My blog post about the LXD (which has finally started airing!):

http://geektheory.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/the-legion-of-extraordinary-dancers/

Issue #27 of Planetary came out today.

http://geektheory.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/its-a-strange-world/

Now that the series is out, I can start my non-fiction book about the series and genre, which I can eventually use when I teach classes on comics. :)

All three acts of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog are now available, but only until midnight tonight. So be sure to watch them while you can, then buy all three parts on iTunes or get the DVD when it comes out. Whatever your opinion on the ending, I think it's important to support this high-profile use of independent media distribution in defiance ( Read more... )

Like most everyone else on my flist, I loved the hell out of The Dark Knight. It immediately jumped into my top 5 Batman stories, and shows us all what can be done with a superhero film when the work of establishing the hero's origin has already been done ( Read more... )

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog ( Read more... )

Delightful. Welcome company in the loving parody mode of the supers genre, alongside Sky High and The Tick. Season Pass enabled.

I'd heard passing tidbits about this show, but I just watched the pilot trailer and some of the PSA videos they have, and I have to say that I'm totally intrigued by The Middleman, which premiers tonight on ABC family. It's a Tick-style goofy-played-straight superhero comedy based on a graphic novel series -- adapted by at least one of the ( Read more... )

Check out this awesome pic based on the question: What if Charles Schultz had created the Watchmen?"

http://bp0.blogger.com/_A7D_OxH4p1A/R94NieKz1RI/AAAAAAAAAgU/8McnQ_0W3Ic/s1600-h/Watchpeanuts.jpg

This afternoon, I completed the first draft of Shield and Crocus, the novel that my week three Clarion West story was yearning to be. It's just over 80,000 words, the official cut-off for a novel-sized novel, but don't worry, there will be more by the time I'm done with it ( Read more... )

I've just passed 10K on "The Five-Tyrant Summit," which I'm pretty sure will be getting a new title. What that new title might be, I'm not sure, but I'm happy with my progress thusfar. I've been trying to keep authorial sadism in mind, and things are certainly complicated enough for my protagonists. I might make M&M 2nd Edition character sheets ( Read more... )