More Metroplex PBO purchases.
The only one of the original Wild Cards PBOs I lack now is Wild Cards VIII: One-Eyed Jacks. I have the rest (including the three Bean PBOs), the first three of which are signed by most of the contributors. I also have the one iBooks title and most of the Tor hardbacks, as well as the first five SFBC hardbacks of the first series.
The trailer for Marvel’s The Eternals dropped:
It’s so lackluster I have to use a meme from the competing DC universe:
There’s nothing there that grabbed me. And I’m a guy who’s seen almost all of the MCU films.
The Critical Drinker has thoughts that largely mirror my own, albeit with more drinking and profanity:
At least it has a name now…
I was watching this and thinking “Another nice parody, Mr Reynolds!”
Then I found out it was real…
Let’s use the obvious meme:
Every year Hollywood seems to churn out more formulaic crap we didn’t ask for, but this year the remakes and reboots seem worse than normal.
Things we actually asked for:
Things we never asked for:
Very silly and very Not Safe For Work (which the word “Deadpool” should imply anyway).
Neal Barrett, Jr. was another writer I knew, and for whom I have almost all his published fiction except for the media tie-in works. So here’s one I picked up from the Fred Duarte estate:
Barrett, Neal, Jr. Spider-Man: Lizard’s Rage. Pocket Books, 1997. First edition paperback original, a Fine- copy with traces of edge wear, slight age darkening to pages and slight foxing to inside covers. Inscribed by Barrett: “For Fred/All the/best/Neal Barrett, Jr.”
In 2001, Fox premiered the live-action version of The Tick. I thought they did a pretty credible effort capturing the comic book’s goofy, off-kilter charm, despite an incredibly modest budget for a live action network show (they couldn’t even hire someone who looked like Jimmy Carter for the pilot).
So naturally, it being on Fox, they cancelled it after nine episodes
Now comes word that Amazon is resurrecting the show with Patrick Warburton back in the title role.
If it gets picked up, I may have to finally break down and subscribe to Amazon Prime…
(Hat tip: Bill Crider on Facebook.)
And now I pretty much have to see Deadpool…
“Deadpool: The movie that touches you in totally inappropriate ways…”
…but you’ll never be “Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark delivering a bionic arm to a seven year old boy” cool…