Well, all things considered, I posted a lot more last week than I thought I would. This week will be an even bigger challenge though. I'm on vacation. Which means that I have a lot more
time to write and post, but also a lot less routine to help keep me organized and on task.
Still, let's give it a shot. I've got a couple of horror graphic novel reviews that I'd like to write and get posted on CWN by tomorrow and I need to write something up about the movie
Dark Water, which I saw last week and really liked a lot. I'm also hoping to catch up on my stack of comics this week, but that's going to be competing for my time against various movies and whatnot. Gonna go see
The Prestige today, and I've got
The Exorcism of Emily Rose and
Pumpkinhead ready to go into the DVD player. Not to mention TiVoed movies like
Dead Man,
Frankenstein Conquers the World, and
Santa's Slay. There's bound to be a classic in there somewhere.
And somewhere in all that, I'm starting a novel.
So, busy week. Hopefully I'll be able to keep up with telling you about it.
Diamond was a bit late with their shipping list this week; it just came out this morning.
I've got a new column on the Newsarama blog called "Fringe Benefits." It's about independent comics.
I've never played the Silent Hill video game, but now I feel like I have. I understand that the plots are different, but the movie -- with all of its maze-like passageways, physical challenges, and endless gathering of clues and equipment to be conveniently used later -- is exactly like watching someone play a game. You can appreciate the story, but you get tired of watching the characters go down corridor after corridor; from level to increasingly harder level.
Some quick reviews of genre comics over at Comic World News:
Diamond's shipping list is finalized for the week. Here's what I'm getting:
This is meaningless to everyone but me, but tonight one of the local theaters is showing Raiders of the Lost Ark on the big screen. Not just the big screen, but the Ginormous Ultra screen. Three times as big as a normal movie screen.
The Writer's Almanac recently ran a poem by Linda Palstan called "Rereading Frost." I'll send you to the link to read it, but if you've ever felt like the Masters have already said and done it all and you've got nothing to contribute to your medium or genre, it's an encouraging piece.
So Stargate SG-1 was recently cancelled on SciFi, but everyone said that it wasn't dead yet. You all heard that, right? And you've probably heard that the reason it's not dead is that it's going Direct to DVD in the form of a couple of movies.
