Joshua Hale Fialkov

Purveyor of sheer awesomeness.

Joshua Hale Fialkov is the Harvey, Eisner, and Emmy Award nominated writer of graphic novels, animation, video games, film, and television, including:

THE LIFE AFTER, THE BUNKER, PUNKS, ELK'S RUN, TUMOR, ECHOES, KING, PACIFIC RIM, THE ULTIMATES, I, VAMPIRE, and JEFF STEINBERG CHAMPION OF EARTH. He's also written television including MAX’s YOUNG JUSTICE, NBC's CHICAGO MED and NETFLIX’s AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER.

Flu-filling Day

December 11, 2007  /  Joshua Fialkov

I'm sick.  And consequently will wear my robe and slippers while doing relaxing things. Here's a list with comments. Hulu.com - Been playing with the Beta of NBC's streaming service.  The one that doesn't generate any revenue for the studios.  Cause those commercials they show are clearly Public Service announcements.  Like the one for razors.  Anyways, that aside, the service is pretty great, especially compared to how shitty the actual NBC.com streaming things are.  The commercials are remarkably unobtrusive... there's only one 15 or 30 second spot per commercial break, and they actually have it integrated, so, unlike on NBC.com the commercial comes and goes without interupting the show.  Been catching up on everything I haven't seen what with the removal of cable from the house.

Myspace.com/pilotseason - It's launching this week, and I guess each of the writers are writing little pieces explaining why you should vote for us.  On a side note, vote for me.

Watch my Netflix - I've had a bunch of Orson Welles Netflix movies sitting on my shelf for three months.  I just never get around to watching them.  I desperately wanted to do a book about Welles, but, well, everyone thinks I'm insane when I explain what I want to do.

Mario 64 - I've decided that before I buy Mario Galaxies, I'll go through Mario 64 from start to finish.  I'm planning on getting frustrated sometime around the 30th or so star, and going to buy Galaxies.   At that point, I will play it until it gets slightly harder than I can easily handle, at which point it'll end up sitting on the shelf until the next Mario comes out.  And so it is.

Finish Sartre's The Flies and start The Orestia -  Which are both the same thing, only, y'know, one's by Aeschylus and the other's by Sartre.  They're research for the book with Guillory, and lots of fun.

Cancel my Vonage - I'm just plain sick of it.  The quality's gotten progressively worse and worse, and despite the replacement modem they sent me last month, it's just... well... shitty.   I'd rather just put the 30 bucks towards my cell service and not have to worry about it.

And that's what my day will look like.

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THE LIST: Outlaw Kid, Punks, Supermarket, and TheFialkov.com

December 10, 2007  /  Joshua Fialkov

12-10-07

Hey gang,
As the year draws to a close, I’ve got a couple of books squeaking in before the roles are closed on the old year, and a few quick updates.

First, this week sees my very first (of what will hopefully be many) Marvel work in the form of an Outlaw Kid story in Marvel Comics Presents #4. The art is by the amazing Chris Moeller and looks LIKE THIS:


Click the image for an interview with me about the book.

Secondly, the Punks Christacular we’re hoping/praying/oodling should be in stores either next week, or the week following. I’ll send out another update when we know for sure. It’s been super-sized up to 56 pages (at no additional cost to you!) and contains a ton of bonus material, including an interview with the ever-charming kitsch king Charles Phoenix, a few words from Captain Marvel/The Circle/Ms. Marvel writer Brian Reed, a review of a Bob Mould ‘event’ by blogging sensation Ian Brill, plus not one but TWO bonus comics, including the all but impossible to get Free Comic Book Day short, and one that has cool stuff like THIS in it...

As always, more info on that at PunksTheComic.com

Also of note, the old blog’s gone away, and a new blog has replaced it. The new site is up at http://www.thefialkov.com.

I’ve been updating it much more regularly, and hopefully will continue to.

This weekend Tony Fleecs and I will be appearing at Supermarket L.A. at Meltdown Comics in Hollywood. Hopefully, I will have the aforementioned Punks Christacular in hand, as well as some surprises. More info on that here: http://www.myspace.com/supermarketla.
And finally, I’d be remiss if I didn’t plug my beautiful wife’s newly redesigned (by me) website over at http://www.anndvorak.com. She’s got an amazing collection of photos, and I’ve even managed to convince her to blog a bit about her collection, Ann’s movies, and things of that sort. There’ll probably eventually be pictures of the wedding over there, too, so, go check it out.

Happy Holidays and all that,

j.

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Wolfgang's Vault's got The Who doing Quadrophenia LIVE

December 08, 2007  /  Joshua Fialkov

The Who - Concert Vault - Where Live Music Lives,Streaming Free Music, Live Concert Downloads Wolfgang's Vault, which offers free streams of a crap load of King Biscuit Flower Hour recordings and various slightly more authorized 'bootlegs' of concert than you'd find at your local indie record shop, just put a famous (and presumed lost) recording of the Who on their Quadrophenia tour.

There's a rather lengthy explanation on the site as to why it's so legendary, but, for any Who-philes (interesting isn't it, that I'm both an obsessive fan of Doctor Who and The Who...) it's like listening to crack cocaine with louder guitars.

The tour was their first to use a copious amount of 'special effects' (a.k.a. tape loops), and it took nearly the entire tour for them to get used to them.  This is the 2nd to last concert, so they're tighter than hell.  I think that this tour probably contributed pretty strongly to them tightening their sound for their mid 70's  stuff like Who By Numbers and Who Are You, which really are their two last great albums as far as I'm concerned.

On a side note, I recently found The Endless Wire, which came out last year or the year before, and popped it back in.  While the new stuff is positively wretched (save for Mike Post Theme, which gets kudos for mentioning one of the best TV theme writers of all time and rightfully giving his music a place in the emotional history of our culture...) the DVD and CD of them live is actually pretty rocking.  Although, Pete and Roger both look like a hundred and five years old, and the shorts that Daltrey wears are pretty embarrassing. See picture below.

Daltrey

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Dress Like Fialkov... Awesome Rocker/Auteur Shirts

December 03, 2007  /  Joshua Fialkov

Ingmar Berman Available for online ordering from L.A.'s Best Video Store, Cinefile.

Y'know, when Christina and I were in there a few weeks ago, I commented how Cinefile is the kind of video store I always dreamed about living around the corner from. Of course, I live on the other side of town (and in L.A. that means a forty five minute or more drive), but, still, it rocks pretty damn hard to live so close to a video store that shelves everything by director.

Click the pic for the direct link to the online store.

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Recommended Music: Bacalov's The Price of Power

December 03, 2007  /  Joshua Fialkov

I must’ve seen the movie at some point (the plot synopsis I read is very familiar…) and the music is really remarkable.  Bacalov, while often thought of as a Morricone wanna be, is actually very much his own composer.  His music is a bit more straight forward and uses more traditional instrumentation than the Maestro’s, but, really clearly captures period and and tone in a way that out classes even Morricone.  (His soundtrack for il Postino being the most obvious example of that.)

He didn’t do anywhere near as many Westerns as Morricone, but, I’d put just about any of them up against 90% of Morricone’s work (GBU and Fistful of Dollars really are untouchable in the grand scheme of soundtrack albums.)  The other big difference, for me anyhow, is that Bacalov’s filler music is infinitely more listenable.  Morricone’s got those big amazing themes, but Bacalov’s got the sweet emotional roller coasters.

Coincidentally... you can find it on both iTunes and eMusic for much less than the import on Amazon...

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