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Jon Sable returns in his latest adventure, Ashes of Eden. Sable is hired to deliver a diamond
and a girl safely to New York; a simple enough job if the rock wasn’t
the size of a bomb and the girl wasn’t Bashira– who, of course, is as
unbelievably gorgeous as she is completely spoiled rotten. Mike Grell writes and does the art, with John Workman lettering and yours truly coloring, assisted by Shannon Weaver and Matt Webb.
Published by ComicMix and IDW and available at finer comic shops everywhere– with the really good ones having a variant pencil sketch cover available as well.
Knights of the Lunch Table: The Dragon Players
By Frank Cammuso
Scholastic/Graphix, 128 pages, $9.99
The pee wee population of Camelot Middle School is back in the second volume of the [[[Knights of the Lunch Table]]] from Frank Cammuso. The series, launched by Scholastic’s Graphix imprint last year, takes the broad strokes of the Arthurian legend and reimagines everything from a junior point of view. Our protagonist is Artie King and his two best friends are Percy and Wayne, all trying to survive the hostile environment that can be early adolescence.
While unrelated to Jolly R. Blackburn’s [[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]], Cammuso’s junior adventures are no less enjoyable. [[[The Dragon Players]]], now on sale, finds science teacher Mr. Merlyn easing Artie towards entering the robot dragon competition. While reluctant to participate, he agrees since Wayne owes Principal Dagger $300 for a new windshield and the competition’s prize just happens to be that exact amount.
With that as a launching point, we see a cleverly constructed plot that involves the students and the faculty. Along the way, the pitfalls of school life are clear with the boys being bullied by the enormous Joe and Artie struggles to survive in the house with his older sister Morgan. The characters act their ages with their emotions ranging all over the place and in need of some wise counsel. Artie can get some tips from his magic locker, but it falls to Merlyn to gently point him in the direction of doing what is right, not what is easy.
Cammuso’s art and color make the main characters appear a little younger than they should be but he fills the pages with nice details and keeps things moving at a nice clip. The climax, at the competition, is a little rushed, but everything is neatly tidied up by the final page.
Scholastic recommends this for ages 7-10 and that sounds about right. The readers should find the characters fun and relatable while Cammuso’s story imparts some good lessons. These annual offerings are most welcome.
MediaBistro reports that starting in less then an hour, Neil Gaiman and a thousand Twitter followers will write an audiobook script together on Twitter–an epic test to see if the Twittersphere can actually cooperate on a story.
The whole project starts on this Twitter page
at 12 noon EST. Gaiman will tweet the first line of a
story, and the Twittersphere will add the next sentences, continuing
the story in a round-robin style. To be included, your
addition to the story must be tagged #bbcawdio and be sent to the
correct Twitter page, like this:
@BBCAA Your Tweet Here #bbcawdio
Here’s more from BBC Audiobooks America:
“When roughly 1000 Tweets are logged, we’ll edit the contributions and
compile a script, then head into the studio to record and produce the
audiobook. The final audiobook will be downloadable free on our website
and also available as a digital download at iTunes and other audiobook
retailers.”
Doing the math, that should be about 130,000 characters, probably around 21,000 words, which is in the ballpark of an audiobook script.
Neil’s twitter feed, in case you don’t have it, is @neilhimself.
With 3-D all the rage, MGM announced over the weekend that Joss Whedon’s original thriller, The Cabin in the Woods, will be delayed from February 5 2010 to January 14 2011 to allow it to be upgraded to a three-dimensional chiller.
According to Shock Til You Drop, the film, co-written and directed by Drew Goddard (Cloverfield), will require six months for the conversion. The movie stars Bradley Whitford (The West Wing), Richard Jennings (Burn After Reading), Chris Hemsworth (Star Trek), and Whedon regulars Amy Acker (Angel, Dollhouse) and Tom Lenk (Buffy)
Two of Britain’s most popular actors have been cast in director John Landis’ Burke and Hare. According to Bloody Disgusting, Landis’ return to filmmaking will have him working with David Tennant, fresh off Doctor Who, and Simon Pegg, who gained acclaim in Star Trek.
The title characters are based on the famed 19th Century graverobbers who made a nice live providing corpses to an Edinburgh medical school. Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft (St. Trinian’s) have written the script based on the real life incidents involving the hapless Burke (Pegg) and Hare (Tennant). Given demand, the pair would try and hasten along the end for borders at the lodging house run by Hare’s wife.
Landis last directed Susan’s Plan in 1998 while Tennant just completed shooting the sequel to St. Trinian’s, also written by Ashworth and Moorcroft. Pegg guest starred on Doctor Who, but played opposite Christopher Eccleston’s version of the Time Lord.
Director Bryan Singer is interested in returning to the Marvel Universe, telling a South Korean audience he’s made it clear to 20th Century Fox. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Singer told fans at South Korea’s Pusan International Film Festival, “I love Hugh Jackman. I love the cast,” he said of X-Men: Origins: Wolverine.
After directing the first two features, he left the franchise to try his hand at rebooting Superman for Warner Bros. The critical and financial drubbing Superman Returns received derailed the Man of Steel’s film trajectory and left Singer a wounded director. He noted that “the risk is too great to leave [the final cut] in the hands of a filmmaker,” he said, adding that he “has a responsibility to help studios feel secure in their investments.”
During an on-stage discussion with director Kim Ji-woon, Singer noted that directors in this Asian country enjoy tremendous creative freedom compared with the studio-mandated filmmaking in America.
The director who gained renown for The Usual Suspects, said he likes to “trick audiences into thinking they’re seeing fireworks, but they’re learning about themselves and listening to what I have to say. The excitement about working in science fiction and fantasy is — the stories, if they are good, are about the human condition.”
Fox has already announced their reboot of the mutant franchise will be X-Men First Class with X-Men Origins: Magneto still in development with writer/director David S. Goyer. Word is that pre-production has already started on Wolverine 2.
Showtime is preparing a new DEXTER animated series for the web with some familiar names attached including Kyle Baker, we’ve got the details plus when BRIAN COX was offered a role in TRICK ‘R TREAT, took it blind – literally!
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Merrill Markoe (the person who dated David Lettermen before dating him was controversial) has unearthed the most existential episode of a Hanna-Barbera cartoon ever.
If you’ll excuse me, I have to go kill myself now.
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