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Soap Opera Introduces A Superhero

Marvel Comics has partnered with CBS’ daytime soap opera Guiding Light to produce an episode in which a character is zapped by an electrical current and becomes infused with superpowers, including the ability to levitate and to conduct electricity, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The episode, set to air Nov. 1, involves the show’s Harley Davidson Cooper character, played by Beth Ehlers. As part of the deal, Marvel will produce an eight-page insert for some of its top comic titles that involves Marvel characters descending on Light’s fictional town of Springfield to determine whether the new superhero is friend or foe.

It seems like “Superhero” is the buzzword in the entertainment industry these days, but a superhero on a soap opera…sounds like a cheap attempt to boost viewership. I think the people who watch these shows will be put off by this and the people who enjoy superhero stories will find a superhero in a soap opera kind of lame.

I’ve been enjoying a couple of new shows this season. They are Heroes and Jericho.

Heroes is a show about ordinary people who suddenly find they have some sort of power or ability. It has taken a couple of episodes to get going, but it is really getting good now.
You can visit the official website for more information. You can even watch the episodes online and get extra content relating to the series. Heroes Website.

Jericho is the other new program I have been watching. It concerns the people in the small town of Jericho, Kansas, who have survived a nuclear attack on the country. At this point they are still trying to learn what has happened and just survive.
More at the official Jericho Website.

Then earlier today I read an entertainment industry news item that Marvel Studios has pacted with Vancouver-based production company No Equal Entertainment to develop a live-action TV series based on the cult-favorite comic book superhero MOON KNIGHT.
I actually own the entire first series run of the comic books. They were pretty good.
There is a Wikipedia site for Moon Knight here.

A couple of years ago I read this book:

The Time Travelers Wife. Very enjoyable. Here is a brief description –

The Time Traveler’s Wife follows the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty- six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity in his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing.

And now there is a movie being developed based on the novel. I think I will have to see that when it comes out.

I have added a link on the right column under the LINKS catagory. It’s to a page of Cyberboard files I have created to play a few of my boardgames.
If you’re already familiar with Cyberboard check out the gamefiles I have created.

If you’re not familiar with the program you can continue here… (more…)

It’s been a while so I better post something.

I show a new trailer today for the upcoming Ghost Rider movie starring Nicholas Cage. It’s due out next February.

This trailer is really cool. Here are some screen shots from the trailer:

I never really got into the Ghost Rider comics, but do have a few boxed up somewhere.
If you want to view the trailer here’s the link. Be warned – it’s a HUGE file and will take quite a while to download.

Ghost Rider Trailer