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One of my favorite superhero buddy teams is coming back — well, sort of. The recently resurrected Valiant Entertainment  has been busy publishing hardcover collected editions of their Shooter-era original titles (in other words, not the Gold Key licensed stuff like Doctor Solar and Turok), each with an original story.

Third up is Archer and Armstrong, created by Jim Shooter and Don Perlin with input from Valiant stalwarts such as Bob Layton and Barry Windsor-Smith. The first volume reprints issues #0 through #6 and includes an original origin story by Jim and artists Sal Velluto and Bob Almond – all under a new cover by Michael Golden.

Archer and Armstrong Volume One is expected to ship September 24, 2008.

This weekend, comic fans are trying to decide of the promise of a clean slate are true and if the stigma of that last movie can be wiped from their memory so they can enjoy The Incredible Hulk on the big screen. Actor Tim Roth, the film’s resident heavy, gives us his take why a ticket is a good investment and we also get a little “wish” from Marvel Studios on what might be a way cool comic to next get the Hollywood treatment, plus:

• Ultimate Origins #1 gone for good
• Vincent Price creeps into comics
• A new DC movie and not from Warner Brothers

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Over at Journalista, Dirk Deppey flexed his scanning muscles yesterday and posted a nice set of images from one of the illustrated books on his shelf. The book is Frank Wing’s Fotygraft Album, published in 1915, and features the following:

The gimmick’s simple: a young child is showing the family photo album to a friend of his mother’s, with drawings made to resemble photography on the right-hand side of each page, and text of the child describing the subject on the left.

I won’t inflict any of Frank Wing writing on you, of course; it’s corny in that faux Waltons-family kind of way, positively dripping with down-home sentimentality. Wing’s art, on the other hand, is quite nice.

And indeed it is.

I’ve posted a larger version of this image after the jump, but many more can be found over at Journalista. (more…)

Earlier this month, our friends at Famous Monsters of Filmland posted a nice chat with writer Chuck Dixon about his work on the adaptation of Dean Koontz’ Frankenstein: Prodigal Son. The six-issue series features a story adapted by Dixon with art by Brett Booth, and is published by the Dabel Bros.

Here, Dixon describes the process of adapting the work of the noted horror author:

FM: How does one adapt a novel to a comic book?

Chuck: In this case it was easy! Dean breaks this stuff down like a comic script. Fast paced and lots of juicy visuals.

The process is like this: I read the novel through and then go back and re-read with post-it notes and a highlighter pen in hand. I highlight significant dialogue and mark page breaks and put in post-its for the issue breaks. Like I said, it was real easy this time. Usually I have to hunt for strong visuals as most novels tend to be internal. But this book gave me option paralysis with all the cool and gruesome stuff.

The first issue of Frankenstein: Prodigal Son is already on shelves. For the full interview, head over to Famous Monsters of Filmland.