Author Archives: W. Blaine Dowler

As you may be able to tell, my formal training is not as a writer. My degrees are in physics and education. In my day job, I work in supplemental education, which is why my productivity is lowest when report card season hits.

Weekly Comics Discussion – June 1, 2005

According to this week’s shipping
list, we’ll finally get the last issue of
Strange, the miniseries from JMS and others
which nicely updates the good Doctor’s origins, even
though they didn’t really need updated in the first
place. There will also be a dearth of Batman
items, which was easy to predict given that the next
movie will be released in two weeks. Other notables
include Exiles #65, Ororo Before The
Storm #1, Uncanny X-Men #460, and
House of M #1, which kicks off Marvel’s big
summer event for the year.

Weekly Comics Discussion – May 25, 2005

This week’s shipping
list is an expensive one for me, featuring
Green Lantern #1 from DC, Emma Frost Vol.
3: Bloom (which will lead to a review of the
complete 18 issue series), Essential Thor Vol.
2, Secret War from the files of Nick
Fury (a bonus issue to kill time before the next
eternally late entry hits shelves), and Ultimates
2 . Also shipping today is the first issue of
Fantastic Four written by J. Michael
Straczynski, but for that, I’ll wait for the TPB.

Sci-Fi Channel To Air Firefly Starting July 22

rickyjames
writes, Woo hoo de hoo hoo !!! Your Big Damn
Heroes and mine are making it back to the small screen
before they make it onto the big screen! As reported
by The Futon Critic: The Sci Fi Channel has
landed the repeat rights to all 15 hours of the
short-lived FOX series (and basis of the upcoming
“Serenity” feature film). The network’s July schedule
lists the series as joining its Friday lineup on July
22 at 7:00/6:00c where it will precede original
episodes of “Stargate SG-1,” “Stargate Atlantis” and
“Battlestar Galactica.”