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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Should I start believing in Sin City 2 yet? I’ve been expressing cynicism for years. Perhaps my doubts became too comfortable, because I’m having trouble taking them off.
But perhaps, when I sat and watched Robert Rodriguez at Comic Con this year, promising flat-out that the film’s finances were coming together and if he was ever going to make the film, it would be this year, there really was a solid foundation to the man’s heroic self-confidence.
I guess that now William Monahan has been contracted to do a rewrite of the film’s script – previous drafts have been written by Frank Miller, the original creator of Sin City – then I should feel at least least as confident about the film’s chances of making it to the screen as I do every other in-the-works movie to crop up in my “X is writing Y” stories.
But I don’t, quite. There’s the lingering stench of years of unfulfilled promises… and the logistical problems that Rodriguez will have in getting the cast back together, even in part.
Monahan is probably best known for writing Scorsese’s The Departed, and those two guys are reuniting to develop a remake of The Gambler – a project about which, James Toback, the writer of the original Karel Reisz-directed version, really isn’t too impressed. I honestly sympathise. And I’d advise you to net a copy of the original as soon as you can, because it’s properly good.
London Boulevard, Monahan’s directorial debut, opened in the UK last year and was, to be blunt, a travesty. Sin City fans – particularly those who are giddy about the Departed connection – would be advised to check it out and temper their excitement somewhat.
So, that’s Sin City 2 making real strides forward towards the screen. Stay tuned for my next exciting post, full of revelations about the fairies who live at the bottom of my garden.
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…
