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I’m with you. The animation style is flat, with no highlights or shadows, and the character designs are squishy, like the characters don’t have skeletons. Adventure Time is probably the best (worst?) example of that.

The New Captain Scarlet isn’t bad, but it doesn’t measure up to the old series. The new rules against violence in kids’ shows leaves it feeling a bit watered-down.

Yeah, I like Thunderbirds Are Go, too. The stories are a bit thin at 22 minutes, but the designs and effects are great.

No, it was bad. The decision to side-line all the Tracy family except for Alan for 90% of the movie was a terrible one. There was no need at all for a prequel story; you can get the audience up-to-speed in about 30 seconds with an intro-rescue and then have a mega-rescue with a Hood sub-plot for the rest of the movie.

I think he’s a competent TV director, but a fair to poor movie director. His nadir was probably the live-action Thunderbirds, which I will always hold a grudge against.

Pretty much. These days it’s all about self-promotion over substance.

What’s wrong with Archangel? Aside from the slipping publishing schedule. It seems like a pretty cool time-travel story to me.

This whole thing sounds like a SciFi version of Tropic Thunder.

The original story is awesome, though. I first read it in either Analog or Asimov’s and I was blown away. I was seriously disappointed when it turned out the movie sucked.

He and Dave Thomas are doing a charity benefit in Toronto next month. A lot a famous Canadian comics are on the bill, with most of SCTV in attendance.

There’s this, from Ridley Scott’s Legend:

How about “over-hyped self-promoter”?

Why is Launchpad flying Baloo’s plane from Talespin?

I dunno. I read The City of Shifting Waters and found it kinda bleh. It meandered all over the place and in end the bad guy kinda won, but ended up hoist on his own petard. I hope the movie is better.

I really wanna see the Howard the Duck Venom.

The grip and trigger are completely wrong for a Colt, I’m thinking a Sig-Sauer.

And it looked pretty damn cool, despite the absurdity.

Well, The Spy Who Loved Me was a note for note re-make of You Only Live Twice, so we’re really going down the rabbit hole here.

So, Ewan McGregor was 34 in that photo (from Revenge of the Sith) while Sir Alec Guinness was 63 when he made Star Wars. That’s a 29 year gap, but only about 17 years should have passed between Sith and A New Hope. Oops.