For You Blue
Apr 07I finally started to catch up on all my Infinite Crisis backreading last night, when I read Countdown to Infinite Crisis, the opening chapter in which Blue Beetle gets plugged in the brain by a batshit-crazy Maxwell Lord.
Speaking of Photorealistic Fur…
Apr 07What the hell with that movie The Wild? It looks exactly like Madagascar. Not even kind of, sort of like Madagascar — exactly!
And I never even heard about it until this week. And I probably wouldn’t care, like, at all, except I was totally fascinated by this great article from Jim Hill Media on Toys R Us passing on a chance to produce some plush toys from the movie. Not even “a single piece of plush” (one of my favorite terms from the article).
Not even a single piece of plush, people!!
Battlestar Galactica wins Peabody
Apr 07A belated, brilliantly re-imagined revival of a so-so 1970s outer-space saga, the series about imperiled survivors of a besieged planet has revitalized sci-fi television with its parallax considerations of politics, religion, sex, even what it means to be “human.”
Also picking up an award were House, The Shield, and South Park. Oh, and some reporters.
We Could Be Heroes
Apr 07I’m trying to take a break from stressing over whether or not The CW is going to pick up Veronica Mars (last night? So good!! But poor Mac…I think you should go for George-Michael Bluth, Mac!) and actually look at some of the shiny new pilots currently casting and/or in production. So far, one of the most promising geekly offerings is Heroes, an ordinary-folks-with-superpowers deal.
Check it — there’s a bunch of info on the show over at TV.com.
My reaction so far:
Greg Grunberg = Yay!
Milo Ventimiglia = Boo! (though I do like you better than that Logan douchebag, Milo.)
The story could have covered more ground, Xeni.
Apr 07But then, she’s not promoting comics as a whole, just certain comics. Xeni Jardin at BoingBoing has a thing for promoting the work of her comic friends (cool) – in this case, her pal Matt Fraction has a comic, Five Fists of Science coming out, which is a more adventurous take on Mark Twain, Nikola Tesla, and Thomas Edison (who is the bad guy, if I understand correctly.)
If she’d been a true comic nerd, should would have also recommended Tales From the Bully Pulpit, in which Teddy Roosevelt and the ghost of Thomas Edison travel through time and space fighting Nazis, Martians, and Nazi Martians.
Then there’s JLA: Age of Wonder, in which the iconic league characters are transposed over top the birth of the industrial age, with appearances by Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. The two-parter covers a lot of deep waters, looking at progress and its relationship to war, social unrest, and why Lex Luthor has no hair.
Me – picking up where Jardin left off, since… well, now.
