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.

Coto mentions Enterprise finale

Anonymous Coward writes, Coto has let slip the
following information about the finale (no plot
spoilers): “It’s a very cool story…Rick Berman and
Brannon Braga are writing it and if they want to
spoil it I’d rather have them spoil it themselves!”
He had to say it, didn’t he. Mind you, it is indeed a
momentous achievement for the Disaster Duo to write a
plot that doesn’t feature time travel – unlike the
finales of both Voyager and TNG.Read the article here.
(No plot spoilers.)

Constantine Review

Anonymous Coward writes,
Thanks To A Friend Of Mine, I Got To Go See An
Advanced Preview Of Constantine. I Thought I’d Share
My Thoughts With You Guys.
Note that this
review is anonymous, so it is a bit hard to confirm
that it actually was a person at a screening. (The
Alexius-like capitalizations are only in that first
portion.) The full review is below.

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Weekly Comics Discussion

This week’s shipping
list
is a light one for me, now that I’m
switching back to trades. I expect Ultimates 2
#3
only. However, other options include new
issues of Aquaman, Batman,
Green Arrow, JLA, JSA, and
Outsiders from DC, as well as offerings from
Marvel that include Captain America,
Incredible Hulk (which is being written by
Peter David once again), Marvel Knights 4,
Marvel Knights Spider-Man, The
Punisher
, and Ultimate X-Men from
Marvel. Marvel’s big push this week is for the first
issue of Young Avengers, which can be
previewed here.

“Fantastic Four” flinches

The film version of Fantastic Four has been pushed back one week until July 8, 2005. Fox claims that this has nothing to do with competition and everything to do with better positioning. Why is it a better position to release your film one week after one of the two highest grossing weekends of the year? (The July 4 weekend was the highest grossing until Star Wars and Spider-Man started coming out on Memorial Day.) Could it be because the loss of general moviegoing traffic is less damaging than coming out two days after the Spielberg/Cruise collaboration of War of the Worlds? I know the conclusions I’ve come to, and they don’t agree with the Fox press releases.