Category: Comics

The Journey to “Ciudad” – the Most Dangerous and Corrupt City in the World

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I first heard about Ciudad  back in March of 2012.  At that time Ciudad  was being prepped as a movie for Dwayne The Rock  Johnson and as a graphic novel co-written by Anthony and Joe Russo and Ande Parks.

Ciudad  sounded like something action fans would love…

Johnson will play a “black market mercenary” hired by a drug lord to rescue his kidnapped daughter in one of the most “dangerous and corrupt cities in the world.”

Since then Fernando León González came on to draw Ciudad and The Rock  is no longer attached to the movie.  [What about Thomas Jane or Vin Diesel or… ]

Cuidad the graphic novel is now available.  I’ve ordered my copy.  If you’re interested you can too.  If you’re still on the fence CBR.com has an interview with the Russo Brothers and Andre Parks as well as an extensive preview!

Bleeding Cool offers up Ciudad’s High-Octane Action Blows Readers Away, Just In Time For The Holidays.

Powell and Wiesch Have “Big Man Plans”

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Fans of revenge stories and crime fiction will want to check out Big Man Plans coming from Eric Powell, Tim Wiesch and Image Comics.

BIG MAN PLANS—A REVENGE STORY THAT WILL SHOCK YOU…  An all-new crime series with retribution at its heart…

In BIG MAN PLANS, even the most marginalized in society can exact revenge if they don’t care how they do it.

The two have discussed the project since late 2012, going back and forth over texts, emails, and phone calls. “This project was born out of drunken conversations Tim Wiesch and I had while I was a vagabond living in his basement for a month,” admitted Powell. “This is what happens when kids of construction workers get really drunk for a long period of time and are given a creative outlet. This book is nothing but brutality and in a weird way the most noble project I’ve done…

Wiesch added: “This is going to be dark. Very, very dark. What’s been amazing is working with someone who doesn’t flinch when you offer up an incredibly visceral or painful part of the story but instead wants to help push it even further.

“When we were coming up with the story, we were looking for a way to embody a truly marginalized version of a man without just playing with worn-out tropes and comic clichés. Someone that would never be even remotely considered tough, let alone as the violent specter of revenge and death that we were looking for. No super powers, no crazy martial arts. Just a man driven beyond his own limitations by rage.”

Source: Image Comics.

Deland Comic and Collectibles Show

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If you live within driving distance, you may want to come out to the Deland Comic and Collectibles Show on January 11, 2015 from 10am to 5pm.

My buddy, John Beatty will be there sketching, selling prints and signing autographs.

Other artists include: Tommy Castillo, Todd Allen Smith, Greg Frei, Austin Janowsky, Jeff Balke, C. Bradford Gorby, Jeff Fauvel, Graven and Monica Ravenwolf. [What?  No Alex Saviuk?]

There will also be a ton of comic book dealers, costumers, and more.  It should be a fun day.  Hope to see you there!

A Visual Guide to All 37 Villains in the Batman TV Series

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Scott Neumeyer and Mental_Floss present A Visual Guide to All 37 Villains in the Batman TV Series.

My favorite Batman TV series villains were…

  1. Catwoman [both Julie Newmar and Eartha Kitt versions]
  2. The Joker [Caesar Romero]
  3. The Penguin [Burgess Meredith]
  4. Mr. Freeze [George Sanders, Eli Wallach, and Otto Preminger]
  5. The Riddler [Frank Gorshin and John Astin]

If The Green Hornet and Kato had been listed as villains, then Kato would have shot to #1.  Bruce Lee rules.

Atlas’ The Scorpion & Planet of the Vampires!

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In the early 70’s, Atlas, a small comic company attempted to make it’s mark.  Although it folded after a few years Atlas did have a couple of comics that many fans [or at least this fan] fondly remember.

The Scorpion  was Howard Chaykin‘s swashbuckling, never-aging hero.  After Chaykin left Atlas he reinvented The Scorpion as Dominic Fortune for Marvel Comics.  I’d like to see Chaykin return to Scorpion.  Who wouldn’t?

The second Atlas title that I loved as a kid was Planet of the Vampires.  Think of Beneath the Planet of the Apes  and substitute vampires for monkeys.  Pat Broderick was the interior artist and Neal Adams inked Broderick‘s covers.

Man, those were the days.

 

Binge Reading The Savage Sword of Conan

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Diversions of the Grooviest Kind recently ran a Savage Sword of Conan cover gallery.  Man, it brought back some great memories of me binge reading the Savage Sword of Conan.

I started reading comic books when I was in elementary school.  Each year as I got older my comics buying dwindled.  As a senior in high school I was down to just regularly buying Master of Kung Fu, Marvel Team-Up, and an occasional odd issue of whatever popped out at me.

As a senior, John Beatty and I started hanging out again [I first met him in junior high but when I moved on to high school we drifted apart].   John turned me on to the world of comics fandom and other mainstream comics that were worth checking out.  John loaded me down with a bunch of Savage Sword of Conan magazines which I took home and devoured.  It was great having several months worth of stories to dive into.

Thanks to Diversions of the Grooviest Kind for their post that sparked the memory and thanks again to Big John for the loan of the magazines nearly 40 years ago!

Billy the Butcher’s Frank Miller Dark Knight Returns Homage

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If you’re a fan of Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Returns you should quickly recognize Billy the Butcher’s homage featuring Captain American blasting Iron Man with a knuckle-sandwich.

Iron Man fans will want to click over to io9 to see Iron Man returning the favor by kicking things up a notch in another Miller Dark Knight homage.

Well played, Billy the Butcher.  Well played.