IDW Publishing has released their solicitations for books releasing in April 2012. Here are some of their pulpier offerings. RICHARD STARK’S PARKER: THE SCORE Written, art and cover by Darwyne Cooke. Fresh from his efforts on The Hunter and The Outfit, Darwyn Cooke now sets his steely sights on The Score, the classic Richard Stark…
Reviewed by Joshua Pantalleresco Lord of the Jungle is Dynamite’s Adaptation of Tarzan. I have to admit I was both enthusiastic and skeptical when I heard of this book. I was skeptical because Tarzan’s depth of character is rarely explored. His animal cunning is always apparent, but one of the things that always got me…
Reposted from www.tainted-archive.blogspot.com CBS has greenlighted a pilot, a revamp of Sherlock Holmes, that will place the legendary sleuth in modern-day New York. The pilot, currently titled “Elementary,” comes via CBS Television Studios and Timberman-Beverly Productions, the company behind the network’s current series “A Gifted Man” and “Unforgettable.” Robert Doherty, whose credits include “Medium” and…
Hack/Slash is coming to the silver screen, and that Conan guy is getting him there. Director Marcus Nispel, responsible for the 2011 remake of Conan The Barbarian (you saw that one, didn’t you?) has signed on to this latest adaptation of a big-time Image Comics title initially published by Devil’s Due. He replaces Fredrik Bond,…
Cover Art: Becky Cloonan Cover Art: Massimo Carnevale Conan The Barbarian returns to comics on February 8th, 2012 as he faces off against the Queen of the Black Coast at Dark Horse Comics. In this sweeping adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s fan-favorite “Queen of the Black Coast,” Conan turns his back on the civilized world…
Sequential Pulp’s Michael Hudson has released the final cover design for Tim Conrad’s adaptation of Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The graphic novel will be released in 2012 from Sequential Pulp Comics and Dark Horse Comics. You can learn more about Sequential Pulp Comics at http://www.sequentialpulpcomics.com/
Discovered in the Archives of The Jim Henson Company, Tale of Sand is an original graphic novel adaptation of an unproduced, feature-length screenplay written by Jim Henson and his frequent writing partner, Jerry Juhl. Tale of Sand follows scruffy everyman, Mac, who wakes up in an unfamiliar town, and is chased across the desert of…
Comic Book Resources gets Bill Willingham to talk about the similarities between the long-running Vertigo comic series Fables and Once Upon A Time: For those of you who just came in, let’s start with some of the basics. “Once Upon a Time” is a weekly TV series showing on the ABC television network. It’s just…
Hammer Films bought motion picture rights to Cherie Priest‘s zombie-steampunk novel Boneshaker (published by Tor in 2009) via agent Jennifer Jackson of the Donald Maass Literary Agency. Hammer has already teamed with Cross Creek Pictures and Exclusive Media Group to produce the film, for which John Hilary Shepherd (Nurse Jackie) is writing the screenplay. The…
This February, writer Brian Wood and artist Becky Cloonan bring Conan The Barbarian back to comic chops as they adapt Robert E. Howard’s fan-favorite “Queen of the Black Coast.” Conan has turned his back on the civilized world and takes to the high seas alongside the pirate queen Bêlit, setting the stage for an epic…
Vertigo is slated to publish the graphic novel adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s [[[The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]]]. The Swedish series has sold tens of millions of copies in dozens of languages. There are already Swedish movies based on the books, and the first of the American films is to be released later this year….
Brian Selznick’s award-winning hybrid novel/graphic novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret is being released this November 23 as Hugo, a big budget film directed by Martin Scorcese. Yes, that Martin Scorcese. Coming from Paramount Pictures, the movie adapts the novel and will be available in (ugh) 3-D and 2-D and the studio kjust released both…
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