What type of person read Alpha Flight?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

Puckheads!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. Other: Canadians (nt)

[WoodrowFan]

20. I think Canadians are cover by option #1.

:P

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

23. *slowly backs away to give room to upcoming flamefest* (nt)

[Blue-Jay]

2. Me!

That's who. Canadian X-Men rule! (sort of)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

3. Chicks with french accents are hot!

IMHO

[Brewman_Jax]

4. I think I may have a few issues

I'll have to look in the comic book boxes.

[BigMcLargehuge]

5. I liked it when I was collecting

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

7. Gotta tell ya Biggie

I LOVE your Sig line and avatar!

Mifune is God!!!

[BigMcLargehuge]

8. here's my fav of the Mifune pics I have

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

10. Sanjuro - a brilliant film

Damn Kurosawa was the man!!!

[BigMcLargehuge]

11. yep

have you ever seen Drunken Angel? It was Mifune's first film where he had a starring role. He played a Yakuza thug with tiburculosis who befriends a drunk doctor played by Takashi Shimura. It was directed by Kurosawa. One of the bleakest movies ever, but the friendship between the doc and gangster was amazingly well realized.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

12. I have not - I will have to. Oh - BTW...

Have you seen Kwaidan by Kobayashi? Have I asked you this before?

[BigMcLargehuge]

14. I've never caught it from the beginning

it shows up on IFC rather freqently but my timing has always been bad.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

16. Rent it - better yet buy it

It is the best sound-stage design I have ever seen - fabulously beautiful!

[jeff30997]

6. I prefer Alphabits.

[bhunt70]

9. I cancelled my subscription to it last week.

Too many titles to read and I couldnt get into it.

[Mara Steele]

13. You remind me of my older brother

He had all those titles you speak of...

I never did get into comics much. :shrug:

The art is cool though, I can appreciate the concept! :hi:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

15. I have a rabid apetite for visual art of all stripes.

I studied Illustration in Art School and that increased my love of comics. My personal favorites are some japanese manga that aren't translated - its kind of cool to not know what the hell is going on. It becomes surreal!

[Mara Steele]

17. Japanese comic art and animation is so beautiful...

I'm more old fashioned though, I think, and so I'm more attracted to ancient Japanese art... woodcuts, and paintings...

There are definite similarities between the old and the new styles of Japanese art...That fineness, finish and gorgeous attention to detail...

There's a great Asian Art Museum in Seattle in Volunteer Park, if you're ever there...
You can take a walk through time and see the progression of styles in Japanese art.

But I'm a student of psychology, not art, so my ability to discuss these things is limited... I'm sure to embarass myself in a conversation with someone of your artistic expertise and dilletante. :)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

18. Oh go on...........................no really - GO ON!

Do you like ukiyo-e (the floating world)?

Hokusai is the most famous proponent:

Anyway - if you make it out to NYC - the Met has quite the plethora of japanese woodcut prints - you'd love it.

They did a study and the japanese have been making what you could call comics (manga) for hundreds of years.

[Mara Steele]

19. OOOOOH!!! Cool....

Gorgeous pictures, thanks for that eye candy!

I do have a postcard of the first Hokusai painting, although I think it is a little too dark for my tastes... I appreciate what it is saying about the nature of human mortality, but the skulls in the ocean and the canoes creep me out a little bit.

I love the second one, who painted that? I know I've seen it before, maybe at the museum I mentioned.

I would love to visit NYC someday. It's definitely in my future plans, thanks!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

21. That's Utagawa Kunisada

Beautiful, n'est pas?

[Mara Steele]

22. Oui, monsieur! C'est magnifique!

Tu parles fraçais, aussi? Trés bien, ta femme a dé la chance!

:D :hi:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

24. Merci!

I must say I took a french class in high school. i've been meaning to take another at the local community college to get to a conversational level but haven't had the time. C'est la vie!

I do love yelling Zut alors!!! whenever I can. :)

[Mara Steele]

25. ZUT ALORS!!

The French are definitely lots of fun, I love the language... :D

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

26. I agree - they are truly formidable!

:)