Walmart teams with Captain America for digital comics
When the Captain America movie was in the planning stages, there was some anxiety over whether the "America" in the title would be off-putting to foreign lands, where so much movie money is made these days. Well, there's one place that Cap fits right in and it's Wal*Mart, which has a whole Captain America store, including a link to CAPTAIN AMERICA: FIRST VENGEANCE #1 a digital comic byFred Ven Lente, Luke Ross, and Richard Isanove that you can read right now for free via Marvel's DCU interface. The comic has been up for a while, but it's interesting to see Wal*Mart getting into the game.
Continue ReadingFirst look at John Carter art
Director Andrew Stanton does his most substantive interview yet at Hero Complex about the JOHN CARTER movie, and, rest assured, ERB-fans, he gets it. Stanton gets practically tongue-tied just trying to explain why he loves the material so much:
Continue ReadingWebcomic parade: Sean Pryor’s “Techno Junkie”
Sean Pryor is a talented young cartoonist we've been keeping an eye on for a while, and we're happy to point you to his debut as a writer/artist, "Techno Junkie" for Royal Flush. It's a dark fable about when seclusion meets technology addiction. Pryor previously illustrated "30 DAYS IN THE HOLE" for Royal Flush, as well as several stories with Harvey Pekar for Royal Flush and The Pekar Project.
Continue ReadingTURF gets deluxe collection
If you enjoyed the Jonathan Ross/Tommy Lee Edwards supernatural '30s gangster romp TURF you will enjoy this deluxe collected edition, out this July. PR below:
Continue ReadingiBooks vs ibooks: Colby suing Apple over term
The owner of a book imprint called ibooks is suing Apple over the trademark.
Continue ReadingMarvel announces X-Men plans; Uncanny is back
It turns out there will soon be a comic book called UNCANNY X-MEN for sale after all! It's coming back in October with a new #1 as part of an X-men eventish thing called "X-men Regenesis" which will find the mutants splitting into two teams (yes kinda like Blue and Gold back in the day.) One will appear in UNCANNY X-MEN, to be written again by Kieron Gillen with art by Chris Bacahlo and anther called WOLVERINE & THE X-MEN, also debuting in October, to be written by Jason Aaron, with art by Carlos Pacheco & Greg Land.
Continue ReadingGuggenheim’s Nowhere Man is somewhere again, three years later
The week before a big movie release is the traditional time for announcements of new projects for those involved; it's a magical time when the entertainment world's attention is turned to you, but before possible tankage or bad news, when there's a world of opportunity for those with vision. Thus it is that Deadline today announced that GREEN LANTERN writer Marc Guggenheim was launching his comics series NOWHERE MAN:
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Wimpy Kid 6 announced: “Cabin Fever” gets 6 million first printing
Debate whether it counts as comics or not, one thing is certain: Jeff Kinney's WIMPY KID series is HUGE. The sixth book in the series is out this November with a massive 6 million copy first printing, the biggest release of 2011. The storyline finds the Heffley family suffering from cabin fever as they're stuck inside during a huge blizzard. The theme says, Kinney is "being stuck inside the identity you create for yourself."
Continue ReadingAmazing MAD photo gallery at LIFE.com
Wow, we've linked to some amazing LIFE Magazine photo galleries before, but here is a doozy:MAD Magazine: A Semi-Secret History with photos of MAD founder Bill Gaines from the files of current editor John Ficarra. LIFE made a few images available, but each is accompanied by Ficarra's commentary on the site with even more history and insight.
Continue ReadingFirst JOHN CARTER poster
One of our pet projects here at Stately Beat Manor is tracking the progress of various attempts to adapt the John Carter books of Edgar Rice Burroughs to the screen. There have been many fits and starts over the long years, but now Andrew Stanton (WALL*E, FINDING NEMO) at Pixar is bringing this wild tale of imagination and fighting to the screen.
Continue ReadingNice Art: Tom Neely’s cover for Decibel
Can comics and extreme metal coexist in the same magazine? We'll soon find out! The August issue (on sale in July) of DECIBEL has several features of interest to the comics crowd.
Continue ReadingRussell Crowe to play Jor-El in new MAN OF STEEL
Russell Crowe will attempt to banish memories of Marlon Brando as he assays the role of Jor-El, father to Superman, in Zack Snyder's MAN OF STEEL reboot. Crowe joins Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane and Michael Shannon in the cast. THe script is by David Goyer, while Christopher Nolan instructs from the sidelines.
Continue ReadingReviews review: Green Lantern
And what of the other BIG event this weekend? GREEN LANTERN is the movie that will either justify the creation of a whole universe of DC superheroes (akin to Disney's Marvel-verse) or....well, it won't Thus far, reviews are...unfavorable, with a 24% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. . Despite this the movie is tracking very well with young men and should easily open at #1.
Continue ReadingReviews review: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
The Spider-Man the Musical Saga closed another chapter of its saga last night with a star studded opening -- President Bill Clinton attended, as did Matt Dmon, Cindy Crawford, and of course, composers Bono and the Edge. Even more notably, director Julie Taymor, who got fired three months ago, showed up and took a curtain call. On the red carpet she was repeatedly asked if she missed being a part of this, to which she fired back, “I AM part of this.” At the end of the curtain call, Taymor and Bono even shared a cold, celebratory smooch.
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