It’s a shame that Terrence Howard won’t be back in Iron Man 2 as Tony Stark’s buddy, pilot Jim Rhodes, despite his apparent desire to be.You can still get your War Machine fix though in the comics, particularly the upcoming Iron Man #35. The issue goes on sale November 19 and features War Machine AKA [...]
Leprechaun vs Warlock
The late 80s and early 90s was the prime time for unashamedly entertaining horror and action films. Two such franchises familiar to Gen Xers like me are now becoming comic series thanks to Bluewater, who seem to be getting some surprising licenses as of late. I suppose IDW have manged to gobble up the all [...]
Dear Dracula and New Krypton Reviews
Both my reviews are up for these, over at Broken Frontier. Dear Dracula is from Image and is strucured more like a comic than a children’s book, but with its great cartoony artwork and story (young Sam writes to Drac instead of Santa) it’s entertaining for parents and kids. There’s not enough books like this [...]
Never Back Down & The Mist Reviews
The comparisons to The Karate Kid, Fight Club and The O.C are obvious ones with the skinny teens surrounded by babes beat-em-up that is Never Back Down. Anyone who grew up loving Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita in The Katate Kid will see many similarities, with a single mother raising an outsider while moving to [...]
24 Hour Comics Day Movie
Last weekend 24 Hour Comics Days were held all over the globe. I was in Fremantle, Western Australia. Here’s how it looked. There were some very impressive creations knocked up, and you can buy copies of them at the Northbridge Festival which is on November 1 and 2. In the meantime, you can cast your [...]
Wolverine Trailer
Well, this is exciting. The first (shaky) look at the Wolverine trailer, right here. If you can move past the bad English, the blog may very well be the first place to see this. The film, entitled X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a spin-off set in the X-Men movie universe and a prequel starring the hairy [...]
Cyblade #1 Review
Well, at least the covers are attention grabbing – all 3 of them. Mixing elements of Alias (pretty young female spy and her male handler) and X-Man Psylocke (blades of psychic energy) on the surface this seems like yet another seen-it-all-before concept in comics. However, this series was successful enough with the right voters last [...]
Pretty Pics
Hare’s a slew of Marvel art. First up is Clint Langley’s funky cover for Ghost Rider #29 and a few interior pages from Tan Eng Huat (DC’s Doom Patrol). After that are covers for Secret Invasion #7 and Wolverine: Manifest Destiny #1, which are also on sale this week. Finally, the poster for the new [...]
Hexed Preview
Hexed is a new, December debuting mini-series from BOOM! Studios that follows 19 year old Brazilian thief of the supernatural, Luci Neves. It’s written by Michael Alan Nelson with art by Emma Rios, and you can check out one of the two covers, and two preview pages from the 4 ish series below.
24 Hour Comics Day
Here’s the challenge - create a 24 page comic within the same number of hours. It was held at Fremantle’s FTI (Film and Television Institute) for the 3rd year in a row and had a good turn out. I was not one of the admirable participants. I was there to take photos, some of which [...]
Doomsday and Eagle Eye Reviews
There’s not much to say about either of these films. They’re both…passable. Doomsday is written and directed by Brit Neil Marshall, whose two previous films as director are far better than this. Both Dog Soldiers and The Descent are great genre-twisters with genuine surprises and suspense. Doomsday is like a Michael Bay film without all [...]
Liquid City Competition
Draw robots and win. Maybe. To celebrate Image’s upcoming robot-centric Liquid City anthology editor Sonny Liew is opening up the floodgates to fans and allowing users of Deviantart.com to submit their own robotic creation – or a rendering thereof. “The variety of robot designs is practically limitless,” said editor Sonny Liew. “I hope we’ll see [...]
BOOM! Reviews
Here are my latest reviews at Broken Frontier, for two titles from BOOM! Studios. First up, the debut issue of a new series set in the Warhammer fantasy realm, Crown of Destruction, involving rats with canons and weird wizards. Also at BF is my look at the second issue of the creepily effective horror series [...]
Free Witchblade Anime
From now until October 26 you can download the first episode of the crazy Witchblade anime. Press release below. From the renowned anime studio GONZO, Witchblade is the saga of a woman who must bear the burden of a terrible force of destruction known as the Witchblade. Based on the comic book series from Top [...]
