His name is Everett Watford. He is seventeen years old. He is putting on a comic convention in Chicago. He says; My goal is to showcase independent comic book creators and people trying to break into the business primarily from Chicago. I plan to have artists booths to showcase their wares and a pre-party to have…
Here are a few of the things Marvel has got planned to help promote the Avengers Vs X-Men crossover through the summer. And do you know what? I think it might just work. Avengers Vs X-Men #1 is a new reader jumping on point, for those unfamiliar with the current Marvel universe. Possibly obvious, but…
This is the planned artwork for Archie Comics #635 in July, leaked to Bleeding Cool. As earlier rumoured, it will tell the story of the global protest against massively unequal redistrubution of wealth and power, under the title Occupy Riverdale, echoing the Occupy movements present around the world. This continued the further progressive storylines from…
Grace Randolph, as well as looking at tomorrow’s comics today, takes on Benderspink’s blatantly open plans to use Arcana to publish comic books as a way to get Hollywood interested in their ideas… as well as evangelising for the medium of comics. Get your injection of Grace Randolph’s Stacktastic, half of her Think About The…
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Behind Enemy Lines and Max Payne culprit John Moore is currently working on a comic book called Dead Soldier for Liquid, and like all Liquid titles the idea is apparently to use the comic as a launch pad for a film. I won’t go into more detail there – I’m not the comics guy round here after all – but I’ll certainly come back to it if (and it really is an if, not a when, I’m sure) the plan comes to fruition and Dead Soldier gets up and marches towards the silver screen.
Instead, I’ll concern myself with Moore’s current film project. According to Deadline, he’s working up a big screen, fictionalised adaptation of the Ice Road Truckers reality show. The proposed plot will see “a group of truckers who drive 18-wheelers over a 350-mile highway made of ice, as they haul equipment and supplies to diamond miners working in the tundra of Canada’s Northwest Territories. It’s a dangerous job given the brutal cold, breakdowns, crashes and melting ice on the remote roads are potentially fatal.”
Moore himself then compared the premise to The Towering Inferno (too hot), Jaws (still too hot) and The Guns of Navarone (too hot with too many guns). Rather interestingly he avoided any reference to the films his would most likely resemble the closest: Clouzot’s tremendous Wages of Fear and its remake, Friedkin’s Sorceror.
In those films trucks packed with nitroglycerine are driven carefully and, not to put too fine a point on it, suspensefully, along some treacherous mountain roads. Sweaty films and no mistake, both on screen and amongst the audience.
Moore is looking to render his Ice Road in glorious 3D while Deadline interestingly suggest that the studio don’t see this as a stereo-optic picture at all. Maybe they know that a John Moore film simply isn’t going to be worth that kind of roll-out.
Courtesy of Midtown Comics‘ listings and skipping the trades, here’s a look at the Marvel solicitations for May 2012. One word of warning, the credits on these do get mixed up, especially when there are double shipping issues – and there are a lot of those this month. But those pictures sure are pretty. AGE…
We already showed you what the DC Free Comic Book Day retailer customizable version would look like. Now we have the Marvel version, only available to retailers who order vast quantities. It’s intended to be used in mailshots or attached inside local newspapers, or given away in mass drives, each copy featuring the details of…
FastCoCreate has a new interview with Alan Moore talking about Watchmen – accompanied by the first art from Darwyn Cooke from the Minutemen book. It seems an odd article for DC Comics to have agreed to provide such artwork for, as negative as it is, including such paragraphs as; More recently, Moore says some lawyers…
Welcome to the Justice League Of Hanna Barbera, by Brazilian artist Daniel HDR. Can’t Boom just buy the rights and make this happen?
Neal Adams writes for Bleeding Cool, about Ghost Rider creator Gary Friedrich; Fellow creators, we can help Gary Friedrich without taking any kind of position in his case with Marvel. Gary is sick, and he’s about to lose his house, and though he will tell you he is not destitute, he needs help. If I…
This is the cover to Aquaman #7 by Ivan Reis and Joe Prado, the first part of the two part story “The Other League” by Geoff Johns. And from the solicits for issues 7 and 8… Who destroyed Atlantis? In the start of a new storyline, we follow the hunter as he stalks and kills…
