Lucas on Broadway: BUH-WHAAA–???
Jun 23He’s made seventeen googillion dollars as a filmmaker, and he’s on the march toward TV.
What’s next? Producing records? Promoting concerts? Ghostwriting novels?
Nope–George Lucas is out to conquer Broadway!
George Lucas is planning to direct a Broadway musical, with the help of Whoopi Goldberg.
Lucas is in negotiations with Goldberg to collaborate on the musical Bricktop: Queen of the Night, based on the life of famed Parisian nightclub owner Ada ‘Bricktop’ Smith.
“They’re talking about playing with Cubist images and jazz from the 1920s,” a source reported, saying that Lucas “could do things Broadway has never seen before”.
Maybe he can get his bloodsport daughter to star in it. I think her name is Tygar. Just like on Thundercats.
(Rockin' Robin reference here)
Jun 21Hello. We’ve created a Twitter feed for AlertNerd, where all our nerdy musings here on the website will automatically appear. A handy way to keep up to date on AlertNerd, and all things Alerting and Nerding.
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And let loose the darts of war
Jun 20My best headline ever, I feel.
The following is just like my office, only there’s only ten of us, so we don’t really have teams – it’s more of a Reservoir Dogs free-for-all. The Nerf armory is spot on though.
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"A Really Interesting Day in the Comics News Business"
Jun 20From Warren Ellis’ Bad Signal e-mail list;
If what I just heard is true, then it’s going to be a really interesting day in the comics news business.
If it is true, it’ll probably break on http://www.comicbookresources.com/ first, so curious parties might want to keep an eye on that during the day.
If it’s not, well, then, I just wasted seven seconds of your time. You’ll live.
I’m calling it now: DiDio is OUT. Do it now; have someone new in place before San Diego. Wait much longer, and DiDio (and by extension DC) are gonna have one shitty summer schlepping from town to town just to get yelled at by nerds.
While you’re refreshing CBR, go check out Ellis’ webcomic Freakangels which is fantastic stuff.
Warren Ellis on reactivating old Marvel characters
Jun 19Brian Reed (the writer on Dynamite comics Red Sonja) is apparently digging through the Marvel vaults, and Ellis has some advice. The following is proof that if you’re not currently watching Ellis’ Twitter feed, you really really should be.
@BrianReed Unearthing old characters for Marvel to see if they’re worth reactivating will clip five years off your life. Trust me.
Because six hours later you’re all “ah, yes, Flying Coyote Whore who some drunk invented for Luke Cage to fuck in 1975, I see potential..” And a day later you’re, “geezer, that guy who used to deliver the mail to The Fantastic Four, there’s totally a miniseries there…”
And then your kid starts calling you “Scary Daddy” and your girl won’t let you touch her and you see Stan Lee when you try to jerk off. But you can’t jerk off and suddenly you’re living in the woods and you don’t remember why and someone seems to have pissed in your clothes.
But you really want to write that story about the voodoo chicken guy from those old Marvel comics but old women are flinging turds at you. And cops are beating you up every night and you get raped by a hobo with a face like Roseanne who keeps saying “Cough on it, John.”
And why? Because you decided to research old Marvel comics. Just walk away, Reed. Or you may never walk the same again.
