issue 09 / volume 41

   

Comic Corner:

 

 

  

One too many reboots

» ‘Star Wars: Issue OO!’

: patchwork of various scenarios.
: On one hand you have the

: classic plot of the 1977 film, on
: the other you have this random
: battle scene with a focus on

: Princess Leia’s perspective

: instead of Luke’s. I’m not saying :
: it’s bad, it just feels incomplete.

_. Brittney MacDonald
h Life & Style Editor
Milifeandstyle
@theotherpress.ca

 

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OOO

SZ Wars is at it again,
creating yet another reboot
of the franchise, this time ina

A regular edition has been put
out by Marvel, with a variant
cover edition exclusive to
Loot Crate, but I’m not totally
convinced it’s worth picking up.
I’m going to avoid talking
much about plot because the
comic book is a little bit of a

iid

review

Since this is in single issue

: comic form, that’s pretty much
: all you get before the writer
: and artist run out of pages. The

comic series set around the time : adaptation, done by writer Jason :

of the original Star Wars trilogy. Aaron, could have been handled :
: better. The plot itself just feels
: way too rushed. Instead of

: seeing the classic quartet of Han :
: Solo, Princess Leia, Chewbacca,
: and Luke Skywalker kicking

: some Empire booty, they just

: seem to win randomly and,

: before you know it, Darth Vader :

eves

Image courtesy Nickelodeon Movies/Paramount Picture

: is having his iconic meeting
: with Jabba the Hutt, planning
: revenge.

However, the art, done

by John Cassaday, is pretty
: spectacular. Stylistically, it’s

a mix between the modern

: North American aesthetic of
: digital painting and a more

: traditionalist approach with
: heavy inks and bold lines.

: What makes it so good is the

attention to detail and anatomy,
and Cassaday’s use of hard light

: sources throughout the comic
: book.

I definitely had some issues

: with this. Despite being a

: massive Star Wars fan, I can’t

: imagine myself picking up the
: next issue, so therefore I can’t

recommend it.

   
  

Enjoy the spongy goodness

» ‘SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water’ review

Steven Cayer
Senior Columnist

 

have been a huge fan of
SpongeBob SquarePants

show premiered back in 1999.
That’s why I was very excited
to see the new movie, The

SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out a fan, you might be put off by

: the wackiness involved with

: keeping the story going. Also
: the movie assumes youre a

: fan because it doesn’t explain

named Burger-Beard (Antonio } certain aspects from the show.

Banderas) who finds a magical :

of Water, a sequel to 2004's
The SpongeBob SquarePants
Movie.

It features a greedy pirate

book that can make anything
happen if it’s written down

: in the book. Using this, he

: steals the super-secret Krabby
: Patty formula from Mr. Krabs
: (Clancy Brown) and opens a

: food truck-like ship. Obviously :
: this seems like the end of :

OO080

: wrongly accused. The movie
: then goes on every crazy

: : tangent it can, involving a
(Tom Kenny) ever since the TV : time machine, superpowers,
: the real world, and a futuristic

rapping dolphin.

: episodes crammed into one

the world under the sea and
Plankton (Mr. Lawrence) gets

Be warned, if you're not

This movie felt like a few

: long episode, with minimal

: segues in between. Some

: people might say that’s a bad
: thing, but fans of the show

might say otherwise. What

: annoyed me the most were

: the scenes out of the water.

: The animation was well done,
: but it just felt too jarring for

: me. Also the reactions of the

: humans seemed unrealistic to
: me.

What made this movie

: fan-worthy was the comedic

: writing throughout. No matter
: what age you are, you'll find

: something to laugh about in

: this movie—I know I did, and

: it felt like I was seven years old
: again. Overall, I had a great

: time even though I wished it

: took place in the underwater

: city | know and love.

Image from John Cassaday

 

Working for the weekend
» ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ updates
Italian Renaissance comedy

Adam Tatelman
Senior Columnist

OOOO

Ix always had a fondness for
the energy and enthusiasm
found in live theatre. Watching
actors maintain an imaginary
world without the advantage
of editing or CGI can be truly
inspiring to behold—especially
when the world of the play in

as Arts Club’s latest effort, One
Man, Two Guvnors.

The play is based in
the conventions of Italian

a form of street theatre that
cast stock characters as either
masters or servants. The
servants are always motivated
by base needs like food or lust,
and the masters are foppish
and pretentious. For One Man,
Two Guvnors, these characters
are adapted for modern stage
performance.

Arlecchino the clown is
reborn as Francis Henshall
(Andrew McNee), a bumbling
manservant who honestly can't
choose between his love of
food and love of women. His
employers and their families
are based off of stock masters
such as Dottore the scholar
or Pantalone the old miser,
providing verbal comedy as
a counterpoint to Francis’
slapstick.

The plot, adapted by

comedy A Servant of Two
Masters, is a bewilderingly

and stunningly bad lies, taking
place squarely in the realm of
screwball farce. Think Fawlty
Towers or Blackadder and you
know the score.

I can't give much away
outside the setup: seeking
to satisfy his hunger, Francis
comes into the employment of
Roscoe Crabbe (Celine Stubel),
a gangster who was presumed

and Francis’ other boss, Stanley
Stubbers (Martin Happer).
Francis has to keep them from

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Image from David Cooper

: meeting in order to keep his

: job. But it turns out Roscoe is

: actually dead, and it’s his twin

: sister Rachel, Stanley’s lover,

: who is impersonating the

: gangster for reasons of her own.

Rachel, as Roscoe, is set to

: marry Pauline Clench (Lauren
: Bowler), a brainless beauty

: who's fallen for wannabe actor
: Alan Dangle (Ryan Beil). What
: follows is a chaotic danse

: macabre between the high

? melodrama of the masters and

question is as full of lively lunacy } fyancis’ simple desires as he

and bizarre comedic digressions : constantly disrupts everyone’s
: plans with his legendary

: ineptitude, inventing identities
: onthe fly and blaming the

: gloriously mad results on

Renaissance Commedia Dell arte, imaginary Irish dockworkers.

Commedia Dell‘arte used

: Lazzi, short rehearsed gags

: that could be thrown in ona

: whim. This structure informs

: the style of humour in One

: Man, Two Guvnors. Just as

: Italian audiences could never

: predict which Lazzi would

: progress the plot, we can only

: wait and see what acrobatic

: hijinks Francis will perform,

: what misunderstanding will

: drive a wedge between which

: characters, or who will be

: summoned from the audience.

: This keeps the play moving at

: such a supersonic pace that

: even when a gag falls flat, you're
: already laughing at the next one.

Drenched in 60s English

iconography and set against

: the backdrop of downtown

: Brighton, the play revels in

: anachronistic cellphone gags
Richard Bean from the Venetian = and satiric jabs at other Arts
Club productions. A Beatles
: copycat band, The Craze,
contrived parade of coincidence : entertain the audience during
: intermission with mawkish

: beats like “The Brighton Line.”
: It all blends together into such
: an infectious cocktail of gut-

: busting laughter that you'll

: probably want to bring an

oxygen tank.

So if youre a fan of British

: comedy, pick up some tickets

: to One Man, Two Guvnors from
: ArtsClub.com. If you want
dead after a run-in with his rival : a chance to partake in this
: mischievous masterwork, the

: play is at the Stanley Industrial

: Alliance Stage until February 22.