tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post1744395846337646230..comments2024-03-28T07:08:58.221-04:00Comments on Todd Seavey: Capt. America Has a Burrito in His PantsTodd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-45375574797573849842007-06-07T14:38:00.000-04:002007-06-07T14:38:00.000-04:00A long-overdue reply on the comics-writing questio...A long-overdue reply on the comics-writing question: as with so many other print gigs, I met some comics editors and just kept e-mailing very brief ideas until one editor got sick of hearing my ideas but assigned me to write something similar that he actually needed done — so it often is with magazine article assignments, I’ve found. I haven’t done any comics writing since those three stories several years ago, though.Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-82301917200027812582007-05-02T17:04:00.000-04:002007-05-02T17:04:00.000-04:00Todd,Who did you have to perform sexual favors on ...Todd,<br><br>Who did you have to perform sexual favors on to write comic books?<br><br>No judgements, just curiosity.Chrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-24145327880612992552007-04-27T11:21:00.000-04:002007-04-27T11:21:00.000-04:00Eden is leaping to conclusions to say the least. Y...Eden is leaping to conclusions to say the least. Yes, intellectual honesty demands recognizing that the new study contradicts previous ones regarding whether abstinence-only students were less likely than sex-ed students to use contraception on first intercourse. But that’s not even remotely the same as saying that sex ed doesn’t work. That you mention this pronouncement in the context of chiding people for cherry picking is ironic.<br><br>If Eden really wants to know if sex-ed works, she should look at studies that actually attempted to determine that. Other people already have. <a href="http://www.teenpregnancy.org/resources/data/pdf/emeranswsum.pdf" rel="nofollow">Here is a metastudy</a> showing that several sex ed curricula “have been shown to delay sex or increase condom or other contraceptive use and thereby to decrease unprotected sex substantially.”<br><br><a href="http://www.teenpregnancy.org/resources/data/pdf/emeranswsum.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.teenpregnancy.org/resources/data/pdf/emeranswsum.pdf</a>radoshhttp://www.radosh.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-26573143112422160472007-04-26T12:21:00.000-04:002007-04-26T12:21:00.000-04:00Yup, both _Forever War_ and (“Mormon extremist”!) ...Yup, both _Forever War_ and (“Mormon extremist”!) Orson Scott Card’s _Ender’s Game_ were responses to Troopers, depicting protracted wars against bug-like enemies that wrought disturbing changes in Earth’s militarized society.<br><br>The politics of both Heinlein’s novel and Verhoeven’s movie are strange and multilayered, but not in the same way: Heinlein was a libertarian (and in later novels sounded pacifistic as a result) but seemed to be trying to construct the best Platonic defense of militarism he could in this novel, while Verhoeven seemed to take the militarism alone as the jumping-off point (which is fair) and then use it to do a parody of fascism that arguably wasn’t quite parodic enough to keep the audience from “rooting” for the fascists — which was disturbing in much the same way that rooting for the terrorist hero in _V for Vendetta_ was.<br><br>Verhoeven witnessed his native Holland invaded by Nazis when he was a child, and I suspect it left him with a strange mixture of hatred and awe toward them reflected in the movie’s weird mixed messages.<br><br>Its propaganda-film sequences were the best part, and I said a decade ago when I saw it that the narrator of those bits should get a Best Supporting Actor nomination (“The Klendathu threat _must_ be eliminated!” “They’ll keep fighting — and they’ll win!” “Do you want to know more…?”).Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-78051997812926213672007-04-26T11:15:00.000-04:002007-04-26T11:15:00.000-04:00Starship Troopers was an entertaining, well done m...Starship Troopers was an entertaining, well done movie which accurately reflected the spirit of the original novel. I’ll leave it at that. And it had boobies, which is always a plus.<br><br>Wonder if they’ll ever make a movie based on Haldeman’s “The Forever War”? While it was a response to Heinlein’s book, it was at least its equal.Brainhttp://evanchik.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-73944516610248324172007-04-26T10:00:00.000-04:002007-04-26T10:00:00.000-04:00A CGI TV series without much political content and...A CGI TV series without much political content and a direct-to-video, low-budget _Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation_, which at least ended on a note of warning about propaganda, apparently, though I haven’t actually seen them. A third film, featuring more of the original cast than 2 did, has been discussed as an imminent possibility. That’s all I know.Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-15831873830350299712007-04-26T09:26:00.000-04:002007-04-26T09:26:00.000-04:00There were sequels?There were <i>sequels</i>?Jacob T. Levyhttp://jacobtlevy.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-70118799301318030452007-04-25T11:34:00.000-04:002007-04-25T11:34:00.000-04:00I forgot where I put the adress for yor site, unti...I forgot where I put the adress for yor site, until last night. I was wondering how you took the demise of Captain America. Comic books transformed into live action movies seem to be continuing thier industry impact. “Spiderman 3″ has opened, with a “Fantastic Four” sequel on the way, along with “The Transformers” movie.<br><br>As a long -time Heinlien fan, I didn’t like the film redetion of “Starship Troopers.”<br><br>Did you see my review of “Curse of the Golden Flower,” on my blog? Do you wathc the TV series, “Heros?” Still no link to my blog, I see.Joseph Brennanhttp://josephinthebracknell.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com