Welcome back to another edition of the Roundup! I finally have some stuff to share. I have been playing with some online tools that are really fun. I even tried my first attempt at creating a new comic strip. Of course, I will tell you where all of these lovely things are. That’s the point of this column, after all.
Okay, so not so funny. Some of you brighter cats out there might recognize the Die Hard reference. You can create your own comic strips at stripgenerator.com. Go make some and post the links in our Community.
Speaking of dire creatures. Holy crap! They really live in China!
From our Even In Death, There Is No End Department: In case there are still some people out there that are waiting for the new Wheel of Time book, it looks like the last one may be released in November.
You can watch 20 episodes of the classic Dungeon and Dragons Cartoon here for free.
MTV is reporting that Lucasfilm is now casting for the LIVE ACTION STAR WARS TV show!
A live-action TV series set in the “Star Wars” cosmos has been an elusive, tantalizing prospect for years. News of the potential production first surfaced in 2005 while George Lucas was promoting “Revenge of the Sith.” Work on the “Clones Wars” animated feature film and Cartoon Network series, though, took creative precedence. In late 2007, Lucas revealed that he and his team were about to begin writing scripts for the live-action show. Now MTV News has learned that casting for the series is currently underway.
During the junket for the Nicolas Cage thriller “Knowing,” star Rose Byrne let slip that Team Lucas is casting a wide net for actors to join the show. “A lot of my friends have been auditioning for it,” she said.
According to Lucas, the show will focus on minor characters from the saga and be set in the time period between “Revenge of the Sith” (Episode III) and the original “Star Wars” (Episode IV). The action will follow the Rebel Alliance as it slowly gains strength against the Empire. There will be Stormtroopers, but no Jedi or Darth Vader will appear on screen. As he did with the “Clone Wars” series, Lucas will write and shoot an entire year’s worth of episodes before looking for a cable channel on which to air the series.
Thus, with casting just now moving forward, it looks to be quite some time before fans will be able to catch some live-action “Star Wars” on the small screen.
In case some of you youngsters don’t know what it was like for us grizzled vets of RPG’s check out the free web book “Quick Primer for Old School Gaming“.
I absolutely hate it when someone has a great idea and follows up with it before I have the same idea and follow up on it. I really, really wish I would have thought of this first. Awesome. Fantastic! I wish Monte all the best of luck with this one.
Comedy Central is going to become my new home. With The Daily Show, Colbert, South Park and now KROD MANDOON, I may never need another channel:
Krod Mandoon and The Flaming Sword of Fire is a groundbreaking action-comedy that is equal parts workplace comedy and sword and sorcery fun. An outrageous, live-action, character-driven show set in an ancient fantasy realm, the series follows reluctant hero Krod Mandoon, a thin-skinned and underconfident freedom fighter, who is the last great hope in the struggle against the evil ruler, Chancellor Dongalor.
To help fight the great fight, Krod has assembled a band of remarkably ineffective freedom fighters: Aneka the beautiful Pagan warrioress whose weapon of choice is sex, Loquasto the oafish servant with bad aim, Zezelryck the young warlock whose greatest magical gift is spinning BS, and Bruce, who’s simply fabulous. Together, they must overcome a myriad of evil obstacles in their quest to save the world, including name-calling, hired assassins and bad hair days.
I am only going to provide the URL for this next bit. It needs no further explanation: http://www.bloodbowl-game.com/
And last but not least, I’ll leave you with a few images and a trailer for the new QT movie.
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