An Aggregate of Diverse Topics
An Aggregate of Diverse Topics
Dec 15As a nerd who is not a hardcore Trek fan, I have to confess that the new Trek trailer (which isn’t exactly new, is it?) gets me going a bit. As an artifact of the way I viewed TOS, I don’t think I’ve ever really had a grasp on the character behind Kirk, nor have I ever really had it explained to me. There’s something perfect about that very first scene in the trailer that communicates who Jim Kirk is to me, and he’s a guy I think I like. The rest of the trailer tries very hard to communicate this grand, epic sentence, and I like its trailer-appropriate stings of sturm and its accompanying drang (it stimulates the part of my brain that sneaks into Michael Bay movies). However, all of the subsequent fireworks are kind of dross to me after watching some cowboyish little kid drive an incalculably valuable classic car off a cliff for no apparent reason.
If you find Grant Morrison’s work on Batman and/or Final Crisis difficult to follow, you may want to invest in the recently solicited 3-pack of Blank Comic Books. Not to make your own, but to let your mind get invested in a story that it can follow without suffering psychic damage. As to Batman RIP, it was really a bit of a non-ending, no? It wasn’t bad at all (and by that I mean that I think it’s quite good, not just the stock, dismissive “not bad,” but expecting more from it wasn’t unreasonable.
Though I have generally broken up with DC Comics, I still maintain that I will fight anybody who dislikes New Frontier.
Who is Fake Dan DiDio? Who cares? BUT — the heavy-handed, thinks-its-witty-but-actually-isn’t tone of the updates makes me think that it might actually be Triple D himself.
Hearing that One Tree Hill sire Mark Schwann is developing the new Melrose Place is causing quite the hubbub (is that still a word? 23 skidoo!) in the lushly appointed Alert Nerd offices. It won’t be good, but will it be so bad it’s good? We’ll be sure to give you a full accounting.
Oh, and the amazing amazingness that is Grok #3 drops tomorrow. It features the complete lyrics to the Ewok Celebration Song. And that’s only on one of its 69 GIANT SIZED pages.
Wow, Fake Dan DiDio is fucking brilliant. I wonder if it’s the same twisted mind behind Rorschach’s twitter feed…
I have heard from people who would know that @wkovacs and @Dan_Didio are not the same person.
Wednesday! Not tomorrow…wait, right? Wednesday?
We have offices?
maybe if you showed up at the offices once in a while, you’d be up on the latest site news.
seriously, I think it is Wednesday, but Tuesday’s great too. It’s so good and it’s going to be so awesome that any day is wondrous.
You know that thing that you do when you think it’s later in the week than it is because you’re not mentally prepared for it to be only Monday? That’s what happened.
The car that kid Kirk ditches off a cliff was made in 1966, the same year that classic TREK premiered. This is Abrahms way of symbolically way of saying “This ain’t yer fanboy’s old STAR TREK.” Similar to how XXX opened by killing off a James Bond surrogate in an effort to try and distance itself from the type of spy movie that audiences were used to.