The Gardens of Aedena - MoebiusFriday, 28 September 2007
Thursday, 27 September 2007
Evangelion news round up
And now some news about that whole Evangelion: Rebuild thing, well new to me.
Apparently you can briefly see one of Rei's nipples in the new film, many people seems inordinately excited about this, it's probably the main box office draw at the moment. Expect the film to be released as Evangelion: Rei's Nipple in the west
As a special cinema promotion you can pick up the Pole dancing Rei cup! On the outside I'm mocking but inside I really want one!
This teaser poster for the second film features the new character, well parts of her. Surely having a new female character to introduce will take some precious screen time away from Asuka, and thus induce mass rioting.
What could be more awesome than this? well these. But more awesome still are these
Apparently you can briefly see one of Rei's nipples in the new film, many people seems inordinately excited about this, it's probably the main box office draw at the moment. Expect the film to be released as Evangelion: Rei's Nipple in the west
As a special cinema promotion you can pick up the Pole dancing Rei cup! On the outside I'm mocking but inside I really want one!
This teaser poster for the second film features the new character, well parts of her. Surely having a new female character to introduce will take some precious screen time away from Asuka, and thus induce mass rioting.
What could be more awesome than this? well these. But more awesome still are these
Wednesday, 26 September 2007
An optimistic prediction works out?
Just seen this on the Dark Horse Presets Myspace thingy
It may just be that one lone person but it still gives me a warm tingly little feeling inside.
Hey, iv'e just gotten the first issue of The Umbrella Academy. I've never read a comic book in my life to be honest. I'm quite a big fan of my chemical romance it made me want to check it out just to see what it would be like. So i went in to forbidden planet and looked around for it. But wow, there was a LOT of cool stuff in there. i spent about half an hour looking around at other things and comics. i seen a lot of awsome stuff. My friend is always trying to get me to read comic's but i always said no, i was never intrested untill now. I went in and seen for myself how much cool stuff there was. So thanks to Umbrella Academy for bringing me into the world of comics.
It may just be that one lone person but it still gives me a warm tingly little feeling inside.
Birmingham Comic-Con 2007
Yes, The Birmingham Comic-con running on the 13-14th of October. Unlike Bristol I won't have a table but I will be milling around the floor picking fights with strangers and taking occasional sly sips from a hip flask.
Also in attendence will be Zak, Chigs, and possibly The Rascal himself.
If you want copies of any of our mini-comics from last year, (The World that's coming by me, Spirit of The Sky by Zak and Eddy Reynolds, PAW by Chris, and Attack of the Zombie Ninja by Rob) let us know and we'll print up some more copies. Well I will at least.
But I'm fairly certain that everyone reading this blog already owns a copy, actually my entire readership might have been in that list just now.
See you there!
Also in attendence will be Zak, Chigs, and possibly The Rascal himself.
If you want copies of any of our mini-comics from last year, (The World that's coming by me, Spirit of The Sky by Zak and Eddy Reynolds, PAW by Chris, and Attack of the Zombie Ninja by Rob) let us know and we'll print up some more copies. Well I will at least.
But I'm fairly certain that everyone reading this blog already owns a copy, actually my entire readership might have been in that list just now.
See you there!
Tuesday, 25 September 2007
Monday, 24 September 2007
Some Observations on Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
...which i just finished.
The cover is damn f'ugly what ever way you look at it.
Blood, blood everywhere, the blood oh the blood!
Was Ginny's Birthday present to Harry just to let him feel her up?
Ravenclaw have the best common room, this is no great surprise as Ravenclaw is clearly the greatest house by far.
Did anyone else find the Goblins a little too close a particularly unpleasant real world stereotype (not that I'm accusing Rowling of anything, I'm thinking more along the lines of a Ragnell-esque analysis of familiar fantasy tropes that we take for granted type thing, but I can't find the post that best illustrates it, damn)?
Rowling managed to actually do some stuff with the characterisation that I had previously been very critical about her not doing, so good for her.
Never did find out if there's a Wizarding school in Japan, y'know some original Potter-verse manga would be pretty damn lucrative.
No I'm not going to draw any and pitch it to Bloomsbury. Not while I still have my dignity.
So check back in about a month...
The cover is damn f'ugly what ever way you look at it.
Blood, blood everywhere, the blood oh the blood!
Was Ginny's Birthday present to Harry just to let him feel her up?
Ravenclaw have the best common room, this is no great surprise as Ravenclaw is clearly the greatest house by far.
Did anyone else find the Goblins a little too close a particularly unpleasant real world stereotype (not that I'm accusing Rowling of anything, I'm thinking more along the lines of a Ragnell-esque analysis of familiar fantasy tropes that we take for granted type thing, but I can't find the post that best illustrates it, damn)?
Rowling managed to actually do some stuff with the characterisation that I had previously been very critical about her not doing, so good for her.
Never did find out if there's a Wizarding school in Japan, y'know some original Potter-verse manga would be pretty damn lucrative.
No I'm not going to draw any and pitch it to Bloomsbury. Not while I still have my dignity.
So check back in about a month...
Friday, 21 September 2007
Thursday, 20 September 2007
Magic of Shazam
Following on from Tuesday's Spectacular Spider-Man character designs, here's Mike Kunkel's Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam.
Sivana's super crazy awesome.
Sivana's super crazy awesome.
Warm up sketch - Aeon Flux
I may be pushing the definition of warm up sketch a little.
Terrorist special agent and foot fetish model Aeon.
Wednesday, 19 September 2007
Tuesday, 18 September 2007
Spec Spidey
The designs for the new Spider-Man Cartoon
I think they look pretty awesome. Thank you Mr Sean Galloway.
I think they look pretty awesome. Thank you Mr Sean Galloway.
Monday, 17 September 2007
Anime Central: Snap Judgements
anime central is a new channel on digital offering those Japanese cartoons the kids love for the UK, based on previous ventures to do the same I give it about 4 months. The channel itself is a no thrills affair with endless repeating trailers for the shows and some tacky idents. So far, so inevitable, but what of the opening line up of shows? Well I've not really watched any of them particularly before, but we're two or three episodes in so let's see what we've got.
The Vision of Escaflowne - Fun enough if you've got a high tolerance for 90's cheese and decidedly funky (negative funk that is) character design.
Bleach - Seems to be generic pap, occasional comedy kicking isn't enough to keep me. It's not very pretty either, but it's got a nice logo, so there's that.
Fullmetal alchemist - I always wondered why this was so insanely popular, now I wonder why it's popular at all.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Despite the soul crushing terror of the CGI cars, I'm quite enjoying it. The Cyberpunk swat team/police procedural sub genre makes for a fun little show. And of course Yoko Kanno.
Planetes - Is lovely, pretty much what I look for in anime. I wonder if it can live up to my platonic ideal for 26 episodes.
Transformers Headmasters - I'm going to bed.
Three out of six ain't bad. In three weeks or so we'll see some new shows (unless they just repeat the current ones that is) where upon you'll learn my ill informed opinions on some of the other shows they've got lined up including Hack/Sign, Gundam Seed, s-CRY-ed, and Witch Hunter Smithy.
The Vision of Escaflowne - Fun enough if you've got a high tolerance for 90's cheese and decidedly funky (negative funk that is) character design.
Bleach - Seems to be generic pap, occasional comedy kicking isn't enough to keep me. It's not very pretty either, but it's got a nice logo, so there's that.
Fullmetal alchemist - I always wondered why this was so insanely popular, now I wonder why it's popular at all.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Despite the soul crushing terror of the CGI cars, I'm quite enjoying it. The Cyberpunk swat team/police procedural sub genre makes for a fun little show. And of course Yoko Kanno.
Planetes - Is lovely, pretty much what I look for in anime. I wonder if it can live up to my platonic ideal for 26 episodes.
Transformers Headmasters - I'm going to bed.
Three out of six ain't bad. In three weeks or so we'll see some new shows (unless they just repeat the current ones that is) where upon you'll learn my ill informed opinions on some of the other shows they've got lined up including Hack/Sign, Gundam Seed, s-CRY-ed, and Witch Hunter Smithy.
There is black and there is white and there is nothing inbetween
The long awaited In Search of Steve Ditko was on BBC 4 last night, and I was pretty impressed. Considering that the only comics coverage on British TV for a while has been two depressingly awful More Four news reports (one about the Manga Bible, one about Tin Tin in Africa, both a relentless torrent of shit) and a little thing on Virgin Comics in India with Sanjeev Bhaskar, so such a passionately made documentary on a figure like Ditko's pretty big event.
Ross really put a lot of love into this as he repeatedly states, and while it's mostly talking heads (like Comics Britannia) they're some pretty good heads on display. Boy Wonder Neil Gaiman, John Romita, Jerry Robinson, Alan Moore reciting his Ditko tribute poetry as he stares into your soul. While the 'true face of Stan Lee' we were promised by Rich Johnson isn't as surprising as was hyped (but then if everything Rich Johnson said came to pass they'd be burning copies of Lost Girls in the streets) it's still a nice little candid moment with a man who became a parody of himself decades ago.
It's not told in exhaustive detail but then it is only an hour. There's such a sense of earnestness to the whole thing, it really won me over. I've never really read much Ditko before but now I feel like I'm missing out on something very special.
So that's how Jonathan Ross made me buy The Essential Dr Strange.
Ross really put a lot of love into this as he repeatedly states, and while it's mostly talking heads (like Comics Britannia) they're some pretty good heads on display. Boy Wonder Neil Gaiman, John Romita, Jerry Robinson, Alan Moore reciting his Ditko tribute poetry as he stares into your soul. While the 'true face of Stan Lee' we were promised by Rich Johnson isn't as surprising as was hyped (but then if everything Rich Johnson said came to pass they'd be burning copies of Lost Girls in the streets) it's still a nice little candid moment with a man who became a parody of himself decades ago.
It's not told in exhaustive detail but then it is only an hour. There's such a sense of earnestness to the whole thing, it really won me over. I've never really read much Ditko before but now I feel like I'm missing out on something very special.
So that's how Jonathan Ross made me buy The Essential Dr Strange.
Saturday, 15 September 2007
Friday, 14 September 2007
Thursday, 13 September 2007
Warm up Sketch - Mary Marvel
Inking your warm up sketches means you're procrastinating, do some work.Wednesday, 12 September 2007
Becky Cloonan - Friend to all children
Every day Becky Cloonan does about 2-4 pages of East Coast Rising and 1-2 pages of American Virgin.
Her work rate would be higher but then who would valiantly fights the many giant monsters who wage war on Japan.
Here she is receiving an award for saving Kyoto from Rodan last month.
Her work rate would be higher but then who would valiantly fights the many giant monsters who wage war on Japan.
Here she is receiving an award for saving Kyoto from Rodan last month.Yesterday I did a page and a half and then collapsed weeping from the pain flowing through hand, wrist and back.
I am, indeed, not worthy.
Friday, 7 September 2007
And occasionally people die...
Repeat of Bill Bailey interviewing Simon Pegg on Radio 4's Chain Reaction
It's only up for a week mind.
It's only up for a week mind.
Thursday, 6 September 2007
Wednesday, 5 September 2007
Tuesday, 4 September 2007
Monday, 3 September 2007
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