Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
Creepy Duck Design is a fan of The Mist and is also looking forward to Frank Flanagan’s version. Here’s a cool tribute poster to the reboot.
“Now listen people. We are experiencing some kind of disaster. I don’t know whether it’s man-made or natural, but I do know that it’s definitely not supernatural. Or biblical. And no offense Mrs. Carmody, but the only way we’re going to help ourselves is to seek rescue. We’re going out.” – Brent Norton
Check out this cool alt Terminator poster created by Charlie Griak.
“Your clothes… give them to me, now.” – Terminator
Steranko fans are going to love The Marvel Creator Collection No. 2: “Whatever Happened to Scorpio?”: The Complete Jim Steranko at Marvel (The Fantagraphics Marvel Creators Collection). Here’s the lowdown…
Collected here for the first time, in a visually striking two-volume set, are the complete works of Jim Steranko at Marvel, the art and stories that dazzled readers and redefined what comic books were capable of.
Schooled in Golden Age comics, Steranko (born under the sign of Scorpio) merged pulp heroism with modern, cinematic graphic design in a way that transformed the look of Marvel’s Captain America, X-Men, Daredevil, and Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. His late-1960s run on S.H.I.E.L.D. was the essence of cool, distilling the era’s spy boom into a new level of sophisticated comic-book storytelling.
It’s all here: all the stories (including his sole foray into the romance genre), all the cover art (including Fantastic Four, Supernatural Thrillers, Incredible Hulk Special, Shanna the She-Devil, and his variant covers for Black Panther, Civil War II, and Avengers Standoff), even his illustrations for the Marvelmania and FOOM fanzines. Every thrilling moment of the unique aesthetic marriage between Steranko and Marvel has been assembled in one place for the first time, in a gorgeously designed two-volume hardcover slipcase set.
Full color illustrations throughout
This massive beauty will clock in at 504 pages when it drops on October 13, 2026. Pre-orders are available now.
Check out this cool alt poster for Carrie by Stephen Andrade.
I saw Carrie when it was first released. It was at a midnight showing. I’d read the Stephen King novel and thought the movie was an excellent adaptation.
In the final scene (which I wasn’t expecting) I jumped so high I felt I might go over the back of my seat. Needless to say it wasn’t my coolest moment. Thankfully my date jumped as well and was so focused on the screen she didn’t realize my reaction. I hope.
“They’re all gonna laugh at you!” – Carrie’s Mother
China Moon (1994)
Director: John Bailey
Screenplay: Roy Carlson
Stars: Ed Harris, Madeleine Stowe, Charles Dance, Patricia Healy, Tim Powell, Pruitt Taylor Vince and Benicio Del Toro.
Tagline: He thought it was passion. It was deceit. He thought it was love. It was murder.
The Plot…
Kyle Bodine, a detective in a small Florida town, is having a drink when he sees Rachel Munro across the room. Kyle tries to hit on her, but she’s not interested.
It turns out Rachel is married to a rich banker named Rupert Munro. The thing is, her marriage is not a happy one. Her husband is abusive. Before long Kyle and Rachel are having an affair.
When Kyle and his partner respond to a domestic abuse call, they find Rachel showing signs of being beaten. Kyle threatens Munro what will happen if they get another call.
Later Rachel tells Kyle that she is ready to leave her husband. Kyle drives Rachel home and waits in the car while she grabs a few things. They don’t realize her husband has returned home.
When Kyle hears a gunshot, he rushes in the house. Rachel is standing over her dead husband with the gun who killed him in her hand. Kyle’s first reaction is they need to call the police and report a self-defense killing. Rachel says, that no one will believe them. Her husband is wealthy and has influential friends. Plus Kyle had threatened her husband. Everyone will think that they planned the murder.
Kyle has a decision. Call it in or get rid of the body and cover up the murder.
As the tagline says: “He thought it was passion. It was deceit. He thought it was love. It was murder.”
Thoughts (beware of spoilers)…
If you think China Moon sounds a lot like Body Heat, you wouldn’t be wrong.
China Moon (1994) rates 3 of 5 stars.
Marv from Frank Miller’s Sin City is one of my all-time favorite characters. I love seeing artists do their “take” on the big lug. Today we have a Marv by Alessandro Micelli.
DARWYN COOKE’S THE COMPLETE SPIRIT CONNOISSEUR EDITION is coming. Here’s the lowdown…
Immerse yourself in the noir world of Darwyn Cooke’s The Spirit, now collected in one place for the first time in this oversized collectible edition.
With his masterful storytelling and flair for noir style, Darwyn Cooke was uniquely suited to reintroduce Will Eisner’s beloved comics creation,The Spirit, to modern audiences.
Now, Darwyn’s The Spirit comic stories are collected in their entirety for the FIRST TIME in this oversized hardcover collection, presented within a beautiful slipcase. Designed by Sean Phillips, who also oversaw the Eisner-winning RICHARD STARK’S PARKER: THE MARTINI EDITION – LAST CALL, to which this book is a companion in size and scope. J Bone, Cooke’s long-time collaborator, provides an introduction.
Also included in this definitive version of Cooke’s The Spirit is a gallery featuring all the covers, two variant covers from a Rocketeer/The Spirit crossover, and several never-before-seen drawings!
Collects The Spirit #1-6, #8-12, and Batman/The Spirit one-shot.
Pre-orders are available now. My order is in. Is yours?
This is just one of 23 Totally Mind-Shattering Optical Illusions posted at Buzzfeed.
Go ahead and click over. They won’t really shatter your mind.
Sometimes illusions of death aren’t illusions.
Alexander Koblikov is the best juggler that I have ever seen. Check out his video below. He might be the best you’ve ever seen!
Source: Mark Evanier.
The photo above looks like a scene from a disaster movie, doesn’t it?
It’s not.
The picture is actually just one of the 18 Hardest to Forget Disaster Photographs posted by KULfoto.
The letter above written by a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, is just one of the many rare and unseen photos and letters from the Titanic.
In honor of the release of Gravity, Popular Mechanics posted 10 of the Most Dangerous Space Walks Ever Done. Here are just a three of tidbits…
#10. Hubble Repair: …Had anything gone wrong, the astronauts would have had no refuge or hope of rescue…
#9. Gonna Need a Bigger Door: In the early days of the space race, no one knew for sure what was required for space walks beyond a spacesuit. One thing that’s nice to have: a hatch that’s big enough to accommodate a suit that expands when no longer being squeezed by outside air pressure. In 1965, Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov almost paid for that oversight with his life when he couldn’t get back inside his Voskhod spacecraft after his historic first space walk…
#7: Sasha, I Don’t Think…: Decompression is a space station astronaut’s worst nightmare. The nightmare came true in 1997 when an out-of-control Progress cargo ship slammed into space station Mir, punching a hole in the module it struck. With alarms blaring, cosmonauts Michael Foale and Sasha Lazutkin had to use the only tool they had at hand—a kitchen knife…
I thought this was interesting and fun. Hope you do as well.
According to particle physicist Brian Cox time travel is possible, but only to the future.
“Can you build a time machine?” said Professor Cox. “The answer is yes.”
There’s just one, tiny problem, Professor Cox says – if you can build a machine capable of time-travel, you can only travel into the future. You can’t come back.
Professor Cox explains how building a time machine to travel to the future is possible here and here.
Thanks to Brian Michael Bendis for the original link.
