Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
ComicBook.com posted Eric Powell Talks 15 Years of The Goon, Creator-Owned Comics and Trying to Make a Goon Movie which is really just a long title for a nice Eric Powell interview conducted by Jamie Lovett.
As we get ready to tuck ourselves away for the night and wait for the return visit of Jolly Ole Saint Nick, I want to join Steranko in his wish for each of you: Peace Mister!
Click on the link to see the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrrier-sized full detail of Steranko’s message of Peace.
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.
Hellboy fans won’t want to miss Vaneta Rogers interview with Mike Mignola since Mignola talks about a new, on-going Hellboy series that starts with Hellboy’s first adventure.
Source: Newsarama.
If you’re a Neal Adams or Superman fan, then you’ll want to check out the Neal Adams Superman Cover Gallery presented by Diversions of the Groovy Kind.
If you’re a Gabriel Hardman fan [and if you’ve seen his art, how could you not be?], you’ll want to check out Fanboy Nation’s interview with him.
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.
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!
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.
Mike Torrance aka The Krayola Kidd is back and he’s brought Kit Latura with him!
Mike is a great guy and his commissions are always a blast!
You can see more of Mike’s art at his Deviant Art site. Mike is available for commissions and his prices are very reasonable.
I was never the biggest fan of Garfield but there is no denying that cat’s popularity. So if you’re a fan here are 20 Things You Might Not Know About Garfield.
The piece above is just a detail from one of Mike Ploog’s storyboards for John Carpenter’s The Thing. You can see the full piece as well as storyboards from Blade Runner, Hitchock’s Strangers on a Train, The Thin Red Line, Bram Stoker’s Dracula and more if you check out The Art of Storyboarding at Cinephilia and Beyond.
Mike Torrance aka The Krayola Kidd is back and he’s brought Gabe Walker with him!
Over the coming weeks/months I’ll be posting more of Mike’s sketch card commissions. My goal is to eventually get a card for every character Sly has played. We’re well on our way!
You can see more of Mike’s art at his Deviant Art site. Mike is available for commissions and his prices are very reasonable.
Yesterday we spoke about Charles Addams, the creator of The Addams Family, and while the above mash-up wasn’t created by him it sure could have been.
Source: Bits and Pieces.
Charles Addams, the creator of The Addams Family, was a strange bird. Although Addams had a normal childhood, his cartoons hinted at a darker side…
…Instead of a standard coffee table, Addams used a Civil War-era embalming table. He also kept a collection of antique crossbows above his sofa, and he used a young girl’s tombstone (“Little Sarah, Aged Three”) as a perch for his cocktails…
Addams married two different women who looked like the character Morticia from his cartoons (and his second wife even had her nose fixed to look more like the character). Addams married his third wife in a pet cemetery.
Over the course of his career…
“Addams illustrated 68 covers for The New Yorker and contributed more than 1,300 cartoons to the magazine” — His most popular creation the comic strip The Addams Family “spawned two live-action television series, two animated cartoons, and two blockbuster feature films.”
Surprisingly The Addams Family tv show got his cartoons banned from The New Yorker and after his divorce his second wife controlled the rights to the tv series.
You get the full details of Addams interesting life if you click over to the very interesting piece Light Heart; Dark Humor: The Man Behind The Addams Family by Bill DeMain at Neatorama.
