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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.
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.
Polter-Cow - Aug 27, 2005 6:49:38 am PDT #8624 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Holy shit, Steph.
I...you're serious?
But...that makes no sense. The...hell? I...what? I'm...huh? I'm pretty new to the 'verse, but still.
They couldn't leave well enough alone?
victor infante - Aug 27, 2005 10:16:31 am PDT #8625 of 10000
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Quick note on Villains United, if anyone else is still reading: am I realy the only one whose guessed that the team of five "unknown villains" Luthor just recruited is the Justice League Elite? IJS.
P.M. Marc - Aug 27, 2005 4:02:31 pm PDT #8626 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
See, I haven't read JLE, so, yes.
victor infante - Aug 27, 2005 4:26:07 pm PDT #8627 of 10000
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Yeah. They're only in one panel, really, but I took one look at the guy with the bow and arrow, and then the guy standing next to him who looked like a Flash rip-off, and the woman who was built like Vera Black, and figured they had to be the JLE. I'd imagine the other two were Dawn and Coldcast in disguise. I could be WAAAAY off base, but I don't think it's a coincidence that Catman sent that letter to Green Arrow in the first issue, that he's been mentioned several times, and then someone who resembles him shows up. Besides, going undercover as supervillains is totally their schtick.
And JLE was a lot of fun. I think you'd dig on Vera Black.
HiddenSky - Aug 28, 2005 9:37:35 am PDT #8628 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
Who wrote the novelization?
It was Keith R. A. DeCandido.
§ ita § - Aug 29, 2005 12:02:56 pm PDT #8629 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The offending Batman #644 pages.
I got nothing. I cannot wank in the face of those panels. It makes no sense. Willingham, DC, whoever -- CRACK ADDLED.
eta: Willingham's response to the responses
Though we generally hope readers will like our stories, hating them is almost as good.