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I cannot tell you how much I am tickled by this mashup of The Empire Strikes Back and Schoolhouse Rock. Something about the plucky tune as background music to Star Wars just…makes sense.
SF Signal is pleased to present this exciting excerpt from Ex-heroes, a novel by Peter Clines, who we interviewed yesterday.
Here is the book synopsis for Ex-heroes:
Stealth. Gorgon. Regenerator. Cerberus. Zzzap. The Mighty Dragon. They were heroes, using their superhuman abilities to make Los Angeles a better place.
Then the plague of living death spread around the globe. Billions died, civilization fell, and the city of angels was left a desolate zombie wasteland.
Now, a year later, the Mighty Dragon and his companions protect a last few thousand survivors in their film-studio-turned-fortress, the Mount. Scarred and traumatized by the horrors they’ve endured, the heroes fight the armies of ravenous ex-humans at their citadel’s gates, lead teams out to scavenge for supplies—and struggle to be the symbols of strength and hope the survivors so desperately need.
But the hungry ex-humans aren’t the only threats the heroes face. Former allies, their powers and psyches hideously twisted, lurk in the city’s ruins. And just a few miles away, another group is slowly amassing power…led by an enemy with the most terrifying ability of all.
After the jump…the excerpt!
Peter Clines is the author of the genre-blending -14- and the Ex-Heroes series. He grew up in the Stephen King fallout zone of Maine and made his first writing sale at age seventeen to a local newspaper. His first screenplay got him an open door to pitch stories at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Voyager. He is the writer of countless film articles, several short stories, “The Junkie Quatrain”, the rarely-read “The Eerie Adventures of the Lycanthrope Robinson Crusoe”, and the poorly-named website Writer on Writing.
Kristin Centorcelli: Peter, will you tell us a bit about yourself and your background?
Peter Clines: Well, I grew up in New England. Mostly in Maine, in the shadow of that well-known horror writer from Maine. I spent my early years writing awful comic book scripts (I still have some of the very polite rejection letters Jim Shooter sent me from Marvel), and then I moved on to even worse “novels.” I moved to California on a whim after college (where I wrote ever-so-slightly better novels) and stumbled into the film industry, and that got me playing with screenplays (like half the people in Hollywood). After several years I ended up writing for a screenwriting magazine. That gave me the time to sell some stuff to niche markets. And eventually it hit the point that I was writing fiction full time, because by then I’d made pretty much every mistake you could and figured out how to stop making them. Well, most of them, anyway.
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Clearly the power of the Internet is in mashing together two seemingly unrelated media properties into a so-called “Intsnat Hit”
Pfft!
That said, this kinda works…
“It’s your kid, Rory. Something’s got to be done about your kid!”
This video is full of wonderful mash-up moments. I especially liked 9-Stein. 
Check it out after the jump! …and whatever you do, don’t blink.
Because you can never have too many mashups…
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I may not know the genesis of A Game of Thrones, but I’m fairly certain that when George R.R. Martin envisioned his epic fantasy series it did not include a laugh track.
Of course, I could be wrong, because this kinda works…
[via Poe TV]
A bit spoilery….so after the jump.
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…or, the latest video from Sterling Cooper Vader Price…
Help me decide if this is genius or just very, very sad.
[via TV Squad]
As mash-ups go, I can’t think of two things that go together better…
[via Great White Snark]
The Superfriends re-enact one of my favorite scenes from Friends. “Transponster!”
