Marvel Release New Avengers Poster
Marvel Studios has released a new one-sheet for May’s The Avengers. We’ll let the picture do all the talking.
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The Point Radio: NBC’s AWAKE Is Engaging TV
NBC’s new series AWAKE tells the story of a man who survives a horrible traffic accident,. only to find himself living in two alternate worlds – where a different family member has survived in each. We begin our exclusive coverage as series star Jason Issacs explains why this is truly engaging television. And Bendis on X-MEN? Can it be real?
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Smallville star Michael Rosenbaum reprises role of Flash for JUSTICE LEAGUE: DOOM
Michael Rosenbaum makes his triumphant return as the beloved voice of The Flash in JUSTICE LEAGUE: DOOM, the next entry in the popular, ongoing series of DC Universe Animated Original PG-13 Movies. The film will be available everywhere on Tuesday.
Rosenbaum brought his own playful, gregarious, sometimes sarcastic personality to Flash for the Justice League and Justice League Unlimited animated television series, setting the standard as the voice behind the “fastest man alive.” Rosenbaum is one of eight actors returning to their original animated voice from the Justice League series.
Fanboy crowds also hold Rosenbaum in high esteem for his impressive performance as Lex Luthor for seven seasons of Smallville. He’ll soon be seen opposite Bradley Cooper and Kristen Bell in ‘Outrun,” and he’s currently in production on “Old Days,” a triple threat for Rosenbaum as he is writer, director and star of the film
Justice League: Doom finds Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter, Cyborg and Batman on their heels when a team of super villains discover and implement the Dark Knight’s “contingency plans” for stopping any rogue Justice League member. The story is inspired by Mark Waid and Howard Porter’s much-heralded JLA: Tower of Babel.
Produced by Warner Premiere, DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation, the all-new Justice League: Doom arrives today from Warner Home Video as a Blu-Ray™ Combo Pack and DVD, On Demand and for Download. Both the Blu-Ray™ Combo Pack and DVD will include an UltraViiolet™ Digital Copy.
Any interview with Rosenbaum is well worth the price of admission, as you just don’t know which direction the answer might come from. (more…)
Lord of the Louisiana Jungle Website Debuts!
From www.tarzanlordlajungle.com
Welcome to our website dedicated to the documentary film Tarzan: Lord
of the Louisiana Jungle and the original silent motion picture classicTarzan
of the Apes. Please take a few moments to visit the entire site.
The character of Tarzan™ turns 100 years old
this year. In celebration of that milestone, Bossier
City’s Al Bohl and his daughter, filmmaker Allison Bohl
now of Lafayette have teamed up to produce a
feature-length documentary entitled, Tarzan:
Lord of the Louisiana Jungle.
Over a period of four years, Al
and his daughter combed through
hundreds of photos and documents
and videotaped up to seventy hours
of interviews and locations. They
interviewed scholars, authors,
historians, fans, experts in merchandise,
actors, an expert in primates,
the curator of the Burroughs’ collection and
the family of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Their travels in Louisiana included
Morgan City, New Orleans, Patterson and Baton Rouge. They also
gathered interviews in Los Angeles and Tarzana, California. More footage
was taped in Ohio, Kentucky and Chicago, Illinois.
In addition, the Bohls re-edited the
original Tarzan of the Apes silent film
and added an entirely new orchestral
musical score written by Kermit Poling
of Shreveport. The success of the movie
Tarzan of the Apes spawned over 40
authorized sequels and 6 television shows.
of the Louisiana Jungle and the original silent motion picture classicTarzan
of the Apes. Please take a few moments to visit the entire site.
The character of Tarzan™ turns 100 years old this year. In celebration of that milestone, Bossier
City’s Al Bohl and his daughter, filmmaker Allison Bohl
now of Lafayette have teamed up to produce a
feature-length documentary entitled, Tarzan:
Lord of the Louisiana Jungle.
In August of 1917 an eclectic band of filmmakers,
actors and circus acrobats fought malaria, unbearable
heat and the swamp of the Louisiana Atchafalaya River
Basin to bring to the silver screen the best-selling book
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was an
instant hit with audiences, considered one of the top six motion pictures of the
silent era, and one of the first 10 films to earn over one million dollars at the
box office. The film was shot in Morgan City, Louisiana.
actors and circus acrobats fought malaria, unbearable
heat and the swamp of the Louisiana Atchafalaya River
Basin to bring to the silver screen the best-selling book
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was an
instant hit with audiences, considered one of the top six motion pictures of the
silent era, and one of the first 10 films to earn over one million dollars at the
box office. The film was shot in Morgan City, Louisiana.
Over a period of four years, Al and his daughter combed through
hundreds of photos and documents
and videotaped up to seventy hours
of interviews and locations. They
interviewed scholars, authors,
historians, fans, experts in merchandise,
actors, an expert in primates,
the curator of the Burroughs’ collection and
the family of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Their travels in Louisiana included
Morgan City, New Orleans, Patterson and Baton Rouge. They also
gathered interviews in Los Angeles and Tarzana, California. More footage
was taped in Ohio, Kentucky and Chicago, Illinois.
In addition, the Bohls re-edited theoriginal Tarzan of the Apes silent film
and added an entirely new orchestral
musical score written by Kermit Poling
of Shreveport. The success of the movie
Tarzan of the Apes spawned over 40
authorized sequels and 6 television shows.
For behind-the-scenes articles, click here.
MICHAEL DAVIS: Get a Clue
I don’t get it.
The San Diego Comic Con is a yearly event.
Every year for almost 20 years (since I was 5, Jean) like clockwork I give a party at Comic Con.
Every year like clockwork I host a dinner at Comic Con.
Every year like clockwork I host The Black Panel at Comic Con.
Every year like clockwork I hear from people I have not heard from since last year looking for an invite to my party.
Every year like clockwork I hear from people I have not heard from since last year looking for an invite to my dinner.
Every year like clockwork I hear from people I have not heard from since last year looking for me to put them on The Black Panel.
Every year like clockwork I hear from people I have not heard from since last year looking for me to get them a hotel room or a pass to Comic Con.
Comic Con is in July. It’s only February. The requests don’t usually start until a couple of weeks before Comic Con so I’m a few months ahead of the game.
Well, this year I’m nipping all that bullshit in the bud.
No.
The answer is no.
No.
No. No. No.
NONONONONONONON0NONONONNONONONO.
Hell, no.
No, if I don’t know you, you cannot come to my party or my dinner and you certainty cannot not be on the Black Panel.
Regarding the party and dinner, I don’t care who told you they could get you in. You can’t.
They lied.
Let me explain something to those who are among the many who ask of me the above. Like I said in last week’s article, the Comic book industry is a business. It’s part of the entertainment business. Comic Con is not a place where those who are serious about business come just to hang out.
Comic Con is where deals get done, relationships are cemented, partnerships are explored, opportunities are exploited and money is made.
When you operate at a certain level Comic Con is not a place where you hang out with friends and look for that copy of Spider-Man you had as a kid.
No, Comic Con is a place where you come to solidify and grow your business.
So, no, you cannot come to my annual party, person I don’t know, because it’s business.
Do you think the club my party is at is free?
No, no it’s not. So why, person I don’t know, should I grant you admittance when you don’t even know what I do? What possible reason is there for me to do that?
Do you think the dinner I have is free?
No, it’s not. That dinner costs thousands of freakin’ dollars.
Do you think that the ash can book you drew makes you worthy to sit on The Black Panel?
Really?
Go to www.theblackpanel.com and check out the alumni. Once you do, ask yourself if you really think you belong in that group.
I’ll help you out with that one, no.
Like I said last week, comics are a business. Yes, I have fun at Comic Con. That fun is usually at around midnight while sitting at the bar at the top of the Hyatt with 30 or so other hard working comic professionals getting blazed on shots of tequila.
But before I can have that fun I have to spend months setting up the party, the dinner and the panel and that is not fun.
That’s business.
So the answer is no.
However, if Mark Turner (Yes you, Mark) is at Comic Con this year he is invited to anything I’m doing because he gets it.
WEDNESDAY: Mike Gold Stays Put
VILLAINS APLENTY IN THE LATEST ‘FLYING GLORY’!
The villainous known as GLAMM takes the stage to sing as we reach the climax of “Reverberations” our 10th Anniversary story of FLYING GLORY AND THE HOUNDS OF GLORY.
FLYING GLORY AND THE HOUNDS OF GLORY
http://www.flying-glory.com
Looking for the Original Art to Weird Tales #328
Ian Randal Strock, publisher of SFScope, needs your help:
I know this is a long shot, but we seem to have no other options at this point. I’m looking for the current owner of a piece of art by George Barr. The painting was done as the cover of Weird Tales #328, Summer 2002. It’s an Egyptian motif. I’ve talked with the artist, and he’s given me permission to use it on a book I’m publishing, but he doesn’t have a copy I can work from, and doesn’t know who has the piece, so I’m trying to track it down.
We have faith in the ComicMix community– you guys probably have some ideas, yes? Add you leads in the comments.
Jan Berenstain: 1923-2012
Another of the greats who brought graphic storytelling to millions is gone.
Jan Berenstain, who with her husband, Stan, wrote and illustrated the Berenstain Bears books that have charmed preschoolers and their parents for 50 years, has died. She was 88.
Berenstain, a longtime resident of Solebury in southeastern Pennsylvania, suffered a severe stroke on Thursday and died Friday without regaining consciousness, her son Mike Berenstain said.
The gentle tales of Mama Bear, Papa Bear, Brother Bear and Sister Bear were inspired by the Berenstain children, and later their grandchildren. The stories address children’s common concerns and aim to offer guidance on subjects like dentist visits, peer pressure, a new sibling or summer camp.
The first Berenstain Bears book, “The Big Honey Hunt,” was published in 1962. Over the years, more than 300 titles have been released in 23 languages — most recently in Arabic and Icelandic — and have become a rite of passage for generations of young readers.
via Berenstain Bears co-creator Jan Berenstain dies.
Our condolences to their children and grandchildren.
FORTIER TAKES ON BLACKTHORN: THUNDER ON MARS!
ALL PULP REVIEWS by Ron Fortier
BLACKTHORN
Thunder on Mars
Edited by Van Allen Plexico
White Rocket Books
225 pages
Why on earth would a writer/editor like Van Plexico want to take a 1980 Saturday morning cartoon television show and meld it with a classic Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasy series? The answer to that perplexing question is found in this book, which by the way, is the result of that odd pairing. In the introduction, Plexico tells of his love for an old Jack Kirby created TV series called “Thundarr the Barbarian” and how, for whatever twists of the muses, it seemed to plague his thoughts over the years. Enough so that he decided to one day do something with the concept, adding a new and fresh spin to the plot. It would be another few years for that final element of this eclectic brew would reveal itself to him when one day he started thinking of Burroughs legendary Martian series.
Just like that the pieces were suddenly all there and when he mentally assembled them in his ever wondrous imagination, there he beheld the story of an American General who, upon his death in the Middle East, awoke to find his soul had been replaced in a brand new body; a body locked in the lab of a mad sorcerer on the planet Mars. Yet more revelations arise when this character, General John Blackthorn discovers his spirit has not only traveled through space but also time as this is a Terra-Formed Mars of the far-flung future.
Within minutes of his bizarre awakening in his younger, stronger body, Blackthorn manages to escape the sorcerer with several other soul-transplanted fellows. In their flight, he eventually meets the beautiful, dark haired sorceress Aria and the fur skinned humanoid creature Oglok of the Mock Men. It is this trio, once met, that join forces to travel the amazing, fantastic landscape that is a post-apocalyptic Mars. Their further adventures are chronicled by a half dozen of the finest writers in new pulp today.
Mark Bousquet, Joe Crowe, Bobby Nash, James Palmer, Sean Taylor and I.A. Watson spin exciting, fast moving adventures that pit Blackthorn and his allies against lizard men, battling robots and an ocean wide haunted valley from which no one has ever returned to name a few. Each story is a well crafted pearl in a thematic necklace of classical pulp sci-fi and brings Plexico’s dream to vibrant life before our eyes.
It is abundantly clear that Plexico has tapped the mother-lode of adventure fiction with John Blackthorn and I can guarantee you we haven’t seen the last of him, or Aria and Oglok. One can only wait in breathless anticipation to see where on the giant Red Planet their travels take them next.
REVIEW: JLA: DOOM
When Mark Waid joined the creative team on JLA, he told a pretty terrific story about Batman’s secret protocols for neutralizing the Justice League of America falling into Ra’s al Ghul’s hands. In the “Tower of Babel” story, he used it to take out the League in order to execute a plan for world domination. It made for a fine story arc that allowed Batman to leave the team for time and resonated with fans given the weighty thematic material. It has endured in memory and prompted Warner Premiere to approve JLA: Doom, an adaptation as a part of their ongoing series of direct-to-DVD animated features
The resulting production, on sale tomorrow, is bittersweet because it marks the final script from the talented Dwayne MacDuffie. And it needed series editing which clearly was not done, making it a deeply flawed adaptation of the source material. The dramatic core is here, but given short shrift in two brief scenes while the remainder of the story is a series of chaotic and badly choreographed fights strung together. Any semblance of characterization for the heroes or villains is seemingly accidental as the story allowed the JLA to trade blows with a variety of familiar villains. (more…)
