I'm getting really psyched about the new Sky One show: The Dresden Files, which launches next week (on Valentine's Day!). Until a few months ago I hadn't even heard of the books that this is based on. It took a fleeting mention on a gaming podcast about a forthcoming Dresden Files RPG to pique my interest.
But it wasn't until I started to see the trailers for the TV show that I knew this was something I really had to get into. I love the idea of a magical world existing just out the corner of your eye where monsters, vampires and magicians lurk - and add in a seedy/pulp/noirish twist and I can't believe I hadn't discovered the world of Harry Dresden earlier. In many ways it appears to be the sort of tone I am trying to set in the new incarnation of HeroPress.
And so here I am now - with less than a week until the premier - three chapters into the first book in the series (Storm Front) and listening to The Butcher Block; a podcast about the author, Jim Butcher, and all things Dresden.
The pod is produced by Fred Hicks, one the lead designers on the role-playing game and friend of Jim's - he gets a credit in the Storm Front as one of the first proof readers.
But it wasn't until I started to see the trailers for the TV show that I knew this was something I really had to get into. I love the idea of a magical world existing just out the corner of your eye where monsters, vampires and magicians lurk - and add in a seedy/pulp/noirish twist and I can't believe I hadn't discovered the world of Harry Dresden earlier. In many ways it appears to be the sort of tone I am trying to set in the new incarnation of HeroPress.
And so here I am now - with less than a week until the premier - three chapters into the first book in the series (Storm Front) and listening to The Butcher Block; a podcast about the author, Jim Butcher, and all things Dresden.
The pod is produced by Fred Hicks, one the lead designers on the role-playing game and friend of Jim's - he gets a credit in the Storm Front as one of the first proof readers.
While I am slightly worried that the TV show makers are already making excuses for cuts that have been made to the first episode, I'm hoping that this is a minor hic-cup - and possibly one I won't even pick up when the show is aired - and it turns out to be the grown-up cocktail of Harry Potter, Buffy and Raymond Chandler that it looks like.
I'm off to listen to some more of the podcast and maybe read another chapter of the book.
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