Yep, not a teaser. It’s just gone online, so catch it here at Apple.
Tony Stark being witty, Cap with a machine gun, a few new costumes, and wait for it, even the Hulk. It’s a fairly traditional trailer, but it looks grand, and superheroic. The Joss Whedon directed film doesn’t open until May next year, so expect more epic trailers, and character centred ones I’m sure, to pop up then, but for now this will do very nicely.
This ad for Youi insurance was filmed at Sydney’s Kings Comics, which I wrote about here, and uses some goodies from Black House Comics as props. Not that you can see much of either, but it’s pretty cool.
You can check out the ad at Bleeding Cool.
If you’re in Melbourne at the end of the month, check out this launch from Australia’s best comics publisher.
On Saturday, the 29th of October at 3pm, All Star Comics will play host to a book launch like no other. Internationally-renowned authors from across Australia will converge on Melbourne for the official launch of four stunning, critically-acclaimed books.
64 mins. We wind back the clock to those halcyon days of the 1930s and 40s when comic books and superheroes were brand new. And they were stranger and wilder than you could imagine. Also, Orson Welles. Drunk.
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2:37 NEWS
Beware the Batman – a CG animated series
New episodes of Beavis & Butt-Head
Grant Morrison writing a Rogue Trooper film
The Metal Hurlant Chronicles TV series
New Arrested Development episodes and film! Yay!
Short fan film inspired by Ben Templesmith’s Welcome to Hoxford
15:26 THEME – 1930s AND 40S COMICS
The diversity of genres, crude renderings, strange tales of justice, the crazy work of Fletcher Hanks, radio serials, the abundance of anthologies, superhero precursors and more. What a wild time in which the comics we know and love today were experimenting and finding their feet.
If you want to hear some great, free radio serials go here, and here’s an example of a crazy Captain Marvel comic from the time.
Now, that’s what I call a x-over! Here’s a look at some new movie (and one TV) pics.
The fun Batman: The Brave and the Bold is ending this year, but a new Batman is coming our way, as announced in France on the weekend. I’m kind of over Batman getting all the toon attention, but bigger plans are afoot, including Plastic Man, Doom Patrol and a claymation Batman from the guys behind Wallace and Gromit. Cool. Beware The Batman has Katana instead of Robin as Batman’s sidekick, Alfred becoming a gun toting butler (which he does when necessary in the comics BTW) and the first adaptation of Grant Morrison’s evil Professor Pyg. I wonder how they’ll make him kid friendly. Check out details here.
Russel Crowe is playing Superman’s Kryptonian father Jor-El (played by Marlon Brando in the ’70s film), while Kevin Costner plays his earthly dad. The costume seems to be going for the regal, fantasy look, complete with red cape and blue bodysuit, meaning Zack Snyder’s 2013 reboot will feature a Superman who uses his Kryptonian roots for his costume. I like the connection, but I doubt Crowe has the gravitas to play Jor-El. We’ll see.
Some very cool pics of Marvel’s The Avengers film have been released, showing Black Widow, Captain America, Nick Fury and director Joss Whedon. Check them all out here.
The director of The Fountain and Black Swan tackling Noah? Now that’s interesting.
Aronofsky says “Since I was a kid, I have been moved and inspired by the story of Noah and his family’s journey. The imaginations of countless generations have sparked to this epic story of faith. It’s my hope that I can present a window into Noah’s passion and perseverance for the silver screen.”
Image Comics has now joined the digital comics race. Awesome. Most of their comics will be released digitally the same day as print, and the first batch of new goodies starts on Wednesday. Details below.
At Broken Frontier is a preview of the next issue of this highly entertaining spy series from writer Nathan Edmondson and Tonci Zonjic. Keep your eyes peeled out for the issue on shelves next Wednesday.
Check out the Who Is Jake Ellis? #5 preview here.
Hulk is coming back with 2 impressive creators. Preview pages below.
Silvestri & Aaron Break New Ground In INCREDIBLE HULK #1!
Hold on to your seats for the biggest, baddest, most Incredible Hulk ever! Join Legendary Artist Marc Silverstri as he teams with Jason Aaron for a Hulk story unlike anything you’ve ever seen in the all-new Incredible Hulk #1! It’s the buildup to the greatest showdown fans have been demanding – Banner versus Hulk. Who is the beast and who is the man? Find out in Incredible Hulk #1and check out these jaw-dropping pages for a sneak peek at this groundbreaking new series!
*Retailers should check the Diamond Daily today for special ordering incentives including variants!
INCREDIBLE HULK #1 (AUG110584)
Written by JASON AARON
Pencils and Cover by MARC SILVESTRI
FOC – 10/3/11, ON SALE – 10/26/11
75 mins. Put on the jazz and light some candles. It’s time for a look at sex scenes in comics. It’s our raunchiest episode ever! Actually, it’s more funny than raunchy as we realise how disturbing, hilarious and just plain strange sequential art sex can get. Also duck rude bits, cooking chicken and Andrew Ridgley from WHAM!.
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4:18 NEWS
Mladen’s writing for the digital Find Magazine! Woo hoo!
Catwoman’s unimpressive new film costume
Justice League: Doom animated film premieres next year
Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts doco
The hugely negative response to DC’s new version of the sexed up Starfire
Uderzo’s Asterix successors
14:06 SEX SCENES
Catwoman #1
Green Goblin and Spider-Man’s first girlfriend, Gwen Stacy
Superman and Wonder Woman having sex while flying through volcanoes. The earth literally moves.
Watchmen’s 2 scenes, including Dr Manhattan’s multitasking
Dave McKean’s artful “Celluloid”
The amazing hallucination/sex scenes in “Swamp Thing”
“The Boys”, and whether Garth Ennis’ has issues with women in authority
Last Gasp Publishing’s yearly anthologies: “Best Erotic Comics”
Milo Manara’s “Bolero”
Ignacio Noe’s “The Piano Tuner” and “The Convent from Hell”
Caza and Paul Lamontellerie’s “Planet Terror”
Serpieri’s “Druuna”
Vittorio Giardino’s Little Nemo sex romp, “Little Ego”
Hentai, and the troubling subculture of Lolicon
The gratuitous sex in “Gantz”
The mature sex and violence in “Crying Freeman”
The mechanics of mutant sex and superhero kids
The numerous, and disturbing scenes in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series
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 NIB Stadium in Perth and is free and on Saturday from 12noon and Sunday from 2pm. There’s also bookshops, stalls for Bible schools and stuff too.
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: CAPTURED GHOSTS” at the downtown theater CINEMA VILLAGE (22 E 12th St NYC 10003) during New York Comic Con on Friday October 14th at 11:15pm.
CAPTURED GHOSTS will have its official World Premiere November 11th at the Napa Valley Film Festival (alongside the premiere of Martin Scorsese’s HUGO and gala screenings of Alexander Payne’s THE DESCENDANTS & Clint Eastwoods J EDGAR), but the NVFF organizers made a special exception to co-present this sneak preview screening for fans attending New York Comic Con.
This is the second year in a row Halo-8 will debut a film by Respect Films partners Patrick Meaney and Jordan Rennert during New York Comic Con, following the packed-house that greeted last year’s GRANT MORRISON: TALKING WITH GODS.
WARREN ELLIS: CAPTURED GHOSTS
NYC Special Advanced Screening
Friday October 14, 2011
11:15pm
CINEMA VILLAGE
22 E 12th Street, NYC 10003
212.924.3363
Advanced tix available from www.halo8store.com or direct at these links:
$11 adult / $8 student / $20 bundle with DVD pre-order
CAPTURED GHOSTS features the most extensive interview ever given by Ellis, whose groundbreaking body of work includes comic books Planetary, Transmetropolitan, Iron Man: Extremis, FreakAngels, The Authority and novel Crooked Little Vein. Spanning from his first memory watching the moon landing as a child to the recent boffo success of RED, Ellis’ acerbic wit and core belief in humanity come across like never before… revealing the unique point of view that has made him such a pivotal and influential figure to his massive audience of artists, journalists, scientists, and fans.
The film features Academy Award-winner Dame Helen Mirren (THE QUEEN), Ben Templesmith (illustrator 30 Days of Night), Matt Fraction (writer Casanova, Invincible Iron Man), Darick Robertson (illustrator Transmetropolitan), Joss Whedon (director upcoming THE AVENGERS), Will Wheaton (STAR TREK), Brea Grant (HEROES, DEXTER, writer Suicide Girls comic), Claudio Sanchez (Coheed & Cambria), Joe Quesada (Chief Creative Officer, Marvel Entertainment), Stoya (adult film star), Andy Hurley (Fall Out Boy), Patton Oswalt (RATATOUILLE), and a Warren Ellis Muppet (!).
“Patrick Meaney and Jordan Rennert have an uncanny ability to tell the stories of cultural visionaries like Warren Ellis and Grant Morrison whose work serves as an epicenter of influence that expands to higher-profile mainstream innovators and subtly changes the world,” said Halo-8 president Matt Pizzolo, who also served as co-producer on the film.
Produced by Patrick Meaney and Jordan Rennert through their Respect Films banner in association with Halo-8 Entertainment and SequArt Publishing, WARREN ELLIS: CAPTURED GHOSTS is the follow-up to Meaney’s 2010 GRANT MORRISON: TALKING WITH GODS docu which Variety said “will intrigue the previously unconverted” and Wired called “an instant classic.”
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 of 64 all-new pages of story by the top creators in the business, setting the stage for the biggest stories coming in 2012. It is the starting point to what’s in store for the world’s most iconic characters and startling events. Point One serves as the launch pad for dynamic new series, the return of fan-demanded characters, and a shocking teaser that will have everyone talking. See how all it comes together in one gigantic epic!” – Tom Brevoort, Senior Vice President, Executive Editor.
POINT ONE #1 (SEP110496)
Written by JEPH LOEB, BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS, MATT FRACTION, ED BRUBAKER, FRED VAN LENTE, CHRIS YOST, DAVID LAPHAM & MORE
Art by ED MCGUINNESS, BRIAN HITCH, TERRY DODSON, SALVADOR LARROCA, RYAN STEGMAN, JAVIER PULIDO, ROBERTO DE LA TORRE & MORE
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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 (which made the front page of USA Today) and my upcoming book on Batman/Bill Finger (2012), I found and interviewed 100 “lost” stars of superhero/cartoon entertainment of the ’70s and ’80s – from more than 40 Sea World water skiing superheroes to the pimp in Superman: The Movie to the original singer of the Scooby-Doo theme to the voice actors of the Wonder Twins. (Scroll down for the link and a list of the 10 subseries.)The interviews are sometimes hilarious and often poignant; many of these people have not been interviewed before and had no idea they have fans. You will also see many previously unpublished “then and now” photos and rare documents and mementos from various private collections.I am posting one interview per day between now and 10/12/11, with a few gaps for my blog’s “regularly scheduled content.”10 subseries.71 posts.88 days.100 interviews.The 10 subseries (mark your calendar!):Super Friends (1973-86)28 interviews (15 voice actors, 7 writers, 2 animators, 4 other production staff)launched 7/17/11Sea World superheroes water ski show (1976-79)45 interviews (37 skiers, 1 boat driver, 1 high diver, 2 announcers, 4 production staff)launched 8/22/11Superman: The Movie (1978)3 interviews (all actors)Legends of the Superheroes (1979)5 interviews (3 actors, 1 deceased actor’s niece, 1 director/producer)Batman and Robin Meet Dr. Danger (circa 1979)2 interviews (both performers)launches 9/26/11Bugs Bunny Meets the Superheroes (1979-81)6 interviews (all performers)launches 9/27/11The Plastic Man Comedy Show (1979-81; repackaged with live-action host in 1984)2 interviews (1 actor, 1 director/producer)launches 9/28/11Superman (Ruby-Spears animated series, 1988)1 interview (voice actor)launches 10/2/11Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (seasons 1-2: 1969-71)7 interviews (2 voice actors, 2 theme song singers, 1 music producer, 1 songwriter’s widow, 1 songwriter’s son)launches 10/4/11And a wild card:Mick Smiley (“Magic,” Ghostbusters, 1984)1 interviewlaunches 10/12/11
The amount of research is very impressive and for those like me who grew up in those awesome 2 decades, this is a pretty intriguing project. In fact, I didn’t even know there was a Plastic Man cartoon, or that Bugs Bunny and his pals teamed up with a few DC Comics characters for stage show.
See? Great stuff, including interviews with the 2 actors who played Clark Kent before Christopher Reeve grew up in my fave film, Superman: The Movie, and a chat with the pimp who first comments on Superman’s outfit! ( “Say, Jim—whoa! That’s a bad out-fit! Whoo!”)
Check out Marc’s site right here.
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.
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2:53 NEWS
Amanda Waller gets retconned to a thin woman!
Marvel is no longer publishing any of French publisher’s Soleil’s great comics
Batman: Year One animated clip
John Dies at the End cast pics
9:43 THEME – DONALD DUCK AND DUCKTALES
We tell you why creator Carl Barks is loved for his storytelling prowess and surprisingly funny and absurd humour in his Donald, Scrooge, etc tales and compare it with the modern equivalent in BOOM! Studio’s latest DuckTales mini-series.
You can get Fantagraphics’ Donald Duck in Lost in the Andes in November.
The 4 issues of BOOM!’s DuckTales series, Rightful Owners, are available now.
48: 02 A FEW QUICK THOUGHTS ON THE DC #1s WE’VE READ
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