Some Media Consumed the Last Week or So

• Captain America: Rebirth - trade paperback of 90's-era Mark Waid Captain America comics.  Good stuff, but in the vein of 90's "all action in every panel", which I now usually associate with a Geoff Johns book.  And co-stars Bill Clinton when showing the President in a comic didn't lead to frothing rage (just low-boil rage).  Also, this is apparently when Ron Garney was still adding detail to his work.
• Captain America:  The Trial of Captain America - I'm half-way through this book.  Pretty good thus far.  But all of Brubaker's Cap has been worth reading.
• Echo Vol. 5:  Black Hole - trade paperback of Terry Moore's very good, recently completed series, Echo.  5th of 6.

• Sgt. Rock:  The Prophecy and Sgt. Rock: Between Hell and a Hard Place - The older I get, the more I love Joe Kubert and the more I appreciate the DC war comics. Especially now that Kubert is writing and drawing for adults and feels free to put in plenty of his own point of view.  I'm not a huge Azzarello fanatic, but he works seemlessly with Kubert on BH&HP. 
• Moon Girl #3:  from Red 5, this comic is visually stunning and a bit hallucinatory in its approach.  Not everyone's cup of tea, but if you're going to pick up these old properties, might as well do something interesting with it.
• Punisher #1:  written by Greg Rucka.  There's a whole, long post I want to do some day about how you lose the point of superhero-ish comics when all of your characters are in on the superhero factor (there's a reason Superman's supporting cast is supposed to be a bunch of journalists, not Kryptonians).  Pulling back to show the Punisher's world from a new perspective (not Frank Castle's) is a great hook.
• Mad Men Season 4, episodes 1-4:  Our 3 year old Blu-Ray player isn't doing a great job, and occasionally just wouldn't play some discs.  The failure of my player to let me play Mad Men got me up and to Target where I obtained a new Blu-Ray player.  As clever as the first 3 seasons are of this show, the 4th it shows a new maturity rather than becoming cutesy with its characters as most successful shows opt to do.  

if you were watching Season 4 when it broadcast, you will appreciate this.

• RoboCop 3, 2 and RoboCop:  My love of RoboCop isn't just nostalgia for a simpler time when shooting people in movies meant lots and lots of blood splatters and nobody thought about stuff like email or wi-fi when considering the future.  These movies were a satire of the absurd endgame of amoralism in business culture.  In 2011, aside from our ability to have cyborg cops, pretty much everything else in these movies came to pass.  Yeah, the Alamo showed the movies in reverse order to make everyone watch RoboCop 3.  Frankly, it was a lot better than I remember, but what I remember was a taser to the eyeball.  Also, its like a C-lister of Hollywood All-Star cast.  And Jill Hennessy in some serious Mom Jeans.
• Attack the Block:  I already talked about this, but its worth mentioning again.