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Here's a cool story I came across today. How did the makers of Iron Man put together that
montage detailing the rise of Tony Stark, Obadiah Stane, and Stark Industries? Apparently they did
it at least in part by looking for nifty photos on the internet.
Jeremy Keith is "just" a web designer with a website and a Flickr account. This week, he posted a
fun account of how team Iron Man found one
of his Flickr photos -- a picture of his friend in NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building -- decided they
wanted to use it, and set about getting his permission. The best part: he ignored them for
weeks. But apparently they really liked the photo, and hounded him for it. The second best
part: they didn't know it was a photo taken in one of NASA's most famous facilities -- which is
obviously a great fit for the film's subject matter. They thought it was "just some warehouse or
something."
Anyway, good story, and I didn't see it around the movie blogs, so there you go. People do insane
things for internet fame, but sometimes it just happens by accident, after a fashion. Remember this
next time you put up a photo album and make it public.
Finally, someone at
the Punisher: War Zone premiere asked
Lexi Alexander the big question -- what the hell
was all that "taking your name off the film" talk? Give a hand to SciFi Wire for doing so.
Alexander's answer managed to confirm and deny the post-ComicCon drama that surrounded
Punisher: War Zone. "No, no, I never was going to take my name off the film. Let me say
this. Harry Knowles [of Ain't It Cool News] is one of the greatest people I know. He's a great
supporter of mine. I'm his biggest fan, not because he supports filmmakers, [but] because I think
he fights for film ... I think in this case, what happened is when the first trailers came out, I
think he knew and he's been told there was kind of trouble. So he wrote, "F--k, they should have
just let her do it, and she was pushed aside." [That is] true. He did write the right thing, and he
stood up for me and for this film. I think that each Internet site that took it on brought it to a
new level ... [What Knowles wrote] really is the correct thing. I was never fired, and I never
wanted to take my name off. "
What Knowles wrote (if I have the right piece) was this: "Lexi Alexander has been kicked to the
curb -- part of that treatment was her "honeymoon" from Comic Con. However, there's more totally
awesome wedding gifts that Lionsgate has given the blushing bride. She's off the movie and wrapped
up in a non-disclosure clause - so we won't be hearing from her anytime soon, UNLESS THINGS CHANGE
RADICALLY." That explains the deafening silence -- though I'm curious how one can be "pushed
aside," yet remain unfired. However that works, it's clear Alexander kicked ass, made the
Punisher she wanted, and is getting rave reviews from the film geeks for her trouble.
There's nothing like a happy ending.
Prepare yourself - this much testosterone may be bad for your health.
Otherwise, enjoy!
At first, Zeck was just mixed in with other cover artists. Right from the get go, though, his
covers were extremely dynamic with interesting angles and layouts.
Then. however, Zeck began his most famous stretch of covers, drawing the covers for issues
#37-57, with only one John Byrne cover (for #50) mixed in.
As you can see, almost all his covers are striking in either one of two ways - either they are
dynamic action shots or they are dramatic looking cool poses.
There are a few slight duds mixed in there, of course (the cover for #50 stands out, I believe,
in a negative sense - it does not seem all that dramatic for a 50th issue), but for the most
part, he was on top of things every month.
During this time, he even helped launch a new G.I. Joe title - G.I. Joe Special Missions, where
his action covers were definitely warranted…
Some of the later Special Missions covers seem a bit on the rough side, but still, very cool
covers.
Zeck also did the cover for one of the G.I. Joe Yearbooks…
Zeck actually stayed on the covers of the main book for nine issues past #57, but man, the change
in the book’s direction did not suit Zeck’s style at ALL.
An armored Cobra Commander? A guy in a Hawkman get-up? Some pirate guy on a hovercraft? Zeck did
what he could, but this was no longer his wheelhouse…
The exception, of course, is this three-parter where Zeck got to draw what he drew best - dynamic
military action scenes…
#61, in particular, is one of the best covers he did on the book.
But then it was back to the sillier plots…
When Zeck is drawing stuff in outer space - you know you’ve gone too far.
He got one last cool cover and he was done with the book, after forty-four awesome covers!
Enfin le grand jour, aujourd’hui, le 04 décembre, voit la sortie en France du nouveau
jeu Prince of Persia pour PS3 et Xbox 360. Alors le mélange de Jump’n Run et
d’esthétique comics saura-t-il séduire les fans de la première heure et
par la même occasion en charmer de nouveaux ? Dès demain, nous aurons les premiers
éléments de réponse, mais il se pourrait bien que le parti pris
d’Ubisoft se révèle payant.
Remember, each day, click on that day’s door to see what Christmas cartoon by a notable
political cartoonist is featured for that day (you can also continue to look at previous
day’s cartoons), all the way until Christmas Eve!!
...Well, America the World a bunch of comic book geeks voted, and the results are in. The Curse of
the Zebra Batman is the winner of the quot;what Silver Age crack should I postquot; contest...
nbsp; nbsp; ...what is going on with Robin's face here? Oh well -- surely it can't be as weird as
the story... nbsp; nbsp; Eight full-sized images, followed by a quot;bonusquot; cover. nbsp; nbsp;
Hat tip to bear and his a href='http://linkfilter.net/?s=jjid=26078'zebra comics/a. nbsp; nbsp;
[cc: strangely funny; blogs zines]
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se encuentra a
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la strongNBC/strong? Pues además de reducir la temporada de Knight Rider a tan sólo
17 episodios, presentará una nueva serie, strongKings/strong, de la que ya se habló
bastante en la pasada a
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película os habéis quedado más confundidos aún, strongsin saber muy
bien por dónde irá el argumento/strong y qué estilo tendrá. Esa es la
sensación que me ha dejado a mí la primera promo de Kings, que podéis ver unas
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que aclare mucho, y comienza precisando que el argumento de Kings es una strongreimaginación
de la conocida historia de David y Goliath/strong, sólo que ambientada en un reino ficticio
y amenazado de la actualidad. Y vaya si es una reimaginación, porque, para que os
hagáis una idea, Goliath en la serie está representado por un tanque./p pLa historia
comienza con una batalla en la que el joven soldado strongDavid Sheppard/strong rescata al hijo del
rey Silas. Se convierte entonces en el héroe del reino, ganándose también el
corazón de la hija del rey y una reputación intachable entre los habitantes. Pero
todo lo que al principio parece ser un sueño acaba volviéndose contra él. La
fama cuesta, y pronto hasta gente procedente del propio Reino quiere acabar con él, haciendo
que la línea que separa a sus amigos de sus enemigos sea cada vez más pequeña.
Poco más podemos contar del argumento, porque strongla cadena ha sido bastante
ambigua/strong al respecto como podéis ver, aunque a priori parece bastante adecuado definir
la serie como un strongdrama épico/strong./p pComo curiosidad, la span class="caps"NBC/span
ya ha incluido en su web oficial un periódico, a href="http://www.unnreports.com/"UNN/a, que
contará semana tras semana toda la actualidad del Reino. Parece ser que la cadena
también apostará, al igual que hace con Heroes o The Office, por strongpotenciar la
experiencia online de la serie/strong con este tipo de contenidos./p pEn cuanto al equipo que hay
detrás de Kings, lo forman nombres bastante conocidos del mundillo, como el director
strongFrancis Lawrence/strong, que dirigió Soy leyenda, y el productor ejecutivo
strongMichael Green/strong, que a algunos os sonará por su breve paso por la primera
temporada de Heroes. Los actores, por otro lado, son bastante desconocidos, excepto quizás
strongIan McShane/strong, que participó en su día en Deadwood y ahora dará
vida al rey Silas. A destacar también que se ha anunciado la incorporación de
strongMacaulay Culkin/strong al reparto regular de la serie a lo largo de la temporada./p pEsta
nueva apuesta de la span class="caps"NBC/span es, sin duda, strongmuy arriesgada/strong. En una
temporada en la que lo procedimental está de moda (tan sólo hay que echarle un
vistazo a las a
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audiencias de The Mentalist/a), el introducir una serie tan serializada como aparenta ser Kings y
con un argumento tan extraño y poco habitual strongpuede resultar siendo un fracaso
absoluto/strong. O quizás no, quizás llame suficientemente la atención de los
espectadores como para atraerlos cada semana. Personalmente me inclino más bien por lo
primero, y es una pena porque siempre es bueno ver que de vez en cuando las cadenas apuestan por
strongproyectos poco convencionales/strong. Ojalá me equivoque, aunque tendremos que esperar
para saberlo porque la serie no se estrenará hasta el próximo 19 de marzo./p pEn
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Bernard Freydberg, Philosophy and Comedy: Aristophanes, Logos, and Eros. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 2008, 235p. Isbn Paperback: 9780253219701 Isbn Hardback: 9780253351067Recension
par James Brusuelas (California State University at Los Angeles) dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review:
2008.12.04 Présentation de l'éditeur: Aristophanes' comedies have stood the test of
time as some of the greatest comic literature ever produced. While there have been numerous
commentaries on Aristophanes and his world, until now there has been no systematic philosophical
treatment of his comedies. In Philosophy and Comedy, Bernard Freydberg illuminates the
philosophical insights in Aristophanes' texts by presenting close readings of Clouds, Wasps,
Assemblywomen, and Lysistrata, addressing their comic genius at the same time. Freydberg challenges
notions that philosophy is best served by a tragic disposition and arrives at a new assessment of
the philosophical importance of comedy. [...]
iA GTK image viewer specifically designed to handle comic books./ibr / br / bAbout this version/bbr
/ Comix has been completely rewritten from scratch. On the surface things look quite a bit like
they used to, but the internal workings are entirely new. There are too many changes for them all
to be mentioned here, but a couple of highlights are a much more functional library and a new
archive editing dialog.
I am prone to fits of lust over really, really beautiful books, and no one gets me lustier faster
than Sunday Press, publishers of the gigantic, marvellous "Little Nemo: Splendid Sundays"
collections. These books collect the Sunday Little Nemo comics of Winsor McCay, a surrealist
watercolor genius whose weekly strips were lush, gigantic paintings that took us through the
dreamscape of Little Nemo, a charming and enigmatic boy living in turn-of-the-century America. And
now there's a second volume: "Little Nemo in Slumberland, Many More Splendid Sundays." I grew up
seeing the Little Nemo strips reproduced in "large-format" hardcovers, typically 8.5x11, and I
confess that I didn't really get what the fuss was about. The strips were small and smudgy, the
type spidery and illegible. Then I saw the first Sunday Press collection, "So Many Splendid
Sundays," and I experienced enlightenment. Publisher Peter Maresca has scanned, cleaned up and
reproduced his favorite Nemo pages, at full size, 21" by 16", and at that size, Nemo is a
completely different experience. First of all, you can't read a book this big the way that you
normally would. I couldn't read it at my desk chair -- even in my reading chair I barely fit (as
you can see from these photos). The only way to really read these books is lying on your stomach on
the carpet, the book open, chin propped on your hands, and you are, once again, 10 years old,
reading the funnies on a lazy Sunday. This second volume is every bit as charming and magic as the
first. Mostly, of course, it's made of Nemo strips (120 of them!), but there are a handful of sweet
little essays describing McCay's relationship to Coney Island (it was his muse) and to William
Randolph Hearts, his publisher (and nemesis). There's also a Dinosaur Gertie flip book for you to
cut and assemble, the perfect aperitif for your lazy Sunday with the funnies. Little Nemo in
Slumberland, Many More Splendid Sundays on Amazon, Little Nemo in Slumberland, Many More Splendid
Sundays, Sunday Press publishing, Sample pages Previously: Expirable copyright makes giant-sized
Little Nemo possible - Boing ... Titles from Little Nemo in Slumberland - Boing Boing Little Sammy
Sneeze: Winsor McCay's anarchic precurson to Little ... Gigantic Little Nemo book does justice to
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Des primaires démocrates à l’élection
présidentielle, le nouveau POTUS n’a pas fini de faire parler de lui en BD. IDW
avait été le premier éditeur à dégainer avec son Presidential
Material, soit un numéro spécial consacré à
Barack Obama et un autre sur John McCain, suivi de près
par Antartic Press qui éditait deux comics au principe identique. On attend de nouvelles
choses dans les mois à venir aux USA mais la surprise vient de chez nous, avec
l’édition d’Obama, le premier tome d’une
série dessinée par Efix et scénarisée par
Nappez, qui vient de paraître aux éditions Petit à petit.
Réalisé en un temps record – on parle d’une dizaine de
jours – cette BD au format poche parle de l’espoir
généré par le Président Obama et s’attache avant tout à
contextualiser les idées du candidat. Exit le ton dithyrambique, le premier tome
d’une série qui en comptera 4 autres (pour chaque année du mandat) est
à la limite du factuel et tâche de prendre distance avec l’Obamania. Dommage
que ce parti pris donne un petit côté froid à l’ensemble, sans doute
accentué par l’utilisation de nombreux montages photographiques sur les planches de
personnages pourtant très ronds et chaleureux d’Efix. L’ouvrage vient tout
juste de paraître en librairie pour 10 euros, alors qu’au même moment, les
affiches “Sarkobama” de Greenpeace sont à découvrir dans le
métro Parisien. Ne leur reste plus qu’à éditer un livre à
charge !
En voilà un que notre collectionneuse de souris électriques aura du mal à se
procurer… Après l’avion, voilà le train Pikachu, qui met un peu de couleur dans les
transports japonais. C’est vrai que la SNCF, à côté de ça, a
encore du boulot à faire…
Mais Pikachu n’est pas le seul à se montrer sur le réseau ferré
japonais. D’autres animes, mangas, ou comics comme Doraemon, Galaxy Express 999, Spider-Man
ou encore Ultraman décorent fièrement les wagons des lignes japonaises. Les photos
ici.
Here’s the latest installment of a weekly reader interactive segment on the blog, where I
answer reader-submitted e-mails to bcronin@comicbookresources.com (and other e-mails that
don’t require responses).
Enjoy!
Mailbag entries were a bit slim this week - it was almost as if people were spending the
Thanksgiving holiday with their families rather than sending me mailbag entries - how dare they!!
Friendly publicist David got me hip to a cool new thing NBM is doing - a blog for all NBM’s
comic creators! And since NBM has such awesome people as Rick Geary, Neil Kleid, Ted Rall and
Lewis Trondheim, that’s a pretty sweet sounding blog!
Check it out here.
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Some new podcast called the Handsome Genius Club sent me a link to their podcast site. Here it is!
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ed!=Awesome! took issue with the #1 fight on the Top 25 Comic Book Battles, and sent me a link
from his website where he explains why Batman could never defeat Superman. Here is the link. I think he
seemed to believe that I picked the results myself - I did not - they were voted on by you, the
readers!
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Our favorite young comic book hopeful, Chris Jones, wrote in to show some pages from the comic he
is shopping around:
I talk a lot about the comic I’m working on, and I’d figure you might want to know
what it WAS, and make sure that I wasn’t just pissing into the wind with flights of fancy.
Well, here are the first couple of scripts, and some art for the second issue, drawn by the
wonderful Serena Guerra. If you think it’s worth showing off on the blog or in the letters
section, you can do that, or don’t if you think it’s garbage, or simply choose to
ignore the whole thing. Enjoy!
It’s not like I have a lot of other letters here, Chris, so sure, let’s show everyone
your comic!
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Comic book blog Destructo Co. is doing a holiday scavenger hunt to benefit Hero Initiative!
Here’s what they’re doing:
Here’s how ComiXmas works: On Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 12:00 pm (CST) Destructo Co.
will post our Xmas Wish List containing a combination of 12 Hidden Items and Trivia Questions
online. You have 24 hours to collect as many of the hidden items and answer as many of the trivia
questions as you can. One of the items participants must supply is proof of their donation to The
Hero Initiative in the amount of at least $1. The first participant to submit the most correct
items and answers to comixmas@destructoco.com (email must contain “ComiXmas List” in
the subject line) before 12:00 pm (CST) on December 14, 2008 wins a grand prize of 12 FREE COMIC
BOOK SUBSCRIPTIONS from Marvel, DC or a combination of both. All proceeds from the event will go
to benefit The Hero Initiative. Contact Destructo Co. at ComiXmas@destructoco.com with any
questions. See the Official Rules for complete details before participating.
That’s about it, but in case you were wondering, you don’t have to participate in the
scavenger hunt to donate. Every little bit helps. Good luck and thanks for your support!
Happy Holidays! - The Destructo Co. Staff
Check out their site here for more details.
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Good ol’ Bright-Raven is having a holiday sale at his DeviantArt website! Some pretty darn
cheap prices there! Check it out here.
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The nice publicist Margaret wrote in to remind folks about IDW’s big Customer Appreciation
sale!
DECEMBER 6, 10 AM - 3 PM. The sale will be held in IDW’s parking lot, 5080 Santa Fe St, San
Diego, CA 92109.
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Another nice publicist, Margot, showed me this neat Wanted game.
If you do, be sure to send me an e-mail to bcronin@comicbookresources.com with the subject
heading “Mailbag” if you want to be included in next week’s mailbag!
Le Jedi Darca Nyl parcoure la galaxie à la recherche dÂ’un dénommé
Lycan, prêt à prêter main forte à quiconque peut lui donner une piste. Un
scénario original, pour une course-poursuite intéressanteÂ…br /Note : 4/6
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href="http://xkcd.com/506/"Theft of the Magi/a and CAD's a
href="http://cad-comic.com/comic.php?d=20081124"Crossover/a were tied with 145 votes apiece. We
decided to be somewhat Vice Presidential and cast the deciding vote ... to XKCD. Cheer up, CAD, you
still got second place, and your prize is just as big as first place's (read: emnada/em). br /br
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the Color of Seduction/a (Indoor Heroes), who beat out a
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one vote. Thanks to everyone who voted (see? your vote counts) and be sure to let us know of any
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