Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
If you’re in the area on January 12, 2020, you ought to consider swinging by The DeLand Comic and Collectibles Show. It’s a small, fun one day convention. My best bud, John Beatty will be a guest. So will my pal, Rob Smith. You can see the full guest list here. Hope to see you there!
Ellen Gutoskey posted the true story of The Time Harry Houdini Tricked Theodore Roosevelt. If you check out Gutoskey’s article, you’ll learn how Houdini laid the groundwork to lure Roosevelt into asking Houdini to perform a seance (Roosevelt thinking it was HIS idea), and how Houdini pulled off the trick.
Well done Houdini and well written Gutoskey.
Tony Stella is back with his poster for The Maltese Falcon.
Sly Stallone and Rambo fans who collect action figures will want to check out the new Rambo III offering from ThreeZero. This fully-articulated collectible features a realistic likeness to Sly Stallone as he looked playing Rambo in his third outing.
Details include:
12 inches (~30cm) custom designed action figure body
The head sculpt features a realistic likeness of actor Sylvester Stallone
Black bandana
Jade pendant
Military jacket
Tank top
Military watch
Military pants
Belt
Boots
Military bag
Exchangeable hands
1 pair of fists
1 right holding gun
1 left holding gun
1 right holding knife
1 left holding arrow
1 right holding bow
Weapons:
Compound bow with quiver & 5 arrows
C4 explosive x 1
Boot dagger x 1
Survival knife with sheath x 1
AK with M203 grenade launcher
RPG-7 launcher
Without Remorse (based on Tom Clancy’s best-selling novel) stars Michael B. Jordan as John Kelly, a Navy SEAL, who goes on a path to avenge his wife’s murder only to find himself inside of a larger conspiracy.
The film premieres September 18, 2020.
Source: IGN.
Alex Maidy at Joblo.com posted his choices for the Top Ten Car Racing Movies. There are a few surprising choices (Cannonball Run? Talladega Nights?) and some expected ones.
I’m happy to say that Sly Stallone made the list. My first thought would have been Driven, but actually it was for Death Race 2000.
Click over and see Maidy’s full list and his comments on each.
Here’s the poster and trailer for The Call of the Wild. This didn’t hit my radar until today which is surprising considering that it stars Harrison Ford.
Point Blank gets the Cinephilia and Beyond Treatment. It’s a thing of beauty. Click over and you’ll get…
Here’s the final trailer to The Irishman. Scorsese, Pesci, Pacino and Keitel. I cannot wait for November 27th.
40 Years of Rocky is something we can all get behind. Right?
Darwyn Cooke created the art above for Richard Stark’s Parker: The Martini Edition which collected Darwyn Cooke’s first two Parker books, The Hunter and The Outfit…
…in a tremendous, special, oversized hardcover edition — with an additional 65-pages of content — encased in a beautiful slipcase!
Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunter graphic novel debuted in July 2008 to instantaneous popular and critical acclaim. It made the New York Times bestseller list and won coveted Eisner and Harvey awards. The second graphic novel, The Outfit, was released in 2010 and was met with similar response, and won the 2011 Eisner for Best Writer/Artist.
The Hunter and The Outfit tell the story of Parker, Richard Stark’s classic anti-hero, as he returns to New York to settle the score with his wife and partner in crime after they betray him in a heist gone terribly wrong. After evening the field and reclaiming his prize, the Outfit decide to do some score settling of their own… and learn much too late that when you push a man like Parker, it had better be all the way to the grave.
Also contains the short stories The Man With the Getaway Face and The Seventh.
I had ordered a copy of The Martini Edition when it was published in 2011, but it arrived damaged. When I returned it for a replacement, I was sad to learn The Martini Edition had sold out.
Until now. (Actually April 28, 2020.)
IDW is reprinting Richard Stark’s Parker: The Martini Edition. It’ll have a different cover but the same contents. I’m betting this edition will sell out quickly. I’ve put in my pre-order. If you’re interested, I wouldn’t wait long before doing the same.
Back in the prehistoric days before the internet comic fans had very little information about future comics. The Comic Reader was one of the first (perhaps the first) continually published fanzines that gave fans interviews with comic creators, previews of coming comics and actual covers and story-lines.
Pete Doree at his site The Bronze Age of Blogs has posted a gallery of The Comic Reader Covers. If you click over, what you’ll see are from the likes of Simonson, Chaykin, Grell, Buckler, Byrne, Toth and many others.
On December 17, 2019, Rambo: Last Blood will be released on Blu-Ray, DVD and 4K. This is just in time for Christmas, Chanukah (or if you prefer, Hanukkah), Kwanzaa, or surprise gift giving. If you’d like, you can pre-order using this link.
Here’s a vintage drawing by Mike Mignola, the creator of Hellboy. I love how he took the classic Universal Monsters Wolfman as the basis for his werewolf. Although I usually prefer the Curse of the Werewolf design, I wouldn’t mind seeing a story about this guy.
Source: Cool Comic Art.
Of Mice and Minestrone: Hap & Leondard: The Early Years, by Joe R. Lansdale has been announced for May 14, 2020. Fans are already putting in their pre-orders. Any book by Lansdale is cause for a celebration, but H&L tales call for a special party. Here’s what we can expect…
Pull up a seat and sit a spell. Master storyteller Joe R. Lansdale has cooked up a passel of tales for you about the unlikeliest duo East Texas has to offer.
Hap Collins looks like a good ol’ boy, but from his misspent youth on, his best compatriot is Leonard Pine―black, gay, and the ultimate outsider. Inseparable friends, Hap and Leonard attend family gatherings, climb into the boxing ring, get in bar fights, and just go fishing―all while confronting racism, righting wrongs, and eating copious, delicious food.
Chock full of Lansdale’s unique blend of humor, ferocity, and insight, Of Mice and Minestrone delivers five never-before-seen (plus one perhaps familiar) Hap and Leonard stories, a selection of the boys’ favorite recipes, and an introduction from New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Kent.
So come discover the legends of Hap and Leonard, created by Joe R. Lansdale his own self, and featured in the by Hap and Leonard TV series starring Michael K. Williams (The Wire), James Purefoy (The Following), and Christina Hendricks (Mad Men).
