No slight on Dave Gibbons, but Evan Shaner may’ve just drawn the best Watchmen piece of art I’ve ever seen. Granted, he drew the Peanuts characters as Watchmen characters but I would totally love to read the entire series done in this style. Although seeing “little Chuck” on the big blue Dr. Charlie Brown Manhattan may be too much…
I seriously don’t know whether to laugh, cry or vomit up my bacon double cheeseburger right now. I just saw this trailer for Lionsgate’s next Marvel direct-to-DVD disaster. It’s the “next generation” of Avengers and it’s, well, just so awful on so many bad levels. Holy crap does this just look wrong. I honestly have no clue why they chose to go with this rather then animate 1 of oh, 500 awesome comic book storyarcs that fans know and love?!?
Warning: Watching this trailer may induce a complete loss of faith in humanity’s talents to entertain.
If you’re not already creeped out by Warner Bros. upcoming “The Dark Knight” flick, then maybe a roller coaster set in the middle of the movie will raise the hair’s on the back of your neck. Six Flags‘ Dark Knight Coaster is set to open in late spring, building up buzz for the movie that opens later this summer.
According to Six Flags, “As part of the experience, park guests will see, hear and feel the action of the movie the moment they enter the ride queue line, as they are transformed into citizens of Gotham City — caught in the middle of a city under siege and torn apart by The Joker. Guests will then board a Gotham City rail car and careen through demented hallways of twists, turns, unseen hills and chaotic images, and continue to be tormented by The Joker as they are thrust onto the battlefield of good vs. evil. Will The Dark Knight save them in time? ”
The trailer for the new Hulk movie just debuted and well, I really really really want to like it. Edward Norton looks great as Banner. The overall plot seems good enough. It seems to have a lot more action than that snoozefest Hulk movie from a few year’s back that I’d rather just forget. And even the idea that they need the Hulk to help save the day from the Abomination sounds great. It’s a lot like the comics; the Hulk is a power to be contained or killed, except when the government realizes they need him. Neat.
So what’s my problem? Sigh. Same thing as the last Hulk movie. The CGI. I’m so sick of lame CGI. By lame I mean the type where you can tell it’s CGI. The Hulk looks “okay,” but really fake. And the Abomination looks downright ridiculous. If this were an animated movie throughout, it’d be fine. Or if they had amazing makeup, it’d be perfect. But for some reason I just can’t get into this CGI. Maybe the final deal on a big screen will change my mind, but it’s really hard to like a Hulk movie if you don’t like how the hero and villain look.
Yes, I’m skeptical about the “Watchmen” movie. How could anyone NOT be? But Zack Synder totally nailed Frank Miller’s “300.” And not only has he kept up an official Watchmen movie blog, but today he just released the first real photos of the main cast. And holy crap I cannot wait! Heck, I’ll even suffer through some horrific Kate Hudson movie if it means seeing the Watchmen trailer before it!
Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan)
Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson)
Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman)
Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley)
Ozymandias (Matthew Goode)
Sweet Jesus in a Birch Bark Canoe! Finally someone’s snatched up the license to the best cop buddy team this side of Chief Wiggums and that pink frosted donut. Symbiote Studios will be developing urban vinyl figures and statues for the Sam & Max license. No other news available yet in terms of cost, release, etc. But this sketch accompanied the announcement, so I’m assuming this is the original idea for the statue. I’m more interested in the urban vinyl figures, though, and would LOVE somebody to pick up an action figure line and do posable figures of them with insane weapons (including a make-your-own soap gun).
Great job on this one. Usually I find these parody videos cute for a second and the quality blows and nobody’s mouth matches the dialogue, etc. But this one is damn sharp and beautifully edited. And pretty damn funny.
I would so pay good money to see this flick if it ever came out. Stick with this preview trailer till near the end, it’s worth it. And fairly short overall.
DC Comics has listed 30 Essential Graphic Novels on their website. But based on the list and the explanation that these are the “best-selling titles that you must read,” this sounds more like a popularity contest mixed in with some quality measurements. I certainly agree with about 60% of this list. Watchmen. Dark Knight. Y the Last Man. Fables. V for Vendetta. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Sure, those are all super solid picks, as well as some of the straight superhero fare like Identity Crisis and JLA.
But how on Earth (or any one of countless Earths…) can they seriously justify saying any of the following books are part of the 30 MUST-READ books for comic fans old and new alike:
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies - I know this was a huge seller, but the storyline was so godawful it was beyond laughable.
Hellblazer: Original Sins - I loved this Hellblazer series. But I didn’t realize how boring and mundane Jamie Delano’s run was until Garth Ennis came onboard. Granted, this isn’t a horrible pick for the list, since it really introduces Constantine as a character and sets up the series, but going with Ennis’ “Dangerous Habits” graphic novel would be a far better choice. It’s also easily accessible and a really well done tale.There are a couple other books on here I haven’t had a chance to read, but I may pick up just based on their recommendation (and then I’ll curse the list out even more). I’m thinking about Superman: Birthright and Green Lantern: Rebirth in particular.
Let me start by saying, I seriously enjoyed Rob Liefeld’s art on his original “Hawk & Dove” mini-series for DC. It was fresh, crisp and energetic. Real good storyline too courtesy of Karl Kesel. But then something happened. Liefeld got onto New Mutants and his art starting changing. Muscles grew exponentionally. Pouches started appearing at a Tribbles-type rate. And everyone started carrying around guns the size of houses.
I could go on and on about Liefeld’s art (Don’t get me started on his “no more A on Captain America” era…), but instead, I’ll just point you over to The 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings courtesy of Progressive Boink. They did a bang-up job not just showing off some great, er, bad examples from Liefeld’s career, but the detailed commentary really gets the point across. Here’s a few of my favorite drawings to mock:
