(Re: NYT – I’ve got my fingers crossed!)

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So, although I hope they’ll always have the un-improved originals available to those who want them, I’m thinking it could be cool. I’m also thinking of how odd it seemed in the first star wars trilogy that there was supposedly this big empire falling, and we never really saw more than 20 people – something they improved on in later ones (and didn’t Lucas insert some scenes of celebration on various planets later?). Anyway, more evidence of the civilzation in ST would be interesting to see, if only in the background.

There’s an interview with Mike Carey out on the www somewhere, that I bookmarked ages ago with the intention of blogging about it, in which he mentions he’s got an actual novel coming out. I’ll try to dig it up.

I’m giving DMZ a shot now, though I’m sensitive to the fact that the author is apparently a completely crazy progressive nutjob/conspiracy theorist/etc., and that it’s probably inevitable that this will seep into his writing (it hasn’t really done so yet, at least in the few issues I’ve read) and completely ruin his product.

I also got Externals #1 and had a similar reaction. Especially remembering Gaiman’s 1602 for Marvel, which was period versions of X-Men and various Marvel heroes in Jamestown (VA) and in London in 1602.

But not Lucifer… I really liked that series, it was the only good Sandman spin-off I can think of. Whats-his-name… Carey? Great writer, good run on Hellblazer, too. Not so fond of the art, but apparently I managed to tolerate it.

I got the first of Gaiman’s Jack Kirby hand-puppetry (The Eternals) and I’m wondering if Gaiman has turned into a producer of Gaiman-wannabe crap. We’ll see, I guess.