MTV.com, actually — where its Splash Page feature spotlights next week’s Knights of the Old Republic #37 — with an eight-page preview! There’s also an article by editor extraordinaire Dave Marshall about the series. I’ve been informed the issue is confirmed on the schedule for this Wednesday, so the rest of the story shouldn’t be long in coming…
Some spookily ill-starred timing below in mentioning Star Trek characters frozen in time — with the loss today of Ricardo Montalban. ABC, CBS, and NBC each had segments on Montalban in tonight’s evening news broadcast; both ABC and CBS mentioned Fantasy Island and the Chrysler commercials — only NBC also included a Star Trek clip (which sort of makes sense, as Island was ABC and Trek was NBC). NBC also …
Thanks to those who sent birthday wishes my way today, but they’re really not necessary. Since I learned that one of the best Star Trek episodes, “A Piece of the Action,” originally aired the evening of my birth, I have determined to freeze my age in time, never getting older than William Shatner was then. (OK, maybe Vic Tayback. The technology is still being worked out…)
We’ve been meaning to get the store open for a while at Sword & Sarcasm, and I don’t know if you can call one item a store, but it’s pretty nifty. The “Nibbled to Death by Ducks” mug commemorates the half-minotaur Herbert’s chaotic flight from the voracious birds of Jelron the Beige. The side caption, with logo, reads, “It Pays to Stay a Step Ahead of Life’s Little Problems.” One …
Jeff Vaughn noticed on YouTube the presence of a portion of The Steven Banks Home Entertainment Center, a one-man stage-show celebration of creative procrastination. The full version of Steven Banks‘ show goes on 40-odd minutes (the other portions are online), and is something you’ll either love or hate depending on your similar time-wasting tendencies: I saw the Home Entertainment Center when it was first on Showtime and have reshown it …
The Marvel Universe is treated as our universe, for purposes of who major public figures are: George W. Bush had a significant role in several of my issues of Iron Man (including #74, below). As Marvel is announcing with a bit of a press wave, his soon-to-be successor Barack Obama makes his in-universe debut in Amazing Spider-Man later this month. This has been the case with Marvel for a long …
The L.A. Times has a piece on Mickey Rourke potentially appearing in Iron Man 2, potentially as Crimson Dynamo. One would suspect not in the Anton Vanko incarnation (and certainly not the teen-age Gennady Gavrilov incarnation). I don’t recall a variation that was a basic arms dealer, so this, if true, would be another incarnation. (The same piece has a section on George Lucas and a “Force trainer” shown at …
Travel concluded, I’ve finally posted some thoughts on Knights of the Old Republic #36. Enjoy! Happy new year to all. Resolution #2009-247 was to blog more, but I am alerted that this was also Resolution #2008-132 in the previous session. Well, it was good enough for last year!
On my old site, I had posted some of Sith_Fire30‘s home-brew action figures from the KOTOR series: Here’s the latest, the demonic Doctor Demagol from Knights of the Old Republic #8. Check out the rest of the images over on the Dark Horse thread for this figure!
…a comic book you can find this Christmas Eve at your local comic book store. Zayne and company are off to new challenges in the Coreworlds in our latest issue, part 1 of “Prophet Motive.” It’ll be a few days before I can get any notes online about the issue — I’m out of position and don’t have the issue myself yet. But coming at this time of the year …