* Tom Spurgeon ends his holiday interview series with a bang: Bill Kartalopolous on Kramers Ergot 4. I find the way he situates the book in terms of previous publishing efforts by Jordan Crane and Tom Devlin really welcome, since that’s the environment in which I was approaching the book at the time. It’s also worth comparing his experience with Kramers and Blankets at MoCCA 2003 to mine.
* And with that, the holiday interview series draws to a close. Thanks, Tom, I know I’m biased since I was involved, but I enjoyed it as much as any online comics writing I’ve come across in a long time. Here’s a wrap-up/round-up/highlight reel.
* Today on Robot 6: Lots and lots of little announcements regarding Brightest Day, DC’s post-Blackest Night event/series/brand. The most interesting to me is the biweekly series of the same name by Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi.
* Related: a very nerdy Geoff Johns Q&A. (Is there any other kind?)
* Also related: Curt Purcell on stories vs. events.
* Back on Robot 6: read Dan Hipp’s cool-looking series Gyakushu! online for free, and John Malkovich is the Vulture. (Except that, uh, the whole thing has been scrapped–good, maybe we can get a good Spider-Man movie now.)
* I fully support 3D re-releases of the Star Wars and Lord of the Rings movies. But is it really true that “Experts now predict that 3-D will become the new multiplex standard within five years” in “as dramatic a shift as when the ‘talkies’ killed off silent movies in the early 20th century”? Also, do you really need to grant anonymity to a source when all they’re saying is that George Lucas is excited to tinker with his old movies using new technology? Oh well.
* Matt Maxwell continues mulling over horror, science fiction, and issues of story scale. He’s also posted all of his “Conversation Fear” columns from the late, lamented Dark But Shining horror blog.
I heard Lucas say that he had already done a test showing of a 3D Episode IV at a distributor’s show or something like that, on NPR of all places (he apparently wrote a book about something or other), so it’s hardly a secret. He said it with his own mouth!
A friend of mine who runs his own audio post production company saw some footage of 3D Star Wars a few weeks ago. It is hardly a secret.
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I read the political blogs complain about the misuse of anonymous sources all the time. Finally I understand!