Category: Comics

Frank Miller’s “Sin City” Coming as a Live Action and Animated TV Series!

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Frank Miller and Legendary Television have reached an agreement to turn Miller’s Sin City into a television series.  An agreement to bring Robert Rodriguez (Miller’s co-director on the Sin City films) on board is also in the works.

The deal would guarantee a minimum of one season if picked up by a network or streaming service.  In addition to the Sin City tv series, the agreement also provides for a Sin City R-rated animated series!

I love both of these ideas.  And wouldn’t animated Sin City series done in the style of Miller’s graphic novels would be interesting?

For full details check out Deadline’s Legendary Signs Rights Deal With Frank Miller For ‘Sin City’ TV Series; Robert Rodriguez In Talks.

Eduardo Risso Presents the Cast of 100 Bullets!

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Click on the photo above to get a bigger and better look at Eduardo Risso’s riff on the major players from 100 Bullets.

100 Bullets created by Brian Azzarello (writer) and Eduardo Risso (artist) is an Eisner Award-winning comic series that ran for 100 issues.  Here’s the sysnopsis….

100 Bullets features a mysterious agent named Graves who approaches ordinary citizens and gives them an opportunity to exact revenge on a person who has wronged them. Offering his clients an attaché case containing proof of the deed and a gun, he guarantees his “clients” full immunity for all of their actions, including murder.

If you’ve never read 100 Bullets, you owe it to yourself to seek it out!

Cooke & Stark’s Parker: The Martini Edition Volume 1 is Available for Pre-Order Now!

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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.

Chaykin, Byrne, Toth, Simonson and Many Others Cover the Comic Reader!

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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.

Mike Zeck’s Vintage Conan Art!

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Before Mike Zeck became the legendary artist known for his work on Master of Kung Fu, Captain American, The Punisher, Secret Wars, Batman, Spider-Man and so many other titles, he was a fan artist.  Mike’s art appeared in many fanzines, especially The Rocket’s Blast Comic Collector (RBCC).  Mike created the cover above for RBCC #119.  It’s always been one of my favorites.

You can see a bigger version of it as well as Mike’s Dracula cover for RBCC #126 by clicking over to The Bristol Board.

8 Out-of-this-World Facts about “The Invaders”

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Me-TV presents 8 Out-of-this-World Facts about The Invaders.  They’re so good I had a tough time picking my top three, but here they are! Then click over for all of ’em!

5.  The show is Jerry Lewis-level huge in France.
The French have a knack for developing cults around unexpected, overlooked pieces of American pop culture. Their Invaders fandom is a prime example, and it’s not just the how of it but the when of it. Thinnes himself explained the genesis of the French Invaders phenomenon in a 2008 interview with Premium Hollywood. “Back in the early ’80s, Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, who is a star anchorman with Télévision Française 1, he had a four-hour show on Sundays and he did a survey with the audience and asked… because they love American television, what would they like to see again,” Thinnes said. “And they got a lot of calls about The Invaders, so TF1 bought a few episodes and tested it and got a huge response. So they began running the series.” The reruns later jumped to cable and an “MTV equivalent,” airing in reruns for two decades.

6. Suzanne Plechette twice sacrificed herself as a friendly alien on the show.
Not all of the aliens on The Invaders had wicked motives. Some helped David Vincent along the way. In particular, Suzanne Pleshette of The Bob Newhart Show stands out, as she turns up twice, as two different such aliens. In the second episode, she plays a stripper who also happens to be an Invaders, albeit a “mutation” who can feel empathy. So she helps David, dying in the end. This is the first time we see the glowing red death of the aliens on the series. In the second season, Pleshette appears again as Anne, a more hot-headed alien who also gives her life in helping David. Those E.T. must have loved shifting into the shape of Pleshette.

7. The Invaders dabbled in zombies, too.
While it was never a huge ratings hit, The Invaders nevertheless spawned an expanded universe of tie-in books and comics. Perhaps the must interesting pulp Invaders novel was Army of the Undead, which centers around the alien Invaders turning humans into mindless “zombies.” What is perhaps most fascinating about its use of zombies is that the paperback hit stands in 1967 — a year before Night of the Living Dead. It was ahead of the curve.

RIP – Shawn Surface

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I just learned that my buddy Shawn Surface has died of a massive heart attack.  Shawn’s brother Paul posted the news on Facebook a few hours ago.  I’m saddened and surprised.  Shawn had been in poor health for a few years, but his recent posts had been positive and it seemed Shawn was doing better.

Comic fans in Florida will probably remember Shawn from his appearances at conventions throughout the state.  Shawn was always smiling and upbeat.  He was a fun guy to talk with and his art always had a joy to it.  Shawn is probably best known for his art on Bubba the Redneck Werewolf, a comic series turned into a low-budget film.  Surface was also planning a creator-owned series of his own called Mandi.

Over the years I commissioned Shawn to do pieces for my Stallone-themed sketch collection.  You can see several of them here if you’re inclined to do so.

Shawn died way too young.  Our thoughts and prayers go out to Shawn’s family, friends and fans.

Bram Stoker’s Dracula Starring Bela Lugosi Coming in 2020!

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Over the years many actors have played Dracula, but my personal favorite is Bela Lugosi.  You can imagine my thrill to learn that Legendary Entertainment in partnership with Bela Lugosi’s estate will publish Bram Stoker’s Dracula Starring Bela Lugosi!  The graphic novel will be out in late 2020!

“There have been great Dracula graphic novels, but to unite Bram Stoker’s novel in a faithful adaptation with the definitive Dracula in the form of screen icon Bela Lugosi is a dream come true,” – Legendary Comics SVP Robert Napton.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter.