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Posted by:For a long while, I had a picture of Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson in fishnets and corsets as the background on my iPod Touch (whose name is Pepper, incidentally--as in Pepper Potts). That has no bearing on today's strip, but still. Fishnets and corsets.
One of the best things about writing a comic strip but not drawing it is that you never know when the characters you're writing for will show up naked. It's a surprise every single time.
I figure I ought to apologize again for the huge delay in getting Monday's strip up and the subsequent non-appearance of Wednesday's strip. Comic Genesis had to take time to sort through the mounds of comics it had to update due to the outage last weekend--there were so many, in fact, that the queue for updates didn't move for over seventy-two hours. One of these days we may well operate our very own server and never run into a problem quite like that again. Until then, we make do with what we have. Which, all things considered, works pretty well.
As I'm typing this sentence, it is 1:24 AM and I have just returned home from seeing the new Star Trek film. I have to say, I really enjoyed it, even though I went in skeptical. Early on in the movie, and even until fairly late in, there were bits of my canon-nazi soul that kept venting their outrage at the various ways in which J.J. Abrams had played fast and loose with one of my favorite science fiction series. But that settled down eventually, rather a bit to my surprise. In large part, it was because this film takes ST back to its roots in a very important way: the focus is not placed on gadgetry and whiz-bang pseudoscientific mumbo-jumbo (something that plagued Voyager especially)--the focus is placed on the characters, where it really ought to be.
There were some whiz-bang sci-fi things, but they were pure phlebotinum and didn't get in the way of the main thrust of the movie. And really, would it be Star Trek if it didn't have the occasional bit of futuristic bric-a-brac?
Anyway, I think assigning numerical scores to films is a silly and incredibly simplistic way of finishing off a review, as it requires the boiling down of a complex web of opinions into a single digit. So I won't give it a score. I will say that, even though the bits of fanservice that pepper the movie can be somewhat heavy-handed and distracting, and even though it looks at first glance to be the biggest case of canon rape in the history of the franchise (it's not--Enterprise probably holds that dubious honor), I think even diehard, dedicated Trek fans ought to give this one a shot. There's a lot of good stuff kicking around there that we haven't seen in a movie bearing the Star Trek name in quite a while.
Now, if only I could convince Sarah to go...
-James
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