Check it out, kiddies: Costume pic, presumably of Halle Barrie. I don’t have any verification that this is the actual ensemble, but it’s interesting to look at:
http://superherohype.com/nextraimages/hallecat.jpg
On the one hand it doesn’t look like any Catwoman ensemble I’ve ever seen. On the other hand, I can think of any number of artists who, if given a free hand, might indeed design something like that for Selina. What artist’s style does it remind YOU of?
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At the moment I’m hard at work on the novelization for Spider-Man 2. The deadline on this one is insanely tight; I’m trying to get through ten script pages a day, which would give me a rough draft of the script/book itself in two weeks. Then, of course, comes all the fun of developing new scenes to flesh it out to manuscript length.
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A contributor to a weblist I’m on brought up the following new spam making the rounds:
We have just charged your credit card for money laundry service in amount
>of $234.65 (because you are either child pornography webmaster or deal
>with dirty money, which require us to laundry them and then send to your
>checking account). If you feel this transaction was made by our mistake,
>please press “No”. If you confirm this transaction, please press “Yes”
>and fill in the form below.
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> ENTER YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBER HERE:
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> ENTER YOUR CREDIT CARD EXPIRATION
It was opined that anyone who falls for this one deserves what they get. I tend to agree.
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“I finally figured out why the theme to Teen Titans sounds familiar. It’s an anime version of Secret Agent Man.” She’s right.
This has been pointed out in other on-line sources such as “All the Rage,” so it’s not like I’m singling out John Byrne on this one. I just find it too hilarious not to comment on.
John has declared that the great scourge of the internet is mind-reading: i.e., people who write posts in which they opine as to what was going through someone’s mind when they said or did something. And he is exhorting anyone on his board to try and stomp this practice out whenever possible.
See, I would have thought the great scourge of the internet was spam. But apparently this is right up there.
The reason I find it so funny is that John, on any number of occasions, has ascribed the most mean-spirited, nasty motivations to things I’ve said and done. I wrote something praiseworthy of his work? According to John, I did so not because I genuinely enjoyed the work, but because I was fishing for compliments from him. And so on.
I wonder if his supporters will, in the future, scrupulously hold him to the standard of conduct which he has now set.
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Just came back from seeing “Underworld,” a film that could well have (indeed, perhaps should have) been filmed in black and white. It was like watching the world’s longest “Obession by Calvin Klein” ad.
The film is a curious paradox of moving along both briskly and slowly. The story pacing is quick enough, but the problem is that the audience forms no emotional connection with the protagonists. Selene, the vampire (Kate Beckinsale) is written, directed, filmed and edited to be remote, so it’s hard to care about what happens to her. The way into the film could have been through Michael (Scott Speedman), the human who attracts Selene’s attention because he in turn is being sought by werewolves (or “Lycans”). But the movie’s told from her POV, not his, and beyond the fact that he’s an intern, we don’t know anything about him…or, at the very least, enough to make us care if he’s bitten by werewolves or vampires or the acting bug.
The way to make the film work would have been to tell the entire story from Michael’s point of view and learn about the warfare between vamps and werewolves through him. Or, if it’s to be Selene’s story, intercut between modern day and her origins, like “Highlander,” which took this basic “mysterious group of people trying to kill each other” bit and did it far better. As it is, we’re hit with a bunch of emotional reveals in the last fifteen minutes of the movie that are designed to throw our perceptions of the characters on our ears. But instead of being emotionally shocking, as the filmmakers presumably hoped, you just go, “Oh. Okay. That’s interesting.”
A sequel is built into the conclusion. Joy.
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Quite a few people are asking me the order in which the latest “New Frontier” novels (which should be on the stands just about any time) should be read. They are as follows:
“Gods Above,” which is the long-awaited conclusion to “Being Human.” The bad news is, it ends on a cliffhanger. The good news is, you don’t have to wait two years for the conclusion because the continuation, “Stone And Anvil,” should be out by the time you finish reading “Being Human.”
The short story collection, “No Limits,” can be read at any time because most of the stories are set before the crew of the Excalibur came together. The one exception to that is the story I wrote which is set immediately after “Restoration.” But it’s been a couple of years, so I’m hoping you’ve gotten around to reading that one by now. Thus it isn’t a problem.
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