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…
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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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In February of 2010, a video was uploaded to YouTube showing a heated verbal disagreement on a public bus spilling over into terrible violence. The de facto star of this clip was a sextagenarian with a memorable beard and a T-shirt proclaiming that he is a m*therf*cker.
At this stage it’s probably easier if you watch the clip. It’s probably not suitable for children or the office.
Not exactly a hero, is he? But he caught on with the internet, was quickly dubbed Epic Beard Man and became a meme in a lightning flash. Even some of the derivative videos you can see littering YouTube have amassed millions of hits.
And perhaps we’re getting to the point of Craig Moss’ new film Bad Ass which takes this video and turns it into a feature film, apparently some kind of action picture with one foot in grind house parody. Danny Trejo stars as the title character, easily recognisable as one of the key players in the original bus violence.
Here’s the trailer.
Er. Wow.
I’m surprised that anybody is even attempting this. Surely it’s just a legal and moral minefield?
Craig Moss, the director, previously made The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It which I haven’t seen but, frankly, wasn’t well received. This seems like a detour out of Friedberg and Seltzer territory towards something a bit more like Postal-mode Uwe Boll.
Though I hope it surprises us all with a canny commentary on modern urban and racial tensions and lots of footage of Danny Trejo throwing people through wall
The film has an official Facebook Page, and from that I saw the official release date of April 24, 2012. That’s a Tuesday, which confirms, perhaps unsurprisingly, that the film is going straight to DVD and bypassing cinemas.
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…
