Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
ComingSoon.net recently posted their choices for The Top Ten Toughest Heroines in Horror and SciFi.
Using just their list I would say the top three are Ripley from Aliens, Furiosa from Mad Max: Fury Road and Sarah Conner from Terminator 2.
My question is how could they not include: Lornetta “Mace” Mason from Strange Days, Charly Baltimore from The Long Kiss Goodnight and Michonne from The Walking Dead??
Dave Wachter is back and he brought his take on Sly from the Get Carter. I met Dave several years ago and became an instant fan. I wasn’t the only one to discover Dave’s fantastic sketches! How can you not like a great guy who is a terrific artist?
It has become a HeroesCon tradition that I get Dave to draw his take on Sly. Somehow this one was never posted until now.
You can see more of Dave’s art at his site. – Craig
Howard Chaykin is one of my all-time favorite artists/writers. I’m not a big Solomon Kane fan, but this sketch could win me over.
I am happy to see that The Saviors by James Robinson and J. Bone is getting a trade paperback release. I’m a huge fan of the series.
The Saviors is a comic for mature audiences due to drug references and language. If you’re a fan of 1950’s alien invasion movies [“I Married a Monster from Outer Space,” “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,”etc.] or well written, well drawn comics, then The Saviors is for you.
When Tomas Ramirez stumbles upon an extraterrestrial conspiracy to take over the world, his life is forever altered. Now he’s banding together with those other few souls who share the knowledge that we are under attack as they attempt to defeat a shadowy alien cabal that is both indestructible and eager to kill anyone who threatens it.
Eisner Award winner JAMES ROBINSON (Starman, Earth 2) and artist J. BONE (The Rocketeer: Hollywood Horror, The Spirit) present an adventure story of monstrous proportions.
Carver: A Paris Story by Chris Hunt looks like a fun ride.
After an absence of five years, globe trotting and notorious gentleman of fortune Francis Carver returns to Paris in 1923. He has come back to aid Catherine Ayers, the wife of a wealthy Parisian socialite and the only woman he has ever loved. Her daughter has been kidnapped by the leader of a crazed anarchist gang, a man named Stacker Lee. In order to bring the girl home, Francis will have to crawl through the underbelly of the city while confronting the demons of his past, before being faced with a final choice: succumb to the man he has become, or take that mask off and be the hero he always wanted to be.
“CARVER is my homage to CORTO MALTESE,” said Chris Hunt, “I’m bringing a modern edge and sensibility to classic, serialized adventure storytelling, starting with the first storyline CARVER: A PARIS STORY.”
Like an American Corto Maltese Carver combines the best elements of European and American Comics into a wonderful synthesis
Featuring a back up story and essay by Paul Pope.
Peter Simeti is a writer, artist and publisher. Peter is the founder of Alterna Comics as well as the writer of The Chair.
Peter is active on Twitter and one night I saw he was offering 5 minute sketch cards. I jumped on board for a couple. Jack Carter was the first.
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)
Director: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
Screenplay: Frank Miller
Stars: Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rosario Dawson, Bruce Willis, Eva Green, Powers Boothe, Dennis Haysbert, Ray Liotta, Christopher Meloni, Jeremy Piven, Christopher Lloyd, Jaime King, Stacy Keach, Lady Gaga and Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez.
The Pitch: “It is time for Sin City 2.”
Tagline: “There is no justice without sin.”
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
If you enjoyed Sin City, you’ll want to come back for a second anthology of Frank Miller yarns. Rourke, Alba, Dawson, Willis and King all reprise their original roles. Brolin is excellent as he picks up the role played by Clive Owen and there is an explanation from the original Sin City stories explaining the change in his look. Eva Green is perfect as Ava. Gordon-Levitt is also a welcome addition to the cast. I hope there won’t be a seven year gap until the next Sin City tale.
Rating:
Guillermo Del Toro recently gave Andy Richter a tour of Guillermo’s Bleak House. There are so many cool items that we get see. You know that there are even more that we don’t.
If I could have any of the items shown it would be, without a doubt, the life-size Curse of the Werewolf replica.
Most every week at 10pm on Saturday my wife and I check out whatever monster movie that horror host Svengoolie is serving up on ME-TV. Last week we were pleasantly surprised to see George Perez and his lovely bride featured.
Seems George and his better half also regularly tune in to Svengoolie. They were shown wearing their Sven t-shirts along with the very cool art that George created for Svengoolie. You can see a larger version here.
I wonder what surprises Svengoolie will offer up tomorrow night with Captive Wild Woman.
Source: Greg Litchfield.
Today we have a Barry Smith barbarian prelim. Click over to Paul Renaud on Twitter and see a couple more!
Jonathon Brandon Sawyer created his take on Sly as Jack Carter teamed with Chris Mills’ and Rick Burchett’s Gravedigger McCrae. How cool is that? Very.
To check out more of JBS’ art, head here. You can follow JBS on Twitter.
Gravedigger: Hot Women , Cold Cash by Mills and Burchett gets an A+ rating and is available at the link. – Craig
The Justice League Special Comic-Con footage is Here! [And it looks really good!]
That’s a cover detail from Triggerman, a new crime comic coming from Hard Case Crime and Titan Comics.
Triggerman will be written by Walter (“The Warriors”) Hill with art by Matz.
In the mean streets of Chicago, a convict is thrown headfirst into a life of bloodshed and bullets to save the girl he left behind…
I love the sound and look. I’ll definitely be pulling the trigger on Triggerman.
Sources: Flickering Myth and Down the Tubes.
The Walking Dead Season 7 Comic-Con Trailer is Here!
