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September 12, 2022
The Marvel: SKYDANCE video game trailer.
They’re promising the SKYDANCE game (or is that the company name?) will be AAA, which is interesting. World War II, Captain America*, a Black Panther, and… Occupied Paris? Or maybe just-liberated Paris. That could work.
Guess we’ll see?
*Assume a different voice actor.
September 11, 2022
The ‘I am now dubious’ NATIONAL TREASURE: EDGE OF HISTORY Disney+ trailer.
I dunno. It’s not quite doing it for me. I think it may very well be the lack of Nick Cage. There’s no way NATIONAL TREASURE: EDGE OF HISTORY is gonna be gonzo enough without Nick Cage.
The MARVEL: SECRET INVASION Disney+ trailer.
I’m down. I suspect that there are going to be good Skrulls, and bad Skrulls, and the aforementioned Secret Invasion will feature the latter. …Works for me. And I do love me some cinematic paranoia. CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER‘s only real flaw was that it wasn’t an entire movie of Cap and Nat on the run… but I guess enough people wouldn’t have watched that, alas.
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Patreon Microfiction: Glorious.
‘Glorious’ is either sacrilegious, presumptuous, or chauvinistic, depending on your point of view. Or maybe all three. I’m also kind of negatively impressed with myself for badly spelling all three of the words in that list. Possibly I should have gone to bed earlier last night?
Patreon!09/11/22 Snippet, BUZZ ON THE STREETS.
No, Lucas doesn’t have a key. Keys are for people who do not have a certain set of skills.
Patreon!I went to bed early that night. Being woken up at 3 AM when you’re twenty is an adventure. Being woken up at that hour, at my age? Well, with enough coffee you can hold off decrepit, but you can still see it waving back at you from the mirror. Besides, it was Tuesday night. Who does anything on a Tuesday night?
Lucas was pretty good at shaking me awake carefully, but you’d expect that from an Adventurer. In that profession, you either want people waking up without any fuss — or not waking up at all. He didn’t waste any time, either. “So, hey, Tom. Remember how we were talking about somebody wanting to steal some really good loot?”
I gave him my best weary, bleary stare. “Like it happened only yesterday. No, wait, it did.” I shoved myself to a sitting position on the edge of the bed. “We in a rush, or can I get my socks on first?”
“Nobody’s coming up the stairs after me with an ax, if that’s what you’re asking.” I wasn’t, but it was nice to know. Oh: speaking of coffee, Lucas had some ready for me. The cup wasn’t mushy yet, so he must have grabbed it from somewhere close on the way. I drank it fast, trying not to grimace at the taste. Adventurers always put in too much sugar.
September 10, 2022
‘Life is a Highway.’
Life is a Highway, Tom Cochrane
#commissionearned
Book of the Week: The Horse and His Boy.
Mostly because I need to remind myself to read The Horse and His Boy again. There’s a line in there about fighting in buildings that I remember being entertaining, but I can’t quite remember. Plus, it never hurts to revisit C.S. Lewis.
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Okay, Marvel’s WEREWOLF BY NIGHT looks pretty sweet.
WEREWOLF BY NIGHT looks like it’s combining the classic black-and-white horror movie aesthetic with the now-classic* 1980s gory horror movie aesthetic, and I am there for it. I have no idea how Marvel’s getting away with putting it on Disney+, but that’s what parental controls are for. …Although that’s a theoretical concept in this household. Both of my kids are devotees of creepypasta, and so far it seems not to have done either any harm. October 7th!
*I truly regret having to remind you that AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON is forty-one years old. So is WOLFEN. THE THING is forty, NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET is thirty-eight, THE LOST BOYS thirty-five**… that time period is as far away from us now as the 1940s and 1950s classic horror flicks were to me as a teenager. On the bright side: God damn, but the toys are awesome now. Not to mention the baseline medical care.
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**”CRYYYYYYY LITTLE SISTER… Sorry about that.
The ‘Hold on, this might not suck’ QUANTUM LEAP *revival*.
I know, I know, but here’s the thing: this QUANTUM LEAP is not a reboot.
Quantum Leap picks up 30 years after Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the accelerator and vanished, as physicist Ben Song makes an unauthorized leap into the past, leaving his team behind to solve the mystery of why he did it. pic.twitter.com/wLLuR7XcjA
— IGN (@IGN) September 8, 2022
No, really. From THR: “The synopsis reads, “It’s been 30 years since Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished. Now a new team has been assembled to restart the project in the hopes of understanding the mysteries behind the machine and the man who created it.””
…You know something? I’ll allow it. I’m quite keen to get a few questions answered from the original series, as well. And, heck: Scott Bakula isn’t even seventy yet. He can do a guest star turn in this show, no worries. I might actually even find the TV remote and, I dunno, watch this QUANTUM LEAP on network*. Mondays 10 PM, starting September 19th.
H/T: @cwgabriel.
*Bizarrely, it was cheaper to get cable, Internet, and phone than it was just to get Internet and phone.
