Who Knows? Matt Wagner Knows!

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Matt Wagner has signed on to write The Shadow: Year One for Dynamite Comics.  Although The Shadow has been around for the better part of a century appearing in pulps, comics, and movies, his origin has been sketchy at best.  Wagner who is a fan of the character plans to change that. 

  • “THE SHADOW has long been one of my absolute favorite established characters and I’m thrilled to finally get the chance to contribute to his continuing adventures,” says Matt Wagner.  ”I’m getting to help define The Shadow’s mysterious origins in a Year One story arc!  For all his published history in both the pulps and comics, as well as his radio adventures, there’s surprisingly no depiction of his very first adventures as the dark-clad Master of Men.  This series will explore the events that first drew Kent Allard/Lamont Cranston back to the States, how he began to assemble his vast network of agents and how he first adopted the famous black hat and cloak as his alter-ego’s disguise-secrets that, up until now…only The Shadow knew!” 

Thanks and a tip of our not-so-famous black hat to ComicsBeat.com for the original post.


“The Goon” Movie… Let’s Kickstart This Sucker!

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Ten years ago I wrote a post talking about an awesome new comic series called The Goon.  For more than a decade,  Eric Powell [who created, writes and draws] The Goon has continued to produce a comic loved by fans of all ages.

So it was no surprise when, four years ago, The Goon was optioned to become a feature film. 

About a year later we got to see a couple of production images showing how The Goon movie would look. 

Two years ago we were treated to a movie poster for The Goon which was listed as “Coming Soon to a Theater Near You.” 

A year ago we got to glimpse test footage from The Goon.   Each step of the way, the hope for an actual full length feature length Goon film seemed closer to becoming a reality.  Unfortunately, even with David [Se7en] Fincher on board, the financing wasn’t there.

Now thanks to Kickstarter, all that can change.  I’m in.  Will you join me?  The Goon movie… Let’s Kickstart this sucker!

J. O’Barr is Skinning the Wolves

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J. O’Barr is writing and doing the art layouts [with finishes by Jim Terry]  for a new Crow three issue mini-series called Skinning the Wolves.  Set in a concentration camp in the darkest hours of World War II, the story…

  • investigates a world where the dark harbinger of vengeance is dispatched in response to one of history’s greatest atrocities and the ultimate evil that perpetrated it.

I’ve been a J. O’Barr fan since the original Crow mini-series debuted back in the pages of Caliber Presents.  Although I bought almost every Crow mini-series that followed it, something was always missing. Usually it was J. O’Barr.  I’m glad to see he’s back with story and layouts and will give it a shot!

Thanks to CBR.com for the original link.