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Right after my fake Hobbit announcement is perhaps not the best time for a real Hobbit announcement, but here it is anyway. (Conical hat top to AICN.)

Check out Frank Miller’s little-known adaptation of The Hobbit. Really. Would I fool you?

With various Jack Kirby collections out (Fourth World, Eternals, Black Panther, Devil Dinosaur, Silver Star, the first half of Kamandi) or on the way (OMAC, Demon, Captain Victory), one more I’d like to see (though the copyright issues are probably trickier than in the other cases) is his 2001: A Space Odyssey material, which consists of a) an adaptation of the film, b) a ten-issue follow-up series also titled 2001: A Space Odyssey (tracing the Monolith’s further interventions throughout past and future human history), and then c) the first nine issues of the spin-off series Machine Man (whose protagonist had his origins in 2001’s final 3-issue story arc, being raised to stable sentience by the Monolith).

The film adaptation itself is not particularly good (for some of the reasons, see this article), but the follow-up series, despite lacking much continuity, has the characteristically zany Kirby energy, and Machine Man is good too.

Still, I wish even more that they’d finish releasing the Kirby issues of Kamandi; he may be my favourite Kirby character, a kind of Tintin on the Planet of the Apes.

I“ve previously linked to descriptions of, and video clips from, several crucial episodes of the original Galactica series that shed light on recent events in the current Galactica universe.

The videos have since been yanked from YouTube for copyright reasons, and the descriptions have lapsed into nonbeing along with their website, Sheba’s Galaxy; but the latter at least are still accessible via Internet Archive. There are also more recent descriptions at the Battlestar Wiki. Check ’em out to see what inspiration Ron Moore is drawing on for current storylines involving gods and chosen ones. (The Sheba pages have lost their dark background and will be more readable if you highlight them.)

Lost Planet of the Gods: Sheba synopsis; Wiki synopsis part 1; Wiki synopsis part 2

War of the Gods: Sheba synopsis, Wiki synopsis part 1, Wiki synopsis part 2

The Return of Starbuck: Sheba synopsis; Wiki synopsis

The Wheel of Fire: Sheba synopsis; Wiki synopsis

My last few BSG predictions (see here, here, here, and here) have been mostly on target, so I feel emboldened to make a few more.

But I’ll make them in the comments section to prevent spoilage for those who haven’t even seen Season 3 yet.