Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
Sean Phillips announced that he will be providing the covers for the 28 days later comic series. Sean is an excellent choice for cover artist. I’m interested to hear whose going to be writing and drawing the stories. It might be cool to have a rotating art team.
I’m a fan of “28 days later” and its sequel “28 weeks later” so I was happy to read Boom Studios announce that a new comic series will premiere in July bridging the events between the two movies. Although a creative team has yet to be announced, this project sounds like it could be a winner. Especially if the art for the new series is as good as the cover above.
The Pitch: “Frailty” plus a sense of humor meets comic books as presented by writer Christopher Yost and artist Scott Wegner.
The Overview: Dave Sloan wakes up to see actual demons from hell are living among us. Only Dave can see them. Well, that‘s not quite true. The little heavenly cherub angel can see ’em and, between puffs on his cigar, is telling Dave to kill them all.
The Good: Wegner’s art works really well with Yost’s story. Demons and humans, seen through Dave’s eyes as they go about their daily activities. The ad for “Old Scratch.” The last page.
The Bad: What happens if you look like a demon to Dave.
The Ugly: The second issue isn’t available NOW.
The Summary: Killer of Demons is a lot of fun. Yost and Wegner have created a winner!
Have you seen this ghost video? It’s kinda subtle, but spooky.
If you’re a Walking Dead fan… or if you’ve been waiting for the right time to jump on board one of the best regularly published comics in recent history… or if you’ve been hoping to score some back issues but just can’t find them or they’re too expensive… then you may want to pre-order a copy of The Walking Dead: Compendium One. This big boy is 1,088 pages reprinting The Walking Dead issues 1-8 in one massive trade paperback edition.
It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost a year since it was announced that Eric Powell’s The Goon had been optioned by David [Se7en] Fincher for an antimated 3D feature. Harry, at AICN, posted a first look at what we can expect with two huge images that you can see here.
Although don’t plan to see Sam Raimi’s new horror movie, “Drag Me to Hell” until it hits dvd or cable [it opens May 29th at a theater near you], I have to admit that one scene in this trailer made me jump.
Chris Warner has been at Dark Horse Comics since their very first issue over twenty years ago. His Black Cross character was featured in their premiere title. Warner went on to work on other Dark Horse properties like The American, Predator, Barb Wire and many others. Occasionally he would even come up with a new Black Cross story. [It’s way past time for another Black Cross mini-series!]
Eventually Warner moved into an editorial position where he suggested the first Aliens vs Predator mini-series [years before the movie came about]. Chris Warner is now the editor in charge of both the Alien and Predator properties for Dark Horse and boy, does he have plans for them this year! He tells Newsarama [and you] all about it [if you click here].
Many ZONErs are horror movie fans. And a good percentage of us are also Horror Host fans. That’s why every so often you’ll see me post about Sammy Terry. That’s also why today I’m linking to the first ten minutes of a documentary about Horror Hosts called “American Scary.” If it looks like something that you’d like then check out the American Scary site.
[Thanks and a raised coffin lid to Mark Evanier for the link.]
The Pitch: “Charlie‘s Angels” [times two without the comedy] meets “The Cave.”
The Overview: Six women friends on an adventurous weekend of deep cave exploration find themselves in a life or death struggle to find a way out after a cave-in. Unfortunately the cave-in is the least of their worries… the creatures hunting them plan to feast.
The Good: The feeling of claustrophobia. The creatures. There some legitimate scares [and some cheap ones as well]. Juno [Natalie Jackson Mendoza] and Sarah [Shauna Macdonald].
The Bad: Trapped over a mile below the surface, with dwindling food and water, few supplies and no sure way out… and that’s not the worst of it!
The Ugly: The creatures.
The Summary: I wasn’t expecting “The Descent” to be as good as it was. And while it isn’t a classic, it is a solid horror movie that manages to come up with new creatures and situations in a sub-genre of horror that could have been very routine. “The Descent” is worth a look.
I’m a big fan of Victor Gischler’s Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse. Yesterday at his blog Victor announced:
I’m happy to report that producer Brad Wyman — the dude responsible for some pretty cool films — has optioned my novel Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse. Mr. Wyman is eager to make the film version as close to the novel as possible, and I’m thrilled as hell.
Me too, Victor, me too.
I’ve been a fan of Robert Kirkman’s Walking Dead comic series since the first issue. I generally pick up my comics once and month and invariably the first that I look to read is The Walking Dead. Part of the reason is you never know who is safe or what is going to happen. This series has had more jaw-dropping-I-can’t-believe-that-just-happened moments than any other series I’ve ever read.
The current issue is no exception. There is a scene so tough to read [not because it is gory and not as much for what is happening, but more for what is about to happen] that I actually paused to think, “Kirkman wouldn’t really do THAT, would he?” I honestly didn’t know. After what he did to the Governor and many of the major cast members, perhaps he would. [And no I am not going to spoil it for those of you who haven’t read the issue yet.]
Suffice it to say that the panel shown above made me as happy as when Burt Reynolds showed up with his crossbow in “Deliverance.”
If Rev. Dave Johnson aka “The Potentate” draws it, I’m there. So today we have a link to Rev. Dave’s trailer for “Flatulene.” What is “Flatulene” you ask? Well, here’s how “The Potentate” describes it:
Farting for fun and profit… About 3 days of work to put this together for Titmouse Studios second annual 5 second animation day… As I worked on it, her story started to write itself… My inspiration was Russ Myers ‘Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill’… I might even try to pitch this to Adult Swim.
So if a smokin’ hot chick with irritable-bowel syndrome, fast cars and a partner who’s a flesh-eating zombie sounds like something you’d like to check out, then click here. VROOM! VROOM!
Yeah, I know I just talked up Robert Kirkman’s Walking Dead the other day. And yeah, I know I talk about the series quite a bit. But the series is THAT good. It’s so good that I’m going to mention that Kirkman has a brief interview at CBR.com today.
The Walking Dead is THE comic that I read first each month. My admiration for the comic is legendary. So you just know I’m going to link to this interview, with Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, at Newsarama.
