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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On Broadway, Rock of Ages is the jukebox musical for fans of perms, spandex and getting served drinks mid-show, in your seat. When this is translated to screen, what will be left? Perms and spandex. And probably all of the fourth-wall breaking and jokes about just being characters in a cheesy musical, though they’ll play rather differently, I think.
The adaptation is coming courtesy of no-brainer director choice, Adam Shankman. He was previously responsible for the film adaptation (of the musical adaptation) of Hairspray, and is a man with all of the DNA to love Rock of Ages dearly and care for it in a way very few other filmmakers ever would. This is a show that finishes with the entire company belting out Don’t Stop Believin’, and always did, getting to that song when it was last on the way up irony mountain, pre-Glee, pre-Ellen Page viral video.
According to Vulture, Mary J. Blige is close to signing on as Justice Charlier and Tom Cruise has shown some interest in the role of Stacee Jaxx. Neither of them are lead roles, per se, but I suppose Jaxx is the main villain of the piece, an evil rocker who gets a few songs. Charlier is a mother figure, of sorts, to the young would be rockers who make up the principles, and runs a nightclub in which much of the action takes place.
So what do we learn from this? That Tom Cruise is interested in showing us his best karaoke renditions of Wanted Dead or Alive, Cum On Feel the Noize and Renegade; that Mary J. Blige might well be singing some songs with Tom Cruise soon; and, yes, basically that Tom Cruise is going to be in a musical.
I repeat: Tom Cruise wants to play an evil rock star in a musical. You can’t say he won’t challenge himself and try new things. Good on him.
Expect the young leads to come from theatre or TV. Could this thing hit big, in a Glee-loving America, and make stars of them all?
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…
