( If this isn't love, I don't know what is. )

Picked up my Lucifer trades last night, because it had been a while since I last read them, and then I couldn't stop.

Lucifer, and Mazikeen, and Elaine. I love you guys to pieces.

( One of my favourite scenes, from #72 'Evensong Part 2'. )

I'd like to ask the f-list:

Who would you cast in the imaginary film adaptation of Mike Carey's Lucifer?

ETA: So far, we've come up with these suggestions. My favourites are in italics.

LUCIFER - Brad Pitt (jk), David Anders, Barry Pepper, Paul Bettany, Simon Woods, Cillian Murphy, Damian Lewis

MAZIKEEN - Angelina Jolie (jk), Alice Braga, Cote ( Read more... )

so_spiffed has made 80 (!!!) gorgeous icons for Mike Carey's Lucifer.

It is so beyond awesome. I'm without words.

Yatterings interview with Mike Carey, writer of the graphic novel Lucifer and the Felix Castor novels:
'I grew up on one level deeply engaged with the Christian narrative and on another completely emotionally detached from it. It seems that it stayed with me and now that I’m an adult it seemed the easiest way into certain questions for me, the ( Read more... )

So I'm reading "A Canticle for Leibowitz" for the first time, and HOW AWESOME IS IT? Like, really. It's post-nuclear apocalypse fiction that's both cautionary about technology and yet nevertheless all about human ingenuity and resilience and our thirst for knowledge. I love how funny it is, and also how scarily true it is. And Brother Francis! So ( Read more... )

Oh, Samael.

*cries*

ETA: ( Read more... )

• In These Times has an article about Veronica Mars: "Veronica Mars, Class Warrior"

• Stephen Colbert's June 3 commensement address at Knox College. (via Blog of a Bookslut)
  My name is Stephen Colbert, but I actually play someone on television named Stephen Colbert, who looks like me, and who talks like me, but who says things with a straight face he ( Read more... )

*squees over the latest issue of Lucifer*

I think I've mentioned once how the chief artist on the comic, Peter Gross, had said in an interview that his wish to draw the Morningstar just once with an enormous penis was eternally frustrated by ratings. Instead we've always gotten angels as asexual beings.

Well. This issue does the next best thing ( Read more... )

• The Bourne Ultimatum
  Producer Frank Marshall this week talked about several films on his slate at the moment, one of them being The Bourne Ultimatum. Paul Greengrass, Matt Damon, Joan Allen, and Julia Stiles are returning, and Tony Gilroy, who wrote the first two Bourne films, will be doing the script. Marshall suggests there may be the start of ( Read more... )