At Captain Comics, where I sometimes post, someone started a thread on non-existent comics that would be in a hypothetical ideal library. I’ve posted a variation of my response, branching off into other genre-related items, and want to ask the Bureau the question:
What genre-related shows, books, comics would you want to see, either seriously or for laughs, that don’t, and likely never will, exist?
Yaaar! A few years after the original, the first sequel be sailing into theaters.
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When people tell me romance comics are dead, I shove a copy of Strangers in Paradise in their hands.
–Kevin Smith
Strangers in Paradise has always been more than a “romance comic,” but there’s no question that Moore’s work stands apart from most comic-book offerings. The twelfth Strangers in Paradise trade paperback chronicles the rift that leads to the ten-year separation of the central characters, an event which readers have anticipated or dreaded since the second series.
It also features amusing cameos by Robert Crumb and Kevin Smith.
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Jim Baen died June 28. A special memorial will be held at this year’s WorldCon in August.
O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beautious mankind is.
O brave new world,
that has such people in’t!
The Tempest V.i.
Moore isn’t alluding to Aldous Huxley; he’s going back to the Shakespearian source of the phrase. It suits the story, but one wonders about the wisdom of giving your comic-book the same title as a famous dystopic novel.
Neal Stephenson’s 1995 novel depicts a late twenty-first century transformed by nanotechnology– and the second reign of Queen Victoria.
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The dates are fast-approaching for those charity-benefit showings of Serenity, which we mentioned a few months back.
cabrubak writes, I noticed there was nothing about the only genre show with new episodes on American television, The 4400.
Last Sunday the two hour Season 3 opener premiered on USA.
It wasn’t bad overall, but it seems to be going the V and Earth Final Contact route: With Isabelle growing to adulthood overnight, to become the savior or maybe the destroyer of the human race.
Does he know she’s a total ditz!? She reads cheesy romantic novels! She thinks CNN is unbiased!
Tropic of Desire, the tenth Strangers in Paradise trade paperback, begins with the inventiveness that made the series succeed in the first place, and ends with a development some fans found a little too novel.