Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
What you’re looking at [if you’re looking at the photo above] is what scientists believe to be is the only meteorite from Mercury on our planet.
How can they tell? The rock’s magnetism matches that of Mercury perfectly. It also has high amounts of magnesium and chromium but a low amount of iron, which is apparently what scientists would expect from a chip off of Mercury.
Don’t you love stuff like this?
Source: Neatorama.
Manny Aguilera makes his second, but not last appearance in my Stallone Sketch Gallery with his take on Sly as John Spartan from Demolition Man.
I highly recommend Manny to sketch collectors. He’s fast, his prices are reasonable and he’s one of the genuine nice guys!. – Craig
Uproxx has posted 20 Surprising Facts About Die Hard that You Might Not Know.
My favorites were 6, 9 and 20.
If you’re not already a fan of Bad Lip Reading, you will be after you check out the Walking and Talking Dead Bad Lip Reading video below.
Walt Parrish has a cool sketch collection theme. Walt collects original art created on three inch by three inch bristol board.
The art ranges from full color paintings to quickie pencil pieces by artists such as Ken Meyer, Jr. [the Breaking Bad piece above], Tim Sale [the sketch below], Michael Golden, Matt Wagner, Neal Adams, Wilfredo Torres, Gabriel Hardman, Franchesco Francavilla, Bruce Timm, Howard Chaykin, Patric Reynolds and others.
Walt has the art on display at his three by three site and it is more than worth a look.
Expendables 3 Teaser! – Craig
The photo above is of one of my all-time favorite Conan covers. It was created by Neal Adams for The Savage Sword of Conan #2, published by Marvel in October 1974.
Source: The Bristol Board.
I’m going ape over this trailer for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. [Yeah, I know, but I just had to.]
Chambers is a graphic novel published by Arcana
Writer/Creator: Wes Locher
Artist: Kristian Rossi
Narcotics Officer Denis Chambers comes from a family of law enforcers. Now, someone is picking them off one by one, and she’ll have to figure out who’s taking an axe to her family tree before it’s too late.
Denis Chambers is a cop marked for execution by the same powerful men who killed her father [who was also a cop]. Normally killing a cop brings the entire police force into play to find the killer(s)… but what happens when the killers are cops?
Denis Chambers finds herself in a race against time to discover who is trying to kill her and her brother. Who can she trust? How deep does the corruption run? Is her partner in danger or part of the conspiracy to kill her?
Wes Locher hits all the right marks as he moves us through Denis Chambers’ story. She’s tough, and despite being outmanned and outgunned she keeps plowing forward. This is classic noir with a great ending.
Kristian Rossi’s art does a serviceable job of telling the story. I’d have liked to have seen Rossi’s art without the color. At times Rossi’s art has a glimmer of an Eduardo Risso [and we all know what a Risso fan I am], influence.
Chambers is a comic for mature audiences and not kids. If you’re a fan of crime comics, pulp fiction, and noir, then Chambers is worth a look.
Rating: 3 out of 5
If you read 20 Surprising Things You Might Know About National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation…
… You’ll learn, among other things…
Source: Uproxx.
There’s a little bit of a controversy brewing over Marvel’s reprinting of the Miracleman series originally published by Eclipse.
The hubhub is because of the remastered coloring on the latest version. It’s not going to look like the original colors when reprinted.
Most will argue it will look better. Traditionalists will argue that it shouldn’t change.
Marvel’s way of thinking is making the colors look better will increase sales. Those who are fans of the original series will probably buy it either way [enhanced coloring or not], but new readers may be put off by the original colors and pass. So the thought process becomes do what will increase sales.
I probably first became aware of this mindset when Ted Turner started colorizing old films that held the rights to. Turner did this to increase ratings when he aired the colorized movies and to increase video sales.
George Lucas made changes to his Star Wars films enhancing special effects and making it clear that Han didn’t shoot first.
Enhancing effects on the original Star Trek tv series was also done to help the show remain popular in syndication.
I’ve always figured as long as the originals are still available in their original form, then what’s the harm of an “enhanced” version?
I’m sure you’re aware that this version of Raymond Chandler’s classic Farewell, My Lovely has an all-star cast that includes Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles, Anthony Zerbe, Harry Dean Stanton. Jack O’Halloran, Joe Spinell, and Sylvester Stallone. Did you know that it also features pulp writer Jim Thompson in his first and last acting role!
I was really sorry to hear about Tom Laughlin’s passing. His Billy Jack character really made an impact on me my generation.
So it was nice to come across this great Neal Adams’ cover painting of Billy Jack when I was cruising the web today.
Source: Steve Niles’ Tumbler.
