– Greg Rucka shares a Question image … maybe a cover?
– Sean McKeever gives an overview of the next few months of Teen Titans comics, which will include the return of a dead Titan.
– Stanley Fish compares the autistic to the X-Men.
– The Daily Show’s John Hodgman reviews Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus.
– The Weekly Crisis is holding a contest for signed copies of the first Atomic Robo trade paperback.
– Bowl.com reports on Fallen Angel writer Peter David’s USBC Open Championship debut.
– Tom Spurgeon interviews Freddie and Me creator Mike Dawson.
– Brian Heater lists several events coming up this week that lead up to MoCCA.
– Heidi MacDonald blogs about the Book Expo America. So does Bully.
– Bob Andelman interviews Jules Feiffer about his new Explainers collection.
– Check out Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba’s iGoogle theme.
– Greg Cook interviews Brian Chippendale.
– Yotsuba will return, we hope.
– Painful YouTube video of the week: Alison Bechdel talks about putting Dykes to watch out for on hiatus.
– Wired interviews Battlestar Galactica’s Ron Moore.
Compiled by JK Parkin and Chris Mautner
June 2nd, 2008 at 7:56 am
Considering the Question art is by Philip Tan I’m betting that’s a future FC: Revelations cover.
Though if its for a new Question ongoing I’ll have NO complaints whatsoever.
June 2nd, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Cool interview with Ron Moore, with reservations (in a moment). I never got into the new BSG, because the miniseries just didn’t click with me and I never watched the regualr series after that. But I want to give it another chance, and I think I will now that Lost is on hiatus for 7 or 8 months.
Anyhow, what bothered me about the interview is that, while Star Trek was mentioned a lot, never once did they discuss the show that many Trek fans feel is the best of them all — Deep Space Nine. Moore was on that show from the get-go, as one of the head writers and an Exec Producer. The show never truly got its due, living in TNG’s shadow, in part because it was a darker, far more challenging Trek than the shows before it or after it. I feel his work on that show helped make the new BSG possible, and it’s a shame that DS9 doesn’t get the accolades it deserves. Even in an itnerview with one of the show’s creative geniuses.
Even Moore didn’t give the show any credit. The interviewer talks about how all the Trek shows needed a couple of years to get “good,” (forgetting that TOS actually went downhill in its third year) But DS9 is a show that really hit the ground running. It got even better with time, but those first two years didn’t suck. Watch “Duet,” or “The Circle” trilogy and tell me otherwise.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Totally agree with Shaun about ST: Deep Space Nine. That series is my favorite of all the Star Treks, and I’m an original TOS fan from the first season! Yeah, I’m that old. DS9 is also my older son’s favorite Star Trek, and he grew up with Star Trek, thanks to me.
And thanks for the link to Bully’s blog about BEA. One year I’ll make it to BEA …
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Hey Kat Kan, always cool to find another DS9 fan out there!
I always hoped BSG’s relative success (I mean, being a cable show it’s audience is actually much smaller than DS9’s was, yet it seems to be much more hip to be into BSG than it ever was to like DS9) would bring about a rediscovery of DS9.
But that hasn’t happened. I guess with the show only being on Spike late night, only a few nights a week, it isn’t to be. It’s pretty much DVD or nothing, although some of the “Relaunch” novels, set after the TV show ended, are really good).
But those who the saw the show, minus a small handful of atrocious episodes across its run, know how good it was.