True Blood Recap: Good Ol’ Fashioned Spineless Camp
Share this link on Facebook!TweetSeason 3/Episode 9: Everything is Broken Everything in this episode was indeed broken. It felt fractured, like it was in between something else finishing or starting. But it also managed to keep a nice darkly comedic pace throughout. Like in the opening scene, where Eric returns to Fangtasia and tells Pam he [...]
Continue ReadingSPX announced first Animation Showcase selections
Share this link on Facebook!TweetSPX is bearing down on us sooner than we could have expected — September 11-12 — and guests are being announced — Kate Beaton, Dean Haspiel, James Sturm, Raina Telgemeier and Jim Rugg have thus far been announced. And now the selections for the first annual Animation Showcase are here and [...]
Continue ReadingScott Pilgrim and the Infinite Debate
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet So when the tale was written, SCOTT PILGRIM Vs THE WORLD ended up #5 at the box office with a disappointing $10.5 mil. This simple fact has caused ethnic wars everywhere on the internet. People ask, double rainbow-like, “What does it mean?” and argue over who is a fanboy, what is [...]
Continue ReadingSuperman lawsuit spin-offs continue; Superman legal battle producing spin-off lawsuits
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet If the long, long battle over the rights to Superman were a DC “event” comic, we would be into the colon-bedecked spin-offs by now. On Friday, legal hotshot Marc Toberoff — who, in addition to representing the heirs of Jerry Siegel also represents the heirs of Joe Shuster AND [...]
Continue ReadingMMORPG-addicted China to get even more animated
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet A story in The Hollywood Reporter suggests that China is looking to get bigger in the international animation/comics field: Leading the charge is the city of Guiyang, capital of Guizhou province in southwest China. Since 2007, the city has been staging an annual Asian Youth Animation and Comics Contest, which this year [...]
Continue ReadingBriefs & Boxers! 08/15/10
Share this link on Facebook!Tweeto “Batman Can Take It” Grant Morrison talks to Los Angeles Times blogger Geoff Boucher about his plans for Batman: “Supple is the word. It’s really weird. Batman can take anything. You can do comedy Batman, you can do gay Batman … it all works. It something [sic] intrinsic to the character. It’s [...]
Continue ReadingNews and notes: Batwoman, Archie, Bakuman
Share this link on Facebook!TweetA few things from hither and yon: § Archie Comics’ aggressive new management team is profiled in a big story in the NY Times’ Business section: We’re at the beginning of the beginning,” says Jon Goldwater, co-chief executive of Archie Comic Publications. “We’re going to expand. Publishing will always be part of [...]
Continue ReadingThe Alcott Analysis: The Dark Knight
Two summers later, I am still quite taken with The Dark Knight. I have not encountered an American movie — much less an American movie, designed to be a gigantic blockbuster and based on a hugely popular comic book — that is structured as ingeniously and compellingly as this one. I’ve simply never seen anything like it, and after several viewings it still continues to flabbergast. I’ve worked on a handful of these types of movies as a screenwriter, and let me tell you: they’re hard. They’re really hard. There are so many issues for the writer to address: the protagonist must be active, the villain’s plot must make sense, there must be a romantic interest, there must be due attention paid to the history of the character and the rules of the genre, they must be both fantastic and grounded at the same time. All these balls must be kept in the air and these concerns must mesh in a straightforward, compelling, swift, action-packed cinematic narrative, consistent in tone and true to its source material. I haven’t seen one — not one — that has managed to get everything in and do everything right. None of the Superman movies do it, none of the previous WB Batman movies do it, none of the Spider-Man movies do it, neither of the Fantastic Four movies do it, and, even after 22 tries, none of the Bond movies do it either. (The Iron Man movies come close — really close.) But The Dark Knight not only does a better job than any other movie based on its source material — and by that I mean "superhero comics" — it does it with a radically ambitious screenplay that challenges any number of conventions and brings a new, added weight to its subject.
Continue ReadingTonight to do: Anamanaguchi at Brooklyn Bowl
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Not comics really, but all nerd, chiptune punk band Anamanaguchi, who wrote the soundtrack to the Scott Pilgrim video game, is playing tonight in Brooklyn. And it’s free!
Continue ReadingSCOTT PILGRIM vs The Box Office
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet It’s looking like SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD will come in at a disappointing #4 at this weekend’s box office, according to Nikki Finke, behind THE EXPENDABLES, EAT PRAY LOVE, and the returning THE OTHER GUYS. SPvsTW made an estimated $4.7 million on Friday for an $11 million opening. There’s a [...]
Continue ReadingKids comics back at DC with THE ALL-NEW BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet It looked like a dark day for kids comics at the Big Two when it was announced last month that DC was ending most of its kids line of comics. However, via the Source comes the good news that BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD is being replaced by an all-new [...]
Continue ReadingRugg does Adams doing Dorkin
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet This pastiche by Jim Rugg of Neal Adams’ Batman meeting Evan Dorkin’s Milk and Cheese has been widely seen…but it just can’t be seen enough. Via Comics Comics.
Continue ReadingNew Pekar Project strips
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Several Pekar Project strips are appearing after the death of Harvey Pekar, including the new Untitled, with art by Rick Parker. Two more strips remain: “Jewish Chops,” by Vanessa Davis and Part 2 of the 4-part Harvey Pekar / Doug Rushkoff team-up illustrated by Sean Pryor.
Continue ReadingCathy to utter final “Aack!” after 34 years
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Universal UClick has announced that Cathy, the long running strip of single female frustration, will end on October 3. Creator Cathy Guisewite is quitting to spend more time with her family and other life pursuits that 34 years of daily comic strip production have postponed. The strip began in 1976 at the [...]
Continue ReadingMorning wake up
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Oh yeah, that’s how the Federation rolls.
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