From all of us at ComicMix, we’d like to extend a hearty and happy birthday today to artist, writer, and all-around awesome man, Mark Wheatley! Join us in wishing him a day of fun, quirky gifts, and trick candles! Leave your wishes below, and then do yourself a favor and check out his contributions to the ‘Mix, EZ Street, Frankenstein Mobster and Vampirella, Hammer of the Gods, and Lone Justice!
The second DC Showcase animated short, Jonah Hex, will appear as a bonus feature on the Special Edition Blu-Ray and 2-Disc Special Edition DVD release of Batman: Under the Red Hood.
Scripted by renowned author Joe Lansdale and starring the voices of Thomas Jane (The Punisher), Linda Hamilton (The Terminator), Michelle Trachtenberg (Mercy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Michael Rooker (Days of Thunder), the PG-13 rated DC Showcase short is based on the award winning comic series created by John Albano and Tony DeZuniga.
In the DC Showcase story, the tough-as-nails bounty hunter Jonah Hex always gets his man – until someone else gets to him first – in this case a murderous madam who wants to steal more than just her bounty from Jonah Hex.
The first DC Showcase short was The Spectre and was, in many ways, superior to the Justice League feature it was attached to. Similarly, this is likely to be better than the live-action incarnation due out June 18 if the early buzz is to be believe. Certainly having Lansdale, who wrote two miniseries with the gunslinger, involved helps matters.
Batman: Under the Red Hood is being released July 27 by Warner Premier, Warner Home Entertainment and Warner Bros.Animation. The series of direct-to-video releases has been a n ongoing program which led to WP exec Diane Nelson being promoted to president of the renamed DC Entertainment late last year. The next release in the series has not been formally announced but is expected to be teased on the disc following a pattern established in previous releases.
Jonah Hex continues to appear in his monthly DC title, cowritten by Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray with a variety of top talents illustrating the stories. A hardcover Hex graphic novel, by Palmiotti, Gray, and DeZenuiga is due out in time for the film.
Howard “Howie” Post, one of America’s premiere cartoonists, passed away last Friday.
At Harvey Comics, Howie worked on Hot Stuff, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Wendy the Good Little Witch, Richie Rich and his own creation, Spooky The Tuff Li’l Ghost. He produced literally hundreds of stories for the company during his tenure. He is best known among comics fans for his creation Anthro at DC Comics, where he also produced The Adventures of Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis (both with and without Dean Martin) Doodles Duck, J. Rufus Lion and numerous romance stories. He did The Monkey and the Bear, Stawberry Shortcake, Heathcliff, and other features for Marvel Comics as well as their Star Comics imprint.
In the mid-60s Howie succeeded Sy Kneitel as head of Paramount’s animation studio. He was fired for producing a cartoon called Two By Two, which lampooned a story
from the bible. This was very much in keeping with Post’s unconventional lifestyle – called “bohemian” in the days before the beatniks and the hippies. He played a variety of musical instruments and spoke numerous languages. Howie also did television animation for Hanna-Barbara, including their Richie Rich series.
Howie’s greatest exposure under his own name came from his syndicated strip The Dropouts, shortly after Anthro was canceled. It ran from 1968 to 1982 in hundreds of newspapers and enjoyed a short tenure as a Saturday morning animated feature.
In recent years Howie supplemented his retirement income by giving training sessions to budding young cartoonists in the general New York / Connecticut / New Jersey area.
Personally speaking, Howie Post was one of the most outrageous and interesting people I had ever met; I was always in awe of his sharp wit and his unique worldview.
(Thanks to Craig Yoe and Linda Gold for the lead.)
Next to the one about Nathan Fillion, the next hottest AVENGERS movie rumor involves MORENA BACCARIN. Will she be The Wasp? We talk more to the V Star about that and her recently renewed series, plus SMALLVILLE loses Chloe again and CHAOS COMICS is back – sort of.
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The official website is now live for Batman: Under the Red Hood, the next DC Universe Animated Original PG-13 Movies coming July 27, 2010 from Warner Premiere. The full-length Warner Bros. Animation film will be distributed by Warner Home Video.
The film’s trailer and 11 film images are now available for public viewing on the website. The website promises to be updated regularly with new images, video, cast information and contests.
Sad that you’ll no longer spend your free time with The Others? Wish you could curl up on your couch with some Doritos, and visit with those crazy survivors of Oceanic Flight 815? Wish that they had a never ending set of alternative realities after they set off that bomb? Well fret no more you DHARMA loving dudes and dudettes. This fall ABC is bringing a LOST spin-off to the air that will bring you right back into the large and crazy world of LOST. We got a special sneak peak here folks, so click play and get ready for the mystery to continue…
In 1995 Geoff Darrow and Frank Miller brought us a wonderful comic. It starred an “Astro-Boy-esque” boy robot, Rusty, and his American counterpart… the metal capped, gun filled beast know as the Bug Guy. Four years later, in an attempt to fill their waning Saturday morning block, then chocked to the gills with “Goosebumps” reruns and “Big Bad Beetle Borgs”… fox ordered up 2 seasons worth of goodness. The show had it all. Skeezy businessmen with talking monkeys, even scientists, giant robots, even gianter monster, and enough explosions to rattle the brain of any good-hearted sugar-coated kid looking for his next fix of boom-booms.
In addition, the series boasted some heavy hitting voice talent, including Clancy Brown, R. Lee Ermey, Kathy Kinny, Steven Root, and Nancy Cartwright. While the show obviously ended in 2000, thanks to the internet, we can bring you the amazingly patriotic theme song below, as well as graciously link you to the entire series, which you can watch for free over at Hulu (better do it soon, you never know when they’ll take that away…). So folks, without any further explanation, enjoy a big ole’ dose of the good stuff. Now take yer’ medicine.
So, it seems every day as we open our papers, turn on our TV’s, and fire up our computers… Arizona is adding law after law that makes our jaws drop. If Arizona were itself a TV show, it just jumped a shark, and added several new adorable “cousins” to liven up it’s image. From requiring President Barack Obama to present his birth certificate in order to run for re-election in the state, to it’s newest law allowing police the ability to pull over anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant… we’re not sure who’s writing the laws in the state. According to our sources though, it appears to be none other than state captive Norman Osborn. After his depantsing at the hands of the newly formed Avengers, our embedded agent at S.H.I.E.L.D. found documentation that as his back-up back-up plan to leading project H.A.M.M.E.R., Norman decided to get into villainous legislation writing. Who knew Arizona would be his biggest buyer! The following list was sent to us by our agent, laying out 10 new laws Normie has planned for the state to vote into law:
1.Police officials will be allowed to pull over anyone they suspect of owning Spider-Man merchandise. The detained will be searched, and if they have anything pertaining to the wall-crawler, they will be paddled in the bottom until they cry uncle.
2.Fast Food chains will have to present documentation with all nutritional information for their food on demand. Fast Food chains will also have to add at least 3 oz. of liquid ‘Globulin Green’ to all food products. For health reasons.
V got the green light for a second season on ABC, and nobody is happier than series star MORENA BACCARIN. The leader of The Visitors shares her feelings on the show and her character in the first of a two part interview here, plus more happy/sad news from the TV Networks and DC has their 75th Anniversary well covered.
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Tip of the hat to Yahoo! Movies for finding out our national hero, Captain America, will be filming his autobiography not amongst purple mountain’s majesty… he’ll be filming in limey Britain!
A wag of our finger to Marvel Films who, in the interest of saving a few Ben Franklins, moved production to the land of fish and chips. Our collective hearts weep at the thought of Steve Rogers hurling his mighty vibranium-iron alloy circular disk of patriotism to vanquish vile villains inside a faux-America set housed inside some sound stage; Washed over in the gray malaise of London fog. We can only hum a few bars of “Yankee Doodle” before our voices crack, at the mere notion that Steve Rogers, chock full of super-soldier serum, is punching Hitler on anything other than good old-fashioned American soil. And don’t go telling us that Captain America didn’t punch Hitler in America. We know he didn’t. But in our minds, we all know Cap should be thwapping the Third Reich on a Hollywood set, minutes away from succulent fish tacos and the best menudo money can buy.
We know the economy is rough these day, ComicMix Nation. And yes, the state of California imposes huge taxes on filming in L.A. And yes, we know Britain offers up to a 25% tax credit incentive to bring productions to it’s limp-wristed shores… And we might be ok if that figgie-pudding eating Edgar Wright filmed his supposed Ant-Man feature in his home country (cause face it, no one cares about Ant-Man. Not even Ant-Man cares about Ant-Man.), but face facts, America. Captain America should be filmed where all good American summer blockbusters are filmed:
Canada.
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