My online time is limited these days, so I thought I’d create a “sticky post” where others who run across Cowboy Bebop or related news could share it here with others.
Edited to add that the current big news is that there’s a “Live-Action Cowboy Bebop Film in Development at Fox.” The in development part strikes me as meaning things are still far more in the talking and thinking about it stage than anything else, but it would be…interesting.
I had a rash of spam comments that somehow got past Akismet, and in the process five comments that had been previously approved somehow ended up marked as spam. Fortunately I checked all the pages before I deleted the junk, but I don’t always do that.
Anyway, I believe I retrieved all of the comments, but if I did not, I apologize and hope you’ll repost.
And I have to apologize for the tardiness in getting it posted. It has been a very busy month for me and next month is going to be even worse. Eeek.
ANYway, please check out Trina’s Spike’s Julia and Spike’s Faye – Old and Young and weigh in with any comments and thoughts you might have on her observations.
I do recall reading somewhere that an anime convention is to have younger, more innocent characters depicted with larger eyes. It’s interesting, then, that Julia, Spike, Jet, and Vicious are represeted as small-eyed old fogies and Faye is not. She’s supposed to be anything but naive and she is, technically, far older than all of them.
Ed still wins out in the gigantic eyes department, though.
I’m delighted to announce a new essay: Jessica “Yahikochan” K.’s There’s Something About Blue. Jessica takes a look at the use of the colors blue and yellow in the series, especially in how they pertain to Spike’s memories. Thank you, Jessica!
Please drop by and read over her essay and, if so inclined, leave a comment as well.
I’m moving my son off to college tomorrow and then taking a much-needed break til around Sept 7 — in the wilds of Northern Wisconsin, where I’ll have no internet connection. Yikes! 
So if anyone has a comment in moderation, it won’t show up until I get back to approve any pending comments.
For visitors from the USA, have a safe and relaxing Labor Day weekend!
I’ve added a few new plugins to manage comments: format “quick tags,” a comment preview feature, and a plugin that will allow people to edit their comments for up to fifteen minutes after it’s been posted. Everything seems to be working, but let me know if there are any problems.
Paul Binkley has sent in a great essay on the parallels between Cowboy Bebop and the folktale of Urashima Taro, which is featured in Session 18, Speak Like A Child. Please come read it here and leave a comment.
Thanks Paul!
Looking over the site the other day, I realized there are no discussions about Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door, the movie. I think there has been references to it in several essays, but I would love to have someone take an in-depth look at the movie and how it fits into the series and/or if it added anything new.
Interested? Send away! Submission guidelines are here.
And, again, thank you all for your support! 
Spike and Faye: Different Conceptions of Worth - A Cowboy Bebop character study, submitted by Radishface. This is a really nice essay looking at how the past has shaped their perceptions of what makes life “worth” living. Check it out!
And now, for the most part, I’ve caught up with all the emails and submissions sent to me. I had received a few really interesting emails on a couple of essays here, and I’ve added those as comments so others can read through them and respond, if desired. This includes a comment from Eric on Mirror Image, information on the Long Timeline from Lo, and another comment (essay length!) from Lo on Who’s Shooting At Who?.
Again, comments are moderated. Once you have a comment approved, future comments by you will be automatically posted. This is pretty much a necessity due to comment spam and troublemakers.
