I read about this yesterday, but I thought the BBC story bared linking to:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7246641.stm

Largely for the great quote about Star Trek being in the same league as Transformers. As a long-time Transformers geek, it warms my heart to hear it mentioned in that way

As for the movie delay? Well, when I heard about it, I hoped that it meant some post-writers-strike reshoots. JJ Abrahams has been quoted saying that there were scenes whose dialogue he would’ve liked to have changed, but couldn’t because of the strike, so delaying the film by 5/6 months would’ve seemed like a good idea to go back and tweak it. However, from the studio quote, that doesn’t seem to be the case.

Personally, I don’t quite get the summer-blockbuster excuse. Christmas seems perfectly acceptable as a release time for such minor franchises as Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and James Bond.

Bet James Bond wishes he was in the same league as Transformers.

This week’s Green Lantern Corps #21 takes us to one side from the main action in Green Lantern Corps. While the title is meant to be the “Guy and Kyle” book, this issue doesn’t actually feature either (although the clock is surely ticking down to Guy’s first run in with the Alphas). However, with the story tying in heavily to current events in Green Lantern, I didn’t actually miss them.

Not to mention, as the name of the book is “Green Lantern Corps”, I think it’d be remiss if it didn’t take time to highligh other members of the Corps. Perhaps this idea of side-stepping the usual cast to allow for a couple of fill-ins featuring other Corps members is something that could happen more often?

While I’ve been enjoying Peter Tomasi’s run so far (to the point that I picked up his first 2 issues of Nightwing the other week, both of which I really enjoyed), the fill in team of Sterling Gates and Nelson do a great job on the writing and art duties. Boodikka’s never been a character I’ve been that bothered about, but I enjoyed the focus on her as an Alpha Lantern, to give us more of a glimpse into their lives. I’m looking forward to part 2 of this.

However, while the Alpha Lanterns are big news, Booster Gold once again delivered the goods. While its maybe not DC’s highest profile book, its still consistently excellent, providing a great mix of laughs and superhero drama.

Fresh from rescuing Ted Koord from his untimely demise (something you just *know* is going to backfire) Booster and the Blue Beetles are travelling back through the time stream when they suddenly pass by Extant and Parallax, who are in the middle of Zero Hour. Its a great scene, with both parties just staring at each other, before Parallax and Extant snap out of it and go on the offensive. They end up back in Booster’s hometime of the 25th century, and Johns and Katz use this as a great time to have a look at what drives Booster as a character. His relationship with his father (key to the unvieling of Supernova’s identity) is further explored, and Booster’s guilt over his sister’s death is brought up. A really nice set of scenes, which worked really well, especially when you consider the comedy a few pages earlier of bumping into Parallax.