Author Archives: Mark S

Firefly back on Cable

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EW is reporting that the Science Channel has picked up reruns of Firefly and will be airing…with some extras.

The Science Channel has acquired the rights to the cult-hit and will air the series in its short-lived entirety, plus some new extras. Science Channel will wrap each episode with interstitial segments starring renowned physicist Dr. Michio Kaku, who will discuss the theoretical science behind the show’s sci-fi concepts.

The article also has a nice, brief interview with Nathon Fillion.

Fish Police comic review

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Way back before anyone had ever heard of SpongeBob SquarePants, before The Little Mermaid, there was a comic set under the sea. And there was also an unfortunate TV show made from it that we all prefer to forget (and wish had never existed). Steven Moncuse created a wonderful under the ocean story called Fish Police. Populated with wonderful, quirky characters, a fun mystery plot and art that started off decent and ended up great, Fish Police is a forgotten classic cartoon. The first collected volume even had an introduction by Harlan Ellison. So, what is Fish Police?

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Night Watch movie review

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Timur Bekmambetov is probably the most well known Russian director working today. He’s made several successful Russian movies and even a big budget Hollywood movie (Wanted) that was a lot of fun despite the horrible screenplay. But his first blockbuster film was Night Watch. Based on the popular book of the same name, Night Watch was a huge hit in Russia and was released world wide (with a limited release in the US). After it came out on DVD, the cult status of the movie grew and Bekmambetov has become a hot director world wide. So, who are the Night Watch?

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Lois Lane dies

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Joanne Siegel, wife of Joe Siegel, died at age 95 on Saturday.

Joanne Siegel, who as a Cleveland teenager during the Depression hired herself out as a model to an aspiring comic book artist, Joe Shuster, and thus became the first physical incarnation of Lois Lane, Superman’s love interest, died on Saturday in Santa Monica, Calif. She was 93.

 Later in life, Joanne worked tirelessly to reclaim the copyrights for Shuster and Siegel. Her battle culminated with the 2008 judgment restoring half of the copyrights back to the Siegel family.

Felicia Day’s new (secret) project

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Felicia Day has wowed us the last few years with her self-made web series The Guild. She not only wrote, produced and starred in it, but made not one, but two amazing music videos to promote it. For the last few weeks, she’s been teasing a new mystery project that she worked on and today, she announced it.

Almost eleven months ago, my agent@georgeruiz called me and said he’d had a conversation with someone from EA/Bioware about the possibility of working together, but they weren’t sure on what. Thus started the LONG road to today, when I can announce my next project: Dragon Age Redemption.

 More information in the USA Today article about it.

[Day] has written and stars in a new Web series, Dragon Age: Redemption, based in the world of BioWare’s role-playing Dragon Age game franchise. Day’s six-episode run, due to hit the Web this year, is set in Ferelden, the same fantasy land in which 2009’s Dragon Age: Origins and the upcoming sequel Dragon Age II play out. In the Tolkienesque sword-and-sorcery adventure game, several races join forces to combat a scourge called the Darkspawn.

Ultimate Iron Man (part 1) by Orson Scott Card

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I was listening to the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy interview with Orson Scott Card* last week and they started talking about Card’s dabbling into comics. Until then, I had forgotten about his Ultimate Iron Man series. I had read it when it came out and I remembered that I wasn’t thrilled with it. But I decided to dust off the series and try it again. The first thing I realized was that I had only read Volume 1 and a second Volume had come out a year or so later. After re-reading Volume 1, I decided that I wasn’t interested enough to continue on to Volume 2 (if it gets better, let me know and I might try it). So what was the problem.

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The Horns of Ruin by Tim Akers

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I hate for people to think that I love the steam punk genre. There are a few of the books that I’ve enjoyed (and at least one that’s still on my reading list), but it’s not like I go searching for them. And then there are some that are recommended to me. In this case, it was The Horns of Ruin by Tim Akers. The front cover depicts a steam punk girl with a sword and gun and two guys in jetpacks, but it is really misleading. This is more of an urban fantasy style book than a steam punk book. And as urban fantasy goes, it’s not that good. So, where are The Horns of Ruin?

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A Game of Thrones by George R R Martin

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For years, people have been telling me that I should be reading A Game of Thrones. I’ve mentioned before that I”m not as big a fantasy fan as I used to be, so I just wrote it off as another twenty part fantasy series that I wouldn’t be interested in. But with the HBO show just around the corner, I started thinking that I should read it before the series starts in April. And then, when my boss suggested a cross country trip for a meeting, I knew I’d have the time to read it. And all I have to say is that if there were more fantasy like this, I’d be reading more fantasy. So, let’s find out what the book is about, because winter is coming.

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