Posted on July 24, 2009 by Darren
I’ll do a retrospective of this year’s comic con when it’s finished, but today has been a big day for news at Comic Con. These are two of my favourite discoveries:
It’s the most wonderful time of the year…
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Posted on July 21, 2009 by Darren
Well, it’s been a busy week for Leonardo DiCaprio. First his production company snaps up the rights to make a Twilight Zone movie. And now the word on the street suggests that his company, Appian Way, has picked up the rights to develop an Aquaman movie with Warner Brothers. Though that doesn’t necessarily mean anything, it does indicate that DiCaprio may be interested in taking up the mantle of the character. Even if he isn’t, it does mean that an Aquaman movie is coming closer to happening.
Somehow I doubt it's smooth sailing ahead...
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Posted on July 17, 2009 by Darren
Batman – or at least Bruce Wayne – has been ‘dead’ for about a year now. He was famously killed off by Grant Morrison through some weird timey-wimey thing I don’t even want to get into. Anyway, it has been a year, and a year since the release of The Dark Knight and seventy years since the Caped Crusader first appeared. He’s come a long way since then and I thought it might be interesting to think about what his obituary might look like, if it were run in a news paper like The Guardian. Sure he’s coming back, but from what we saw last summer, The Gotham Times are all about publishing the premature obituaries. Anyway, here’s what I think it might look like…
Who says he never embraced the camp side of his life? And I bet he has all the accessories too...
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Posted on July 13, 2009 by Darren
It’s a year since The Dark Knight arrived on cinema screens, smashing various records and earning a massively positive critical and commercial reaction. The Bat himself turned seventy earlier this year and his influence over popular culture shows no sign of fading – even if Bruce Wayne is ‘dead’. Over the next week, to celebrate these two facts, we’ll be running a series of articles looking both at the film and the character – from a review of the film to a look at the iconic status of the Joker and why we love the Nolan franchise so much, as well as thoughts on where it might go next and an obituary for a character who has enjoyed an incredibly varied seventy-year existence in countless mediums.
All this stuff is pre-prepared, so it won’t interrupt our coverage of other pop culture happenings. In the meantime, what better way to kick off proceedings than with a review of The Dark Knight?
Not bad for an OAP...
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Posted on July 12, 2009 by Darren
I’m a nerd, but also a legal nerd, so it was quite unlikely that the lawsuit over the rights to Superman would pass completely without me making some sort of comment on it. The outcome isn’t really what’s most striking, though – at least from looking at coverage of the case. Off the back of the arguments made, it’s kinda disturbing how the forces behind Superman view the overgrown boy scout.
Superman uses his X-Ray vision to read between the lines of the judgment...
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Posted on June 28, 2009 by Darren
Straight Face Comics is is a relatively new web-based comic series that’s been running since about April this year. I had the chance to peruse their archives and I’m quite impressed to be honest. There are three strips a week, so that’s a lot of work and a lot of gags to produce on a weekly basis – I don’t know how these guys do it. The artwork is very well put together (I took the liberty of borrowing some screenshots – click them to be taken to the relevant strip on their pages) and shows a… unique sense of humour.
© 2009 Matt Barak and Donald Poquiz
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