Okay, what was that?
It's only part of a larger blog entry, but my secret writing project has been announced, in title, at least! "North 40" is the name o' the book, and I believe the first issue will hit stands in July. It's currently slated for at least a six-issue run, and hopefully will do well enough to warrant further script-smithing and artworkery. Fiona Staples is the uber-talented artist who is bringing you the imagery for this series. You wouldn't think it to look at her, but she can draw some mean Lovecraftian stuff. I hope to post more on this title (I'd love to upload all of the concept stuff from when it was a mere gleam in my editor's eye), but I'm still awaiting instructions on how and what Wildstorm wants to release to the interwebs. But YAY, it's coming!
I just watched the finale of "Battlestar Galactica." No spoilers, of course, just a comment about pacing. The beginning of this episode, like most of the one previous, was overloaded with flashbacks that seemed to help bring the show to a grinding halt (even though they did complement the "main" scenes). Later events picked up considerably, but had I been watching on TiVo, I would have been reaching for the fast-forward. As a side note, even though it made sense at the time, seeing a centurion giving military hand-signals and walking like a marine struck me as funny. They wrapped things up okay, though I disagree somewhat with the philosophy behind how the story was resolved. The writers may have been hamstrung by the original series concepts and the purpose of the fleet's quest, but it seemed to be a flawed perspective on history. I'm still not sure they filled every plot hole, but that might have to wait for something this summer called "Battlestar Galactica: The Plan."
SciFi/SyFy also promo'ed its new offerings, "Warehouse 13," "Caprica," and "Stargate: Universe." The former got a longer promo, allowing fans to recognize Saul Rubinek, better known to Trekkers as Kivas Fajo, the "collector" who kidnapped Data. I think even he would have eventually grown tired of the android as he's awfully white and nerdy.
Now, a bit of a confession regarding a t-shirt I just created. I've been listening to all the news about the bailouts (too big to fail, money going to bonuses, people losing houses while CEOs of broken companies lose little, etc.) and I plopped that into a rather rude design. I figure it'd make a good gift, and it's one of the few "political" designs I can think of that just about nobody will disagree with, at least in principle. :)
So to take our minds off of our money woes:
- Some "whoa!" money. I wonder if our economy would improve if we could have dollars like this? I'd probably wallpaper a room in the stuff.
- For those who missed it, a small flying mammal tried to become the first Astro-Bat. His ill-fated voyage has inspired a tribute.
- The trend in flash games is "balancing," so here's Perfect Balance: The New Trials.
- If I had to wear a tie to the office, I'd probably go with something along these lines.
- Ready to give your mouse hand and eyeballs cramps? Try Pwong, a pong game that feels like it launches the contents of a McDonald's ball-pit at you.
- I did lots of things with Lego bricks as a kid. Building a 7-foot long model of Admiral Ackbar's ship wasn't one of them, sadly.
- Half-Life 2 and weird sci-fi film fans might get a kick out of this 'test' film called 'What's in the Box?'. Where's my Half-Life 3, darnit?
- And lastly, because we don't have enough worries on our minds, here's a helpful list of how to destroy the world with science! We'll all wake up in our Matrix-style VR pods when it happens anyway, so no worries, right? :)