Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Yeah, I admit it, I loved the first one.
Hellboy is the character I loved without knowing he existed, the one I created over and over, with varying levels of sophistication, as a retarded teenager.
Unfortunately, some hack named Mike Mignola beat me to perfecting the concept, around 1993. Damn him. I would have gotten it eventually.

Anyway, basking in it's awesomeness & reading badly scanned pages online is all fine and good, but I really loved the movie.



Maybe it's the muttonchop whiskers. They never should have gone out of style.
Anyway, you can tell that this next movie is going to be really good, there are Glocks in it!



Although they got the guy from Pan's Labyrinth to direct again, it looks like they ripped off a bunch of stuff from WOW. Seriously, check some of the pictures. But I have high hopes. Again. (eyelid twitch)

AND ANOTHER THING...
I have been spoiled by Patrick Tull. It has been my distinct, aural pleasure to listen to him narate the Aubrey/Maturin series, from Master and Commander to The Surgeon's Mate, he has given me hours of gravelly, accented entertainment.
However, to my great distress, I have found that my copy of The Ionian Mission is narrated by an upstart whelp named Simon Vance.
He troubles himself to give a decent Scottish accent to a minor moral philosopher, but performs Stephen's voice with an insistent, high-pitched, snottily english accent. Jack's voice is distinguished from the rest by lowering into a faggy, unimaginative, idiot drawl that sounds about as realistically 'British' as I do. Jack lisps, Stephen simpers, and don't get me started on his high pitched, breathy 'woman' voice. He makes Diana sound like an affected grandmother. Mowett sounds like a bad stereotype of a high-class twit trying to speak ebonics, and Killick sounds like a big wad of phlegm.
The only voice he does well is Pullings, who has about two lines in the whole book. Bleagh.