Where I Am On The Internets Today
It only seems like a relaxed, quiet day on the intertubes for me today – Well, okay, it kind of has been: I even managed to talk to friends and finish work before 5pm! Clearly, this means that I shall be crushed to death tomorrow. Hopefully I mean metaphorically.
Techland: News on that Wonder Woman reboot, those Johnny Depp is Doctor Who rumors and Sam Worthington launching a comics imprint purely to make more work for himself.
Spinoff Online: More news posts, on Martin Scorsese’s 3D kids movie, rumors of Doctor Who‘s ratings falling in the UK because of Matt Smith’s taking over the lead role, the surreal movie musical being made out of a 1975 Kinks album by Bobcat Goldthwait, a new show by Prison Break‘s creators, and the massive success that The Twilight Saga: Eclipse already is; one more time, people: It made more than three times the amount of Jonah Hex‘s one week take in one night.
Aside from that, there were phone calls and plans made for San Diego Comic-Con and various other backstage shenanigans that you don’t need to worry about just yet… Or do you…?
“The Only Power In The World!”
Best comment about the Wonder Woman costume redesign may come from this reader of Deadline Hollywood:
The colors on the costume don’t work. If she is to save the entire human race she must not have any black and blue in her costume. Black is the color for the dark side, and navy blue is the color for government workers….The dark side / devil side always destroys the earth / human race….GOD and his people always rescue, protect and create….after all GOD is the one who created the world and the human race! GOD and angels would never destroy what he created, it is man (humans ) that destroy each other! The issue should be numbered in # 700! Satan always lose, and GOD/ ANGELS always win!!
She must represent GOD in order to have the ONLY POWER to save the world! The only way that it makes sense! We all know “evil” always bring unhappiness, so she must be portrayed as the ” LIGHT ” and looked up to!!! She should be in white, yellow, red!!!
Yeah! What that crazy dude said!
Where I Am On The Internets Today
As I finish writing up a transcript of an interview I really, really hope to be able to run tomorrow, here’s what went live of mine today on this, the internet we all live on.
Techland: Remembering that it’s the 90th birthday of Ray Harryhausen, accepting that The Hobbit movies are probably cursed, and interviewing the wonderful Dan Goldman about his Red Light Properties webcomic.
Spinoff Online: Five news posts, on casting for the US remake of Being Human, Steve Carell leaving The Office, how badly Jonah Hex‘s flop will cost its studio (Hint: A lot), a Lego movie, for the love of God, and Glee getting a spin-off series on an entirely different channel from the show itself.
Robot 6: The weekly Middle Ground addresses why 2000AD should be mentioned in the same breath as Marvel or DC, honestly.
Remember: Visit all those links many times. Give me lots of hits, and then I shall continue writing. My future is in your hands, Earthlets!*
(* – This may not be exactly true. Well, kinda sorta.)
Swab Off The Decks-Ah! Swab Off The Decks!
Going to the wrong microphone, just shouting random shit? God bless you, Mark E. Smith.
Where I Am On The Internets Today
As if to prove that I really am doing things on these internets, this is where you can find today’s output:
Techland: Reporting on Jeph Loeb becoming Marvel’s head of TV, Syfy’s new superhero TV show, and rambling about last Saturday’s BBC America screening of Doctor Who.
Spinoff Online: News posts on Sigma Force, what Guillermo Del Toro will direct now that he’s not doing The Hobbit, and Twilight‘s amazing popularity on Facebook, as well as some off-the-top-of-my-head analysis about Loeb and Marvel’s TV possibilities.
The Savage Critics: Finally, finally posting the long-overdue Wait, What? podcasts with the lovely Jeff Lester, who has amazingly not killed me for dragging my feet in taking three weeks to post them after he sent them to me. Seriously, I suck.
Tomorrow: More Techland and Spinoff, as well as the weekly Robot 6 column. But I’ll tell you about that later.
Recently Read…
- The Butterfly Mosque by G. Willow Wilson (A memoir that I loved, much more than I expected, to be honest; I found myself moved by Willow’s conversion to Islam and even moreso by her reasons for, and explanations of, converting – I like Air, her Vertigo comic, a lot, but this just seemed much stronger, more personal and interesting, to be honest.)
- The Creeper by Steve Ditko
- Jack Kirby’s The Demon and Silver Star by Jack Kirby
- Outside The Dog Museum and A Child Across The Sky by Jonathan Carroll (Re-reading both; Carroll was, as I’m sure I’ve said before here, a massive influence on my life and writing back when I was finishing high school, and I was happy to see that these books have dated better than I’d feared.)
…Not to mention a ridiculous number of other comics, websites and TiVo descriptions of television shows. Moviewise, it’s been Hamlet 2 (Not as good as it should’ve been; maybe I just expected more of Steve Coogan?), The Men Who Stare At Goats (Started well, terrible ending, and Ewan Macgregor’s accent is something that someone should’ve talked him out’ve before shooting started, I think) and Guys and Dolls, and television-wise, I’ve been enjoying Leverage, Doctor Who and that Work of Art show on Bravo that surprisingly seems like a successful merging of Top Chef, Project Runway and the art world. Not that you really care about any of this, of course, but I just wanted to share.
Mind The Gap
So, yeah. I may be slightly overdue in trying to make this blog overhaul thing happen. I blame losing my laptop to what, I was promised, was hardware failure recently (On the plus side, Apple repaired it for free, despite it being out of warranty. I’m not quite sure how that actually happened; I blame them being distracted by the release of the new iPhone, which seemed to make everyone in the store panicked and unable to pay attention to anyone for more than three seconds at a time. But a new case and trackpad and fan for free? I’ll wait in a 45 minute queue for that, definitely), although there’s also been a general lack of free time lately, due to work and joining a gym – Stop your laughing at the back. You know who you are – meaning that I’ve fallen horrifically behind on both this and writing for the Savage Critics recently. But, no! No more! Now I shall try to make time to add content here more often! Seriously! more »