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Sunday, June 15, 2008
For what it's worth, a knee-jerk response
When I see car manufacturer's crow about their latest design breakthroughs all I can think is this: "why don't you stop concentrating on coming up with new ways to making people envious of each other and start creating vehicles that aren't dependent on an ever-decreasing supply of dinosaur bones, before we becomes the next extinct species."
The world's going to Hell in a ham sandwich but in your last moments, while you're starving due to the fact that nothing can grow anymore you'll notice how awesome it is that your house has all these gadgets that make you look so sci-fi. All it took was sapping more and more energy into your puny, putrid little life. Fuck, I hate everything.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Congratulations are in order
Congrats to Graeme for going full time over at io9. All the joy of editing is in his hands. I'm sure he'll do a good job. I hope he'll still have time to contribute reviews to Savage Critics, too. As Graeme and I both know now, if you waste enough time on the Internet soon enough someone will pay you. Keep reaching for the stars kids!
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Sunday, June 08, 2008
Droids
I've been reading Alan Moore's Future Shocks from old issues of 2000AD. At BOOM! I can pitch the odd Zombie Tale story (I suppose Cthulhu Tales as well but I've never read any Lovecraft stuff in my life). I figure if I'm going to need to know how to do a good five to eight page story I might as learn from one of the greats, right?
When I was first discovering Watchmen, Swamp Thing and From Hell I looked at Moore's work with this mix of wonder and frustration. I was perplexed with how he could come up with so many great ideas. I felt the same about Grant Morrison. Reading their stories I figured I could come up with one really clever idea inside a year, whereas Moore and Morrison could come up with 730 crazy new concepts in the same time frame. How did this happen?
Reading Moore's earliest stuff I think I know. For Future Shocks he was basically being asked to come up with a whole new sci-fi creation roughly every week. He was building his career and supporting his family this way. A person's imagination can grow by leaps and bounds when there's a paycheck dangling at the end.
The younger me saw Moore and Morrison as something like Mike Baron and Steve Rude's Nexus. I thought the creative process meant one would slumber and let the unconscious take over, only to awake with a shiny new idea ready to unleash upon the world. Now I know things aren't quite that enigmatic. Delving into the deeper parts of the brain is an important part of the job. But instead of being these Shaolin Monks of creativity in reality things were probably much more domestic. In their early days ol' Alan and Grant were probably staring at their typewriters thinking "fuck, the rent's overdue and I need to come up with something the jaded British comic book fan has never seen before and fast!" That's the spark of wonderment right there.
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Sunday, June 01, 2008
Expo'd
No yeah, Heidi's right. I apparently ate sushi not even a foot away from an Olsen twin. I had to have it pointed out to me but what can I say: you take a friend from New York to an L.A. restaurant and it's rude not have a celebrity sighting.
I was only at BEA proper for a few hours, choosing to spend most of the day resting up after a busy week of Warhammering. With the exception of seeing Matt get a book signed by Vincent Bugliosi I only saw the comic book party of BEA. It was pretty sizable, too. It reminded me a bit of WonderCon in fact. Big, but not the San Diego megafuck. I hope BOOM! did some good business. Who knows, maybe someone who visited the The Black Library booth later saw our booth and picked up Forge of War or Damnation Crusade.
I got a lot of congrats on being a "blogger made good." It's very flattering. I told people that hopping over to the other side completely changes your view on the industry. I look back at criticisms I wrote earlier and am astounded at my presumptions and ignorance. That's good news for you, dear readers. This blog is way less ignorant and way more jaded!
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