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…should thirst for

Astonishing X-Men TPB Vol. 4 – Unstoppable – nick & dent

Hi again. Hey, this is getting scary.

If you’ve been following me on Twitter (http://twitter.com/ElijahSt), or otherwise informed, you’re bound to be wondering, as I am, Is there anything Joss doesn’t have his writing fingers (and toes) into these days?

Good golly, it seems like what he isn’t writing, he’s at least re-writing — all while being considered for this and that and the other thing.

Do you suppose Joss is a real guy? Maybe he’s an industry now. Maybe there are Joss robots.

Or maybe, like the Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, Raphael, he’s got an assembly line going, and it’s all his workshop minions doing the writing and he’s just signing off on everything?

Do you suppose? Nah!

But wow, was there ever better evidence of success building on success than what’s been happening in the Whedonverse lately?

Not that I’m envious or anything… Such unattractive all-too-human transgressions are beneath us (writers).

Uh huh.

You do believe that, don’t you… dear, gentle reader?

Well, so what if you don’t? What’s it to me?

On with today’s description:

Strap yourselves in, folks! It’s Joss Whedon and John Cassaday’s final arc on Astonishing X-Men! After the shocking and brain-smashing events of recent issues the X-Men are off to protect the Earth from its destruction at the hands of the Breakworld. And when it’s all over, nothing will ever be the same! No, really, we mean it! Whedon and Cassaday prove they are more than Astonishing: They are unstoppable!

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…would surely thirst for

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight #29

All right! Now we’re hittin’ it! Buffy Season 8!

But unfortunately, I’ve still only read the first few issues. I gotta put this on my higher-priority list someday soon! I’m sure everyone, absolutely everyone, is just beside themselves waiting for my take on Buffy Season 8! Right? Right?

Hey, what d’ya mean you don’t care? You don’t want to read my incredibly lucid thoughts about Season 8? Some of you guys sure do know how to make a fella feel appreciated…

Ah well, I’m no Joss Whedon. I know that. But one of these days… I know I’ll be a star… ’cause if I can make it at buffy-anne-summers.com, by golly, I know I can make it anywhere!

Somewhere over the rainbow… Oh wait, that was Dorothy. Er, oh I know, So I will walk through the fire… !

Okay, enough of that. Time to see what this ish is all about:

Buffy Season 8 continues with issue #29! Oz’s temple in the Tibetan mountains is no longer a safe retreat for Buffy and her troops. Discovered by Twilight’s magical agent, Amy, and bereft of their own magic, the army is preparing for a human war with guns, grenades, missiles . . . and MANPADS — it’s not a laughing matter. People are about to die. But even without her own magic, Buffy is still a Slayer — the Slayer — and she has to lead the way to victory. Or at least . . . live to fight another day. * Executive produced by Joss Whedon.

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A bit old at this point, but still interesting, and I hadn’t seen it, so maybe you haven’t either?

And yes, I’m still swamped. But some of the truth is also that once I started to blog about Buffy’s love life I realized I needed to think about it some as I had not given it much thought before… extremely lame, I know.

Well, I’ll get something together or I won’t, and it will be about one thing or another, and it will be soon or not — on those three things you can definitely depend!!!

But seriously, I’ve gone through the first three seasons in record time, I guess for about the ninth time, or so… you would think I would have more to say about Buffy’s love life!

(Hmm, maybe it’s the subject, a little writer’s block due to my love life being so very sad and pathetic… woe is me.)

Okay. Later. I hope.

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Joss Whedon’s comments as he received on April 10, 2009, the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism at Harvard University’s Memorial Church.

I am frequently appalled by what manages to become a movie. After having given it the occasional thought, I’ve begun to conclude that it is at least partly due to the fact that too many in the business of making movies have never studied how the best stories usually work.

Now that the studio system is as dead as the ancient pharaohs and most actors are captains of their own careers, I suspect there really ought to be more emphasis on teaching actors more about the art of storytelling. If Marsters had a better sense of that, he likely would have never agreed to this script. Either that, or whatever he originally found compelling about the script never made it into the actual movie, and contractual obligations, or some sense of loyalty, compelled him to speak no evil of it despite.

High Plains Invaders had no significant character arcs, no moral dilemmas, no self-revelations, no inspired dialog, and was composed entirely of nearly dispassionate and seemingly burned-out characters, most of whom had very little (except for the most obvious) at stake.

If, as he said in the video clip posted elsewhere on the site, Marsters really believed this movie was better than even the worst of Buffy, he has an utter lack of appreciation for what Joss Whedon and his crew actually accomplished on Buffy, and he is in serious need of having his head examined.

(But since I wasted two hours of my time watching it — even if one of my motivations for enduring it was to be able to comment on it for this blog — I probably need my head examined as well.)

No, it wasn’t any worse than a lot of other made-for-SyFy-channel movies, but it wasn’t any better either — and given James Marsters’ acting ability and his impeccable sense of delivery, High Plains Invaders was a monumental waste.

If you missed it, count yourself fortunate. If it is rebroadcast and you somehow manage to miss it a second time, count yourself among the truly blessed.