Comparative Reality

Despite my distrust of anything popular, news of the upcoming movie included lavish amounts of praise heaped on the source comic. And the descriptions of the same piqued my interest enough to get me to buy the comic from my trusty comic book store.

Er...this was actually a few months back, not just last week or anything. I make that clear to preserve at least some amount of my trend-hostility.

And, yes, the comic is as good as they said. It's gloriously, unrepentently geeky; a manga/video game/hipster slacker mashup that pushes my...well, my manga-loving, video game geek hipster slacker buttons.

The second trailer was released recently, and damned if it doesn't look good. And, hark! Right there, in the middle of the damn thing, I hear a very familiar guitar riff. Which rattles around my brain for a few seconds, and then it hits me: "It's getting boring by the sea," by Blood Red Shoes.

Oh, those bastards. That's just cruel. You already hooked me, but you had to make sure that hook really stuck, didn't you?

It's like chocolate and peanut butter, except it's comics and indie rock, which is a much more potent combination.

Please don't suck. Don't be like Spider-Man 3, which used a snippet of a Curve song in the trailer ("Hell above water"), but not in the actual movie. Which, obviously, cursed the whole thing. (Instead of Spidey kicking ass to Curve, we got a weepy melodramatic crapfest).