I have a huge summer ahead of me. A lot of the people who read my comic (Hi!) - are people who know me in real life. Well, this time of year is a big summer event thing… things are looking hot for a movie that I am producing to be happening. Once we get into full swing of pre-production on CROSS my updates will probably get very irregular at least until principal photography is finished. I fully suspect that I will not publish any new pages at all during the duration of the shoot.

Rest assured the interruption would be temporary. I am 2000% dedicated to Rain. I LOVE Rain. I can’t emphasize it enough. This story is something that I have been dying to do for years. So when the interuption happens, fret not. She will always be back.

If I’m fortunate enough to find time to draw enough pages ahead of time - which I am desperately trying to do - then the interruption may be much more minimal.

In other fronts, the TV pilot I am working on is coming along nicely. We are really making headway with the new draft and we are getting ready to approach Michael Angarano’s people to see if we can get him on board with the idea of being a main character in a TV show… any of my loyal reader’s work for his agency? If you do, please, e-mail me and let me know what we can do!

Ok folks. I’m out for now.

Peace, long life and all that funky jazz!

-T

I wish I wasn’t but I’m old enough to have grown up with the original show.

I wasn’t alive when they were made mind you, but they persisted in re-runs during my considerably turbulent youth.

Fast forward to about 8 years ago.  My sister starts ranting and raving about this show on ABC, that features a female undercover double-agent spy.  It’s unusual for me not to lock onto this kind of show right away but I had a lot going on at the time.  It’s amazing what a relationship does to you.    Anyway, this guy,  J.J. Abrams, is all she talks about.  So I start to pay attention.  Finally I see Alias.  And wouldn’t ya know it, I’m a fan now.

So I catch “MI:III”, start watching “LOST”, see “Cloverfield”, and watch “Fringe” now.   I, of course, retroactively remember seeing “Felicity” from time to time, making me aware of Keri Russell.  Totally gorgeous.  And I can say that too without getting in trouble as I don’t have an official girlfriend of any kind.

So when I heard he was doing the reboot of the “Star Trek” franchise, I got all concerned and happy and scared and hopeful.  All at the same time.  Those that know me, know that I am passionate about my geekiness.  I’ve read comics since forever, been drawing since even close to that and I LOVE my Science Fiction stories.  I’m particularly a fan of the time travel story.

[[STAR TREK SPOILER - HIGHLITE TO READ]]This is one of the things that made this new reboot of the series so cool to me.  They took a few obvious liberties with the characters early formations.  Spock for example should not have been so obviously off from his former incarnation - his developmental history should have been similar to the old timeline as much as possible.  Kirk is obviously the one most effected by the new events due to his father no longer being alive during his upbringing.  A few things bothered me in particular - Chris Pine is too young to be a Starship Captain - but in the end I’ll roll with it. [[END SPOLIER]]

I was quite pleased with the movie end result.  It’s woven and crafted to basically restart telling the stories again - with the new cast and with basically - their newer more - as JJ called it - “Rock and Roll” personalities.  I wouldn’t expect any actor, being an actor myself, to rip off the exact style another actor gave a character.  I’m a believer in making the character my own.  And that is definitely one of the things I am glad that they did.

I’m waiting for JJ’s next Star Trek movie.

Maybe one day he’ll be waiting for one of mine.

Excelsior!