Heroes Pop Quiz #4
Oct 13
Apparently, 97 percent of superpowers are executed via holding out one’s hand, going “watch this,” and making some kewl special effect appear. Apparently, this never ceases to be fascinating to those of us still watching the show. Oh, but APPARENTLY, maybe it does, because we — the royal we! The whiny fandom we! — are kind of bored and hanging on for dear life! FINE. Time for the goddamn Heroes Pop Quiz.
SPOILERS within.
Sky Rockets in Flight! Afternoon, er, Twilight!
Oct 08Let’s all talk about the new Twilight poster. Or I’ll talk about it and you guys can chime in if you want. No pressure.
From Stephenie Meyer’s website.
Now I am of the opinion that Edward is kind of creepy (rather than SO ROMANTIC), but aren’t they supposed to make him look, well…dreamy? He mostly just appears way too eager to take a big, fat chomp out of his flowing tressed hors d’oeuvre. Bella, meanwhile, could not look more disinterested. “Whatever,” she seems to be saying. “I need to go deep condition my hair six more times and buy some denim and flannel, because that is WHAT PEOPLE WEAR in the Pacific Northwest.”
It’s not that hard to make a vampire look all broody and sexy. Right, Angel?
Artist Needed for (Probably Not Stupid) Comics Project
Oct 08We blog pretty good over here, and we GIVE and we GIVE–Witchblade and Heroes and such-like, with nary a glimpse of Spider-Woman’s camel toe (it’s there, in Avengers: The Initiative #17, go look at it if you’re lonely and sad).
So forgive me a random plea.
As newest Alert Nerd Jeff has pointed out at his blog, he and I are collaborating on writing a comic book project. We’ve got two scripts in the can and are working on number three.
However, it’s all a bit too masturbatory at the moment, because we need an artist!
So if you know one, or smell one nearby, or ARE ONE YOURSELF, and you’d like to taste what we’re cooking and see if you wanna join us, drop us a line.
Here’s the premise: What if Gambit and Wolverine had a baby?
(That’s not really the premise–it’s kinda like The West Wing starring Superman, actually. That’s the logline we’re gonna use on Spielberg when we kidnap him.)
Thanks! More later!
I Mangled My Witchblade
Oct 07
I mangled my Witchblade. It’s the “deluxe” collected edition of that first set of issues and it’s been with me since college. I’ll spare you the gory details, but basically, I was engaged in a bout of feverish closet cleaning, and said closet has some rather treacherous sliding doors and Sara Pezzini’s tentacle-clad ass was in the wrong place at the wrong time. It’s mostly visible at the top of a certain sub-section of the book, a sad crumpling that begins on the page where Sara’s “working out,” ie sexy-boxing with her boobs flying all over the place (it’s important to work out the boobs when you’re a Top Cow heroine, OK?).
Still. I’m sad.
IDW's New Classics of the Fantastic
Oct 07I have a tumultuous, difficult relationship with literary science fiction.
I feel some strange obligation to read and enjoy literary SF, because I’m a full-on media SF geek, and have never read the vast majority of the books one would consider SF “canon.” Asimov, Bradbury, Verne, Clarke, Heinlein, Dick, Le Guin–they’re all just empty names to me. I know they’re great; I know I probably SHOULD read them all. I just haven’t…I guess because I’m busy?
I finally sorta stumbled into some kind of tiny foothold on great literary SF, thanks to IDW’s new series of paperback reprints, New Classics of the Fantastic, described as “an essential science fiction library. It will bring back Hugo and Nebula Award winning books that have fallen out of print.”
Sweet. The first title, Robert Silverberg’s Nightwings, sorta shocked me last night with its beauty–it’s very delicate but vivid too. Silverberg captures this pitch-perfect tone early on and maintains it easily throughout (or at least, through the first fifty pages, which is as far as I got).
It’s great stuff. I fully confess to fundamental laziness, so if someone else is going to pick through science fiction’s storied past and reprint some lost classics, I will happily follow their lead and explore the nooks and crannies of the genre’s past with them.
