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Never Surrender! Behind the Scenes of Galaxy Quest: the Journey Continues Never Give Up! Never Surrender! Behind the Scenes of Galaxy Quest: The Journey Continues Pop Culture for Parents | www.FamilyFans.com Summer 2015 1,000 Words POP CULTURE FOR PARENTS Summer 2015 MIKE NAPPA Unless otherwise indicated, all other material within this pdf | Publisher | edition of the FamilyFans e-magazine is copyright © 2015 Nappaland Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. No AMY NAPPA portion may be copied, reprinted, or otherwise published or | Executive VP/Associate Publisher | distributed without fi rst obtaining the express written consent of Nappaland Communications Inc. JILL WUELLNER | Senior Editor/FIlm Critic | § § § WALKING CARNIVAL CREATIVE FREE REPRINTS AVAILABLE | Art Direction/Design | We want to support what you do in the same ways our readers and publishing partners support what we do. To DR. 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My son-in-law had such an experience. Listen to what he says about it: vigorous grass is “Our very best family friends came over for a weekend, and (as usual) we stayed up Silk #1 a crack in your way too late talking and playing games. The next morning we were dragging out of sidewalk.” bed—except the kids, of course. Our children were unending bundles of energy, plus —Page 17 there weren’t enough bathrooms, no one felt like making breakfast, and none of us Never Give Up! had ironed clothes for church. —Will Rogers Never Surrender! As You Wish “Lying exhausted in bed, I could hear the rising din of kids who’d gotten up at the Behind the scenes of Galaxy Quest: The —Page 18 crack of dawn and who would rather play than dress. Mixed in were sounds of parents Journey Continues. who’d rather sleep than eat. I groaned. Suddenly, I realized that this day was mine. I didn’t have to be a poster-child for the Crankiness Foundation; nor did anyone else. —Page 6 “Although I didn’t believe it at first, I dragged out of bed and announced to my wife, ‘Today is going to be a great day.’ She didn’t believe it either. ‘Why is that?’ she snapped. Smiling, I shrugged and said, ‘It just is. I’ve got a good feeling Features & Departments about it.’ A half-smile played on her lips as she looked me in the eyes and said, ‘Maybe you’re right.’ 1,000 Words “Encouraged, I looked for my friends and the rest of my family. One by one I made the announcement that this would be a good day. The children already knew it. One adult friend seemed relieved, saying, ‘I’m so glad.’ Columns —Page 3 “The tension eased. A few smiles broke out. Sure, we were late for church, but so what? After all, today was going to be The Joyful Dad: a great day. And you know, it turned out even better than I expected.” Lesson from a Cranky Dad Quick Picks —Page 5 Rather than give in to a joyless Sunday morning, Mike chose to plant a seed of joy into the lives of those in his house. So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed; All he did really was to change his own attitude, but that was enough to infect those around him and change the mood. Big Thunder Mountain Railroad #1; Are you a father who plants bits of joy into the rooms of your home? As the father goes, so goes the family— especially when it comes to setting an emotional climate at home. “Dad’s in a bad mood” 14 Things You Don’t Complete Bible Handbook means everyone must stay out of his way. “For some reason, Dad’s got a smile on his Know about —Page 19 face today” frees the rest of the family to smile, too. It would be nice if we could shove responsibility for creating happy memories onto Disney•Pixar’s other family members, but that’s not the way life is. A mother makes an irreplaceable Just for Fun FamilyFans.com credit: photo contribution to a family’s legacy, and siblings wield a strong influence on the way Inside Out Marriage & Family Builder Ideas! childhood memories are shaped. But it’s the father who leads, who sets the tone, who —Page 12 —Page 20 must initiate and cultivate a legacy of joy. When have you seen your attitude affect the attitudes of those in your family? The Back Door What have you done with that power? —Page 22 Dr. Norm Wakefield is author of The Dad Difference (with Josh McDowell), Legacy of Joy, and Men are From Israel, Women are from Moab. He’s a sought-after speaker, a seminary professor, and joyful dad to five happy, adult children. 4 FAMILYFANS Summer 2015 5 Never Give Up! Never Surrender! Tom Waltz and Erik Burnham take us behind .com the scenes of... Galaxy Quest: The Journey Continues! Mike Nappa photo credit: © 2015 DW Studios LLC / www.IDWPublishing LLC Studios DW © 2015 credit: photo 6 FAMILYFANS Summer 2015 7 In case you didn’t know it, 1983 was In case you haven’t followed the movie a pretty important year for Galaxy into the comics yet, here’s the premise Quest. of the series: Yes, yes, I know. The Galaxy Quest movie didn’t release As you recall, the end of the Galaxy Quest film saw our in theatres until 1999, and in fact, no one had even TV-actors-turned-space-heroes saving the universe thought of Galaxy Quest in 1983. Nonetheless, that year through a wondrous device called the Omega 13, which was a significant one for the franchise that gave us the miraculously twisted time and took everything backward immortal phrase, “Never give up, never surrender!” 13 full seconds. Hooray! But... 1983, you see, was the year that five- What if, far across the galaxy, a civil war was raging. And, what if the Omega 13 kicked in at just the moment year-old Erik Burnham lost pretty much when the rebels in that war had won a tide-turning, everything. covert battle? And what if erasing that 13 seconds had changed that history, causing them to lose that battle instead? “Our family had a house fire,” he remembers. And— poof—everything little Eric owned went up in smoke. Well, the lizard-like, shape-shifting rebels would know their victory was stolen of course, and begin a search You can imagine how that must of have felt for a kin- to find out why. That would lead them to Earth, which dergartner! So his grandfather did what he could. To would put our TV-star heroes directly in the blaster-path cheer up his little Erik, he pulled a comic out of his own once again. And so, as the say, the journey continues… collection (Avengers Annual #6, if you were curious) and gave it to his grandson as a gift. Here at FamilyFans, we thought this was such a fun idea for a Galaxy Quest comic series, that we cornered “little” “It was my first possession after losing everything I’d Erik Burnham and editor Tom Waltz—and we forced known up to that point,” Erik says, “and I read it into them to tell us all their behind the scenes secrets about rags. Just that one book being given to me at that time Galaxy Quest: The Journey Continues. permanently cemented my love for the medium.” (See, it’s good to be a friend of this e-mag, isn’t it dear Fast-forward to today, and Erik has turned his love reader?) for Avengers Annual #6 (and grandpa) into a thriving career as a comic book writer, including an acclaimed Ω Ω Ω run on the Ghostbusters comic book series from IDW Publishing.
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