For the second year running, the Perth 4 Jesus rally is being held in Perth. The speakers are Pastor Kong Hee from City Harvest, Singapore’s largest church, and Pastor Robert Kayanja from Uganda. Both men are funny and anointed. I just came from the Friday night service and it was awesome. It’s open air, at [...]
Warren Ellis Doco at NYCC
Last year’s doco on Scottish comics scribe Grant Morrison was an entertaining insight into the mind of the man. That same team is behind Captured Ghosts, a similar doco about writer Warren Ellis. Here’s the skinny. Halo-8 Entertainment and the Napa Valley Film Festival are co-hosting a special NYC sneak preview screening of “WARREN ELLIS: [...]
Justice League: Doom
Based on one of the definitive Justice League stories, the next entry in DC’s animated films is out next year. Here’s the lowdown. Primetime Television Stars Nathan Fillion & Tim Daly join heroic cast of Justice League: Doom Warner Home Video to distribute DC Universe Animated Original Movie in early 2012; Eight Justice League TV [...]
The Deep in The West Australian
This was a happy accident. We get the newspapers delivered everyday at work, so during brekkie I was reading the arts pages, as I’m a highly cultured and sophisticated individual, and found something of a rarity – a review of a comic in The West Australian newspaper. Perth publisher Gestalt has been increasing their diversity [...]
Zorro #2 Review
New Australian publisher Silver Fox Comics is quickly getting noticed with their radical interpretation of the classic, blade swinging avenger Zorro. Read my review of the second ish here at Broken Frontier, and keep an eye out for it your LCS, or a newsagent near you if you’re in Australia. While you’re at Broken Frontier, [...]
Marvel’s Point One 2012
Comic book newbies, and Marvel zombies take note. There’s a new one-shot launching in November that’ll show what in store next year for Marvel’s titles. I don’t know who that is on the cover. Perhaps Nova with a rad new getup? The Foundation Of 2012 Is Here – POINT ONE! “Point One is a massive one-shot [...]
Blade of the Immortal Theme Song
I just watched the first 5 episodes of the 2008 Blade of the Immortal anime, based on Hiroaki Samura’s maga. It’s not bad, with its one-eyed protagonist who happens to have some handy bloodworms inside him, making him essentially unkillable. However, it’s filled with the kind of thing I’ve seen before in samurai anime, namely [...]
Super ’70s and ’80s
I’ve been meaning to mention this for a while now, but essentially, author Marc Tyler Nobleman’s latest project is a great one, which focusus on some forgotten players in pop culture in the 1970s and 1980s. Here’w how he describes it. To bridge the gap between my book Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman [...]
Jim Henson’s A Tale of Sand Preview
And what a lively and generous preview it is. Below is the official lowdown and you can check out a 20 page preview at Archaia’s site. ARCHAIA UNVEILS A 20-PAGE SNEAK PEEK OF ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL ‘TALE OF SAND’ BASED ON AN UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY CO-WRITTEN BY JIM HENSON, THE PREVIEW IS TIMED TO [...]
Extra Sequential Podcast #59-Donald Duck & DuckTales
55 mins. Don’t cry fowl, but we discuss the whacky and funny Fantagraphics collection of Carl Barks’ much loved 1940s Donald Duck stories, and compare them to BOOM! Studios’ current DuckTales…tales. Also, Ninja Turtles, Mythbusters and capitalism. LISTEN TO IT BELOW, DOWNLOAD IT HERE OR ON iTUNES You can email us [...]
Free The Thing Prequel Comic
Here’s the lowdown from Dark Horse about their free digital comic, set in the time of Vikings, and tying in to The Thing remake film. THE THING RETURNS TO DARK HORSE COMICS WITH A FREE DIGITAL COMIC THAT SERVES AS A PREQUELTO THE NEW THRILLER IN THEATERS OCTOBER 14! Dark Horse Comics is pleased to [...]
Batman: Year One’s Catwoman
Here’s the first look at how Catwoman will look in her short film on next month’s Batman: Year One animated film. Cool. She resembles her comic counterpart closley. Hopefully Anne Hathaway in next year’s The Dark Knight Rises will too. Official details below. Warner Home Video to unveil Catwoman animated short, first Justice League: [...]
Some Marvel Reads
It’s been a rather hectic week, but here’s a few quick mentions of some Marvel issues I’ve enjoyed over the last 2 weeks. Spider Island: The Avengers is a great one-shot that doesn’t have Spidey have in it, but does feature Hawkeye, Jessica Jones and Ms. Marvel teaming up with Frog-Man, one of Marvel’s greatest [...]
