What They SayThe movie uses the full spectrum of digital animation which is said to have impressed even James Cameron. Japan\'s top creators gathered to make the show, which was shown in theaters using the HDCAM24P format which George Lucas will also be u...
What They SayCenturies ago, man\'s Armageddon birthed the vampires\' wrath. As man and immortal clash, a reality-shattering threat looms. Hope resides solely in a new breed of hunter operating under the Vatican\'s authority. The true battle between holine...
...998 novel BLOODWORK is to some extent about the star's age, as any thriller with a leading man in his eighth decade on Earth is likely to be. Connelly's ingenious premise an FBI man with a bad heart is given the transplanted ticker of a murdered woma...
What They SayCenturies ago, man\'s Armageddon birthed the vampires\' wrath. As man and immortal clash, a reality-shattering threat looms. Hope resides solely in a new breed of hunter operating under the Vatican\'s authority. The true battle between holine...
...tizenship.BLOODWORK, directed by and starring Eastwood, is a solid if unremarkable picture. Stilted dialogue and a somewhat formulaic plot prevent it from being particularly notable. Still, it is fascinating to watch one of the all-time movie tough gu...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Mamoru Oshii / Katsuya TeradaTranslated by:Camella NiehAdapted by:What They SayAt Yokota Base in Japan, American soldiers stand guard at the brink of the Vietnam War. Although they fear the enemy outside their base, an even mo...
What They SayAt the Yokata Air Force Base in Japan, a nervous American military is on the brink of the Vietnam war. But a greater threat exists within the walls of the heavily guarded compound: Vampires. A team of top-secret undercover agents dispatch...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Ryo Ikehata / Chizu HashiiTranslated by:John ThomasAdapted by:N/AWhat They SaySuffering from extreme amnesia, high school student Saya Otonoshi can\'t remember anything from her life beyond the last year. Living with a foster ...
What They SaySaya Otonashi, a seemingly normal high school student, suffers from amnesia and she can\'t remember the past year of her life. One day, after a man appears and gives her a katana sword, her destiny begins to be revealed. Soon she finds hersel...
What They SayThe Vatican falls victim to political unrest between humans and vampires in the city of Albion, and the Order of Rosen Kreuz seeks to fan the flames to encompass the world. Allies and enemies alike seek salvation. The meek must stand forth, a...
What They SayThe Vatican falls victim to political unrest between humans and vampires in the city of Albion, and the Order of Rosen Kreuz seeks to fan the flames to encompass the world. Allies and enemies alike seek salvation. The meek must stand forth, a...
What They SayIt\'s been a decade since the sacred war between humans and vampires. The rise of the Kowloon Bloodline, a new breed of monsters bearing an infectious bite, set the streets ablaze under the reign of their king. Humanity had never witnessed su...
What They Saynwelcome and unwanted, Jiro decides to flee the Special Zone with his brother. But Kotaro goes missing and chaos is fast breaking in the city. Cassa\'s nefarious plan is revealed at last: to search out the rumored Eleventh Yard under cover of...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Artist: Aki Shimizu / Writer: Saki OkuseTranslated by:Stephen PaulAdapted by:What They SayThree centuries ago, a vampire by the name of Migiri was running a reign of terror across Japan when a hero named Naonosuke Kobayashi ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Sunao Yoshida (Illustrations by Thores Shibamoto)Translated by:Anastasia MorenoAdapted by:Jai NitzWhat They SayIn a post-apocalyptic world, the war between humans and vampires rages on. While a group of vampire extremists man...
Saya (voiced by Youki Kudoh of SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS) is a little lady with a very sharp sword. She works as a special assassin for an unnamed secret US government agency. Her job is hunting down and wiping out the blood-drinking demons known as "chiropt...
What They SayIt\'s been a decade since the sacred war between humans and vampires. The rise of the Kowloon Bloodline, a new breed of monsters bearing an infectious bite, set the streets ablaze under the reign of their king. Humanity had never witnessed su...
...ing about Bloodworks. I heartily recommend it.Review Equipment27" LXI Surround System, Sony DVP-NS700P, Yamaha RX-V995, Klipsch KSW-500 Subwoofer, Polk S-8 Mains, Polk CS-275 Center, Polk R2 Rears
What They SayArmageddon... The ultimate sin of humanity, perpetrated upon itself, which cast the shroud of death across the world centuries ago. And out of that lasting darkness, they emerged... From the legends of ancient times, they have been called for...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Masayuki TakanoTranslated by:Kentaro AbeAdapted by:What They SayEnter Misaki, perhaps the most innocent and sincere young lady there ever was. It's almost inconceivable that she could be a vampire. And with her powers as a vam...
What They SayAt the Yokota base in Japan, a nervous American military is on the brink of the Vietnam War. But a greater threat exists within the walls of the heavily guarded compound: Vampires. A team of top-secret undercover agents dispatches a mysteriou...
Over 20 years ago, while attending a World SubGenius Convention in Chicago, I first met a man named Daniel Krogh. Dan had been a cameraman and general assistant to a local filmmaker named Herschell Gordon Lewis, and brought along some 16mm prints from his...
It’s been a while since I’ve seen a new book from Infinity Studios, who seem to be branching out from exclusively Korean manwha into Japanese manga. I was a fan of Infinity Studios from early on, and then last year, they seemingly disappear...
What They SayThe object of the enemy is revealed: to sow the seeds of suspicion and unrest among the people of the world, to inflame the hatred and distrust between the two races.
As the order of Rosen Kreuz up the stakes, cooperation and goodwill betwee...
To anyone else, it sounds like a living hell. It's sometime in the mid-1980s. You work as a restock clerk in a chain book store, in a lower-end mall in a nondescript suburb of Nowhereville. You're 25, a community college drop-out, and you live with your m...
What They SayAs the struggle for existence continues, members of the AX are hard-pressed to keep pace with the mounting catastrophes. But even in the midst of global strife, life continues undeterred. Abel Nightroad has brought a new member into the fold;...
What They SayThe object of the enemy is revealed: to sow the seeds of suspicion and unrest among the people of the world, to inflame the hatred and distrust between the two races.
As the order of Rosen Kreuz up the stakes, cooperation and goodwill betwee...
What They SayThe true enemy has risen at last, a shadow known by many names: the order of Rosen Kreuz, the Contra Mundi, the Enemy of the World... The new enemy has thrown both races into turmoil and the rift grows deep, for when the foe comes in friendly...
What They SayWith their end goal in sight, the Vatican and the empire rush to solidify ties between their races. The order of Rosen Kreuz seeks to unravel their painstaking progress. Abel Nightroad and Sister Esther have ventured to the heart of the empir...
What They SayAs the struggle for existence continues, members of the AX are hard-pressed to keep pace with the mounting catastrophes. But even in the midst of global strife, life continues undeterred. Abel Nightroad has brought a new member into the fold;...
What They SayWith their end goal in sight, the Vatican and the empire rush to solidify ties between their races. The order of Rosen Kreuz seeks to unravel their painstaking progress. Abel Nightroad and Sister Esther have ventured to the heart of the empir...
What They SayThe struggle for existence continues!
As the struggle for existence continues, members of the AX are hard-pressed to keep pace with the mounting catastrophes. But even in the midst of global strife, life continues undeterred. Abel Nightroad ...
Writers favour two animals roaming on the surface of post-apocalyptic Earth: Mutants and Vampires. It's easy to invent mutants--all you need are some human genes made into soup by fallout. Explaining the beginnings of radiation-drenched va...
IDW published Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith’s vampire miniseries, 30 Days of Night, in 2002. Launched with little fanfare, the book turned into a sleeper hit with sequels, spin-offs, and word of a film adaptation following shortly thereafter....
What They SayJiro is traveling with his younger brother Kotaro to the Special Zone, a place where vampires live freely in peace alongside humans. But the brothers find themselves in the midst of a battle between human soldiers, vampiric refugees and the r...
Most people know Glenn Danzig through his 30-year musical career. From the Misfits to Samhain to Danzig, he has remained a pioneering force in dark rock. His discography includes everything from cacophonous, yet catchy hardcore punk to 1950&rsqu...
In the Beginning, there was El, a foundling taken in by two poor Kryptonians, who was soon revealed to be the chosen of Rao, god of Krypton. He must fight the tyrannical Utor to free his people, but his love for Laras Lilit, the daughter of a man he slew,...
Manga Series Hits Retail Shelves November 2006 First Pop Fiction Novel Series Arrives April 2007 Second Pop Fiction Novel Series Follows August 2007
Los Angeles, CA (October 31, 2006) - TOKYOPOP, the leader of the Global Manga Revolution, is sending out ...
Here's an interesting note for our British Mania readers in terms of future HARRY POTTER & THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE filming. The Wiltshire Times is reporting an upcoming shoot in the village around Wiltshire, England in October. The shoot is planned...
What They SayThe true enemy has risen at last, a shadow known by many names: the order of Rosen Kreuz, the Contra Mundi, the Enemy of the World... The new enemy has thrown both races into turmoil and the rift grows deep, for when the foe comes in friendly...
What They SayThe true enemy has risen at last, a shadow known by many names: the order of Rosen Kreuz, the Contra Mundi, the Enemy of the World... The new enemy has thrown both races into turmoil and the rift grows deep, for when the foe comes in friendly...
With films like SAVING PRIVATE RYAN and TV series like BAND OF BROTHERS, some role-playing fans out there may be looking for something in the World War II vein. Well, the creators of the Origins Award winning DEADLANDS role-playing game seem to have what...
Stephen King is known for breaking taboos in his horror fiction. In the audio collection BLOOD AND SMOKE, he perhaps breaks the last taboo, for these stories all have smoking tobacco as an integral part of their plots. Indeed, the packaging of this three-...
I thought I'd just take this opportunity to introduce myself. I'm happy to be the "new blood" here at Cinescape and am excited to write for and interact with Cinescape readers. I've been a freelance writer and filmmaker for the last six years. So, yes ...
Rogue Pictures pre-emptively bought film rights to an upcoming vampire comic book titled "Blood on the Tracks," setting Neill Dela Llana and Ian Gamazon to write and direct the adaptation. Michael Zoumas is on board to produce via his Zoom Entertainment, ...
Warning–Spoilers Ahead!As Star Trek: Voyager enters the home stretch, the writers and actors have become more vocal about what they expect—and what they would like—to see on the series before it concludes. Last week, co-producer Bryan Fuller chatted with ...
Warning: Spoilers Ensue!Though many people expected Voyager‘s November sweeps telefilm to presage or possibly show the vessel’s homecoming, the producers have decided instead to return to an adversary and a dilemma from several seasons past. Startrek.com,...
Don’t bother looking up Leonard Kirtman in your Hollywood book of who’s who. Since releasing the Warhol-esque, or should I more accurately say Paul Morrisey-esque, CURSE OF THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN (1972), his cinematic offerings have taken a blue path with ...
A labor of love can be a most painful child to deliver, mostly because it can be perceived as unwanted when you’re in the exhaustive process of delivering it alone—particularly when you have to pay for most of it yourself. Such was the case with filmmaker...
Was there ever a thought that this film would get a theatrical release? There are names attached to it that give that impression including Lucy Liu, Michael Chiklis, and Robert Forster. None of these actors would necessarily be categorized as A list, but ...
When I first started writing about the comic book industry, one of the first people in the industry that I became fast friends with was colorist Laura Martin. She was working with the online magazine, Sequential Tart and coloring a multitude of proj...
Actor Jamie Foxx scored big in the Ray Charles biopic, he turned heads and critics by showing his talent. We already knew he could sing by his work in Oliver Stone's ANY GIVEN SUNDAY and he showed action potential in Michael Mann's MIAMI VICE (bring on th...
Katja Von Garnier is in talks to helm BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE, the MGM werewolf movie based on Annette Curtis Klause's young adult novel of the same title. When we first reported on this project, just about a year ago, director Sanji Senaka, but somewhere bet...
Yuri Lowenthal has joined the cast of 'Fistful of Blood,' the first live-action feature being produced by Heavy Metal. Lowenthal is best known for his voice work in cartoons and anime. He is voicing Superman in 'Legion of Superheroes' and 'Afro Samurai.'
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Are you ready to get blown away on this slow news day? The teaser for the IMAX edition of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has appeared online, a tease which will be attached to the IMAX edition of The Dark Knight for Warner Bros. The upcoming sixth...
HBO has renewed the new drama series "True Blood" for a second season, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, Programming Group and West Coast Operations. Created by Alan Ball, the series will begin production of new episodes ear...
The first time I noticed Jeff Pittarelli`s work was on a cover of the magazine IMAGI-MOVIES. Then, he started doing covers for CHILLER THEATRE, including a gorgeous ALIEN: RESURRECTION painting of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and Call (Winona Ryder) against ...
Warner Bros. has revealed a new full trailer for their next installment Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The sixth installment into their popular franchise stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, David Bradley, Robb...
When '30 Days of Night' debuted as a comic, it featured a startling cover by co-creator Ben Templesmith, dominated by a bloody mouth filled with jagged, razor-sharp teeth. Two weeks ago those teeth bit into moviegoers across the country as the film vers...
After his win as Best Male Breathrough Performance at this year's MTV Movie Awards, X-MEN's Iceman continues to grow his Hollywood star power. The 25-year-old actor has now taken over a part originally given to Scott Speedman (UNDERWORLD) in an independen...
Release Date: November 21, 2008 Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures Director: David Yates Screenwriter: Steven Kloves Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, David Bradley, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Tom Felton, Michael Gam...
According to Australia's Herald-Sun newspaper via SnitchSeeker, there may be a new scene getting added to Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince that wasn't in the original Rowling novel. In an interview with the paper, producer David Barron elaborated mo...
At this point fans of Hellboy are no doubt acquainted with the name of Tad Stones. Stones has been immersed in the world of Mike Mignola's creation for some time now. As Supervising producer and co-director, he's been the driving creative voice behind the...
I got alot of cool remarks on my Marrow
piece so I thought I would go in depth on how to beat up a image. I am not going to show you how to recreate my Marrow
image, I'm just going to show you the techniques that I used to make the image.
...
Actress Kristen Cloke has appeared on various television shows, such as MURDER SHE WROTE, DOOGIE HOWSER, SILK STALKINGS, and even QUANTUUM LEAP, but it’s safe to say that she is most well known to genre fans for her work with her husband, Glen Morgan, one...
Kurt: How did you break into the comics industry? Tim: I worked my way up through the role playing game industry. I started doing that in 1986 and worked pretty steadily until about 1996. I started at the bottom and worked my way up the totem pole. By the...
Welcome back! In part II of our Comic-Con interview with director Paul W.S. Anderson we discuss the pitfalls of futuristic movies, the nature of modern action film editing and the Castlevania movie!
Q: Why do we never see the audience that’...
What They SayMaya.. Unspeakably beautiful, her body drives men insane with desire. To touch her sensuous curves is to experience true ecstasy..
In a land rife with rumors of witchcraft and evil, Count Pickingel has been charged with the duty of finding a...
Mina: The Dracula Story Continues was first published in September 1994 by Ace Books. Author Elaine Bergstrom used the pseudonym `Marie Kiraly` for her story, which picks up Mina Harker`s journal entries about three-quarters of the way through Bram Stoker...
Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that it has moved back the release date of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to Summer 2009. The sixth installment of the blockbuster Harry Potter franchise will now open day-and-date domestically and in the majo...
Rubber monsters unleashed on nubile topless native girls may be the main drawing force to this Hemisphere Entertainment Philippines-shot classic, but once inside the viewer may be stunned to discover an enjoyable nuclear scare film that boasts good acting...
Hello, and welcome back for another look into the thrilling realm of Japanese Cartoons dubbed in English. This time I'll take a look at Gravion Zwei (hereafter simply Gravion), volume one, released by ADV Films and dubbed by ADV Studios. This series was a...
What They SayIchise\'s grief only allows him to enjoy the pain of the fighting pits in the underground city of Lukuss. However, when a gang punishes Ichise by cutting his arm and leg off, his will to live overcomes the odds and attracts the attention of t...
The holidays are whipping up a frenzy of new sci fi, fantasy, and horror book releases: Eric Flint propels the 1632 series with Grantville Gazette III, Jack Whyte unveils the ninth and final volume in the Arthurian Camulod Chronicles with The Eagle, and A...
Mike McFarland has been a part of the English dubbing industry for a while now. He has worked on projects ranging from Dragonball to Case Closed and voiced several characters, including Roshi in Dragonball and Goemon in several Lupin the 3rd releases such...
The untimely death of film composer Basil Poledouris last week, at the age of 61, has deprived the film music community of one of its finest contemporary practitioners. With more than seven dozen film scores to his credit since the early 1970s, Basil Pole...
I got into the indy comics scene late, so I never heard of David Hine until a few years ago when he began working for the stateside offices of Marvel Comics. In a short space of time there were a few Marvel miniseries: Daredevil Redemption, Son of M., th...
I first met Masaru Sato when I sat in on writer David (Cult Movies) Milner’s interview with the composer in December 1994. Sato had expressed some concern about doing the interview; he had written 300 film scores, and only a handful of those were science ...
Although, as all happy comic fans know by instinct and increasingly lighter wallets, today is Wednesday, and time for another weekly installment of Comicscape (should this not be renamed Comania?), I can’t help feeling the dreary drag that can only ...
Welcome to the
latest edition of the DCG Artist Spotlight!
Our victim today is
Heromorph's immensely talented photomanipper supreme, JrMcDeath.
Comics2Film (C2F):
What got you started manipping?
JrMcDeath (Jr):
Holy cow... you want me to remember...
With good characters and great action scenes, this gothic action tale has a lot going for it.
What They Say:
Eternal Ronin. Final Vengence.
It's been a decade since the sacred war between humans and vampires. The rise of the Kowloon Bloodline, a new br...
Good day to you all. I've been writing a lot lately about the community surrounding the anime and manga fandom. Maybe "hassling" is a more accurate verb. Either way, it occurred to me I'm shooting off at the mouth about how fans need to be mo...
.hack//SIGN - Koichi Mashimo
Koichi Mashimo (President of Bee Train, director of .hack and Noir), Ken Iyadomi (Bandai Ent. VP & panel host), and another Japanese guest (who didn\'t say much) were present at the panel.
This is one of the more interestin...
What They SaySince ancient days it\'s been said that Kuruda is a land which is easy to defend and impossible to attack. Its palace is situated on an island, surrounded by a jagged mountain range which keeps the fiercest of enemies from piercing the strong...
Last time, we spoke with Evan Dorkin about the intimate autobiographical portrait that was DORK #7. In our last installment, Dorkin takes a stand on various aspects of the industry and leaves us with a few rather depressing observations. Hey, this is Evan...
Boy, is my face red! In last week’s column, my spotlight item was a box set of three horror movies that can be viewed in 3-D on the Slingshot label. But soon after the column appeared, a Slingshot representative told me the set has been delayed until next...
Donnie Yen and The Blood Pack in Blade 2
Many U.S. moviegoers got their first good look at Donnie Yen
last year when his 1993 martial arts movie Iron Monkey was
released domestically by Miramax pictures. But Yen, lik...
It's quite a year for special effects. And while author Salman Rushdie's observation that most movies are, strictly speaking, "cartoons" now - i.e., they have as much, or more, animation (even if digital) in them than live action elements - this year,...
Every so often I get a couple of e-mails from people asking me how I got into this business. And I always reply: "With a little luck and a lot of hard work."Really, though, most people don't just start off writing for a big entertainment magazine like CIN...
The Review!There are two major points of contention that I feel must be brought up regarding reviews and criticisms of 'Blood: The Last Vampire.' The first regards the plot, a topic which has already seen its fair share of opinion. The other deals with th...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Yoko MatsushitaTranslated by:David Ury/Kelly Sue DeConnickAdapted by:What They SayAs a Guardian of Death, Asato Tsuzuki has a lot to think about. First of all, there are all those dead people. Someone's got to escort them safe...
Greetings, Comicscape faithful, and Merry Christmas, happy Chanukah, and have a spectacular holiday-of-some-other-obscure-nation-or-alternative-religion. If I don’t say that part, someone will remind me about Yule or something. Anyway, i...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Asuka Katsura (Original Story: Production I.G. + Aniplex)Translated by:Camella NiehAdapted by:N/AWhat They SaySet several decades after the events in the popular Blood: The Last Vampire anime film, an amnesiac Saya Otonashi l...
As a director of imaginative, whimsical fantasy films edged with darkness, Tim Burton has developed a reputation as one of the premier visual stylists of his generation. His latest effort, SLEEPY HOLLOW, displays the trademark Burton style we’ve come to ...
The first volume of the follow-up to Blood: The Last Vampire shows the promise of what could be a fun show.What They Say
Saya Otonashi, a seemingly normal high school student, suffers from amnesia and she can't remember the past year of her life. One day...
What They SayAt the Yokota Air Force base in Japan, a nervous American military is on the brink of the Vietnam War. But a greater threat exists with the walls of the heavily guarded compound: Vampires. A team of top-secret undercover agents dispatches a m...
In the last few weeks, I've had the honor of getting to speak with not one, but two voice actors from ADV. This time around I did a little email sparring with Chris Patton. (Ah, gotta love the Internet as even interviews take on a whole new approach tha...
To tell you the truth I didn’t know quite what to expect when I found out I was going to be interviewing a Senior Editor of the company that made Dungeons & Dragons a household name. Would he be a condescending geek? An arrogant Magic player ...
Welcome to another fun-filled week at COMICSCAPE! Last week I asked you to write in with your thoughts regarding Marvel's hiring of Orson Scott Card to write ULTIMATE IRON MAN. The problem, according to many gay and lesbian comics fans, is that Card has w...
Now that the wait is over and fans can witness the return of Wesley Snipes as Blade in the spring?s first opening salvo in the comic book film wars (with a certain webhead waiting in the wings to take up the slack once the vampire hunter has done his work...
Since his conception in the Icewind Dale Trilogy back in 1988, R.A. Salvatore’s Drizzt has grown from an initial side character to the most well-renowned persona of the Forgotten Realms universe.
Hello Maniac readers and welcome to this, th...
If you've watched any of NBC's Heroes television series, chances are you've seen some of the work of artist Tim Sale. He told us how his paintings and other drawings came to be used to further the story and his take on this show.
Sale said his ...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another week of Comicscape. Before I dive into my interview with comic writer Brandon Thomas, I want to acknowledge the passing of Heath Ledger, who passed away in his apartment yesterday morning. Ledger, of co...
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What They SayHuge monsters stalk the earth! Resembling the ancient legends of the Oni, the monsters begin attacking the laboratory where Prof. Saotome is developing the Getter Robo, a robot so powerful it overwhelms ordinary pilots! Prof. Saotome then loc...
Blade may have his work cut out for him facing down blood-hungry vampires in the new Wesley Snipes horror-adventure, BLADE 2, but for screenwriter/executive producer David Goyer, it was a walk in the park... or perhaps cemetery."There were no difficulties...
The Review!The anime that has already become popular when shown at an anime convention in Canada finally makes it's way here. It took about a year, but it's finally on DVD to own. And it is well worth checking out.
Audio: Okay, here's the layout. When yo...
In any given month, you can find Michael Avon Oeming's name attached to a handful of comic book projects. In the New Year alone, he's working on Powers, The Magician's Apprentice, Omega Flight, and Red Sonja, to name a few. He's been worki...
The Review!We\'ve all seen vampire anime like Vampire Princess Miyu and Vampire Hunter D, but none of these titles even come close to explaining Hellsing.
Audio: Pretty standard Dolby 2.0. Nothing flashy, but nothing bad either.
Video: For such a dark s...
In this installment of the 'X-Men Last Stand' round tables, Comics2Film's thechrisbrown had a chance to talk with Famke Jansen (Jean Grey/ Phoenix) and Jimmy Marsden (Cyclops).
Note: This interview contains some spolers, which are whited out in the t...
Sumthing Else Music Works, Inc., through a licensing relationship with Eidos Interactive, announces the upcoming release of the Hitman: Blood Money Original Soundtrack. The soundtrack album from the latest installment in the multi million selling Hitman f...
Being a video game writer has its ups and downs. On the plus side, I get paid to write about something I love, get free video games, and remain in contact with almost every video game developer out there. The negative side is I rarely have time to really ...
Welcome to the
latest edition of the DCG Artist Spotlight!
Our victim today is
Adam Thur, esq., better known as Essex, DCG administrator emeritus.
Comics2Film (C2F):
How/why did you start manipping?
Adam Thur (AT):
Well, I remember seeing multiple ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Saijyo ShinjiTranslated by:Sahe KawaharaAdapted by:What They SayWe're down to the finals of the first National Young Adult Chinese Cuisine Cooking Contest! Jan Akiyama, Kirko Gobancho, and Celine Yang must use their knowledge ...
What They SayPandy and Retro, two unlikely renegades, awaken naked on Earth with no recollection of their past. After embarking on a devastating crime spree for food, clothing and transportation in downtown Tokyo, they are captured by authorities and sent...
Casting has been completed on the much-anticipated sixth installment of the Warner Bros. Pictures "Harry Potter" film franchise, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The announcement was made by Jeff Robinov, President of Production, Warner B...
I think like a lot of people, my first exposure to the art of Frank Frazetta was the old Lancer/Ace Conan paperback book covers. I think I was around 12 or 13 and had never heard of Conan and bought one of the books, I think Conan of Cimmeria, just b...
The Review!I've decided to write this Alternate Angle as a counterpoint to what seems to be the generally accepted view of Blood: that it's pure eye candy, without a heart or a brain. As such, it's going to be relatively short, (hopefully) sweet, and to t...
What They SayAkiyoshi\'s life fell apart when he was turned down by the sweet, passive girl he liked. Trying to start over, he gets a job on a construction crew. The women on the crew waste no time in bullying him into sex act after sex act, exhausting hi...
What They SayShindou Ranmaru is starting to unravel the mystery behind the recent mass murders. His investigation brings him closer to the secretive Special Force Agency called Tokko. Shindou ends up joining Tokko and learns that demons are escaping from ...
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ADV Films, the leading producer-distributor of anime in the U.K., are proud to bring you on 16th October 2006 a new kind of justice: Samurai ...
On August 18 2004, I had the chance to take a trip to the UK office of ADV for a special interview with one of the most renowned American voice actors, Monica Rial. She has been in numerous English anime dubs in the past few years, including some of the m...
In 2001 the Dabel Brothers founded a publishing company in search of a niche. Under the name “Roaring Studios” Ernst, Les, Pascal and David Dabel took their love of comics and fantasy to a new height, capitalizing on the vacancy of book-to-com...
Dear Maniacs, I have wanted to write comics for a very long time. And now, Dead Souls, my first miniseries is finally coming out. I can’t believe that I can finally say those words. A process I began over five years ago has finally co...
In celebration of Halloween week the Book Buzz is leading off with the week’s new releases and horror and inviting you to share with Mania’s readers the scariest book you ever read! Just use the comments below to tell us the book ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Matoh SanamiTranslated by:Rie HagiharaAdapted by:What They SayMarlo has a problem. On the night of the full moon, this half-werewolf, half-vampire undergoes a mysterious and terrifying transformation:
He turns into a girl.
D...
As mentioned last week, we have a slew of new releases in every category. There’s going to be some tough purchasing decisions that need to be made. We have two anthologies of the best fantasy literature of the year, one from St. Martin&rsq...
Welcome to the new site everyone for the Weekly Book Buzz’s first new edition on mania.com. I won’t waste your time with comments on the new design or site features because frankly, we’ve got too much to do with so many releases comin...
Mercedes Lackey hits the shelves today with continuations of both her Elemental Masters and The Dragon Jousters series, Koji Suzuki's final installment of the Ring trilogy gets its stateside paperback debut, and Dietz releases his new hard SF thriller fre...
Fans of obscure cinema have had much to rejoice about since Mike Vraney started his beloved Something Weird Video label. Since the company's inception in the early '90s, Mr. Vraney has been responsible for bringing, and in many cases saving, delightful ge...
[EDITOR`S NOTE: A strange rift in time and space—a gateway to a parallel dimension—has opened up somewhere near Gastonia, North Carolina, allowing our faithful correspondent to report on events until now unknown in our dimension, events that take place in...
First, a little more COMICSCAPE housecleaning: because of the overwhelming number of e-mails I've been getting that either declare the column "BOR FRICK ING" (in one astute reader's words) or threaten to stop reading altogether, I'm going to try to make t...
What They SayEarth\'s last city, Olympus, rose from the ashes of a global war on the backs of Bioroids, artificial clones who make up half the city\'s population. Under the strict guidance of a supercomputer, humanity\'s last survivors enjoy an idyllic pe...
Now that Jason Voorhees has returned to the big screen after a nine-year absence, slasher movie fans can rest easy. While JASON X, the tenth film (duh!) in the never-ending FRIDAY THE 13TH series, didn't make the huge splash at the box office on its openi...
Hello, and welcome once again to the exciting and action-packed land of English voice acting. Join me a few moments as I discuss Lady Death: The Motion Picture (hereafter simply Lady Death), released by ADV Films. This is an interesting project because it...
The X-Men film may not be out until July 14, but Christopher Golden is already excited. After all, the paperback version of his X-Men novel, X-MEN: CODE NAME WOLVERINE, will be out May 1. `Of all the media tie-in stuff I`ve done, it`s one of the books I`m...
Greetings, COMICSCAPE faithful, and welcome to another week of watching your credit card bill skyrocket like the national deficit. Yes, I'm hooked, too. So, don't feel bad. You've only got your wife to answer to. This week features the second (and much lo...
The ferocious magic of James Bernard is satisfyingly resurrected in this latest Hammer horror score from England`s GDI label, which, after releasing a handful of compilations of Hammer music, is now issuing complete soundtracks of some of their best film ...
During the 1966-69 run of STAR TREK, writer-producer Gene Roddenberry had explored important issues under the guise of science fiction; Roddenberry was forced to couch his statements in allegorical tales taking place in deep space and involving alien bein...
What They SayNyu is a babe in the woods. Washed up on the shore, unable to communicate, she's discovered by a pair of college students " Kohta and Yuka "and counts on them for everything.
Lucy is a vicious killer. Equipped with a battery of deadly psyc...
The cinematic equivalent of a cerebral aneurysm, HORROR OF THE BLOOD MONSTERS stands as both one of Al Adamson’s finest collage films and a fumigator for ridding the house of those pesky, quipping, intellectual types who won’t watch a film past the 10 sec...
What They SayJiro is traveling with his younger brother Kotaro to the Special Zone, a place where vampires live freely in peace alongside humans. But the brothers find themselves in the midst of a battle between human soldiers, vampiric refugees and the r...
William Malone has vivid childhood memories of viewing William Castle’s tongue-in-cheek horror opus, THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, so it seems appropriate that he should have been tapped to direct a remake. After all, we’ve entered an era when seemingly ever...
In the third installment, Blood+ starts to settle into a groove as the overall picture starts to take shape and begins to hit the potential the story has always held.
What They Say
Throughout the passage of time and the shifts in backgrounds, a particul...
Continuing our
coverage of Twentieth Century Fox's Daredevil press junket Comics2Film
presents this transcript of the round-table interview with Michael Clarke
Duncan, who plays Kingpin in the movie.
Q: What's your typical breakfast?
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Welcome to the latest installment
of the DCG Flashback. Once again, we hope you'll join us as we take a look into
the hidden depths of the C2F vaults and unearth some of the classic art of
yesteryear.
LOGAN by The InFamous NeuroJoc...
After years of starts and stops, Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's LOST GIRLS will see print in August of this year in a three-volume hardcover set from Top Shelf Productions. The idea is classic Moore -- three of literature's most famous female protagonist...
STAR TREK creator Gene Roddenberry often attributed the success of the series to the fact that it showed man transcending his intolerance for his fellow man; it said that we, as a species, would move beyond our petty differences, which have for so long se...
A screw-you-Pat amount of books came out this week with a little something for everyone: several anthologies for the SF reader, new fantasy / horror stand-alone novels and series installments, and even a widely neglected, early novel from George R.R. ...
Six years ago, Robert Weiner set out to conquer the Marvel Universe—or at least to read as much of it as he could. Being both a fan of Marvel and a librarian and instructor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, he combined his passions to create...
What They SayAt the core of a conspiracy for a new world order lives a mutant girl who’s made an army’s worth of enemies. Protected only by a couple of college kids, Kohta and Yuka, the horn-headed Nyu is pursued by those who would destroy he...
Welcome to the second installment
of the DCG Flashback. Once again, we hope you'll join us as we take a look into
the hidden depths of the C2F vaults and unearth some of the classic art of
yesteryear.
Marvel Heroes vs Onslaught by ...
Ah, another week, another interview. This week it's with a voice actor from the East Coast, Jamie McGonnigal. My first encounter with this actor came through his work on Magic User's Club, one of my all time favorite dubs. At the time I said of Jamie's...
In Part One of our interview with Leonard Wolf (Dracula: A Connessieur’s Guide) and David J. Skal (V is for Vampire), we asked the scholars about the continuing appeal of Count Dracula in the 20th Century and beyond. The Vampire King clearly is not fading...
One of the strange, baffling, but ultimately intriguing oddities of midnight cult cinema was THE FORBIDDEN ZONE, a low-budget movie that appeared on a handful of screens in the early 1980s. The visual style of the black-and-white effort--with its expressi...
What They SayThe timeless anime favorite Irresponsible Captain Tylor is finally available in sterling release it deserves - a Limited Edition Collector\'s Ultra Box Set! This astounding collection includes: the entire 26-episode Irresponsible Captain Tylo...
This important DVD release (part of Anchor Bay’s `Dario Argento Collection`) came out earlier in the year, but with Halloween upon us, now seems like a good time to review it. Deep Red is one of the most important films in the career of Italian horror mae...
DAY ONE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6The first ever New York Anime Film Festival started ominously enough. The opening night was set in the city`s Japan House, a center dedicated to Sino-American cross-cultural exchange located within eyesight of the United Nations....
Mixing a number of genres together to produce something highly commercial, Afro Samurai succeeds in being just that, a commercial success.What They SayAfro Samurai (Samuel L. Jackson) is the tale of a black samurai\'s hunt for Justice (Ron Pearlman), who ...
Superman Returns by Corona's Coming Attractions (Fri 04-22-2005)
Genre:Superhero/Comic Book Adaptation/Action.Studio:Warner Brothers.Production Company:Unknown.Project Phase:In Development.Who's In It:Brandon Routh (Clark Kent/Kal-El/"Superman"); Kevin Spacey (Lex Luthor); Kate Bosworth (Lois Lane); Hugh Laurie (Perry ...
We have a new release from the folks at Unearthed this week which points out the increasing aura of paranoia and suppression in this country (and Canada). The label has specialized in bringing extremely gory foreign horror films into the USA legally, but ...
Before I dive into my interview with Joshua Ortega, I’d like to explain the lateness of this column. I thought the new comics would ship on Thursday of this week because of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday on Monday. That usually ...
When we catche up with veteran low-budget filmmaker JR Bookwalter, he has just returned from the set of one movie, has recently been scouting locations for a different movie, is part way through post-production on another and in pre-production on yet anot...
Sara Douglass’ The Wayfarer Redemption series chugs ahead with another volume, Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files gets another action-packed installment, and science fiction anthologies run amok in this week’s Book Buzz.
Happy Tue...
What They SayKarin Maaka leads an ordinary life in spite of the fact that she is from a family of vampires. Unlike the rest of her family, she has no problem with bright lights, sleeps in a bed instead of a coffin, and loves to eat garlic. She is such an ...
What They SayKarin Maaka leads an ordinary life in spite of the fact that she is from a family of vampires. Unlike the rest of her family, she has no problem with bright lights, sleeps in a bed instead of a coffin, and loves to eat garlic. She is such an ...
Here is the ultimate list of the familiar faces that you always see in your favorite fantasy, Sci-Fi and comic book movies and television series, but thanks to their B-Celebrity status, have no idea who these actors are.
When these people&...
Penguin Group USA unveils a powerful new anthology on hardcover featuring fantasy’s most prestigious character archetypes: the almighty, all-ass-kicking wizard. Neil Gaiman, Kage Baker, Orson Scott Card, and many other established fantasy authors ro...
Greetings, COMICSCAPE faithful, and welcome to another edition of THERE GOES YOUR LIFE!. Last week, Voodoo Maverick's Tedd Walley and John Williams helped me walk you through the soul-sucking, wallet-draining endeavor that is self-publishing. This week,...
Well, X-MEN fans, we`re a week away from a film we`ll either love or hate. We`ll love it because we`ve been waiting since 1963, or we`ll hate it because all the commercialism and hype surrounding the thing border on overkill and getting interviews with c...
If you missed part one you can find it here. Now let's get back to the interview with Mark Bagley, one of the most well-known Spider-Man artists in the industry!CINESCAPE: I know you worked on a lot of different characters since you "broke in" to the ind...
What They SayCRI Super Agent Najica Hiragi and her partner Lila are back to save the world, again! This time the fun starts when they must race against time to stop the madman Ricardo Kidel who plans to (gasp!) use a intercontinental ballistic nuclear mis...
What They Say\"Who loves me so much that he would forsake his own dear life... Is it you?\"
Eiri, a talented art student, works part-time in an antique shop in a quiet part of town. One afternoon, he uncovers a delicate Venetian glass holding a startlin...
What They SayWhile Ippo plans to train hard at the camp with the Kamogawa Gym\'s gang, his mother comes down with an illness. Determined to save her rental fishing boat business, he decides to give up on boxing. Then, he receives a surprise visit by his ...
As the old saying goes when it rains it pours and this week’s schedule, being positively drenched with new releases from top genre publishers Tor Books and Wizards of the Coast, is no exception. But perhaps the most interesting release on this editi...
What They SayLukuss, the city of despair and violence. An experimental metropolis buried deep inside the Earth, ruled by gangs, where mayhem and retribution are a normal part of life. To show your strength, you must deprive your opponents of their limbs...
While readers across the country quickly devoured Scott Lynch’s fantasy debut The Lies of Locke Lamora last year, they’ve got a lot more to chew on from the 29-year-old Wisconsin writer in the months ahead.
Hello all you Maniac reader...
The man hailed as the father of cyberpunk is back on the bookshelves with a follow-up to 2003’s Pattern Recognition, a novel Publisher’s Weekly named one of the best books of the year.
Good start of the work week to all of you Maniac ...
What They SayDisc Catalogue Numbers: DVD-200401/DVD-200403The Review!Audio: Presented in Dolby Digital Stereo Japanese, the show\'s sountrack is, arguably, the greatest asset it\'s got. A generally pleasing mix, the music and dialogue and sound effects al...
Each of us faces a variety of challenges as we go through life. What one person sees as a challenge may simply be a trifle bother to the person next in line. In the last month, I faced a new and exciting challenge. No, it wasn't Hurricane Lili, which simp...