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The Best Way to Start Off The Week? Bacon and Stalking!
61283 days
by kilian
in General Nerdom
I’ll just say that while today is probably not the start of YOUR week, I spent most the yesterday hiding under pillows thanks to an awesome migraine that woke me up at 4 am, so today is the start of my week…
As dedicated Normalinaut Jezmon says, we here at NR have a decidely “Pro-Bacon Agenda.” Or at least I have a decidedly pro-bacon agenda, and since I’m the defacto voice of Normality Restored, by default all of NR is pro-bacon. I’ve made inquiries into starting the “Bacon-Freedom Party.” It seems rather natural, I think, to have an official snack food and, behold we now have one!
San Diego Comic Con – Preparations
131296 days
by kilian
in Comics (NR)
It is true. I didn’t buy tickets this year. I had planned on attending Saturday, one of the two days that our very own Gilgrim would be signing, but left it too long and, alas, that day was sold out by the time I got around to it.
I’m going to make a sad admission…I’ve never been to the San Diego Comic Convention. Every year, it seems, I make plans (or tentative plans) to attend at least one day, and every year I don’t go.
I really have no clue what my problem is.
That’s fantasy done right people!
41528 days
by kilian
in General Nerdom
Re-imaginings are nothing new, especially in the world of Sci-fi and Fantasy…a world in which I toil most happily. Case in point, the last book I attempted to read for pleasure was one such re-imagining…
And if one were to grade a re-imagining solely on, say, inventiveness the The Looking Glass Wars would definitely deserve an A. I tend to judge books on actual writing ability, though, and this one probably rates a C- where that’s concerned. The idea is great, and I was very spirited in my reading for 100 pages or so…at a certain point, regardless of how much I wanted to ignore it, the plain fact that the book is not written well just became too much of a hurdle, and I put it down about 2/3 of the way in. Thanks to work, school, the kid, the website, and my own attempts to scratch out what fiction I may, my time for reading is limited and I just can’t devote energy to something that isn’t enthralling. I’ll likely finish it at some point, since I’ve never left a book unfinished indefinitely, but that time is not now.
Besides which, there is a wholly amazing re-imagining taking place right now on the Sci-fi channel, Tin Man.
While the special effects aren’t quite what I’d like…granted, it is a Sci-fi original, I understand that the budget probably wasn’t great…the writing is very good. I think for a re-imagining to be successful, it needs both a fresh take on the original content, and the writer (or writer’s) needs to be committed to actually creating something wholly new. In this way, the source material becomes a framework on which the actual (new) story is constructed. Broadly speaking, this is how Shakespeare worked.
And I think that Tin Man is a very good representation of this. By the end of the first episode, we had already seen nearly all of the “source” material used up and evolved, and the series was moving into its own creative territory. Plus the line by line writing is very, very good. This, in my mind, is the ultimate lynch pin. It is where The Looking Glass Wars fell short, in fact. All the imagination in the world cannot save a writer who is unable to construct a compelling sentence.
And it doesn’t hurt Tin Man that both Zooey Deschanel and Kathleen Robertson play the heroine and villain respectively…
There’s a couple of women that would definitely be on my stalking list if I still did that sort of thing…which I totally DO NOT…seriously, I’m completely cured…
Night Stalker
31615 days
by Aleister Gilgrim
in Comics (NR)
Ok, so I finally got this one done, and like last time, the pencils and the script and all of that was done earlier this week… unfortunately, it took a while to finish inking, and colouring it. So I hope you like it still, even if it is coming in late today.
At any rate, this here is another fine example of Kilian’s writing prowess, please enjoy ^__^
(as always, put yourfinger on the trigger
and get the image looking bigger!)
As for me, I’ve just wrapped this up, and spent far too much time today trying to sort out the wacky internet bugs for the Trickster Online webcomic… which sucked. A lot. I mean, a lot, a lot. So now, I’m going to go to sleep… thanks for checking out Normality Restored, and make sure to keep checking back as we get closer and closer to the “official launch” of the Normality Restored website next month.
Peace!
–Aleister
