Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
Say the name “Jordi Bernet” to most comic fans and they’ll respond, “Torpedo.” That’s because Bernet is most famous for the art on the Torpedo crime stories.
Torpedo may come to mind first, but I’ll bet many won’t forget the awesome Bride of Frankenstein piece Bernet created.
Source: Steve Niles Tumblr.
Once a week Joblo.com posts Awesome Art We’ve Found Around the Net. As you can imagine, they post awesome art that they, well, you get the idea.
I always enjoy seeing what JoBlo has found because with each post they list the artist’s name and a link to more of his/her art. If you check it out you’ll discover amazing artists like Dave Rapoza who did the Lobo piece above.
Twilight Zone: “Cavender is Coming” [Season 3, Episode 36]
Original Air Date: May 25, 1962
Director: Chris Nyby
Writer: Rod Serling
Starring: Jesse White, Carol Burnett, Howard Smith and Donna Douglas.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Harmon Cavender [White] is an angel who has yet to earn his wings. He’s given one last chance by improving the life of woman [Burnett].
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Howard Chaykin has a new –
I’m in.
But you don’t know what the comic is about. You don’t even know what it’s called.
I’m in.
Listen –
Ok, tell me.
THE DIVIDED STATES OF HYSTERIA is set in the aftermath of a dirty bomb that wipes New York City off the map, as what will come to be known as the Second American Civil War shatters the domestic landscape in isolated pustules of violence…and a team of five private contractors is charged with stemming this tide of rage and bringing the bombers to justice.
Guess what?
What?
I’m in.
Source: Bleeding Cool.
Roger Cormier and Mental Floss present 15 Big Facts About Sanford and Son. Here are three of my favorites…
5. FOXX WORE MAKEUP TO LOOK OLDER.
Foxx, who was nicknamed “Chicago Red” because of his hair color, was only 49 years old when the series began; Fred Sanford was 65. He complained that a lot of people assumed he was Fred’s age.
8. FOXX BASED THE HEART ATTACKS ON HIS MOTHER.
“Fred Sanford is Mary Sanford, who is my mother, but you can reverse personalities into male or female,” Foxx told Sammy Davis Jr. on Sammy and Company. “My mother would do the same thing … she would have heart attacks when I was a kid, I remember. When she wanted something done she could hardly breathe—she had emphysema, she had cancer, she had lumbago, she had whooping cough.”
9. LAWANDA PAGE WOULD HAVE BEEN FIRED IF IT WASN’T FOR FOXX.
LaWanda Page was the only actress Foxx wanted to play Fred’s sister-in-law, Esther. Page was too nervous to give an audition producers liked, but Foxx insisted. “They were going to let me go,” Page told Jet magazine in 1977, “but Redd said, ‘No, you ain’t gonna let her go. That’s LaWanda and I know she can do it! Just give me some time with her.'”
Twilight Zone: “I Sing the Body Electric” [Season 3, Episode 35]
Original Air Date: May 18, 1962
Director: William Claxton and James Sheldon
Writer: Ray Bradbury
Starring: Josephine Hutchinson, David White, Vaughn Taylor and Veronica Cartwright.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
George is a widower raising three children on his own. When George decides to purchase a robot that in all aspects looks like a grandma to assist with the children. Two of the three children accept the robot but the third child rejects her with terrible results.
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Spies…
Thieves…
Ballerinas… uh, Excuse me?
Yep. Ballerinas.
Prima by Jen Van Meter, Rick Burchett and Eric Newsom tells a story set in the 50’s of a…
…dance company—comprised entirely of former spies—righting the wrongs of the Cold War.
Save a dance for me.
Source: Bleeding Cool.
One of the best horror movies ever made, The Creature from the Black Lagoon was filmed in glorious black and white.
It’s rare to see color photos of The Creature, but you can if you click over to Geek Tyrant: Awesome Color Photos from Creature of the Black Lagoon!
Twilight Zone: “Young Man’s Fancy” [Season 3, Episode 34]
Original Air Date: May 11, 1962
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Richard Matheson
Starring: Phyllis Thaxter, Alex Nicol and Wallace Rooney.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Alex Walker and his new bride arrive at the home in which Alex grew up with his clinging mother. Alex’s mom recently died and they are there to sign papers to sell the home. Alex begins to have second thoughts much to the despair of his new wife.
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Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips and Elizabeth Breitweiser have a new crime comic series coming out this summer called Kill or be Killed…
KILL OR BE KILLED is the story of a troubled young man who is compelled to kill bad people, and how he struggles to keep his secret, as it slowly begins to ruin his life and the lives of his friends and loved ones.
Deal me in.
Source: Bleeding Cool.
Kaare Andrews is a movie and television director, a writer and artist. Talk about a renaissance man! Andrews has a new six issue comic series, Renalto Jones, coming out this summer. Here’s how Kaare describes the series…
KA: Here’s the big conceit of the series: As you said, it’s about a man who hides amongst the super-rich and makes them pay for their super-rich crimes. But he doesn’t just hide in that world, he lives in it. So I can have a great time drawing gold plated Lamborghinis and huge estates, while still being able to get some payback. The book isn’t saying that all rich people are evil (remember, this is fiction), it’s saying that there is a certain kind of evil that’s untouchable because it hides behind wealth. To get at them, it’s going to take one of their own.
What’s interesting for me on a character level is that Renato isn’t really who he appears to be. ‘Renato’ is Italian for ‘Rebirth’ and that plays a big part of his character. Who is he? Why is he doing this? It’s not about revenge, but restitution. That’s important to Renato. He’s not getting even with the super-rich, he’s making them pay.
Check out Rich Johnston’s Why Kaare Andrews Is Focusing 100% On The One % at Bleeding Cool for the full story.
Rob Hunter and Film School Rejects present 24 Things We Learned from Ben Affleck’s Gone, Baby, Gone Commentary. Here are three of my favorites…
7. Affleck worried about a shot of Jerry Springer on Helene McCready’s (Amy Ryan) TV thinking it might be too cliched, but “literally one in every two houses that I went into had Springer on while we were scouting in the afternoon.”
8. The extra with the hole in his throat was in the bar when they arrived for shooting so Affleck just asked him to stay. The man moving quickly behind him is actually Affleck who was passing by unaware they were grabbng the shot. Stockard wonders if this is Affleck’s stab at a Hitchcock cameo, but the director denies it.
3. One of the changes they made from the novel was adjusting the private eyes’ ages from being in their 40s to being in their 30s, “but that presented its own challenges,” says Stockard.
Twilight Zone: “The Dummy” [Season 3, Episode 33]
Original Air Date: May 4, 1962
Director: Abner Biberman
Writer: Rod Serling based on a story by Lee Polk
Starring: Cliff Robertson, Frank Sutton and George Murdock.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Jerry Etherson is a very good ventriloquist. The only thing holding him back from the big time is his dummy… who is very evil and very alive.
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Just the names Azzarello and Risso are enough for a comic to make my monthly pull list. Probably yours too, right? Add to the fact that Moonshine is a period crime tale with werewolves and I think that we won’t be the only ones.
MOONSHINE is set during the Prohibition Era, deep in the backwoods of Appalachia and tells the story of Lou Pirlo, a city-slick “torpedo” sent from New York City to negotiate a deal with the best moonshiner in West Virginia, one Hiram Holt. Lou figures it for milk run—how hard could it be to set-up moonshine shipments from a few ass-backward hillbillies? What Lou doesn’t figure on is that Holt is just as cunning as ruthless as any NYC crime boss and Lou is in way over his pin-striped head. Because not only will Holt do anything to protect his illicit booze operation, he’ll stop at nothing to protect a much darker family secret…a bloody, supernatural secret that must never see the light of day… or better still, the light of the full moon.
Source: Bleeding Cool.
Jarrod Alberich aka The Yard Sale Artist created the Rambo piece above. Jarrod calls himself The Yard Sale Artist because he uses only materials that he finds at yard sales, thrift stores, dumpsters and so on.
