Peter David's Blog, page 126

If You Missed "The Daily Show" tonight…

…catch it on one of its repeats tomorrow. In the second section, Jon Stewart and Larry Wilmore (Senior Black Correspondent) discuss Huckleberry Finn and some of the comments are like things that were said here, plus stuff that Wilmore says is just common sense brilliant. A must-see for anyone who was interested in the subject. [...]

Hope You Guys Set Your DVRs

"The Green Hornet" marathon is going on on SyFy right now. Again, the best two, in my opinion: "The Preying Mantis" at 2:30 PM, featuring a climactic "gung fu" (as they say it) battle between Kato (Bruce Lee) and a Tong overlord (Mako); "Bad Bet on a 459-Silent" at 8 PM in which the Hornet [...]

Movie review: The Shadow

Originally published August 5, 1994 in Comics Buyer's Guide #1081
Look! Up in the sky! It's a grim, gritty metropolitan setting, where skyscrapers are set against a stormy sky, and no amount of imminent rain can wash away the grime and the crime.
Hold on! The movie camera is careening forward at high speed, vaulting over the [...]

Huckleberry Hounded

Big in the news lately is that a publisher called NewSouth Books is releasing a new edition of Huckleberry Finn with the racial epithets deleted. The rationale is that now the book won't be banned or challenged and can therefore be taught in schools.
I suppose my short feeling on this change is, quick: [...]

Stranger than Fiction

Originally published August 12, 1994, in Comics Buyer's Guide #1082
The problem with being a fiction writer is that it's so damned difficult to keep up with the real world.
The way in which the events in the news develop have a staggeringly high factor of "Huh?" So much so that one wonders if one can ever [...]

Is Sarah Palin Responsible for the Arizona Shooting?

That's the question being bandied about. Is it possible that Palin bears responsibility for the Arizona shooting spree?
No…of course not.
Our society is slow to embrace the concept of personal responsibility. We want to pass the buck, look for scapegoats and, when all else fails, sue. No one forced the scumbag to shoot [...]

Stash Wednesday

We haven't done one of these in a while and X-Factor #213 came out this week, so…
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The Future Social Event of the Nerd Season

It's recently been announced that David Tennant is engaged to Georgia Moffett.
So let's see if I've got this straight:
The Tenth Doctor is going to be marrying his own daughter who also happens to be the daughter of the Fifth Doctor and Trillian from the TV version of "Hitchhiker."
Most meta engagement EV-er.
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Marvel vs. Distributors

Originally published July 29, 1994, in Comics Buyer's Guide #1080
"Things change."
–Penguin to Batman, and vice versa
Batman Returns
A decade ago, when Carol Kalish was running Marvel direct sales, and I was her assistant… the market suffered from growing pains. There were any number of times when we would come into conflict with distributors over policy decisions; [...]

The Things We Do in the Interest of Karmic Payback

Caroline was dying to see "Yogi Bear." I balked at taking her because it just held no interest for me, but then I realized that when I was the exact same age, my father was game enough to take me to see "Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!", which I haven't seen since I was [...]