The Talon

[AgentPat]

Weird.
The thread was called Fortress of Solitude and the first post was a picture from K-Site. The succeeding posts just commented on the show and the upcoming season. I wonder why it got deleted. Maybe something happened and the SV-bashers came out in full force?

Bummer. Ah vell. Not gonna sweat it. Odd that it was deleted and not moved or closed though. Bizarre. [shrugs]

 

[Serene]

Another fanvid to share. This one is pure Clana, and a nice setup for the upcoming season. I'll watch anything that has Clark all googly-eyed and romantic.
http://s17.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0JYUKU3J02IQL3EZDWDU81NC5U

WARNING- Serious Clana fluff, not intended for the Clana-phobic.

 

[triplet]

Anyone have a copy of that screensaver that The WB had on their web site about a month or so ago?

My laptop crashed and I can't find the installer for that. I think I must have deleted the file and I kinda liked it...

Let me know.

EDIT: Never mind, found it....

http://www.thewb.com/Shows/WithFeedback/0,9310,155852,00.html

 

[AgentPat]

Okay, just gotta brag for a minute here 'cause I'm wicked excited. Everybody knows about my affinity for big, burly men, right? *ahem* Well, I've just been invited to ESPN's kick off party for the NE Patriots next Wednesday night. PSYCH! I soooooo can't wait!!!

 

[Pickle-El]

That's a sweet deal!

BTW,

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

Okay, just gotta brag for a minute here 'cause I'm wicked excited. Everybody knows about my affinity for big, burly men, right? *ahem* Well, I've just been invited to ESPN's kick off party for the NE Patriots next Wednesday night. PSYCH! I soooooo can't wait!!!

Isnt the game on Thursday night?

BTW I'm going out to Detroit for a cousin's wedding next weeekend, and just found out my Pop scored tickets to the Lions/Packers opening day game the following day! Let's just hope my Lions play better than they did on Monday Night

 

[AgentPat]

Isn't the game on Thursday night?

Yes, it is. But this is the PARTY the night before. You know, cocktails, ordeuvers (sp?), hobnobbing in a restaurant with various press, ESPN announcers, and Patriots' brass and players. *GRIN*

BTW I'm going out to Detroit for a cousin's wedding next weekend, and just found out my Pop scored tickets to the Lions/Packers opening day game the following day! Let's just hope my Lions play better than they did on Monday Night

I'll root for 'em for ya!

 

[RakuMon]

Yes, it is. But this is the PARTY the night before. You know, cocktails, ordeuvers (sp?), hobnobbing in a restaurant with various press, ESPN announcers, and Patriots' brass and players. *GRIN*

I'll root for 'em for ya!

Hors d'oeuvres

 

[triplet]

Hors d'oeuvres

Way to go, I can never remember how to spell that either, Pat... you're not alone.

 

[AgentPat]

Hors d'oeuvres

I NEVER would have got that. And I'll NEVER remember it. Maybe I should just say appetizers from now on? LOLOLOL!

 

[Serene]

BTW I'm going out to Detroit for a cousin's wedding next weeekend, and just found out my Pop scored tickets to the Lions/Packers opening day game the following day! Let's just hope my Lions play better than they did on Monday Night

I'm for the Bears, and anyone playing against the Packers.

 

[Serene]

I NEVER would have got that. And I'll NEVER remember it. Maybe I should just say appetizers from now on? LOLOLOL!

Horse Doovers. Close 'nuff.

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

Yes, it is. But this is the PARTY the night before. You know, cocktails, ordeuvers (sp?), hobnobbing in a restaurant with various press, ESPN announcers, and Patriots' brass and players. *GRIN*

oh okay, I thought it was party while the game was going on. Hobknobbing with the players would be cool, the ESPN 'personalities" on the other hand...

I'll root for 'em for ya!

thanks, I went out last year and the packers stomped us, I couldnt take another beating

 

[jas01724]

Horse Doovers. Close 'nuff.

So you're another one who calls them horses doovers, then?

 

[avidreader]

Are we talking football or baseball. Or is basketball. I get so confused with all the sports in this country.

 

[Serene]

Are we talking football or baseball. Or is basketball. I get so confused with all the sports in this country.

LOL.. Football. It's the start of football season, and baseball is winding down. Basketball isn't for a few months yet.

 

[avidreader]

Oh okay, my husband and my kids went to a Padres baseball game the other night and then he had me bidding on ebay for football tickets tomorrow night, then my 15 year old son is getting super psyched about the basketball starting at the end of the month (although he did say it was the pre-season), I just cant keep up.

 

[AgentPat]

Clarke Kent? Hee! Okay you Scotlanders out there, somebody 'splain what or who "the Broons" is/are?

The Sunday Times, Scotland
September 4, 2005

New Superman team draws on The Broons
By Karin Goodwin

IS IT A bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Hen, Maggie, Daphne, Maw, Paw and the weans.

The creative team charged with rebranding Superman, the all-American comic book superhero, have revealed that they have drawn inspiration from The Broons, Scotland’s couthiest family.

Rather than using America’s sprawling cityscapes as cultural reference points, Frank Quietly and Grant Morrison say that their comic strips are more likely to embody the spirit of Dundee.

The Scots duo have been commissioned by DC Comics, the New York-based publisher, to create the next series of Superman stories. DC wants them to take the Superhero back to his 1950s roots, espousing traditional American values in simple good-versus-evil storylines.

The pair, who worked on Judge Dredd and Batman comics and also created the artwork for Robbie Williams’s new album, have come up with the unique Scottish slant to ensure that Superman’s humanity and innocence come to the fore. They plan to use the calamity filled world of Paw Broon as the model for clumsy Clarke Kent, Superman’s alter ego.

Quietly launched his career as a comic artist with a spoof of the Broons called the Greens, and his new comic is also shaped by his "obsession" with the Broons, characters created by the artist Dudley D Watkins that have run in The Sunday Post since the 1940s.

Like Watkins, Quietly and Morrison say they have created an entire world within a single frame, complete with tutting bystanders and giggling children. "The influence (in Superman) is seen in the way people move in the Broons. Both translate emotions like ‘scared stiff’ or ‘hair standing on end’ very literally," said Glasgow-born Morrison.

"The way the Broons was drawn is that everyone was reacting to each other within the frame - it’s like its own virtual reality."

In most American comics, Morrison said, the background characters do not react to the protagonists at the centre of the frame: "There’s a whole street scene at the end with Clarke Kent being clumsy, Lois Lane and the old man with his dog that’s so like those final street scenes in the Broons with Paw Broon and the whole family."

The classic style, which Watkins developed from 1937 until his death in 1969, is well suited to the mood of a more innocent time, which Morrison is hoping to portray in the new Superman series.

DC Comics wants Morrison and Quietly to bring back mainstream readers who have not kept up with the plot twists of the continuing Adventures of Superman comics. The 12-part story takes up the classic tale of the superhero, born on the planet Krypton, sent to earth in a rocket by his scientist father and adopted in Smallville, where he took on the Clarke Kent identity.

The new comic will concentrate on the emotional aspects of Superman’s life, including his relationship with Lane, the reporter, and Lex Luther, his arch enemy. He will also be forced to face up to his own mortality when he is exposed to a potential lethal dose of solar radiation.

David Donaldson, managing editor of children’s publications at DC Thompson, said it was flattered that the Superman strip would be taking its lead from The Broons.

"It’s certainly a different take on these couthie characters who are rooted in the past. It will be great to see how they make the jump," he said.

Professor Alan Riach, of Glasgow University’s Scottish literature department and who has a research interest in comics and popular icons, said that Scots found the nostalgic images of the Broons reassuring. But he claimed that the Superman relaunch would present a challenge to the duo.

"The real test for this pair would be to bring Superman to Scotland on a super-expedition. An encounter in the clouds that ends up with him dropping into Arbroath for some smokies, that’s what I’d like to see."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-1764420,00.html

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[The Incredible Hulk]

Clarke Kent?
Lex Luther?

 

[AgentPat]

Clarke Kent?
Lex Luther?

LOL! I missed the "Luther" one. I guess I'm just used to seeing THAT name misspelled. But "Clarke?" Nope. Can't get used to that un.

 

[triplet]

Who the heck are the Broons?

Sounds interesting, anyway...

 

[avidreader]

Another fanvid to share. This one is pure Clana, and a nice setup for the upcoming season. I'll watch anything that has Clark all googly-eyed and romantic.
http://s17.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0JYUKU3J02IQL3EZDWDU81NC5U

WARNING- Serious Clana fluff, not intended for the Clana-phobic.

Serena did you save that vid. I just tried to play my copy and I only had like about 12 seconds of it. And the file has expired at yousendit.

 

[triplet]

Do I smell comic book superhero movie overload?

Does anyone else think Marvel is saturating the market?

Captain America's Big Shot

By Joal RyanTue Sep 6, 8:52 PM ET

Spider-Man is about to get company--a lot of it--in makeup.

Marvel Entertainment, the Webslinger's corporate boss, announced plans Tuesday to produce as many as 10 new films based on 10 characters from its considerable comic-book collection.

Captain America, Black Panther and the supergroup known as the Avengers are among the crimefighters in line for their big-screen closeups.

As announced last April, Paramount will distribute the films, all of which are slated to be live action. The first made-by-Marvel movie is due out in summer 2008. Which tights-wearer will be the subject of that inaugural production is undecided.

"No character before its time," Avi Arad, chairman and CEO of Marvel Studios, told the Hollywood Reporter. "The scripts will dictate which is first."

The other characters jockeying for position: Nick Fury, the one-eyed agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.; Ant-Man, the ant-sized avenger from Coral Gables, Florida; Cloak and Dagger, a pair of vigilante teenagers; Doctor Strange, a neurosurgeon turned sorcerer previously immortalized in a 1978 made-for-TV movie; Hawkeye, a mere mortal with a costume and spot-on archery skills; Power Pack, a sort of kid-centric Fantastic Four; and Shang-Chi, a kung-fu fighting master.

There's nothing new in Marvel product becoming movie product. Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Hulk, Daredevil, Elektra, the Fantastic Four and Blade all hail from the comics giant, and all have recent big-screen credits. Next year will bring more Marvel releases: Ghost Rider, The Punisher II and X-Men 3.

What's new is the amount of control Marvel will exert over its legion of heroes--no small thing for a company that has wrangled in the past with producing partners. In the new set-up for the 10-picture slate, Marvel will set the budgets (approximately $165 million), secure prime release dates (the summer or winter holiday seasons) and keep the kitty from all film-related merchandising.

Additionally, Marvel will hire the writers, and decide which screenplays are ready to shoot, and when. In the Reporter, Arad dropped a heavy hint that a certain shield-baring, star-spangled superhero might have the inside track. "I cannot wait to tell Captain America's story," he said. "It's a doozy of a story." (Variations of the story have been told already, most ignobly in a low-budget 1991 feature that was dumped on video.)

Marvel's exclusive pact with Paramount also is new. In the past, the company's heroes have worked freelance for the likes of Fox (the X-Men franchise), Universal (The Hulk) and Sony (the Spider-Man movies). As a result, a project like The Avengers might present a lineup challenge to Marvel and Paramount since Avenger members such as the X-Men's Wolverine and Hulk already have appeared in films for rival studios.

She-Hulk, however, is unattached and available at a moment's notice.

 

[avidreader]

Can someone tell me what channel and what time Entertainment Tonight is on. Apparently they have Tom Wopat and John Schneider on tonight talking about "Exposed"?

 

[avidreader]

Do I smell comic book superhero movie overload?

Does anyone else think Marvel is saturating the market?

Captain America's Big Shot

By Joal RyanTue Sep 6, 8:52 PM ET

Spider-Man is about to get company--a lot of it--in makeup.

Marvel Entertainment, the Webslinger's corporate boss, announced plans Tuesday to produce as many as 10 new films based on 10 characters from its considerable comic-book collection.

Captain America, Black Panther and the supergroup known as the Avengers are among the crimefighters in line for their big-screen closeups.

As announced last April, Paramount will distribute the films, all of which are slated to be live action. The first made-by-Marvel movie is due out in summer 2008. Which tights-wearer will be the subject of that inaugural production is undecided.

"No character before its time," Avi Arad, chairman and CEO of Marvel Studios, told the Hollywood Reporter. "The scripts will dictate which is first."

The other characters jockeying for position: Nick Fury, the one-eyed agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.; Ant-Man, the ant-sized avenger from Coral Gables, Florida; Cloak and Dagger, a pair of vigilante teenagers; Doctor Strange, a neurosurgeon turned sorcerer previously immortalized in a 1978 made-for-TV movie; Hawkeye, a mere mortal with a costume and spot-on archery skills; Power Pack, a sort of kid-centric Fantastic Four; and Shang-Chi, a kung-fu fighting master.

There's nothing new in Marvel product becoming movie product. Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Hulk, Daredevil, Elektra, the Fantastic Four and Blade all hail from the comics giant, and all have recent big-screen credits. Next year will bring more Marvel releases: Ghost Rider, The Punisher II and X-Men 3.

What's new is the amount of control Marvel will exert over its legion of heroes--no small thing for a company that has wrangled in the past with producing partners. In the new set-up for the 10-picture slate, Marvel will set the budgets (approximately $165 million), secure prime release dates (the summer or winter holiday seasons) and keep the kitty from all film-related merchandising.

Additionally, Marvel will hire the writers, and decide which screenplays are ready to shoot, and when. In the Reporter, Arad dropped a heavy hint that a certain shield-baring, star-spangled superhero might have the inside track. "I cannot wait to tell Captain America's story," he said. "It's a doozy of a story." (Variations of the story have been told already, most ignobly in a low-budget 1991 feature that was dumped on video.)

Marvel's exclusive pact with Paramount also is new. In the past, the company's heroes have worked freelance for the likes of Fox (the X-Men franchise), Universal (The Hulk) and Sony (the Spider-Man movies). As a result, a project like The Avengers might present a lineup challenge to Marvel and Paramount since Avenger members such as the X-Men's Wolverine and Hulk already have appeared in films for rival studios.

She-Hulk, however, is unattached and available at a moment's notice.

Interesting to read that after Tom's recent comments about wanting to see Captain America's story. I wonder if he knew something?