This is Kathleen again. Peter is having a very good time at AggieCon.

I had the chance this weekend to finally watch my way through Children of Dune.

I will say this, I felt like I was reading the books again.

If you didn’t like the Dune miniseries, this was not your cuppa. It was a lot of ponderous images and dialogue. And the repetition of phrases, which I don’t remember from the book.

Over all it looked good and I found myself wanting to watch the next part. Susan Sarandon was faaaabuloussss with some very fetching hair doos and a few hair don’ts.

Finally it all wrapped up and I though, OK I have seen this now I need never see it again. Which is how I felt about the books too. If you have the time to devote to it and liked the books. It is worth your time.

This is Kathleen posting under Peter’s name. He is at AggieCon this weekend and will be at I-Con next weekend. I’ll be at I-Con with Peter, Ariel, and Caroline.

Not that this matters at me right now. I have seen the last episode of Farscape and well ….WHAT THE FRELL!

That is the last image I am left with? (spoilers in the extented teext)

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Since we already sort of have a SUPERGIRL thread already going…

CAPTAIN MARVEL #7. After doing a six issue arc that was pretty out there, I decided to do a few issues that was more “traditional.” Still bizarre, but traditional. Thoughts?

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People have been asking me what my plans were for SUPERGIRL had the series gone past issue #80. I’ll tell you, but am putting it in the “extended” section of this entry so as not to spoil the issue for anyone who hasn’t read it yet.

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They seem to be having trouble casting a lead actor in “Superman.” I’m not surprised. The problem with casting a known actor is that you don’t think of him as Superman. You think of him as so-and-so wearing a Superman costume.

So what they want is someone with some degree of recognizability, but without a rep as an actor so he could possibly make the character his own.

Perhaps they should screen test Evan Marriott. You know: Joe Millionaire.

Seriously. Look at the guy. Big. Tall. Hunky. Ready smile. Charming. Kind of looks like Superman already if you smooth out his hair. Lots of experience lying to women, so that works for the Clark/Lois thing. Could he pull off Superman and Clark as two different people with the believability that Chris Reeve did? Unlikely. Then again, George Reeves put almost no effort into distinguishing the two, and that worked.

Joe Superman. Works for me. Work in a cameo for Zora and you’re all set.

Either that or cast him as Batman with Paul as faithful butler Alfred.

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Although everyone agreed that the Mike Kaluta cover for “Fallen Angel #1” (the B&W sketch for which I showed you folks some time ago) was beautifully moody, the feeling at DC was that the first issue cover should practically leap off the stands visually, especially with so many titles out there vying for the reader’s eye. So Brian Stelfreze (man, I hope I spelled his name right) was brought in to do a new cover for the first issue, and the Kaluta painting will be saved for a few issues down the line when the book’s established.

So here’s what you’ll be seeing on the newsstands in July for “Fallen Angel’s” debut.

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…I keep returning to one simple conclusion. If 9/11 had never occurred, and George W. Bush was doing exactly the same thing he’s doing now–actions motivated supposedly because of Saddam’s breaking of UN resolutions–then we would be seeing calls for impeachment from everywhere. He would be viewed as a war-mongering madman by everyone, including the Brits. Hëll, it wouldn’t have been allowed to get this far.

But the destruction of the Twin Towers, an event which–as far as we can tell, had nothing to do with Iraq–has given license to unprecedented aggression. Why? Because, in my opinion, the administration does not want to risk looking impotent in the face of terrorism.

I’m thinking that this will go down as the most spectacular incident of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in all of recorded history.

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