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Monday Runaround – Toys, Models, Storyboards
ToyWatch: Here's a San Diego Comic Con exclusive Bioshock 2 figure, Eleanor (with Saved Little Sister)
ModelWatch: Isobella Jade is turning her Model Life: The Journey of a Pint-Size Fashion Warrior graphic novel into a standalone Apple App.
PressWatch: Abu Dhabi's The National asks if movies are oversaturated with the superhero. And quotes some degenerate who says;
As a comic, Watchmen was the ultimate in superhero deconstruction. But it certainly didn't destroy comic books. In fact it did the opposite.
MultiMediaWatch: Ne-Yo wants to make a movie – but plans to turn the storyboards into a graphic novel first. He tells the Daily Star;
I developed a script and I'm in the process of getting a Hollywood studio to turn it into a movie. My new album is a series of songs inspired by the script that I wrote, but it's not a musical. I've got a few friends in the graphic novel business, so we will storyboard it but release it as a book first.
GeneWatch: Is there division within Gene Colan's family? It looks like a Frazetta situation may be brewing, with competing claims and counter claims about Gene's health, theft of work and reports that Gene's online account may have been hacked. Developing…
AnchorWatch: Fox anchors report that Chris Hoffman has invented the first graphic novel you can read on your mobile phone. Wow. No, seriously, wow.
Next up on Fox, man invents the wheel. Could be useful for all sorts of things.