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.

Serenity #1 Comic Anounced

rickyjames
writes, Order your copy of Serenity #1 today via

the Dark Horse press release. Each issue of this
three-issue miniseries features three different
covers, one for each member of the Serenity crew,
drawn by the biggest names in comics. Issue #1
features Mal
by John Cassaday, Inara
by J. G. Jones, and Jayne
by Bryan Hitch. The story presented covers the “six
month gap” between the Firefly DVD episode “Objects in
Space” and the “Serenity: Big Damn Movie” coming out
September 30.

Doctor Who: The End Of The World

Eldhrin
writes, Doctor Who: The End Of The World
This received 36/42 from Eldhrin in total, with 4/6
for the overall score. That score would have been
higher had it been more than a one-shot episode. With
luck, they’re going the same route Buffy and
Smallville did, starting with some one-shots
to slowly build an audience, and then moving to longer
arcs after a few weeks.
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Warner talks home video

Home Theater Forum had a chat with people from Warner
Home Video the other day, which has been transcripted
over at this
digital bits page. The article is huge, so I
can’t cover all of it, but some genre notables
mentioned as being on the schedule include The
Flash, Witchblade, Smallville:
Season Four, Lois and Clark: The New
Adventures of Superman, Superman serials
from the 1940s, King Kong (finally! Yay!),
Looney Tunes: Golden Collection Vol. 3, a new
release of The Wizard of Oz, possible special
editions of the Batman and Superman
films, Poltergeist, and a lot of animated
titles. (When asked about “Tiny Toon Adventures,
Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Freakazoid, Road
Rovers, the Quick Draw McGaw Show, the Son of Kong,
Mighty Joe Young 1949, John K. and Spumco’s Yogi and
Jetsons shorts, seasons 2 and 3 of the Jetsons,
Flintstones on the Rocks, Ralph Bakshi’s Hey, Good
Lookin’, the unsold pilot of ‘Gizmo and the Gremlins’
and/or Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs,” the answer
was “YES.”) They also discuss several non-genre
releases, including a second Film Noir box
set, which really catches my attention.

Ecclestone quits Doctor Who

Eldhrin
writes, The BBC is reporting that Christopher
Ecclestone has quit filming the second series of
Doctor Who, quoting fears of being typecast and
new projects he wishes to attend to. Talks are under
way with David
Tennant, currently considered likely to be the
tenth Doctor. Billie Piper is expected to stay on as
Rose. Could the good reception and huge audience of
the new series have put Ecclestone off? Hopefully
he’ll stick around long enough to film his
regeneration, otherwise they’re going to have some
seriously knotty scriptwriting to do. And let’s hope
that the tenth Doctor lasts longer – he’s running out
of regenerations.