Introducing For the First Time, Pharoah On the Microphone

[snurri]

Things I have not posted about on account of being busy and scatterbrained:

Yes, that is me in the latest issue of Writer's Digest. Jordan Rosenfeld interviewed me for the "First Impressions" column, which features first-time novelists. I sure make it sound easy. And, thanks to the lies of photography, I look good doing it.

Comics: Ed Brubaker

Comments

Blanche

[deborahlive]

What I love about Vivian Leigh's performance is that she really does understand that Denial is the State Religion of the South. Maybe it was from playing Scarlet. Heh.

Anyway... I think her performance starts out feeling uneasy because Blanche knows Stanley will be hard to fool. And it's all about the foolin'.

Or it's all about everyone agreeing to pretend to be fooled, more to the point.

That pretending is why Old Southerners don't like Yankees: because they don't play by the rules.

Does that make any sense?

Re: Blanche

[snurri]

Kind of. I think, at least, that it points to one of the things that bothers me about her; the artifice. I have no patience for that kind of thing, hence Old Southerners would hate me :-)

Re: Blanche

[deborahlive]

Heh. Yeah, alot of people react that way.

Notice how I didn't say anything about that Cabrera homer?

Re: Blanche

[snurri]

I am perfectly willing to let you enjoy the moment. :-P

[janradder]

You should check out Brubaker's Scene of the Crime which is out in a trade -- has the feel of a seventies auteur film in thhe vein of Arthur Penn (his Night Moves in particular). I never really got into the new Blue Beetle although I must admit that I never gave it much of a chance either

[grahamsleight]

Season 1 of New Who gets very much better over the stretch from Ep 6-10. (Though there's one story in there you have to pretend doesn't exist.) Be interested to know what you think of those later stories.

[snurri]

That sounds promising; I'm just starting that stretch now. "Dalek" was definitely a step above the rest.

[carnwrite]

On comics, I've just gotten back into them recently and picked up some good trades like Watchmen, Dark Knight Returns, LoEG, and other classics. As for more current stuff, I'm finding Gunslinger Born and Thor are pretty good so far. Any other recs on the new stuff coming out? Got an opinion on the Spiderman 'One More Day' controversy?

[snurri]

Here's what I think of the "One More Day" crap. I'm not buying Amazing anymore and likely won't until they undo the undoing; I've seen bits of it and am unimpressed.

New stuff: any Hellboy or BPRD; Gail Simone's run on Wonder Woman; Marvel's The Order; Buffy Season Eight and, to a lesser extent, Angel: After the Fall (if you're a Whedon fan, that is); anything by Brian K. Vaughn.

[carnwrite]

Just got done with Part 4 of 'One More Day,' having blindly picked up all 4 parts on ebay a few weeks back. WTF?! Why didn't Peter just kick Mephisto's arse? It certainly would've made for a more entertaining finish than the last couple of pages, which I found especially nauseating. I actually read a copy of #555 (part of Brand New Day) the other day. Meh! Seemed fairly uninteresting, and with yet another cameo by Wolverine. I reckon I'll give this one a miss!

[ext_42693]

Have you read Brubaker's Sleeper? It's like a James Ellroy novel set in a superhero universe.