Posts Tagged ‘Comic Books’
Posted by dominie in Comics, Events, Films, Games, News on August 27th, 2008
In addition to the Dead Space EA video game and Dead Space: Downfall, both arriving in October, and the ongoing Image Comic series, Dead Space has launched their new website, NoKnownSurvivors.com.
The website will utilize all manners of storytelling and filmmaking from audio effects to the rapidly growing 3D animation techniques to serve fans with more Dead Space content. Over the next nine weeks, fans can immerse themselves into the world and follow every step of the process as the creators tell two tragic stories, Misplaced Affection, followed by 13.
Misplaced Affection follows “an organ replacement technician who falls hard for a capable female security officer. 13 is the “tale of a sleeper agent who makes the wrong decisions for the right reasons.” Each story is four chapters long, with new chapters going live every Monday.
Posted by bob in Comics, Films, News on August 22nd, 2008
Director John Moore told MTV that “The world’s pretty serious right now, and there’s an ironic lightness in Virulents,” the Virgin Comics one-shot he will adapt next for the big screen. John Cox (Boot Camp) is working on the screenplay as announced by Variety.
“There’s a touch of macabre ridiculousness to it. I think we’ve seen a lot of attempts to make serious movies about serious things, and it strikes me that we might be a little more artful about how we make a point [these days].”
He said Mark Wahlberg, who stars in his next release, the video game come to life Max Payne, as an ideal candidate to star in the film. “I think he’s an actor of unlimited potential and I’d just love to go around with him again.”
The Virulents is your typical soldiers vs. vampire zombies tale. Virgin describes it this way: “A small platoon of American soldiers in search of their missing comrades comes across Indian commandoes looking for a group of terrorists suspected of hiding a most heinous weapon in the craggy breast of the Hindukush. It’s a night of revelation as the Americans discover the fate of their lost brothers, and the Indians discover the fate of their terrorists. But the terror is not in the form of flesh and blood, or bullets or gunpowder”
Posted by bob in Comics, Films, News on August 19th, 2008
Cryptozoo Crew, a series of graphic novels by Jerry Carr and Allan Gross, has been optioned by Alcon Entertainment. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Joe Gazzam (Scared Straight) will adapt the NBM-published material.
According to the publisher, the series is about: “Yeti sightings are a dime a dozen. Outsmarting your spouse - now that’s priceless! Join Cryptozoologist Tork Darwyn and his wife Tara as they discover unknown creatures, visit lost civilizations, and fight for the TV remote. Join the CRYPTOZOO CREW and their basement full of Cave Monkeys!”
Two volumes of material are already in print.
Posted by bob in Comics, News on August 13th, 2008
WildStorm will release The Ferryman on October 8, a five-issue miniseries coming from Dark Castle. The project is being written by Marc Andreyko (Friday the 13th: Pamela’s Tale) and drawn by Jonathan Wayshack. “It’s been a great working with Jon,” Andreyko said of his collaborator. “When I look at the pages, I’m like ‘Oh my God, this is awesome!’ He just took my words and brought them to vivid life, which I’m just thrilled with. The book will sell because of the art; it just draws you into this world.
“Dark Castle generated the idea,” Andreyko told ShockTillYouDrop.com. “I’ve known Erik Olsen and Joel’s company for years. Joel [Silver] had been interested in the concept of the Ferryman and the River Styx. He wanted to do something contemporary with it, so that’s what I was given. From there, I brought to the table people selling their soul to the Devil. Eventually the Devil is going to collect on that so the Ferrymen carry the souls to hell.” (more…)
Posted by bob in Films, News on August 13th, 2008
Joe Hill confirmed for Fangoria that Neil Jordan will not direct his screenplay adapting Hill’s Heart-Shaped Box. The Warner Bros. film was affected by last fall’s Writer’s Strike and Jordan was unavailable during that time for studio requested script revisions.
He also told the magazine that his Locke & Key comic book is now being tailored for a television series as opposed to a feature film. The interesting news here is that Frank Darabont is likely to write and direct at least the pilot.
Posted by bob in Comics, Films, News on August 12th, 2008
As discussed in previous news, Todd Lincoln (From Dusk till Dawn) will be directing the big screen adaptation of Devil’s Due’s, Hack/Slash. Now screenwriter Justin Marks reveals more intimate details on the plot.
In an interview with Newsarama, Marks excitedly reveals the Hack/Slash film adaptation will take a new direction in which it will be “the first chance [we will get] to see a slasher movie where there is more than one slasher!” Slashers, for those of you who are unfamiliar, are what the government calls “Revenants” and whose purpose is solely to kill. The film will be heavily character based and “[you're] going to get to know the people who are surviving and dying.” (more…)
Posted by bob in Events, News on August 12th, 2008
WildStorm will release the second volume of comics based on Friday the 13th. Debuting, of course, in time for Halloween, the series collects Pamela’s Tale #1-2, Abuser and the Abused #1, Summer Vacation #1-2 and Bad Land #1-2. The 160-page collection features writers Marc Andreyko (Manhunter), Jason Aaron (Wolverine), Ron Marz (Green Lantern), and Joshua Hale Fialkov. Artists include Adam Archer, Andy B, Shawn Moll and Mike Huddleston. Mike McKone (Fantastic Four) provides the cover art.
Posted by bob in Comics, Reviews on August 10th, 2008
Fall of Cthulhu: Godwar continues BOOM!’s mythos based on H.P. Lovecraft’s pulp stories. The new series, debuting Wednesday, from writer Michael Alan Nelson and Mat Santolouco picks up where things were left off in a previous series and the entire first issue sets up the new events while recapping where we are. As a result, for those just joining, you pretty quickly catch up with the players and situation so kudos to Nelson.
Having said that, the story structure takes up along with snippets focusing on the varying players and it definitely felt very formal, almost a checklist of people and places. We pick up on Cy Morgan, our protagonist, now in the Arkham mental institution. As he chats with his therapist, we cut around to see where Arkham himself is, seemingly preparing for something bad to happen. In the Dreamlands, we meet Lucifer, a young woman being put into service by Harlot, who seems to be commanding one side of the coming war. She tasks Lucifer with freeing Morgan from his confinement for as-yet unexplained reasons. Then there’s Nodens, the entity seeking Arkham for its own reasons. (more…)
Posted by bob in Comics, News on August 9th, 2008
H.P. Lovecraft is everywhere these days including BOOM! Studios Cthulhu series of comics and adaptations of his prose into film. Now we see yet another look at his dark world in the October release of The Miskatonic Project: H.P. Lovecraft’s The Whisperer. After more than a decade in the works, the project is finally seeing print from Transfuzion/Millennial Concepts.Most likely the final work in Don Heck’s distinguished comics career, the project was finished by Darryl Banks (Green Lantern) and Daryl Hutchinson (Crypt of Cthulhu) the 128-page graphic novel will feature a cover by Banks and Mellissa Martin.
The entire story is based on “The Whisperer in Darkness” along with a new sequel from writer Mark Ellis. (more…)
Posted by bob in Comics, News on August 7th, 2008
Antarctic Press will be releasing a new four-issue miniseries this October with the deceptively simple title of Yeti vs. Vampire, written by Miles Gunter and illustrated by Kelsey Shannon. The first issue will retail for a mere 99 cents and the creators are happily blogging about it.
Gunter also did an extensive interview at Comic Monsters, talking about the project and its origins. “Yeti vs. Vampire is the story of Monda, a vampire fashion designer who sets out to capture the Yeti and use its exotic fur to create a line of ultra chic fur coats for her upcoming runway show in Milan,” he explained.
In addition to a Yeti and a vampire, Gunter promises, “Lots of monsters! We’ve got outlaw gutter punk werewolves, Egyptian sphinx cyclops horticulturists, Armani clad skeleton butlers, a giant mummified alligator that likes to play fetch with a steel skull, as well as some other creatures that I don’t want to reveal.”
