Brock Peters Dead at 78

Versitile actor, and Star Trek vet, Brock Peters died Tuesday. Renowned in the acting community for his roles in such landmark films as To Kill a Mockingbird and Porgy and Bess, he is best known to today’s Sci-Fi audience for his roles as Adm. Cartwright in Star Trek IV and Star Trek VI in addition to playing Joseph Sisko on “Deep Space Nine.”

No stranger to genre productions, Peters appeared in Soylent Green and the original “Battlestar Galactica” miniseries.

His voice acting credits include “Pirates of Dark Water” and “Batman” as well as the NPR radio play for Star Wars where he voiced Darth Vader.

He was one of those truly “classy” actors that will be sorely missed.

Weekly Comics Discussion – August 24, 2005

For real this time: the comics coming out this
week
include the new issue of Previews,
OMAC project #5, Robin Archives Vol.
1
, Superman: The Man of Steel Vol. 4,
Authority Revolution Book 1, and a reprint of
Wonder Woman #219 for the sake of those who
didn’t know it was a key component in one of the DC
pre-Infinite Crisis miniseries. Image is offering a
new chapter in the Rising Stars: Voices of the
Dead
miniseries. Marvel is putting forward
Daredevil #76 (which I’ll get in TPB form),
Fantastic Four #530 (which I’ll get right
away), and Ultimate X-Men Annual #1 (which
I’ll also pick up today). A hardcover version of
Marvel Visionaries: Chris Claremont is also
coming out today.

Review: Serenity – World Premier

Lurch Kimded writes, I was blessed (as were 500 other people) to see last night the world premier of Serenity at the Edinburgh Film Festival. The Cast and Joss Whedon attended and did a short Q&A afterwards which was hugely enjoyable… anyway, I though it’d be amiss if I did not try and review this amazing film. I have tried to keep spoilers out of the review so anyone can read it. I read the review before I posted it, and can testify to the mild nature of spoilers. (When I say mild, I mean that the only things revealed here are also revealed in the trailers.)

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