#Comic Books
Mark Millar Says Superhero Movies Aren’t Flopping, Better Than Ever.
Mark Millar used to write comic books. Now he pens bullshit that he wants to turn into movies. He is clearly interested in superhero movies not going all Dinosaur on the cinematic landscape, and so with reports coming out that superhero flicks are dying he penned a rebuttal.
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Variant Covers: Scalps, Stretchy Junk, and Futurists.
It’s that mid-summer moment where the comic books are twisting in my greasy palms, affronted by humidity and my general toxicity. Comic books! One of the great stalwarts of summers, the MEGA-EVENTS coming out weekly. Say what you will about the general quality of the EXPLODEY TIME STORY ARCS that permeate the shelves during the summer, I’ve come to need them just as a means of passing time. Like marking days off a calendar, they’re there. And they’re omnipresent. Keeping me company.
Like the drunk Uncle at the Christmas parties who you thinks annoys you, but then when he dies in a horror shit-show of cirrhosis and bloody vomiting, you miss him under the mistletoe. Trying to kiss your Mom, his first cousin.
I don’t know what I’m writing about anymore. This is Variant Covers, your weekly take on the tasty licks hitting comic books shelves.
300 Sequel Isn’t ‘Xerxes’ Anymore. Now Titled ‘300: Battle of Artemisia.’
As much as I like Gears of War, or Fast and the Furious, or Rocky III for my fill of overtly homoerotic Freudian wet dreams, none were so flagrant and glorious as 300. Where is my second coming of dudes all but coming on one another? Running around, phallus in hand, glazed with sweat and spitting about camaraderie. I need it!
There was a sequel promised. Xerxes! I looked to it for this fill. It stalled, but it may live once more as 300: Battle of Artemisia.
U.S. Citizen Facing Jail Time In Canada For Manga On His Computer.
There’s a U.S citizen in jail in Canada right now because he was caught with manga on laptop. The same citizen is also being forced to register as a sex offender. When did America’s Top Hat turn into a bunch of fucking fascists?
Marvel Explains Why They Reveal Deaths To The Media Early. Hint, Money.
Last week, Marvel revealed the death of Ultimate Spidey in USA Today a day before it dropped on shelves. This seems to be a regular occurrence for the studio these days, so the intrepid souls at Comics Alliance wanted to know why. Fucking why.
The explanation isn’t complicated.
Preview Of Hickman and Ribic’s ‘Ultimates #1’ Makes Me Care About That Universe.
Last week I was totally going emo over the lack of care I had for Marvel’s Ultimate universe. Somewhere, despite having been aware of it, I didn’t recall this forthcoming gem. Jonathan Hickman writes my favorite titles for the Marvel Universe, and Esad Ribic’s work on Uncanny X-Force was some of the most glorious art I’d seen in many a fortnight. Put the two of them together on Ultimate Comics Ultimates #1 (worst title ever) and all of a sudden I’m rather stoked. Stoke-ified. Stoked through and through.
Hit the jump for a preview.
Christopher Meloni Elaborates On His Role In “Man of Steel.’
Christopher Meloni has opened up in a wonderfully vague way regarding his role in the next Superman cinema experience time. He starts by denying that he’ll be playing Lex Luthor, which reminded me of something. I hadn’t even thought of Luthor being in this movie, or who would play him.
Anyways.
So just who the hell is he playing?
Is This The New Justice League Line-Up From The DCnU?
Oh DC Reboot! Will you ever finish giving me excuses to update a blog in the middle of a leisurely Sunday? Why, in September you will! Until then! Some artwork has dropped, and people are speculating it’s the new JLA line-up. Commence conjecture.
Christopher Meloni In Talks To Join ‘Man of Steel.’
Zack Snyder continues to challenge my desire to write off his movie before it is even filmed. He’s doing so through an utterly disgusting cast. In a sort of, Jesus Christ, this cast is amazing sort of disgusting. The latest actor rumored to be joining the nauseatingly great ensemble is Christopher Meloni.
‘Batman: Gotham Knights’ Is Fan-Made Batman Fighter Done Street Fighter Homage.
The fan made game ‘Batman: Gotham Knights’ is a boner in motion. Using the MUGEN engine, it takes an absurd amount of DC characters and throws them into a fighting game that looks like some Street Fighter Alpha-type action. It isn’t out yet, but there’s a video after the jump to get your bits glazed.
