Author: Glenn Hauman

#SDCC: ‘Chuck’ Amuck

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  • July 25, 2009

Man, is the Twerd Herd out in force for this panel. Not surprising, considering the subject matter, but– wow.

Chuck came back to Comic-Con, to thank all the people who yelled and screamed and supported the show hard enough to help save it while it was on the bubble of cancellation. On hand were executive producers and co-creators Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak, joined by series stars Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski, Joshua Gomez, Ryan McPartlin, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Vik Sahay, Sarah Lancaster, Scott Krinsky (strolling on stage with his keytar to the tune of “Fat Bottomed Girls” while everyone else played air instruments) and Adam Baldwin, who was on a day pass from doing all those Joss Whedon panels.

Major takeaways from the panel:

  • Chuck Season 2 DVDs will be out in 2010, probably right before whenever the third season airs and that date isn’t locked yet. It will feature 3D episode, behind the scenes footage, Captain Awesome’s tips for being awesome, and Casey’s spy tips.
  • Josh Gomez jokingly addressed the budget cuts required for the renewal: “This season, we can only afford to have Adam Baldwin grunt.”
  • Captain Awesome is ready for his “call to duty” in Season 3. He’ll occasionally be submerged into the spy world as well.
  • Zac Levi wants his own action figure so he can fight Jayne.
  • Chris Fedak was taking notes of all the ideas generated by the Q&A section, including whether Chuck got languages downloaded, Casey’s parents, and a musical episode.
  • http://www.chuckmeout.com/ is a new hub for the Chuck fan community that launched today.

#SDCC: Overheard at San Diego Comic-Con, Day 2

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  • July 25, 2009

Cosplayers at San Diego Comic Con 2009

He’s a comic character, right? It’s okay to cosplay him…

What are the other rumbles from the floors and halls…

@ALC111: i’m not sure what i think will happen first- pass out from the heat, dehydration, drunkeness or tiredness

Darick Robertson, after a staff announcement that the panel is being recorded and checking to see if there is anybody under 18 in the audience: “I can’t help but believe that if you’re in this room you’ve been offended by me already.”

Dwayne McDuffie: “I was once hired to write a Wu-Tang Clan vs Marilym Manson animated feature. And I wrote it. They ended up teaming up.”

In the hall by Entrance B: “I’m obsessed with trying to figure out how DC is going to collect Wednesday Comics.”

From @davemccullough: “MAN: What do you still have to do? WOMAN: I just need to shmooze me some f-ing nerds so I can work this year.”

From @scarymask: How many Eisners will “Nascar Heroes” win? The suspense is killing me!

If you’ve got things you’ve heard, send them to SDCC2009@tips.comicmix.com.

#SDCC: Semi-liveblogging the Eisner Awards

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  • July 25, 2009

The 21st annual Eisner Awards, the “Oscars” of the comics industry, will be given out at a gala ceremony at a brand-new location: the Indigo Ballroom at the Hilton Bayfront. This year’s special them is “Comics and All That Jazz.” Scheduled presenters include writer/actors Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant (Reno 911, Balls of Fury), acclaimed comics creators Jeff Smith and Terry Moore, actor/comedian Patton Oswalt, actor/musician/writer Bill Mumy, actress/musician Jane Wiedlin, and G4’s Blair Butler, with many more to be announced.

Other prestigious awards to be given out include the Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award, the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award, and the Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing. The master of ceremonies is Bongo Comics’ Bill Morrison.

We’re going to cover it as best as we can here… boldfacing the winners as they are announced.

8:46: Neil Gaiman tweets: “on my way to present eisner award. Car just pulled over for illegal left turn. Will we make it?”

9:03: Heidi MacDonald tweets: “No phone coverage in Indigo Ballroom so NO live Twitter Eisner Awards. #techfail”

Hmm. This will make life challenging. Time to get a goat to sacrifice…

9:12: Neil made it.

9:14: First winner of the night: Best Publication For Kids: Tiny Titans, by Art Baltazar and Franco (DC)

9:16: Best Publication for Teens/Tweens: Coraline.

9:28: Robot6 enters the liveblogging! And they report:

Best Coloring: Dave Stewart, Abe Sapien: The Drowning, BPRD, The Goon, Hellboy, Solomon Kane, The Umbrella Academy (Dark Horse)

Best Lettering: Chris Ware, Acme Novelty Library #19 (Acme)

Best webcomic: Finder, by Carla Speed McNeil

9:45: Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team: Guy Davis, BPRD (Dark Horse)

Best Painter/Multimedia Artist: Jill Thompson, Magic Trixie, Magic Trixie Sleeps Over (HarperCollins Children’s Books)

9:51: Best Cover Artist: James Jean, Fables (Vertigo/DC); The Umbrella Academy (Dark Horse)

9:54: Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism: Comic Book Resources, produced by Jonah Weiland
(www.comicbookresources.com)

10:06: Running back and forth posting here and tweeting each award individually is exhausting… but it’s all worth it for you. :-*

Best Comics-Related Book: Kirby: King of Comics, by Mark Evanier (Abrams)

Best Publication Design: Hellboy Library Editions, designed by Cary Grazzini and Mike Mignola (Dark Horse)

10:14: Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books: Creepy Archives, by various (Dark Horse)

10:17: I’m soooooo glad my iPhone app is updating me on all the Eisner winners.

10:24: Best Humor Publication: Herbie Archives, by “Shane O’Shea” (Richard E. Hughes) and Ogden Whitney (Dark Horse)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material: The Last Musketeer, by Jason (Fantagraphics)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Japan: Dororo, by Osamu Tezuka (Vertical)

10:47: Jane Wiedlin tweets: “Im @ Eisner Awards getting ready 2 present. Major wardrobe malfunction in pedicab on way here. Front zipper burst on dress exposed all 2 all!”

10:55: Whoops, missed some:

  • Tate’s Comics in Fort Lauderdale won the Spirit of Retailing Award.
  • Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award presented by Mike Royer — winner is Eleanor Davis, writer/artist of Stinky

Hall of fame inductees:

11:11: The home stretch! Here we go!

Best Writer: Bill Willingham, Fables, House of Mystery (Vertigo/DC)

Best Writer/Artist: Chris Ware, Acme Novelty Library (Acme)

Best New Series: Invincible Iron Man, by Matt Fraction and Salvador Larocca (Marvel)

Best Limited Series: Hellboy: The Crooked Man, by Mike Mignola and Richard Corben (Dark Horse)

11:15: Best Continuing Series: All Star Superman. by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely (DC)

Continuing?!? Since when? Take it away and give it to Miss Congeniality. (That’s Andrew Pepoy, right?)

11:22: Best Short Story: “Murder He Wrote,” by Ian Boothby, Nina Matsumoto, and Andrew Pepoy, in The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror #14 (Bongo)

Hey, Andrew did get an award right after I said to give him one! I promise to use my powers only for good…

11:33: The last batch:

Best Anthology: Comic Book Tattoo: Narrative Art Inspired by the Lyrics and Music of Tori Amos, edited by Rantz Hoseley (Image)

Best Reality-Based Work: What It Is, by Lynda Barry (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Graphic Album—Reprint: Hellboy Library Edition, vols. 1 and 2, by Mike Mignola (Dark Horse)

Best Graphic Album—New: Swallow Me Whole, by Nate Powell (Top Shelf)

Thanks to the liveblogging of Heidi MacDonald and JK Parkin at CBR and all the various Twitter folks who were eyes and ears for us tonight. I owe all of you. And I’m really glad I didn’t have to pay for the Eisner Award iPhone app.

Full list of nominees with winners bolded after the jump.

(more…)

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#SDCC: ‘Batman: The Killing Joke’ movie coming?

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  • July 24, 2009

batman-killing-joke-poster-8302010A reliable source just told me: “Warner Premiere has a great many DC graphic novels in production or pre-production with WB Animation, including The Killing Joke. Scheduling through 2018– including Superman projects.”

A few notes:

  1. Well, it’s not like DC hasn’t made money on Alan Moore projects before.
  2. One wonders if an animated film would satisfy the Siegel lawsuit requiring a Superman film to be in production by 2011.
  3. Are they actually planning Superman films after 2013, after DC loses the copyright to the character?

Very interesting. We’ll try to find out more ASAP.

#SDCC: Overheard at San Diego Comic-Con, Day 1

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  • July 24, 2009

The catch-all for all the off the cuff comments and interesting comments we’ve been hearing in the halls, following on Facebook, and tracking on Twitter.

Fernando Borrego: Only at comic con: bill nye gets a bigger ovation than nick cage

Chris Gore: Saw a guy at Comic Con wearing an NFL cap & called him Faggot!  Revenge for the 10,000,000 times I was called FAG in high school.  Win!

Bonnie Burton at the i09 panel: Pirates are the new vampire zombies!

BrianTruitt: Biggest irony of #sdcc: the one place you don’t have to stand in line is the bathroom.

paplikaplik: That lady’s trying to fit 200 lbs of Wonder Woman into a 90 lb costume.

mordantkitten: Damned if I haven’t found a way to sleep in line. Hee!

germainlussier: never seen hall h this full or full of females. its like a boy band concert.

ACED Magazine: Zoe Saldana has a
girlcrush on Megan Fox-but doesn’t know why casting decisions are made
by 65-yr-old men who want to see 25 year old girls rather than by looking to input from the younger generation who might want to see something different.

Paul Kupperberg “is 3000 miles away from Artists Alley and thinks the view from here is just fine.”

Geoff Johns, on the Green Lantern live-action movie : “I think the Green Lantern mythology has the potential to be one of
the biggest franchises in the world, superhero or otherwise. It’s as
epic as Star Wars and as deep as Lord of the Rings.
I think it could rival every other superhero out there if explored,
supported and executed right. … I think the success of films like Iron Man and The Dark Knight has shown us that good comics films can rule the screen. … I have immensely high hopes for Green Lantern.”

And finally, a tweet from Mark Evanier: “I’m at the con. Where the hell is everyone? The place is empty.”

(Thanks to Kim Kindya, Jenifer Rosenberg, Martha Thomases, and everybody else sending in their favorites. Photo by cranberries.)

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#SDCC: IDW Publishing panel – digital comics, Bob Schreck, Danger Girl and Bat Boy!

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  • July 23, 2009

idw-10th-anniversary-logo-338x200-4839724Through the lens of IDW’s tenth anniversary, founder Ted Adams and IDW editors and creators addressed a packed room about a wide variety of new projects. Adam Schlesinger liveblogged it, and we also got other info (funny about that)– here are the highlights:

  • Jeff Webber talked about the iPhone comics. IDW already has 80 titles available on iTunes now, with much more on the way. Webber talked about the power of the iPhone as a distribution
    system to capture non-comics fans, which is natural, given the changing
    nature of comics distribution out of comic book shops and into
    bookstores and the internet.
    Apparently, non-typical comic readers enjoy slideshows, rather than a
    zoomed in page, because it’s easier to read. Also, the swiping from
    panel to panel increases the interactivity of the medium, which draws
    non-typical comic fans in. Chris Ryall concluded that 20% of top 100% of book sales on iTunes have been from IDW.
  • Bob Schreck has just been announced as part of the IDW editorial team. They announced a book called Black Roads, written by Bill Willingham
    (of Fables fame) and illustrated by Gene Ha (Top 10).
  • J. Scott Campbell brought Danger Girl from Wildstorm to
    IDW, following long time editor Scott Dunbier.

Upcoming projects:

  • Hammer Of The Gods by Mark Wheatley and Mike Oeming will be collected– first the Image series, and then the sequel that debuted on ComicMix.
  • Also from ComicMix: miniseries of GrimJack and Jon Sable Freelance.
  • A hardcover version of Winter World
    by Chuck Dixon and Jorge Zaffin (original never-collected miniseries
    and unreleased sequel).
  • Dave Stevens’ Rocketeer “Deluxe” collections
    with all new coloring, and to celebrate they gave away vintage 1980’s
    Dave Stevens prints to everyone in the panel (pictures to come).
  • A new
    Star Trek series about Nero, the villian in the movie.
  • Seduth by Clive
    Barker, with art by Gabriel Rodriguez with 3D effects.
  • New comics from Jennifer Love Hewitt (Ghost Whisperer), Brea Grant (Heroes), and Billy
    Martin, the guitarist from Good Charlotte.
  • A Weekly World News book,
    including Bat Boy, Ed Anger, Manigator, PhD Ape (simian
    psychologist to the stars), and lots of other Weekly World
    News-inspired stories.
  • An adaptation of Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn.
  • A Harlan
    Ellison project called “Phoenix Without Ashes.” Ellison fans will remember that as the original title of the pilot episode of The Starlost, a series that Hollywood mucked up beyond all sorts of recognition in the 70s.

#SDCC hashtag: #punchableSDCCoffense

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  • July 23, 2009

Mark Waid started it:

  • using an empty wheelchair as a shopping cart.

Vinnie Bartilucci ran with it:

  • More than 3 copies of any single comic in an autograph line
  • Wearing a costume covering less than (Square foot of fabric / weight) % of body
  • Camping out in a seat for an event three panels hence

Let me add:

  • Wearing any costume with a wingspan in the hall.
  • Thinking you can go without showering just one more day.
  • Thinking you can cover not showering with Star Trek cologne.

What are yours?

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