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Telefantasy Hugo Game, Dark X-Men Preview
For those of you not reading on Blogger, go have a look at the poll on the right of the blog over there. I'll wait. Ah, there you are again, that didn't take long. The wisdom of crowds has spoken, and it says that the five Hugo nominees for the Short Form Drama category next year will be episodes from:
Doctor Who.
Dollhouse.
Lost.
True Blood.
Fringe.
Now, of course the poll doesn't allow for multiple episodes from the same show, Torchwood: Children of Earth will be in the Long Form category, and there's still no sign of Caprica, which has to appear before the end of the year to qualify. And, ahem, I forgot The Prisoner, which may well get a nomination. So here are my own bets, and we'll meet here again when the nominations are decided, and see who made the best guesses, and I hope you lot don't kick my arse. I think the five nominees will be:
Doctor Who: Russell's end of season two-parter.
Dollhouse: probably 'Epitaph One', which would be kind of a shame, in that it's unrepresentative.
Lost: I'd like it to 'The Variable', because it was awesome.
Stargate Universe: though picking a particular episode will be tough.
The Prisoner: who knows?
Much as I'd love to see True Blood and Flash Forward in there. Fringe, in the last couple of weeks, seems to have suffered a blow to the head, and is staggering about, suddenly aware that it's on a tightrope and lack of format equals no safety net, while SU displays continuing excellence. At times I think it kind of... does Galactica better than Galactica did. Yes, I know, I was shocked to feel that way too. Anyway, the game is afoot! Individual bets on five shows and particular episodes in the comments are always welcome.
Meanwhile, next Wednesday/Thursday depending on which side of the pond your comic shop is, the first issue of Dark X-Men is out, which reunites me with Leonard Kirk and Nick Lowe, the old team from Captain Britain and MI-13. You can find the first few pages, and a similar preview of my mate Kieron Gillen's excellent S.W.O.R.D. series here.
And I hope that while you're in said comic shop, you may well pick up my other mate Chris Roberson's Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love, in which Chris continues to show why he will one day be the Mayor of all media.
And it seems that With Great Power, the superhero prose anthology from Pocket Books, edited by Lou Anders, in which I have a story, will be out in the States on July 20th. Amazon has it listed here.
Until next time, Cheerio!
Until next time, Cheerio!
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I'm looking forward to Dark X-Men # 01 and encourage anyone to pick up this powerhouse of art and writing!
Thanks very much!
Here are a couple of advance reviews of Dark X-Men #1.
Great stuff, Paul!
Thanks very much, Dave, it was a great pleasure to read those.
I think it is to late to suggest it, but the Stargate Universe episode: "Time" was excellent.
Yes, I thought that was excellent, entirely Hugo-worthy, as I will blog about shortly.