Artist Spotlight on Jason Latour
Comic Impact recently focused their Artist Spotlight on Jason Latour.
Well played, Comic Impact. Well played.
New Poster for “Sin City: A Dame to Kill For”
Here is the new poster for Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.
What do you think?
Salem’s Lot: The Ultimate In Terror
When I saw this poster for Salem’s Lot it brought back a lot of memories. Released as a 3 hour television mini-series in 1979, Salem’s Lot was one of the last tv events that you had to be in front of the set when it aired if you wanted to see it. Remember, this was in the pre-VCR (anyone remember those) days.
I was excited about the mini-series since I’d read and enjoyed Stephen King’s novel Salem’s Lot. The mini-series was well done and lived up to expectations. I still can see that kid vampire floating outside a second story window asking to be let in… CREEPY!
Source: Dr. Horror Geek.
EW’s Movie Plausibility Chart
Entertainment Weekly recently posted this Movie Plausibility Chart. You can see a bigger version here.
Not much to quibble with… I’d move The Usual Suspects over to the upper right hand corner though.
John Beatty Remembers His Flicker Account!
My buddy, John Beatty, recently posted that he recently came across his old Flicker account (that he had forgotten about) which is full of art and photos!
Howard Chaykin & The Shadow: Midnight in Moscow #3!
The Shadow: Midnight in Moscow #3 cover (without the trade dress) by Howard Chaykin!
32 Incredibly Weird Deaths
Buzzfeed recently posted 32 Incredibly Weird Deaths…
You have people killed when…
- a cow fell through a man’s roof killing the man…
- a lawyer killed himself when trying to show jurors it was possible to accidentally shoot himself…
- a man fell 24 stories to his death when he jumped against a window to prove it was unbreakable…
- a man jumped from the Eiffel Tower to prove a suit he made would allow him to fly…
- a man died when he fell into the Grand Canyon after pretending that he slipped, and then he actually slipped…
- the man to die in the first plane crash was in a plane piloted by Orville Wright
- and many more which you can read about here.
Jason Aaron & Ron Garney: Men of Wrath
I’m a huge fan of crime stories.
If the yarn’s a good one I don’t care if the medium is a novel, a comic book, a movie or television. Men of Wrath, the five issue crime comic mini-series by Jason Aaron and Ron Garney looks like it will be a good ‘un.
Men of Wrath follows a hitman named Ira Wrath and as Jason Aaron lays it out…
He’s a bad guy. He’s an older guy who’s reaching the end of his life, which consists pretty much of killing people for money and living alone in an empty house which doesn’t have much furniture. For him it’s clearly not about the money. There’s something else going on.
“Men of Wrath” is about a family history. So each issue opens with flashbacks to different generations of the Rath family. We kind of start to see how the cycle of violence begins and gets perpetuated and passed down from generation to generation of this family and kind of culminates in Ira as the worst of the bunch.
So it’s pretty clear from his opening scene, which kind of punches of you in the face and tells you that he is not a nice man. It’s a story of how this cycle of violence has led to this one sad and very scary man.
Dave Richards at CBR.com conducted an excellent interview with Jason Aaron and Ron Garney about Men of Wrath. One word of caution before you click over – Aaron warns us that Wrath is not a nice man and in the opening sequence does something that punches the reader in the face — I felt clobbered. This is not a comic for kids or some adults but if you like crime comics, you’ll probably look forward to the ride.
15 Things You May Not Know About “Lock Up”
IFC recently posted 15 Things You May Not Know About Lock Up. Although the majority of readers here will know most, there may be a few surprises. Here are two that I didn’t know or had forgotten…
11. Frank McRae Had NFL History
McRae was a solid choice for the football scene – he’d actually spent a short stint as an NFL defensive tackle, playing six games for the Chicago Bears during the 1967 season.
12. Danny Trejo Is in the Movie
Danny Trejo makes an appearance as one of the gang members led by the character Chink Weber (played by actor Sonny Landham).
Abraham Lincoln’s Slippers!
The house slippers in the photo above belonged to Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln!
Mr. Lincoln wore them often and right up until the day of his assassination. These slippers were so well-known to Lincoln scholars that Steven Spielberg had a pair recreated for a scene in his movie Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln’s slippers now reside in the Rutherford B. Hayes’ Presidential Museum.
Source: Neatorama.
Sherwood Texas: a “Biker Epic… Through a Quentin Tarantino Lens.”
If Sherwood Texas isn’t on your comic pull list, it should be.
Created by writer Shane Berryhill with art by Daniel Hilyard and characters designed by Andrew Robinson, Sherwood Texas is a modern day retelling of Robin Hood as a “biker epic… through a Quentin Tarantino lens.”
If that’s not enough to get you on board (and it should be) perhaps the one buck price tag for the first issue will get you to take a look. After that Berryhill’s story and Hilyard’s art should keep you coming back for more.
Still not sold? Then check out CBR’s interview with Shane Berryhill and Andrew Robinson [and much larger versions of the art above plus more art from the series]!
Next stop… Sherwood Texas.
Which “Walking Dead” Survivor Are You?
The Zombie Apocalypse is coming.
What will it reveal about your true character? Will you become a leader, a follower, someone who takes advantage of the weak, or a zombie’s lunch?
As the sign says if you take the quiz Which Walking Dead Survivor Are You? there could be spoilers…
For the record… I got Rick.
Source: Buzzfeed.
“Sons of Anarchy” Final Season Teaser
Hey! Did you see the new teaser trailer for the final season of Sons of Anarchy?
The Monkees 7 Greatest Hits
You know how on some days you really feel like listening to some music by The Monkees and –
What’s that? You don’t? Ok… let me rephrase that.
You know how on some days I really feel like listening to some music by The Monkees? Well, today is one of those days.
Thanks to Do You Remember, we can listen to The Monkees 7 Greatest Hits.
