Just stumbled acrosst his: first meetings between Lois Lane and Clark Kent in eight versions of the Superman tale across the decades:

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The versions these excerpts are from are: Superman (Kirk Alyn & Noel Neill), Adventures of Superman(George Reeves & Phyllis Coates), Superman(Christopher Reeve & Margot Kidder), Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of ( Read more... )

Oscar Wilde once said memoirs were written for two reasons - self justification and revenge. He might have added therapy while he was at it, had he been living in a post Freudian age. Regardless on whether the people in question are interesting in themselves, there are not that many compelling autobiographies (telling your own life is messy in a ( Read more... )

Because US politics provide less angst for me than European politics: on twitter, JMS (i.e. J. Michael Straczkynski, for you non B5lers) has not only urged anyone who ever liked one of the shows he's worked on to vote for Bernie Sanders, but has enlisted fictional characters as well by pointing out that Peter Parker and Superman (he said Superman, ( Read more... )

My inner mule balking at assumed wisdom, fannish consensus and my inner rooter for the fannish underdog kicked in with a vengeance yesterday. You know, I hadn't looked forward to the planned Superman & Batman film, since I had severe ideological and storytelling problems with Man of Steel, though I liked the cast, and basically thought The Dark ( Read more... )

There is one particular scene in Watchmen, the film version, that illustrates the difference between, not just between the book it's based on and the film but director Zack Snyder's appraoch and Alan Moore's, and the way Snyder approaches storytelling, like few others. In both Watchmen the graphic novel and in the film (at that point) retired ( Read more... )

So, next month, there will be a new Superman movie. The first trailer of which made me fear the worst with its GRIMDARK aura and Pa Kent seemingly suggesting his son should have let people die rather than show his powers, the second was better, putting more emphasis on hope, and also, it had Lois Lane, and the third has that advantage as well but ( Read more... )

Possibly of interest only to comic book readers:
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...during the last ten or so days ( Read more... )

...all gen, all with female main characters, from the excellent femgenficathon_

Farscape:

With bitter joy, the sound of wings: an Aeryn portrait through the years. Aeryn fanfic that doesn't focus on her romantic life is rare to find, which is a shame, considering the show (s4 excepted) offers us so much more. This captures Aeryn in all her ( Read more... )

Following a recommendation from londonkds, I've read Mark Millar's Red Son, aka the Superman AU in which his pod crashes in the Soviet Union instead of Kansas. Which was interesting to read and shared several elements with JMS' more recent Supreme Power, notably of course the idea of the Superman character raised to love the state and being driven towards ( Read more... )