Sometimes fan fiction sucks. Correction, most fan fiction sucks. [editor: fan fiction sucks] However, this fan fiction, written by a nine year old going by the name of squirrelking, was so bad that it motivated another guy (blind51de) to visualize it using his l33t Garrys Mod skills for all of us to enjoy. This was the result.

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This is the second episode of This Spartan Life, the machinima talk show within Halo that I talked about earlier. If you haven’t seen episode one yet, I suggest you head over and watch that first.

This second episode (31 min.) features guests Marty O’Donnell, writer and producer of the original scores for the Halo series, and The ILL Clan, pioneers in the art of prerendered and live machinima performances using Quake.

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So while being sick I’ve discovered that I can shoot large flem balls pretty far… yay for that.

Poking around my comics pull list online today, pruning, adding to it, checking out new trades coming out, when a solicitation on the side of the web page caught my eye. It said simply: Serenity: Better Days #1. I had to do a double take to be sure I wasn’t seeing things. Apparently, there is a new Serenity comic on the way from Joss Whedon. It looks to be another prequel to the movie, just as the last Serenity mini-series.

This may be this is old news to some people who read websites like Newsarama or CBR, but I personally keep up on what comics are coming out by reading Previews and watching the weekly release lists. I had heard rumblings that a new comic was coming, but hadn’t heard anything concrete yet, until today.

“Better Days revisits everyone’s favorite space cowboys in this thrilling, action-packed adventure, with Mal and his crew on a heist that promises a big payoff—what’s surprising is that this heist just might make good on that promise. Whedon reunites with Brett Matthews and Will Conrad, his collaborators on the best-selling 2005 series Those Left Behind. Adam Hughes joins the team for covers.”

I am VERY excited to see that Adam Hughes will be doing covers. I am normally not a huge fan of his art from page-to-page (or his writing, for that matter), but in small doses he is a genius. Here’s hoping that each issue sells 50,000 copies to show Fox that there is still money to be made from the FireFly universe and we’ll see a new movie. The comic is being published by Dark Horse and the first issue is dated to be released on March 12th, 2008.

Today I have a double-feature for you. These gems from Feisar have gotten little to no attention from any of the sites that I visit, and it’s only by luck that I ran across them and am now able to share them with you now. Neither of them would qualify as a typical machinima short film. They’re both thoughtful, emotional and delicately paced. If you think you can handle that, then enjoy a couple of what I think are great examples of this art form’s potential and richness.

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