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Marko Djurdjevic first caught my eye with some of the amazing cover work he did for Marvel’s short-lived Blade series, and he’s continued to impress with his cover work on a wide variety of Marvel titles.

With Thor #7, Djurdjevic makes the leap to interior art for a two-issue run, and I’m looking forward to seeing how well he handles the transition. Den of Geek has a great interview with Djurdjevic about his process, his artistic inspiration and how he made the jump from covers to interior work:

So this is basically my first sequential artwork if you want if like that, my first full comic, but Marvel have been approaching me about doing this since like forever. Since I started out they asked me to do sequential artwork but we simply couldn’t find the right gig for me, for the first year so I kept doing my covers until Thor came up and I was like, you know, I’m gonna do this!

There were couple of good offers but you know, like this offer was especially good because there is just the two issues and it’s a good start out for me because basically I never did sequential artwork before. I didn’t want to jump on to a twelve issue ongoing series or whatever and realise halfway through them that I’m not the guy to do this. It’s better to start slow and find your way through than decide to jump on something different later on, so just two issues was the perfect start for me.

Oh, and the interview also includes evidence of what appear to be some worrying similarities between his habits and those of his favorite author.

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Born in Fallville, Iowa, Barry Allen grew to be a meticulous man and an excellent police scientist with one notable flaw—he was always late.

That changed, however, on the night that he was working late in his lab in Central City and a lightning bolt shattered a case full of chemicals and doused Barry with the supercharged contents. After that accident, Barry discovered that he could move at superspeed. He adopted a costumed identity, donning a red costume with a gold lightning bolt motif, and became the Flash, the Fastest Man Alive!

Barry would become one of the greatest heroes in the world, a founding member of the Justice League of America, and Central City’s protector, before his untimely death during the Crisis on Infinite Earths. Even death could not stop the Flash, however, and he has reappeared several times since to aid his family and friends.

It’s important to note that the Flash is one of the DC heroes whose birthdate has been changed. Before the Crisis, his official birthday was six days later, on March 19. Now that’s fast!

In a bit of chilling news for Marvel Entertainment stockholders, industry analyst Mike Hickey of Janco Parters offered up the following assessment this week regarding the impact of the upcoming Grand Theft Auto IV videogame release on ticket sales for the Iron Man feature film:

We anticipate the video game release of GTA IV on April 29 could dampen the potential from Iron Man’s theatrical release on May 2.

In a story reported by Next-Gen.biz, Hollywood executives are citing last year’s release of the videogame Halo 3 as a major factor in poor ticket sales for September 2007 and fear the same thing will happen when the virtual crime spree of Grand Theft Auto IV hits shelves. However, as many have pointed out, the quality of the month’s films could also be blamed (for reference, see Good Luck Chuck and Mr. Woodcock).

Hickey went on to state:

The last significant video game release, Halo 3, generated over $300 million in sales from its first week in the market. Halo 3 was released on just one platform, the Xbox 360, and attached nearly 50 percent of the installed base. GTA IV will be released on both the Xbox 360 and PS3, which have both significantly increased their installed bases since the release of Halo 3.  A GTA IV 25 percent attach rate to a combined Xbox 360 and PS3 installed base at its April 29 release would imply 5.8 million units sold or roughly $360 million in retail sales the first week of the game’s release.

ComicMix would like to point out the best-selling game of 2007 was Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat. It was released in December and movie box office sales were just fine that month. If the buzz and reviews for the Iron Man movie are good, we’ll stop playing games, steal a car and go see the film.