Abduzeedo have a cool post on some of the film work of the collective known as Prologue. They design a lot of awesome movie opening credits, including Iron Man, Tron: Legacy, Sherlock Holmes, The Walking Dead and a whole lot more. Check out Abduzeedo’s post here and Prologue’s groovy site here to see their other work too including video games such as Metal Gear Solid 3 and Resistance 3.
The bloggers at Robot 6 are celebrating their second year at Comic Book Resources, and just like last year are taking over CBR’s front page. There’s some great features on there now including a revealing interview with the people behind Archaia’s best selling books of 2010, Mouse Guard and Return of the Dapper Men.
Similarly there’s a chat with Chris Spitzer from indie publisher AdHouse.
There’s an interview with Dan Abnett who’s co-writing Marvel’s new Heroes For Hire series.
There’s more goodies at CBR too, so check it out.
Unrelated to Robot 6’s anniversary is Greg Burgas’ always entertaining look at the Previews catalogue, this time for March’s goodies. I haven’t picked up my Previews yet, but will do when I return to work this week. It’s always a pleasure flipping through the pages.
From publisher Udon are two updated TPBs of Street Fighter comics, with a heap of new extras. Udon’s work is always visually dazzling and accessible, and of course, any SF fans will find them irresistible. From Udon’s blog, here are the details.
STREET FIGHTER: THE ULTIMATE EDITION
– collects Street Fighter #0-14, including all backup stories & covers.
– plus bonus stories from Newtype Magazine and the Capcom Summer Special, and “Cheap Shots” comedy strips.
– this new printing features a new Dark Ryu cover!
– featuring the art of Alvin Lee, Arnold Tsang, Long Vo, and Omar Dogan!
– guest stories by Joe Madureira, Adam Warren, Hyung-Tae Kim, and more!
STREET FIGHTER II: THE ULTIMATE EDITION
– collects Street Fighter II #0-6, including all backup stories & covers, and comedy strips.
– collects the main story from Street Fighter II Turbo #1-12, plus the Turbo prelude story from Street Fighter Remix #0
– featuring the art of Alvin Lee and Jeffrey “Chamba” Cruz!
– guest stories by Skottie Young, Arnold Tsang, Chris Stevens, and more!
The science gurus at NASA have named disaster film 2012 as the most unrealistic sci-fi film, ever. No surprise really. According to this article, “The agency is getting so many questions from people terrified that the world is going to end in 2012 that we have had to put up a special website to challenge the myths. We have never had to do this before.”
Hah, classic. They also name Armageddon, The Core and others in their list of films that take huge liberties with true science. However they do give thumbs up to Blade Runner and Gattaca. I wonder what they think about Demolition Man.
From now until Jan 10 publisher Fantagraphics have a 20% off sale on everything. Yes, everything in their back catalogue. Check out the details here.
If you’re quick, you can get 101 issues of Batman for only 99c each from DC’s Digital Store. It’s a good way to ring in the New Year and those issues, from Batman #600 – #700 have some great stories including Bruce Wayne: Fugitive, the return of Jason Todd, and Batman: R.I.P.
You have until 11 p.m. EST, so go now!
Details of the first of the upcoming figures tying into June’s Green Lantern film are now out. There’s 2814 of these made (because that’s the number of the sector Hal patrols), showing actor Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan, with a wearable ring, from Mattel. Also at the same site you can discover more details of the tie-in game, called Rise of the Manhunters, which goes on sale on June 1.
The costume on the figure looks the best we’ve seen so far and I’d imagine it’d be pretty close to the final version in the film, and the game intrigues me as it’s Hal teaming up with his mentor Sinestro to fight the Manhunters, who were basically the Guardians of the Universe’s first attempt at galactic justice before they realised aliens with rings are better than robots.
Entries for Amazon’s annual novel award will be open from Jan 24 to Feb 6. You can find all the details here, but here’s the basic info:
Amazon.com, along with Penguin Group (USA) and CreateSpace, is pleased to announce the fourth annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, the international competition seeking the next popular novel. The competition will once again award two grand prizes: one for General Fiction and one for Young Adult Fiction. Each winner will receive a publishing contract with Penguin, which includes a $15,000 advance.
Not bad at all, though of course you’d already need a novel finished, or pretty much done, unless you can afford to take a long holiday to prepare. Your manuscript must be between 50,000 and 150,000 words. The official entry guidelines are here.
Goodbye 2010, hello 2011. Here’s a pic from one of this year’s most anticipated new mini-series, Who Is Jake Ellis? from Nathan Edmondson and Tonci Zonjic. It goes on sale Jan 5 from Image Comics and my review of #1 should be up at Broken Frontier around the same time.
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