2011: Pop Culture in Review
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Captain America Cornered!
I have a post up at Calamity Jon’s CORNERED blog today. The Cornered blog challenges you to redraw the classic corner art from comic books (mostly of yore but I imagine there must be some of that still going on). I picked a Captain America comic from the mid-nineties and tried to give it a goofier, brighter spin than the original. I also had another entry a couple days later covering cornering SPIDER-MAN and the NOT-READY-FOR-PRIME-TIME PLAYERS. This one I more or less created by reworking bits of the cover art.
Repaneled Blog
I have a “cover” of a panel from Spiderman Vs. Wolverine up today (Friday) at Repaneled. There’s some really good stuff up there and I find it interesting what kinds of panels people pick for the project. The Covered blog is awesome but there’s a little less material to choose from — there’s a whole book of panels to every one cover to choose from.
Legends of Zork: Take 2
I played a bit of the new browser-based Legends of Zork when it launched, mostly because Jim Zubkavich did the artwork for it. Fun but got a bit repetitive for me so I stopped. They’ve kept making changes though so I thought I’d give it another shot.
Moonlighting: Still One Of My Favorite Things
Linda Holmes of NPR writes about how the last season of Moonlighting is actually NOT evidence that resolving romance will kill a show. In fact Moonlighting’s erratic wind-down is evidence that you can’t write half a season’s shows focusing on the secondary characters alone (which is what they did as Bruce Willis and Cybil Shepherd were barely onscreen for many episodes that year). But for the rest of Moonlighting’s run it was a great show – inventive, clever, and spirited. I was in highschool when it was on and it was our watercooler show — we rehashed, requoted and rehearsed what we’d seen …
Fiction Reading This Summer
I read a bunch of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels this summer, not really in order though. It’s just a wonderful series, funny, but a coherent enough fantasy world that you care about the stories and the characters. I wish I’d had these to read when I was a kid. I’ve also been reading John Scalzi’s novels lately. He’s a fairly “lite-science” science fiction writer and pretty efficient at telling a tale (things happen! characters move!). They’re good reads and the 3 part “Old Man’s War” series is good fun. I’m in the middle of reading Zoe’s Tale, which is a re-telling (so far) of parts of the …
Tomorrow is the last day of Scary Go Round
Wow – last update to Scary Go Round tomorrow. There’s something about John Allison’s sense of humor both the words and the visuals that’s always clicked with me. I’ve been reading his webcomic posts since the earliest days of Bobbins. Next up is Bad Machinery (or title to be named) which by all of the hints Allison has dropped will take place in the same slightly off-kilter alternate Tackleford he’s created but with a focus on a different set of characters. Anyhow – looking forward to what he comes up with next! UPDATE: Nice farewell post to SGR from Eric “Websnark” Burns here.