With the new Transformers movie currently in cinemas, Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott conclude their interview with the writer (Simon Furman) and one of the most acclaimed artists (Geoff Senior) of the seminal British Transformers comic from the 1980s looking at Furman’s continuation of the mythos for a variety of publishers, Senior’s new career as [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Panel Borders: Transformers – …and now!
Published by July 30th, 2007 in I'm Ready for my Closeup and Panel Borders. 0 CommentsA cool-a-stoop to you all on this fine day… Internet? Check Freely downloaded music? Check Stupid person saying stupid things? Check It looks as though marvin suicide is all set for another episode then. The tracklistings are below should you wish to browse: 1. Ik Wil Naar Huis by Kluge Leute, Kluge Leute: www.belugarecordings.com 2. [...]
It was pale and fierce, gulping down a bowl of soup. I wondered if it was Jah, come to deliver me from Babylon, but I have a very shaky grasp of Rastafarianism, so I cast that thought unto the winds. The Pabstus Tack Trilogy Pale And Fierce A Byword For Utter Gorgeousness Pebblehead Versus Pebblehead [...]
I’m ready for my close-up: Larger than life part one
Published by July 26th, 2007 in I'm Ready for my Closeup. 1 CommentTonight, as I’m ready for my close-up goes podcast only for the next four weeks*, it’s the first of two shows looking at the largest of large screen cinema. In part one, Alex Fitch interviews David Strohmaier, director of the documentary Cinerama Adventure which looks at the rise and fall of the seminal 1950s big [...]
Good morning, good morning, good morning. I feel on top of the world today, how about you? If, like me, you can be a bit silly now and again then you might appreciate this weeks episode of marvin suicide. Not only is the freely downloaded music of its usual high quality but you will also [...]
Panel Borders: Transformers – then…
Published by July 23rd, 2007 in I'm Ready for my Closeup and Panel Borders. 0 CommentsWith a week to go until the release of the new Transformers movie, Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott interview the writer (Simon Furman) and one of the most acclaimed artists (Geoff Senior) of the seminal British Transformers comic from the 1980s which helped cement a love of the robots in disguise for our generation as [...]
I think we were meant to see the captain as a kind of Ahab figure, obsessed and mad as well as sinister, but for me this effect was flawed by the fact that it was a rented tugboat. Bagshaw/Shawbag did not own it. Every week he had to slip some coinage into the waiting palm [...]
Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, marvin suicide. The tracklist: 1. Did You Find Hawkins? by Ebola, Predator (Shwarzenegger Series): www.net-lab.co.uk 2. Sleep Well by Rich.vom.Dorf, Misinterpret Yourself: www.notype.com/nishi 3. Where It Falls (Suz’s Rip Up The Rug Remix) by David Last, Whatwhat?: www.unfoundsoundrecords.com 4. So Said by Joe Ellis, Six Of One, Half A Dozen Of The Other EP: [...]
Panel Borders: 1001 comics by Peter David pt.2
Published by July 16th, 2007 in I'm Ready for my Closeup and Panel Borders. 0 CommentsIn the second episode of Panel Borders in its regular slot, guest presenter Paul Cornell (Doctor Who) concludes his interview with the prolific and popular American comics writer Peter David about continuing Stephen King’s epic saga The Dark Tower in comic book format and the ever present challenge of continuity… Original broadcast: 16th July ’07 [...]
Autumn. Shipwreck. Curtains. Exile. Frost. Balconies. Pandaemonium. Hedgerows. Banisters. Carpets. Hinges. Remembrance. Hair. Custard. Dribble. Fanfares. Dampness. Bauxite. Trousers. Canals. Boskage. Lasciviousness. Tunics. Spigots. Iron. Cranks. Floozies. Doppelgangers. Tin. Bales. Agony. Loss. Lust. Love. Crack. Bang. Crunlop. Lars Talc is dead. A reading from Characters; or Witty Descriptions of the Properties of Sundry Persons by [...]