I had some ideas about things I would love to see.... No one will probably see these but I have to get 'em out. Maybe some one will and pursue it if I float these out into the ether...or the ethernet, as it were. Ok, here's my first one...
This goes out to Chris Carter, the creator of the X-Files...How about ( now, bear with me) the return of the X-Files..but ANIMATED. It can be shown on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming. It could have all the voices of all the regulars. Mulder and Scully animated. It can have character design and animation by Madhouse Studios (Ninja Scroll and other great films) or Shinichirô Watanabe (director Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo). Imagine Mulder and Scully with an anime-infused design... THAT would be cool. It could be a great show. Just a half-hour, that's all you would need. Duchovny, Anderson, Pillegi doing the voices...and we can pretend that the 9th season didn't happen..or the 8th for that matter
(though the 8th is not bad). I think Spotnitz, Gordon, Morgan and Wong, Darin Morgan and the rest would love to write for that show. Mark Snow can come back for the music. It could be great. It could come on at 11 or 12 on Saturday night...it could even go further than the show did. And the collected dvd sales? Money. Pure money(You hear me talking, Fox?). Come on. Is there anyone out there that can get this to Chris Carter? I don't need a credit...a small "idea man" fee would suffice...lol...
And here is the final touch... The name of the show? The X-Files: Re-Animated. Oh come on, you KNOW that is cool. Don't try and act like it ain't..lol...

Did a sketch of Edward James Olmos as Commander Adama from Battlestar Galactica...need to try some more. I like the body but I think I have to play more with the features...

COMIC BOOK CORNER

Well, I just read something sad....DC's Gotham Central, of which I have every issue, is coming to a close with #40. In the solicitations for that month's comics it said "final issue" and I was like "Wha..?" I always knew that the book never sold really well but I had hoped that DC would keep supporting it. Then I talked myself into thinking that it was being relaunched because after " Infinite Crisis" I have no idea what DC is up to. Wonder Woman had a "final issue" label too...so I just thought they were gonna shake it up a bit and bring it back.

But I just read an interview with Greg Rucka over on Newsarama (one of a bunch of cool comic sites out there) and Mr. Rucka said that he just didn't have the heart to write it anymore after Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark left for Marvel. I was really sad to see Michael Lark go, his artwork hit the perfect tone of gritty for the series and you could totally tell in an interview I read with Rucka and Brubaker that they enjoy throwing ideas around and dreaming up stories together. In fact, they basically came up with the "Dead Robin" story in a Newsarama interview. With Michael Lark they had a definite team spirit. But Lark left and the artwork was never the same. And Brubaker seems to be more fatalistic and sarcastic than Rucka to me, so this added a different tone to the book. Without them Rucka feels like a single dad as it were. I can understand that. And he doesn't want anyone else to write it, which I can understand as well. So he asked DC to end it.

For anyone who has never read Gotham Central, do yourself a favor and buy the trade paperbacks. The series concerns the detectives of the Gotham City P.D. trying to do their jobs and often running into the fantastical, the monsterous and the just plain weird. And lurking in the shadows, alternately working with and hindering them, is Batman. Batman barely ever appears in this comic but when he does it is always to great effect. He truly comes across as dangerous and scary in this book. He, along with the city of Gotham, is a character that you don't have to see to feel his presence. Great book.

I only have one problem with the book and that is that I think they will kill off a character that I like quite a bit. It will have a dangerously negative effect on his partner, if this is the case, and that would be interesting to see but I am still not happy about it. But I think I understand why: This character appears to be the moral center of the book, and all bets for the city and it's people are off now as represented by his death. I hope it doesn't happen but I understand if it does. Much like Greg Rucka's decision to put Gotham Central down.

Got an e-mail from a friend of a friend...Jose Marzan, Jr. who you may know if you are a comics fan...Jose is a great inker, he inked some of my favorite Flash comics written by Mark Waid, along with a million other books. Good guy too..he still speaks to me, although I've owed him Sonny Rollins cd's for like 5 years now...lol..I keep forgetting! He got me some Jerry Goldsmith soundtracks ( he's a big soundtrack fan and I've tried to emulate in my small way) and I was supposed to get him those jazz dics....I'm an ass...lol...anyway, Jose wrote and had nice things to say about me being the artist of the month at The Digital Bits site. He has a site that I've put in the links but I'll put it here too. Check it out!

http://www.josemarzan.com/servlet/StoreFront

Plus he has a blog here:

http://josemarzanjr.typepad.com.

I said a friend of a friend at the beginning of this post..I know Jose thru my friend Kingman Huie, who I've known for years and is truly an extremely talented artist. Kingman is a great guy and I have been so busy that I have not added a link for his work. Again, I am an ass...lol... It's in the links list on the right but I'll put it here...take a look!

http://homepage.mac.com/dvdkingster/portfolio/index.htm

Yep...Shannon got smoked on "Lost"...and in an episode where they finally made her likable. It's funny, because I was telling someone last season how everyone on the island has been tremoundously screwed by someone in the past, they are all wounded and basically in a bad place in life. Well, Hurley is rich but he's haunted by those numbers... It's kind of interesting. Maybe Locke is right. Maybe they will all find what they are looking for on this island. Except for the poor folks who died...lol...Ok, guys, you knocked off another cast member, let's stop right here for a while, ok? Enough with the bumping off for a bit....I had planned to draw the cast of the show...do I do ghost Boone and Shannon, now?

Well, after three weeks we finally get a new episode of "Lost" tonight and I have finally resigned myself to the fact that one of the characters is a goner. I wrote an another post that I thought that ABC was jerking our chains and that some minor character will buy it but I think that's wishful thinking on my part. I'm still not crazy about bumping off characters a lot on shows, I think it's more annoying than dramatic, but that's what's gonna happen so I better deal. Everyone is forecasting Shannon as the stiff but that may be misdirection. Shannon is really the only character that I dislike so anyone else dying will only piss me off. I like "Lost" alot but they need to lay off the "kill off a character" jag they are on.....

Gonna keep this one brief....last night in the Nets-Heat game Vince Carter threw down a dunk over Alonzo Mourning that was beyond nasty...It was all manner of wrong. It will be on highlight reels forever...I refuse to describe it because a mere earthbound mortal such as myself has no business verbalizing such lofty displays. Go find it...nasty....

I was watching The West Wing last night, the live "debate" between the two men running for President, Democratic candidate Matt Santos( Jimmy Smits) and Republican candidate Arnold Vinick ( Alan Alda). It was excellent. Obviously, no debate would occur in the way that Alan Alda's character would suggest: He had the rules for the debate junked and had an open question and answer forum. Jimmy Smits agreed and off they went. Debating on health care, Africa, prescription drugs, jobs, immigrants and more, they said things that made you think. Both candidates said things that, truthfully, no candidate in reality would, but I think that was the point of the episode. It made us realize how much we may not know, how much more we should learn and how much two men that "has the best interests of the nation in mind", as Alan Alda put it, could do. Special interest obviously would handcuff even remotely all of the things they mentioned but it was amazing to think what could happen if government were unfettered and united to better this nation. They still held fast to their party labels, still slung a little mud, still made commentaries about what is really going on but they, though idealized, represented the best that we could have to run our nation. If only....Again, it was an excellent episode and I hope to get a transcript of it somewhere.

I was reading in the Post about "Vegas", which is a show that my wife likes, and how the producers are about to kill off a major character because they did it on "Lost" last season and it worked well i.e. got big ratings...see, this is terrible. This is the dangerous precedent that "Lost" has started...Now, TV shows will be killing everyone off 'cause it's good for ratings. And it's completely unneccessary. You get used to these characters, you grow to love them and they just bump 'em off. I understand the need for dramatic tension, floating the idea that these are life and death circumstances but damn...I can see it now: "Next week on 60 Minutes...one of these correspondents will not make it to the end of the show...BUT-WHO-WILL-IT-BE?!?" It's ridiculous. I can see a producer sitting there going, " Wel, gee....does it HAVE to be Two-and-a-Half Men?" lol.... It's just getting out of control. So I guess the November and February sweeps will just be filled with people dying...nice. I see enough of that in real life, I can be spared that in the shows I watch. Jeez... On the other hand, if there ever was a gimmick that could get me to watch "American Idol", that is it...lol...

You know, I know a few people who are very down on the NBA. I work with a guy named Todd Bond who's a really good guy, really sports-smart, but he's been down on the league lately. He thinks a lot of players aren't motivated, the games aren't good, etc. I disagreed with him completely. And after last nights, Pacers-heat game even he had to admit that was a good game. VERY hard fought, tightly played, very competitive. Dwayne Wade and Ron Artest were as spirited as you will ever see and the intensity was there all game for everyone. It was like a playoff game. I was really happy to see that because the critics are watching....

Working on a B&W U2 drawing...I've been trying to do more b&w so I can hit the local papers like The Village Voice or NY Press....I still have to add Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr....don't worry, I didn't diss them...

Well, here in the Tri-State area we are off to a bumpy NBA start....The Nets, who were up by 16 on the Bucks, got blown away in the 4th quarter and the Knicks, who didn't look that bad, forced the Celtics to O.T. before the wheels fell completely off. The Bucks look good, they have what Seattle had last year. Solid players with a big time scorer ( Michael Redd) to keep them in games. I don't know if they are is good defensively as Seattle was last year but they just might be. Andrew Bogut looks good and the have Jamal Magliore who is very good. T.J. Ford is back tearing thru defenses....maybe this Net loss isn't that bad a loss. But you want to win your home opener.
The Knicks just have way too many parts. it seems. I'm sure Larry Brown will start whittling down the excess and find his rotation. They didn't look too bad though. I just hope they can have a winning season and make the playoffs. It's been very rough in Knickville lately...

I'm a lucky man today...I was chosen as "Artist of The Month" on my favorite dvd site http://www.thedigitalbits.com/. Sarah Hunt was great to me and built a great page of my art. Please visit the site, besides the artist of the month, they have the BEST info on upcoming dvd releases and general buzz around the industry. Go now! GO! lol...