Harry Houdini: Super Spy

I'm going to try to get caught up from taking Monday as a blogging holiday (and some of Friday too come to think of it), so there'll be extra posting tonight. First up, a couple of miscellaneous items.

Hard Case Crime T-shirts



World of Strange apparel is offering T-shirts featuring the covers to Hard Case Crime novels. Now if we could only get some posters too...

The Secret Life of Houdini



I don't know if it'll be as cool as Houdini fighting a killer robot, but Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull writer Jeff Nathanson is working on an adaptation of Larry Sloman's controversial Houdini biography (which implied that Houdini was actually a British spy). Nathanson describes his version of the magician as a cross between Indiana Jones and Sherlock Holmes, which - mixed with The Prestige - sounds like a winning combination to me.

Monster Week: Kill Them All!

Sym-Bionic Titan



Genndy (Samurai Jack, the original Clone Wars cartoon) Tartakovsky is working on a new animated series for Cartoon Network. This one's about "three extraterrestrials from the war-torn planet Galaluna" who crash-land on Earth and go to high school. And - if the promo art is to be believed - fight some giant monsters.

Resiklo



Earth's been invaded by aliens and humanity's only hope is robots built out of recycled junk. I'm so there.

Houdini versus the Giant Tall Robot



Snell knows me too well. Houdini was a magician, so that's kind of like a sorceror, which is sort of like a monster. I think that means I'm rooting for the robot.

And that wraps it up for Monster Week! Stay tuned next week as I continue trying to catch up in a massive, five-day event that can only be called... Jungle Week! Oooo...