- Chris Sims on the Joker:
From the start, he’s an amazing visual, and it’s a complete inversion of the classic hero and villain formula. Batman was inspired as much by Count Dracula and the Shadow as he was heroes like Zorro, with a costume designed to frighten, but he’s still the good guy. The one in the bright colors with the big smile who does magic tricks… that’s the one you need to watch out for.
- And speak of the devil — “The devil! The devil!” — here’s the Joker as Ronald McDonald. Why so serious? You want fries with that?
- Question: is AOL really still “a leading ISP” anywhere outside of The New York Times crossword puzzle? I know it’s a handy three-letter word, but c’mon, Will Shortz, move with the times.
- The AV Club interviews the director of Star Wars: Clone Wars “about making George Lucas’ world cartoonish.” Doesn’t sound like too hard a job to me, frankly.
- In fact, the best, it seems, that can be said for Star Wars: The Clone Wars is what Tasha Robinson says here — that “it’s better than an unimportant filler plot arc in an already-completed story has any right to be,” but that that’s not saying much.
- Seriously, if you’re going to send out simultaneous story submissions — against what’s expressly written in the guidelines — at least send them as separate e-mails. I’m going to chalk this one up to inexperience.
I actually enjoyed the clone wars animated TV series. But this movie… i dunno..
“I have a bad feeling about this.”
You got a simultaneous sub AND you were on a cc list for it? Egads.
I didn’t see it, but it looks like you have cause to worry, if you did and liked it. Robinson also points out:
“And where the 2003 Clone Wars (helmed by Samurai Jack/Dexter’s Laboratory mastermind Genndy Tartakovsky, who’s notably absent here) had the sense to concentrate on crisp action and Jedi ass-kickery, the latest iteration is pure Lucas: talky, flashy, and focused on juvenile relationships.”
I wasn’t so much cc’ed as I was forwarded an e-mail that clearly had been sent to a couple of other publications before me. The e-mail addresses were still there, and it was a quick Google to find out whose they were.
I think it was just an honest novice writer mistake, but I explained that I don’t accept simultaneous submissions and I’d be very surprised if these other publications did either.