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by Rick Norwood
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I am second to none in my love of Flash Gordon. I have a complete run of the comic strip, all the serials and
movies, and I did commentary on the Filmation Flash Gordon DVD. I publish Flash Gordon written by Harry Harrison
every month in Comics Revue, and my publishing company has a Flash Gordon book by Dan Barry coming
out later this year, Flash Gordon -- Star Over Atlantis. But, from all I hear, the SciFi Flash Gordon is
going to be really dumb. I hope I'm wrong.
Masters of Science Fiction seems to err on the other side, by being too high brow, too much like Rod
Serling's Twilight Zone. I hope I'm wrong about that, too.
Here is what's on in August. There are only two episodes of The 4400 in August but the series you can't
kill with a stick returns in September.
On TV in August
Further ahead, Farscape returns -- but only on the web. In the future, no TV show will ever die.
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Rick Norwood is a mathematician and writer whose small press publishing house, Manuscript Press, has published books by Hal Clement, R.A. Lafferty, and Hal Foster. He is also the editor of Comics Revue Monthly, which publishes such classic comic strips as Flash Gordon, Sky Masters, Modesty Blaise, Tarzan, Odd Bodkins, Casey Ruggles, The Phantom, Gasoline Alley, Krazy Kat, Alley Oop, Little Orphan Annie, Barnaby, Buz Sawyer, and Steve Canyon. |
Two new SF shows premiere in August, Flash Gordon on the SciFi Channel and Masters of Science Fiction on ABC.
Friday, August 3
 
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