Round 2 of Mix March Madness! Where 64 webcomics come in, but only one comes out! Let’s meet the comics that made it to the second round… ready to duke it out, as only webcomics can!
To my left… running for over eight years, Tim Buckley steals your soul in the small print if you dare read…
Though a film adaptation hasn’t come to be (and based on the scripts kicking around, that’s a good thing) last September brought word that Neil Gaiman’s comic book series The Sandman might head to television in the form of a series from Warner Bros. and Supernatural creator Eric Kripke. But at a PaleyFest red carpet event, Kripke had some disappointing news, telling The Live Feed:
“Unfortunately, for a lot of varying reasons, Sandman is not in the works, at least for this season.” He elaborated that the potential adaptation “just didn’t quite happen this season through nobody’s fault, and hopefully we can do it again in the future.”
DC and Warner Bros. would love to see it happen, as doing it right could easily kick off a franchise of films or a long running TV series. The holdup, to me, seems to be just pulling all the players together at the right time.
“I’m growing vats of people like you all around the world. Eventually we’ll put a bunch of you in a room with knives, and whoever emerges alive will be the winner and can make the Sandman movie.”
…they may just be waiting for a big enough auditorium.
Round 2 is upon us! That’s right, fight fans… It’s Mix March Madness! Where 64 webcomics come in, but only 1 comes out! Let’s meet the comics that made it to the second round… ready to duke it out, as only webcomics can!
To our left… fresh from throwing off virtual shackles…
Among universities in the Ivy League, there’s a constant battle to lay claim to the more illustrious and notable alumni. Harvard: “We’ve got John Adams and John Updike!” Columbia: “That’s nothing, we have Teddy Roosevelt and Oscar Hammerstein!” Princeton: “Is that all? Do the names Woodrow Wilson and Toni Morrison mean anything?” But now Yale has emerged with the ultimate trump card, a newly discovered alum who may be fictional, but who could beat up any of the other nerdlings that Yale’s rivals can dig up: Batman.
No no no. Bruce W. didn’t attend any classes at Yale, he was a legacy and just bought his diploma. Just like another W.
Don’t make me call the continuity cops involved on this one. I’ve got the author of The Essential Batman Encyclopedia on speed dial.
You know, I was so proud of Zack Snyder. After doing a George Romero remake (Dawn Of The Dead) and two comic book adaptations (300 and Watchmen) I was happy to hear that he was finally doing an original film, Sucker Punch, before he got started on the next Superman film.
Of course, then I found out that he’s just remaking Disney animation…
Round 1 of our March Madness Webcomics Tournament ended last night at midnight, and we have the updated brackets showing who moves on to the next round– and who they battle next.
We now move on to Round 2! The next 16 contests will start going up Monday morning, with four each day. Again, voting will end on Saturday at midnight, so we expect some last minute vote getting at C2E2 this weekend– hey, what’s a trip to Chicago without ballot stuffing voting irregularities?
Will Axe Cop beat Dr. McNinja? Will Theater Hopper and Multiplex make it to the next round and go head to head? Only you can tell us!
Thanks to everybody’s who’s voted so far, and we hope you vote in the next rounds!
It’s always nice to see comic artists getting respect in places outside of the clubhouse, and so they were as the eighteenth annual Spectrum awards for excellence in science fiction and fantasy art were chosen Saturday evening. Spectrum is widely considered one of the most influential art awards in the genre.
This is disturbingly depressing– this is what we have to look forward to in movie theaters this summer:
Four adaptations of comic books. One prequel to an adaptation of a comic book. One sequel to a sequel to a movie based on a toy. One sequel to a sequel to a sequel to a movie based on an amusement-park ride. One prequel to a remake. Two sequels to cartoons. One sequel to a comedy. An adaptation of a children’s book. An adaptation of a Saturday-morning cartoon. One sequel with a 4 in the title. Two sequels with a 5 in the title. One sequel that, if it were inclined to use numbers, would have to have a 7 1/2 in the title.
And it gets no better in 2012:
Here’s what’s on tap two summers from now: an adaptation of a comic book. A reboot of an adaptation of a comic book. A sequel to a sequel to an adaptation of a comic book. A sequel to a reboot of an adaptation of a TV show. A sequel to a sequel to a reboot of an adaptation of a comic book. A sequel to a cartoon. A sequel to a sequel to a cartoon. A sequel to a sequel to a sequel to a cartoon. A sequel to a sequel to a sequel to a sequel to a movie based on a young-adult novel. And soon after: Stretch Armstrong. You remember Stretch Armstrong, right? That rubberized doll you could stretch and then stretch again, at least until the sludge inside the doll would dry up and he would become Osteoporosis Armstrong? A toy that offered less narrative interest than bingo?
And what’s truly horrifying? I looked at his list of titles and he missed a bunch. There’s at least one movie with $200 million dollar budget based on a game that springs to mind. Not a computer game, mind you– a board game.
Hell, I’m expecting a movie version of Minesweeper any day now. (Having said this, I just looked on YouTube, and lo and behold…)
Luckily, no one’s made a movie of Hungry Hungry Hippos yet, although now that I have committed this to pixels, somebody inevitably will make it.
I’d say this is just a movie phenomenon, but really– how much streamlining is going on in the comics industry themselves? Both DC and Marvel seem to be streamlining everything down to seven major brand lines each, leaving precious little room to breathe and make something new.
The worst takeaway from the article:
The good news is that the four-quadrant theory of marketing may now be eroding. The bad news is that it’s giving way to something worse—a new classification that encompasses all ages and both genders: the “I won’t grow up” demographic.
Does that sound like the current hardcore fanbase of comics to you too?
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Round 2 of Mix March Madness! Where 64 webcomics come in, but only one comes out! Let’s meet the comics that made it to the second round… ready to duke it out, as only webcomics can!
