I'm gonna miss you, Michael Turner.

[ghostdrive]

All the games I ordered from Amazon finally came in. My mom tossed the package on my chest this morning and I spent about 5 minutes sleepily clutching at it until I forced myself up. Haha! I'm so not a morning person on weekends.

Actually, I received one of the games, Grim Grimoire, in a separate package on Thursday--it only took two days to arrive, too! That Amazon seller is so getting good feedback from me. Another plus is that my obsessive rechecking of my wishlist procured me a new copy of Siren for only $10, less than any of the other new offers there. The other game I bought was Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne.

Note to self: the reprint of Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga comes out next month.

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On a sad note, comic book artist Michael Turner passed away yesterday. I totally had a crush on the man back when he was the artist of Witchblade, and I can still remember when he was first diagnosed with cancer and how happy I was when his subsequent surgery went well (<---this was back in 2000). Since I don't subscribe to Wizard magazine anymore, nor do I frequent any comic book message boards/forums/etc, I had no idea how advanced his illness had become. I was honestly shocked when I came across this news in tonypepper. [sigh]

Such a young man. He will be missed.

Comments

[hearts-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

witchblade's been steadily gaining popularity. is it any good and what is it about(plot)?
i'm not sure if i want to watch it or not

[ghostdrive.livejournal.com]

I personally loved the tv series (and the comic series, too, but I'll talk about the show since that's what you've asked about). I haven't rewatched the series since it first aired back in 2000-2002, but I'm pretty sure I remember the gist of it:

Witchblade is basically about a New York detective, Sara Pezzini, who is bonded to a mystical artifact (the Witchblade) after she's nearly killed while on an undercover case at a museum (or was it a theater?). The Witchblade gives her supernatural powers -- it helps her wounds heal quickly, it acts like an armor around her body, it can be turned into a weapon (like a knife/sword/etc), and it can stop/slow/turn back time. It also allows her to see and speak with the ghost of her partner, Danny Woo, who was killed in the undercover case. Danny acts like her voice of reason throughout the show and keeps her on the right path. She pretty much spends the first season trying to find out the origin of the Witchblade, why she was destined to wield it, and trying to prevent her arch-nemesis Kenneth Irons from gaining control of it. Irons has a foster son named Ian Nottingham who is both an enemy and a friend to Sara.

So yeah, that's bits and pieces of the plot from the first season (and maybe parts of the second since my brain sometimes mixes them up). But its a great show! When it first aired I was ready for it to be completely sucky (like most superhero live-action shows), but it totally hooked me in. Also, both seasons (all 24 episodes) are coming out in a boxset at the end of July.

[hearts-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

kool, but you like the manga more then the tv series right? does dark hores comics publish it or some other publisher?

[ghostdrive.livejournal.com]

Top Cow publishes the comic -- its up to issue 118 currently, though I only have about the first 50 issues or so. I've checked on Amazon to refresh my memory as to if its been collected into trade paperback form, and it has. This database (http://comicbookdb.com/title.php?ID=1754) seems to have a list of all the trade paperbacks near the bottom of the list.

I think Bandai publishes the manga (though I haven't read it), and there's an anime out (which I also haven't seen yet). Both the anime and manga have different main characters than the tv series/comic, too. Instead of Sara Pezzini they each have a different Japanese woman as the wielder of the Witchblade.

Since I'm only familiar with the comic book and the tv series, I'd recommend the tv series more.

[hearts-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

oh, ok. see that threw me off when you said it was a comic and was also live action. cause ive only seen the manga and anime format(which looked iffy). i had no idea it was a comic series or tv series tats cool though. thx for the info