{"id":1490,"date":"2008-12-15T14:05:47","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T21:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2008-12-15T14:05:47","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T21:05:47","slug":"an-aggregate-of-diverse-topics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=1490","title":{"rendered":"An Aggregate of Diverse Topics"},"content":{"rendered":"

As 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.\u00c2\u00a0 As an artifact of the way I viewed TOS, I don’t think I’ve ever really had a grasp on the character <\/em>behind Kirk, nor have I ever really had it explained to me.\u00c2\u00a0 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.\u00c2\u00a0 The rest of the trailer tries very hard to communicate this grand, epic sentence<\/em>, 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).\u00c2\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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.\u00c2\u00a0 Not to make your own, but to let your mind get invested in a story that it can follow without suffering psychic damage.\u00c2\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

Though I have generally broken up with DC Comics, I still maintain that I will fight anybody who dislikes\u00c2\u00a0 New Frontier.<\/p>\n

Who is Fake Dan DiDio<\/a>?\u00c2\u00a0 Who cares?\u00c2\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

Hearing that One Tree Hill sire Mark Schwann is developing the new Melrose Place is causing quite the hubbub (is that still a word?\u00c2\u00a0 23 skidoo!) in the lushly appointed Alert Nerd offices.\u00c2\u00a0 It won’t be good, but will it be so bad it’s good?\u00c2\u00a0 We’ll be sure to give you a full accounting.<\/p>\n

Oh, and the amazing amazingness that is Grok #3 drops tomorrow.\u00c2\u00a0 It features the complete lyrics to the Ewok Celebration Song.\u00c2\u00a0 And that’s only on one of its 69 GIANT SIZED pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As 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.\u00c2\u00a0 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,67,27,95],"tags":[413,96,39,420,97,35],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-grok","category-movies","category-trek08","tag-comics","tag-dan-didio","tag-dc","tag-grok","tag-mark-schwann","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}