Someday I must go to the San Diego Comic-Con. Seems like there's always cool stuff happening there.

It seems that among the things happening there was a string of announcements from J. Michael Straczynski. Let's see, we have Ron Howard slated to direct a movie (Changeling) that JMS wrote. We get a 12-episode SF-comedy radio series for the ( Read more... )

B5 fans may have heard that at one point J. Michael Straczynski worked on a treatment for a new Star Trek series. Now his cohort on that project has written about it and even posted the 14-page treatment as a PDF. This was to have been an alternate-universe Trek, retaining the elements they liked and ridding themselves of what they disliked ( Read more... )

This weekend we'll be heading to Columbus for Marcon. Every year at Marcon I end up buying a pile of books, usually stuff that's hard to find locally, and often rare or out of print stuff. Last year's take included my first real effort to get into graphic novels beyond Sandman.

( And also Elric... )

Saturday I took nontacitare to the local comics shop. Between the two of us we bought six graphic novels, among them ( Read more... )

Today I learned that all the Babylon 5 scripts written by JMS, along with related memos and memoirs and roads-not-taken, are being sold as a set of fifteen $40 books. (Well, the last one will only be available free to people who buy the other 14.) The first three are available now. www.Babylon5scripts.com has all the info, and TheJoeStore at ( Read more... )

I keep intending to write about all the books I've been reading, but it's inching closer to a year's worth of books, and sadly I don't think I could do any of them justice at this point. I may still try (wading through an 845-page book means the read-books-pile isn't growing so quickly), but it's still getting less likely ( Read more... )

JMS has announced that the Babylon 5 film he's been working on for the past year, The Memory of Shadows, has fallen through. Apparently all the financial pieces couldn't be put together.

At least we'll get The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy and Serenity this year.