Editor Randy Stradley and artist Jan Duursema speak about the upcoming Legacy comic on Newsarama. Some of the comments are culled from the TFN and Dark Horse boards, but even I gave up on the TFN thread after about 10 pages.
The New Essential Guide to Alien Species
Well, the cat is out of the bag… The New Essential Guide to Alien Species is coming out later this year, and our own Helen Keier is one of the authors. Let’s raise a frothy blue cocktail to her!
Sadly, TFN is more interested in who’s doing the cover than noticing that one of their former staffers is getting her first book.
You’ve got the droids I’m looking for
Star Wars Valentines from Something Awful. Brilliant!
Movie News: Costumes, naked starlets
Costumes from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Also, if you happen to be in or near Los Angeles in the next few months, the Fashion Insitute of Design & Merchandising is displaying costumes from several 2005 releases, including ROTS, Serenity, King Kong, The Corpse Bride, and others. (via The Daily Digest)
Vanity Fair has Scarlett Johansson and Keira Knightley naked on the latest cover. This is the infamous cover shoot that Rachel McAdams walked out of and really… Can you blame her? The creepy (clothed) guy that replaced her is Tom Ford, the issue’s guest editor.
Paradox now controls Robert E. Howard film rights. Come on, is the world really clamoring for more Conan?
Ewan McGregor to star as one of Hitchcock’s leading men in biopic of the director.
Duke and Tara wipe out the competition
In the latest issue of Bantha Tracks, Union is topping the comic Top Ten list, with Tales of the Jedi trailing behind. Not being Dark Horse’s biggest fan (Tales! Tales! Damn my non-voting self!) I blame our very own Paula, who got quoted. Or maybe not. ;)
Not that Union is the worst thing DH has ever done or anything, but… well. Maybe it’s just my knee-jerk reaction to the series’ awful, awful covers. You can pander to the females without making it look like a romance novel folks – it’s okay.
That and more smushy stuff in the latest edition of Bantha Tracks.
Who in the what now?
It’s the Boba. Bobacabana.
Gus Lopez and Pam Green are geekier than you, and they have the house to prove it. (via SF Signal)
An Apology
Sorry for the spotty blogging over the last few days. The Super Bowl was in Detroit and it took me hostage against my will.
But hey, at least there were zombies.
Agathidium vaderi
Do they have fannish Darwin Awards?
A Staten Island school bus driver organized a Star Wars fight club among the kids on his bus (The Death Cheese.) He called himself ‘The Emperor’ and gave the winning kids names (titles?) like Darth, Sith Warrior and Jabba. Because nothing says Star Wars like kids beating each other up on the bus. (via Gawker)