It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
– Sally Kempton
The prolific Charles Stross‘s work includes groundbreaking SF, the Lovecraftian Attrocity Archives, a fantasy trilogy, and a good deal of shorter fiction and non-fiction.
Glasshouse connects to his Hugo-nominated Accelerando in somewhat the same fashion…
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China and Russia plan to head to Mars and Phobos, there’s a bizarre hexagonal pattern on Saturn, and the demise of the dinosaurs may not have benefited our ancestors as directly as we once thought.
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BATMAN: You’re insane.
THE JOKER: Has it really taken you this long to notice? (125)
Batman: Year One shows Gotham’s dark knight dealing with conventional gangsters. Batman’s adventures very quickly focus on grotesque and costumed super-villains. Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale’s Batman: The Long Halloween (soon to be re-released in a special absolute edition) explores the start of that transition.
Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You’ve eaten Gotham’s wealth. Its spirit. Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on—- none of you is safe.
–the Batman
Last week I reviewed The Batman Chronicles, Volume One, a compilation of Batman’s original adventures (1939-40). Our second retro-review of Batman looks at Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli’s post-Crisis account of the hero’s first year.
Leprechaun films are in short supply, so we’re reviewing instead another kind of film about magic. It also features swords, a trickster, an evil bishop, and (possibly) the worst film soundtrack of all time.
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The latest indicators are back to saying that Mars contains significant quantities of water, which would be good news for future exploration and fans of Kim Stanley Robinson.
Also, gaseous seas have been spotted on Titan.
Jake Gyllenhaal may take over from Tobey Maguire for a fourth Spider-man flick…. Or, he might play Captain Marvel.
My review of DC’s recent Batman meets the Mad Monk series got me thinking about the number of “early Batman” trade paperbacks out there and, given the popularity of the character, we’ve decided to launch a Wednesday Batman Review. Over the next month, five “early Batman” books, unreviewed by us in the past, will receive consideration here.
The reviews start today with the actual Year One: The Batman Chronicles, Volume 1 collects every first year Batman story, from Detective Comics #27-38 to Batman #1, 1939-1940.
Recent science stories of interest include a consideration of what lice might reveal about human prehistory. Also the Vulcan Science Council modern science has determined that time-travel is impossible.
This film, adapted from the graphic novel by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley, presents a fantasy game version of ancient history. It entertains on the visceral level, but does not bear thoughtful scrutiny.