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So What Are you Reading?: Generations
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I always wondered about that, how Shatner could have written the novels featuring the TNG characters heavily when he’d said in interviews that he had never watched TNG.
I read at least the first three TekWar novels and really enjoyed them before falling behind and never catching back up again (although I think I bought most if not all of them and still have them). I also watched the tv movies and series starring Greg Evigan, and read the “William Shatner’s TekWorld” Marvel comic book series (in which the lead character was drawn to resemble Shatner). I enjoyed them all well enough but liked the novels best. Probably thanks to Ron Goulart’s writing ability.
—David Young
In 2009, a small comics publisher, Bluewater, announced a line of Shatner comics, and I got to interview Shatner for PREVIEWS to talk about the line. It was... wild. I got clipped by a car when I stepped off the curb a few hours before, so I was in a lot of pain, and Shatner was like, "Go to the hospital," but I had a deadline to hit. Then the publisher gave me specific questions to ask Shatner about the books. Shatner knew nothing about the books. Literally, his assistant handed him a press release describing the books and he read it back to me. There were parts of the interview that were fine. He talked about reading Superman comics under the blankets at night with a flashlight when he was a kid in Montreal, and I asked him a question for fun about Believe, his novel (cowritten with Michael Tobias) about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini that was designed as a two-man play starring him and Nimoy. But about the comics? Oh, jeez. I ended up writing the article as an Esquire-type piece, to cover the fact that what the publisher wanted Shatner didn't do, framing the piece with Shatner quotes and rewriting the press release in the middle to describe the line.
The Shatner line of comics did not last long, for reasons I will politely not discuss, though if you Google, you'll find quite a bit on Bluewater and their business practices.
What I've been reading:
The Traitor's Pawn by Lisa Harris
Hearts of Steel by Elizabeth Camden
In Love's Time by Kate Breslin
What I'm about to read:
A Contest of Principles
Agents of Influence
The Traitor's Pawn by Lisa Harris
Hearts of Steel by Elizabeth Camden
In Love's Time by Kate Breslin
What I'm about to read:
A Contest of Principles
Agents of Influence
Yes, we have Nosferatu!
About halfway through the Divine Comedy. I've left behind Inferno, and most of the actual comedy; I'm in Purgatorio, around Canto 17 or 18, about to enter the fourth terrace. And I will note that, rather mercifully, I managed to miss the "eye-scream" served up on the second terrace (but unfortunately, didn't miss the reference to it in the Wikipedia article I'm continuing to use as "Cliff's Notes").
I ended up getting the Star Trek "Invasion!" all in one book and "The Neverending Sacrifice." But at the moment I turned "Music of the Spheres", Doctor Who "Alien Bodies" and Back to the Future 2's first draft script into audio that I can listen to at work. My god "Music of the Spheres" is great.
Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio, just finished Canto 23.
I vaguely remember the Purgatorio as a bit of a slog. Are you finding it that way?
Not especially. And there's even some mild humor. In particular, the slothful doing their penance running around the Fourth Terrace like Lewis Carroll's "Mad Caucus Race" (in my mind, I hear the 6th Variation from the Brahms "Variations on a Theme by Haydn"). But I do note that there's an eye-scream (thankfully one I blew right past in the text, but not in the Wikipedia article I'm using as "Cliff's Notes") in Canto 12 or 13.
Eye-scream?
Last night I finished reading Spider-Man: Hostile Takeover by David Liss, the prequel novel to the video game Marvel's Spider-Man. I really enjoyed it, it was a nice Spider-Man story and a nice lead in for the game.
Now I'm reading the collected digital edition of ST: Lower Decks comic, written by Ryan North with art by Chris Fenoglio. So far I'm really enjoying it, North has done a good job of capturing the feel of the show, and Fenoglio's art does a nice job of adapting the look of the show to comics.
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