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Michael Davis: The Fanboy Guide to Girls • Part 2

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  • October 12, 2007

527_4_0022-6169816Welcome to the first Fanboy Guide To Girls Dating Review And Quiz! Judging from the comments and dirty looks I’ve been getting since last week’s column I see that there is a need for this type of high quality help for many of our Fanboy Nation!

Fanboy Nation trademark and copyright Michael Davis. You never know when something will catch on!

So, young Fanboy, you have your sights set on a young lady. She’s cute and you are trying to work up the nerve ask her out. Great! So here is a step-by-step guide to get her to say YES and begin your loving relationship…with a girl!

Step 1: Say hello to the lady in question and after she says hello to you… leave! That’s right, just give a taste of your coolness and walk away. Chicks dig a man of mystery!

Step 2: A day or so later walk up to her again, look her in the eyes and say,  “I would like to have lunch with you.” Don’t forget to smile – unless you have gold teeth like those idiot rappers. When she says yes, you tell her where to meet you and walk away. If she says no, you calmly look at her and say “Oh I’m sorry I wasn’t talking to you.”

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Frank Miller’s Philip Marlowe

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  • June 20, 2007

philip_marlowe-2610055Frank Miller will be adapting the Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe in the film version of Trouble Is My Business, starring Sin City‘s own Clive Owen.

According to Variety, "Frank Miller knows more about noir than anyone I have ever met, and clearly the writing of Raymond Chandler has been an enormous influence on his life and his work," Owen said. "Miller adapting Chandler seemed like a perfect match." The hard-drinking private eye cracks cases, busts heads and romances femme fatales in 1940s Los Angeles.

Miller is hard at work adapting and directing Will Eisner’s The Spirit for Batfilm Productions and adapting his graphic novels Ronin and Sin City II to the expensive screen.

Owen joins actors such as Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum, Robert Montgomery, George Montgomery, James Garner, Elliot Gould, Dick Powell, Powers Boothe, Phil Carey, Van Heflin, Gerald Mohr, James Caan and Danny Glover in the role of Philip Marlowe. Good luck, Clive.

Thanks and a tip o’da hat to Richard Pachter.

Sin City video games

sincitymarvwhite200-2773492Red Mile Entertainment has cut an exclusive worldwide licensing deal to develop and publish video games based on the Sin City graphic novels by Frank Miller. 

“Taking Sin City into the world of video games is very exciting – games offer a whole new way to bring audiences into Sin City,” said Frank Miller. “The Red Mile team has impressed me with its dedication to creating Sin City video games that will remain true to Sin City as I’ve always seen it.”

Red Mile is best known for their “Heroes of the Pacific” game, and are currently working on games based on MTV’s show Jackass. The financial terms of the deal were not announced.

Frank Miller’s Will Eisner’s The Spirit picked up

eisner_card-5379167Our good friends at Variety (the outfit that also brings us the New York Comic Con) tell us North American and British distribution rights Frank Miller’s film version of Will Eisner’s The Spirit, produced by Batfilm’s Michael Uslan, has been picked by Lionsgate, distributor of Marvel’s many D2DVD titles.

Frank has written the script and will be directing the movie as soon as he and Robert Rodriguez wrap up Sin City 2.

Wow. Sounds kinda incestuous, doesn’t it?

The producers are out in Cannes with Frank’s script selling international rights, even as you read these words.

Artwork for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund copyright Will Eisner. All Rights Reserved. Hat tip: Lisa Sullivan.

UPDATE: Jamie Bishop

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  • April 17, 2007

Often inspired by his artistic superheroes Dave McKean, Frank Miller, Diane Fenster, and the ever-groovy René Magritte, Jamie enjoyed creating digital art. Recent work includes book covers for his father Michael Bishop’s Brighten to Incandescence and A Reverie for Mister Ray as well as Mike Jasper’s now ironically-named short story collection Gunning for the Buddha.

Despite a penchant for art, Jamie received both his B.A. and M.A. in German at the University of Georgia. Between 1993 and 2000 he lived for four years in Germany where he spent most of his time, in his words, "learning the language, teaching English, drinking large quantities of wheat beer, and wooing a certain Fräulein," Dr. Stefanie Hoder, who would later become his wife.

Jamie’s art portfolio, along with a dated version of his biography, can be found at http://www.memory39.com/, which is also the name of the piece of art above. The Los Angeles Times has an article about Jamie here.

Blades of Box Office Gold

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  • April 2, 2007

Blades of Glory was the number one film for the April Fool’s weekend, with an estimated take of $33 million.  Disney’s Meet The Robinsons came in second, with $25.1 million.

300 came in next, with $11.2 million, followed by TMNT with $9.2 million.  If  Hollywood realizes that both films owe their existance to Frank Miller (whose graphic novel, Ronin, was the inspiration to Eastman and Laird back in the 1980s), no one admits it.

Wild Hogs, Shooter, Premonition, The Last Mimzy, The Hills Have Eyes 2 and Reign Over Me rounded out the list.

Why else Iran may be peeved at 300

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  • March 22, 2007

kidwashington-6927111Will Shetterly has a theory about why Iran might be offended by the portrayal of the Persians in Frank Miller’s 300, and it’s not just the setting up of Persia/Iran as "the enemy" during a time of modern sable-rattling in that same area.

Shetterly notes, regarding how King Xerxes is costumed, that "A US film portraying Xerxes like this would be like a British film about the American Revolution portraying George Washington in a pink uniform with lots of ruffles."  Well, I can picture the ruffles.  And a lot of guys did wear pink in those days.  But point taken.

To be fair, Shetterly does note that "300 turns the Battle of Thermopylae into a fight between butch gays and queens. When Leonidas refers to ‘boy-loving Athenians,’ he’s clearly jealous."  Oh, snap!

300 comic to screen

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  • March 19, 2007

How John Rogers said that 300 was unfilmable is beyond me. Here Solace Cinema has shown how Frank Miller laid it all out for the filmmakers to follow in a handy Flickr slideshow.

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And people say that inkers do nothing but trace. What does that make Zack Snyder?

Buffy wows ’em

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  • March 16, 2007

buffy-7840427The notable part of Dark Horse’s announcement about selling out its initial print run of Buffy: Season 8 #1 is that it actually announced how large that print run was.  It’s common to hear about sell-outs these days, but hard to tell whether they’re actually puffed up to look more important than they are because companies never say how many comics a sell-out constitutes.

So congrats to Dark Horse that this much-anticipated success lived up to the hype, as did the movie based on that little book of Frank Miller’s that they published a few years back.  Over a hundred thousand issues of any monthly comic book periodical these days is very welcome news, even more so when the book is presumed to have wide appeal beyond American comics’ usual demographic.

Needless to say, Dark Horse is going back to print.

DC talks directly to you

DC Publisher and President and writer Paul Levitz gives ComicMix a major interview, Frank Miller’s 300 reviewed, Tim Sale’s Heroes work goes up for a charity auction… all this and, yes, Timeline and even more on ComicMix Podcast #12, available right here:

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