First of all, I forgot to blog it yesterday when I posted the Kopit/Yeston musical review.  Shame on me and my absent mind.  It's there, it's larger than life, etc.  Moving on to movie critics now (uh-oh... about to realize my own inadequacy, methinks).

Second of all, and this is the cool part, Maury Yeston himself dropped by and gave me a little insight into his musical and its origins.  His comments have been appended to the end of my review, and my starstruck haze is following me around at work like a little cloud of positivity.

I'll be updating the links page today, but other than that it's business as usual.  Oh, and much love to those two or three people who are valiantly trying to have conversations on the messageboard.  Someday there will be people to talk to--I hold out hope!

The effervescent Jennifer Linforth, up-and-coming author and all around interesting internet presence, posted a wee little interview with me over at her blog.  I feel all grown-up and relevant-like.  It's nothing that anyone who's been reading the reviews probably hasn't heard before, but go show her a little love, anyway--she has plenty of Phantom-related resources over there, and is well worth your time.

The Ryan review is finally posted, miserable though it might have been.  I'll be moving on to the Yeston/Kopit musical now, and anxiously awaiting my new materials in the mail--it's been a while since I ordered and I'm starting to get worried.  I don't exactly have money to throw down the drain, here.

In my internet travails, I stumbled across this little opinion piece about the various film adaptations of the Phantom story.  While I obviously have my own, somewhat different opinion in some areas, it's nevertheless an interesting read.  It's very much a layman's interpretation of the various movies, but a valid one nonetheless.  I'm particularly interested in that quote that he attributes to Kopit--I'd like to see if that's true, as it would explain some things about the wildly divergent plot in his versions of the story.

In other news, I just realized that the Phantom blowing himself up and sealing himself in or behind the rubble, which I was theorizing about in the case of the Perkins/Daughton graphic novel, is a direct import from the Guest/Mathieson film.  Shame on me for not noticing that when I wrote the review.  I'll be editing to reflect it.

A wee little review for the Eternity Comics piece is up.  Alas, my internet is out at home, so updates will be brusque as I sneak them in on company time.

Holy goddamn, I actually posted a review.  The Rostaing review is up, which means I can move on to the wonderful world of Eternity Comics.

Heh, the forum has three registered users, one of whom is me.  So much for you people requesting a forum, you liars, you.

Strange things are afoot at the Phantom Project.

Specifically, it now has a forum.  For the two people that read this--go out!  Meet one another!  Have a blast!

Actually, more than a few people now have either mentioned that they'd like to have a forum to discuss some of this stuff, or actively asked me to set one up, so here it is.  Unfortunately, since I do not have the l33t f0rum skillz, it's pretty basic at the moment, but I'm hoping to pretty it up later, possibly when I have more time this weekend.  You can still post on it and talk to one another, and the naive child in my soul says that's what's important, right?  Right.

In the meantime, I'm still working on the Rostaing; unexpected houseguests make it hard to get anything done in a hurry.  I'm totally on it whenever I have a second, though.