Dark Tower Art

[sdelmonte]

For what it's worth, a preview of some of the art for the next Dark Tower comic book miniseries.

It's more of the same. If you loved, you will still love it. If you got tired of it and felt that the art was pretty but that it told the tale wrong (as I did), odds are you will still feel that way. If you hated it...well, you have been warned and won't spend your money on it.

The good news is that I have seen the first DT miniseries in collected form in pretty much every public library I have been in since it came out. If I want to read it, I can wait a few months and then borrow it. I am curious, mainly because this will be a new story (if not necessarily canon). But I think I'm better off saving my money.

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[jezrana.livejournal.com]

I read a short plot summary in a comic preview thing when we were in Forbidden Planet, which made me facepalm and go "STILL DOING IT WRONG", but curiosity may drive me to check them out (but not spend money on them) eventually.

[buongiornodaisy.livejournal.com]

Alex Alex Alex, did you hear about the new Bond title? I am facepalming so hard and can't STFU about it. DDDD:

[sdelmonte]

I noticed. I hadn't figured out what to say other than that after so many years of Bond films with asinine titles derived from the books and short stories, I am used to it.

However...What the heck is a quantum of solace? Is it a wave of solace sometimes and a particle of solace other times? Can we measure solace emissions, the way they measure things on Star Trek? It's a bad title, even by Fleming's standard, that reflects a desire, no doubt, to sound all scientific.

Oddly, the story is apparently James telling someone at a cocktail party about two friends' bad divorce.

No matter. I plan to see the film no matter what they call it. I'm just concerned that it will spend too much time on the emo and not enough on the action. Casino Royale worked because it was a good balance of the two. (At least, I think it worked. I need to get it from the library and rewatch it, and also to show it to Batya.)

[buongiornodaisy.livejournal.com]

A quantum of solace is this (straight from the short story):

You're not married, but I think it's the same with all relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is alive or dead, then it's just no good. That particular insult to the ego - worse, to the instinct of self-preservation - can never be forgiven. I've noticed this in hundreds of marriages. I've seen flagrant infidelities patched up, I've seen crimes and even murder forgiven by the other party, let alone bankruptcy and every other form of social crime. Incurable disease, blindness, disaster - all these can be overcome. But never the death of common humanity in one of the partners. I've thought about this and I've invented a rather high-sounding title for this basic factor in human relations. I have called it the Law of the Quantum of Solace.

Also, considering what I've seen of the plot, I don't think Bond will have TIME to emo.

[sdelmonte]

Actually, while the prose is standard Fleming, it's not a bad observation. but it really doesn't seem to fit with the story. Or are meant to think that James can actually forgive Vesper retroactively?

We shall see.

But I will close by noting that I am glad that the sequel to Batman Begins is The Dark Knight. Nice and simple and distinct. I just hope that tbe next film isn't called The Caped Crusader. Or Old Pointy Ears.

[buongiornodaisy.livejournal.com]

Fleming had some good observations when he was on. But he was off far too many times (all women need to look people in the face when they're talking, so that makes them dangerous drivers? wtf?)

And you're right, it doesn't seem to fit with the story. I think "Risico" might've been a better title.