It’s San Diego time, so now the movie studios and magazines are starting the high powered mush– er, push. Here’s Entertainment Weekly, which has decided to own the con over the last few years, running the first pics of Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern on the cover of next week’s issue.
Think there will be a line at Hall H to see this preview?
And what’s this about the new Buffy?
The 2009 Harvey Awards Nominees have been announced along with the release of the final ballot. Anyone “professionally involved in a creative capacity within the comics field” is eligible to vote. All submissions must be sent to the Harvey Awards before Friday, August 7, 2010. The awards will be presented by Scott Kurtz (PVP Online) at the 2010 Baltimore Comic-Con on August 28.
The Harvey Awards, named in honor of the late cartoonist Harvey
Kurtzman, recognize outstanding work in comics and sequential art. They are the comic book industry’s oldest and most respected awards, and are the only awards to have nominees selected and chosen by individuals creatively involved in the comics field.
There are over a hundred nominated names and titles, including Geoff Johns (“Blackest Knight”), Klaus Janson (“Amazing Spider-Man”), and
“The Walking Dead” (Image Comics), to choose from twenty-two categories. The categories range from Best Writer to Best New Series to Best Online Comics Work.
There is a lot of talent listed among the nominees, and voting will certainly be no easy task. Jeff Kinney (“Diary of a Wimpy Kid”) was nominated in four categories, Zuda had creators and comics nominated in seven categories, and “All-Star Superman” creators were nominated in four categories. Hopefully three weeks is enough time for voters to mull over all the fantastic nominees and cast their ballots.
Are you ready?
Have you gotten your gills implanted? Gotten your reservations set on the cruise ships? Put money in an interest bearing account to pay for all of this when you withdraw it in half a century?
If so, you’re ready for San Diego Comic-Con 91!
Personally, I’m looking forward to Will Pfeifer finally getting that special Eisner Visionary Award for being the first person to write about Sub Diego in the comics, way back when in 2004. Now that it’s been underwater for decades, this honor is long overdue.
“Are you kidding? Who ever heard of Hugh Jackman? He’s a 6’2 Australian, not a 5’2 Canadian! And he does musicals! How can he play Wolverine? And he’s not even going to be in the costume!”
Yeah yeah yeah. Don’t fib about it, we have archives of you saying it on rec.arts.comics.
Nevertheless, about a half hour into the film that opened ten years ago today, those words were completely forgotten and Jackman was on his way to becoming an international star. And with the comparatively low-budget of only $75 million, X-Men went on to gross nearly double that in the US alone, and spawned a franchise that would gross over a billion dollars worldwide. And suddenly, people believed Marvel characters could actually be translated into successful films… and we’ve all seen the results of that.
So here’s to the scrappy band of mutants that could. Here’s hoping that X-Men: First Class, currently scheduled for June of next year, continues the tradition.
Here’s the trailer for the original film…
Brandon Vietti is just two weeks away from his solo directorial film debut with Warner Home Video’s looming release of Batman: Under the Red Hood, a dark, emotionally wrenching journey as Batman’s past and present collide.
James Tucker is enjoying another successful season producing the Warner Bros. Animation/Cartoon Network hit series, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, a much lighter take on the Caped Crusader’s adventures
Ironically, the super hero roots of both contemporary animators can be found in the same content – Super Friends, the one-hour ABC series that began in 1973, inspiring generations of young imaginations and spawning numerous cartoon series sequels.
Warner Home Video and DC Entertainment will release Super Friends! Season 1 Volume 2 on DVD on July 20, 2010. Available for the first time since its debut in 1973, this highly-anticipated deluxe two-disc collector’s set features eight exciting one-hour episodes starring the most recognizable DC Comics super heroes and villains of all time.
Super Friends! Season 1 Volume 2 follows the adventures of Superman, Batman, Robin, Wonder Woman and Aquaman as they join forces to save the world from unthinkable disasters. This crime-stopping squad, along with heroes in training Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog, combine their special superhuman skills to defeat the evil villains at hand. The collection also features DC Comics favorites Plastic Man, The Flash and Green Arrow. Each hour is packed with timeless adventures of the universe’s greatest heroes as they pave the way for a brighter future.
Both Vietti and Tucker fondly recall the wide-reaching impact Super Friends had on their young lives.
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Comic-book writer Harvey
Pekar, whose autobiographical comic series American Splendor was made into a 2003 Oscar nominated film
starring Paul Giamatti as Harvey in addition to Harvey appearing as himself,
has been found dead in his Ohio home. He was 70.
Cleveland Heights police Capt. Michael Cannon says
officers were called to Pekar’s home by his wife Joyce Brabner about 1 a.m. Monday.
Cannon says Pekar had been suffering from prostate cancer, asthma, high blood pressure and depression. Coroner’s spokesman Powell Caesar in Cleveland says
an autopsy will be performed.
Pekar’s “American Splendor” comics, which he began
publishing in 1976, record his complaints about work, money and the day-to-day grind of life. The comic was done with stories from dozens of artists over the years in a wide variety of styles. Recently, the stories had begun to migrate to the web, as The Pekar Project.
He gained widespread notoriety from his appearances on Late Night With David Letterman, which can give you a video chronicle of the man. Here’s his last appearance on the show:
Our condolences to Joyce and the rest of Harvey’s family.
I got an IM from a friend recently: “You’ve heard of Zumba, right? Dance fitness?”
Me: “Not really… why?”
Her: “Somehow, I went from Zumba Fitness to Zombie Fitness. And now I desperately want to see a zombie fitness video.”
So this is for you, kiddo.
You’ve probably
heard of Fred Phelps and his Topeka Kansas Westboro Baptist Church. He and his followers have well-earned a reputation as the most notorious, tasteless bigots in America. They get their thrills by showing up in force at funerals to protest the lifestyle or the politics of the diseased. These un-American vultures prefer going to funerals of gay American servicemen who were killed in combat overseas. They also protest at the funerals of those who “tolerate”
homosexuality. Just ask the family of the late Meet the Press host Tim Russert, who also committed the additional
crime of being Catholic.
It turns out they don’t like comic book fans either.
These astonishing assholes will be showing up in force on Thursday, July 22 at the San Diego Comic-Con from 1:15 pm to 2 p.m. I guess they’re on a tight schedule.
Why, you might ask. Here’s what it says on their website and, no, I’m not going to give you the link. You’ll have to Google this latest bit of hate-thy-neighbor.
“They have turned comic book characters into idols, and worship them they do! Isaiah 2:8: Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made. Isaiah 2:9: And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
“It is time to put away the silly vanities and turn to God like you mean it. The destruction of this nation is imminent – so start calling on Batman and Superman now, see if they can pull you from the mess that you have created with all your silly idolatry.”
Previous to this announcement, my contempt for these lowlife scum knew no bounds. Now it’s actually gone into the 4th dimension: I hate their fathers for getting all liquored up, going home, raping their mothers and producing a movement unseen since the Reichstag fire.
But that’s just me. What do you think?
I’m probably the last
guy on earth who should ask this question… but… hell, is nothing sacred?
We’ve got us a big ol’ auction coming up here in New York
this coming week. Christie’s is going to bang off some stuff once owned by Roy
Rogers and Dale Evans.
OK, some of you know where this is going.
The cool stuff comes from the now-closed Roy Rogers and Dale
Evans Museum in Branson, Missouri, the latest in a long line of celebrity
failures in that remote resort town. They’ll be auctioning off Roy’s silver
dollar studded 1964 Bonneville convertible, worth maybe $150,000.
They’re also hammering the hand-drawn music for Roy’s theme song, “Happy Trails”
and they think it’ll go for maybe $500. That seems cheap. And, sigh, so does this.
Yep, they’re auctioning off Roy Rogers faithful companion, Trigger.
Back in 1965 Roy took him to the taxidermist and had his old pal stuffed and
mounted. That’s kind of… I dunno… weird.
And in an icky sort of way, too. I mean, stuffing your horse. Hell, I grew up
watching that horse on teevee! He even had his own comic book! It outsold damn
near everything published by DC at the time!
At least Roy and Dale didn’t live to see Trigger go under
the gavel. And I do not think they were stuffed.
But if there’re a couple slots open near Walt Disney…
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