Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
Here’s the IMAX poster for Riddick.
You know, the only IMAX movies I’ve ever seen have been at places like the Kennedy Space Center. Perhaps I should drive over to Orlando and check out Riddick on an IMAX screen when it premieres.
It looks like Bryce Carlson [writer], Vanesa R. Del Rey [artist] and Boom! Studios has a real hit on their hands when they release Hit this September.
Set in Los Angeles in the 1955, Hit tells the story of…
…Harvey Slater, who’s a Hollywood homicide detective by day and an LAPD hitman by night. His life is… complicated. Slater’s a smart detective who isn’t afraid to pull the trigger, so you never quite know exactly how he’s going to handle a given situation. His journey is a personification of how Los Angeles was changing at the time, and how challenging the ever-growing duality really was. Usually there’s booze and cigarettes involved and Slater getting into bed with a woman he shouldn’t.
This will definitely make my pull list! If you’d like to know more about Hit, check out CBR’s Carlson Puts Out a Cold-Blooded “Hit” at Boom!
Did you know…
On the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Secret Service realized they did not have a have a bulletproof car to transport President Roosevelt safely to Congress to deliver his Infamy Speech. A quick thinking Secret Service agent realized that the U.S. Treasury had seized the bulletproof limo of Al Capone in 1931.
The car was still in working condition and safely transported the president to Congress. President Roosevelt reportedly quipped, “I hope Mr. Capone won’t mind.”
That’s just one of the interesting facts in Brian Galindo’s 10 Interesting Facts About World War II That You May Not Know posted at Buzzfeed.
And a “sure you can borrow my car” to Bill Crider.
The Texas Sky Screamer is the world’s tallest swing ride — in fact it is the tallest structure in Arlington!
Honestly, I’m not sure I’d ride that. Would you?
Zero by Ales Kot [writer] and Michael Walsh [artist] looks interesting. Here’s how the advance solicitation describes it…
SAVING THE WORLD. ONE MURDER AT A TIME.
Edward Zero is the perfect execution machine – a spy who breaks the rules to get things done. When a stolen device appears in the center of a long-running conflict, Zero comes to retrieve it. The problem is, the device is inside a living, breathing, bio-modified terrorist and there’s an entire army after it.
iFanboy has more about Zero and Michael Walsh. I’ve seen enough to put in a pre-order with my local comic shop. How about you?
That’s the special Eduardo Rizzo cover for Brother Lono #1 created by Brian Azzarello [writer], Eduardo Risso [artist], Trish Mulvihill [colorist], Clem Robbins [letterer] and Rev. Dave Johnson [cover artist].
Yep, that’s the same award-winning creative team that brought us 100 issues of 100 Bullets. Seems only right that they’d all return to bring us the spin-off series Brother Lono.
If you’d like to see an exclusive preview of Brother Lono, you can thanks to USAToday!
Yesterday we got a look at the Riddick “Rules the Dark” poster.
Today we can check out the Riddick international trailer.
I like this new poster for Riddick.
The only thing that would make this poster better is if it were bigger. Well, how about THAT?
How often do you meet someone who has the same birthday as you? Not often, right?
At first glance, you’d probably think the odds were 1 in 365. In actuality, the odds are better or worse depending on the day you were born.
My birthday, October 22nd, is according to the chart, pretty common.
Yet, I can only remember meeting one person who shared “my” birthday. We went to elementary and junior high together. Her name was, and I kid you not, Becky Beavers. She was a sweet kid despite the time we got into a spitting contest in second grade. What were we thinking (definitely not about our shared birthday)?
Here is the finished sketch of Sly as Jack Carter that Drew Moss did for me for pickup at HeroesCon. This is my first sketch from Drew and it wasn’t my last. I’ll post the second piece that I got from Drew in the near future.
Until then, if you’d like to see more of Drew’s art, you can here. – Craig
The poster for Escape Plan, starring Sly and Arnold Schwarzenegger was released this week and it is a nice one!
Inspired by the Escape Plan poster, StalloneZoner, Ferhat TEMİZ made these three wallpapers. Click on each to get the wallpaper-sized version. Thanks to Ferhat! – Craig
Until today, I hadn’t really paid close attention to Elysium.
Sure, I knew it was a sci-fi film written and directed by Neill [District Nine] Blomkamp and had Matt Damon and Jodie Foster as its leads. It wasn’t until I watched this trailer that Elysium made it to my “must see” list.
If you want to see a larger version of the Elysium poster you can over at IMPAwards. Elysium also has a Facebook page.
Yesterday I put in my preorder for The Art of Sean Phillips. It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of Sean Phillips’ art and have been looking forward to his art book for a while. The Art of Sean Phillips is an over-sized 9″ x 12″ hardcover with more than 300 pages!
Here’s how the book description describes it…
The Art of Sean Phillips is a lavish, career-spanning retrospective of the acclaimed artist behind Criminal, Sleeper, Incognito, and Fatale.
Sean has personally selected the very best, most interesting examples of his art for inclusion, from comic strips assembled with childhood friends in his bedroom, through his work for British girls’ comics and 2000AD, to his role as a key artist in the early years of Vertigo, through his superhero work for Marvel, DC, and WildStorm, and finally from his creator-owned series with Ed Brubaker.
Also, the renowned artist has been extensively interviewed, along with many of his key collaborators, for the book’s in-depth commentary on his work and career.
Here’s where you can see some preview pages thanks to Comic Vine.
The Art of Sean Phillips is available for pre-order now.
The Guns of Shadow Valley by Dave Wachter [co-creator & artist], James Andrew Clark [co-creator & writer] and Thomas Mauer [Letterer] is now available on Kickstarter.
The Guns of Shadow Valley started as a weekly web comic set in 1870’s in the mysterious Shadow Valley where a…
“posse of gunmen with special abilities must come together and defend against a tribe of ghostly warriors, an advancing army led by a deranged Colonel, and the perils of the valley itself.”
It’s more than just a western, it has elements of “science fiction, steampunk, superpowers, mysticism, and folklore.”
The Guns of Shadow Valley was nominated for the Eisner Award for ‘Best Digital Comic’ in 2010, and for the Harvey Award for ‘Best Online Comics Work’ in 2011. Dave Wachter was nominated for the Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award in 2012.
If you’ve never read The Guns of Shadow Valley, why not check it out? Then if you like what you see, please consider swinging by The Guns of Shadow Valley Kickstarter and become a backer. There are backer levels [with cool rewards at each level] to suit every budget.
