Gears of Ghostbusters War 2
May 09Anybody that gets Spike TV, but isn’t interested in Ultimate Fighting, may finally have a use for it – tonight on Game Trailers TV, they’re showing exclusive first look footage of Gears of War 2 and more importantly, the Ghostbusters video game. Hell, I may even live blog it. Just so I can say I live-blogged once.
MARK PLUG!
May 08This week’s episode of The Sound of Young America podcast has Mark Evanier in the studio to talk about his new book Kirby: King of Comics. This is a double threat, as you should already be listening to TSoYA anyhow, and any chance to learn a bit more about Jack Kirby is always a good investment. Check it out.
Grok #2 Wants You!
May 08That’s right! That thing we did? That really cool thing? We’re gonna do it again.
The first issue of Grok, our PDF ‘zine, was packed with awesomeness and the second outing should be no different. Therefore, we need clever people such as yourselves to contribute.
To reiterate the basic mission statement: we want an electronic magazine dedicated to sharing stories, examinations, and opinions of geek culture. That means stuff like fun essays, fiction and the like focusing on the nerd experience. For further explanation, wander your little eyeballs to the sidebar on the right. And for examples of the kinds of ideas we’re looking for, peruse the dang issue.
Each issue also has a theme — #1 was pon farr. For #2, it’s all about…SECRET ORIGINS.
(Insert spine-tingling music and/or whooshy Lost flashback sound effect here!)
Also, this time, we’re also looking for artists to contribute. Otherwise, we’ll just be including more photos of Matt drinking from the punchbowl. No, seriously.
So what’s next? Well, if you’ve got something you want to write (or draw/paint/composite), drop a line to fangirl@earthlink.net. We’ll pool these ideas together and let you know if it’s a go (this is mostly just to make sure we don’t end up with a bunch of same-y articles/stories). Copy deadline is June 9 and the issue will be out in July. It should be released before that OTHER big thing that happens in July and will surely make great plane or between-panels reading material.
In a world without Harry Potter…
May 07
Thank you blog Don LaFontaine, for that subject line…
It turns out I’m really, really late to this party – after just discovering the first book by Jim Butcher, Storm Front, I find that there are 10 books in the series. There was a TV series on Sci-Fi. And a comic book is supposed to come out any time now, if it hasn’t already. But it’s not my fault – you see, I only found out about it the other day, when Buffy alum (and creator of The Guild) Felicia Day interviewed author Patrick Rothfuss, who in turn gave a shout out to Jim Butcher. So, really, when you think about it, it’s Felicia’s fault that I didn’t find out about this sooner.
The concept is stupidly simple. I could say “Harry Potter meets Moonlighting” or something like that, or “What if Angel were a wizard instead of a vampire?”, but it would do Butcher a bit of a disservice – mixing noir with magic has been done before, but not always well, and not always with legs.
Free Comic Book Day gave a small taste of IDW’s upcoming comic series and I’m scrambling to find the TV series, but in the meantime, I’m going through the books as best I can. My initial reaction – so far, not bad. My interest remains, though I’m not completely hooked yet. But then, things haven’t gotten too harry yet… I mean, hairy.
The Wachowskis: Hiding Out
May 07Defamer has an intriguing post about this Friday’s Speed Racer wide release and how the notorious reclusiveness of the Wachowskis isn’t doing them any favors at this point.
Like it matters; the Wachowskis haven’t granted an interview in the decade since The Matrix, deferring to mega-producer and de facto representative Joel Silver and their casts to flog their work publicly. Their crews sign non-disclosure agreements. The duo’s contracts entitle them to a luxury rarer than final cut — an opt-out provision shielding them from the promotion of their films. It’s Stanley Kubrick/Terrence Malick/Eric Rohmer stuff, but with one crucial exception: Their films aren’t that good.
