COMICS: If Pushing Daisies is cancelled it may go straight to comics. I’m conflicted with this. Yes, I think its great that people who are into the show can now go to comics to see the story finished (like Buffy and Angel), but I also see the point where its unfair treatment of the medium as Heidi’s pull-quote suggests that these creators with failed TV Shows can just fall back on comics and then turn around and run back to NBC or whomever when their next idea springs up. The whole thing just rings both nice and disengenious, its as if Fuller is saying, “I’m just going to run over here and work out the last of my creative bones on this story and then go back to TV so K, THX and BYE comics for playing.” Also? “The Loeb Factor,” ooof, that’s a low-blow.
I kind of feel bad though, I really like the show, I think its the most original TV show out now. But I haven’t been watching it since I have grad school on Wednesday night, and miss the show in its entirety in my commute back from Brooklyn. I guess its time to dive into the DVR pool. Its way overdue, I think.
COMICS [AGAIN?!]: John Rogers reacts to the cancellation of Blue Beetle. Sad, I always loved this book, it was one of those books that made teenager comics fun again. I guess Robin was supposed to fill this purpose but that thing has been written like shit since the very beginning. Not the case with this book, it was a different setting, a different cultural group, and for me was like Invincible for DC Comics when it desperately needed a book like that. Following that, I think Booster Gold took up that mantle and ran with it too as a pure fun good old fashioned super-hero comic book (there aren’t enough of these).
COMICS [TAKE 28!]: Tonight, is the good Queen of the Comics Blogosphere, Heidi MacDonald’s birthday. Yes, drunken twittering will probably be taking place at all those in attendance to celebrate. Everyone pay tribute.
Okay, now for something else: Mystery Science Theatre 3000 celebrated twenty years last week with a DVD release. I have such fond memories of MST3K from my childhood this made me jump with joy. My brother and I, when I was twelve and he was six, having just moved to CT and honestly being bored with life in general there (this trend would continue, at least for me, through the ten years we spent there), and MST was one of those things my brother and I shared. We loved it, and would select movies from our personal collection to do some “MSTing,” ourselves. We did such classics as The Creature From The Black Lagoon and Peter Cushing’s movie Doctor Who and the Daleks. It was great fun, and one of my most cherished childhood memories, and I have that show to thank for that.
My Dad had to inform me that my college basketball team won last night in the season opener, and I had no idea they were even playing. This is beginning to make me quite sick. My Dad, who didn’t even go to the college I went to, is a bigger fan of the basketball team than I am. Over the last couple of years, he’s always been the one to tell me whether the Bonnies have won or lost. And every time, I’ve been completely aloof that they were even playing. I attribute my Dad’s passion for the basketball team to the game I brought him to freshman year. The Game of what would start a fairy-tale climb to the Tournament: the Temple game. This was a historic game, that we beat the then (I think), #16 team in the nation, by a three pointer at the buzzer. Over the years, the team got gradually worse. As freshmen, my class was spoiled and by senior year we were wrapped in scandal and not even in contention for anything. So I lost interest, mostly in disappointment of the team. But not my Dad, so this season I resolve to pay more attention.
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November 17, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Are they canceling Pushing Daisies? I think I’m going to cry.