Oh Lord… Be with us tonight! Guide our feet, especially on the staircase, and don’t let our pasties fall off because it’s a $300.00 fine! Amen.
-Casey’s pre-show prayer.
The fifteenth Strangers in Paradise trade paperback picks up a year after Francine and Brad’s wedding– the last time the central characters were together.
Fiziko is still on vacation, so I’ll be taking Saturday review for today.
Gojira: The Deluxe Collector’s Edition will be available September 5; it features the original 1954 Japanese film and the 1956 American revision, which made Godzilla an international star. The adaptors reshaped the original, excised several minutes, and added narration and scenes with Raymond Burr.
Fifty years later, with, what?– thirty sequels with at least three conflicting timelines, two cartoon series, a stint in the Marvel Universe, a terrible American remake, endless merchandise, Dr. Pepper and Nike commercials, a videogame, and a song by Blue Öyster Cult, it’s sometimes easy to forget that the big guy started out scary.
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The fourteenth Strangers in Paradise trade paperback relates the life of David until his appearance in the first issue of the series. This story of crimes by teenage thugs and the quest for redemption constitutes one of the tightest SiP narratives, a welcome change after the meandering of Flower to Flame.
Storylines tighten and plots begin to converge during the third month of 52. Clark Kent learns to live with vulnerabilities while a vulnerable Ralph Dibny makes a difficult choice. DC introduces Supernova and reintroduces two long-unseen (and never-seen, post-Crisis) superwomen: Batwoman and the Mighty Isis1.
The late Avram Davidson, winner of Hugo, Edgar, and World Fantasy Awards, may be one of genre‘s most influential authors, but he has never received quite the recognition granted many other SF/fantasy pioneers. For this year’s SF summer beach reading, I recommend Masters of the Maze. In scarcely more than 150 pages, Davidson boggles your brain with this bizarre blend of SF, fantasy, time-travel, conspiracy theory, history, and old-style adventure.
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According to Newsarama, Frank Miller will direct the forthcoming movie version of Will Eisner’s The Spirit. Miller was a friend of Eisner’s and he reportedly plans to keep the movie close to the source material.
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Dibny: You missed.
Green Arrow: He said, “stop, thief.” I aimed for the guy charging thirty bucks for disposable diapers in a disaster zone. (#8)
DC’s Infinite Crisis once again shook up their universe and its continuity. Their post-IC comics start one year after the mini-series’ final issue. Readers who want to know about that missing year—-when Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman were out of action—-have this series, published weekly over the next year.
In the thirteenth Strangers in Paradise trade paperback, the principal characters’ lives take them in different directions.
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Some years later, two men and a cat are tying one on in a bar that doesn’t exist. (146)
Charles Stross’s latest novel, Accelerando, puts the quirky author in the running for the 2006 Hugo Award. The plot concerns a technological singularity, posthumanity, alien contact, and a sentient pseudo-cat. It’s a fascinating read, and one which likely could not have been written before the age of the internet.
Those with little interest in computers and SF will likely find it irritating and incomprehensible. As for the rest of us….