See, this is why I didn't get dragged along into the superhero titles, even with Plei pimping issues to me. I just didn't trust DC Editorial to stick with good writing and characterization. I'm sad to see that they're being complete morons about the story.
Come on out, River. The nice man wants to kidnap you.
Simon ,'Objects In Space'
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Discussion of Buffy and Angel comics, books, and more. Please don't get into spoilery details in the first week of release.
Atropa - Aug 26, 2005 11:54:09 am PDT #8614 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
amych - Aug 26, 2005 11:55:04 am PDT #8615 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Batman dancing the Batusi would actually be less OOC than this.
Plus? More fun.
HiddenSky - Aug 26, 2005 12:09:42 pm PDT #8616 of 10000
"There are two sorts of people in the world: those who believe Joss Whedon is a genius and those who are wrong." - Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
Is Serenity a three or four issue series?
Three. BTW, we got the novelization of the movie in at work (B&N) today.
sumi - Aug 26, 2005 12:25:52 pm PDT #8617 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Good?
(Hey, I thought that the Angel comic was a three-issue deal -- but it appears to be continuing.)
HiddenSky - Aug 26, 2005 12:41:40 pm PDT #8618 of 10000
"There are two sorts of people in the world: those who believe Joss Whedon is a genius and those who are wrong." - Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
Angel:The Curse is a five-part arc and IDW announced another arc (Angel:Old Friends) will be released in the fall.
Good?
What are you referring to?
sumi - Aug 26, 2005 4:07:56 pm PDT #8619 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
The novelization.
Tom Scola - Aug 26, 2005 5:36:48 pm PDT #8620 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
DavidS - Aug 26, 2005 5:43:26 pm PDT #8621 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
holy crap.
Yeah, I saw it at Amoeba and was feeling covetous even though I've got all the music.
HiddenSky - Aug 27, 2005 5:04:38 am PDT #8622 of 10000
"There are two sorts of people in the world: those who believe Joss Whedon is a genius and those who are wrong." - Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
The novelization.
Yeah, I read it last night and the novelization does a wonderful job of not only capturing the movie (with a few adjustments for the page, like one scene that I thought was skipped over appearing later as a recollection because it makes for a better flow in the book) but also inserting some background from events on Firefly to give unfamiliar readers a sense of what's happened up to the point the movie begins.
The dialogue is preserved nicely on the page, with some snippets that seem like they may have been cut from the movie remaining, so that's like a little bonus. At one point, I was wondering if the pacing was going too fast compared to the length of the book (257 pages) but I think that was just because I was anticipating some of the later action.
Theodosia - Aug 27, 2005 6:40:14 am PDT #8623 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Who wrote the novelization? I know a couple people who write tie-in work, and some of them are actually pretty talented. For a while, some of the major movie novelizations were getting writers like Joan Vinge and Elizabeth Hand and so on, so you can get very lucky indeed.