By I've put a new entry on the right-hand sidebar for my favorite Podcasts. I listen to these each week when I'm walking, doing chores, or some mindless repetitive task at work. The podcasts are comic-book related (Fanboy radio, Comic Geek Speak, Word Balloon), TV-related (TV Guide Talk, BattleStar Galactica, LOST), Hollywood and movies (The Treatment and The Business), Video Gaming (Gamespot, 1UP, Dreamstation) and Science Fiction stuff at the Dragon Page. The Dragon Page pumps out three shows a week. Cover to Cover has interviews with SF authors, Slice of Sci-Fi has movie-tv coverage with guest interviews, and Wingin It is what happens when sci-fi geeks start drinking. I've learned about a lot of unique beers from this show. Ever heard of Monty Python's Holy Grail Ale? I have no idea where to buy it locally. Check out the podcasts. Nuff said.
Nerdy Nuggets of News: March 2006 Archives
V For Vendetta opens tomorrow in the United States, on St. Patrick's Day of all days! As a result, there have been a lot of Alan Moore interviews appearing all over the place. The one on top is a documentary, probably the one made by the BBC, featuring Moore talking about Watchmen, V, From Hell, LEXG, etc. It's quite interesting to watch and it's nine minutes long. Thanks to Rich Johnston for posting the link on his CBR column All the Rage. Update: Rich reminded me about his extensive article on the Moore/V situation that he wrote in 2005. It's a very fine article and explores Moore's objections to the film industry:
...Moore added to this sentiment, telling me "after the films came out, I began to feel increasingly uneasy, I have a dwindling respect for cinema as it is currently expressed."
Johnston's 2005 article did cover Alan Moore's beef with the film adaptation of V For Vendetta. The Beat's interview covers a lot of the same territory. In Part I, Moore discusses why he was upset when he read the screenplay:
"...This was one of the things I objected to in the recent film, where it seems to be, from the script that I read, sort of recasting it as current American neo-conservatism vs. current American liberalism. There wasn't a mention of anarchy as far as I could see. The fascism had been completely defanged. I mean, I think that any references to racial purity had been excised, whereas actually, fascists are quite big on racial purity."
In Part 2, Moore talks about why he's severed all ties with DC and tried to have his name removed from various books that he's worked on:
"...we were assured, if you come up with characters of your own, you'll be able to own them under this new different deal that forward progressive DC comics is doing now, and I believed this....As Neil Gaiman pointed out to them later when he was saying, look it's a horrible situation you're in with Alan. You know as well as he did that back when he signed that contract, nobody could have predicted that these books would remain in print for that long. "
I don't really plan on seeing V in the movie theaters, as much as I love this cheesecake pic of Natalie, although I'll certainly watch it on DVD. V for Vendetta totally knocked me out when I first read it in Warrior Magazine. I hadn't seen anything like that before in comics form--well, I hadn't read anything written like Alan Moore could envision--but it was the most different because it was not a superhero story. When Warrior stopped publishing, I was overjoyed that DC was going to publish the series and we'd get the conclusion to the story. When I was younger, I used to think that films were superior to comics or books. Now I don't. Comics can be superior to films in many ways and I doubt any film could give me the same experience I had reading Watchemen, League, or V. Nuff said.
A director named Chris Palmer reconstructed the Simpsons opening segment using real actors and locations for Sky TV:
Frightening. Paul Giamatti would make a terrific Homer Simpson. Nuff said.
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