Bits and bobs
Mar. 23rd, 2009 11:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Really?
And some interesting art from the Wednesday Comics book DC is putting together: http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/03/23/more-wednesday-comics-art-surfaces/
The Hollywood Reporter says that Sci-Fi Channel has greenlighted a new try for "The Phantom." The project will be a four-hour movie which, if it is well received, will then spin up into a weekly, like BSG did.
Summit Entertainment announced today that Twilight sold over 3 million DVD units in its first day of release.
The L.A. Times says that there was an explanation for Six's red dress in the finale. Did anyone see that? I think I missed it....
Dollhouse had the first episode that I really actually liked last week. Kings is seriously strong stuff. Sarah Connor Chronicles had a fantastic episode as well. Most of the TV I watch was pretty kick ass last week, which was nice.
Food for thought - Why is it I love Superman movies and Superman cartoons but the comics, for the most part, do nothing for me?
Really?
And some interesting art from the Wednesday Comics book DC is putting together: http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/03/23/more-wednesday-comics-art-surfaces/
The Hollywood Reporter says that Sci-Fi Channel has greenlighted a new try for "The Phantom." The project will be a four-hour movie which, if it is well received, will then spin up into a weekly, like BSG did.
Summit Entertainment announced today that Twilight sold over 3 million DVD units in its first day of release.
The L.A. Times says that there was an explanation for Six's red dress in the finale. Did anyone see that? I think I missed it....
Dollhouse had the first episode that I really actually liked last week. Kings is seriously strong stuff. Sarah Connor Chronicles had a fantastic episode as well. Most of the TV I watch was pretty kick ass last week, which was nice.
Food for thought - Why is it I love Superman movies and Superman cartoons but the comics, for the most part, do nothing for me?
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Date: 2009-03-23 06:53 pm (UTC)1. YAY! Jean's back! (For some reason I've been missing her, and I don't typically even *like* her.)
2. Poor woman, her right breast seems to start on her shoulder.
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Date: 2009-03-23 06:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-23 06:59 pm (UTC)As for Jean's return, well. It used to annoy me that they'd kill her and bring her back ad nauseum, but after she started being code-name Phoenix I kind of went 'well okay. Anybody named Phoenix is going to keep coming back' and accepted it.
I *am* a bit disappointed that she's coming back after Emma's been outed as a Bad Guy After All, because I don't need another wash-rinse-repeat with Scott and Jean, but I'm sure we'll get one. Ah well. :)
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Date: 2009-03-23 07:01 pm (UTC)I really need to sit down and read the months of X issues I've been letting sit idle. See, I alphabetize my comics and when I get new ones, I add them. So, when I sit down to read them, I seem to never get to some letters...
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Date: 2009-03-23 07:26 pm (UTC)I LOVE JEAN. And I hate what they've done to her. Though Kit has a point about the Phoenix thing.
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Date: 2009-03-23 06:56 pm (UTC)As for Jean, well, I've seen her fake-rezzed before by a Mastermind, and Bru/Frac recently did use a Mastermind...
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Date: 2009-03-23 07:15 pm (UTC)I realize comic fanboys (and girls) can cling to their favorites beyond all reason, but is it really that hard to come up with new interesting characters and storylines that weren't first done a quarter-century ago?
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Date: 2009-03-23 07:16 pm (UTC)And she has been dead for like a decade or something this time.
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Date: 2009-03-23 07:46 pm (UTC)You know what I want? CSI: Gotham.
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Date: 2009-03-23 07:49 pm (UTC)So, I have to wait around for when they might appear and hope they don't get killed off, or hope they are written right. Usually, it's for a scene, or I have to look around for single-panel appearances.
And, there's few people to commiserate with about it, because they're not the Well Known types.
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Date: 2009-03-23 07:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-23 07:22 pm (UTC)I thought that your post was titled Bits and Boobs.
HIS FAULT.
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Date: 2009-03-23 07:24 pm (UTC)I knew someone would after I posted it. It happens almost every time...
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Date: 2009-03-23 08:22 pm (UTC)Same here.
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Date: 2009-03-23 08:24 pm (UTC)Or, er, something.
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Date: 2009-03-23 08:57 pm (UTC)Oh man.
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Date: 2009-03-23 08:42 pm (UTC)Re: Superman: He's actually his most fascinating to me when he's part of a team. Though maybe that really speaks more to the quality of the previous JLA run up through Syndicate Rules, minus Pain of the Gods and The Tenth Circle... (bleck esp on that last one)
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Date: 2009-03-23 08:05 pm (UTC)As for the Superman issue, my guess would just be most of the comics are crap (and I say this as a huge Superman fanboy).
Have you considered giving... radio dramas a try? Ahem. ;)
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Date: 2009-03-23 08:07 pm (UTC)I haven't, actually, though I may well be interested. I'm not so good with podcast sorts of things, I've noticed.
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Date: 2009-03-23 08:39 pm (UTC)If you ever feel like checking them out, drop by pendantaudio.com
I would be thrilled to hear your thoughts on the stuff we're doing.
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Date: 2009-03-23 08:41 pm (UTC)The book has only been consistently worth reading since Gates started on the book. Rucka's one issue was good and there were a couple others that were decent here and there, but on the whole it's been thirty-some issues of train wreck.
I hadn't read anything that bad until Trinity came along... and Trinity, of course, puts all other books to shame when it comes to being the worst comic ever. ;)
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Date: 2009-03-23 08:50 pm (UTC)I think the last Superman comics I read were part of Doomsday, since that was the last EPIC event, and the last time Supes actually seemed... super. But, in the comics, most of the other JLA members are on par with him by now, thus he seems less special.
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