"Now, if Marvel really wanted to show the reader what was going on in this long-winded, exposition-heavy issue, they should have just typed up a bunch of rambling words, stuck them on the cover and had the X-Men snoring away in the background from sheer boredom."
-Brian Andersen on Astonishing X-Men #35
I Left My Death Star in San Francisco
A couple of people have sent this to me, so I thought I’d better share it. Besides being well-made and rather clever, there is a creepiness to it, as well. Like, what must it have been like on Alderaan, to look up in the sky one day and see this thing hanging over you. Too bad they didn’t show the reaction in the Castro. I’d like to see some stormtroopers accidentally walking into 440 Castro (aka Daddy’s).
There is a rather unsettling creepiness about it...what happens when the fantastical becomes mundane. “Oh, just a massive weapon the size of a moon hanging in the sky that could possibly wipe us all out with one shot...la la la, smoked oysters.”
I think that if it were actually up there, the reaction would be a lot like Cloverfield.