So what’s with the Hulk movie? John Tynes says it blows (and posts a NYT review to back him up), while Dave Hyatt says it rules, and backs it up with a review from, err, Ain’t It Cool News. So who to trust? the guy who wrote Delta Green and Unknown Armies, or the guy who wrote Renraku Shutdown and XUL?
Stripperella is an animated show created by Stan Lee featuring a superhero based on Pamela Anderson; Here’s an interview with Stan about it, and a news item about the one shot comic book.
Looks like Pamela Anderson has finally found the perfect casting for herself: a cartoon.
Apparently, I didn’t mention so far that Comics (and Star Trek novelization) writer Peter David has a nice site, with a blog. Lots of Buffy/Angel reviews.
I met Peter David at the San Diego Comic Con in 1990, and asked him the inevitable “why did you kill Jean DeWolfe“?. He said he’d killed her off in his story precisly because of the reaction it would provoke, because this was a character fans cared about. Clever guy.
Strip mining – good (and amusing) Guardian article about how Marvel is beating DC in the movies. From LMG
Thanks to a discussion on Barbelith I found on LinkMachineGo, I discovered that two comics characters, Mr. Six in The Invisibles and Jason Wyngrade of the Hellfire Club (Chris Claremont and John Byrne’s revised take on Mastermind, from the X-Men storyline that lead into the Dark Pheonix story), are actually based on actor Peter Wyngrade, who played a supervillain running a Hellfire Club in an episode of The Avengers TV series (“A Touch of Brimstone“); In that episode he turned Emma Peel into a “Queen of Sin”, with a fetish outfit (spikey collar, corset, boots) very similar to Jean Grey’s “Black Queen” identity.
However, Jason Wyngrade’s look, with the mustache and sideburns, as well as his first name, came from the character Jason King which Wyngrade played in a TV series called Department S and a later series of spin-offs. Grant Morrison’s Mister Six in The Invisibles is more simply derived directly from Jason King. Austin Powers probably owes a greater debt to Jason King than to most other sources.
