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    Untold Adventures: The Complete History Of Tie-In Novels

    As Silicon Valley Crumbles, the Makers Will Inherit the Earth

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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    09:45 AM

    In reply to Thanksgiving Is Saved By American Madness And Eating
    Image is going full Crisis on us? I've been out of the loop, has this happened before?

    I guess Grimjack will be showing up?
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    Image of Dash_Stryker Dash_Stryker
    10:01 AM

    @Lassus: Do Images characters still have muscles on there muscles? and is Malibu still around?
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    09:29 AM

    In reply to Untold Adventures: The Complete History Of Tie-In Novels
    What I want to know is what's up with Sulu's porno stache?
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    09:26 AM

    In reply to Thanksgiving Is Saved By American Madness And Eating
    Huzzawha??? Powers is now going to be released by Marvel!?!!!

    The same Powers that is 10% clitoris jokes, 30% monkeys having sex, and 75% dropping F-bombs? (I know that equals 115%, but Bendis has a lot of F-bombs to drop)

    Does Marvel know what they're getting into, or is this going to be the first comic book composed entirely of asterisks?
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    Image of rek rek
    09:42 AM

    @bluehinter: GOD FUCKING DAMMIT. Is this why Powers vol 13 is nowhere to be seen? They're *relaunching* it? WHAT THE FUCK! Powers is one of the only good ongoing series left, and now they're Disney'd?
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    09:19 AM

    In reply to Thanksgiving Is Saved By American Madness And Eating
    The first 50 issues of Shade are awesome. Besides Peter Milligan's psychedelic writing, you can totally watch Chris Bachalo grow as an artist. It's fan-f'ing-tastic. And Sean Phillips ("Sleeper," "Criminal") does the covers later on in the series!
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    08:44 AM

    In reply to Untold Adventures: The Complete History Of Tie-In Novels
    Ah, the Brian Daley Han Solo books. A great, pulpy read.
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    06:35 AM

    In reply to Untold Adventures: The Complete History Of Tie-In Novels
    Great post. Also an interesting iteration of this nutty phenomenon: screenplay adaptations. Guess who wrote the novelization of "The Abyss?" Orson Scott Card, for chrissakes! Guess who turned the Philip K. Dick short story-turned-screenplay back into prose for a novel-length version of "Total Recall?" None other than Piers Anthony. Does anyone else have one of these to add?
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    05:29 AM

    In reply to As Silicon Valley Crumbles, the Makers Will Inherit the Earth
    [quote]The first portion of Makers reads very much like a manifesto. [/quote]

    This is what keeps me from reading Doctorow. His books always sound like screeds for his... fanciful... politics.
    -Kle.
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    05:02 AM

    In reply to Untold Adventures: The Complete History Of Tie-In Novels
    i have a bunch of those james blish star trek paperbacks in my library.
    great article as well.
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    Image of Wyldemusick Wyldemusick
    04:31 AM

    In reply to Ben 10 And James Bond Team Up To Save TV From Thanksgiving
    To hell with all of these Thanksgiving turkeys, I'm going with the old standby of sci-fi porn for Thanksgiving. That's the sort of stuffing I can get behind!
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    Image of allium allium
    11/23/09

    In reply to Untold Adventures: The Complete History Of Tie-In Novels
    My fifth grade teacher had Last Son of Krypton by Elliot S! Maggin in the class's free-reading bookcase. I remember its portrayal of Lex Luthor and his complex motivations contrasted strongly with the "Challenge Of The Superfriends" version of That Bastard In The Purple Sweater Wut Tried To Kill Supes.
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    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    11/23/09

    In reply to Tomorrow's V Asks Who You'd Rather Have As Your Mom: Erica Or Anna?
    *Bing Bong*

    "Paging Dr. Freud!"
    "Paging Dr. Freud!"
    "Oedipus is experiencing a problem in the waiting room."

    *Bing Bong*
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    Image of Cash907Censored Cash907Censored
    11/23/09

    In reply to Ben 10 And James Bond Team Up To Save TV From Thanksgiving
    You know what I miss during Thanksgiving? MST3K's Turkey Day celebration on Comedy Central. Somehow it just doesn't feel like the holiday without Joel/Mike and their Robot friends.

    *sigh*
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    Image of joetato joetato
    11/23/09

    @Cash907Censored: Seconded. All in favor say Hikeeba!
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    Image of Allen_Richards Allen_Richards
    11/23/09

    In reply to Untold Adventures: The Complete History Of Tie-In Novels
    Those Star Trek novels during the 80's were what started my fascination with sci-fi lit. Of course, Joe Lansdale's THE DRIVE-IN took me in an different direction once I read it...

    I never knew I contributed to the success of the tie-in novel as much as I have until about a week ago when I was cleaning off a shelf and found a stack of 26 Buffy novels - all unread... I didn't even know Ray Garton wrote one, a writers who horror work I came to dig about 5 years back, until I saw his name glaring back at me like a snot-nosed kid on the school bus with this face pressed against the glass and giving me the bird...

    I've enjoyed picking up movie adaptations. Mid-summer, based on a suggestion from someone here, I finally picked up BUCKAROO BANZAI. I have THE BLACK HOLE sitting on the shelf and waiting to be read - it's been waiting for years and I think it's about time. Hell, there's even an ROBOCOP 2 novelization that I'm embarrassed to admit I have....
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    Image of Ghost_in_the_Machine Ghost_in_the_Machine
    11/23/09

    In reply to We're Getting A Bit Winded From SGU's Space Aerobics
    The communication stones are the weakest part of the show. The people on Destiny should just be missing (presumed dead) and on their own. I realize that would make the show Stargate:Voyager (or at least the first season of SG:Atlantis) but I would prefer that to the soap opera stuff on Earth. The writers apparently didn't think through the full implications of the body swapping combined with conjugal visits home or bother to explain why experts aren't swapping in to Destiny. (BTW what did Dr. Lee do on the ship when he swapped with Rush in the pilot?) They could just show Earth in flashbacks (Lost style) to break up the shipboard episodes.

    There's enough good stuff on the show to keep me watching but the writers need to start delivering more on the promise of the show.
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    Image of AltMargaret AltMargaret
    11/23/09

    @Ghost_in_the_Machine: Agreed. I thought the Camille/Sharon moments would have been lovely...if they had been written as a flashback to show the life Camille left behind and the wife she was missing. Instead, it came off as another instance of creepy sex with a stranger. It's why I stopped watching Dollhouse, but at least Dollhouse knew they were being creepy.

    Bad plot device. No biscuit.
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    11/23/09

    In reply to Untold Adventures: The Complete History Of Tie-In Novels
    I was 12 when MISSION TO HORATIUS was published, and you can bet I whined until Mom Overclock bought it for me. (It didn't occur to me until many years later that Mom and Dad must have been _thrilled_ that I loved to read.) It was a huge eye opener... I realized that you could not only make movies from books (which I had figured out at a young age), but vice versa. Woot!
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