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Five Things That Made Me Happy This Week
I may delete that last post - it was poorly written. Don't know yet.
Five Things that made me happy this week:
1. Cactus Flower from one of my co-workers - it's a small cactus - basically a green cactus stem with a yellow spiked cactus bulp and several little orange red bulbs dotting it.
2. News that Brian Lynch and Frank Urru will start a new comic series that takes place directly after the events of Angel After the Fall - entitled "Spike". The series is from IDW.
It will star Spike, and have appearances from the other Angel characters including Angel, Gunn, and Illyria. As well as new characters created by Lynch - such as Betta George, Beck, and Tock. And will last a year, possibly longer. The series - according to Lynch - is an examination of all the facets of the Spike character - his role as romantic, bad boy, poet, smart-ass, hero, anti-hero, big brother, little brother, uncle, etc. And the focus will be Spike's journey to discover who he is, and what he wants to be and what he wants his role to be. At some point late in the series - Spike will cross paths with Drusilla as well. Angel will often appear in the series. Lynch sees Angel as Spike's big brother or that's how they look at each other - they care deeply about one another, but would never openly thank each other. The comic will be written like a TV series, with episodes, but an arc. He wants to pass some notes by Whedon, but it is not being overseen by Whedon in any way. Issue 17 of Angel After the Fall - was co-plotted by Whedon, who worked on the outline with Lynch and the character arcs.
Very very happy about this. [Have decided based on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
londonkds review of Angle:Aftermath by Kelley Armstrong - that I may just skip that comic. It's not necessary for the Lynch or Buffy books, and it looks rather dull and uninteresting to me. Also not really a fan of Armstrong.] Another happy bit about Lynch - he's writing a Gunn one-shot, and co-writing a two part Drusilla story with Juliet Landau - who had been following his work on the Spike and Angel books. Apparently Juliet and Joss Whedon are simpatico with me on Lynch's writing and perspective on these characters. YAY!
The bad news is I have to wait until October or November to actually read any issues or see it.
3. BSG - rocked this week. Helps that it featured two of my favorite storylines - Kara Thrace, and Boomer/Galen. Yes, I know, everyone and their puppy dog is ga-ga over the guy who plays Helio and I can certainly see why, but his acting and his characters? Leave me...ambivalent. Pretty, but bland. What can I say? Am character actor girl. I adore Aaron's portrayle of Galen. Amazingly good actor and I find myself sympathizing with his plight. Also he's not pretty or buff - he looks like the guys I work with, he looks like a cheif construction worker. A guy who likes to construct and design houses. And Boomer - unlike Athena, is so complicated. These are two dark, damaged, crazy, kind, people - whose lives would have been completely different if world had not come to an end. I have a theory about who Kara Thrace is, but I'm trying to keep this post spoiler free.
4. Lost - also rocked this week. I wonder how many people on my flist, who are watching, went whoooa. Hee. Wasn't surprised myself - because, I saw the preview and they more or less foreshadowed it with Jin. Can't say much more without spoilers.
5. I solved two problems at work. One of which, had me near to the brink of tears on Tuesday with frustration. But I resolved it on Wed, and am quite proud of myself. Now, just have six problems to go.
Five Things that made me happy this week:
1. Cactus Flower from one of my co-workers - it's a small cactus - basically a green cactus stem with a yellow spiked cactus bulp and several little orange red bulbs dotting it.
2. News that Brian Lynch and Frank Urru will start a new comic series that takes place directly after the events of Angel After the Fall - entitled "Spike". The series is from IDW.
It will star Spike, and have appearances from the other Angel characters including Angel, Gunn, and Illyria. As well as new characters created by Lynch - such as Betta George, Beck, and Tock. And will last a year, possibly longer. The series - according to Lynch - is an examination of all the facets of the Spike character - his role as romantic, bad boy, poet, smart-ass, hero, anti-hero, big brother, little brother, uncle, etc. And the focus will be Spike's journey to discover who he is, and what he wants to be and what he wants his role to be. At some point late in the series - Spike will cross paths with Drusilla as well. Angel will often appear in the series. Lynch sees Angel as Spike's big brother or that's how they look at each other - they care deeply about one another, but would never openly thank each other. The comic will be written like a TV series, with episodes, but an arc. He wants to pass some notes by Whedon, but it is not being overseen by Whedon in any way. Issue 17 of Angel After the Fall - was co-plotted by Whedon, who worked on the outline with Lynch and the character arcs.
Very very happy about this. [Have decided based on
londonkds review of Angle:Aftermath by Kelley Armstrong - that I may just skip that comic. It's not necessary for the Lynch or Buffy books, and it looks rather dull and uninteresting to me. Also not really a fan of Armstrong.] Another happy bit about Lynch - he's writing a Gunn one-shot, and co-writing a two part Drusilla story with Juliet Landau - who had been following his work on the Spike and Angel books. Apparently Juliet and Joss Whedon are simpatico with me on Lynch's writing and perspective on these characters. YAY! The bad news is I have to wait until October or November to actually read any issues or see it.
3. BSG - rocked this week. Helps that it featured two of my favorite storylines - Kara Thrace, and Boomer/Galen. Yes, I know, everyone and their puppy dog is ga-ga over the guy who plays Helio and I can certainly see why, but his acting and his characters? Leave me...ambivalent. Pretty, but bland. What can I say? Am character actor girl. I adore Aaron's portrayle of Galen. Amazingly good actor and I find myself sympathizing with his plight. Also he's not pretty or buff - he looks like the guys I work with, he looks like a cheif construction worker. A guy who likes to construct and design houses. And Boomer - unlike Athena, is so complicated. These are two dark, damaged, crazy, kind, people - whose lives would have been completely different if world had not come to an end. I have a theory about who Kara Thrace is, but I'm trying to keep this post spoiler free.
4. Lost - also rocked this week. I wonder how many people on my flist, who are watching, went whoooa. Hee. Wasn't surprised myself - because, I saw the preview and they more or less foreshadowed it with Jin. Can't say much more without spoilers.
5. I solved two problems at work. One of which, had me near to the brink of tears on Tuesday with frustration. But I resolved it on Wed, and am quite proud of myself. Now, just have six problems to go.
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(and I love Betta George, I want more Betta George!)
and I'm looking forward to seeing what he does w/Gunn and the Drusilla collaboration w/Juliet.
I'm not sure I'll going to continue w/the Angel stuff, it isn't even based on a Joss outline (from what I understand)... but I'll read it for a while to see what happens. My local comic book store has been really good about getting all these books (he used to carry mostly Marvel, and now he has expanded to a lot more publishers because of fans like me). So I like to buy from him.