Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
I love this Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark art by Juan Ramos. It is being offered as a limited edition Giclee print from Bottleneckgallery.com. Click on the art above to see a larger version and click here if you want to learn more about the print.
IMPAwards has started voting for 2021’s Best Horror Movie Poster. You can vote here.
As you can see above, my five included: Spiral: From the Book of Saw; A Quiet Place: Part II; The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It; Malignant and Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. At this point in the voting only one of my top five (Malignant) made it into the top ten. Maybe that will change once everyone gets their votes in.
The King of Spies trade paperback collects issues 1 – 4 of the King of Spies comic. Written by Mark Millar with art by Matteo Scalera and colors by Ogur Yildrim, King of Spies tells the story of…
The world’s greatest secret agent (who) has six months to live. Does he die quietly in a hospital bed or make up for a lifetime of bad decisions? He’s been propping up an unfair system for over forty years. Now he knows where all the bodies are buried and has nothing to lose as he turns his guns on everyone who ever made a buck as they created the mess we’re in right now.
I’ve been reading King of Spies as the individual issues come out and highly recommend it!
Train 8 is a graphic novel that will be in comic shops on May 4th. Written by David Stephan, Marysol Levant, and Brian Phillipson with art by Philip Phillipson, Alex Cormack, Lureline Weatherly and David Stephan. Here’s the synopsis…
Two college girls, traveling the famous Train 8 from Seattle to Chicago, find themselves at the center of an experimental GMO virus outbreak that causes passengers to turn into blood thirsty primordials. The surviving girls and a handful of passengers are faced with the moral dilemma of stopping the train to save themselves – and let the deadly virus infect the world – or keep the train running, buying more time until help comes but only if they can survive the killing horde of the Infected.
Let your local comic shop know if you’re interested. As for me, I’m on board.
If you follow Bernie Gonzalez on Twitter, you’ve probably already seen his wicked Batman art above. Even so, it’s worth a second look. Bernie is the creator/artist/writer of the Midnight Mystery comic books series. It’s a lot of fun!
My love for Frank Miller’s Sin City (especially that big lug, Marv) is legendary. Popcultartco recently posted four new alt Sin City posters. The one above is by Florey. Below we have Raj Khatri. You can see the other two here!
A Calculated Man is a new crime series coming this June from Aftershock Comics and creaters Paul Tobin (writer), Alberto Alburquerque (artist), Mark Englert (colorist) and Taylor Esposito (letterer). Here’s how Aftershock Comics describes the series…
A verifiable math genius, Jack Beans used to run the numbers for the Pinafore crime family, until one day he ran them too well and concluded that the only way out of this life was in a casket or Witness Protection. So, he turned state’s evidence and ran.
Now, the Pinafores are out to end their favorite accountant. Little do they know that Jack’s skills with math and his perfect memory have made him a better killer than they ever could have realized. What follows is a journey full of murder, mayhem and mathematics.
Here’s writer Paul Tobin’s synopsis…
“It’s John Wick mixed with A Beautiful Mind when ex-mobster / math genius Jack Beans decides three years in the witness protection program is more than enough, and that all he needs to do to safely return to his old life is…kill every last member of the Pinafore crime family. It’s a tall order, but Jack Beans is no ordinary man. First, he’s GOOD at math. Not just “What’s the square root of nine?” good, but “prove the existence of three differently-sized infinites by use of the Continuum Hypothesis” good. He literally sees the world as a math problem, and was born with synesthesia: he sees numbers as colors, and his memory is absolute. It’s these skills Jack will have to use to make his hopes of staying alive add up to anything other than zero!”
Deal me in.
I really like this second poster for Nope, especially since we’ve seen the trailer.
Today we have a super rare poster for the movie-within-a-movie, Trio from Burn, Hollywood, Burn. The poster features Sly Stallone , Whoopi Goldberg and Jackie Chan. Click on the image to see a larger version. – Craig
Click on the HIghlander image above to see a biggie-sized view. Or you can click over to The Boys in the Lab Twitter where you can see an even bigger version. While there, you might want to click the follow button to see more cool art.
Francesco Francavilla has teamed with Bottleneck Art Gallery and Justin Ishmael to offer two signed, limited edition prints for the Ray Harryhausen classic 20 Million Miles to Earth. There are two print editions and both go on sale February 23rd at 12pm.
Check out the wicked Marv art by Matteo Scalera. You can see more of Matteo’s art on his Instagram page!
Masters of Comics by Joel Meadows
Softcover: 184 pages
Publisher: Insight Comics (June 4, 2019)
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
I love seeing the workspace of creative folks. It’s cool seeing how they set up the areas where they make the magic. If you feel the same, then Masters of Comics may be just what you’re looking for. Joel Meadows takes us into the studios/work spaces of 21 masters of comic art. A chapter is given to each showing at least one shot of his/her work area and a short, informative interview. Artists include:
Rafael AlbuquerqueLawrence CampbellTravis CharestFrank ChoDave JohnsonMichael KalutaJohn Paul Leon |
Milo ManaraShawn MartinbroughDan PanosianSean PhillipsFrank QuietlyEduardo RissoP. Craig Russell |
Tim SaleYuko ShimizuBill SienkiewiczPosy SimmondsWalter SimonsonWilliam SimpsonJ.H. Williams III |
Masters of Comics rates 4 of 5 stars.
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Marten Go created the Over the Top art above. Click on it to see a Vegas-sized version. You can see more of Go’s art by following him on Twitter.
I’ll bet you dig Chris Samnee’s take on Marv from Sin City. You can see more of Samnee’s art daily on his Twitter or his Instagram.
