Although Aussies Geoffrey Rush and Jackie Weaver didn’t win the expected supporting actors Oscars, Shaun Tan did for Best Animated Short Film for The Lost Thing. Co-directed by Tan, and based on his OGN of the same name, it’s a charming tale of a man befriending a weird creature, and is narrated by Aussie comedian/singer [...]
Extra Sequential Podcast #29-Music
66 mins. We make beautiful music together. We talk about the unique intersection between comics and music and also discuss which of the Friends we resemble, William Shatner singing and True Romance. LISTEN TO IT BELOW, OR ON ITUNES OR DOWNLOAD IT HERE 2:22 NEWS BOOM! Studios gets the Peanuts licence, DJ Caruso set to [...]
New ThunderCats Trailer
Airing sometime in the future on Cartoon Network is the ThunderCats remake, with animation provided by Japan’s Studio4C. Lion-O and co. were always favourites of mine from the stellar days of cartoons in the ’80s, so I hope this new series does them justice.
Let The Ghost In The Exam
Like most fans of foreign films, I watch Hollywood remakes with one eye closed, in order to lessen my inevitable disappointment. I generally watch the US attempts though, as sometimes they get it right (The Office) and sometimes they don’t (the recent The Experiment starring Adrien Brody is overshadowed by the superior German original). Let [...]
Who Is Jake Ellis? #2 Review
Now at Broken Frontier is my review of this great new spy thriller with a twist series from Nathan Edmondsn and Tonci Zonjic. There’s also a creator commentary with Edmondson at MTV Geek.
Green Lantern: Emerald Knights Trailer
Arriving just before the live action film in June is this animated anthology, featuring a look at 6 different ring bearers. Of course, Hal Jordan is in there, but curiously Guy Gardner, Kyle Rayner and John Stewart aren’t, which is strange, considering most people know the former from the JLU cartoon, and he’ll be appearing [...]
Reed Promo 2
This second teaser from Image features actors Clint Eastwood, James Stewart and John Wayne amongst a bunch of real life Wild West figures, and one fictional character. We know now that it’s a fun, all-ages series that’ll be announced soon.
Reed Promo Image
Teaser images are becoming increasingly popular in the comics biz these days. They offer mystery, and get people talking. Both The Big Two (Marvel and DC) and smaller publishers use them. Now the idea is getting ridiculous, as this teaser from Image proves, but I guess that’s the idea. All we know is the name [...]
X-Men: First To Last Preview
It’s the old vs the new in this text-free preview. Your First Look at X-MEN: FIRST TO LAST! Marvel is pleased to present your first look at X-Men: First To Last, as acclaimed writer Christopher Yost returns to the X-Men with fan favorite artists Paco Medina and Dalibor Talijic. Starting in X-Men Giant-Size #1 and [...]
Dwayne McDuffie Dies
This is really sad. Writer Dwayne McDuffie has died. I know him, as most did, as creator of Static Shock (which became a cartoon), and his continual work promoting non-white characters in teams like JLA. Apart from his comics work, which included co-founding Milestone Media, he also worked on animated series (Justice League Unlimited, Ben [...]
Dark Horse and Archaia FCBD Previews
FCBD (that’s Free Comic Book Day) occurs on the first Saturday of May each year. It’s a great initiative to get newbies to sample the awesomeness of today’s sequential art. Hopefully your LCS is participating. The first 2 publishers to promote their offerings for this year are Dark Horse and Archaia. First up, the Horse, and [...]
Booming Peanuts
With two simple images released today, rising indie publishers BOOM! Studios have announced that their BOOM! Kids line is now called Kaboom!, and that the first series under that banner is a biggie – Charlie Brown and co. Whether Peanuts will be reprints or what, we don’t know as yet. Great scoop though.
Jim Lee Doesn’t Wear Socks
He also draws a mean Batman, as we all know. Below is a video posted by the artist and DC Co-Publisher himself sketching with his fingers on his iPad. The man himself says: This is a very sped up clip of me messing around on my iPad. Original video was 20 mins in length; it [...]
Attention Wiki Editors
Sometimes curiosity will get the better of me and I’ll wonder, “whatever happened to (insert name here)?”. Usually it’s to see what some wrestling star from the ’80s is up to these days, or someone whose comics or films I liked (or didn’t) to see if they’re still making art. I ran across Dan Harris’ [...]
