here: http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2010/08/quote-of-the-day-robert-kirkman-on-darker-elements-in-superhero-comics/

I'll admit, in a few regards he's wrong, but some of the comments on this thing are just stupid. Like DrunkJack, I don't think he read it right.