Seriously: Whedon was stoned when he did this interview, right? That tracks, and few other explanations do. Anyhooza, the second printing of Buffy #1 comes out tomorrow so if you still haven't bought the best thing ever ever ever, now's your actual chance (not like last time with all the annoyingness). Go. Be. Do.

Speaking of comics, I am well, well behind on Extreme Steve. I have the next seven written but none of them drawn. I think it's going to be a couple of weeks. I blame Adam. Suddenly I'm like my own Joss Whedon, piddling out useless excuses in the nonsensical 18 months between Fray #6 and Fray #7. But at the end of the day I don't want to whip out shitty product just to hit my dates. And yes I realize we're talking about Extreme Steve here.

Aside from the overwhelming (and unexpected) emotional response of just seeing Lyra yesterday in that clip reel, there was also a pretty strong emotional response on my end to being able to "see through the previz." I talked about this on Mamo last night a bit too and I don't think I'm expressing myself very well, but it's like a kind of "being here now, and here is good" feeling about my preferred form of art. The language keeps evolving and we keep evolving with it, to the point where I can look at a woman in a witch costume dangling from a wire in front of a green screen, or a crudely-animated dog transforming into a butterfly, and get carried away by it nonetheless because the last five or six years have taught my eye how. I learned a new thing without noticing. I was reading Cinefex #100 earlier this week, which is a couple of years old now but had this omnibus look at the "state of the nation" with regard to visual effects and filmmaking in Hollywood... and even beyond just visual effects, these things together made me suddenly realize that I believe too hard in the "death of cinema." I am prophesying the doom of something that shows no sign of ceasing to be a beautiful, wondrous thing. We all get it in the end.

In like kind, here's where I live, circa 1931...

...which gives me the same sort of feeling. The feeling that it's springtime, that it's my sister's alignment day (27th birthday on the 27th of the month in the year 2007), and that good things come in threes. So... eyes front, Mr. Brown.

"Ace Kittyhawk, the spacebear, and Ion Z, an alien bunny, fly around in their rocket ship with their pet dragon having the most wonderful adventures observing other beings. They enjoy seeing all the strange happenings all over the universe." - Kidrobot.com