Chris Braak's Blog, page 49
October 21, 2010
Recommended Reading
Everyone should hop on over to their local comics shop and pick up an anthology book called "Vertigo: Resurrected." (DC/Vertigo, $7.99) The primary feature is "Shoot," a previously banned issue of "Hellblazer" by Warren Ellis and Phil Jiminez. It's been available for years online as a black and white scan, but the story – a [...]
Question For Writers
Particularly freelancers out there - Who charges per hour, vs. per project? How does one come to this conclusion? And – assuming this isn't too personal – what do you generally charge? (You have to understand, in my freelancing experience I've mostly been paid in beer.) Filed under: Jeff Holland, Threat Quality
October 20, 2010
Verisimilitude AGAIN
Jesus, when am I going to stop with this? Okay, so, Holland wrote his bit about Paranormal Activity, and he's right in a lot of important ways. But I think there's actually even more to be mined from a discussion of the subject, and since that's basically all I do (talk about things AT LENGTH), [...]
October 19, 2010
OK, let's knock this stuff off before it becomes a thing
Except, given that Paranormal Activity 2 is already on the way, I guess it's already a thing. But horror movies, please hear me! You need to stop with the documentary-camera conceit. It is not helping you. (And yes, this is me complaining about a movie that's over a year old, but I just saw Paranormal [...]
October 18, 2010
Oh, Balls
I was supposed to do a post today. Uh. Okay, tonight. I'll get one in tonight. Filed under: Threat Quality
October 15, 2010
Do us proud, chums
Can you list all 63 interjections used in the Batman TV show? Look, I'm just going to tell you right now: No. No you can't. It's IMPOSSIBLE, I tell you. Or, you can go here and try to beat my score. Which was 12. So that is considerably less impossible. Here, I'll even get you [...]
October 14, 2010
Hamlet, Gender, AND SO FORTH
Today on Threat Quality: everyone go to the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre's blog. I want to have a conversation about what it means to cast Hamlet as a woman. Hamlet is one of the greatest roles in theater history and so it is unsurprising that women as well as men would dream of playing the prince. What [...]
