Assorted Ramblings: Software, Comics, Whatever Else

[dewline]

Some semi-random notes tonight...

• Software Notes: I've started fiddling with some beta/freeware from Newfoundland called Celtx. It's a scriptwriting program, designed specifically for the TV/video/film trade. So far, it's on version 0.9.4 and it seems to do most of what one might expect of a scriptwriting program, but then I may be ill-informed as yet; I've had the program installed on my iBook for a grand total of two hours, after all.


• Comics: One of the titles I've found myself liking over the last year has been Moonstone Books' rendition of Kolchak: the Night Stalker. Some of you may recall from your not entirely misspent youth viewings of a select handful of episodes of this particular hidden gem starring Darren McGavin as the perpetually frustrated reporter Carl Kolchak on the CBS Late Night Movie on Friday nights some twenty or more years ago, just as cable was beginning to take hold in homes across Canada. This series -- actually two runnning in tandem, one an irregular collection of done-in-one graphic novels, the other a semi-monthly in the standard 32-pager format -- hits most of the best notes of that hidden TV gem that got axed far too soon for my liking. If you're going to test'em out, start with the OGNs in particular. I doubt you'll regret it.


• Politics: I've got a rant about the upcoming election to work out. I'll try to post it within the next couple of days, by which point I hope it'll make sense.

And that's that for the moment...

Comments

[black13.livejournal.com]

I liked the comic, I just don't think Moonstone comics are worth the cover price. I've got a $3.-- limit for what I'm willing to spend on a single. Now, if they'd release the singles in TPB format (if they do, I missed it), I might be interested. But as things stand, Moonstone's just too expensive. (I don't read IDW comics for the same reason, even though they publish some stuff that would interest me.)

On the Kolchak TPB Question?

[dewline.livejournal.com]

They're carrying trade collections now, alright.

Details at this message board posting of theirs (http://moonstonebooks.proboards67.com/index.cgi?board=kolchak&action=display&thread=1131711683).

[savageknight.livejournal.com]

Hey Dwight! Did you ever get the Copias I mailed you? Did you enjoy them? Enquiring Minds want to know! :)

As regards the 'Copias...

[dewline.livejournal.com]

...I was sure I'd e-mailed a "thank you" for them, Mike, and I am giving serious thought to the invitation implied therein. I'm going to want to discuss this further with you in e-mail ASAP.

Re: As regards the 'Copias...

[savageknight.livejournal.com]

Well there is definitely room for you to hop aboard! Still waiting to hear from you... :)

Tell me what you need and I'll be glad to answer!