Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
I preordered Darwyn Cooke’s illustrated The Hunter by Richard Stark as soon as I saw it was available.
Since you read my blog, my guess is you will [or did] as well.
IDW has a page devoted to the new edition to keep fans in the know.
They don’t make book covers like this any more. They should.
Here’s the new trailer for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes!
This George Romero action figure from Retrobandtoys is just too cool. I love the packaging art even more than the figure!
That’s a limited edition print that Darwyn Cooke created for the Toronto Comic Arts Festival.
Beautiful, ain’t it?
I’m surprised someone didn’t think of Spider-Man Parkour sooner.
If they ever do a full length movie version, Spider-Man’s real name should be Peter Parkour. *Badabump*
Many of you who stop in regularly are zombie fans. Since The Walking Dead is on break I thought you might like a look at the poster and trailer for Aftermath.
Hope I wasn’t wrong.
Gray Matter Art just released this very cool and authorized poster by Grzegorz Domaradzki (Gabz).
Titled Call Me Snake it comes in a regular and limited edition format and is available now.
I’ve known Joel Carroll for several years. Whenever I would talk to Joel about a Stallone sketch Joel would beg off because he felt he wasn’t good at capturing likenesses.
Recently Joel was sketching for charity and I hit him up again. It was for charity so how could Joel refuse? He didn’t and you can see the end result above. I really like it!
You can see more of Joel’s art on twitter.
Max Allan Collins recently spoke with The Rap Sheet and they covered a wide range of topics. Here are a few tidbits [with a link to full interview]…
…like a lot of Americans, he [Mickey Spillane] was deeply troubled by the terrorist attacks on September 11, and I think he just had to get Mike Hammer into that fray. But as much as I like Goliath Bone, I think King of the Weeds, with its traditional crime elements, feels more like the final Hammer novel.
The amount of unfinished, unpublished material Mickey left behind was and is staggering. Even now I haven’t read every word of it.
JKP: I understand you’re also now working on a Western, based on an unproduced screenplay Mickey Spillane wrote originally for actor John Wayne. Can you fill in more of the background on that particular tale, which you’ve titled The Legend of Caleb York? MAC: …Over a Bouchercon breakfast I said, “You know what I have? An unproduced screenplay Mickey Spillane wrote for John Wayne. You guys publish Westerns, right?” And my editor sort of pounced.
The interview also covers the next Nate Heller books [and potential tv series], the Quarry books [and potential tv series – the pilot has been filmed] and much more.
The Rap Sheet interview is worth a read!
This photo of legendary muscle man, Steve Reeves as Superman was just so cool I had to share it.
Source: Chuck Zito.
CBR.com recently ran a really nice profile of artist, Rick Burchett.
Rick has two very cool web comics currently running: Gravedigger with Chris Mills and Lady Sabre and the Pirates of the Ineffable Aether with Greg Rucka. You can’t go wrong with either of them.
Dusty Abell recently posted his take on Superman through the years. It’s cool looking at the tweaks, modifications and riffs by different artists but drawn by Dusty.
My five favorites:
5. Bruce Timm
4. Curt Swan
3. George Reeves
2. Christopher Reeve
1. Neal Adams
I’ve been a Cully Hamner fan for years. [In fact Cully was the first artist I approached to do a Stallone sketch when I started collecting them.] Check out the cool art Cully created for the HeroesCon 30th Anniversary.
