A verb makes a statement. Yeah, a verb tells it like it is!

I get my thing in action (Verb!)

To be, to see, to feel, to live (Verb!)

(That's what's happenin')

I put my heart in action (Verb!)

To run, to go, to get, to give (Verb!)

(You're what's happenin')

That's where I find satisfaction, yeah! (Yeah!)

To search, to find, to have, to hold

(Verb! To be bold)

When I use my imagination (Verb!)

I think, I plot, I plan, I dream

Turning in towards creation (Verb!)

I make, I write, I dance, I sing

When I'm feeling really active (Verb!)

I run, I ride, I swim, I fly!

Other times when life is easy

(Oh!) I rest, I sleep, I sit, I lie.

(Verb! That's what's happenin')

I can take a noun and bend it,

Give me a noun -

(Bat, boat, rake, and plow)

Make it a verb and really send it!

(Show me how)

Oh, I don't know my own power. (Verb!)

I get my thing in action (Verb!)

In being, (Verb!) In doing, (Verb!)

In saying

A verb expresses action, being, or state of being.

A verb makes a statement. Yeah, a verb tells it like it is!

(Verb! That's what's happenin'.)

I can tell you when it's happenin',

(Past, present, future tense)

Ooh! Tell you more about what's happenin',

(Say it so it makes some sense)

I can tell you who is happenin'!

(Verb, you're so intense)

Every sentence has a subject.

(Noun, person, place, or thing)

Find that subject: Where's the action?

(Verb can make a subject sing)

Take the subject: What is it? (What!)

What's done to it? (What!)

What does it say?

(Verb, you're what's happenin')

I can question like: What is it?

(Verb, you're so demanding.)

I can order like: Go get it!

(Verb, you're so commanding.)

When I hit I need an object

(Verb, hit! Hit the ball!)

When I see, I see the object

(Do you see that furthest wall?)

If you can see it there, put the ball over the fence, man!

Go ahead. Yeah, alright.

What?! He hit it. It's going, it's going, it's gone!

(What!)

I get my thing in action.

(Verb, that's what's happenin')

To work, (Verb!)

To play, (Verb!)

To live, (Verb!)

To love... (Verb!...)

Kick-Ass: Creating The Comic, Making The Movie

If you're face-pulpingly excited for the arrival of gritty superhero epic Kick-Ass next month, then you can help the wait go by faster with a new art book, crammed with Kick-Ass facts.

In Kick-Ass: Creating The Comic, Making The Movie, out now from Titan Books, Mark Millar takes us inside the process of crafting his super-violent, fucked-up take on superheroes in the real world. If you can get past Millar's typically hyperbolic tone, you'll find his revelations pretty fascinating — including the fact that Dave Lizewski might be Millar's most autobiographical character yet, with his dead mother and struggling single dad. Millar even thought about trying to become a superhero himself, as a teenager. But Dave's actually named after the winner of a contest. Millar also explains how the earliest drafts of Kick-Ass were only about the psychotic Big Daddy and his daughter Hit-Girl, but the story only took shape when he came up with a new main character, Dave. Oh, and you learn first hand why people who see Millar working on his early comic-script drafts think he must be a serial killer plotting a murder spree.



Just as fascinating, and easier to look at, are John Romita Jr.'s early designs for some of the characters in Kick-Ass, including a Big Daddy who looked a bit different:

Director Matthew Vaughn talks about how the studios all loved the idea of Kick-Ass but said no to making it, and explains the process of making such a big film without any studio support.

Also, you learn from the movie's writer Jane Goldman why Big Daddy doesn't swear, and yet his daughter Hit Girl swears like a sailor. (He made her watch a lot of action movies.) There are incredible amounts of detail layered on in this movie's world, and when you look at Romita Jr.'s individual illustrations that became Big Daddy's "villains wall," you realize just how much love went into this thing, and how insane everybody involved with it had to be to make it happen.

Most of all, you just get overwhelmed with the awesomeness of all the art, from storyboards to comic art to movie concept art to finished details that you won't notice in the actual film. The costumes, especially, undergo an epic journey from Millar's early scribbles to the colorful pastiches in the final movie. For people who are interested in the development of superheroes in comics and movies, most of all, this book will be a vital touchstone.

It's Not A Doll

Inspired by the Hasbro action figure, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra took command of this weekend box office with a $56.2 million debut domestically. Worldwide, "G.I. Joe" has been marked to gross over $100 million. Starring new comers to the action pack silver screen: Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje (Adebisi of HBO’s Oz), Marlon Wayans (Actor/Writer of the Scary Movie Series) and Byung-hun Lee (South Korean Actor & Martial Artist).

As I see it, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra has everything the audience could possibly ask for. Not only are there two black male characters that don’t die in the first five minutes, they're leaders and smart; move over, the movie features kick-ass ninjas, crash’em up car scenes racing through Paris, girl-on-girl fights, a few shady quick lines (not many but a few) and Eye Candy. What more could an audiences want in this action film? No matter what the national critic reviews were, you and your date would come out satisfied. (C+) or (3.5 Stars)

G.I. Joe follows the Transformers franchise as the latest toy story to invade Hollywood and plant its blockbuster flag onto the big screen. Over the past 45 years, G.I. Joe has become one of the most reckoned icons in the toy industry. 5 years younger the Barbie, he was born out of one simple concept, ready for Adventure. It’s Not A Doll but an Action Figure PEOPLE!! G. I. Joe gave an entire generation of boys a whole new way to play with dolls.