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February 2008: Back Issue Bin Sale
For the month of February 2008, all items in
the back issue bins will be 40% off their marked price.
Golden City Comics will be closed on
Victoria Day, May 22nd!
Free Comic Book Day May 6th!
AN OPEN LETTER TO ORSON SCOTT CARD:
Re: Your Commentary in the LA Times, May 3 2005.
Mr.
Card,
Having
read (and re-read) your invective against Star Trek, I still can’t
find much of value in it. A lot of
your dislike for the series seems to center around dislike for fan
activity, or simply ignorance. If
forced to choose your views of Star Trek having “little regard for
science or deeper ideas” and the interest of, say, Stephen Hawking, I hope
you don’t mind if I side with Mr. Hawking.
The
original series boasted prominent writers, including Harlan Ellison and
D.C. Fontana. Thousands of
CalTech students, scientists, and award-winning authors have stated their opinions,
which seem to be exactly the opposite of yours.
Star Trek set a mandate to Boldly Go, and it
has boldly gone – often in conflict with the money behind the
production. The original series led
the way in reducing racial and gender bias on television. Not only was there the celebrated first
televised interracial kiss, but Martin Luther King, Jr., was a fan who did
not underestimate the value of having a black woman as a member of the U.S.S.
Enterprise’s command crew.
The
entire Xindi story arc following 9/11 could not be called anything less
than bold.
If
Star Trek was “all spectacle, no substance” then why your concern
with “cheesy little sets”? Great
science fiction doesn’t require great effects.
You
also mention “slash” fiction – those What if Kirk and Spock were lovers?
things that keep popping up on the Internet and in fanzines. What exactly does that have to do with
the program? Because if those
secondary creations somehow detract from the original work, you’ll probably
find yourself regretting the title, Ender’s Game, if your work ever
gains even a fraction of Trek’s popularity.
Star Trek endures because it offers a complex
and at least moderately plausible vision of the future. Star Trek endures because it
suggests that individuals have value.
And, finally, Star Trek endures because it suggests that,
despite the sometimes willful incompetence of our leaders and ourselves,
the greatest social experiment of our era – celebration of our differences
rather than allowing them to provide an excuse for genocide and other
atrocities – will one day prove to be a success.
I
think we all know that Star Trek will be back.
Sincerely,
Daniel
J. Bishop, Golden City Comics
Go to www.heroclix.com
now to register for our June Heroclix events!
House
Rules for Golden City Comics Heroclix Tournaments:
1)
There
is a $5.00 entry fee for playing in Tournaments, payable at or before the
Tournament begins. This fee goes to
the purchase of Heroclix booster packs, which are opened and chosen in a
round-robin fashion. The Tournament
Judge or Golden City staff determines order of picks (this fee does not
apply to events that otherwise require the purchase of unopened booster
packs).
2)
For
open build Tournaments, all legal and retired figures may be used in team
builds.
3)
We
request that players please
register early for events, as the number of early
registrations determines the prizes available for the Tournament in
question.
Good
news for fans of Kevin Smith! The writer/director is considering a sequel to Clerks, arguably his best (and almost certainly his funniest) movie to
date. The film, entitled The Passion of the Clerks, is reported to be set ten years
in the future of the original movie, and reprise the original cast and
characters. Has Dante done anything
with his life? Have the events of
other movies changed Jay and Silent Bob?
Is Randall still working in the video store? Enquiring minds want to know!
StarTrek.com
reports that Scotty’s “transparent aluminum” from Star Trek IV is
apparently now a reality. According
to the official Star Trek site,
instead of Plexicorp in San Francisco, it's actually 3M
in Minnesota claiming credit for a new form of glass made from alumina
(aluminum oxide), according to this article at physicsweb.org.
At the same time, there is a ceramic research lab in Dresden, Germany,
claiming to have developed "transparent alumina" that is
amazingly light but three times tougher than hardened steel of the same
thickness, according to this Rense.com
page.
Now,
when are we going to get transporters and force fields?
The
official BBC Doctor Who website has confirmed that the Daleks will be
appearing in the new series, now filming.
It had been previously announced that the BBC had been unable to
work out an agreement with the estate of Terry Nation, who created the
Daleks for the original series’ second story. Don’t know what a Dalek is?
Look here. Doctor
Who is slated to
appear on British televisions in the spring of 2005 – we can only hope that
it appears in North America at the same time!
Daniel
J. Bishop’s “That Hideous Face” is appearing in Mythos Collector #6.
Golden City
Comics’ membership program is now closed.
Members will continue
to enjoy benefits, but no new memberships will be taken. We will be offering a non-membership subscription
service (regular set-asides, but no discount).
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