This column is early. Reviews of “Final Crisis: Revelations,” this week’s “Smallville,” the latest issue of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight” and the complete “Final Crisis #1-7” are still late, and may not be caught up by the end of the weekend.
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Viz launches imprint for translated Japanese SF
Sci-Fi Wire is reporting that Viz Media has launched a new imprint, Haikasoru, to bring translate Japanese SF and Fantasy novels into English and release them in the US. The imprint will mainly focus on “Light Novels” shorter novels, often serialized in Japanese SF magazines.
A not-insignificant amount of Japanese Anime has begun to be adapted from Light Novels instead of Manga (notably the “Full Metal Panic” series, as well as the “Crest/Banner of the Stars” series and well before that the “Slayers” series. The first novel scheduled to be released is The Lord of the Sands of Time by Issui Ogawa.
TV Discussion: Being Human
Did you hear the one about the vampire, the werewolf, and the ghost who share a flat?
Are any of our Brit readers following this mini-series, currently running on BBC? And should the rest of us watch out for it?
Video Game Review – Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerebus (PS2)
We’ve got a review for you of the first installment of the “Compilation of Final Fantasy VII” series that Square Enix was putting out. Yes, it’s been out for 3 years, but it still may be worth a shot.
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Science Round-up
The remains of the the world’s largest snakes have been discovered in a Columbian mine, a Columbian expedition identifies ten new amphibian species, including crunchy spiky frogs, the latest extrasolar planet has a twenty-hour year, Team FREDNET have developed a sort of open-source Lunar Segway….
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Weekly Comics Discussion – February 4, 2009
The Incognito reprint I mentioned last week has been postponed until next week with the release of issue 2, so you’ve got another week to make sure you get your copy. The complete list of this week’s releases is available here.
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Fringe Discussion: “The Transformation”
After a were-porcupine causes a plane to crash, Agent Olivia Dunham must recover some borrowed memories so that the FBI can take down a band of bioterrorists.
The Jug Sauce Elite
Alexius writes, The Jug Sauce Elite is here to save the day!
If you have another one, the originator is accepting submissions.
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Series 2 starts in April
AnimeVice.com is reporting that the upcoming March issue of the Japanese version of Newtype (which has not hit newsstands yet) Japan will reveal the long-awaited 2nd series of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya will start running in April. We know this before the issue actually comes out because it’s the cover story and a TV ad ran on Japanese television showing the cover.
Heroes Discussion:
Hiro has lost his plot-problematizing powers, and the government sees the X-Factor Mutants Heroes as a threat. Can the second half of the third season “Volume Four” restore the show to its former glory?