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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At the weekend, I went to the UK premiere of Happy Feet 2, which I’m delighted to say is as idiosyncratic and ambitious as its predecessor. It’s out here on December 2nd, so while we don’t have any Muppets on the horizon, I’m tipping the penguins as the Christmas family film of choice for the UK.
While I don’t think George Miller will ever make another film as eccentric as Babe 2: Pig in the City (I’m not sure anybody will), the philosophising Krill in Happy Feet 2 do strike a familiarly goofy-smart note.
I was lucky enough to speak to the film’s stars and director Miller at the premiere and, had all gone to plan, I would have had an assistant with me to take charge of the camera or the mic. But I didn’t. My assistant was busy lazying my plans away.
So, I had to try and talk to everybody and film them at the same time, and in a rather ad hoc fashion too. Not ideal. The footage was… patchy, so I’ve salvaged the best looking and best sounding pieces. Because my voice was lost entirely from the recording, I’ve used title cards to put the comments into context.
What follows is three or four minutes of me chatting with Miller, Robin Williams, Elijah Wood and Sofia Vergara. I spoke with them all about the same themes, all related to the film: the power of pop music, the continued destruction being caused by climate change, the strengths CG movies and how they are made. Miller also explained why he is returning to live action for his new Mad Max movies.
It was a shame that I only got to speak to each for a few minutes when Miller and Williams in particular seemed to be only scratching the surface of what they were talking about. Maybe I’ll do better at the premiere of Happy Feet 3.
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…
