Star Wars, Star Trek and other Sci-Fi

[Orionblamblam]

it does offend others.

And that, sadly, is the guiding star of modern society.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

it does offend others.

And that, sadly, is the guiding star of modern society.

Some of the offended are the more chronologically-challenged engineers we want to remain members. That's my major concern.

 

[Flyaway]

It made me laugh that when I searched on You Tube for bad comic artist all the top hits were for Rob Liefeld.

 

[Orionblamblam]

Some of the offended are the more chronologically-challenged engineers we want to remain members. That's my major concern.

Damn kids these days, a bunch of snowflakes, can't even handle a modicum of harsh language.

 

[Dilandu]

... unlike certain well known male comics artists I can think of in the nineties. Some of whom ended up making both men and women characters look disturbingly freakish.

Oh, you exaggerate. It was fine. It was all fine.

Ah, good old Rob Liefield... The collections of his "best" works gave me a lot of healthy laugh)

 

[edwest4]

it does offend others.

And that, sadly, is the guiding star of modern society.

Some of the offended are the more chronologically-challenged engineers we want to remain members. That's my major concern.

"chronologically-challenged"??? Seriously?

At least that's a bit more clever than most of the invented words/terms out there that are designed to give the illusion that everyone is "living in the future" (TM)... or something. I'll stick with or something.

 

[Arjen]

A euphemism like chronologically-challenged can be used to sweep unwelcome facts under the carpet, or as is the case here, to lighten the mood of a thread. This thread, considering its subject, is in sore need of such relief.

In short: lighten up. Please.

 

[Orionblamblam]

In short: lighten up. Please.

Sigh. No, no, no. It's:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syV2LkGpQB0

 

[Michel Van]

Hey NETFLIX !

https://twitter.com/x/status/1482404318347153413

View: https://twitter.com/TheSpiceDAO/status/1482404318347153413


And take this french studio that make this, to do that Dune...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXmAurh012s

 

[drejr]

Hey NETFLIX !

https://twitter.com/x/status/1482404318347153413

View: https://twitter.com/TheSpiceDAO/status/1482404318347153413

They bought a book for a few million dollars more than it was worth, not the media rights to Dune.

The best they could hope for is something "inspired" by Jorodowsky's Dune, which would end up being something like The Incal without Moebius to actually make it worth looking at.

If people thought Lynch's Dune was bad I wonder what they would have thought about 14 hours of Jodorowsky's nonsense.

 

[Orionblamblam]

They bought a book for a few million dollars more than it was worth, not the media rights to Dune.

Yeah, there's a distinct lack of comprehension about how intellectual property rights work. They didn't buy the rights to "Dune." They didn't buy the rights to the *designs* by Moebius and Giger and Foss for Dune. They just bought a book... and they didn't even gain the rights to sell copies of that book.

 

[Michel Van]

If people thought Lynch's Dune was bad I wonder what they would have thought about 14 hours of Jodorowsky's nonsense.

This part of legend build up during decade base on some Jodorowsky early work
Fact was that Jodorowsky was willing to make more grounded Dune Movie with run time of 3 to 6 hours.
But was backstab by financiers during Christmas of 1978

Currently Spice DAO has to face this challenges
make a deal with:

Jodorowsky (still alive)
Chris Foss (still alive and painting)
heirs of Jean Moebius Giraud (died in 2012)
heirs of H.R. Giger (died in 2014)
heirs of Ron Cobb (died in 2020)
and other artist involve in that project, all of them has right on compensation to use there work on 1976 Dune

Warner Media current owner of rights on Dune has the final word on that project.
If Spice DAO does it diplomatic Jodorowsky Dune could become a HBO Max tv series...

Oh by way
here is content of DUNE Book

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNGBuasYa_WETf7sF6Q9W3SN-X7oiB3jrh5QDMMNQPQl9xgS3cua--BhRr-BImP1w?pl

and on INCAL...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DkxB75CNvA

 

[martinbayer]

it does offend others.

And that, sadly, is the guiding star of modern society.

Some of the offended are the more chronologically-challenged engineers we want to remain members. That's my major concern.

I prefer chronologically advanced - it's a feature, not a bug. But I appreciate the sentiment.

 

[Graham1973]

Moving back to artwork, a Star Wars inspired piece by Angus McKie that appeared in one of the 'Terran Trade Authority' splatbooks, I'm not sure what book cover it first graced though.

 

[starviking]

Realm of the Tri-Planets, Orbit Books.

 

[Graham1973]

Another Star Wars inspired piece this time by Eddie Jones. The blog 70s Sci-Fi art lists this as 'First Assault on the Death Star' but did it ever grace the cover of an official Star Wars product...

 

[Foo Fighter]

OK, there is not much on the idiot box but repeated repeats. The Martian again, being cycled over and over. I get that a lot of thought went into the whole thing but, Why did they get their astrunut to make a hole in the rovers roof and attach a balloon to it? No improvement in space and more capacity required for atmospheric recycling. I just do not get it.

 

[publiusr]

Realm of the Tri-Planets, Orbit Books.

I thought it was Trantor…

 

[starviking]

Realm of the Tri-Planets, Orbit Books.

I thought it was Trantor…

That or the Death Star.

 

[Michel Van]

Realm of the Tri-Planets, Orbit Books.

I thought it was Trantor…

That or the Death Star.

That's Perry Rhodan Novel, it's planet Arkon III, the Warworld
The Entire planet is one gigantic factory that produce Spaceships and weapons. serve also as training site for recruits and astronauts.

Tri-Planes is english term for Home system of Arkonid Empire
They move three Planets in one stable orbit around it Sun, in form equilateral triangle
as Symbol of there Power

 

[Michel Van]

Sad news

Jean-Claude Mézières past away
One of influential Comic artis in France
His series Valerian and Laureline is one best Sci-fi Comic series ever
he made also artwork for movies like The fifth Element

He gave me the beauty of Univers as Child with Valerian and Laureline
and influence me deeply in my work

 

[Arjen]

The inside cover of Les Mauvais Rêves - how his contemporaries saw him in the eighties.
... and some Alien Dentistry.

 

[Michel Van]

Jean-Claude Mézières work influence certain George Lucas...

Mézières took it with humor...

 

[edwest4]

The Ark gets series production order.

‘The Ark’ Sci-Fi Drama From Dean Devlin Gets Series Order At Syfy

Syfy has handed a 12-episode straight-to-series order to The Ark, from Independence Day writer-producer Dean Devlin.

deadline.com

 

[Michel Van]

The Ark gets series production order.

i hope it not end like this disaster at SyFy

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25ZuWjyKp84

oh yeah after on reaction, SyFy change that fast into this fiasco:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJqQ4OdPcAo

 

[Rhinocrates]

The Ark gets series production order.

i hope it not end like this disaster at SyFy

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25ZuWjyKp84

oh yeah after on reaction, SyFy change that fast into this fiasco:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJqQ4OdPcAo

I remember watching that with morbid fascination, like it was a train wreck in slow motion. The person who came up with the premise and maybe even the first draft probably knew and respected the sf genre (I can see the distant ancestry in a story by Frederik Pohl, 'The Gold at Starbow's End', and another by Bruce Sterling, 'Taklamakan'), but everyone else with any control didn't - and didn't think that anyone else did either. It's a perfect storm of self-sabotage.

 

[Orionblamblam]

I remember watching that with morbid fascination, like it was a train wreck in slow motion. The person who came up with the premise and maybe even the first draft probably knew and respected the sf genre (I can see the distant ancestry in a story by Frederik Pohl, 'The Gold at Starbow's End', and another by Bruce Sterling, 'Taklamakan'), but everyone else with any control didn't - and didn't think that anyone else did either. It's a perfect storm of self-sabotage.

"Ascension" pissed me right the hell off. Everything about it past "in the 1960's the US launched a starship" was wrong. The conceit that it turned out to be a bunker underground? Lame. None of the Really Smart People loaded onto the "starship" realized that the math simply didn't work... a ship that can accelerate at 1 G for fifty years ship time will have accelerated so close to the speed of light that by the time those fifty years have passed for the crew, all the stars in the universe will have died; the ship will be billions of lightyears out into a wholly empty universe. The idea that the Point of No Return for a starship is at the midpoint of the trajectory is monumentally stupid. And of course... psychic superpowers because of course there are.

Bah.

 

[Graham1973]

A quartet of images from an old 'Space Rockets' card game... For the remainder check out this page at BigGameGeek...

Space Rockets Card Game

"From the Makers of UNO!" #-1079 As it so boldly claims on the package, while this was also 'Made in Belgium'! There are 34 cards in denominations from 1 to 10, as well with 2 instructions kinds for the couple of variations with this. One of those is a seemingly "WAR!" sort of game for just 2...

boardgamegeek.com

 

[Michel Van]

"Ascension" could had worked as ironic comedy in style of Wes Anderson
let me explain this

In 1960s they build Simulator put voluntary into it,
but once Capitol Hill smash the Space Program
The program keep running with less and less support
even forgotten in Pentagon and NASA

Today for descendant it's landing day, they "arrived"
and leave the abandon Simulator to build a Colony...
...on Earth
and are surprised to find Aliens with higher technology (us with smart phone)

 

[Rhinocrates]

"Ascension" could had worked as ironic comedy in style of Wes Anderson
l

The Life Ascendent.
This has potential... It becomes a melancholic but warm and quirky examination of nostalgia for a future that was promised but never happened. The star-studded cast play the inhabitants of a slightly dilapidated 60s futuristic apartment building who pretend or actually believe that it's a spaceship. They are, in their way, happy and who says they might not be right?

The sets and models are of course fantastic.

(Double-billed with its opposite, High-Rise.)

 

[Michel Van]

High-Rise.

If you mean the Movie with Tom Hiddleston, Watch it !

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKPghZ5cc_E

 

[Graham1973]

Not SF, but the cover to the 1971 Ashton-Scholastic edtion of 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Stories of Horror'

 

[Foo Fighter]

I cannot accept the "Wholly empty universe" bit, just because it is unseen, no reason to state there is nothing there. Wherever there is. A trip like that could see civilisations/species born and die out, replace potentially by others in their turn.

 

[Graham1973]

Jean-Claude Mézières work influence certain George Lucas...

Not quite, that kind of thing had graced the cover of pulps like 'Thrilling Wonder Stories' for ages, as this October 1948 example shows, and there's another connection with the Star Wars saga on the cover...

 

[Graham1973]

A few more Thrilling Wonder Story Covers....

 

[Flyaway]

Horror Babble is a You Tube channel that I’ve listened to for years that do readings of old public domain horror stories and recently they’ve moved into sci-fi.

They’ve been doing a Mars cycle of stories by Clark Ashton Smith.

This is the first of the four “The Vaults of Yoh Vombis”:

View: https://youtu.be/AfhKsqQoatY

 

[Graham1973]

I'll see your Clark Ashton Smith and raise you by one Andre Norton...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02lKRuF5uxA

 

[edwest4]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KZ3MKraNKY

 

[publiusr]

Not SF, but the cover to the 1971 Ashton-Scholastic edtion of 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Stories of Horror'

I have that somewhere. Also am trying to get the novelization of 1979’s PROPHECY

 

[Graham1973]

A somewhat misleading cover by Frank Kelly Freas for a Samuel R. Delany story.