Pretty Scary
May 17Thanks to Sarah introducing me to the world wide web of women’s websites that don’t involve nudity, I’ve got lots of good stuff to read these days. Prior to discovering When Fangirls Attack, I use to read everything by Arinn Dembo over at Pretty Scary, which is by women horror fans, for women horror fans.
She just posted her latest column, an essay/review/shortstory on Slither, which kicks ass. I’d also recommend reading her other Personal Demon columns as well.
One of us! One of us!
May 16After years of slowly introducing the masses to the fun of superheroes, through shows like Alias, Buffy, and in a really sneaky way, LOST (is it really all caps, or am I imagining that?), NBC is biting the bullet and make a superhero show. Sort of.
Announcing their fall line-up, NBC unveiled Heroes, which follows a dozen ordinary people who suddenly find themselves with powers. No capes and tights and there’s the potential that the show will play out like a series of Outer Limit episodes, but they’re calling it Heroes, so I’m giving NBC the benefit of the doubt for now.
E3 round-up – it's all a blur
May 15I was, as Matt mentioned previously, on the floor at E3, and I was workin’ like a dog. So my key thoughts and reactions to E3 are slightly limited and from a wierd angle.
I’ll write a few of them down here;
Speaking of Free Comic Book Day…
May 05I’ve got a new name to add to The List, right under Cory Doctorow;
Douglas Wolk.
Go have a look and tell me if it’s just me. Am I being over sensitive, or does the whole thing seems a little… I dunno… smarmy.
My mouth is full of bile, so if you’d like to read more of my thoughts, you should check out the first letter to the editor, at the end of the article. Yes, I gots teh firsts.
Civil Secret War of the Heroes
May 03So – Marvel, continues to recyle old DC events, with the upcoming Civil War, in which the government moves to have super powered beings register.
I don’t think it’s a good idea and having Mark Millar at the helm seems like a recipe for doing terrible, epic, and harmful things to the Marvel universe. However, they’ve been plotting it and here it comes. It’s kind of like the Apocalypse (the biblical one, not the one Marvel did, with mutants) – if it’s going to happen any way, you might as well enjoy the show.
What I’m aghast at is the cost. 79 issues (not counting a scrapbook and Marvel Spotlight on the creative brains), at four bucks a pop (an un-godly 5.75 in Canada – that ain’t the exchange rate, if you’re wondering) is $316.
Cough it up, Fanboy.
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