You know Charlie Jane, i've only just gotten my R2-D2 t-shirt and then you go an post this. *sigh* I'm gonna have to freeze my credit card or start sending you the bills.
I still own and cherish my copy of "20th Century Foss," the artbook put out by Dragon's Dream Publishers, which also put out beautiful and glossy books by Roger Dean, Syd Mead, and many others, back in the mid-70s and thereafter. (Time for a Dragon's Dream retrospective article / gallery, mayhap...?)
Yay, Jodo! Factoid: the new Metabarons GN has a lengthy sequence by AWOL WildC.A.T.S penciller Travis Charest, which is beyond awesome. The two of them on one book hugely rule.
Many of Jodorowsky's ideas for Dune were folded into his comics, like L'Incal and Metabarons. L'Incal is an utter braintrip, in the best sense of the word. Totally worth a read.
@FrankenPC: Oh, that is so unfortunate. I managed to hold on to my copies of 3 of his books. I never got the star liners book unfortunately, but I had the spacecraft, spacewars, and spacewrecks. Someone is doing a revival of the storyline that ran behind these for an RPG.
Has this Lensman thing been in development for a while? First I've heard of it. Never been a huge fan of JMS but I love the books. The first olde-tyme space opera I ever read...even before the Carter of Mars and Carson of Venus books by Burroughs. I would love to see this on the big screen...but the JMS factor makes me nervous. They are going to cut them down to almost nothing.
@Matthias: IIRC, you could reduce the entire first novel to backstory. I'm just wondering what they're going to do with the author's fascist eugenics plotline.
it's encouraging to see a writter that's a huge fan of the original attached to do a remake. so often the 'i'm a huge fan of the original' is just something the lead says to play up the marketing hype a la the day the earth stood still.
if the live action version can pull off a sequence that's half as mournful and expressive as the slow-motion and flashback sequences of the series i'll consider it a smashing success.
@GayRobotsRUS: Sadly, I am 95%+ certain that either (a) the character will be eliminated totally, (b) will be portrayed but not by a dog, or (c) if it is portrayed by a dog it will not be portrayed by a Welsh corgi.
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I like the pictures, though.
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You've got yourself another Kevin J. Anderson Dune series right there!
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My mom threw them out when I left for college :-(
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I have them - Spacecraft 2000-2100, Spacewrecks, Great Spacebattles and the Spaceliners one.
Foss wasn't actually involved with this series.. the work by other artists is very similar tho.
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Forgot to note there is a Spacewars book, that is Spacecraft 2000-2100 and Spacebattles in one Edition.
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(Shakes fist~!) Damn you mom!!!
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now get your mits off my copies. MINE!
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I'm glad it's being written by someone old enough to appreciate the books.
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if the live action version can pull off a sequence that's half as mournful and expressive as the slow-motion and flashback sequences of the series i'll consider it a smashing success.
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If they have Ein, he'll probably just be a regular dog, not a datadog and backup food source.
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ZOMG ESCAPEE FROM EARTH-2
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Bebop. Be Bop.
JAZZ!
Nothing at all like country!!!