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by Rick Norwood
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Whatever Happened to Mr. Straczynski (part 3) | |
J. Michael Straczynski, the writer who made Babylon 5 one of the greatest SF experiences of all
time, is mostly writing comic books these days. His series of prose short stories that continued the Babylon 5
story were published in Amazing Stories, the world's first science fiction magazine and
Amazing Stories is no more. Folded. Kaput. So now Joe Straczynski has his own comic book
imprint, Joe's Comics, published by Top Cow. There are two titles so far, Rising Stars and
Midnight Nation, both highly recommended. The main difference between Joe's Comics and most comic
books is that Joe actually tells a story, not just a series of incidents. Joe will also be writing one of the
Spiderman titles. I hope his contract with Marvel Comics does not prevent him from finishing his own stories.
Voyager in December is all reruns, but the new X-Files season is shaping up nicely, with
a developing professional relationship between Scully and Dagget that is entirely different from her relationship
with Mulder. One recent X-Files was the old chestnut about the small town nobody
leaves. "Nope, nobody here has a car and the bus only come through on Friday and all the telephones are out
of order. Why don't you just relax and sit a spell. We'd be glad to have you stay." Scully proves to be a
substantially tougher victim than most who have been caught in the small town flytrap. And then, on the
Sci-Fi Channel, there's Dune.
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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. |
3 DEC -- Sunday
 
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