Fan Rants

We are treated to the creators of the hilarious web comic, Cyanide & Happiness today. They were joined on stage by the comedy troupe Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Theater. Including some great laugh out loud cartoons based on their strips and the SMBC live action shorts.

If your sense of humor is off kilter, be sure to check them out!
Cyanide & Happiness: EXPLOSM.NET
SMBCT: SMBC-THEATER.COM

Good news Browncoats! Titan Books will be continuing the Firefly mythos with original stories by the shows writers.

FIREFLY: STILL FLYING [Titan Books, May 2010, $19.95/£16.99] is a brand new celebration of all aspects of the show. Featuring memories from the cast and crew, a tribute to the Browncoats, and even a feature on Nathan Fillion’s legendary practical jokes, Still Flying is illustrated throughout with a wealth of rare and previously unpublished images, including storyboards, production design art and candid behind-the-scenes photos – including an on-set shot of the last ever scene filmed for Firefly.

Available now as a pre-order from Amazon for only $13.46!

Just wanted to share this news from USA Today.

On May 4th Del Ray Books will be releasing a graphic novel version of the popular Pride and Prejudice and Zombies novel. Combine this with the upcoming TV mini-series and you just know the undead are shivering in their half rotten boots!

The comic graphic novel is being adapted by Tony Lee (best known for his recent Dr Who comics) and drawn by Cliff Richards (love his work on Buffy the Vampire Slayer).

As a fan of the Philip Jose Farmer book series Riverworld I am pretty stoked about the upcoming mini-series on Syfy. The four-hour event will be broadcast over two nights, April 18th and 19th and will showcase Tahmoh Penikett (Dollhouse) and Laura Vandervoort (V).

For those not familiar with the Riverworld book series, the story takes place on an Earth like planet where humans are resurected after some catastrophy on Earth. The planet is essentially one long river valley with the river starting at the polar north. Everyone resurected here are all approximately 25 years of age and in perfect health. They also encompass the whole of humanity, so there are people from the 20th century intermingling with people from 2500 BC.

The story line is vast and could easily be spun off into a regular series if Syfy gets good ratings. Here’s hoping they do!

MTV Movie News interviewed Avatar producer Jon Landau and he had a juicy bit of gossip about an Avatar prequel.

According to Jon, the prequel will be written by James Cameron and will answer a lot of questions left unanswered in the film, such as:

“It would be something that would lead up to telling the story of the movie, but it would go into much more depth about all the stories that we didn’t have time to deal with — like the schoolhouse and Sigourney [Weaver's character] teaching at the schoolhouse; Jake on Earth and his backstory and how he came here; [the death of] Tommy, Jake’s brother; and Colonel Quaritch, how he ended up there and all that,” Landau explained.

The novel will be Cameron’s first foray into books. And if it turns out well, it could open the universe for other writers to flesh out later. Expect it by years end.