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Podcast Interview and Who Word Clouds
I've just been interviewed by those talented podcast guys at I, Fanboy, about Captain Britain, FF: True Story and just about everything else:
http://www.ifanboy.com/podcasts/audio/07_03_2008_-_Paul_Cornell
And courtesy of Steve Berry, here's a wonderful use for those tag clouds of prose that have been doing the rounds. Here's a swarm of them made from the subtitle dialogue of every new Doctor Who story. The more the word is used in the story, the bigger it appears in the diagram. Some interesting things leap out:
http://sandwich.ukcod.org.uk/~matthew/subtitles/
Until next time, Cheerio.
http://www.ifanboy.com/podcasts/audio/07_03_2008_-_Paul_Cornell
And courtesy of Steve Berry, here's a wonderful use for those tag clouds of prose that have been doing the rounds. Here's a swarm of them made from the subtitle dialogue of every new Doctor Who story. The more the word is used in the story, the bigger it appears in the diagram. Some interesting things leap out:
http://sandwich.ukcod.org.uk/~matthew/subtitles/
Until next time, Cheerio.
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It was cool seeing this pop up in my feed. I'm an avid listener to their show (and viewer of their video eps) so it was a pleasant surprise.
Should be a good listen I'm sure. :-D
It's too bad the wordle pics are so small, those would make great desktops
Paul,
Really enjoyed your interview, especially the excitement in your voice when you talk about the Black Knight (my favorite character). I can't wait for the next issue and congrats on the 3rd printing of issue 2.
Hey Paul. Loved the podcast and I have to agree with you; the boys had me in hysterics with their John The Skrull impersonations in an earlier podcast.
And did I hear correctly, a letters page for CB&MI:13? If so, I've got some thinking to do. Out of the thousands of questions us readers want answered, which would be the best to pitch . . . ?
Congratulations on the #2 third printing too. Yes, the book is really that good.
Gotta love that wordle.net. I recently made one with every Doctor Who episode title.
Paul,
I was pleasantly surprised to stumble on your interview on IFanboy's homepage today. I'll have to shift my pull list around to make room for you, but I'm sold! I hope you have a lengthy run on Cap and M13.
I also hope that you and the Mrs have read or will read Whedon's Astonishing X Men. It leaves a man misty eyed and proud to be a Kitty Pride fan!
I'd love for you to post your pull list on this blog some time. Rock on!
Hello Paul, I'm reading Captain Britain & MI13 thanks to all this Secret Invasion stuff. I've never been much into Cap Britain (or Excalibur for that matter) so I don't really know what all these literature characters are doing there fighting Skrulls, but it's pretty awesome! I was all like 'what the hell...?' when the Green Knight showed up. I just hope he picks up his head now and goes to startle some Skrulls to death :D
I'll be sure to get #3 as soon as it comes out.
Kind regards,
Juan
Buenos Aires, Argentina
ps: Maradona is not a Skrull.
Thanks, all. It was actually a third printing of issue one, slip of the tongue on my part. We're having the letters page of each issue here on the blog: I'll blog specifically for LOCs when the next one's out. Yes, we've been following Astonishing with great joy. And glad to hear we've reached Buenos Aires.
Pretty cool. I was doodling a picture of Captain Britain (in the first Alan Davis costume, also seen in issue 1) on the envelope of a bill I didn't pay with a sharpie as I was listening. Took me back to middle school, drawing my own stories eagerly awaiting next month's Excalibur. I'm always struck by your real enthusiasm for the character.
What's your favorite Captain Britain moment? Paul's and anyone else's as well?
Mine, and this is SPOILERS if you haven't read the Delano/Davis stuff-as you should-was when he made the reasonable and responsible decision to kill Slaymaster with a giant bolder to the head. A scene which worked as vengance, but then Cap's telling pause just before really puts it in another light. Slaymaster: "Fool! You lack the STRENGTH to kill-" The last words he would utter. then Cap stands with this carnage at his feet and takes the measure of what he's just done. Never seen anything like that in any other comic, and probably actually my favorite scene in any comic ever. Top it, Paul!
And Happy 4th of July, for what it's worth!
Having the letters page here is a really interesting idea.
I haven't listened to the podcast yet. I just found it listed on a couple of forums this morning, and will have to wait until I'm out of work tonight.
I also only found out you'd tagged my blog a couple of days back, Paul, with the page 123 meme. My apologies. I returned from holiday to find that my other half's grandfather had passed away. It's all been a bit hectic this past week.
Congrats on the reprints for CB&MI:13, btw.
(squints at balloons) wow, they sure did mention Agatha's name a lot in TUATW
Doctor: "(turns to camera) that's AGATHA CHRSTIE! In your library under 'C'! Read Books! Read books!"
The podcast was the first I heard of your FF story. Have you read any of Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next novels? They are largely about being able to travel into fiction.
Favourite Cap moment? Hmm, like Faiza, I rather have a list. I'll get back to you on that. And yes, that's why Reed's Fictocraft is called 'The Jasper', and explicitly named by Sue because of that.
Hi Paul,
Listening to your interview right now while watching the Wimbledon Final.
It all sounds really cool - and am still waiting for my first two issues - and really can't wait.
I'd love to interview you myself at some point for scifipulse.net basically chat about comics and Doctor Who and anything you like really.
At present though am not set up for audio interviews due to my phone not having a speaker phone for me to work up a transcript from - but am hoping to address that in the near future.
I basically have issues with various bits of technology breaking down.
BTW as a none British element to your comic - have you ever thought of maybe introducing Ivanhoe or perhaps a descendant of Ivanhoe to the mix. Perhaps even throw Dick Turpin and Robin Hood in there as well.
I'll have to check that iFanboy show out. :D
Just watched the last Who episode - breathtaking scope, rushed at times, but very bittersweet.
Will you be writing anything for the Grand Moff, Paul?
Finally found enough free time to listen to the interview.
Great show. You were entertaining and erudite as always, and it's glad to hear someone enjoying their work.
Judging from the sirens, and alarms old Oxfordshire must be a crime ridden urban slum, and judging from those old Inspector Morse shows, riddled with academically inclined murders on a weekly basis. ;)
I like also that the whole alcoholism thing isn't going to come up again on your watch. Braddy had some drinks after a night that saw him defeated by the Crazy Gang and then escaping the Vixen's cruel clutches, battling a big mutated bum to the death, then captured again by the Technet, narrowly defeated by an evil doppleganger and transported to his alternate Earth, molested (although that's maybe the wrong word for it) by Sat-Yr-Nin, battling his way out of that and arriving back to his home Earth only to find that his double tried to rape his twin sister and -after having killed him- was now despondent to him, and understandably so.
If a man can't have a drink after that, I don't know what the hell.
It was in Claremont's Excalibur that the whole "you drink too much" thing happened. This after CB lets this bunch of freaks move in, hog the bathroom and hit on his girlfriend, talk down to him. Captain Britain was supposed to be the bad guy compared to these goody goodies, I didn't get it that way.
Another favorite Captain Britain moment- When he beat the blue out of Nightcrawler.
Ian: you've got two out of three of those characters in the FF miniseries coming soon! Mac: I don't know, way too early for that. Furious: it was just a car alarm that went off, I think because leaves were falling on it! Rocko: well, indeed.