Interesting Random Stuff

Nothing in particular for you guys this week, but a bunch of little stuff you might be interested in.

- Civil War #4 is finally coming out this week. I know it's been a while so I just wanted to make sure you knew.

- Also coming out this week, but on an opposite note, is Astonishing X-Men. I mention this because it's usually several months between issues, but this time it's only been a couple of weeks. If you still haven't picked up issue 16 yet there are still a dozen or so here at the store.

- I finally read Phonogram after being bugged by Nick for a couple of weeks. My friend Erin was equally incredoulous that I had not read it yet. Very, very cool. Like Scott Pilgrim on crack, but in a good way.

- A couple of quick TV notes for all you. HEROES, the new NBC super powers drama starts September 25th. New episodes of HOUSE have already started, the main character is straight out of a Warren Ellis book, but the rest of the characters are pretty ho-hum. BATTLESTAR GALACTICA starts in just a few weeks on October 6th, day after my birthday actually, but if you can't hold out check the Sci-Fi website for four minute webisodes. Several of them have come out already, and they cover the couple of months between the last season finale and the new season premeire. Also on BG, the Season 2.5 box set comes out this week, and the new series CAPRICA is supposed to start filming soon, but that's really more of rumor then anything. Not that there will be a new series, but that they start filming soon.

- Brian Vaughn came out with a new book this past week. PRIDE OF BAGHDAD is based on the true story of several lions that escaped the Baghdad zoo in the early days of the American invasion. While I have not gotten a chance to read it yet, Vaughn says that it is his finest work yet, and Ben said he really enjoyed it as well. With Vaughn leaving RUNAWAYS, and Y THE LAST MAN coming to an end in the year or so, I can only hope this leaves him some more time to work on EX MACHINA. We can only hope.

Alright, that's it for today, type at you later,

Dan