Peter David's Blog, page 125

GLAAD Award

"X-Factor" has been nominated for a 2011 GLAAD media award. Thought you guys would be interested. PAD

So…what do ya wanna know?

It's been a while since I've done an open Q&A. Actually, not since my back surgery. So…throwing it open to questions. Anything you guys want to ask about whatever? A couple of stipulations: 1) One question per person. 2) Please don't bother asking about the wing speed of an unladen swallow, the answer to life, [...]

A Somewhat Melancholy MLK Day

A man who wanted to see a world of equality and peace, and yet his life ended in violence, being memorialized barely a week after another brutal slaying. I'm really not sure what to say that wouldn't sound banal. PAD

Movie review: The Mask

Originally published August 26, 1994, in Comics Buyer's Guide #1084 Some years back, author Gary K. Wolf wrote an offbeat mystery titled Who Censored Roger Rabbit? It told the story of a down-in-the-mouth detective named Eddie Valiant, and his involvement with cartoon-strip actors… i.e., "characters" who posed for comic strips and spoke in word balloons [...]

An Additional Green Hornet In-Joke

My daughter, Ariel, saw "The Green Hornet" with her friends and picked up on an in-joke in there that went right past me…which is mildly annoying, since I was the one who gave her the piece of information in the first place that the gag was based on. At one point, Kato is miffed that [...]

The Green Hornet

We loved it. Okay, well, I did; the 3D gave Kathleen some nausea issues, which hits her sometimes when she's watching films that were retrofitted rather than shot that way. But when she wasn't feeling sick, she liked it as well. I loved the interplay between the Hornet and Kato, including the issues they both [...]

March 15th? Really?

So the opening of Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark has now been pushed back to March 15th. Now: I get that they're still working on fixing the story and songs. For that matter, if you compare it to a musical's typical development time–considering that ordinary musicals have extensive out-of-town tryouts where such changes are usually [...]

Image Concerns

Originally published August 19, 1994, in Comics Buyer's Guide #1083 In an earlier column, I pointed out that Marvel Comics was suffering from a major perception problem. That, to an extent, it didn't matter what its motivations for certain actions were. Credibility was being damaged due to the public perception. It has since been pointed [...]

A Picture Worth Six Words

Don't you think she looks tired? Suggested by Sasha.

Dear Ms. Palin:

Blood libel. Seriously? A little story: one that I am told is absolutely true. Now maybe it is, maybe it isn't…but it makes the point. In a town in Eastern Europe long ago, there was a small community of Jews who resided there and more or less kept to themselves. But their very presence was [...]