Glenn Hauman

Saturday Morning Cartoons: ‘Iron Man: Extremis’

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December 3, 2011

Marvel Knights Animation’s epic adaptation of “Iron Man: Extremis” by Warren Ellis and Adi Granov is now available for streaming on Hulu.com. Here’s the first episode…

You can view the rest of “Iron Man: Extremis” on Hulu.

One complaint: in the credits, they give special thanks to Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Larry Lieber– but they skipped over the original artist, Don Heck. Classy, guys.

If you prefer, this is included in the [[[Marvel Knights Animation Collection]]] now out on DVD, or you can buy it on its own.

Matt Forbeck Wants To Write 12 Novels In 12 Months

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December 2, 2011

Matt Forbeck, author of Amortals, Vegas Knights, and The Mutant Chronicles novelization, the Magic: The Gathering comic for IDW, and creator of the Brave New World RPG (with concepts that predated Marvel’s Civil War by years), is setting an ambitious goal for himself, and is asking for you to help torture him:

I’d like to write a dozen novels in 2012, and I want you to dare me to do it.

This is the first part of my 12 for ’12 project, a year-long challenge in which I plan to write a novel every month in 2012.

It may not be as insane as it sounds. By novel, I mean a work of fiction that’s at least 50,000 words, a bit shorter than most my novels, which tend toward 80,000 words. The Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards each define a novel as anything over 40,000 words, but I want to be a bit more ambitious. 50,000 words is also, not coincidentally, the number of words writers shoot for during National Novel Writing Month.

I plan on breaking 12 for ’12 up into four trilogies, and this Kickstarter project represents the first of them: the Brave New World Trilogy. If this one goes well, I’ll run other Kickstarters later in the year for the rest of the books.

He’s already raised enough money for the first two books, and is making a hard push to get enough for the first trilogy by Sunday. Go give him a push at 12 for ’12 (1.0): BNW Novels by Matt Forbeck — Kickstarter.

Read Ardden Entertainment’s Flash Gordon #1 And #2 For Free

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December 2, 2011

PRESS RELEASE:

Ardden Entertainment LLC is excited to offer the critically-acclaimed and sold-out FLASH GORDON: THE MERCY WARS #0 and #1 for free! See where Ardden’s Flash Gordon series got started!

Find out why Publishers Weekly, Ain’t It Cool News, Newsarama and others have given it such raves, saying such things as: “With each new issue in (Ardden’s) series we are witnessing the definitive modern take on the Flash Gordon mythos” (Geek Goggle Reviews).

To read FG: TMW #0 and #1, simply click on the following link:

Additionally, any comic book retailer who sends Ardden Entertainment a copy of Dynamite’s FLASH GORDON: ZEITGEIST #1 will receive a FREE copy of FLASH GORDON: THE SECRET HISTORY OF MONGO, the 80 page trade paperback original that features stories by J.M. DeMatteis, Denny O’Neill, Joe Casey, Jim Krueger, Len Wein, Tom DeFalco, and more!

This 80 page book retails for $7.95! For more information, please email us at Ardden.Entertainment@GoogleMail.com or visit us at http://www.ardden-entertainment.com/

Ardden Entertainment LLC was formed in 2008 and is the proud publisher of FLASH GORDON: THE MERCY WARS, FLASH GORDON: INVASION OF THE RED SWORD, and many more quality comics. They are also the publisher of the upcoming Flash Gordon arcs: THE VENGENACE OF MING, in which Ming invades Earth, and KING OF THE IMPOSSIBLE, promising a Flash Gordon unlike any ever seen before!

http://issuu.com/richemms/docs/www.ardden-entertainment.com

Finally, A Worthy Successor To “The Star Wars Holiday Special”

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December 2, 2011

Happy Life Day, everyone! Watch it quick before the lawyers take it down…

(And you do know all the Whos in Whoville are Time Lords, right? Now that Steven Moffat’s remade A Christmas Carol and The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe he’s doing that next year.)

(Hat tip: Thom Zahler.)

‘Big Bang Theory’s Jim Parsons Comes To Broadway in ‘Harvey’

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December 2, 2011

<knockknockknock> Harvey…

The Roundabout Theatre in New York has set Emmy-winning The Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons, Jessica Hecht and Charles Kimbrough for a Scott Ellis-directed revival of Mary Chase’s 1944 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Harvey. Preview performances begin May 18, 2012 at Studio 54, and the play opens June 14 for a limited run that ends August 5. Parsons is playing Elwood P. Dowd (the James Stewart role in the movie), a guy who befriends a six-and-a-half-foot-tall invisible rabbit.

Yes, that’s during this year’s San Diego Comic Con. So unless Dr. Sheldon Cooper has a working transporter, it’ll be tough for him to be there this year… or will it?

POWELL AND GORDON TACKLE THE ETERNAL SAVAGE

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December 1, 2011

Artwork © Steven E. Gordon

New Pulp Writer Martin Powell has shared some new promo art for the upcoming graphic novel of THE ETERNAL SAVAGE he’s writing, illustrated by Steven E Gordon. The Eternal Savage is based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic book and authorized by ERB, Inc. to be published by Sequential Pulp/Dark Horse Comics.
You can learn more about Sequential Pulp Comics at http://www.sequentialpulpcomics.com/

Nicolas Cage’s ‘Action Comics’ #1 sells for $2.16 million

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December 1, 2011

The $2 million barrier has been broken, with Nicolas Cage’s CGC 9.0 copy of Action Comics #1 now holding the all time auction record.

A rare and pristine copy of the first issue of Action Comics, famed for the first appearance of Superman, has set a record Wednesday for the most money paid for a single comic book: $2.16 million.

“When we broke the record in 2010 by selling the Action Comics No. 1, graded at 8.5, for $1.5 million, I truly believed that this was a record that would stand for many years to come,” said Stephen Fishler, CEO of ComicConnect.com and Metropolis Collectibles.

The previous record set in March 2010 was followed by the sale of another copy for $1 million. But neither of those issues was in as good a condition as the issue that sold Wednesday, though it’s pedigree of setting records was already documented. Twice before it set the record for the most expensive book ever, selling for $86,000 in 1992 and $150,000 in 1997.

But in 2000, it was stolen and thought lost until it was recovered in a storage shed in California in April this year.

via Action Comics 1 sells for $2.16 million in auction.

A two billion percent increase in cover price in 73 years. Not bad. No word on who the buyer was.

Paul Mannering’s TANKBREAD Now Available

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November 30, 2011

Paul Mannering’s new novel, TANKBREAD is now available now in Kindle format at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006F820M2
Paperback edition coming soon.

About Tankbread, a novel by Paul Mannering.

Ten years ago humanity lost the war for survival against a spreading plague that brought the dead back to life as flesh eating monsters.

Now intelligent zombies rule the world. Feeding the undead a steady diet of cloned people called Tankbread, the survivors live in a dangerous world on the brink of final extinction.

One outlaw courier must go on a journey through the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Australia. Fighting his way into the very heart of the apocalypse in the desperate search for a way to save the last humans and destroy the undead threat.

His only companion is a girl with an extraordinary secret. Her name is Else and she’s Tankbread.

Praise for Tankbread:
Paul Mannering’s TANKBREAD is a guts and glory joyride into very dark territory. Very nasty and lots of fun!”
~ Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of DEAD OF NIGHT and DUST & DECAY

Mannering’s take on the post-zombie apocalypse is scarifyingly real. Baked dog while you take orders from your zombie master anyone? Sink your teeth into an Australia where the zombies are in charge – you
won’t be disappointed.
~ Rocky Wood, author of STEPHEN KING: A LITERARY COMPANION and HORRORS! GREAT STORIES OF FEAR AND THEIR CREATORS

“Tankbread reads like a tick-list of genre staples: tens of thousands of zombies, a brave, wise-cracking warrior hero, a beautiful woman who might just hold the key to everything, mad scientists, and even a knight in shining armour and a helicopter-piloting mother superior thrown into the mix! And yet the whole is far greater than the sum of its disparate parts. Tankbread is a blast from start to finish. A breathless, country-crossing zombie epic – kind of like Mad Max colliding head on with Dawn of the Dead. Mixing great action scenes, laugh-out loud moments, copious amounts of horror and lead characters you really grow to give a damn about, Tankbread is a unique and very entertaining entry in the over-saturated zombie genre. Read it and enjoy it – I did.”
~ David Moody, author of the AUTUMN and HATER series.

For more on Paul Mannering’s Tankbread, visit http://tankbread.blogspot.com/
Paul Mannering’s Tankbread is now available for Kindle at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006F820M2

Coming Soon: ‘The Hidden Earth Chronicles 1: Darkness Of The Light’

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November 29, 2011

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Dynamite Entertainment Releases an Extended Preview of FLASH GORDON: ZEITGEIST #1

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November 29, 2011

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Wraparound Cover Art: Francesco Francavilla

Cover: Alex Ross

Dynamite Entertainment has released a preview of the upcoming FLASH GORDON: ZEITGEIST #1, which debuts November 30^th wherever you buy your favorite comic book entertainment.

Click on images for a larger view.

Cover: Francesco Francavilla

FLASH GORDON: ZEITGEIST #1
32 pages FC • Full issue introductory price $1.00 • Teen +
Written by ERIC TRAUTMANN
Plot and Art Direction by ALEX ROSS
Art by DANIEL INDRO
Covers by ALEX ROSS (75%), PAUL RENAUD (25%), FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA (1-in-10), WAGNER REIS (1-in-25)
“Negative Effect Art” Retailer Incentive cover by ALEX ROSS
“Retro Original Art” Retailer Incentive cover by FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA
“Black & White” Retailer Incentive cover by PAUL RENAUD

Cover: Wagner Reis

“Sketch Art” Retailer Incentive cover by ALEX ROSS
The year is 1934, a time of two-fisted swashbuckling, of fearsome threats and wild adventure—and of ever-growing threats on the horizon.

Three valiant humans — Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov — are plucked from the Earth, traveling to the distant planet Mongo. Their exploits are legendary, battling the machinations and terror schemes of the dreaded emperor Ming, the All-Seeing Ruler of Mongo. But they did not fight alone…

Written by Eric Trautmann (Vampirella, Red Sonja), from a story and designs by Alex Ross (Kingdom Come, Marvels, Project Superpowers), and illustrated by Daniel Lindro (Sherlock Holmes: Year One).

To learn more about Dynamite Entertainment, please visit http://www.dynamite.net/.