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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It was officially announced at Comic-Con this year (and unofficially before hand) that Legendary Pictures had appointed Mark Protosevich to write a screenplay based upon the Mass Effect videogames. Lots of questions were asked at the panel, and they were indeed answered, but there were plenty more in waiting that the panellists didn’t have time to address.
So afterwards, Legendary set up a webpage, quietly, offering plenty more information on the film. Kotaku found this page today, a month after publication – so, while this isn’t fresh-fresh news, it certainly didn’t go wide until this afternoon. Now I can only imagine everybody with an X-Box is chatting about it over those little headsets they’ve all had welded on. Ahem.
Here’s a quick digest of the info, in my own write:
The game isn’t going to be based upon any of the games’ stories, but Shepherd, the male version of Shepherd, is to be the protagonist. The film isn’t going to even attempt to embody the free-choice dynamic of the game. And Seth Green isn’t going to play Joker. But the games’ developer Bioware are working closely with the film’s producers.
I’m disappointed that they’ve elected to focus on the male Shepard, therefore negating the game’s unusual gender-equality tactic. I wish they’d instead created a different character entirely, and maybe factored in some kind of choose-the-sex-of-your-baby reference.
Daft footnote: Seeing as they’re the ones making the film, I suppose we can take all of Legendary’s answers to the bank… even if they tell a weird untruth on the very same page.
Underneath the Mass Effect q&a, there’s a bit about Guillermo Del Toro’s Pacific Rim. Nothing new there, really except for the final lie.
Q: Will there be any Lovecraftian influence in PACIFIC RIM?
A: No.
Hang on… they’re saying that Guillermo Del Toro is making a film with zero Lovecraftian influence. Really?
Crikey. Maybe that should have been the headline.
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…
