An excerpt:
Writer Greg Pak, best known in my eyes as the man who sired the epic Planet Hulk, knows the Galactica mythos well, pitting Colonial prophecy against Cylon paranoia as well as fusing Viper dogfights with marine firefights. Adama’s exchanges with Starbuck, as well Baltar’s conversations with his imaginary Six, sound dead-on, so much so that you can hear the actor’s voices reading the lines. The greatest touch is Adama’s journal entries, which he addresses to the real Zak’s memory.
Newsarama has posted an advance review of “Incredible Hercules” #134, written by Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente with pencils by Reilly Brown. Here’s an excerpt:
Hercules’ gregarious nature is what carries this book, as he rises to the challenge of impersonating the Norse God of Thunder: when the beautiful Dark Elf Queen Alfyse challenges the ruse, saying that his distinctive demeanor and intact hammer are suspicious, Herc simply grins. “Of course. I am Thor,” he says. “And I assure you, my…hammer works just fine.” Never change, Hercules. It’s this sort of humor that reigns for the rest of the issue, culminating in a brilliant final page.
Click here to read the whole review.
Click here to view a six page lettered preview.
“Incredible Hercules” #134 hits comic book stores tomorrow.
Marvel.com has posted three lettered pages of “Incredible Hulk” #602, written by Greg Pak with art by Ariel Olivetti. The story features Bruce Banner and his savage son Skaar in a showdown with the Juggernaut.
Feast your eyes.
“Incredible Hulk” #604 hits comic book stores on Wednesday, September 23.
Word to the wise — Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada will reveal some behind the scenes details about the Disney merger in his Comic Book Resources column today. Check out the ticking clock at CBR — the new column goes live shortly!
A FilmHelp article by Greg Pak
After upgrading to Mac OS 10.6, a.k.a. Snow Leopard, the latest Apple operating system, I’ve had a series of Finder crash/reboots when opening folders of older material I’d transferred from Firewire backup drives. I eventually realized that every folder that was crashing contained files from Fetch 4.0.2 — the “Fetch Prefs,” “Fetch Cache,” and “Fetch Shortcuts” files. I suspect there’s something about the way these image files are built that causes the crash (maybe related to the problem cited in this post). I rebooted the computer in 10.5.8 (which has no trouble opening the folders) and moved the Fetch files into subfolders. Since then I’ve had no problems opening the main folders in 10.6.
A FilmHelp article by Greg Pak
I recently bought my first new desktop in eight years and upgraded to Final Cut Pro 7 to edit my new short film “Mister Green.” I’ll be posting much more about “Mister Green” soon. But for now, here’s a painfully detailed report on the trials and travails of transferring a much older film project to the new workstation. Here’s hoping it helps someone out there avoid my mistakes.
Transferring the Media
The older project had files scattered across multiple drives on an old blue and white G3 desktop. Unfortunately, out of the box, the G3 and my new 2.66 GHz Pro Mac don’t communicate particularly well. The new Mac only has Firewire 800 ports; the old Mac only has Firewire 400 ports. A cheap adapter would let me plug Firewire 400 devices into the new Mac. But my dream of transferring directly from the old computer to the new computer using Target Disk Mode didn’t work out — the blue and white G3s apparently don’t work as target computers. Although, strangely enough, two of the drives on the B&W did show up when I connected it via Firewire to the new computer. (Your guess is a good as mine!) But for the bulk of the media, I had to transfer the data onto Firewire drives, then transfer it again from the Firewire drives to the new Mac.
Even that relatively straightforward process became a bit complicated when I discovered that my newest Firewire drives wouldn’t open on the old Mac — they’d been formatted to be bootable with Intel Macs, which means they don’t show up on old Macs running less than OS 10.4. So I used some older Firewire drives, which were a bit touchy and crashed once or twice.
MondoMagazine.net reviews the latest issues of “Incredible Hercules,” written by Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente. Here’s an excerpt:
Two issues this month, both fantastic. The first issue focuses on Hercules going on an adventure disguised as Thor and the second issue has Amadeus Cho fighting floating brains. Honestly, if that doesn’t make you want to buy it then you and I are two very different people. The art was expressive, the gags were hilarious, and the action was awesome. This was the month that Incredible Hercules went from being one of my favourite Marvel comics to being my favourite Marvel comic. Period.
