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Serenity Comic Book Series
stoolpigeon writes "CBR News is reporting that Dark Horse will be publishing a 3 comic series to provide material that bridges the gap between the Firefly T.V. show and the Serenity film. From the press release: 'The plot of the comic book series centers on the crew members of the ship known as Serenity, who once again find themselves broke and on the wrong side of a number of very large firearms when a heist goes awry, and some old enemies catch their scent. After facing one failure after another, Malcolm Reynolds becomes the target of a conspiracy between government and mercenary forces, and a tense and divided crew must try to unite behind their compromised leader...'"
Right behind
* 1. The Phantom of the Opera (2-Disc Special Edition)
Which was released on May 3 - 7 days ago
* 6. The Andy Griffith Show - The Complete Second Season
Which isn't released until May 24 - so preorder
* 12. Abs Diet
Which was released on May 3 - 7 days ago
* 13. Gilmore Girls - The Complete Third Season
Which was released on May 3 - 7 days ago
* 25. Quantum Leap - The Complete Third Season
Which is released today
* 33. WWE WrestleMania XXI
Which was released today.
* 38. Star Trek Enterprise - The Complete First Season (doomed, ya already know this, right?)
Which was released May 3 - 7 days ago
* 43. Ocean's Twelve (Widescreen Edition) (what? one week in the theater, was it?)
Which was released April 12 - 28 days ago.
Compared with Firefly which was released on December 9 2003 - 518 days ago.
Can you seriously not see the difference?
I think if you manage to think of her as more than a "whore" -- which is what Mal and other use as a put down -- and instead think of her as the companion she is, you will see that there is precedent in real life in the Geisha.
As always in Firefly, western and eastern culture meet somewhere...
Belief is the currency of delusion.
Yet more proof that you want the rewards without doing the work. To wit:
You have been told exactly how you go about achieving your goals.
You go to where the industry is: this is not a matter of luck, this is not a matter of "Gosh darn, that guy was just SO FORTUNATE to have decided to move to LA and sleep in the gutter until he manages to get work." This is How. It. Works. Unless you manage to build a writing career elsewhere that makes them sit up and take notice - and that means makes someone a fair chunk of money - you go to LA. Period.
You send printed scripts in the format that the agencies and script editors demand. If you can't do something as basic and as simple as that, then you're more trouble than you're worth to them, and they won't bother with you. The writing staff of any series want to find people - and according to the people in the industry I know, some of them are pretty desperate to find people - who will make their jobs easier, not harder. Reading a script on-line is hard, because it's not the way the industry is set up. Expecting them to print your scripts is hard, because a: printing takes them *time*, and they're already working eighteen hour days - when they have work at all, and b: it costs them money, and they don't know you from Adam, so they have zero reason to spend the money. You might be broke - but you want something from them, and they don't particularly want what you've got to give them, which is attitude. Your post basically screams that you think that "I'm So Talented That Everybody Must Adjust To Me." Which, quite frankly, is an attitude they have enough of in the industry, and they don't need to be bringing any more in.
Your scripts might be good. I don't know. I don't especially care, because I *do* know that the people who sign the checks want to know that they're likely to make their money back and then some. To *know*. To be able to go to the stockholders and say, even in the case of failure, "We did everything we could to make sure we weren't wasting our money."
You aren't willing to give them that. You aren't even willing to make the most basic of concessions to them. "I'm so talented that someone with eighty million dollars to invest in a TV series should come to my website and print out my scripts because I'm too fucking lazy to print and mail them myself."
It's always easier to cry and claim that if it weren't for these immense hurdles that you'd show them, show them aaaallll than it is to actually try to surmount those hurdles, isn't it?
It's not luck in your case, Sparky. You're convicted by your own words. You're just lazy. Face facts.