And I just finished reading the last issue of Silver Surfer 2011, 5 issue comics. As it is often the case with Silver Surfer, it was poetic, painful, sad and pretty impressive. So yes, if you’re a Silver Surfer fan in general, chances are you’re going to enjoy this quite a bit. Oh, and don’t forget to check out the recent 4 issue “Annihilators”. That one’s also pretty cool.
Also on my current reading list: The 2011 “Mighty Thor” mini-series, as well as “The Thanos Imperative” which unfortunately I never got a chance to read before. And yes, you’re not imagining things, there is a pattern here. It’s all story arcs featuring the Silver Surfer. What can I say, I’m obviously a fan. =P
As most of you probably already know, I read a lot of comic books. Specially at times 
that I’m mentally busier than usual, I have a tendency of taking comic breaks in between things that means reading even more comics… Anyway…. Recently I’ve been devouring loads of BuffyVerse comics, mainly related to Angel and the gang, and I’ve officially finished all the [so far published] Angel + spin offs issues.
So then I started looking into other BuffyVerse material and accidentally I came across this 8 issue set by the name “Fray“. Now, I just finished reading the last issue of Fray, and I wish to God there was more! =P
Created by Joss Whedon and set in the BuffyVerse, “Fray” is a mix of sci-fi and slayer stories. In a rather pessimistic view of a future world, when vampires and demons and slayers have long been forgotten, “Melaka Fray” is the fist slayer to be called after so many years. She has no knowledge of the past and no connection to her heritage, and she suddenly finds herself in the middle of a war that she knows nothing about….
It turns out that Fray is actually coming back in the rather recently published Buffy season 8 comics, which I have not read yet. So, I guess that’s where I’m going next! Oh, and if you’re into either comics, sci-fi, Joss Whedon stuff or vampire stories, you should totally check this out! =)
Tonight I watched the very last episode of the TV series Medium, without actually 
knowing that the series has been cancelled and this actually is the series finale. And after finally finding it out… well, I’m not too happy.
Medium was one of my favourite sci-fi series for a long while, and I always felt that felt that it was such a shame, that the series never received the attention and credit it deserved. Perhaps the main reason is that Medium was not out of the box enough for serious sci-fi fans, and not soap-opera enough for the mainstream, resulting in the series being completely underrated.
So the show finally got cancelled which in my opinion was too early and yet not completely unexpected. But after 7 seasons, I must say I was expecting quite a bit more for a finale. I mean I actually liked the plot for the finale quite a lot, and I enjoyed watching it. But I was constantly expecting Allison to wake up from the first layer of the dream, realizing that Joe hadn’t actually gone to the trip yet. And I most certainly did not want this as finale. The series ending with the death of a main character, and with bunch of flash forwards? And they didn’t even make it a 2 hour episode!!
So yes, altogether I’m rather disappointed. Regardless of what genre the series could or could not be categorized under, I always enjoyed it and I think there was still quite a bit more to tell. So I guess now I can only hope that someone with pick up the story line and continue it as comic books, the way Joss Whedon did with Angel comics for instance. I get the feeling Medium could actually make quite an interesting set of comic books…. hmmmmmm…. I guess we’ll see……
OH MY GOD! Really? Seriously? Could that possibly happen? That would be just 
beautiful! =D
Since late last night I’ve been reading here and there around the web about how David Tennant has been approached for a role in the upcoming 2 part Hobbit movies! Apparently so far this is just an offer and no one knows for sure if it’s actually going to happen, but if it does… my oh my! Awesomeness to the max! =D
For anyone who may not be familiar with David Tennant, he is the actor playing the role of the 10th Doctor, in the British sci-fi series Doctor Who. I’m a pretty big fan of Doctor Who in general, and well, the 10th Doctor is most certainly my favourite incarnation of The Doctor so far. 😉 Davit Tennant is an amazing actor, and if he goes on to play a role in The Hobbit, that alone will be a reason for me to see the movie on the opening day.
Another great actor who has been offered a role is Martin Freeman, who recently played the role of John Watson in the British TV series “Sherlock”. Apparently he will be playing the role of Bilbo Baggins.
When I heard that the “The Hobbit” is going into production phase soon, I was very excited. I’ve always said that the Lord of the Rings trilogy movies are an extra simplified version of the books, and that they miss a ton of important facts and side stories and a whole lot of depth in comparison to the books. However, that’s only natural. There’s just no way to put a Tolkien book into a movie exactly as it is, due to the incredible amount of details in his books. With all of that in mind, I believe that the LOTR movies where quite fantastic from many different aspects [well, Duh! ;)], and I’m now very much looking forwards to seeing “The Hobbit”.
You can read more about the possible cast of “The Hobbit” here.
Late last night I watched the latest episode of Stargate Universe, as I didn’t want to wait any longer to find out about the “object” that was coming towards them. I figured things may finally get more interesting.
At the end of the episode I was cursing myself for not having spent that time to watch something that I would have actually enjoyed instead, specially since I have very little time these days…. Don’t get me wrong, the whole “other ship with aliens on board” thing was pretty interesting, but I’m beginning to feel that the series’ main characters are SOOO annoying, that they’re over-shadowing any interesting events in the plot. I’m sorry to say, but not a single one of them seem to be capable of doing anything other than being horribly annoying all the time. As much as it pains me to say, SGU has turned into a soap opera featuring a large group of complete idiots!
Their military leader is a brainless arrogant dictator. Their supposed “brains” guy is an idiotic self centered arrogant b*****d. The entire series is the struggle of these 2, and the rest of the characters are so interesting and important that they could as well cease to exist.
Stargate used to be about a group of people each of whom where important in their own way. Each evolving to something better during the series, while dealing with interesting SCI-FI challenges [not soap opera ones!]. I understand that SGU is supposed to be “different”, but so far this difference has been nothing but a severe failure. And by the way, I’m not the only one to say that. Every serious sci-fi fan that I’ve talked to so far, says the same thing.
If things keep going this way, I will quite possibly stop watching SGU altogether. =(
I guess for anyone who’s into both robots and J.J. Abrams, this is definitely big news.
And it’s not all that new, so I don’t even know how I didn’t know about it already! =P A good friend of mine just sent me the link to an article, about J.J. Abrams latest movie project, called “Boilerplate”.
Supposedly, this movie is based on a graphic novel which is the story of world’s first robot, and his adventures along side some interesting characters and mixing with certain historical events. Here’s the article, check it out!
So now I’m very much looking forwards to seeing the movie. =) I think it will probably turn out to be pretty darn fantastic! Can’t wait… can’t wait…. =D
