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"Scale back" is quite the euphanism, isn't it.
That's all folks.
Also here, here and here. Edited to add: Val's take, Newsarama, Comic Forums, Brian Hibbs addresses Virgin's failure to properly market their Indian titles, Tom Spurgeon makes a Kali Yuga joke, Dirk Deppey makes with the intellectual masturbation, and then we have BLOGWAR!!
Edited again: Heidi's lengthy analysis. And finally, Gotham Chopra speaks, but about the Virulents movie deal and not about any of Virgin's actual comics. Arrrrrrrrrgh.
Aw geez. I can't believe that Dirk Deppey and I expressed a similar opinion about something. That makes me feel like I need to take a shower.
I wonder if MBX will go through, since it was half of a Perspective Studios project anyway.
I mean, it's always interesting to see another Western-influenced version of the Mahabharata, especially one that I assume was targeted at Western audiences. Worst case scenario is we end up with another Hamletodhana and the Amazing Multicolored Diversicast, but I don't think that's likely with Grant Morrison doing the writing. The more likely outcome is "delightfully batshit insane," rather than "overwrought and far too full of itself."
Well, anyway, this probably means that The Tall Tales of Vishnu Sharma is never going to get a trade. That's a pity. It was such perfect-for-libraries comic. (And also it makes me selfishly sad because I much much much prefer trades to floppies. I do not like keeping too many floppies in my comics collection. Argh.)
Also here, here and here. Edited to add: Val's take, Newsarama, Comic Forums, Brian Hibbs addresses Virgin's failure to properly market their Indian titles, Tom Spurgeon makes a Kali Yuga joke, Dirk Deppey makes with the intellectual masturbation, and then we have BLOGWAR!!
Edited again: Heidi's lengthy analysis. And finally, Gotham Chopra speaks, but about the Virulents movie deal and not about any of Virgin's actual comics. Arrrrrrrrrgh.
Aw geez. I can't believe that Dirk Deppey and I expressed a similar opinion about something. That makes me feel like I need to take a shower.
I wonder if MBX will go through, since it was half of a Perspective Studios project anyway.
I mean, it's always interesting to see another Western-influenced version of the Mahabharata, especially one that I assume was targeted at Western audiences. Worst case scenario is we end up with another Hamletodhana and the Amazing Multicolored Diversicast, but I don't think that's likely with Grant Morrison doing the writing. The more likely outcome is "delightfully batshit insane," rather than "overwrought and far too full of itself."
Well, anyway, this probably means that The Tall Tales of Vishnu Sharma is never going to get a trade. That's a pity. It was such perfect-for-libraries comic. (And also it makes me selfishly sad because I much much much prefer trades to floppies. I do not like keeping too many floppies in my comics collection. Argh.)
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Is it bad that I laughed like a crazy person at that? ^_^
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:D
I love you.
Boy, will that be a messed up theatre production...
And believe me, I've expressed similar opinions with loads of people I don't like that much, myself...then again, maybe it's because my idea of "similar opinion" is too basic.
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Oh, it was.
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Even something that's delightfully batshit insane would be an improvement over Karna pausing long enough for Abhimanyu to be resurrected from the dead and run him through with a spoon, before Arjuna actually kills him.
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I TRY NOT TO.
I still think my favorite stupid-death in the Brooks version is when Krishna slowly carries that arrow over to Bhisma's chest and then lightly taps him with it. I remember watching that scene and just howling with laughter. It was a Narm moment (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Narm) to be sure.
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-is trying fervently to get that mental image out of her head-
I honestly think Peter Brooks was smoking pot when he made that movie. Or something stronger.
Oh Krishna... where do I begin to snark about Peter Brooks' Krishna?
Duryodhana was the only saving grace of that movie. And maybe Abhimanyu. That chakravyuha scene had me laughing so hard that I was crying... and I normally bawl like a baby when Abhimanyu dies.