Books of Magick: Life During Wartime

I'd have to hear who's writing it first. Dystopian + Psychological + Vertigo generally just means wanking.

I loved the original story and the series it spawned, but in retrospect I only really love the original. John Ney Rieber can write cleverly and do decent child characters, but didn't seem to have any idea where to go after a while. Which happens a lot all over the place: Milligan's Shade being a classic Vertigo example.

So Tim Hunter was like a good 7 or 8 yrs before Hairy Pitster, right?

Yeah, although the similarities -- as both (creator/miniseries writer) Gaiman and (regular series writer) Neiber pointed out -- are pretty superficial, with "boy who discovers he can use magic, wears glasses, has owl" the only real overlaps.

uh-huh.
"boy
who discovers he can use magic, wears glasses, has owl"

I really wasn't aware there was anything else to either series.

I'm just being an ass.

Even if there weren't, "magic" and "owl" are defined differently in both :)

Vertigo did later -- post-Potter -- bring out a miniseries that sent Tim off to wizard school, which seemed a little over the top.

Hedwig vs. Yo-Yo. FITE!

I thought sending Courtney Crumrin to wizard school was a bit too Potterish, even though she's ten times the man he is.

It says that the series is being written by Si Spencer, a British television writer. Seems Si Spencer writes a show called "Grange Hill." Researching a bit further, I read the synopsis for a recent episode that left me going, "What the fuck?"

Now I can only assume Tim will meet and befriend two guys named Calvin and Spencer. The three will get into all sorts of embarrassing and hilarious trouble together, trying to find girls, playing with goats and starring in their own DVD.

Seriously, WTF? Should I be worried?

Grange Hill = The OC 20 years ago. It's probably had 100 writers.

The original is being made into a movie.

Saw a preview for Catwoman before Troy this weekend and it looks like total shit. Ha.

What VG said also goes for the Constantine trailer, but I might be bitter because I want the cigarettes & the accent & the haircolor & Colin Farrell in place of Keanu.

The best I can hope for from Constantine is that it's neat in its own way without having any of the virtues of the comic -- which doesn't doom it to being a bad movie, just a bad adaptation. So it goes; I'd be upset if I thought its existence precluded the possibility of a more faithful Hellblazer movie, but that never seemed likely.

Catwoman's sort of the same way without the last sentence, I guess. But Catwoman as done in Batman Returns was so ridiculous that I don't have it in me to blame Hollywood for ignoring the comics altogether and sticking with the tried-and-true "established sex star in leather" formula.