V for Oops

So I‘m sitting around with an hour to kill before the season finale of Heroes, and I decide to catch up on some blog reading. My other options are Two And A Half Men, Dancing With the Stars and Deal or No Deal. Good God, TV swings from awful to incredible. Almost ironic how comic books on TV can start off as intelligent writing and then get even more so by comparison.

Appropriately enough, Dan's blog is full of comic book heroes this week. He's found a list of the “top 100 comics movies ever made” according to some editor that he rightfully disagrees with; you’ll find Dan’s blog here.

I must point out a single glaring omission from Dan’s rebuttal list. There may be other omissions that others point out, but the glaring one is the most important: V for Vendetta.

Permit me to regress into Robert Hamburger mode for a bit here: I know chicks who stated openly that Natalie Portman was hot even with her head shaved. The movie was filmed in three colors: black, white and fire. The hero of the story may or may not have actually been a hero, but he was 100% ninja; he never showed his face, and he flipped out and stabbed people. A lot. And he could have even eaten pizzas all day long in his secret underground lair. With Natalie Portman. Plus, like half of London asploded while the other half turned into something I think I saw once in a Pink Floyd video.

V wasn‘t just for Vendetta, it was for VAWESOME

Dan my friend, you have not remembered remembered the Fifth of Novembered. The remedy here is to add a Number 0.5 to your list, because Wolverine ain’t quite a ninja and even Rebecca Romijn naked and painted blue can’t hold a candle to Natalie Portman shaved like a cueball. And take League of Extraordinary Gentlemen off the list, because while Moore may be an utter nutjob, he still wrote both V and the League, and it just ain’t fair to lower his average with that crap.