Two nerd tastes that go great together: Doctor Who as Batman
Current Doctor Matt Smith delighted onlookers by dressing in a Batman suit for a play.
Continue ReadingRIP Lew Sayre Schwartz (1926-2011)
Golden Age artist Lew Sayre Schwartz, best known as one of Bob Kane's ghosts of the Batman comic, died over the weekend of complications from a fall, according to his son Andrew. A memorial service is planned for July.
Continue ReadingWhat does GREEN LANTERN’s box-office mean for DC Entertainment?
Meanwhile, back at the box office, GREEN LANTERN debuted at #1 with $52.6 million, less than THOR and even X-MEN: FIRST CLASS. As the Times put it: "An all-hands-on-deck effort by Warner Brothers to turn “Green Lantern” into a box office superpower fizzled over the weekend." With a budget of a reported $300 million, dreadful reviews and a big Friday-to-Saturday drop-off, GL's task as the advance guard for a new generation of movies based on DC characters has been made much more difficult.
Continue Reading2011 Joe Shuster Award winners announced
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet More great Canadian cartoonists were honored Saturday, with the presentation of this year’s Joe Shuster Awards at the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo with hosts Ajay Fry and Teddy Wilson. The awards recognize outstanding achievements of Canadian comic book creators, publishers and retailers. And the winners are: Outstanding Comic Book Artist / [...]
Continue ReadingRIP: Wild Man Fischer
Musician Larry "Wild Man" Fischer died on June 16th at age 66. Challenged by severe mental illness his whole life, he was one of the earliest known examples of Outsider Music with his tuneless, shouted ditties that somehow still tapped into the joy of music and performance.
Continue ReadingGREEN LANTERN: It’s not all bad
If you had asked me if I had wanted to see a movie about Green Lantern, I would have been neutral, but if you had asked me if I wanted to see a movie about a giant space octopus made of fear and smoldering owl fewmets busting loose from green chains, I would have said hell yes! GREEN LANTERN is probably the most comic-book comic book movie since SPIDER-MAN. All the imagery and spirit come straight from the yellowing pages of some old comic by John Broome and Gil Kane -- a boldly colored, nuance-challenged world of wonder and battle in the stars.
Continue ReadingTHE LEGAL VIEW: Super-style and the DCU Relaunch
Judging from the images released so far, it would appear that the relaunched versions of Superman and Superboy will be different from previous versions. Superman will no longer be wearing red shorts over his blue tights, and his belt, boots and S-symbol have also undergone notable alterations. Somewhat more dramatically, Superboy is sporting a black shirt and pants, a black-and-white S-shield mini-cape attached to his back, and a stylized red S-shield tattoo. It also appears that both characters will have significant changes in their continuity, most notably Superman’s age and his relationship with Lois Lane. This changes in the Superman costume are in themselves not likely to provide a solid foundation for erasing the Siegel heirs' ownership interest. However, the costume changes and other shifts in continuity are consistent with DC's arguments for limiting what the Siegels now own.
Continue ReadingLegendary Comics debuts with Frank Miller’s HOLY TERROR in September
In the white hot days following the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, a lot of art was planned and some executed. One near legendary project was Frank Miller's Holy Terror, Batman, which was just what it sounded like...the Batman taking on the terrorists. With Miller's increasingly right-wing views, it was expected to be a real barn burner. However, it turned out to be a little too hot for DC-- as did the project's editor Bob Schreck, who left for IDW and now a start-up line at Legendary Pictures. With a main character recast as "The Fixer," the book is now planned to come out this September, in time for the 10th anniversary of a day most people would rather forget. The Legendary Comics line has been quietly ramping up for some time -- a publishing arm for Legendary Pictures, the powerhouse production company behind the Batman movies, The THE HANGOVER, and many more films. Editor Schreck was seen hanging around the Comics Pavillion at BEA with new assistant editor Greg Tumbarello, and the imprint is busy setting up a distribution deal yet to be announced.
Continue ReadingGreen Lantern designer overwhelmed by creatures, turned to Joe Staton
Designing the Green Lantern Corps for the screen left veteran designer Neville Page spent with exertion -- it dwarfed his previous projects AVATAR, SUPER 8 and STAR TREK. To solve the problem, Page turned to the work of the comics giants who paved the way:
Continue ReadingScott Adams surprisingly revealed as a female supremacist
In a blog post, Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams reveals himself as a male-basher who thinks all men need to be castrated to ensure a smoothly running society because all they want to do is rape and tweet pictures of their junk to co-eds:
Continue ReadingHaney and Connell to receive Finger Award
Bob Haney and Del Connell are the writers selected to received this year's Finger Award. The Finger Award is presented each year to writers, one living, one dead, who for whatever reason, have not received the recognition they should have for their creative efforts. It's named for Bill Finger, who created much of the Batman mythos we see today while Bob Kane got the credit.
Continue ReadingStudio Coffee Run 6/17/11: Green Lantern, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Powers, Game of Thrones, etc.
Shannon O"leary is back with a rundown on the week's Hollywood doings and brewings.
Continue ReadingWhy I just don’t get Green Lantern
As the film GREEN LANTERN opens nationwide, a segment of the population, mostly male, is wildly excited because their favorite superhero is finally getting a lavish and respectful big screen treatment. Yes the reviews have been mixed, but under the watchful eye of Lantern's flamekeeper Geoff Johns, the whole mythology has been faithfully brought to the screen in expansive CGI splendor. For the Lantern fans out there—and there are many -- this is a treat. But are they really a cult within a cult, as this Onion video suggests? I admit to being completely unable to answer this question myself; I'm completely immune to the Lantern's power, and I find this highly puzzling. Everyone's life has gaps, memory holes that remain a mystery. In my case, one such example is learning to swim. One moment, I seem to recall, I was learning how to float as a tot. The next I'm a full grown adult standing on the beach and afraid of the water. Something must have happened...but what?
Continue ReadingOnly one more day for the marriage of Clark and Lois?
Will DC's retconning/realignment/simplification/post-Crisis world include a married Superman and Lois? Comments co-publisher Dan DiDio made to NBC's nerd new blogs seem to indicate Lois and Clark may be facing a moment in time when they are single once more:
Continue ReadingDark Horse announces Skultar
Let's wrap up our barbarian coverage today with an image from a new DARK HORSE PRESENTS feature, SKULTAR, by M.J. Butler and Mark Wheatley, which offers another side of the warrior in a loincloth.
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