It’s about time the Atomic Robo writer got some grander opportunities. Of course, everyone and their grandma loves Robo for its refreshing mix of humour and action in a very aware pop culture package. It’s the kind of quirkiness that geeks like me find irresistible. Now, Brian Clevinger is writing an all-ages mini focused on The [...]
Iron Man Extremis Motion Comic
First it was Spider-Woman’s turn, then the Astonishing X-Men. Now, it’s the cinematic golden boy Tony Stark who gets the motion comic treatment, and I must say, this could be the best one yet. The trailer is below, as is the official synopsis. IRON MAN: EXTREMIS Motion Comic On Sale NOW! Marvel Knights Animation is [...]
Megan Gale on Justice League Film
Thankfully, the George Miller-helmed JLA film to be filmed here in Australia is no more. Casting a bunch of unknown twenty somethings perhaps looked good on paper, but the chosen models and former TV stars didn’t display the kind of power that DC’s oldest superheroes demanded for their first big screen adventure. Plus, wouldn’t Warner [...]
The Calling: Cthulhu Chronicles Begins
One of BOOM! Studios earliest concepts gets a new ongoing in July. The nonsensical teaser image below was released this week, but now seems to make a tad more sense. I love the simple design, but I can’t be the only one who doesn’t get what the text (assumedly an acronym?) means. I’m sure BOOM! [...]
Bluewater’s Jesus Comic Preview
Out this month is a one-shot from Bluewater focused on Jesus. There’s a few random preview pages below. The art’s better than I anticipated and the visual interpretation of Satan as a He-Man villain is interesting, but the approach at light humour, I’m unsure of. THE FAITH SERIES: Jesus CHRIST Author(s): Don Smith Artist(s) Jacob [...]
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 1988
I just discovered this awesome April Fool’s Day joke revealing great film heroes from the decade that produced the best of them. B.A. Baracus, MacGyver and Back to the Future’s Doc Emmett Brown teaming up to fight a vampire Tony Montana from Scarface? If only this were true. See the full solicitation info right here.
Cold Space #1 Review
Justifiably, fanboys and girls often glance sideways with when they see a celebrity’s name stamped boldy on a cover in their LCS. Lately, actors and musos have flocked to create, or sometimes, “create” comics in ways they never have before, and you can’t blame their timing, or the publishers who want to capitalise on their [...]
Cullen Bunn Interview
Now at Broken Frontier (which is new and improved) you can find my interview with writer Cullen Bunn (what a great name!). His new series The Sixth Gun debuts on May 1 in the Free Comic Book Day issue from Oni Press. You can see a few preview pages from the intriguing Western/horror series right [...]
Re-designing Batman and Robin
Over at The Source, DC’s official blog, are the latest two posts from Grant Morrison describing his inspirations and motivations for the new Batman and Robin series, with assorted art from Frank Quitely’s sketchbooks. I love all this behind the scenes stuff, and here you’ll see preliminary sketches of new enemies, the flying Batmobile, Damian [...]
Socalled Movie
I have been broadening my musical horizons lately, and this Canadian Jewish muso looks interesting. Dubbed Socalled, Josh Dolgin has released 4 albums and seems quite the talented individual. There’s not much more to say, but if the trailer below intrigues you (as it should) check out his site here. Yes, he looks like an [...]
The Light #1 Review
On sale April 14 is this excellent debut from Image. Written by scribe on the rise, Nathan Edmondson (the equally excellent Olympus) and art by the always dependable Brett Weldele (The Surrogates) this is a hard to resist welcome to a new 5 issue mini-series. The Light is bookended with an excerpt from a poem [...]
Spider-Man and Shield
The Marvel teaser onslaught continues, with this new image showing Psylocke and Spider-Man as members of the X-Men. I doubt Peter Parker would stamp on “X” on his costume, as he’s not a mutant, so maybe its a curve ball. However, no-one thought he’d be an Avenger too. On a somewhat related not, last week’s [...]
Pixels Short Film
From Parisian company One More Production comes this little gem; a 2:34 film called Pixels. Fitting, as that’s exactly what attacks and transforms New York. See it to believe it.
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec Trailer
Premiering on April 14 is this interesting film, based on the works of famed French writer/artist Jaques Tardi. Les aventures extraordinaires d’Adele Blanc-Sec, to use its original name, debuted in 1972. The titular heroine explores the occult and the supernatural. Think a female Indiana Jones, I guess, but a decade earlier. The trailer’s in French, [...]
