Would I Lie To You?
2x01 (11/7/08 edition)
Friday, 11 July 2008
Articles
The Timeline of a Time Lord: Tony Lee Talks Doctor Who by Remy Minnick
(from Comic Book Resources)
Article about the forthcoming US Doctor Who comic miniseries, The Forgotten, which sounds very interesting indeed.
Covers for Doctor Who: The Forgotten #1, #2 & #3
(click to enlarge)
(from Comic Book Resources)
Article about the forthcoming US Doctor Who comic miniseries, The Forgotten, which sounds very interesting indeed.
Covers for Doctor Who: The Forgotten #1, #2 & #3
(click to enlarge)
Thursday, 10 July 2008
TV
Gilmore Girls
4x19 Afterboom
Lab Rats
1x01 A Snail
Mock the Week
6x01 (10/7/08 edition)
Spooks
5x04 World Trade
4x19 Afterboom
Lab Rats
1x01 A Snail
Mock the Week
6x01 (10/7/08 edition)
Spooks
5x04 World Trade
Wednesday, 9 July 2008
TV
Doctor Who [classic]
20x23 The Five Doctors [anniversary special]
See here for my thoughts on this story.
Gilmore Girls
4x18 Tick, Tick, Tick, Boom!
Top Gear
11x03 (6/7/08 edition)
20x23 The Five Doctors [anniversary special]
See here for my thoughts on this story.
Gilmore Girls
4x18 Tick, Tick, Tick, Boom!
Top Gear
11x03 (6/7/08 edition)
Graduation
I graduated from university today. This is my first degree, a BA in English With Film Studies. (Next academic year I'll be doing an MA in Creative Writing.)
Not necessarily the most exciting thing for independent readers, but a piece of my cultural experience nonetheless.
Not necessarily the most exciting thing for independent readers, but a piece of my cultural experience nonetheless.
Tuesday, 8 July 2008
TV
Babylon 5
1x20 Babylon Squared
Gilmore Girls
4x17 Girls in Bikinis, Boys Doin' the Twist (aka Gilmore Girls Gone Wild)
Shark
2x16 Wayne's World 3: Killer Shark [series finale]
Spooks
5x03 The Cell
1x20 Babylon Squared
Gilmore Girls
4x17 Girls in Bikinis, Boys Doin' the Twist (aka Gilmore Girls Gone Wild)
Shark
2x16 Wayne's World 3: Killer Shark [series finale]
Spooks
5x03 The Cell
Monday, 7 July 2008
TV
The Graham Norton Show
3x12 (3/7/08 edition) [season finale]
Heroes
2x11 Powerless [season finale]
Everyone involved seems to think the 'Big Twist' at the end of Volume Two was a total shocker (based on what they had to say in Heroes Unmasked), but, really, that's just about the most predictable thing that can happen to someone giving a big tell-all speech. A bit of a rocky season, though nowhere near as poor as some claim; but let's hope they can still up the ante next year.
Heroes Unmasked
2x10 From Heroes to Villains [season finale]
See above.
Mine All Mine
Part 6 (of 6) [2nd watch]
Utterly, utterly barmy... and brilliant because of it! And oh-so very Welsh too. Such a shame it flopped.
Shark
2x13 Bar Fight
2x14 Leaving Las Vegas
2x15 One Hit Wonder
Spaced
1x07 Ends [season finale]
3x12 (3/7/08 edition) [season finale]
Heroes
2x11 Powerless [season finale]
Everyone involved seems to think the 'Big Twist' at the end of Volume Two was a total shocker (based on what they had to say in Heroes Unmasked), but, really, that's just about the most predictable thing that can happen to someone giving a big tell-all speech. A bit of a rocky season, though nowhere near as poor as some claim; but let's hope they can still up the ante next year.
Heroes Unmasked
2x10 From Heroes to Villains [season finale]
See above.
Mine All Mine
Part 6 (of 6) [2nd watch]
Utterly, utterly barmy... and brilliant because of it! And oh-so very Welsh too. Such a shame it flopped.
Shark
2x13 Bar Fight
2x14 Leaving Las Vegas
2x15 One Hit Wonder
Spaced
1x07 Ends [season finale]
Fiction
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
Book One
As with Watchmen and Batman: Year One, one of the seminal late-'80s tales that helped shaped the way mainstream comics still are today.
Book One
As with Watchmen and Batman: Year One, one of the seminal late-'80s tales that helped shaped the way mainstream comics still are today.
Sunday, 6 July 2008
TV
8 Out of 10 Cats
6x03 (27/6/08 edition)
Babylon 5
1x18 A Voice in the Wilderness Part I
1x19 A Voice in the Wilderness Part II
Spaced
1x06 Epiphanies
Spooks
5x02 Gas and Oil Part 2
While a lot of this story pushes believability to the limit, the 'emergency measures' plot strand scenes of police attacking protestors are all too believable.
Wimbledon 2008
The longest -- and surely most tense -- men's singles final in Wimbledon history, Federer vs Nadal (for the third time) ended with the Spaniard winning. In the process he's put a stop to both Federer's near-record-breaking run of consecutive Wimbledon wins, and halted his near-five-year run of unbeaten matches on grass. Who'd've thought Federer would end up looking like the underdog too?!
6x03 (27/6/08 edition)
Babylon 5
1x18 A Voice in the Wilderness Part I
1x19 A Voice in the Wilderness Part II
Spaced
1x06 Epiphanies
Spooks
5x02 Gas and Oil Part 2
While a lot of this story pushes believability to the limit, the 'emergency measures' plot strand scenes of police attacking protestors are all too believable.
Wimbledon 2008
The longest -- and surely most tense -- men's singles final in Wimbledon history, Federer vs Nadal (for the third time) ended with the Spaniard winning. In the process he's put a stop to both Federer's near-record-breaking run of consecutive Wimbledon wins, and halted his near-five-year run of unbeaten matches on grass. Who'd've thought Federer would end up looking like the underdog too?!
Fiction
Batman: Year One by Frank Miller & David Mazzucchelli
Chapters One - Four [the end]
See here for some of my thoughts on this book.
Batman: The Man Who Laughs by Ed Brubaker & Doug Mahnke
Like the film it inspired, Batman: Year One ends with newly-promoted Captain Jim Gordon informing Batman about a rising threat: the Joker. As The Dark Knight will do on film, The Man Who Laughs follows directly from this moment... Written very recently (2005), The Man Who Laughs mixes elements of Year One, the Joker's origin from The Killing Joke, and Batman's original first battle with him (in 1940's Batman #1), to retell the story of the Batman's first encounter with his nemesis. It's part of a new wave of creators retelling early Batman stories: 2005/6's Batman and the Monster Men is set during Year One and tells of Batman's first encounter with Dr Hugo Strange, while 2006/7's Batman and the Mad Monk retells another tale from Batman's first few appearances in Detective Comics, and leads directly into The Man Who Laughs (all three of these stories are collected in The Batman Chronicles Volume 1).
Batman: Made of Wood by Ed Brubaker & Patrick Zircher
(from the Batman: The Man Who Laughs hardcover)
Only tenuously linked with The Man Who Laughs: same writer and major involvement for (a retired) Gordon. In some ways it mirrors the construction of Man Who Laughs (which in turn mirrors Year One), with Gordon and Batman pursuing different lines of inquiry, narrated in journal-style text boxes. The story itself concerns a series of murders from the '40s, when Green Lantern patrolled Gotham. Consequently it's a bit of a team-up tale, a genre I don't care for on the whole, especially when it's someone with silly superpowers intruding on Batman's superpower-free world. On the plus side, the last page gives some nice extra meaning / modified perspective on what went before.
Not that this really matters to anyone, but... normally I keep what I've read/watched to alphabetical order, but have here stuck to the order I read them because my comments flow that way.
Chapters One - Four [the end]
See here for some of my thoughts on this book.
Batman: The Man Who Laughs by Ed Brubaker & Doug Mahnke
Like the film it inspired, Batman: Year One ends with newly-promoted Captain Jim Gordon informing Batman about a rising threat: the Joker. As The Dark Knight will do on film, The Man Who Laughs follows directly from this moment... Written very recently (2005), The Man Who Laughs mixes elements of Year One, the Joker's origin from The Killing Joke, and Batman's original first battle with him (in 1940's Batman #1), to retell the story of the Batman's first encounter with his nemesis. It's part of a new wave of creators retelling early Batman stories: 2005/6's Batman and the Monster Men is set during Year One and tells of Batman's first encounter with Dr Hugo Strange, while 2006/7's Batman and the Mad Monk retells another tale from Batman's first few appearances in Detective Comics, and leads directly into The Man Who Laughs (all three of these stories are collected in The Batman Chronicles Volume 1).
Batman: Made of Wood by Ed Brubaker & Patrick Zircher
(from the Batman: The Man Who Laughs hardcover)
Only tenuously linked with The Man Who Laughs: same writer and major involvement for (a retired) Gordon. In some ways it mirrors the construction of Man Who Laughs (which in turn mirrors Year One), with Gordon and Batman pursuing different lines of inquiry, narrated in journal-style text boxes. The story itself concerns a series of murders from the '40s, when Green Lantern patrolled Gotham. Consequently it's a bit of a team-up tale, a genre I don't care for on the whole, especially when it's someone with silly superpowers intruding on Batman's superpower-free world. On the plus side, the last page gives some nice extra meaning / modified perspective on what went before.
Not that this really matters to anyone, but... normally I keep what I've read/watched to alphabetical order, but have here stuck to the order I read them because my comments flow that way.
"Batman: Year One" by Frank Miller & David Mazzucchelli
Batman: Year One is one of the key late '80s tales (like Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns) that are credited with re-defining the comics medium. It's as much Jim Gordon's story as Batman's, succinctly showing how Batman's emergence began to change things in a corrupt, ruined Gotham. It's clear that a lot of this formed the basis to Batman Begins, though I'd argue the film's embellishments improve on this version.
The most recent edition also includes a page from an L.A. Confidential-style gossip rag, 'The Crime Blotter'; an introduction by Denny O'Neill (written in 1988); an interesting illustrated afterword by David Mazzucchelli ; a selection of script pages and corresponding layouts; a gallery of sketches and covers (including more roughs); to-scale reproductions of original art and newspaper-print pages; and, finally, another afterword, by Frank Miller.
These extras represent 40 pages, much of it very interesting. Especially intriguing were Mazzucchelli's early '80s submission pencils, which show a detailed realistic style, which was largely abandoned for a scratchy, sketchier style through Year One.
The most recent edition also includes a page from an L.A. Confidential-style gossip rag, 'The Crime Blotter'; an introduction by Denny O'Neill (written in 1988); an interesting illustrated afterword by David Mazzucchelli ; a selection of script pages and corresponding layouts; a gallery of sketches and covers (including more roughs); to-scale reproductions of original art and newspaper-print pages; and, finally, another afterword, by Frank Miller.
These extras represent 40 pages, much of it very interesting. Especially intriguing were Mazzucchelli's early '80s submission pencils, which show a detailed realistic style, which was largely abandoned for a scratchy, sketchier style through Year One.
Saturday, 5 July 2008
TV
Babylon 5
1x17 Legacies
Doctor Who [classic]
The TV Movie (aka The Enemy Within) [4th watch]
See here for my thoughts on this story.
Doctor Who [new]
4x13 Journey's End [season finale]
See here for my thoughts on this story. [coming soon]
Shark
2x12 Partners in Crime
Wimbledon 2008
A fair bit of 14-year-old Brit Laura Robson beating Noppawan Lertcheewakarn to the girls' singles title. Hurray for the British! Also, the Incredible Hulk had two matches. I didn't watch either.
Near the end of Wimbledon they had a bank of four trailers... all for Olympics-related programmes. Dear God, it's going to be a bad summer. At least the football's over.
1x17 Legacies
Doctor Who [classic]
The TV Movie (aka The Enemy Within) [4th watch]
See here for my thoughts on this story.
Doctor Who [new]
4x13 Journey's End [season finale]
See here for my thoughts on this story. [coming soon]
Shark
2x12 Partners in Crime
Wimbledon 2008
A fair bit of 14-year-old Brit Laura Robson beating Noppawan Lertcheewakarn to the girls' singles title. Hurray for the British! Also, the Incredible Hulk had two matches. I didn't watch either.
Near the end of Wimbledon they had a bank of four trailers... all for Olympics-related programmes. Dear God, it's going to be a bad summer. At least the football's over.
Fiction
24: Based On the Hit TV Series by J.C. Vaughn, Mark L. Haynes, Renato Guedes & Manny Clark
Collection of the first three 24 one-shot comics, including One Shot, Midnight Sun and Stories. See here for my thoughts on all three.
Dan Dare (Collector's Edition / Oversized UK Edition) by Garth Ennis & Gary Erskine
Chapters 1 - 3 [the end]
See here for my thoughts on this book.
Collection of the first three 24 one-shot comics, including One Shot, Midnight Sun and Stories. See here for my thoughts on all three.
Dan Dare (Collector's Edition / Oversized UK Edition) by Garth Ennis & Gary Erskine
Chapters 1 - 3 [the end]
See here for my thoughts on this book.
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