AceCaseOR writes, I promised to review this in the comments thread for my Gunbuster Review, and I always try to fulfill my promises in one form or another, so here goes:
Author Archives: JD DeLuzio
New companion for Doctor Who
x00 writes, The BBC News website is reporting that the next series of Doctor Who will have a new, additional companion for the entire fourth series and that Martha Jones will rejoin the Doctor in the latter half. It also reportst she will also be appearing in three episode of Torchwood. Any guesses on which characters she’ll be sleeping with?
Oops. We were cleaning out the sub queue and duplicated an old story. Mea culpa
Countdown #47-44
DC’s follow-up to 52 continues with crossovers and angst.
I’m giving this another month or two.
Battlestar Galactica Discussion
Includes some cast…
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Weekly Comics Discussion
The complete list may be found here, as usual.
(And check out this newish Comics Blog from Lubbock, Texas).
Stargate SG1 Series Finale
Jethro writes, The Stargate: SG1 era comes to a close in what, to me, was a fairly weak and disappointing episode. What did you all think?
Weekend Review: The Thing from Another World
If you’re going to review the influential SF of the 50s, this 1951 movie belongs on your list.
The low-budget Man from Planet X arrived in theatres days earlier, but this Thing really started the 50s SF craze, and it is far superior to most of what followed.
Novel Review: No Humans Involved
Like miracle workers, we return the ghost—the soul—to the body, conscious and aware. So unless you raise a Hannibal Lector, the person’s not going to start eating brains. But the body is the dead one, the broken one, the rotting one, just like in a horror flick. So now the ghost is trapped, fully aware, in that broken, rotting, corpse.(242)
Kelley Armstrong has made the New York Times’ bestseller list with her seventh “otherworld” novel. This blend of urban fantasy, mystery, horror, and romance takes place in a contemporary world where the supernatural really exists, but remains hidden from public view. It’s rather like a literary, early-season Buffy.
Sailing the Martian Seas
A recent study appears to confirm what scientists have been debating for two decades and SF writers have speculated for much more: Mars had oceans.
Countdown #51-48
Hey! Y’can’t just stop…. This is Metropolis! Stuff like this happens twice a week!
–Annoyed Cabbie, to a driver who has stopped to witness an earth-shattering event.
Following the success of their weekly series, 52, DC hopes to see lightning strike again with Countdown, which maps out the new DCU, the one changed by events from 52. Although the issues count backward from the end of that series (starting with #51), roughly a year has passed, chronicled in the mainstream DC titles.