Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
That’s Frank Miller’s cover for Superman Year One. In addition Miller will serve as the writer for the series with John Romita Jr. providing the art. If you click over to Bleeding Cool’s coverage you can learn more about the series and see additional covers.
I became a fan of Palle Schmidt when I read The Devil’s Concubine, a crime noir that he wrote and drew. I’ve pre-ordered Schmidt’s Stiletto, a three part crime mini-series and am looking forward to another great crime comic.
TwoMorrows posted an interview with Alex Toth that is worth a read by Toth and comic art fans.
Thanks to SYFY Wire we can watch and listen to John Romita Jr. as he draws Batman!
Legends of the Dark Knight: Michael Golden is a book that quite a few readers are going to want. If “Michael Golden” in the title isn’t enough to get folks to reach for their wallets perhaps the fact that it will be a hard cover reprinting rarely seen stories featuring Batman drawn by, you guessed it, Michael Golden!
The 1970s stories starring Batman featuring the slick artwork of Michael Golden are collected for the first time, including appearances by the Demon and Man-Bat. Golden is renowned for his design skills and unique interpretation of Batman and other heroes, as seen in these early stories, written by well-known comics writers including Dennis O’Neil, Gerry Conway and Mike W. Barr.
Collects shis collects stories from Batman Family #15-20, Batman #295, #303, DC Special Series #15, Detective Comics #482, Batman Special #1, Batman: Gotham Knights #22. It also collects the covers from Detective Comics #625-626, 628-631, 633, 644-646, Batman #484-485, Showcase ’93, Nightwing#66-77 & #129-130 and the Man-Bat entry from Who’s Who in the DC Universe #12.
Legends of the Dark Knight: Michael Golden is available for pre-order now.
When I saw that Giovanni Valletta, an artist on the John Wick comic series was taking commissions, I jumped on board for a couple of head sketches (John Wick and Jack Carter). Because it took a little longer than expected to get the art to me Giovanni added more to the art and threw in some prints as well. That’s customer service!
One of the great things about the internet is that you never know what will turn up. Today we have a splash page from a very rarely seen story written and drawn by Mike Zeck. The Sub-Mariner story, Conquest, appeared in the 1976 Omnicon Convention Program book.
I remember when I first read Conquest back in the late 70’s, thanks to my best bud, John Beatty. Mike’s story, in just 3 pages, perfectly captured the strength, power, majesty and mindset of Prince Namor.
Click over to The Bristol Board and check out Prince Namor, The Sub-Mariner in Conquest written and drawn by Mike Zeck!
Two new Hellboy posters came out today. My favorite of the two is above. You can see a bigger version of it and the other new Hellboy poster at IMPAwards.
Thanks to SYFY Wire we can watch and listen to legendary artist, Walt Simonson as he draws Ragnarok!
The photo above comes from Sly Stallone’s Official Instagram and is one of a series of photos from the set of Sly’s next film, Rambo V: Last Blood.
Sly has several films in development and is busier than ever. Here’s what’s in the works:
Sylvester Stallone and Balboa Productions have also acquired the rights to…
Source: ComingSoon.
If you’re following Eduardo Risso on Instagram, then you’ve seen this piece before. I won’t apologize, because it is never wrong to share art by Risso.
If you haven’t seen this before, don’t waste time thanking me for the post. Instead, click over to Risso’s Instagram and check out more!
For those of you still here, click on the art above and you can see a larger version.
When John Carpenter and Kurt Russell developed the character of Snake Plissken for Escape from New York, they knew they had a winning character. Russell enjoyed playing Snake, Carpenter had plans for many future adventures, and most importantly fans loved Snake Plissken.
Snake (Kurt and Carpenter) returned for Escape from LA. Although not as well-received as EFNY, Escape from LA was not going to be the final adventure for our one-eyed anti-hero. Next up was to be Escape from Earth. Sadly, that film never left the launching pad.
But Snake Plissken didn’t fade away. There were plans for future films, a tv series, comics (that did happen) and video games. Kieran Fisher at Film School Rejects discusses them all in his article The Snake Plissken Sequels We’ll Never Get to See. Since you’ve read this far, my guess is you’ll enjoy it.
I don’t think I’d ever seen this Darwyn Cooke drawing until Cool Comic Art posted it. If you’d like to see a bigger version, click here.
Man, I miss Darwyn Cooke.
Brian Cronin’s When Jim Steranko Re-Cast Nick Fury and the Agents of S.H.I.E.LD. at CBR.com is well worth a read.
But before you click over, let’s have a little fun.
Cronin contends that Steranko based his version of Nick Fury on an actor famous for his athleticism and rugged good looks. After reading the article, I agree!
As a bonus, Cronin also suggests that the blonde guy with the big smile in the lower right on the cover above is another famous actor from the same time period. And, again I think that he’s right.
Do you have any ideas who those two actors could be?
The John Byrne Batman drawing above is being used as a variant cover on an upcoming issue of Detective Comics. What makes it more interesting is that the art was a fan’s commission that DC Comics liked enough to request to use as a cover.
While we’re on the topic of John Byrne, did you see the video of his studio on Syfy? If you missed it (or would like to see it again) check out the video below!
