First of all, my sincere apologies for the flagrant lateness of this comic. I had pretty much spent all day Tuesday in front of the computer working on my final paper and presentation for my Communication Leadership Ethics class that is part of my Master’s program. By the time I finished working on the paper and presentation, went to class that evening and came home, I was wiped out.
I tried working on the comic on Wednesday, but I had to catch up on a million chores that I had let lapse in the days leading up to my final presentation. So I spend most of the day straightening up the house and taking care of Pearl. I wasn’t able to start working on the comic until late Wednesday evening.
It’s crazy… Even though I’m at home now, I feel like I’m more pressed for time than ever. At least when I had a job, I had more of a routine. I could pretty much count on using my lunch hour to pencil and ink the comic.
These days, being home with Pearl means that I have absolutely no routine. I dedicate a lot of my resources to her needs and I can never quite predict exactly what she will need day to day.
Throw on top of that my household chores, working on my Master’s degree and trying to find a job… there is hardly any time left in the day!
I will say I was also somewhat intimidated by the design challenge of Tom’s suitcase armor built out of cardboard. Obviously there is a little creative license being used here. But I wanted it to look SOMEWHAT feasible.
In the end, I think I’m happier with the bad-ass vibe I’m setting up for the big confrontation.
Odds look good that I will be wrapping up this story line sometime next week. I don’t think I’m missing out on much this weekend movie-wise to talk about.
Russel Crowe and Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood comes out this weekend. But my interest in watching it is hovering somewhere around 0%.
I thought Cami made a good observation about the film that I think reflects some of the problems with accepting the film as a viable retelling of the Robin Hood myth.
“Robin Hood wasn’t 50 years old,” Cami said. “And Maid Marion wasn’t 40!”
She is, of course, referring to the lovely Cate Blanchett.
I don’t think either of us mean to be completely ageist about it. Certainly the talent that the film has attracted is intriguing. But I think most of us know the story of Robin Hood backwards and forwards. If you’re not going to put a new spin on it, then it basically looks like a Middle Ages version of Gladiator.
Pass.
In the meantime, I’ll be soon working on Friday’s comic and hopefully have it online for you as scheduled.
Thanks again for your patience. I appreciate your understanding.
I’m with you on not caring about Robin Hood. Its strange for a trailer to actually make me want to see a movie less.
The fact that this comic was lacking action only makes me even happier than I expected it to. It means that there will, probably, be a third week of this story arc. It was WELL worth the wait. I look forward to a review of “Iron Man 2” from you. Good luck on the job thing, man.
I read somewhere that the original script told the tale with the Sheriff as the hero, terrorized by a group of unruly forest dwellers who were essentially mugging and extorting him.
I thought that sounded like a way more interesting and “original” story (it is still an adaptation, after all) than this Kevin Costner rehash. As it is, I’ll probably skip.
I actually want to see Robin Hood, but I’m a huge fan of the time period too, and one of the few who enjoyed the Costner version. To my understanding they are taking a different spin on the story, they’re not telling you what you already know, they’re doing like a prequal to what we already know.
And they’re doing this whole Russel Crowes character actually stole the identity of Robin from another dead soldier and took over his life to get revenge. It could be interesting, I heard it was beautifuly done.
I don’t plan on seeing Robin Hood unless my friends and I are super bored on game night, and even then it’s going to lose to a second viewing of Iron Man if even a single person in the group hasn’t seen Iron Man yet.
My husband is pretty excited about the Robin Hood movie. He loves Gladiator, so he thinks he’ll like this. I told him it’s not looking good, then he got mad at me for trying to ruin his fun, lol. I was just warning him.
I’m rather confused about what the story is supposed to be about. The trailers say things like “Before he was Robin Hood. Before there was Sherwood Forest.” Well, before all that, he was fighting in the Crusades. And, quite clearly, he is not doing that in the film. He’s doing Robin Hood-y stuff.
By the way, the most “realistic” version of the story I’ve seen is not that awful Kevin Costner version. There’s another one with Uma Thurman (a 1991, quite young looking Uma) and Patrick Bergin. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102797/
I think it was a TV movie, though.
Yeah the Robin Hood trailer is awful. It is the guy screaming “I declare him an outLLLAAAAAAWWWW” that makes me cringe every time.
They can stop remaking Braveheart anytime now. It has been done.
I dunno, I’m a lot more interested in seeing a version where Robin Hood actually speaks with a fairly accurate regional accent – even if the actual accent they used is from just outside Nottingham, and they would have spoken with a completely different regional accent at the time – than in watching Kevin Costner’s fairy tale version (in which Alan Rickman’s brilliance so outshone Costner, they apparently cut down his part). Besides which, I never imagined Robin Hood as some young whelp of a thing, and both Crowe and Blanchett wear their age well. Not to mention I normally enjoy Ridley Scott’s work – both his films, and ‘Numb3rs’ on telly – and I love big epics like that anyway: things like 300, Gladiator, Master and Commander, King Arthur, as well as Spartacus: Blood and Sand (the series), which we’re currently watching now.
But certainly to each their own… the fact that I’ve lived just a half hour or so from Nottingham the past eleven years has no doubt peaked my interest a bit as well. 🙂
It’s not hard for Alan Rickman to outshine anyone. 🙂
That movie was so…weird. I couldn’t figure out if I was supposed to take it seriously or not. It seemed to be a “serious” movie, but then it would suddenly get very campy and outrageously funny. Was it supposed to be a comedy? A drama? I still have no idea.
I’ll see it, my wife likes Russel Crow and the Robin Hood story (I’m partical to it as well), and I never met a Ridley Scott movie I didn’t like.
I’m not too interested in Robin Hood just because I don’t think he should be running around with weapons other than a bow and arrow. The whole point is he’s like a guerilla fighter shooting arrows at coin purses and then running off to give the money away. I also agree with the age thing; in that day and age Maid Marion would’ve been traded off long before 40.
Disney’s Robin Hood. I don’t care that they traced Snow White.
I watched a History special they ran on Robin Hood and it appeared to me that they moved the action of the Robin Hood to *after* they all return from the Crusades, whereas in the other ones, King Richard was still out in Israel. I doubt I’ll see it in theaters, but it may be a Netflix film.
robin hood movie has got lots of action and great cinematograpy;*~