Shrinkage: A Sci-Fi Comic Series!
Good friend to the site and 5-time Emmy Award winner Rob Kutner has joined forces with renowned illustrator John Lucas (X-Men, Deadpool) for an original sci-fi comedy comic book series, “Shrinkage.”
Category: Comics
Film Review: Guardians of the Galaxy
Guardians of the Galaxy opens in theaters nationwide today, August 1. Check your local listings for showtimes. As soon as Iron Man was getting us excited about the prospect of what comic book movies could be, our hopes were somewhat dashed with Iron Man 2. It wasn’t really until The Avengers that we saw just …
Film Review: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Captain America: The Winter Soldier opens in theaters nationwide today, April 4. Check your local listings for showtimes At this point we are pretty deep into the Marvel Universe. Fully into Phase 2 of their master plan, we have now had three Iron Mans, two Thors, an Avengers, and now a second Captain America, with …
Sony Moving Forward with ‘Venom’
Sony has hired ‘Zombieland’ writers Pual Wernick and Rhett Reese to pen a Spider-Man spin off focusing on the villain Venom. The details of the script are deeply under-wraps (of course), and seem to be focusing on the mythology of the character. Personally, the last Spider-Man in my humble opinion was a turkey. I hated …
Frank Miller Releases ‘Spirit’ Pictures
Frank Miller, the well-known writer of such things as ‘300,’ and ‘Sin City,’ and the co-director of the latter has released 40 pictures from his latest project- the live adaptation of Will Eisner’s famous comic book hero, The Spirit. Obviously, there’s some work still to be done. Miller is shooting ‘The Spirit’ much like ‘Sin …
Creator Rights Restored
Here’s an interesting article for ya’ll regarding creators’ rights. The New York Times is running a piece regarding a recent ruling where the heirs of Jerome Siegel, who along with Joseph Shuster created Superman, are entitled to a portion of the copyright for the character Superman.
‘Monster Zoo’ Heading to the Big Screen
I think I’m going to bang out a graphic novel soon just to have the rights to it bought up. Sam Raimi and Paramount have just obtained the rights to make an adaptation of the graphic novel, ‘Monster Zoo.’ ‘Zoo’ is a story about a boy who finds that his local zoo holds more than …
Out of Boneville and Into Hollywood
Jeff Smith’s comic book classic, ‘Bone,’ has been picked up by Warner Bros. for production. ‘Bone’ follows the tale of three cousins, Phoncible Bone, Smiley Bone and Fone Bone, as they are chased out of Boneville, accidentally landing in a valley that has more to it than it first seems. With the help of their new …
Look! It’s the Watchmen!
So it’s not coming out until March 6, 2009, but dammit if my geek endorphins aren’t overloading my brain with the bliss that is a peek at the characters suited up for next year’s release, ‘Watchmen.’ Zach Snyder posted this on the official ‘Watchmen’ website: “Here we are, officially one year and counting until the …
Locke & Key Rights Acquired
Dimension Films has just acquired the rights to Joe Hill’s graphic novel, Locke & Key, as a potential franchise. Joe Hill is the son of Stephen King. The book follows a trio of children who become the caretakers a New England mansion called the Keyhouse. The kids discover doors that take them to different places, …