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1/17/06

Kurtz seems a relative newcomer to whedonophilia. I recall maybe the vaguest references to Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Angel in PvP's archives or old newposts. But when Kurtz discovered the Firefly DVD box set it was all over his website; and when Episode III premiered he started selling t-shirts with the motto swiped from one of his strips' punchline, "Joss Whedon is my master now."

In his review of Serenity Kurtz posits that the other two Firefly movies rumored to be on Whedon's drawing board must be prequels to Serenity, based on the air of conclusion that permeates Serenity. "You can't have Firefly without Wash," he says. "River's story has been Firefly's unifying theme, and now it's wrapped up," he says. What Kurtz doesn't seem to realize is that on Whedon's previous tv series he did this sort of thing every year. Serenity isn't the patch for what would have been Firefly's series finale, it's the patch for what would have been Firefly's first season finale.

Of course the disappointing box office receipts for Serenity have cast major doubts on whether more movies will be made. Serenity DVD sales may or may not resurrect them. But comics companies are all over Whedon too; there's already been a Firefly miniseries, from Dark Horse, set between the tv series and Serenity. I'm confident the stories will be told.

Webcomics I read mornings: Peanuts, General Protection Fault, Achewood, Newshounds, Scary Go Round, Tux & Bunny, College Roommates from Hell!!!, i draw comics, Kevin & Kell, Real Life

Webcomics I read M-W-F mornings: El Goonish Shive, Theater Hopper, Nukees, Tweep, Ctrl+Alt+Del

Webcomics I read Tu-Th-Sa mornings: Digger, Crap I Drew On My Lunch Break, AppleGeeks, Orneryboy, Striptease, Penny Arcade

Webcomics I read middays: Calvin & Hobbes, Least I Could Do, User Friendly, Loserz, Questionable Content, Starslip Crisis, Queen of Wands, Narbonic

Webcomics I read evenings: LuAnn, Count Your Sheep, Goats, Pearls Before Swine, For Better Or For Worse, Help Desk, American Elf, Schlock Mercenary, Sinfest, Anywhere But Here, Irregular Comic, Bruno, Boxjam's Doodle

Webcomics I read M-W-F evenings: Reasoned Cognition, Two Lumps, Shortpacked, Girl Genius, Order of the Stick, Gossamer Commons

Webcomics I read Tu-Th-Sa evenings: Casey & Andy, Girls With Slingshots, The Green Avenger, Get Out of My Head, Megatokyo

Webcomics I read bedtimes: B.C., Something Positive, Pibgorn, The Angriest Rice Cooker In The World, Dinosaur Comics, Wapsi Square, Medium Large, Sluggy Freelance, Little Dee, PvP

Webcomics I read Sundays: The Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge, Butternut Squash, Dr. Devious vs Lincoln High, Syntax Errors, Alice!, Checkerboard Nightmare, Nemesis, Journey Into History, Tailsteak, Ctrl+Alt+Del, Her: Girl Vs Pig, Smithson, No Room for Magic, 13 Seconds, Perry Bible Fellowship

See also Talk About Comics, The Belfry Comics Index, The Webcomic List, Nth Degree, 100% Originality Theatre, Comixpedia, The Living Comic and Websnark.

Arthuriana sources I use or recommend:
Arthurian Legend
Arthuriana - the Journal of Arthurian Studies; the website of the quarterly journal of the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society.
The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester.
Camelot In Four Colors: A Survey of the Arthurian Legend in Comics
Mystical-WWW - The Arthurian A2Z knowledge Bank which has encyclopedically-arranged entries on the characters of the Arthurian legends.
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1 and Volume 2.