Robot 6
An early trip into the Village
The Prisoner
In support of the new Prisoner TV miniseries, which runs Nov. 15-17, AMC has posted the first chapter of an online comic featuring “a new heroine and more secrets of The Village exposed.” The art is by Mitch Breitweiser.
Another item of interest might be this timeline of Prisoner references in pop culture, which include The Simpsons, Battlestar Galactica, the music of Iron Maiden and comics like Watchmen and Fantastic Four. (Although the site loses points for using a Fantastic Four movie image when they could have featured Jack Kirby artwork from issues 84-87).
- November 11, 2009 @ 10:29 AM by JK Parkin
3 Comments
The Ugly American
November 11, 2009 at 10:52 am
“AMC has posted the first chapter of an online comic”
Yet, no supporting link.
Shaun
November 11, 2009 at 5:26 pm
I’m not expecting much from this remake… I expect Ian McKellan to be as awesome as he always his, and he’s really the only reason I’m going to watch. I can’t stand Jim Caviezel, or his right-wing politics, and I think he’ll be a sad replacement for Patrick McGoohan. Kind of a drag that, if someone had to remake such a great show, it wasn’t Chris Nolan’s rumored feature film. That’s apparently not going to happen now, and that’s too bad since I think he might’ve done it justice.
Oh, and that timeline missed several Prisoner homages, etc… Several songs, music videos and commercials, as well as books (including DC’s comic miniseries) AND a great TV show from the mid-90′s called Nowhere Man. Anyone else remember that show? It was on the old UPN network and it aired after the (grossly inferior) Star Trek: Voyager. Unlike Voyager, no one watched Nowhere Man and it got canceled after one season. It starred the always excellent Bruce Greenwood, and it’s perhaps the most Prisoner-like TV show ever made. Even moreso than Lost.
It’s on DVD, for anyone who might be interested:
Shaun
November 11, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Damn, I forgot the link:
http://www.amazon.com/Nowhere-Man-Complete-Bruce-Greenwood/dp/B000BC8SXS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1257989272&sr=1-1
And, of course, the original Prisoner on DVD as well. A&E did an awesome job with their set (it just came out on Blu-ray too:
http://www.amazon.com/Prisoner-Complete-Megaset-40th-Anniversary/dp/B000FOQ03C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1257989446&sr=1-1