[UA] Pop Culture Update

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- Tim Toner <thanatos at interaccess.com> wrote:
> Saw Thir13en Ghosts last night.  Like The House on
> Haunted Hill, I was
> thoroughly amazed by how much it didn't suck ass! 

Hmmm... I'll reserve my opinion on that.  Not that
Castle's originals were anything to shout about, but
the new films (which my wife insisted I watch) seemed
like little more than what Castle could have done if
he'd had more money and less moxie.

> the Black Zodiac.  I did a search on the
> term, and came up with so
> many hits relevant to Charles Wright's Pulitzer
> prize winner, I admit that I
> gave up, and will assume it's original to the film.

I'll admit, It didn't even occur to me to do such a
thing (I was just bristling at the rather poor editing
in the film, not watching for inspiration, like I
should've been.)  Good work.
> 
> The art direction of the film is absolutely
> brilliant (and really, the only
> reason to see it).  

Nngh... 

> 
> Also, Promethea continues to floor me with the flood
> of ideas that Alan
> Moore throws at you on a monthly basis. 

Promethea is certainly the most magically-oriented of
all Moore's comics, with good reason.  I've only read
the first six or so, that I borrowed from a friend,
and I'll admit they're pretty swell.  (The Weeping Ape
is a pretty neat character, for instance.)

But I think, oddly enough, that more ideas for
workable story lines come from Strangers in Paradise. 
If you mix the two titles up, you get some good UA pieces.

=====
-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
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