Now this is the way to end a series.
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Fantastic Four Cast Coming Together
Sci-Fi Wire has the details about the film, but it looks like Michael Chiklis (The Shield) will play Ben Grimm, Ioan Gruffudd (King Arthur, Horatio Hornblower), Reed Richards, and Chris Evans (Not Another Teen Movie) as Johnny Storm.
Jessica Alba (Dark Angel, Sin City) is the front-runner to play Sue Richards.
Note: I’m guessing at the Chris Evans mentioned in the article. There are four actors with that name in IMDB. The one I picked best matches the age needed for the role. Anyone have any better data, please post it.
Hugo-Nominated Short Fiction
The Hugos will be given out, once again, at the World SF Con, which will be in Boston this year. I hope to review more of the Hugo-nominated novels, and the shorter fiction, over the course of the summer.
Five short stories have been nominated. They are ranked and linked here (read them online), with my thoughts.
Weekly Comic Discussion
There’s a whole lot shipping out this
week, although American markets won’t get things
until tomorrow thanks to the July 4 weekend.
(They’ll ship today in Canada, but I doubt I can get
away from work while the comic shop I buy from is
open today.) Items worth noting this week include
Exiles #49, Fantastic Four #515,
Supreme Power #11, and Ultimate
Spider-Man #62. These are the single issues I’m
picking up, while other available single issues
include Powerless #1 and Guardians
#1. Trade paperbacks include Marvel Age
Fantastic Four Vol. 1 and Marvel Age
Spider-Man Vol. 2 from Marvel, and Green
Lantern / Green Arrow Vol. 2 from DC. There’s a
considerable amount of other interesting materials
from other companies, too. It’s a good week for
comics.
10 Disc Matrix DVD set
is writes, According to Digital Spy The Matrix trilogy will be release in time for Christmas with ten discs. This may just be the all-encompassing set I’ve been looking for. The set will include the first two movies, movie 3 extended edition with an extra 55 minutes of footage, the Animatrix, and many discs full of special features… Wow. If I felt the sequels were worth owning, I’d be picking this up.
James Doohan suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease
Recently, Mr. Doohan, most famous for immortalizing Montgomery “Scotty” Scott on the original Star Trek television show, announced that his next convention appearence will be his last. It has just recently been revealed that he’s been diagnosed with the brain disorder (he is also battling Parkinson’s and diabetes).
Our thoughts, prayers, and well-wishes to the D-Day veteran and his family.
Website migrations
Since my University of Alberta web space can vanish
at any moment, I needed a new home for my stuff.
Dave kindly set me up with some Bureau 42 space, so
now my list of upcoming reviews can be found here,
my list of all 42 point reviews ever posted to Bureau
42 can be found here,
and my web listings of my DVD collection can be found
here.
Review requests are still accepted via [email protected].
This Week’s DVD Picks
These are the DVDs that caught my eye for a July 6
release, with genre and non-genre clearly
distinguished.
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Chuck Austen leaves Marvel
Details are still sketchy, but the writer of such
Marvel comics as this little
gem won’t be at Marvel for long. His last issue
for the forseeable future ships this fall. His
current assignment is on the adjectiveless
X-Men title. He’s also written for
Avengers, Exiles, Uncanny
X-Men, Ultimate X-Men, War
Machine, and probably a few others I don’t
recall at the moment.
Quicksilver
Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver, part one of The Baroque Cycle, runs a scant 927 pages. Part 2, The Confusion is already available, so you can take both with you to the beach or cottage!
Judging from Quicksilver, these books, even more than Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, form a coherent whole. My review must be read with the understanding that nearly 2000 pages remain, and the story, at present, is incomplete.