Elonian Nomad - 3rd Strike

Happy Independence Day, Philippines!

To slowly ease out on the D&D wagon, today’s collection are geek and gaming related.

Somewhat Recent Gaming News

• Magic: The Gathering Duel Decks for November - Unlike the new MtG Theme Decks, this one will be complete 60 card decks.  Probably like the Elves vs Goblins thing they released a while back.
• Alpha Point: Designing the HeroClix Alpha Rules System
• Cthulhu Dice Now Unlimited!
• The Gamer Dome: Community Game Design Projects
• Rubik’s Cube Algorithm Cut Again, Down To 23 Moves

Gaming Features

• The Evil That Designers Do
• Gencon Bankruptcy Filing– Guess Who They Owe Money to?

Movies/TV/Animation

• Grayskull: Masters of the Universe Script Review - Hmmm. Ok, it could work.  I just hope they don’t start thinking that a hip-n-edgy “My Little Pony” would work too.
• Interview: Dave Gibbons talks Watchmen and more…
• Pinoy animators form ‘holy alliance’
• HBO turns ‘Fire’ into fantasy series
• 10 year old cartoonist, Alexa Kitchen, signs with Hyperion/Disney

Misc. Geek Stuff

• Podcast Interview with H.P. Lovecraft Scholar, S.T. Joshi
• 7 Super Heroes We Can Live Without
• McFarlane, Portacio on ‘Spawn’ - Haven’t heard about anything from those guys in a while.  I wonder how Whilce’s art style would look on Spawn?

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It appears that Dreamworks is undergoing the beginnings of a Tintin film. As of now, it isn’t clear if it’ll be a live action or an animated film, although I’m personally hoping that it will be an old school (ergo: 2d) form of animation.

Tintin is the creation of Belgian cartoonist Hergé (Georges Prosper Rémi). He and his dog Snowy Milou get into adventures around the world along with several recurring characters (which is somewhat ironic because at the time that Hergé pitched Tintin to publishers he had never been outside of Belgium). The comics is very popular, it has been translated into many languages and has had several animated seasons (which were all pretty well done, IMHO).

So far, I can’t imagine how Tintin would be if not in 2d, but I guess it’s too early to speculate on anything at this point (we don’t even know if the movie will be based on an existing story or not). I hope we’ll get tidbits regarding the developments on the film soon.

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Joseph Barbera, co-founder of the Hanna-Barbera animation production company, died last 2006.12/18 from natural causes at the age of 95.

Hanna-Barbera gives fond memories of Saturday morning cartoons I watched when I was a kid. I grew up watching Scooby-Doo, The Jetsons, The Flinstones, Super Friends, and many other animated products they produced, as I’m sure many of my current generation did. The rights to their animation has been with Time Warner these past few years, which is why the shows they produced in the past are currently being played in Cartoon Network, along with the newer stuff the current kids are watching.

To William Hannah (1910.07/14 - 2001.03/22) and Joseph Barbera: Thank you very much for all the wonderful childhood memories.

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