Good Reads
Apr 25Y’all have got to check out the latest issue of Emmy magazine, which is dedicated to sci-fi/fantasy television. Please try to get past the irritating cover photo of Jennifer Love “Boobs McGee” Hewitt (actually, that’s my only quibble with this ish: they couldn’t find a better cover subject for the sci-fi/fantasy special? In the immortal words of GOB Bluth: Come ON!).
Trek Update
Apr 25J.J. Abrams clarifies a couple of points about his involvement with the new Trek film, as well as the proposed storyline. So classic characters may “live again,” but we may not be subjected to, like, Chad Michael Murray playing Kirk.
Smells Like Old Comics
Apr 25Anyone who has ever collected comic books knows what I mean when I say that I love the smell of old comics.
It’s a musty smell, like rotting paper, and so I guess it’s not a good sign, since the goal of most comic book collectors is to preserve those rotting bits of paper for as long as possible, in the best condition possible. Still, it’s a GREAT smell. It smells like history.
All of this is just to say I got a big ass whiff of Eau de Old Comics this morning when my eBay order for most of the first Wolfman/Perez Teen Titans run arrived. Man, am I psyched to dig into this batch of books. It’s already been a horseshit week and I can think of no better way to improve my mood than reading old comics and sniffing their magical scent.
Aaaaaaaaah.
And…
These Detective Comics preview pages look sweeeeeeet.
Also sweet: Sarah’s new blog, Great Hera!
Plug Alert! Or is that Alert Plug?
Apr 25I’ve got a new comics/geek life blog project goin’.
Check it, leave comments, send it off to nerdy kindred spirits, etc.
Roll Out.
Apr 24So, right. Transformers live action.
I have no personal great attachment to the Transformers, and you can willingly chalk me onto the list of those who just don’t “get” their attraction to their small but obsessive fan base. Not a judgement–I obsess over plenty that most don’t “get” so I understand how it goes–it’s just not my cuppa tea.
I do, however, have a slight attachment to Michael Bay, and so the prospect of him directing giant CG robots turning into trucks and airplanes when they aren’t beating the shit out of each other in downtown LA is downright…electrifying.
Transformers fans–whatever they call themselves–are probably pretty pissed that Michael Bay, of all people, is going to bring their geekgasm fantasies to live-action “life” on screen. If he were making, say, a Star Trek film with the original series cast, or the next Batman movie, I’d be pretty pissed too.
But I am ensconsed in the warm, inviting womb of disattachment, and so he can do whatever he wants. If things go boom and crash and there’s a bit of gratuitous nudity, I’m very much all over it.
