Sunday, February 20, 2011 at 10:27AM "Ignorance and apathy, entwined inseperably around each other, form a wall that is nearly insurmountable."
Peter David, The Long Night of Centauri Prime
Peter David, Science Fiction, fantasy in Quotes Saturday, February 19, 2011 at 10:03PM 
I saw Kenneth Branagh’s Frankenstein on the big screen back in 1994. I liked it. I felt bad, however, when Roger Ebert gave it a bad review because we generally agreed on most movies. (No, I’ve never actually met the guy, but he was always the one I cheered for in the heated debates on Siskel and Ebert!) I thought that Branagh brought a whole new Shakespeareanesque-tragi-brooding thing to the good (?) Doctor. And De Niro definitely brought the Monster to life. (If I remember correctly, De Niro’s performance was the one thing Ebert liked about the movie.) Seriously, I felt this version delved more into the moral ambiguities that make Shelley’s novel what it is. It was never a monster story; it was a story about what makes one a monster. For that reason alone, I prefer Branagh’s vision to all the others I’ve seen.
FINALLY, someone agrees with me! What makes me happier still is that I found this article on Roger Ebert’s website. You can read it here.
Who knows? Maybe Ebert will even change his mind about it.
Friday, June 11, 2010 at 09:37PM 
Just found this article. Apparently psychology trumps the dark side of the Force. Wow - and some people say we fans have too much time on our hands and over-analyze stuff.
I just knew there was something more to Darth when Lucas brought in those @#$% midi-chlorians.
Sunday, April 11, 2010 at 04:43PM 
Yes, the title of the comic is Victorian Undead. That's what it promises and that's what you get. I picked up issue 4 then scrambled to find 1-3. The art is super and the story ain't that bad either. Holmes and Watson behave pretty true to character. I admit seeing a very human like automaton threw me a bit in issue one, but by the time armor clad, vulcan machine gun toting soldiers were bursting in to slaughter oodles of zombies, I really didn't mind so much. The comic also has Sherlock's brother Mycroft in an intriguing role, and there's government conspiracy. And you can probably guess who's invovled with the zombie incursion. No, it's not as pschologically jarring as Kirkman's grim and gritty Walking Dead, nor is it a Romero-esque metaphor. Sometimes a zombie is just a zombie and it takes somebody like Sherlock Holmes to get the job done. Victorian Undead (published by Wildstorm) is a wild and wonderful romp through the gaslit streets of London.
