Archive for June, 2009

Dollhouse Season One will be available on DVD and Blu-Ray on July 28, but if you're going to the San Diego ComicCon you can get one the week before. Even better, it'll be a limited edition, numbered, with different packaging (see above) and a note from creator Joss Whedon. Only 5,000 will be produced. Sweet!

If you're going to the con, stop by the Fox Store on Monday, July 6, starting at 10 am PST. You'll need to take your order confirmation, plus a photo ID to the Fox booth (#4129) starting Wednesday at 6 pm. If you're not going to the con but you have a friend willing to pick it up for you, you'll need to provide your friend's name and e-mail address when you place your order. Only one per customer.

They're not cheap, mind you. $49.95 for the regular set, $69.95 for Blu-Ray.

Click here for more details!

If that's too rich, or if you don't have a way to pick up a ComicCon one, you can order the regular edition from Amazon for just $31.99 (or $48.99 for Blu-Ray).

And check back here, within the next few days I'll be posting a mini-review and telling how you how you can win a free Dollhouse Season 1 DVD.

Inkworks, the company that brought us great trading cards for Buffy, Angel, Firefly and Serenity, went under last March, a victim of the lessening economy. Which is  a damn shame. They made some great products, and president Allan Caplan really enjoyed his work.

If you're still looking for those last few cards to fill in your collection, apparently their remaining stock was purchased by Factory Entertainment, a company that has been selling cards through eBay for a few years now. They've created a site to list their inventory at inkworksarchive.com, but everything there (plus lots more) gets sold through their eBay store. No Firefly cards, not a lot of Serenity, but plenty of others from their biggest franchises.

For a look back, check out my interview with Inkworks' Allan Caplan from 2006.

OK, I really need to stop browsing the Prop Store of London, because I keep finding things I have no chance of affording but desperately need nonetheless even though I didn't know it was possible to buy them seconds previously. Like this.

Freakin' Tank Girl's costume.

This is Tank Girl's Costume from the 1995 movie Tank Girl which was Based on the British cult comic-strip. Tank Girl (Lori Petty)our heroine fights a mega-corporation, which controls the world's water supply and this costume is featured in the final battle scenes. The outfit is comprised of two sock elbow pads, chaps, custom vest, bulls-eye t-shirt, choker, and red shorts. All of the items are tailored to fit the petite 5'8"(173cm) actress. The pieces are all in good condition.

Huge fan of this comic, the movie, and Lori Petty. The only thing better would be a costume with two big missle-head bra cones on it, but one must be prepared to settle for what's available.

Which is freakin' Tank Girl's costume. Tank (presumably) not included.

And, while I was tootling around the Prop Store of London, I found another cool little item for the foyer. Remember the Buffy episode where they went to see the Incan mummy princess only the Incan mummy princess grabbed this kid and mummified the dude so that people saw him later and said, whoa, this mummy has braces, and the Incan mummy princess pretended to be an exchange student with guy clothes and fell in love with Xander and had a little problem with sucking the lives out of his schoolmates but couldn't suck his life cuz she loved him, and all? This is the mummy with the braces.

The Mummy with braces was featured on the hit Joss Whedon tv show, Buffy: the vampire slayer. In episode 4 of the second season entitled "Inca Mummy Girl," a male student tampers with the mummy's plate and awakens her. In turn she mummifies him and leaves him in her sarcophagus. Measuring approximately 5ft 5 inches tall,(165cm) the foam over plastic mummy is outfitted with a brown and green burlap wrap, Necklace, braces and a full head of hair. What every modern day teenager would look like had they been mummified. The mummy is in fairly good condition.

New — again — at the Prop Store of London, a stunt costume for Jayne in the bank heist scene. This has been marked as sold for some time and is now available, so maybe the deal didn't go through and it's back on the market? If so, now's your chance.

A stunt costume worn by Jayne in the sci-fi adventure Serenity. This costume was worn during the high action bank heist scenes near the beginning of the film. It consists of a blue t-shirt with a Japanese design on the front (labelled ‘Casey Stunt Jayne’), a pair of green combat trousers (labelled ‘Stunt DBL Jayne).

If nothing else, go check out the closeups to get the details on the shirt.

Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora recorded a new version of "Stand By Me" with Iranian superstar Andy Madadian. It's meant for the Iranian people, and can be downloaded for free here. It was created with the intention that all people of the world stand together. And as my wife Teres is reminding me, over and over, because "Jon's so wonderful."

Here's the video. I never knew Jon Bon Jovi knew Farsi…

River and the Reavers, self-proclaimed performers of "River Rock," had released a new song to their MySpace page: "An Open Letter to My Captain." It's a club song, fast and driving, that backs up River's cutting and too-knowing questions to her Captain:

Nestled in the black
I find the time to be alone
Still hearing
everything
There is to know

You put a mask up on your face
You act like
you're a big disgrace
Just dont forget I know
Just what you know

Be sure to check out their other songs while you're there!

If you're not following @drhorrible on Twitter, you're missing some good stuff and sneaky updates like this one. Just sayin'.

And here's my first entry into the 2009 Creative Writing Championship short story contest. Each group of writers was given a genre, a location that must be integral, an item that must be featured, 1,000 words to do it in, and 48 hours to write it. My group received "Suspense / indoor swimming pool / piggy bank." Fair enough…

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Put Not Your Trust in Banks

by C. A. Bridges

He heard the terrible crashing sound, and the screams, and the rapidly approaching clatter.

Nestled deep in the darkness, the old stagecoach breathed a deep sigh and waited for the inevitable, which arrived moments later in a sudden slice of harsh white light.

“C-coach?” came the voice, sweet, high and shaking.

“Go away.”

The pig pushed her way into the closet and past the luggage to find him. “Coach! You have to help us!” She spun around to look behind her, making a noise like… there is no noise quite like a full piggy bank. She sloshed, metallically.

“It’s Christmas time, this is what happens,” he grumbled, and began to roll backwards to hide behind the shoes. “I’d advise closing your eyes. It’ll be over faster.”

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