Sutff and things....
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litheraI feel a bit dsconnected from the world today, as though I've been shifted to the left or something. It is a little odd.
I started really using my Kindle today. It is amazing how much free stuff there is out there for it. Really. I've already got at least the Kindle's worth in free classics downloaded. And there are free cookbooks and... Just a lot. (I'm going to read Pride and Predjudice again before the zombies version comes out.) My first non-free book is Palimpsest and wow is it good. I have NO IDEA where it is going but I'm loving how lush and yet precise the language is. What a great book to start with.
In other news, the Tron sequel has started filming in Vancouver and it sounds really cool. I mean... It sounds ... like Tron, which is really all I can ask for. (And tells me I should have spent more time in Hall H last year.)
Saturday, Warner Home Video announced details about Green Lanter: First Flight, to be relased on DVD and Blu-ray Disc July 28. The Wonder Woman movie did well enough that we're pushing forward. I want to watch the WW movie!
I'm seeing a lot of reviews on Watchmen and they're mostly positive. I am, however, also seeing a lot of comics fans picking it up for the first time and wondering what the big deal about it is. There are a lot of reasons Watchmen was a big deal when it came out and, for me, the biggest is context. I was too young to get my hands on it when they came out and I likely wouldn't have really appreciated it, either. It took me awhile, when I did, to understand what was going on since I was living in a post Watchmen (and to some extent that Frank Miller Batman book) world. The heroes in Watchmen challenged the idea of heroes. They killed, they had sex, they were not the best people in the world but they were remarkably human. (Except the one who wasn't, just to make the others seem even MORE so - even when broken.) So, I can understand why newer comic readers don't understand why it was a big deal. They see a lot of the things that were HUGE then every week in comics. (There are certainly other reasons it was a big deal but that's the one that stands out for me.) I think, from the reviews I've read, that this movie is going to try to push that line for hero movies in the same way the series did for comics. At least, that's my hope. I shall see on Friday.
Steve McQueen's grandson, strangely also named Steven McQueen, will play Jeremy in the CW pilot “Vampire Diaries”.
Some nice Terminator posters: http://www.latinoreview.com/news/bad-ass-terminator-salvation-posters-6297 There is a new trailer coming in front of Watchmen.
Lots of rumors continuing to swirl around the new Star Trek movie. Words about possible cameos of and such. We shall see. We shall see indeed. There is a new trailer coming in front of Watchmen.
DC announced at Wonder Con that Judd Winick is the new writer on “Batman” after “Battle for the Cowl.” Which means that I won't be touching the thing. His writting is hot and cold and mostly just meh. Also stated was that Cassandra Cain will not be a member of the Bat-family after “Battle for the Cowl”. *sighs* Ah well.
And scans_daily is gone. There is a lot of kerfuffle out there about who and how and why but ultimately, for me, this comes down to a old retail/new retail sort of situation. It is, mostly, the same issue as DRM but in the case of comics (and books) there isn't an easy way to rip every book or comic you have into a digital form and save it on your hard drive. If it were just like ripping a CD, the publishing industry would have run into this a lot earlier. There is no Napster for books, you know? Let me just say that I will never believe that free = bad. If someone likes what they read, they'll go looking for more of it. Making back catalog titles availble hurts no one and allows more people access to your work who might not have originally even wanted to look.
And to answer another question I'm seeing asked - If readers hate large crossovers so much, why do people keep buying them? Well, for one, if you don't buy it, often times you end up being entirely lost when it is inevitably mentioned in other places. And two, comics are a social thing in a lot of ways and you want to be able to talk about what everyone else is talking about - good or bad.
I started really using my Kindle today. It is amazing how much free stuff there is out there for it. Really. I've already got at least the Kindle's worth in free classics downloaded. And there are free cookbooks and... Just a lot. (I'm going to read Pride and Predjudice again before the zombies version comes out.) My first non-free book is Palimpsest and wow is it good. I have NO IDEA where it is going but I'm loving how lush and yet precise the language is. What a great book to start with.
In other news, the Tron sequel has started filming in Vancouver and it sounds really cool. I mean... It sounds ... like Tron, which is really all I can ask for. (And tells me I should have spent more time in Hall H last year.)
Saturday, Warner Home Video announced details about Green Lanter: First Flight, to be relased on DVD and Blu-ray Disc July 28. The Wonder Woman movie did well enough that we're pushing forward. I want to watch the WW movie!
I'm seeing a lot of reviews on Watchmen and they're mostly positive. I am, however, also seeing a lot of comics fans picking it up for the first time and wondering what the big deal about it is. There are a lot of reasons Watchmen was a big deal when it came out and, for me, the biggest is context. I was too young to get my hands on it when they came out and I likely wouldn't have really appreciated it, either. It took me awhile, when I did, to understand what was going on since I was living in a post Watchmen (and to some extent that Frank Miller Batman book) world. The heroes in Watchmen challenged the idea of heroes. They killed, they had sex, they were not the best people in the world but they were remarkably human. (Except the one who wasn't, just to make the others seem even MORE so - even when broken.) So, I can understand why newer comic readers don't understand why it was a big deal. They see a lot of the things that were HUGE then every week in comics. (There are certainly other reasons it was a big deal but that's the one that stands out for me.) I think, from the reviews I've read, that this movie is going to try to push that line for hero movies in the same way the series did for comics. At least, that's my hope. I shall see on Friday.
Steve McQueen's grandson, strangely also named Steven McQueen, will play Jeremy in the CW pilot “Vampire Diaries”.
Some nice Terminator posters: http://www.latinoreview.com/news/bad-ass-terminator-salvation-posters-6297 There is a new trailer coming in front of Watchmen.
Lots of rumors continuing to swirl around the new Star Trek movie. Words about possible cameos of and such. We shall see. We shall see indeed. There is a new trailer coming in front of Watchmen.
DC announced at Wonder Con that Judd Winick is the new writer on “Batman” after “Battle for the Cowl.” Which means that I won't be touching the thing. His writting is hot and cold and mostly just meh. Also stated was that Cassandra Cain will not be a member of the Bat-family after “Battle for the Cowl”. *sighs* Ah well.
And scans_daily is gone. There is a lot of kerfuffle out there about who and how and why but ultimately, for me, this comes down to a old retail/new retail sort of situation. It is, mostly, the same issue as DRM but in the case of comics (and books) there isn't an easy way to rip every book or comic you have into a digital form and save it on your hard drive. If it were just like ripping a CD, the publishing industry would have run into this a lot earlier. There is no Napster for books, you know? Let me just say that I will never believe that free = bad. If someone likes what they read, they'll go looking for more of it. Making back catalog titles availble hurts no one and allows more people access to your work who might not have originally even wanted to look.
And to answer another question I'm seeing asked - If readers hate large crossovers so much, why do people keep buying them? Well, for one, if you don't buy it, often times you end up being entirely lost when it is inevitably mentioned in other places. And two, comics are a social thing in a lot of ways and you want to be able to talk about what everyone else is talking about - good or bad.
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Date: 2009-03-03 04:15 pm (UTC)I look at D&D books online (or, more frequently, sipping coffee at B&N) to see if they're doing anything I'm interested in, but mostly I'm just frantically buying up everything 3.5 I can these days before they disappear forever. If I had no access to them outside of purchasing them outright, I'd either give them up for lost, or buy one book, be annoyed, and give them up for lost (which is pretty much what happened when I bought the 4.0 core books). At least now, I may look at PHB2 online or in the store, and say "Hey, there's a couple of good ideas in here."