Rogan

(Also also: Bill Cosby probably had to pull out at short notice)

Why? Did his NBC door guard accidentally let someone into his dressing room while he was auditioning underage models? :P

[though, there's a horrid little idea - shame NBC into renewing Constantine by implying that they need all the goodwill they can muster, especially since it seems more and more things will be brought to light, as people feel less fear for coming out and saying what they know]

Now that one I never get sick of. Let's have a Constantine Christmas, DC08.

 

Hell yeah!!!

Laaaaast Christmas, I gave you my heart, but the very next day, you gave it away... to Constantine.

NBC, for its part, is still clearly behind the series, even putting the stars in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade. The thirteen episode season will air as scheduled, continuing in the Friday 10pm timeslot. Sister station Syfy has even run a marathon of episodes to help promote the show.

This sounds positively surreal, can't wait to see the... Constantine/NBC float? Constantine balloon?

If we're being honest at this point, Grant Morrison's approach now is going to be a lot harder to imitate than Alan Moore's approach a quarter of a century ago.

 

I put this quote here, because I have just read the latest issue which manages to pin the essence of Moore's dabbling with the Charlton universe in one issue.

I have no idea if these are all going to be multiple issue series, but I hope not, as I'd rather see these glimpses then the great big cross over :-)

I think they won't be going to that well again any time soon, if past Morrison events for the DCU are anything to go by.

wtf is this the 'my little punny' thread now?

:sheds a single tear of pride:

http://cs.stanford.e.../deepimagesent/

 

wopping. i don't know what you guys do for a living and what is easy to understand or not. so i hope it doesn't sound arrogant when i brake this down to: using artificial intelligence to describe in natural language what a given image is showing. if you scroll down a little you get examples. pretty impressive i think. maybe potentially useful for blind people?

Man, that is awesome and terrifying at the same time.

Well put, Mark. [i'm all out of upvotes.]

Haven't had the time yet to read Pax Americana [gonna need to put aside a few hours just for that], but I'm glad to hear it seems Morrison brought his A-game when it mattered the most.

ok fifa is corrupt, we all know it, it has been up and down the media. but i just saw something on the telly that knocks it out the park.

to get a saudi arabian vote for the fifa world championship in '06 (which turned out to be in germany), the back then gouverment of germany (yes back then it was basically the same parties and the same chancelor as in today), lifted a weapon trade embargo on saudi arabia. i am still sitting here, doing the lil'jon and repeating 'what?' in a repititive loop.

Damn. Got a link?

In other news, this clusterfuck might get us more sanctions, and is also a huge step back in our [slightly improved in the past decade] relationship with Croatia.

Raspberries for breakfast

 

http://instagram.com/p/vx9n7qRSHd/

Man, is the third season of Hannibal gonna have flashbacks?!

The grift of giving is on!

Rewatched it this weekend with my dad, who hasn't seen it. It's better on the second go, for me [i wasn't too taken by it first time 'round, it was okay, but I was a bit underwhelmed, despite the nifty cast and some really decent zingers.]

[Maybe my dad saying "I am Groot" every 5 minutes for the 2nd half of the movie contributed to my enjoyment.]

If they get a second season, will these scripts be made, or do they have to write new ones, for production reasons?

It seems that this season was [commendably] all about trying to incorporate/pay tribute to various aspects of the character - the NuDCU's go-to magic botherer, the early Delano-Zed stories, Hard Time, Moore's stint on Swampy... Which could explain some of the tonal shifts and inconsistencies.

So, this is now the season finale? It might end with the foreshadowed death of Jim Corrigan, I feel?

I like it as well, seems like it could be filmed to be creepy enough, yet not too grimdark.

This one has a real retro feel, Constantine's figure reminds me of the artwork from the Delano years.

At lest it's not Mr. Fantastic getting frustrated that his son, Alex Rieger, is listening to jazz music, over on Forever.

Man, I missed out on the fun!

I am not completely pessimistic. I feel that there's a 50-50 chance* the show could get a tentative 13-episodes second season renewal, as a show of faith and if the WB and NBC try to push reruns, projected DVD/blu-ray sales and such, so that the seed of fandom might get a chance to bloom ["seed of fandom" sounds a bit nasty, though]. Community dodged a bullet 2-3 times and NBC really ben in a perpetual slump, and with Parks and Rec gone, Community moving to Yahoo, they need something with a geeky demographic.

*scientifically measured

Thanks, Red. Means a loot to me you even read it. Yeah, I went a bit overboard there with the inside-geekery and [art] history Easter eggs (like Lenin being in the background of that splash page, since he's also been known to frequent bars in Zurich in 1916, while he was working on his writing), but I hope that the basic story, about the differing outlooks on life of the three men was clear enough and that the quotes at the end would fill in some of the blanks on the archetypes I wanted these guys to represent for that WWI comic anthology.

Right there with ya, guys. Yeah, not as good as the last, but better than the first three. Gadgets can get a bit ridiculous, but he's also showing plenty of low rent conman tricks, escapism, pickpocketing, etc. I am still wary of the soft pitching of possible spin-offs [spectrestine: New Orleans], I'd prefer it they reserve such things for when/if the show has some strong legs to stand on. Papa Midnite was even better this time around, since he got to do some of that voodoo that he do, which was then used to show us the radical difference in character and approach to magic/faith between him and Constantine. THAT is how you do character-defining things on the network telly.

Zed's a bit incidental, still, but I can't get enough of Chas, especially the slashstick bit in the alley, when he confuses the spirit by answering the question with a question.

Papa Midnite wears the BEST CLOTHING

 

If they ever do a crossover with Hannibal my eyes will corrode from sheer tailoring excellence

That is some tumblrworthy material there. Hope someone gets right to it.

Sold.

Cool! Congrats, no small feat, John!

http://uk.ign.com/ar...-getting-darker

A good interview, especially that last bit:

IGN: You’ve talked about a good mate of yours who loves John Constantine and has been talking you through this whole process. What has he made of the TV show now that it’s airing?

Ryan: He likes it. So far from what he’s seen. He’s seen elements that he likes and elements that he doesn’t like. For any show at the beginning of it you’re kind of finding your feet and setting the tone. All the elements of production and writing and acting are gelling together to find the tone of the beast that you’re making. He’s been really complimentary to me – I don’t know if that’s because he’s my friend – I don’t think he would though because he’s such a hardcore fan. He thinks that certain elements of the show need improving, and I agree with him. With this kind of show – you have a chance to get better, and that’s happening. Each episode we’re getting stronger, we’re getting darker, we’re getting more into that Hellblazer world. The episode this week really shows that – the kind of shows that we’re trying to make and we are making now. It’s funny though – he’s the one guy I want to impress. I don’t really care about anyone else, I just want him to be happy because I know that he’s such an avid fan. If he wasn’t happy, I’d be very disappointed!

[Though poor form, IGN, calling Jim Corrigan a "Hellblazer favourite"]

It's easier for things on social media to seem like the majority shares the same sentiment. Twitter hosts a number of vocal minorities., Some are in the right, some are wrong. But my experience with "the common folk" outside my social bubble has been that people equate feminism with some crazy prejudiced notions, and that they are blind to its history, victories, and goals, and just apply broad vague notions of amazons who want to subjugate men, and blame them for everything "yet call men when there's heavy lifting to be done!", and the usual "not-fucked-enough" "ugly" etc descriptors. Ask 100 people in Serbia about feminists, and you'll get, for the most part, quite a vivid picture of an ugly, malevolent creature that is not unlike the one that you'd get if you asked them about Jews or Muslims.