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Post by michaelpaciocco on Jan 25, 2010 19:37:59 GMT -8
Joe Helfrich and I are probably the only two people on the Board who love the JMS run on Spider-Man and the PSider-Totem story, by the by. Not true. I liked it...right until it lead to The Other.
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Post by jbhelfrich on Jan 30, 2010 12:42:59 GMT -8
I shall take silence as a sign that I'm not getting another question.
Alex! I see you lurking there in the recent visitors list. Your turn.
1) Best "era" of a major comic book character/franchise. This may or may not be tied to creators, storylines, etc. Basically, when you think "Damn, those were good comics" what are you thinking of?
2) Five greatest cancellation crimes in the history of television. Which shows were killed before their time?
3) Which one of the above do you pick to personally restart? How do you recast, revamp, restart and/or re-imagine the series? If you pick a series that's been very recently canceled, assume that contractual responsibilities require you to replace the major cast members.
4) Which cross company/continuity/universe comic teamup would you love to see? The only criteria is that they can't have teamed up before, and they can't normally share a continuity, regardless of who publishes them. Who's your creative team?
5) Which comic book character is played out and has no practical purpose any more, needs to be killed spectacularly on panel, and then shuffled off to the dustbin?
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Post by michaelpaciocco on Feb 4, 2010 4:50:18 GMT -8
Three days are up JB. You may redirect the questions if you wish.
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Post by jbhelfrich on Feb 4, 2010 22:15:31 GMT -8
*sigh* Yeah, Alex stiffed me. OK, Mario, I don't think you've been hit with one of these. You're up, with one modification: Your answer to #1 cannot involve both Walt Simonson and Thor.
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Post by Mario Di Giacomo on Feb 5, 2010 3:30:50 GMT -8
*erases answer to #1* ;D
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Post by Mario Di Giacomo on Feb 5, 2010 9:10:40 GMT -8
1) Best "era" of a major comic book character/franchise. This may or may not be tied to creators, storylines, etc. Basically, when you think "Damn, those were good comics" what are you thinking of?
Since my first choice was ruled out (geee, thanks) I'll go with my runner-up: Priest's BLACK PANTHER run. Why? Because he took a character from Z-list guest star to major player, without drastically retconning him or degrading other characters to make him look good. His book was funny, exciting, sexy (hellooo Dora Milaje!) and densely plotted. It was one of the few books of that era that kept surprising me, and that isn't an easy task. While the first (and only collected) year was strong, the book really took off when he was joined by Velluto & Almond, who's strong, consistent artwork married well with his plots. There were some missteps along the way, but even the critically-panned "Kasper Cole" arcs had a lot of potential. Priest's take on a dysfunctional Peter Parker cast was hilarious. And if nothing else, he made Man-Ape cool. MAN-APE. 2) Five greatest cancellation crimes in the history of television. Which shows were killed before their time?
I'll stick with genre shows for simplicity: A. Firefly. While I wasn't as huge a fan as many, what episodes I did see showed a lot of promise. The small cast made for focused storytelling, and the world-building was plausible. B. The Dresden Files. After a sluggish start, the show was starting to find it's feet. While not a faithful adaptation of the books (for multiple reasons, some practical), it had a snarky sense of humor that I loved. Naturally, it was canceled for professional wrestling. C. The Middleman. A show for geeks by geeks. Every week, I tuned in to laugh at the humor, and play "spot the injoke" theme. D. Max Headroom. The first cyberpunk TV show, which was never given a real shot. (They put it up against DALLAS, for Ghod's sake.) E. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Yes, the second season sucked. But I've seen a panel with Gil Gerard that states that the show-runner basically drove the show into the ground, and while Gerard had a plan to save the show, it was too late. 3) Which one of the above do you pick to personally restart? How do you recast, revamp, restart and/or re-imagine the series? If you pick a series that's been very recently canceled, assume that contractual responsibilities require you to replace the major cast members.
The aforementioned Buck Rogers show (although, technically, this is already happening). I won't speak on casting, because I stink at that, but I will hire Gerard as producer & showrunner. His ideas (to focus less on space battles, and more on Buck dealing with his new world) have a lot of potential. He especially wanted Buck to deal more with ordinary people, not villains of the week. And I don't mean space atheletes, space musicians, or space beauty pageant contestants. You'd have to convince me to keep Twiki, but Ardala is a lock. 4) Which cross company/continuity/universe comic teamup would you love to see? The only criteria is that they can't have teamed up before, and they can't normally share a continuity, regardless of who publishes them. Who's your creative team?
Fantastic Four/Girl Genius, by Phil & Kaja Foglio. The FF's exploratory mission/family vacation goes drastically awry, thanks to the interference of Doctor Doom. Think of the potential: Reed technobabbling with Agatha. Johnny trying not to drool at Zeetha (while she spars with Sue) Ben being made an honorary Jager. And Victor trying to outplan Klaus Wulfenbach. 5) Which comic book character is played out and has no practical purpose any more, needs to be killed spectacularly on panel, and then shuffled off to the dustbin?Oliver Queen. His biggest strength (his social consciousness) is hardly unique nowadays, and Black Canary is a stronger character without him. Roy has/had more potential as a character, at least until relatively recently. Please let me know if you'd like these answers expanded, as I can only do so much from where I am at the moment.
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Post by Mario Di Giacomo on Feb 10, 2010 3:52:16 GMT -8
I guess it's time for some new questions.
LostPhrack, you are up.
1) Name five canceled TV shows you would like to see made into a "canonical" comic-book continuations (a la Buffy).
2) The CEO of Pixar is at your door with a truckload of cash, and a request to do a CGI picture based on a newly acquired property: Power Pack. How would you do it?
3) What prose (ie novel or novella) genre work would you like to see turned into live action that has never been adapted?
4) What prose work HAS been adapted that you would like to see "done right"?
5) Marvel has asked you to take over Thunderbolts for the new "Heroic Age". What 5 villains do you think could honestly be turned into heroes (not anti-heroes)?
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Post by lostphrack on Feb 10, 2010 15:40:18 GMT -8
Ergh, this is gonna be tough.
Millennium springs immediately to mind. Season four was a bit of a cluster fuck and the X-File episode didn't really wrap things up in a satisfying manner, at least not in my mind.
I think Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight is dead in the water, so a comic series for that would be nice. They seemed to have enough ideas for the first season and a second season, just not the funding to pull half of it off, hence all the clip shows.
Carnivale. Reading the few things that have been put up on line about how it was supposed to play out just makes me want it even more.
Journeyman. In fairness, from the interviews I've read they didn't really have much of an over arching plot and were heavily winging it for the last few episodes due to the writers strike, but this is a series I really want to see more of in one form or another, so why not.
And.. eh.. for a fifth I'll go with Ultraviolet, the British vampire hunter series from the 90s. It might lose some of it's charm, mostly because at the series end there wasn't really any place for it to go besides the typical vampire hunter route, but hey.. might still be kind of interesting.
I.. have no idea. I've never ever read a Power Pack comic in my entire life. Didn't they have a horse person on their team..? And they all had rainbow trails..? I'll do some reading up tonight and try to give you a proper answer in the next few days.
Probably At The Mountains of Madness. I know Del Toro's hoping to eventually do an adaption, but it's still not even in the pre-production stages or anything. Also, I'm almost positive that any movie won't be as enjoyable as the story, but it's just the kind of thing I'd really like to see someone take a stab at, especially if I thought they wouldn't butcher it.
Ehh.. I'm not really sure. I don't mind alterations made during the transition from page to screen, and if the adaption sucks I just kind shrug and say "Wow, that was really bad, why'd they think that was a good idea?" and just go back to enjoying the novel. That said.. uhh.. I wouldn't mind seeing someone take another stab at Congo I guess.. ? The adaption really made the leads a bit more likeable than they were in the novel, and I kind of dug the computer and communications equipment of the mid 80s that movie did away with.
I'll give you a proper answer to 2 and 5 in the next few days. I didn't realize how pre-disposed I was towards anti-heroes until I tried to find villains I could see as heroic heroes.
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Post by jessebaker on Feb 11, 2010 0:05:59 GMT -8
Word on the net is that that Del Toro's got a script already written that is supposedly 100% true to the story but that it's been rejected by all of the major studios, due to the fact that the script omits the cliched love interest plotline and all of the other standard Hollywood cliches. So it's just the matter of hoping his next couple of films do gangbusters at the box office, allowing him the pull to get some studio to greenlight his script.
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Post by lostphrack on Feb 11, 2010 22:34:56 GMT -8
2) The CEO of Pixar is at your door with a truckload of cash, and a request to do a CGI picture based on a newly acquired property: Power Pack. How would you do it? I honestly don't know how to answer this. I read up on Power Pack via wiki but I really don't feel like I know the series well enough to give a proper answer as to how I'd handle it. It sounded like a popular comic aimed a young teens that didn't talk down or insult their intelligence, so I'd like to try and keep that element in the transition. Beyond that though, yeah.. just don't know it well enough to say much else. I'm not sure if she'd count as one of the five given her history, but I'd like to keep Songbird on as the team leader. After her.. Puma was the first character that came to mind. Given how he's had an on again, off again affair with being a hero and had his own fairly strict albeit odd code of honor.. yeah, pop him on the team and push him over the fence into the straight up hero side of things. Shadow Slasher. I have to admit that I found this one on wikipedia, but he sounds like there's very little done with him and his entire motivation and role as a villain is such a classic martial arts thing that I couldn't resist shoving him in here. He's basically a highly skilled martial artist who wants to beat Shang Chi, and any crime he commits is usually aimed at getting him into a fight with Shang Chi. And hey.. he was apparently arrested during Civil War so he's perfectly available for the group. Cardiac. I dunno why, but I always kind of dug his look and his origin. I guess he's not strictly a villain at the moment, actually.. now that I think of most of these characters aren't straight up villains. Hrm... And for my final one.. I'll go with Inferno, from the Exemplars and the 8th Day crossover. They're all on my mind because someone in my comic shop was looking for the crossover. Anyway, she and the rest of the group fled at the end of the crossover and haven't been heard of since, it was right after they were made to realize that they basically tried to end the world, so I like the idea of bringing her back and having her be repentant and all that jazz. She's got fire based powers and since two of the team are basically HTH oriented she seems like a nice lil' boost of power. It's not that great of a group probably, but sadly I couldn't really think of any Marvel villains I'm keen on that would actually make good heroes.
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Post by lostphrack on Feb 11, 2010 22:36:17 GMT -8
Word on the net is that that Del Toro's got a script already written that is supposedly 100% true to the story but that it's been rejected by all of the major studios, due to the fact that the script omits the cliched love interest plotline and all of the other standard Hollywood cliches. So it's just the matter of hoping his next couple of films do gangbusters at the box office, allowing him the pull to get some studio to greenlight his script. I knew he had the whole thing in mind, but I didn't realize he had an actual finished script. I remember reading interviews about how he wants it as a tent pole movie, but that it's hard to sell that to studios with a horror movie that's also a period flick.
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Post by Mario Di Giacomo on Feb 12, 2010 3:20:48 GMT -8
I honestly don't know how to answer this. I read up on Power Pack via wiki but I really don't feel like I know the series well enough to give a proper answer as to how I'd handle it. It sounded like a popular comic aimed a young teens that didn't talk down or insult their intelligence, so I'd like to try and keep that element in the transition. Beyond that though, yeah.. just don't know it well enough to say much else. No worries. You can ask your five to whomever, whenever.
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Post by lostphrack on Feb 12, 2010 14:21:44 GMT -8
Hmm... Johann Chua! You're still kicking about, at least you were earlier today.
1. DC or Marvel contacts you and gives you free reign to reboot a title as you see fit with two conditions. The writer has to be from the US comics industry, and the artist has to be a manga-ka. So, what title, what writer and what artist?
2. Sticking with the manga thread because I'm unoriginal.. what would make a nifty American comics/manga crossover? Ie. Superman/DBZ that kind of thing.
3. You read a lot, what was your favorite book from last year and what was it about?
4. Pick a canned TV show and reboot, ala. BSG. It can be any show, any genre, any style of reboot.
5. What was most overrated movie of the decade?
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Post by Johann Chua on Feb 13, 2010 5:22:01 GMT -8
Hmm... Johann Chua! You're still kicking about, at least you were earlier today. 1. DC or Marvel contacts you and gives you free reign to reboot a title as you see fit with two conditions. The writer has to be from the US comics industry, and the artist has to be a manga-ka. So, what title, what writer and what artist? Birds of Prey, Greg Rucka, Satoshi Urushihara. Mostly to feed my taste in yuri, but I think it would work pretty well. Iron Man/Full Metal Panic! Arm Slaves vs. powered armor ought to be fun, not to mention throwing Tony Stark into the "Whispered" conspiracies. Anathem by Neal Stephenson. At first it seemed like a homage to A Canticle for Leibowitz, with cloistered scientists preserving the world's knowledge in between atomic wars, but then we get aliens communicating with mathematical theorems.... Don't want to spoil too much for those who haven't read it yet. The word games with Orth (Latin/Greek base) were fun and gave me something to do whole the plot unfolded (the book's a 1000 pager). Max Headroom. It's no longer 20 minutes into the future because we may not live that long. At least that's the impression you'd get with modern information overload. Edison Carter as news junkie/detective. Hardly any of the few movies I bother to watch are anywhere near overrated. Closest would probably be WALL-E. Loved it but haven't bothered rewatching on TV (other than quick glimpses) or DVD it since I saw it in theater.
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Post by michaelpaciocco on Feb 23, 2010 10:46:36 GMT -8
Johann, it's your turn to ask someone else 5 questions.
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