Halloween party, 2005

From Eerie to Bloomington...

Southern Vampire

"a new HBO series based on Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire book series"

Pattern Recognition

Our book for October 20 2005 was Pattern Recognition by William Gibson. Peter Kuchera facilitated the meeting, and John Gallman attended for the first time in a while.

Pattern recognition
John 8 (for effort)
Dru 8
Chris 5
Peter 7
Alek 6
Raja 5
Ignacio 3

Ignacio was misled by the cover art to believe Cayce had black hair and maybe looked like an asian girl. But then he looked up (warning: Link Not Workplace Safe!) Jane Birkin, to whom Cayce is compared in the first pages of the book.

Which Serenity character are you?

Recalibrating DC Heroes for a Grittier Century

Interesting piece in the New York Times (!) about the big shakeup underway in the DC Universe right now. (It's got a minor spoiler if you haven't read the "Sacrifice" crossover.) As far as I can tell, after the end of "Infinite Crisis", DC plans to jump the storylines forward a year, then have a 52-issue weekly comic to backfill.

52, the weekly series that begins in May, will be a story-telling and production challenge. A weekly series leaves little room for delays in writing, illustrating or printing, and the "real time" concept means no inventory story can be dropped in to fill a gap in the narrative.

The commitment of resources "scared a lot of departments," Mr. DiDio said, adding, "This is not just an editorial risk; it's a company risk."