This
week’s shipping list has a few items of note that
I’ll be taking home, including Exiles Vol. 10: Age
of Apocalypse, Fantastic Four #529,
Pulse #10, Pules: House of M Special
Edition (which was solicited with a cover price
of $0.50), and Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 13:
Hobgoblin. Also, those of you who have noticed
that the Essential reviews aren’t coming on the most
recently promised schedule may be happy to know that
that’s because I’m working through 40
Years of the Amazing Spider-Man on CD-ROM, which
will take some time. (It’s an 11 CD-ROM set including
Amazing Fantasy #15 and Amazing
Spider-Man #1-500, scanned from the original
comics, so it includes all the ads, letters columns,
and so on. The issue of Previews that ships today
includes a 40 Years of the Uncanny X-Men
DVD-ROM with similar offerings which I didn’t mention
this
weekend as I hadn’t noticed it yet.)
Cat’s Cradle
The first sentence of The Books of Bokonon is this:
“All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.”My Bokonist warning is this:
Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book, either.
For July, my ongoing reviews of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.’s best novels features Cat’s Cradle, a very funny book about the end of the world. As it’s divided into many very short chapters, it also makes good summer reading—- despite the fact that it may induce actual thinking.
New Doctor Who Pictures
Star Trek 11
shayward writes, Some information found in a Great Link report here shows that Berman and Braga haven’t learned.
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New Serenity trailer
Anonymous Coward writes, It’s already been on slashdot last week, but I
thought I’d mention the new Serenity international
trailer was posted online. Points to ponder, one
of the taglines is “6 rebels on the run”. Six? what
happened to the other 3? and I have yet to see Book in
any of the trailers – anybody hear any news on him? IMDB still
lists Ron Glass as being in the movie… Note
that answering those questions means moving into
spoiler territory. Those of us who wish to remain
unspoiled should choose not to read any comments which
appear in this article.
“V for Vendetta” Trailer
Movie Discussion – “The Island”
This looks interesting, and strikes me as being
(conceptually) a bit like Logan’s Run from
the look of the ads.
Charlie Jade: The Shortening of the Way
Charlie finds his way home.
Monthly Comic Picks – October, 2005
The items of interest (to me, anyway) from DC and
Marvel are listed below. These will be listed in
Wednesday’s issue of Previews.
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Weekly DVD Picks – Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Once again, I’ve culled the list of future releases,
and have pulled out the titles that interest me the
most.
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