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- We will be away at a family thing from tomorrow to Sunday evening. Odds are we will have limited net access and limited time anyway, so consider me AFK during those days. It's also likely that I won't get caught up and will do my traditional "did I miss anything?" post when I get home.
- A really cool thing I discovered: February 12 will be the bicentennial of the births of both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. I never knew that, but I find it interesting that these two men, both controversial and both influential, are truly of the same age.
- Read three comics this week. I highly recommend Detective Comics 852, another example of why Paul Dini and Dustin Nguyen should retain their jobs on this series after we see who gets to be Batman. I mildly recommend the Faces of Evil: Grundy special, with great art by Scott Kolins and a good script by Geoff Johns, noting that it's really the intro to a Solomon Grundy miniseries coming in March. And I have to say that I am shocked at how incoherent Buffy 20, with a Jane Espenson script, is. There are apparently big changes afoot, but the storytelling is awful.
- Did you know that all of the original Star Trek is now available at YouTube, thanks to CBS (under the same umbrella as Paramount these days)? I watched one of my favorite episodes, "Court Martial." Some of it is pretty clumsy or hokey, and at some points both Shatner and guest star Elisha Cook are quite over the top. But the courtroom drama and the interactions therein hold up rather well, and there are moments where Shatner and Cook, as well as the rest of the cast, shine.
That's all for now.
- A really cool thing I discovered: February 12 will be the bicentennial of the births of both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. I never knew that, but I find it interesting that these two men, both controversial and both influential, are truly of the same age.
- Read three comics this week. I highly recommend Detective Comics 852, another example of why Paul Dini and Dustin Nguyen should retain their jobs on this series after we see who gets to be Batman. I mildly recommend the Faces of Evil: Grundy special, with great art by Scott Kolins and a good script by Geoff Johns, noting that it's really the intro to a Solomon Grundy miniseries coming in March. And I have to say that I am shocked at how incoherent Buffy 20, with a Jane Espenson script, is. There are apparently big changes afoot, but the storytelling is awful.
- Did you know that all of the original Star Trek is now available at YouTube, thanks to CBS (under the same umbrella as Paramount these days)? I watched one of my favorite episodes, "Court Martial." Some of it is pretty clumsy or hokey, and at some points both Shatner and guest star Elisha Cook are quite over the top. But the courtroom drama and the interactions therein hold up rather well, and there are moments where Shatner and Cook, as well as the rest of the cast, shine.
That's all for now.
