In a little over a year, Terry Moore’s Strangers in Paradise ends its run. Despite the underwhelming interest Bureau-crats have shown for my proposed reviews of the entire series (Uncle Jam was interested. Thanks.), I’ve decided to go ahead. I’m starting this week with The Collected Strangers in Paradise, which features the three issues of the original series, and a few surprises.
Author Archives: JD DeLuzio
Star Wars Kid: Episode II
On the eve of a civil trial which would have (finally) started Monday, the family of the Star Wars Kid has settled for an undisclosed amount with the families of the students who loosed the footage on an unsuspecting world.
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Who Wants to Be a Superhero?
Well, we’ve joked here about nerd reality tv and our own superhero factors, but now it is reality. The Sci-Fi Channel and Stan Lee will be holding auditions for Who Wants to be A Superhero?.
Stanislaw Lem dead at 84
Polish-born Stanislaw Lem, one of SF’s most influential writers, has died today at the age of 84. Lem’s most well-known work is Solaris, but his many works, translated into more than 40 languages, established his fame. An obituary may be found here.
The Batman Handbook
Would you like to be a superhero, but you’re not from another planet, and you’ve never been befriended by a wizard or received a power ring from an alien? You haven’t inherited a gene that gives you amazing powers, and you know that exposure to radiation will most likely give you cancer? Perhaps The Batman Handbook can help you.
V for Vendetta
By now, a fair number of Bureau-crats will have watched this adaptation of Alan Moore‘s graphic novel. How does it hold up?
Ron Moore interview from GDC2006
Strangers in Paradise comes to an end
I don’t know how many people here have read Strangers in Paradise, Terry Moore’s brilliant, strange, award-winning comics about three friends, but the series comes to a definitive end in May, 2007. The entire run should read like the world’s longest graphic novel.
Star Wars Television Series
A Star Wars television series is in the works, which will fill in the gap between episodes III and IV.
I sense a great disturbance in the Force….
Nathan Fillion’s New Movie
joe__gee writes, I saw the ad the other day on the Sci Fi channel: Nathan Fillion has a new movie, from Universal even. Although he’s not playing our favorite Browncoat captain, Fillion gets to wear brown clothing, and carry a firearm. That’s kind of shiny? Slither is due out on March 31st.
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