This coincides nicely with my new and furious Lethem obsession. From this week's
Time:
For a literary critics' darling, JONATHAN LETHEM spends a lot of time pondering guys in capes. His novel, The Fortress of Solitude, set in Brooklyn, N.Y., and various short stories include lovingly written passages on superheroes. Lethem is penning a Marvel comic, Omega the Unknown, due in 2006. "Marvel dared me to put my love on the line," says the author, who is reviving a little-known character from the '70s. Omega is "kind of a meta-superhero," he says, a "bewildered visitor to the Planet Earth" with--yes--a cape. Next we'd like to finally see that Philip Roth pop-up book.
So Thanagarians are now the assholes of space, right?
Did we know David Boreanz was in the next Crow movie?
Yes, David, we did. We also know the Edward Furlong is in it. We also know that it's going to SUCK, if it ever gets released.
Isn't already straight to video?
Released July 19th, according this:
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Probably. Nothing firm, last I saw, but considering that it got finished, what, 2 years ago, and still nothing?
I've seen photos of DB from it. Oh, is it ever going to suck.
On the bright side, they did cast the one actor who might have actually wanted to take his character's clothes home.
So Thanagarians are now the assholes of space, right?
Eh, they have been for a while. They've been increasingly portrayed as a fascist state for ages.
They've sort of evolved into the DC equivalent of Farscape's Peacekeepers, originally intended to be an interstellar police, but becoming more about their own ends as time went on.
Are the Thanagarians the hawkpeople? And who comes from Rann? (Character-wise, I mean. Like, Superman is from Krypton, J'onn is from Mars, etc.)
