The reason I haven't been posting much lately is because writer Bob Tinnell and artist Neil Vokes have finally released the first volume of their original graphic novel series, Flesh and Blood. This is the Hammer-inspired monster rally I've been waiting for, for years, and it's as good as I'd hoped. In writing my review, though, I bogged down in a mini-dissertation on monster-rallies/crossovers/shared-universes/etc., and as soon as I finish that, I'll post it as its own separate post first.
In the meantime, Groovy Age alumnus Holger Haase has his own review up, as well as interviews with both Tinnell and Vokes. Holger obviously is a Hammer fanatic (his blog is called "Hammer and Beyond"); Dan Taylor comes to Flesh and Blood with a cooler and more mixed reaction to the Hammer oeuvre, but still finds plenty to love in this excellent homage.
In other fantastic news, Sean T. Collins has collaborated with some of George R. R. Martin's most trusted and knowledgeable editorial assistants to annotate Game of Thrones for the iPad version. For a preview of the insight he brings to this material, I can't recommend highly enough his instant-classic post, "Playing a Game of Thrones: Why you should read George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series," which evangelizes to those who haven't seen the light, and is amazingly non-spoilery considering how persuasive it is, and how much it repays additional readings even after plowing through the novels. And good news for those of us who don't have iPads--a web-based version is in the works. I can't wait!
Finally, Gene Phillips has an epic multi-part response to my Superheroines Lose post: one, two, three, four, five.
2 comments:
I'm looking forward to anything dealing with monster rallies. For a little while the subject was something I got into blogging about heavily, but I ran out of stuff to say. Your advance praise for the new rally-project intrigues me.
I appreciate your kindness on the ASoIaF post, Curt! That thing has a life of its own.
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