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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I’ll never be able to pull off Muay Thai moves in real life but… actually, who am I kidding? I probably won’t be able to pull them off properly in a video game either, at least not in anything like a flowing sequence.
Still, I think that an Ong Bak game could be rather exciting, or popular. I’m thinking Double Dragon but with elbows and knees too.
At least that’s how it sounds from the first details given in a promo interview at PlayStationLifeStyle (via CinemaBlend). Here are a few choice bits from the mouth of Kan Supabanpot, general manager of the game developer Studio HIVE:
It will be a 3D side-scrolling action game. We can’t say specific details but you will be playing as a character portrayed by Tony Jaa. We have around 20-30 moves though we’re not finished with the combat system. We are trying our best to include all fan favorite moves in here.
Tony Jaa himself is involved in this game and it is equally important to tell you that master Panna Rittikrai [director of Ong Bak] and his stunt team are heavily involved as he is designing action sequences and fighting moves for this game.
The idea of having “designed” action sequences hints at something maybe more interesting than any fighting game I’ve ever seen. I’d love to see what potential there is for controlled staging while still maintaing total interactivity and freedom for the player character.
Still, my heart lies with cinema, not with video games, and so it was another comment in the interview that meant the most to me. Back to Supabanpot:
It is based on the project that has yet to be announced so that’s why it’s still a bit of a secret and no screenshots to go along with our initial announcement.
Ong Bak 4? In some shape or form, I’d guess. I might speculate that it would be another, contemporary outing for Ting, Tony Jaa’s character in the first film, rather than for Tien, his role in the 15th Century storyline of parts 2 and 3.
Anyway, I’ll be more than happy to see another film. Those action sequences won’t be hamstrung by leaving room for button bashing, limited by a clunky virtual camera, or restricted to a small number of repeated moves. Vive Le Cinéma!
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…
