Speaking of Jess, I stole this poster from her website. Don't tell.
It's for MicroCon 2009, obviously. The best one-day convention in the world. Jess and I will both be there with some Cownt giveaways if I can get my act together. We'll both be there anyway whether I can get my act together or not.
Okay, that's the last post for today. I had a lot of catching up to do from slacking earlier in the week. Sorry about that.
If you were as disappointed as I was that Jericho had to wrap up as quickly as it did (although it did a very fine job of doing it), you'll be as excited as I am to learn that there's going to be a Jericho comic.
From the press release I got:
Devil's Due Publishing and CBS Consumer Products Give New Life to Fan-Favorite TV Series Jericho With New Comic Book Series
CHICAGO - March 5, 2009 - Devil's Due Publishing (DDP) has announced a deal with CBS Consumer Products to publish a new comic book series tied to fan-favorite Jericho, the one-hour drama series that garnered critical acclaim and ran on CBS for two seasons, from 2006-2008. The series centered on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States. The comic book series will pick up where the television program left off, answering many questions for its passionate fans. DDP has teamed up with the show's creators and producers to develop an authentic story that will hit comic book retailers this fall.
Jericho fans are some of the most dedicated in the world of television. In 2007, devotees to the show produced by CBS Paramount Network Television rallied together to bring back the fan-favorite which was initially cancelled after just one season. The show returned for a seven-episode second season, but was not renewed for a third season. While fans received a little more closure with the end of season two, there were still loose ends that could be addressed.
"Jericho is alive and well, thanks to the amazing fans who've driven us to find new and fresh ways to tell the Jericho story," says Dan Shotz, Co-Executive Producer of Jericho. "Josh Blaylock and the DDP team are great partners and have shown a true love for our show. We are so thrilled about this comic book series and the endless possibilities for the future of Jericho."
Joining Shotz in developing the comic book will be most of the original creative team including Jon Turteltaub, Carol Barbee, Karim Zreik, and Jon Steinberg.
"I can't tell you how cool it is for DDP to be able to continue the Jericho story in comic book form," says DDP President Josh Blaylock. "We plan to give fans the story they've been craving. This is going to be epic stuff."
Finally! I've been dying a slow death for years from wanting to read Dave Stevens' The Rocketeer and not being able to. It hurt to know that the classic, gorgeously illustrated series was not only uncollected as a single volume, but that most of the scattered pieces were also out of print. And now, at last, the good folks at IDW have come to the rescue.
Alex Ness - one of the poets in the Lancelot book I wrote the foreword to - was just interviewed by Flexwriters. I've read (and even conducted) interviews with Alex before, but this was the first one I've seen specifically about his poetry.
The questions are very general and the Lancelot book never comes up, but since most of the stuff Alex and I work on together is adventure fiction, it's cool to see him talk about that side of his work.
I love Amazon, butI also love my local, indie bookstores. We'vegotsomegreatones in the Twin Cities and I need to support them more. Maybe just use Amazon for DVDs. (We've also got some amazing, independent music stores, but that's another topic.)
I'm just thinking about this because someone pointed me towards the new IndieBound site (formerly BookSense) and thanks to that I've discovered some new stores I want to check out. Go take a look and see what kind of indie bookstores are near you.
Or, if you already know, tell me about them in the comments. Do you have cool ones? Or are they black pits of dispair with unpleasant people working in them? I've been in a couple that are just as bad as any comic shop horror story I've ever heard.
I'm breaking my own rules in picking this one because I didn't actually discover it until the following year. But it's such an important album to me, because it launched a long-term infatuation with U2. Even though there was other music I was listening to in 1983 instead of this one, I can't in good conscience pick them over this. Even though (or because) it's a live album and not a studio record, it's one of my favorite recordings of all time.
My brother was actually the one who brought this home, but I borrowed it from him and didn't give it back for about a year. I remember carrying it around in my Walkman at high school to listen to between classes.
I have to embed something though, so here's a song from an album I was actually listening to in 1983.
Runners up: Big Country: The Crossing David Bowie: Let's Dance Genesis: Genesis Billy Idol: Rebel Yell
Singles: Culture Club: "Karma Chameleon" Def Leppard: "Rock of Ages" The Eurythmics: "Here Comes the Rain Again" Men at Work: "Dr. Heckyll and Mr. Jive" Men at Work: "It's a Mistake" The Romantics: "Talking in Your Sleep" Styx: "Mr. Roboto" Spandau Ballet: "True" "Weird Al" Yankovic: "Another One Rides the Bus" Yes: "Owner of a Lonely Heart" Yes: "Leave It"
Edited to add: Rebel Yell by Billy Idol; "Mr. Roboto" by Styx
NPR was on fire this week. Three quotes from them (two being from Linda Holmes). Also: two Miley Cyrus mentions. Weird.
If this plays out as anticipated, all that's going to happen is that he's going to show up in public with the zoo animals and the oxygen tanks and the...whatever, Jedi costume, and there will be pictures of him in magazines where he's in a nun's habit, walking an ocelot and carrying a watering can, and then his nose will fall off during a charity benefit, and he'll make some weird new best friend like Joe The Plumber or Miley Cyrus, and we'll all be back on the Michael Jackson Express Train To Weirdsville, and I cannot take it. --NPR's Linda Holmes, on Michael Jackson's expected attempt at a comeback.
For me, the cherry on this delightful cake of perversion is the expression on the alien's face. He's looking right at you, without an iota of shame [at] any of the decadence happening around him. You can judge him if you want. But he'll keep on sodomizing Kirk while Spock and McCoy tango behind him... and you can never make him feel bad about it. --Topless Robot, describing a truly horrifying "collectible."
Can we all agree that "mythos" is a not an everyday word, and should not be treated as such? And further, that dropping "mythos" into a conversation when one is sporting a t-shirt upon which Wolverine is engaged in an act of disembowelment tends to leach the word of its power? --NPR's Glen Weldon, on the inclination for comics fans to take their funnybooks too seriously.
That's definitely not a straight flush. --Kevin Melrose, describing a set of yaoi playing cards.
Cyrus said she was so hurt by Yorke’s dismissal, she didn’t even watch their performance of “15 Step” with the USC Marching Band. “I’m gonna ruin them, I’m gonna tell everyone,” Cyrus threatened. She’ll definitely be downloading their next album for free instead of paying-what-she-wants. Plus, Radiohead’s Radio Disney days are so over, and you can expect to see a big dip in sales of In Rainbows in the “Female Aged 5-11" demographic. --Rolling Stone, describing the inevitable consequences of Radiohead's dissing Hannah Montana.
Will there be kissing? When? Where? What music will be playing? What will everyone be wearing? Will this episode contain kissing? How about next week's? How about in the season finale? Do you think the "dramatic development" in TV Guide is about kissing? Did you see that screenshot that one guy posted from that one episode where there seems to be smudged lipstick on that one actress? I wonder if it's because she was just busy kissing. KISSING KISSING KISSING, and have I mentioned...kissing?
--Linda Holmes again, perfectly communicating how annoying 'shippers are.
You should click on that last Linda Holmes link, in which she also sums up everything that's usually wrong with "romantic" storylines on TV and observes how The Office has managed to avoid that trap.
