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June 14, 2022
‘Science Fiction/Double Feature.’
I always associate this with cons. Actually, no: I associate this with being young. I am now of an age where I can say things like “You know, I was quite the Bohemian back then” before my own gorge rises in horror at the cliché…
Science Fiction/Double Feature, The Rocky Horror Picture Show
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There’s going to be a LibertyCon e-book promotion.
It should be announced tomorrow: keep watching the skies! And how do I know about this? …How, indeed.
Moe Lane
PS: I won’t be at LibertyCon, myself: too far to sell books, and I didn’t know about it until a week ago anyway. Although I do have to start thinking about how I plan to sell books at venues that are more than an hour or so away…
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This is not turning into a great year for DC movies.
They’re reportedly thinking of recasting/minimizing Amber Heard in AQUAMAN 2, and Ezra Miller is in the wind and evading a restraining order. Because, yeah, that’s not gonna have any effect on THE FLASH’s box office. …Look, I grew up on DC comics, okay? The Justice League was my jam. All of this is kind of embarrassing to watch.
Project Steel [The Day After Ragnarok]
As God is my witness, these practically write themselves.
Project-Steel-Google-DocsDownload(Blame @shaenongarrity.)
The very disappointing BATMAN AZTECA news.
It’s not that I don’t want a Batman set in the Aztec Empire. It’s just that this is… stupid.
The story is set in the time of the Aztec Empire, and it centers on Yohualli Coatl, a young Aztec boy who experiences tragedy when his father and village leader, Toltecatzin, is murdered by Spanish Conquistadors. “Yohualli escapes to Tenochtitlan to warn King Moctezuma and his high priest, Yoka, of imminent danger. Using the temple of Tzinacan, the bat god, as a lair, Yohualli trains with his mentor and assistant, Acatzin, developing equipment and weaponry to confront the Spaniard invasion, protect Moctezuma’s temple, and avenge his father’s death.”
And not just for the obvious reason that the conquistadors conquered the Aztecs in the first place because every single one of the Aztecs’ neighbors hated those cannibalistic, human-sacrificing motherf*ckers, and wanted them to all die, screaming. It’s because there’s no way you can do ‘Aztecs as good guys’ AND have ‘time to cut out some people’s hearts!’ I mean, sh*t. That would be total Joker-bait. “I was told to have a heart, Bats, and I said to myself: why stop at only one?”
But they don’t have the nerve.
Moe Lane
PS: Just for the record: “[appropriate and relevant] indigenous representation” should involve literal towers of human skulls.
JOKER 2: the musical! Starring… Lady Gaga.
No, I’m not making this up:
A big name is reportedly in talks to join the cast of Joker 2, which has entered development under the working title of Joker: Folie à deux. THR reports that pop culture icon Lady Gaga, who has found great success in both film and music, is in early talks to star in the film. If these talks work out, Gaga would be starring as a new incarnation of Harley Quinn, the supervillain played by Margot Robbie in the DCEU.
Assuming this gets made, it’s… I don’t know what it is. It could be brilliant. It could be unwatchable. It could be brilliantly unwatchable. It’ll almost certainly piss a lot of people off, either way (or both).
Moe Lane
PS: On the bright side? At least Lady Gaga can both sing and act. So there’d probably be some decent tunes coming out of this.
June 13, 2022
06/13/2022 Snippet, GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND.
Been going over the manuscript, wanted to get this bit down. Like you do.
Patreon!We smelled the not-cows before we saw them, although not before we heard them. At least I smelled not-cows: Oft and the Anticipant just started gagging from the reek. “What in the name of the Hunter is that?” Oft asked, as he hawked and spit.
I sympathized, and kept the grin off my face. Trying to get the rotting-grass stench of ripe not-cow out of your nose isn’t fun, the first time you come across it. But eventually you get used to it. Besides, it doesn’t stick to your clothes or hair. “Remember the not-cows? That’s what they smell like. The herd we saw earlier must be nearby.” I frowned. “But they don’t normally come too close to human encampents” — and that’s when the Anticipant tackled the both of us. Actually, that makes it sound too professional, or something. What she did was dive at our lower legs, knocking us both off-balance and leaving us sprawled on the grass.
But that was a good thing, because not two seconds later a God-damned tree went whirring through the air, at what would have been just above head-height. Maybe it would have missed our actual heads. Maybe. Just as happy not to have to find out, you know what I mean?
Thinking about this as my Adventurer’s Guild logo.
Thoughts?
Basically, it’s a grappling hook being stuck into one of those heraldic symbols, with the other end being held with a (red) hand. Needs some work, but I think there’s enough bad heraldry and/or jokes to be worth pursuing. Again, thoughts?
PS: Buy TINSEL RAIN today! Review it tomorrow!
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The Filmation Star Trek Voyager… parody? Joke? Pitch?
It’s pretty good as a single-use gag, I have to say. And God knows they picked an episode from STAR TREK: VOYAGER which was sufficiently silly to warrant the treatment. I do admit to wondering how many people out there are going to get the full effect of the joke, though…
(Via Do-Gooder Press)
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