Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
On Sunday I told you about Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore’s comic “The Walking Dead.”
Eduardo Risso is a genius. His work on 100 Bullets is astounding. What makes Risso even more unique is that although he’s been honored with the top awards the industry has to offer, and he’s admired by fans and pros alike, he continues to work on the regular monthly title 100 Bullets. There’ve been six trade paperback compilations and I highly recommend them all! [ONE / TWO / THREE / FOUR / FIVE / SIX] Risso and Azzerello have recently teamed to produce a six issue arc of Batman. The first issue is #620 and is on stands now. The first printing sold out from the publisher, but you may find a few still around. It’s great stuff, so it’d be worth your effort to find a copy.
Tim Sale didn’t become a professional comic book artist until he was 29 years old. That’s pretty old to just be entering the profession.
The cool thing is that Tim didn’t give up on his dream and now he is one of most in-demand artists around, able to pick and choose the projects that HE wants to do.
Tim doesn’t have a website, but HERE’s a link to a recent interview. Tim talks about his influences, his art and what he plans to do next. Tim has worked on all of the classic characters. Batman. Daredevil. Wolverine. Spider-Man. Superman. The Hulk. He’s even drawn a really cool on-line Matrix story.
Pretty impressive for such a late bloomer, eh?
I love a good end of the world, small band of survivors fighting to survive against all odds story. You know, like Stephen King’s The Stand… “28 days later” and the clasic “Night of the Living Dead.”
Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore’s comic “The Walking Dead” can now join the list! I’m not kidding. It’s really that good. Don’t believe me? Then check out this
review. And this one. Better yet, read it yourself. I did and I’ve added it to my monthly must buy list.I really wasn’t familiar with Robert Kirkman before reading “The Walking Dead.” If you’re like me and want to know more about him, you can check out this
interview. If you want to know a bit more about Tony Moore, here’s a link to his site.I’d like to hang around and tell you more about “The Walking Dead” but I think I’ll go back and re-read it again.
It’s really THAT good!
I’m looking forward to this weekend. Big John Beatty and I will be motoring down to Tampa for Tim Gordon’s Tampa Comic Book and Toy Convention. Big Beatty is a guest but before I get to that…Saturday night Beatty and I are going to attend a little get together put on by Randy Martin. Randy is an avid art collector whose theme happens to be Edward Scissorshands. How cool is that? John Higashi will be there with his Star Wars theme [which includes are from just about anyone who is ANYONE. How many collections do you know that feature Drew Struzan originals [note the “s” as in many]? John Dell and other artists will be attending as well. It’s going to be a lot of fun.
The next day is Tampa Con. John is a guest [which makes me a guest of a guest, I suppose]. Other real guests include MARTY NODELL [creator of the original GREEN LANTERN], ETHAN VAN SCIVER [X-Men], ALEX SAVIUK [Spider-Man], JIM FERN [Scion, Wolverine], AUSTIN JANOWSKY [Superman], DICK KULPA [artist and publisher of CRACKED], MARK and STEPHANIE HEIKE and others.
If you happen to be in the area, stop in and say, “Hi.” I’ll be the guy in the StalloneZone shirt angeling for more Stallone sketches!
I’m really looking forward to the “Hellboy” movie. I’ve been talking up the comics for years and I really think that the movie is going to be a cool adaptation.1] The
Punisher is a pretty cool character and2]
the trailer makes it look like the movie will be fun.So yeah, I think that it’ll do well even though the guy playing the
Punisher doesn’t look like the “bad mofo” I’ve come to know and love. Mike Zeck’s Punisher… now that’s the real Punisher!
I just saw the coolest trailer for “The Day After Tomorrow.” I don’t know anything about the movie other than what I just saw, but it’s enough to make me want to know more!
One of my favorite movies last year was the very under-rated The Transporter starring Jason Stratham. It had a cool soundtrack and just the right mix of action and comedy. It’s made a great addition to my dvd collection and everyone that I’ve shown it to has really liked it.“ABC News has conducted an exhaustive investigation of the Kennedy assassination, complete with a computer-generated reconstruction, which irrefutably confirms that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, the network said Monday. A two-hour special on the event is scheduled to air Nov. 20, two days before the 40th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s killing.”
Over the years, I’ve read just about every theory on the assassination of JFK and watched too many “documentaries” to even begin to count… I’m sure that I’ll tune in to see what ABC News has to say, but I doubt that it’ll have the DEFINITIVE answer.
Did I just hear the sound of males around the world sobbing?
I don’t know which surprised me more: that “Scary Movie 3” opened in first place [beating out “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” “Mystic River,” “Runaway Jury,” etc.], that it earned $48.1 million in it’s opening weekend [$48.1 MILLION!} or that it posted the best first weekend ever for a movie opening in October.
One thing that won’t surprise me is that with numbers like that, there WILL be a “Scary Movie 4!”
