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newnumber6) wrote2009-01-28 06:10 pm
newnumber6) wrote2009-01-28 06:10 pm
New Comic Day + a bunch of random stuff
This week I got one book:
Runaways #6 (bit of a weak end to the arc)
Full reviews as usual at my comic reviews site for anyone interested.
Work was okay, though late, however it (and the walk to the comic store) were a bit of a pain because of a snowstorm. It wasn't especially cold, and thankfully, at least most of the time, not especially slushy, but the snow was falling the whole time and meant I couldn't really read while walking. The snowstorm probably also contributed to the lateness at work.
Anyway, some random bits of news and such that may be of interest.
Kim Manners, director of a number of SF shows including X-Files and Supernatural (and in fact, who directed the recent SN episode "Family Remains" has died. RIP.
In TV news, NBC had greenlit a pilot for a new series, called Day One. It's described as a post-apocalyptic series after a global catastrophe destroys the world's infrastructure. Sounds like my kind of show. The writer of the pilot has worked on Heroes, Lost, and Alias. So that might be good or bad. He was one of the co-executive producers let go when NBC realized the Heroes ship was sinking and needed dramatic efforts to rescue it, though. I'll give it a chance, because, well, me-likey post-apocalypse.
ABC's greenlit a pilot for a remake of V, by one of the co-exec producers of The 4400. Also may or may not be worth a look.
Also, like Jane Austen? Like Zombie Apocalypses? Well, I have the book for you! It's a posthumous collaboration with Jane Austen is an upcoming novel, "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies". Yes, really. Apparently it combines actual text from the Austen novel with new material making a plot about a zombie uprising, making it a comedy of manners during a zombie apocalypse. I dunno, I kinda dig that kind of thing, at least in theory.
And if you're not sick of zombies yet, apparently there will be an upcoming horror-comedy Zombieland, starring Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslyn.
And there's some more word on casting for the DW Specials this year, over at Gallifrey One's News Page, but I won't be specific because it may be spoilery to some.
Had a Supernatural episode in a dream. Not so much a dream about Supernatural, but actually a plot (albeit, not a complete one). Anyway, the idea was that there was this teacher that everybody loved. Maybe an Art Teacher. Anyway, the students practically worshipped him, as did everybody else. Then Sam and Dean show up, smoking Cigars. The reason they were smoking cigars (or what looked like them) was that it was a herbal protection for his love-me mind control effect. The man was some kind of ancient greek spirit (in the dream they actually said Muse, but I know that doesn't make sense because the Muses were all female and this guy wasn't). Anyway, he was relatively non-violent but still had to be put down because he wanted to control everybody and killing him was the only way to break the effect. But of course, he got away, by ordering the entire student body to keep Sam and Dean there at least until the end of school, and if they escaped, hunt them down at all costs. Now, other than following the order and loving the teacher, they were their relatively normal selves, and so chatted with Sam and Dean about various things, and since they were all bored doing guard duty, they were tricked into playing a game, that distracted them long enough for Dean to slip out. Sam then slipped out after, but was spotted, and so a whole high school full of kids started chasing both of them through the town. It was a little weird, but kinda cool.
Runaways #6 (bit of a weak end to the arc)
Full reviews as usual at my comic reviews site for anyone interested.
Work was okay, though late, however it (and the walk to the comic store) were a bit of a pain because of a snowstorm. It wasn't especially cold, and thankfully, at least most of the time, not especially slushy, but the snow was falling the whole time and meant I couldn't really read while walking. The snowstorm probably also contributed to the lateness at work.
Anyway, some random bits of news and such that may be of interest.
Kim Manners, director of a number of SF shows including X-Files and Supernatural (and in fact, who directed the recent SN episode "Family Remains" has died. RIP.
In TV news, NBC had greenlit a pilot for a new series, called Day One. It's described as a post-apocalyptic series after a global catastrophe destroys the world's infrastructure. Sounds like my kind of show. The writer of the pilot has worked on Heroes, Lost, and Alias. So that might be good or bad. He was one of the co-executive producers let go when NBC realized the Heroes ship was sinking and needed dramatic efforts to rescue it, though. I'll give it a chance, because, well, me-likey post-apocalypse.
ABC's greenlit a pilot for a remake of V, by one of the co-exec producers of The 4400. Also may or may not be worth a look.
Also, like Jane Austen? Like Zombie Apocalypses? Well, I have the book for you! It's a posthumous collaboration with Jane Austen is an upcoming novel, "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies". Yes, really. Apparently it combines actual text from the Austen novel with new material making a plot about a zombie uprising, making it a comedy of manners during a zombie apocalypse. I dunno, I kinda dig that kind of thing, at least in theory.
And if you're not sick of zombies yet, apparently there will be an upcoming horror-comedy Zombieland, starring Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslyn.
And there's some more word on casting for the DW Specials this year, over at Gallifrey One's News Page, but I won't be specific because it may be spoilery to some.
Had a Supernatural episode in a dream. Not so much a dream about Supernatural, but actually a plot (albeit, not a complete one). Anyway, the idea was that there was this teacher that everybody loved. Maybe an Art Teacher. Anyway, the students practically worshipped him, as did everybody else. Then Sam and Dean show up, smoking Cigars. The reason they were smoking cigars (or what looked like them) was that it was a herbal protection for his love-me mind control effect. The man was some kind of ancient greek spirit (in the dream they actually said Muse, but I know that doesn't make sense because the Muses were all female and this guy wasn't). Anyway, he was relatively non-violent but still had to be put down because he wanted to control everybody and killing him was the only way to break the effect. But of course, he got away, by ordering the entire student body to keep Sam and Dean there at least until the end of school, and if they escaped, hunt them down at all costs. Now, other than following the order and loving the teacher, they were their relatively normal selves, and so chatted with Sam and Dean about various things, and since they were all bored doing guard duty, they were tricked into playing a game, that distracted them long enough for Dean to slip out. Sam then slipped out after, but was spotted, and so a whole high school full of kids started chasing both of them through the town. It was a little weird, but kinda cool.
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In other news, I bought the RTD book A Writer's Tale and it's very interesting, all about the processes of bringing the last series to life. Interesting stuff on the companion that never was, so far, and Dennis Hopper apparently wanting to guest star...
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