Monday, July 07, 2008

Awesome List: Gorilladon, relevant space opera, robots, Ridley Scott's Nottingham, Rainn "Xena" Wilson, and pirate kitties

Gorilladon Lives!



Artist samaxAmen is creating a giant monster graphic novel starring that handsome beast above. Tentatively scheduled to be released by the end of the year.

The relevance of space opera

A long time ago, SF Signal ran a post collecting the opinions of various scifi authors about whether or not it's a challenge to keep space opera relevant. Since space opera is one of only two scifi sub-genres I have time for (the other being steampunk), I was going to do a long post on the subject. But laziness has won the day, so I'll just say that I mostly agree with Jonathan Strahan:
...how could you possibly argue that space opera is NOT mainstream when we live in the same world as Star Trek and Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica and so on and so forth? Whether it's universally *respected* or not, space opera is very much a part of our mainstream culture.
Ash Wood robot



This could've gone in the Gallery, but I like it better here. As much as I dig Ash Wood's robot comics, I like his statues even more.

Proof that I was an idiot in 2005

I knew about Marvel's Fantastic Four and Iron Man vs. giant monsters comic, but for some reason I didn't buy it. That will be corrected shortly.

Separated at birth?



About a year ago I expressed interest in a cool-sounding steampunk novel called Mainspring. Little did I know that it's author Jay Lake sort of looks like me. He and Dan Wickline and I should start a band.

Space Monster Pictures

An independent outfit called Space Monster Pictures is making a stop-motion giant monster film called Tuatara. They have some creature photos on the website; just beware the link to their hideously unreadable MySpace page.

Bolt

I saw a trailer for Disney's Bolt last week and it looks fun and all, but oh, what might have been. /Film has a look at what Chris Sanders (Lilo and Stitch) had in mind for the film before he was replaced for being "too bold." Sigh.

Yeah, Disney. Take out the cat with the skull eye-patch and put in a fat hamster in a plastic ball. Great move.



At least Sanders' pirate cat lives on in Kiskaloo, his excellent webcomic.



Prehistoric Life Murals

Coming this Fall: 176 pages of all of William Stout's murals for The Houston Museum of Natural Science, Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom, and the San Diego Natural History Museum. Dinosaurs and mammoths galore.

Rainn Wilson is a nut



But that's just the way I like him
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Nottingham

It's totally not true that Christian Bale was going to play Robin Hood, but what's important here is that Ridley Scott is putting together a Robin Hood movie. I didn't know that.

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