When archaeologist Len Lewis goes into darkest Africa in search of the mythical Tree of Life, he gets caught up in the plans of another searcher for the Tree, the evil Reverend Dominic Darrk. But after Darrk's henchmen attempt to murder Lewis, the Tree re...
Salden comes from a world with higher gravity and a thicker atmosphere, a world where the terrorist Gundor Gorrok wreaks havoc. Gorrok has killed Salden's wife and plans to steal the prototype Time/Space Bender to escape. Salden fights his way aboard the ...
Wayne Williams lives in the tough inner city with his mother, whose policeman husband was recently killed in the line of duty. He soon runs afoul of local hoodlum Handz Horgum, who frames the young man as part of an armed robbery at the store where Willia...
A few weeks ago, when I reviewed the fairly polished JUSTIMAGINESTANLEE'S THE FLASH, I expressed the opinion that this series was getting stronger as it went along. Just goes to show how wrong I can be. JUSTIMAGINESTANLEE'S JLA brings together for t...
Mary Maxwell's not your typical student. She reads comic books and longs for an exciting, action-filled life, something she's not likely to get while living with her boring scientist dad. But you know what they say: "Be careful what you wish for..." Soon,...
After weeks of fan speculation on the duration and format of StanLee`s Elseworlds version of the DC Universe, DC finally broke its silence, giving USA Today the exclusive lowdown in today`s issue. Hang on true believers; the Man is turning his creative e...
Imagine what it must be like for StanLee, spending the last year or so creating his own versions of the icons of DC, struggling to come up with versions that are able to stand apart from the ones we've known and loved for years (in many cases failing, in...
StanLee is justifiably credited with revolutionizing the comic book industry in the 1960s. He is the man who recognized that the genre could be so much more than dopey fantasies with no relationship to the real world. His characters (among them Spider-Ma...
(additional reporting by Arnold T. Blumberg)It's like cats and dogs signing a peace accord or oil and water agreeing that it's finally time to mix: DC Comics has delivered its most beloved superheroes into the hands of their greatest enemy. No, not Darkse...
After having reviewed a fair number of the JUSTIMAGINE one-shots, I think it's safe to say that most of us haven't been looking forward to them as much as we did when they were first announced. The idea of StanLee, virtual godfather of Marvel Comics, wo...
Batman has been targeted by a young Latino man who's out to do nothing less than kill him-and the young man in question has just enough ability to make it a possibility. But Batman senses there's something more to this Robin, and his investigations lead h...
Writing a DC title named SANDMAN must have been an odd prospect for StanLee: he'd already created a character named the Sandman before, way back in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #4. But for his re-imagining of the DC version that enjoyed such success in the Golden ...
DC Comics has released preview artwork from JUSTIMAGINESTANLEE WITH GARY FRANK CREATING SHAZAM!, which will arrive in March.Series editor Mike Carlin says this installment is a bigger stretch than Lee's earlier revamps in the series."The SHAZAM! book f...
I'll admit that I've been hard on StanLee's JUSTIMAGINE series, as well as on Stan the Man himself. Most of his re-creations have had far too much in common with the original versions of the characters: Superman still comes from another planet, Batman's...
The latest in the JUSTIMAGINESTANLEECREATING... series pairs Lee with artist John Byrne for a new interpretation of ROBIN.Here's how DC describes the book, due in February:"An orphan gifted with great agility and intellect, the boy who would one day b...
Oh, what a difference a lack of silly captions makes! Actually, there's far more that's good about StanLee's CATWOMAN than the fact that Stan's finally reined in his need to comment on everything going on in the story - his version of the Catwoman may be...
From the DVD cover: Tony Valdez (voiced by Wilmer Valderrama) is a college dropout who turned his back on his family's robotics corporation to become a champion skateboarder. But when his parents are murdered and Tony's legs are destroyed in a brutal be...
Historic Collaboration Bridges Western And Eastern Popular Comic And Graphic Novel Traditions
San Francisco, CA, August 5, 2008 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publi...
OPINIONHonestly, I'm starting to think I should just head this column with "Mea Culpa" in big bold letters every week, the amount of apologizing I end up doing. It seems that not only did I completely get the JLA's current minority line-up wrong (John Ste...
Comics2Film buddy Aaron Sowd is animating his wonderful web comic 'MasterMinds' for the all-new media, and he's got none other than Stan "The Man" Lee providing voices for the show!
Sowd chatted up Famous Magazine Online about developing the CG...
They said it would never happen. Hell, even the guys involved in creating this history-making comic book series can't quite believe it themselves. But as fans who have already read the first issue can testify, the unthinkable has occurred: StanLee is wri...
OPINION: Last week, I asked for your opinions about whether the comics companies are doing enough to interest the next generation of comics readers and what approaches they should take. On the one hand, there weren't that many responses, but on the other ...
BATMAN's Scott McDaniel is the latest artist to team with StanLee in DC Comics' JUSTIMAGINESTANLEE WITH SCOTT McDANIEL CREATING AQUAMAN.The book, which reaches stores in April, will be inked by Klaus Janson.In the story, Lee introduces Ramon Raymond -...
We're proud to kick off our new monthly column in the comics section, a no-holds-barred round-up covering all the titles you should be reading and perhaps a few that you shouldn't. It's all compiled by stalwart correspondent Tony Whitt, so take it away, T...
Hail and well met, my heroes and villains. Welcome to another Wednesday and another COMICSCAPE. Last week's column on digital and web comics generated several letters of civil disagreement. Thankfully, everyone kept my mother, my wife, and my personal ...
Marvel Comics will be the first to admit that comics have hit on hard times in recent years. Some of the company`s key titles have lost their once impenetrable foothold in the marketplace, and marquee characters such as Spider-Man have lost their stature ...
All around the country, someone is kidnapping teenagers possessing the metagene. In Gotham, Batman discovers a symbol at the site of the murder of one such teenager. In Keystone City, the Flash discovers the same symbol left behind by a kidnapping victim....
Genre:Adventure/Comic Book Adaptation.Studio:20th Century Fox.Production Company:1492 Pictures.Project Phase:Released.Who's In It:Ioan Gruffudd (Reed Richards/"Mr. Fantastic"); Michael Chiklis (Benjamin J. Grimm/"The Thing"); Jessica Alba (Susan "Sue" Sto...
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Last week's column on the industry's reliance on old characters and the need for new blood garnered a lot of mail. Some weeks COMICSCAPE really resonates with people and my inbox groans under the weight of responses, criticism, praise, and the occasional ...
OPINION: I've only recently become familiar with John Constantine, the lead character in Vertigo's longest-running series to date, HELLBLAZER. Even so, I was appalled to hear the changes that were being made to the character to bring him to the screen - a...
I’ve been planning for a few weeks to cover the new season of Who Wants to be a Super Hero airing now on the SCI-FI Channel. In some of my editorials, I’ve been a bit critical of the first season, but I’ve been convinced I must be m...
Imagine if StanLee and Jack Kirby had created The Practice. Granted, it’s a bizarre idea, but one that hints at the changes which plotter/artist Carlos Pacheco is making in the lives of Lee and Kirby’s family super-team, the Fantastic Four. Combining cla...
From the DVD Cover: The covert world of government "Ghost Squad" agent Daniel Leight (Jason Connery of 'The Secret Life of Ian Fleming' and 'Smallville') comes crashing down when he is critically injured in a building collapse triggered by the genetical...
Comic Con 2007 in San Diego has listed their full lineup. I'll be posting the movie and television sections of the COMIC CON event.. This will include lots of information for you to judge on what to see if you happen to go to it.
Another thing, if ...
How's this for a fanboy's dream:In conjunction with the release of SPIDER-MAN, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment is going to release a feature length documentary/interview on SPIDER-MAN creator StanLee hosted by fellow comic book god and JAY AND SILENT...
Having celebrated his 84th birthday on Dec. 22, comic-book legend StanLee is still as exuberant and industrious as ever. In 2005, the man responsible for creating or cocreating Spider-Man, X-Men, the Fantastic Four, the Incredible Hulk and dozens of othe...
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Review: I knew this was going to be a good DVD as soon as I heard StanLee's enthusiastic introduction. He explains "I've done comics, movies, TV shows, and now I'm doing DVDs!" I'm a pretty ...
Jerry Ordway's collaboration with StanLee on the JUSTIMAGINESTANLEECREATING THE JUSTICE LEAGUE story reaches stands on Wednesday, and he's already lining up new work.Of particular note is an eight-page story for TOM STRONG'S TERRIFIC TALES #3, which ...
When thinking of reality TV competition shows, usually the first images that come to mind are of back-stabbing, sniping contestants who will do anything to destroy their opponents and win the money. That is why the Sci-Fi channel's "Who Wants to Be a Su...
OPINION: A brief warning before we start: I had so many varied and intelligent responses to the question of how you'd characterize the main differences between Marvel and DC that I'm having to make this column extra-long. Do not try to adjust your televis...
It’s an announcement sure to send a shiver up the spine of Spider-Man fans everywhere and set their spider-sense a-tingling. Stan "The Man" Lee, one of the living legends of the medium and the mind behind Peter Parker and his arachnid alter ego, will hims...
OPINION: Just a warning if you have not seen SPIDER-MAN 2 yet (though that simply boggles the imagination at this point), and you don't want the plot spoiled, read only the next full paragraph, then come back up and click hereto be taken immediately to t...
Spider-Man nuts around the world still have two long months to wait before their favorite wall-crawler officially arrives on the big screen in May, but one famous fan of ol' Webhead is already giving director Sam Raimi's take on the character the thumbs-u...
I left you last time just as Ralph Winters opened the floor to some questions. And, curious as reporters can be, we launched right into it with Tim Story, who was ready for all of our questions. Well, most of our questions ... any and all questions abou...
Marvel Comics Editor in Chief Joe Quesada is, without question, the most wanted man in comics. Over the course of a typical hour, close to a dozen people knock on Quesada’s office door or ring him up on the phone, asking him about everything from story id...
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...
In Part One of our interview with the unrivalled horror icon Christopher Lee, the actor recalled his early years in the horror genre and explained his abhorrence for the phrase `horror film.` In Part Two, we learned why he decided to get involved in Tim ...
Happy Thanksgiving to you all! I wish I could say I'm thankful for all the responses I got regarding last week's question, but because of the snafu that afflicted last week's column the one from the previous week went out first, along with a blank templ...
Arturion Entertainment, Inc., an inactive public company, has agreed to acquire all of the outstanding membership interests of POW! Entertainment, LLC.
POW! is in the business of creating and licensing intellectual property for the entertainment indus...
Robert Evans and StanLee are teaming up to produce "Foreverman," a new superhero franchise for Paramount Pictures. "Hellboy" writer Peter Briggs has been hired to write the screenplay in collaboration with Lee, who is creating an original superhero, comp...
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...
OPINION: First off, my thanks to Justin Campbell, who wrote in to tell me that the silent classic THE GOLEM has indeed been released on DVD. I'll have to get Brian Thomas to review that sometime... On the subject of parallel continuities, or the idea that...
In the previous installment detailing Comics2Film's visit to the set of 'Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer', we had the pleasure of speaking with Tim Story, monitored by Ralph Winter, just in case Story got too excited and leaked anything. Winte...
What a way to make my debut with my first editorial column here on Mania but on the day after the news breaks that Stan Winston has died. I can’t imagine that there would be too many Mania readers unaware of Winston and his film repertoire but just ...
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Dave Gibbons, the artist of the GREEN LANTERN story in DC Comics' JUSTIMAGINESTANLEECREATING series, said that he tried to give the character a completely different look."You wanted to ignore everything that's been done before," Gibbons said. "You don...
I am not Uatu, though I am still a Watcher. I observe all which occurs throughout this sprawling realm known as Mania. I see, I observe and I weigh. On the brink of revealing himself and others of his kind to the world, Nathan Petrelli was shot. Let us lo...
`Invisibility!` laughs actor Bruce Davison. `My favorite super power, I guess, would be invisibility. As an actor, I always try to be invisible as possible. That’s how I felt in life. As a kid, I was always trying to be the invisible person.`Bruce Davison...
Last
week at Comic-Con StanLee sat down to talk to fans about his new super-hero
cartoon Stripperella. The show is targeted as the anchor for a new
adult-oriented animation block for the TNN cable outlet.
Joining
"The Man" on the panel were Albie...
Over all, 2001 will be a year most of us will be glad to put in the past, but for the comic book industry, it wasn't all that bad. Marvel revitalized itself, the other companies churned out some top quality entertainment, and comic book films showed how m...
For many fans of the Silver Age of comics and Spider-Man in particular, there is no more memorable artist than John Romita Sr., a man who brought his distinctive romantic touch to every title he illustrated. Beautifying the surreal world of Peter Parker f...
Last week’s column on the some of the moral quandaries in recent superhero comics generated a couple of interesting e-mails that merit printed responses. I asked readers to consider the mind-wiping fiasco from DC’s Identity Crisis, To...
You guys didn't exactly nail me with letters about INFINITE CRISIS, so I can't run a huge mail column this week. But, after reading some of the commentary about INFINITE CRISIS last week, both on COMICSCAPE and elsewhere, I've reconsidered some of my reac...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another long look into the dark heart of Comicscape! I thought about devoting another week to complaining about that recent Spider-Man catastrophe One More Day, especially given that the first issue of the new post-...
OPINION: A few weeks ago, in an e-mail I referenced in my review of MARVEL AGE: SPIDER-MAN #2 last week, "MutatisMutandor" wrote in about the next generation of comic book readers and how to get them hooked. (My words, by the way, not his. Makes us older ...
John Ney Rieber is the new regular writer of Top Cow's TOMB RAIDER comic book, but his predecessor isn't straying from the character."I'll be shifting from the current TOMB RAIDER monthly to do a special TR mini-series," Dan Jurgens says. Jurgens' already...
Stan Winston Studio has had a busy year. Their makeup effects artistry can already be seen in PEARL HARBOR, and they have two other summer blockbusters coming out in the next few weeks, JURASSIC PARK III and A.I. So Stan Winston should have a lot to talk ...
It's anniversary time at Marvel as many of the characters celebrate landmark moments in their comic book careers. The FF is celebrating its 40th year in print, and now a character who first appeared in their pages, the Black Panther, is celebrating his 35...
You probably noticed that my colleague of questionable esteem, Al Brown, wrote last week's column. I had to return to New Orleans for a few days to help my parents with their house (hurricane, flooding), so I called Al and told him I'd turn over more evid...
The summer doldrums appear to have gotten an extension this year, if this September's offering of titles is anything to go by. Not only do we have the usual mutant madness at Marvel, there's an "event" in which Bill Jemas reimagines the DC Universe (thoug...
Before this week’s Comicscape expounds upon Timur Bekmambetov cinematic comic book adaptation, Wanted, let us take a moment to acknowledge the passing of artist Michael Turner, who lost his battle with bone cancer on Friday, June 27th at the age of ...
Somebody call the newspapers like, all of them because something happened this week that will never happen again: everyone agreed with my rant about the 1990s comic boom. Seriously, guys, I'm about to cry and send everyone those annoying Yahoo e-cards....
Just one day remains until the first annual ManiaFest Genre Film Festival gets underway. With over 30 films to be screened (and some of them will have their creators and cast members on hand to discuss what it was like making them), two panels, a salute t...
OPINION: Though not that many people seemed to disagree with my Top Ten Best Comics of 2003 list from last week, a few people did write in asking why I didn't include this title or that title. In at least one case, my answer is this: 1) I didn't include c...
Few writers have emphasized the "man" part of "Spider-Man" quite as well as J. Michael Straczynski has. Off the top of my head, I can only think of two who brought out Peter Parker's human side just as well: StanLee and Gerry Conway. The latest issue - a...
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What do you get when you cross TARZAN with that wild Hong Kong film MIGHTY PEKING MAN (1976), add a touch of SPACE: 1999 and call it something some of you have already heard of? Well, it’s happened. TV Hollywood has decided that it can’t come up with anyt...
OPINION: There's long been fan speculation over whether DC could benefit from having a comics imprint similar to that of Marvel's "Ultimate" line, in which our much-beloved heroes are made over in a "modern," more realistic way, to see how they'd function...
Mike Mignola,
Guillermo del Toro and company are hard at work in Hollywood creating creatures
for the upcoming Hellboy movie. Comics2Film got a chance to
talk to one of the monster makers, Mike Elizalde, the president of Spectral
Motion, Incorporate...
Now that things are slowly getting better between he and M.J., Peter finds he's got a whole new mess of trouble on his hands. After being attacked by a creature made up of the bodies of dead mobsters, whose green skin suggests its longevity comes from som...
OPINION: OK, I goofed. Although it's been amended since then, any of you who read this column before Thursday will have noticed that I misattributed the recent words of Warren Ellis to M. Ali Choudhury, who reported them to me. (Amongst those who caught t...
A few weeks ago, Robert Kirkman called out comic creators to stop resting on their laurels at the Big Two and consider graduating to independent work. The video manifesto cracked the internet in half as fans and comics professionals debated Kirkman&r...
OK, so we all know the wall-crawler's big screen debut was a monster smash, yadda yadda yadda. Thanks to the efforts of director Sam Raimi, stars Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Willem Dafoe and the many men and women behind the scenes of this summer's firs...
Another Con come and gone, at least for me. As always, it's been a hoot and a half, but it has in some ways been an uneventful Con, with not as many earth-shaking revelations or presentations as in previous years. As I'm submitting this through a haze o...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another adventure into the astounding unknown with Comicscape! I, your host, will take you aboard this craft of my own design – one powered by fan-boy indignation! So, quickly – climb in, strap in, ...
While promoting his work on the upcoming TIME MACHINE remake for DreamWorks at the Comic-Con International: San Diego, creature creator Stan Winston let slip to CINESCAPE his involvement in a possible all-puppet feature film, a la Jim Henson's DARK CRYSTA...
In Part One of our interview with the illustrious Christopher Lee, the actor shared his opinions about the press (specifically, the British Press), his humble beginnings as an actor, and an influential conversation with Boris Karloff, and discussed what i...
ENTER THE DRAGON is one of the most important movies in all of Asian cinema in a number of ways. It turned Bruce Lee from a cult star into the number one movie star in the world, until his untimely death - and a bankable name for years after, due to the e...
OPINION: Yes, you read it correctly: Tony's Ten Best Comics of 2003. Hate me if you must, but after forcing all of you to come up with a Top Five Best and Worst Comics, I realized that it's an almost impossible task. I also got several e-mails asking "Wha...
Sometimes death sneaks up on you. I had every intention of devoting this week’s Comicscape to an in-depth look at the film adaptation of Frank Miller’s 300, which premiered last week to both box office success and mostly positive cri...
Reading and enjoying epic genre literature requires, unfortunately, a great deal of patience. Though we love our favorite authors for their mind-expanding work, their creation of new worlds and imaginative storytelling ability, we can be the first to bran...
Yes, there is such a thing. Now I'm usually one to write about why I love anime in the capacity that I do, but I've found the more I watch anime, or engage in anything for that matter, the more I realize where anime is lacking. I'm going to try to look...
There’s something about Daredevil. He’s never Saved Our Entire Planet, spawned an epic crossover, or starred in a cartoon or major motion picture. Kids don’t go crazy at the sight of a Daredevil action figure, and hot young actresses don’t dance around in...
"X2: X-Men United" is
arguably one of the best (if not the best) comic book superhero movies of
all time. It gave the summer box office an early start and spent two weeks at
#1. In all likelihood, it'll rank as one of the top ten highest grossing mov...
Spider-Man by Branislav "Bane" Babovic (Fri 10-26-2001)
One of the main Marvel superheroes, the Spiderman has several times (unsuccessfully) been used in films and in TV series. This hero still continues to live in comics and computer games, and while we're waiting for the new Hollywood blockbuster, we can...
Spoiler Alert: Some elements of The Incredible Hulk are revealed within this column.
Rather than vast wells of personal narrative, our memories are fast becoming an archive of fragments, our personal histories hedged to abridged, relative and ina...
Let`s face facts. It`s hard enough to track of all of Marvel`s merry mutants, let alone recall the exact issue in which Rogue joins the X-Men, the specifics of her initial meeting with Colossus at the X-mansion`s doorstep, or her being belted into outer s...
We've written within these pages before (well, this columnist has) about the devastating effect the sure-bet philosophy has had on filmmaking. Original story lines are a dying breed, an endangered species succumbing to survival of the sa...
This week is a perfect time to reflect on the 40th anniversary of the Fantastic Four, and indeed, the 40th birthday of the Marvel Universe in general as well. A few days ago, just in time to commemorate this landmark in the history of the First Family of ...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another catastrophic adventure into Comicscape. My scheduled interview for this week fell through, so I’ve reduced myself to one of those pithy observational columns. Fortunately, Wizard World Chicago wra...
Ed Chavez: Well, thanks for joining me today, Dallas. I have to say, at least for Anime on DVD and for my own podcast, Mangacast, it’s just been the general consensus that, over the past year, Del Rey has basically been the best publisher for, rea...
lknight wrote: "Ok, AD is no FG but... That review of American Dad's first show is extremely exagerated. It seems more of an essay about being "sarcastically cool" (with hot-shot Something Awful-esque analogies) than a serious and objective review of the ...
It's only when we read a collection like MASTER MASTERWORKS: X-MEN that we realize just how far the X-Men have really come ? and how little StanLee's writing has really changed between 1963 and his latest work for DC. But even with all their faults, thes...
Marvel Masterworks Editor Tom Brevoort wasn’t worried that his new volume of Silver Age reprints, containing Fantastic Four #51-#60 and Annual #4, would ship late. And the hardcover’s appearance in late October, two weeks earlier than its solicited Nov. 8...
While at the Wonder Con 2008 event, director Jon Favreau sat down and talked Iron Man with members of the press and here's what he had to say about the upcoming adaptation of the famous comic icon.“[The film] has to attract people who don't know any...
Literary works from a handful of star-studded authors grace the shelves today along with a bitchin' new comprehensive Marvel guide in this week's buzz of science fiction, fantasy, and horror bookstuffs. Tor Books dominates this week's releases with a bit ...
The X-Men cast didn`t read the comics from which their movie roles were derived, and the same can be said for Yancy Butler. In fact, like a lot of actors, Yancy Butler didn`t read many superhero comic books at all when she was growing up. `I was a Mad Mag...
OK, so 2001 didn't exactly herald the arrival of a mysterious alien Monolith or the beginning of the next stage in human evolution, but for comic book fans, and Marvelites in particular, there was an Earth-moving moment of revelation and a joy no less cos...
A fistful of blasts from the past can be found on your CD turntables this week, from a couple of the coolest 1950's sci-fi scores to a lavishly enhanced release of the A.I. soundtrack on advanced resolution DVD sound, as well as the unusual assortment of ...
In a quiet Connecticut town, two children, a girl and a boy, run from their house in the middle of the night. Their parents have been slain before their eyes, and now they run, without thinking, to the grounds of their elementary school. Their parents’ ki...
Colliding Reactions by Randall D. Larson (Interview transcription by Kelsey J. Larson) (Thu 01-05-2006)
OPINION: There was quite a stir when Marvel announced that the first title in its new EPIC line of comics would be Mark Millar's TROUBLE - though I imagine most of the stir was over the two swimsuited women on the photographic cover.
Sweatshop #1
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A commenter here at Mania believes that I don’t like holiday episodes of TV series based on my review of the Christmas Special episode of Supernatural. Well, I didn't actually hate that episode, I just thought it was sub-par compared to the res...
It's a crossover of Groening proportions. Bongo Comics' THE SIMPSONS/FUTURAMA INFINITELY SECRET CROSSOVER CRISIS, the first meeting of Matt Groening's characters, will reach stores on Wednesday. The two-issue mini-series is written by Ian Boothby, writ...
This week’s column marks the start of my second year of DVD Shopping List, and I want to thank all the readers out there for the support they’ve shown for it – if you’re all enjoying it, that makes all the time & trouble that goes into it worthwhile.O...
`I am Apocalypse,` imitates director Bryan Singer, adapting the villain`s voice from the popular cartoon series. Okay, so someone`s in a jovial mood and why not? Singer and Executive Producer Tom DeSanto have had some pretty impressive toys to play wit...
You never know what's going to
show up next in the C2F
Cinema. Just when it seems as is budding filmmakers are completely obsessed
with Batman, a fan film based on a less-popular Marvel hero springs into action
and rises to the tops of the Cinema Ho...
Mordred maneuvers for power in Douglas Clegg’s darkly reimagined Arthurian saga, Stephen Baxter unleashes his new time-shifting alternate history thriller with Emperor, and Pamela Sargent’s beloved Ship is back to sow the seeds of humanity&...
[Editor`s Note: In Part One, we looked at the American Cinemateque`s screening of Dark City at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, part of their First Annual Festival of Fantasy, Horror & Science-Fiction. The screening was followed by a question-and-answer...
OPINION: Wow, talk about varied opinions! After my extended review of SPIDER-MAN 2 a couple of weeks back, I got people agreeing with me, people disagreeing with me, people kinda disagreeing with me, and people strongly disagreeing with me. (I even got on...
These are segments from the replies that you, the readers, have sent in. These particular ones relate to a topic that is quite important to me, the censorship of shoujo anime. The following quotes from you guys will be in bold text (those parts are the qu...
It`s been 22 years since Michael Myers broke out of the loony bin, commandeered a government vehicle and then terrorized his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois, but the trail of dead bodies left in his wake is pretty easy to follow. Without John Carpenter`...
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...
If there's one thing StanLee knew, it was how to create cool, interesting characters that would last for decades and become classic superheroes. And that's a relief, since it's arguable this is in fact the only thing StanLee knew, judging by the nonsens...
Say, do you love renting DVDs, but are tired of the drudgery of rewinding them when you're ready to return them. Here's a link to a great gadget that can help - http://dvdre.notlong.com. Works on games and CDs, too! Here are the winners of the BAA BAA BLA...
TV tie-in books are not exactly a novelty. However, HIGHLANDER THE SERIES: AN EVENING AT JOE'S would seem to be breaking new ground by including only writers who worked in some capacity either as cast, creative staff or technical crew on the series that...
First, the good news: next week is my first interview in a while. I'll be talking with the man...the legend...THE CHIN: Bruce Campbell. We'll be chatting about his new comic book and movie THE MAN WITH THE SCREAMING BRAIN. The first issue of the miniserie...
OPINION: Hope everyone had a good Memorial Day and that, if you weren't out remembering those who have fought and died for our freedom, you were at least enjoying the fruits (and nicely grilled meats) of that freedom at the park or campgrounds of your cho...
Greetings, Maniacs, and welcome to another exciting adventure into the unknown with Comicscape! San Diego Comic-Con has left me with rant material for the rest of the calendar year and beyond. Marvel’s decision to publish Amazing Spider-Ma...
OPINION: Before I begin this week's discussion of the comic books you most wanted to see made into movies, I'd like to share one e-mail in particular that made a very deep impression on me, sent by no less than the producer of LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENT...
Hello, all... I'd originally intended this week to simply print the remaining responses to the Hal Jordan question and to move on to something else equally irrelevant to real life. (If you'd rather skip what follows and go directly to those responses, cli...
A Weekly Book Buzz on a Monday? No you’re not going crazy, I am. From now on the Buzz will bring you up-to-date news on all your highly anticipated literary fare a day before the new genre releases hit the shelves.
Happy belated Father&rsqu...
Once again, it's time to say goodbye to a great anime series. ROD the TV, released by Geneon Entertainment and dubbed by New Generation Studios, has provided some extraordinarily entertaining moments. This has been a fun series from the very first episode...
My last column appeared on a day that may set the tone for a century we have barely begun. Looking back, I can imagine nothing more insignificant that day than my lighthearted look at the world of home video. Today, a week later, I still find it difficult...
Most kids don`t know what they want to be when they grow up: not so Richard Laymon. `While I was still in elementary school, I had dreams of being a writer,` Laymon begins. `My first piece of fiction, I guess, was a report on a non-existent book I wrote f...
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...
A couple of weeks ago, a COMICSCAPE reader asked me to do a column about breaking into comics. Here, I present the first of a couple of columns on the subject. Many comics professionals began their career in self-publishing they created their own books, ...
Continuing Comics2Film's
coverage of Twentieth Century Fox's Daredevil press junket we
present the latest transcript of the round-table interviews. In this
installment, Daredevil producers Avi Arad and Gary Foster talk
about the movie.
This interv...
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...
Last November, Comics2Film was among the outlets invited to visit the set of 'Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer'. This is the first in a series of articles from that visit.
Talking to Don Payne, screenwriter of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silve...
You know him. You just don`t remember him. His name is Robert Reynolds, and he`s the most powerful character the Marvel Universe has ever seen. At least when in his guise as The Sentry.`Sentry is the Marvel Universe`s Superman,` says Paul Jenkins, who wil...
Welcome to another week of Grind Your Axe at COMICSCAPE. I'm your host and all-around nice guy, Kurt Amacker. This week, we took some time at the Home Office to tear open some of your letters about that swinging new flick, V FOR VENDETTA. As most of our v...
I'm not sure whether the subject of comics and politics was simply not of much interest to everyone, or whether people were simply too stunned by the election results to write in about it. Perhaps it was a combination of both. However, a few of you did wr...
It wasn't about the illustrious adventures, the daring heroes, the dastardly villains. It wasn't about the cosmic scope, the human moments, the eternal struggle of good vs. evil. No, when it comes to all the early Stan scripts that shaped the Marvel Unive...
Thursday
at Comic-Con Hellboy fans were presented with an opportunity to
find out the latest news on the planned movie. Director Guillermo del Toro, star
Ron Perlman and creator Mike Mignola sat down with a packed house of hundreds of
fans to talk a...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Hyung Se LeeTranslated by:Huimahn Alex Choi & Soomin LeeAdapted by:What They SayMESSENGER OF JUSTICE
Detective Jiran Ha is hot on the trail of two serial murderers imbued with superhuman abilities. In order to stop them, she ...
First, an apology: whereas I intended to run a reader response column to last week's COMICSCAPE about comics in the classroom, I've decided to run an original column instead. I only received a handful of letters and while all were original and several lea...
Greetings, hail and well met, and happy Thanksgiving to all of you, my loyal readership! Ordinarily, holidays stab comic readers as a thorn in the side, because the darlings at UPS push their deliveries back a day and we don't get our fix until Thursday (...
In this installment of Comics2Film's continuing coverage of the visit to Vancouver and the set of 'Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer', we move from the studio and our brush with the Fantasticar, to the inner offices of the production. We are w...
Last time, Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada and writer Bob Morales talked about the genesis of THE TRUTH, a new story that reveals the secret origin of the Super Soldier project that gave birth to Captain America. In the concluding part, the two discuss...
On a marginally-unrelated-to-comics note, REVENGE OF THE SITH will kick your ass and those of your children. It's the best of the STAR WARS prequel trilogy and better than RETURN OF THE JEDI. I've already seen it twice and I'll probably see it again befor...
The recently released Sabretooth action figure comes with one additional doll, a dead policeman. Bryan Singer pointed out that the cop`s face is actually his own. So, he admits, he does have his own action figure, even if the way it came about he finds ra...
Welcome to the
latest edition of the DCG Artist Spotlight!
Our victim today is
Rhonda, the one and only WonderWomanGoddess.
Comics2Film (C2F):
When and how did you start doing photomanips?
WonderWomanGoddess (WWG):
I had been a lifelong comic fan, and one...
Anyone hanging out on the CINESCAPE web site should know just who and what the FANTASTIC FOUR are, but on the off chance you don't, here's a bit of history.Background:In 1961 the publisher of Marvel Comics, Martin Goodman, told his editor and head writer ...
Creating Metal and Lighting Theory
Application: Photoshop CS
Should work with any version that has the dodge and burn
tools
Level: Beginner to Intermediate
In this tutorial I will discuss and show you my process for
creating me...
It’s not necessary that you imagine you’re watching HORROR OF DRACULA in 1958 to enjoy it, but it can make you appreciate the movie’s power.For years, Hammer Studios’ horror movies have had a strange relationship with DVD, as second-string titles like the...
If the Avengers are Earth`s mightiest heroes, the Defenders have got to be Earth`s most dysfunctional super-team. Take a look at some of the group’s more high-profile members: the Hulk is generally an unstable, anti-social monster; when the Sub-Mariner is...
What They SayNaruto and Jiraiya\'s journey climaxes in all-out war with Orochimaru and his skilled right-hand man, Kabuto. Naruto must perfect the Rasengan in time to save the future Hokage, but when Naruto himself needs saving, Tsunade must overcome her ...
Greetings, Comicscape faithful, and welcome to another week of four-color spills, thrills, chills, and kills. Last week, I went back to the well and ran a pretty well-received column about politics in comics. After two failed attempts at a...
OPINION:Over the last three weeks, we've discussed the relevance (or lack thereof) of Superman to modern-day society, a discussion sparked by the recent "reboot" of the character in all the SUPERMAN books. As many have noted, though, the changes don't cou...
What They SayThe paper Sisters declare war on Dokusensha! Anita, Maggie and Michelle launch an attack on Dokusensha\'s headquarters in Hong Kong to rescue Nenene and face off against a building full of machinegun-armed private security guards and robots a...
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.
The Danger Room by Marcelo G...
Beginning an in-depth chat with SPIDER-MAN director Sam Raimi, CINESCAPE cuts directly to the chase and asks the question already burning in the minds of the web-slinger's legions of fans: What's going on with SPIDER-MAN 2? "Sony has asked me to direct nu...
Back in April, Comics2Film spoke at length to Feedback, the Season 1 winner of "Who Wants To Be A Superhero?" Now, in anticipation of Season 2, which premieres this Thursday, July 26th on SciFi, we had the opportunity to speak to Matt Haley, comic book a...
Rising quickly in world of small press and self-published comics, the New Radio has begun carving its own space of avant-garde comics-as-literature. The New Radio is the brainchild of Alex Cahill and Jad Ziade. Cahill's first published effort, the one-sho...
What They SayAn ancient Japanese legend says that if one were to partake of the flesh of the mermaid, one would be granted eternal life and youth. Yuta ate the mermaid\'s flesh 500 years ago and became immortal. Since then he has had to deal with living a...
Actor Robert Downey Jr. recreates one of Marvel's flagship heroes in the upcoming 'Iron Man', directed by Jon Favreau. The film co-stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard and Jeff Bridges. Comics2Film got a chance to sit down with the actor as he talked to...
Some of us are still riding high on the SPIDER-MAN film's monstrous success, particularly those of us who grew up with the wall-crawler and longed for the day we'd see him swinging through the city streets on the big screen. That day has come, the webbed ...
Greetings Cinescapers! I hate to start the column off with an angry, bloodshot eyes, clenched teeth, gnarled paws, ears flat against the side of head, and finger waving attitude, but I've been informed by a reader, oddly enough named M E (but not me, you ...
After suffering from a series of failures in the '70s and '80s, it looks like Hollywood has finally realized what it takes to make a successful live action comic book adaptation stay true to the story's source material. THE X-MEN did it; SPIDER-MAN looks...
Greeting Maniacs, and welcome to another spine-tingling Comicscape spectacular! For this week, I’ve interviewed Marc Moorash and Heather Stanley – the creators and publishers behind a cool new series called Polyglot & Spleen. ...