Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
Not even Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson can save the trailer for The Other Guys. It’s not funny. The scene with Will Ferrell’s wife almost made me smile. Unfortunately, one [almost] smile isn’t enough for a trailer trying to entice me to see a comedy. I actually thought The Other Guys motion poster was funnier.
IMPAwards.com scored a first look at the Japanese poster for Survival of the Dead. I like the perspective on the zombie girl’s hand, but everything else is pretty generic for a zombie poster. Oh yeah, the two dueling [?] guys at the top of the poster is kind of interesting.
You can see a zombified-huge version of the poster at IMPAwards.
Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction are my two favorite Quentin Tarantino movies. For years Tarantino has teased fans about a potential movie featuring Vincent Vega [John Travolta from Pulp Fiction] and Vic Vega [Michael Madsen from Reservoir Dogs]. As the years drug on, every now and again a rumor would start about The Vega Brothers movie and how Tarantino was going to do it. But the rumors turned out to be just that. I gave up hope of ever seeing The Vega Brothers movie.
Two days ago, Michael Madsen gave an interview to WAAF [a Boston radio station]. A question came up about The Vega Brothers movie and Madsen said that Tarantino had finally figured out how to make it work. You can see Madsen explaining Tarantino’s plan here.
It would either be the stupidest thing ever — or perhaps the coolest. Tarantino could pull it off. LOL. I’d love to see it. My guess is that in the long run it’ll just end up being another one of those Vega Brothers movie rumors.
I love Mitch Byrd’s art. Check out the pencil sketch above and you’ll get a taste of why. Although Mitch doesn’t do a lot of comic work, when he does, it’s always exciting. This piece comes from Sketch magazine #37 and an article that Mitch wrote about making each character in a scene distinctive.
Batman and Hellboy is always a cool team up… especially when drawn by an artist like Rob Haynes. Today’s piece appeared in Rough Stuff #9 and contains a lot more of Rob’s art and can probably be found in the back stock bin at your local comic shop.
A few weeks ago we took a look at some cool redesigns of classic Hitchcock movie posters created by Laz Marquez. Now Marquez is back with the same treatment for four classic Stephen King novels.
Thanks to Neatorama for the original link.
Yesterday we were speaking about classic movie images and just a bit later I happened across this pencil piece by Dan Brereton of Leon and Mathilda from The Professional. [It appears, along with a ton of other Dan Brereton art and interview in Draw! #7]. I thought it was pretty cool and worth sharing.
Hope you dig it too.
FilmFilia scored 7 new posters for The Losers. There’s the one above and six character posters.
The poster above was one of several iconic image posters created to celebrate TCM’s Classic Film Festival running April 22 – 25, 2010. You can see other classic posters re-created for the festival at IMPAwards.com by clicking here. You can learn more about the festival by clicking here.
I picked up this piece by Jeff Parker at MegaCon 2009. Jeff and Casey Jones were sketching for the Hero Initiative. Jeff decided to go with Sly as Deke DaSilva from Nighthawks… after all…
“It was a Nighthawks kind of day.”
This is my second Stallone by Jeff Parker. You can see the first here.
If the title [Hellboy in Mexico (Or a Drunken Blure] doesn’t suck you in, and the Corben cover doesn’t do the trick, then maybe the Dark Horse Comics summary will…
During the 1950s, Hellboy caravans across Mexico with a trio of vampire-killing luchadores, finding the undead; evil turkeys; a terrible bat god; and a little too much tequila.
Reuniting Mike Mignola and Richard Corben, the creative team behind the Eisner Award-winning miniseries Hellboy: The Crooked Man!
There’s also a variant Mignola cover. Make sure you let your local comic shop know you want a copy because this one shot is sure to go fast!
The Big Bang: The Lost Mike Hammer Sixties Novel.
If you’re a Spillane fan, then we probably thought the same thing as we read the line above: I want it now. Although we’re going to have to wait a bit longer, at least we know the broad strokes:
Drawing on an unpublished partial Spillane manuscript dating from the ’60s, [Max Allan] Collins resurrects Spillane’s randy, two-fisted New York City PI, Mike Hammer…
From Max Allan Collins’ website:
In midtown Manhattan, Mike Hammer, recovering from a near-fatal mix-up with the Mob, runs into drug dealers assaulting a young hospital messenger. He saves the kid, but the muggers are not so lucky. Hammer considers the rescue a one-off, but someone has different ideas, as indicated by a street-corner knife attack.
With himself for a client, Hammer — and his beautiful, deadly partner Velda — take on the narcotics racket in New York just as the streets have dried up and rumors run rampant of a massive heroin shipment due any day. In a New York of flashy discotheques, swanky bachelor pads, and the occasional dark alley, Hammer deals with doctors and drug addicts, hippie chicks and hit men, meeting changing times with his timeless brand of violent vengeance.
The Big Bang is available for pre-order now.
The Pitch: Cowboys and Vampires, oh and did I mention Stephen King wrote one of the stories?
The Overview: Two stories [one written by Scott Snyder and the other by Stephen King, both with amazingly good art by Rafael Albuqerque] combine to tell the tale of Skinner Sweet. In 1880, Sweet was an outlaw in the wild west. That was also the year that he became a vampire. Jump forward 45 years. A young woman named Pearl comes to Hollywood to make her fortune in the movies. Things are rough, but she has no idea how bad things can get until vampires are thrown in the mix, and I’m not just talking about Summer Sweet.
The Good: Both stories are excellent. The concept works. Rafael Albuquerque’s art is a joy. Love the characters, especially Pearl. Summer Sweet’s appearances in Pearl’s story is well done. I am looking forward to more about the vampires in Hollywood. Alburquerque draws a great western! Love the foreshadowing with the big, bald guy.
The Bad: Going to a Hollywood party hosted by vampires. Shooting a vampire and it only ticks him off.
The Ugly: What happens to guests at parties hosted by vampires. What happens when you tick off a vampire.
The Summary: I loved the first issue. Everyone involved did a bang-up job and I look forward to the second issue. American Vampire #1 is available now.
If you’re an Andrew Vachss fan, then I’ve got some good news and some bad news. First, the good news: Vachss has a new crime novel coming out called The Weight. Now for the bad news: There will be a wait for The Weight, since it won’t hit stores until November. Arrgh!
To hold us over Andrew Vachss has posted a summary and some excerpts on his website.
It’s a The Losers, April 1st two-fer which makes us all winners. I like this poster a lot. I think it’s because it really gives off the comic series vibe.
