A new month, a new topic but we are still straggling the George Perez / Marvel Comics month duality since THE INFINITY GAUNTLET written by Jim Starlin started out with George Perez on pencils but by the end of issue 4 Ron Lim had to come in to finish not only this series but he did also the two follow up series INFINITY WAR and THE INFINITY CRUSADE.
Longtime followers may remember that it has been almost three years since I wrote the second part which was mostly George Perez art but which already featured some pages by Ron Lim. And since I mentioned his HEAVY HITTERS series DRAGON LINES for Epic Comics in my spotlight for Peter David's and George Perez SACHS & VIOLENS series I thought it's about time to feature this very underrated artist again. Now the way I go about including original art is I try to avoid posting stuff I have already posted but since I can't keep too much stuff on the laptop it is hard to know what I have already used and what not. I do however go over my old posts to eliminate any redundancies. Except if I find a new version in better quality. In this case there were quite a few pages where that rule would have applied but I really wanted to avoid anything I had already posted in part one and two and go on with the Ron Lim art. Also I don't think those pages would have added something crucial to this spotlight.
So it's going to be all Ron Lim art in this post - from issues 4 and 5 - and that is going to be confusing enough because some of these pages come before the ones I included in the second part while others come after.
Don't worry, you will figure it out.
For my next part I thought we could wrap up THE INFINITY GAUNTLET and the sequels in one go but I found so many new pages that those will be at least two posts so I will probably throw in THANOS QUEST pages.
nothing ends
infinity stuff
infinity links
infinity videos
jim starlin
origin of adam warlock
starlins warlock part one
the sequel
glotzbuster die unendliche geschichte
the neverending story in german
a weird sequel
neverending story two with johnathan brandis and john wesley shipp
the sequel everybody forgot
the neverending story three with jack black
the neverending story tv show
the neverending story cartoon plus more classic 90s cartoon shows
the death of captain marvel
not the greatest quality but a rare youtube find
so much better than the movie we got
Now when I first came upon the following video I thought it was from a time when people would be actually excited to see Brie Larson play a Marvel character like the Dazzler but no, after watching the video I realized that this was AFTER she had appeared in Captain Marvel and in Avengers : Endgame and this was Disney's way of doing damage control.
Reading all the news about how Disney makes one big box office flop after another you might get the impression they are not aware why they fail but there seem to be short moments where they realize something is wrong and try to fix it. Of course we are not talking about drastic things like writing a script that is actually good, fleshing out the characters and give them an important story arc - as we could see with Captain Marvel.
It seems in this case somebody said " Brie,honey, we have to change the way we present you to the audience or you won't have a movie career anymore. " and Brie went " I'm up for anything. What do you have in mind ? " and then the other person went " Well, I don't know if you can follow me but the other day I was reading some of the comments on the internet and it seems there are people out there who think you are hot.
And somebody told me that people - especially guys - like boobs, you know, but not only do they like boobs they also turn into drooling idiots when they see them and it shuts down their higher brain functions. "
And then Brie goes " Okay, but what does that have to do with me ? " to which the other person replied " Well, I don't know if you have noticed but you do have a pretty impressive pair of puppies so I thought we could just have you guest hosting some show - like the Jimmy Kimmel Show - and we put you in a dress with a cleavage down to your whazoo and you make sure to shake those big moneymakers into the camera.
And if you play your cards right everybody will be so mesmerized by your huge hooters that they will forget about your awful acting in the Marvel movies and automatically start to like you again. " and then Brie went " Do you really think it will work ? Men can't be that easy. " and the other person said " Believe me. They are and this will definitely work. "
And that's how Brie Larson - and her bonerinducing porn cleavage - guest hosting The Jimmy Kimmel Show came about. And Jimmy Kimmel also seems like the kind of guy to pull such a cheap publicity stunt. Or not.
Who knows how much Disney paid him ? Now I am not saying that Jimmy Fallon would not have done the same. As it is we will never know. But I always had the impression that Jimmy Fallon at least is genuinely happy for his guests while with Jimmy Kimmel I always felt there is something sinister behind his eyes like he is envious of the success of his guests.
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