An interview in comic form with Richard Linklater, the director of A Scanner, darkly, a rotoscope “animated” film based on the Philip K. Dick novel.
I’ve recently been sticking my uncommented links in my antisocial bookmarking tool (it’s a social bookmarking tool, but with just one user!), but, well, no one reads that.
This article, The Boy Who Sees with Sound, is so Daredevil’s origin story that it hurts:
Israel picked out some quotes:
“I’ve seen him run full speed into the edge of a big brick column and get back up. He was fearless.”
“At times he was even able to come to the aid of people with normal sight.”
“I [...]
Chris Sims’ declares this Badass Week, and kicks it off with a poll to pick The Toughest Man In Comics: he’s got a fine set of candidates lined up, making this a very tough choice, if you don’t take the wuss’s way out and sulk that Batman isn’t on the list.
But even better, he linked [...]
Chris Sim’s Invincible Super-blog is a celebration of the awesome daftness of comic books, in particular the awesome of superheroes punching each other in the face.
Earlier this month, he ran a two-part retrospective on the appearances of Conan in the pages of Marvel’s What If…? series, which features alternate realities based on such burning questions [...]
Italian Comics! They invented Tex Willer! And Zagor! He’s like Tarzan, Old Shatterhand, the Lone Ranger and Flash Gordon rolled up into one,
living in a fantasy kingdom on the outskirts of Pennsylvania!
Oh, and they also have a Constantine type dude, a horror fighting hero called Dylan Dog, except he looks like Rupert Everett instead [...]
I was thinking recently how roleplaying is going through the same sort of process that the comics field has gone through, namely, it’s catering more and more to an aging audience. Overall this is a good thing. If you are in that aging audience. For the hobby, though…
Let me elaborate.
You can tell your audience is [...]
Superman Returns Trailer.
There’s a smiley face on Mars [link via digg]. If you look at it from the right angle, you can see the smile; you can also notice the splash of dust/ketchup/blood on the temple, just like in the Watchmen icon.
Did people notice the resemblence? They sure did. But, so did Alan Moore, I guess. This [...]
The V for Vendetta movie is out. Not too surprisingly, Jonathan Ross hated it: If it had been called V for Vasectomy I could scarcely have found it a less enjoyable experience. However, William Gibson loved it: More thumbs up than a Chernobyl pianist. Superb. Splendid. Heartening. Go see.
A sort of introductionary Alan Moore Interview aired this Thursday on BBC2, which non-UK residents can see on YouTube or elsewhere.
It’s not Apocamon, but who can resist a Apocalyptic End-Times Comic from 1973?
(the things you find looking for a module that does suffix trees on CPAN…)
[via LMG].
Well, not really, but cute.