Threshold Discussion – “Pulse”

The team has to check out a rave. In behind the
scenes news, CBS has picked up three more episodes
instead of a full season order. They want to wait for
the ratings before they decide if they go for the full
season. (I believe the original order was for 13
episodes, and this brings it up to 16, but I could be
wrong.)

Infinite Crisis #1

I’d finished with comics by the end of elementary school, and ignored them through secondary. In university, I found a copy of Marvel’s The Avengers on David Letterman in a bus station and read it. Then I started hearing about things called graphic novels. A nerdy acquaintance kept telling me to read something called The Dark Knight Returns.

As the regular university pressure mounted, I wandered into something called a “comic shop” and picked up Crisis on Infinite Earths . DC had been publishing a 12-issue mini-series, you see, that would forever alter their continuity and re-establish their pre-eminence in the comic-book world. Supergirl and the Flash died, along with an apparently infinite number of universes. The series freed DC of past continuity, and paved the way for some pretty good comics.

Twenty years later, DC is dramatically altering their universe once more.

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Invasion Discussion: “Alpha Male”

Sheriff Underlay just might get the quarantine he’s been looking for when Russell discovers that escaped laboratory animals may be responsible for a deadly flu virus that’s beginning to spread throughout Homestead. Meanwhile, Jesse becomes jealous when Kira flirts with a boy at a party, and Larkin is physically attacked by a woman who questions the reporter’s identity.

The Quill Awards

chad writes, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” has won “Book of the Year” in the first-ever Quill Awards. The nominees are selected by a large group of booksellers and librarians, but the winners are chosen by the readers. Genre winners include “The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror” by Christopher Moore (Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror) and “Marvel 1602 Volume I” by
Neil Gaiman, Andy Kubert, and Richard Isanove (Graphic Novel). The Quill Foundation has some pretty heavy supporters–so I think we’ll be hearing more about these awards in the upcoming years. Having read (and reviewed) 1602, I’m a little surprised by the win. The wins for including Jon Stewart and company’s America: The Book in the humour and audiobook categories don’t surprise me in the least, though. The book is funny.