Whatever you celebrate this holiday season, be sure to check out Sean Bieri’s themed comic strip for Tor. His zombie-based reinterpretations of classic Christmas stories begin with “Gift of the Zombi,” a simplified—and much improved—variation of William Sydney Porter’s overly altruistic tale, “The Gift of the Magi.”
Watching The New Watchmen Trailer
Now that the excitement over the new Watchmen trailer has died down a little, I think we can all agree that it looks amazing. Check out the panel-perfect shots, gravely voice over for Rorschach, and even the Mars sequence with Dr. Manhattan and Laurie Jupiter. The casting is clearly spot-on (except for Matthew Goode as [...]
Joe Johntson To Direct Captain America, Save World
Captain America has been raised from the dead—on screen, at least. Marvel Studios has just announced that Joe Johntson will direct First Avenger: Captain America, which is set for a May 6, 2011 release date.
Johnston was an early pioneer of comic book-to-film adaptations, having directed The Rocketeer in the early ’90s, while also counting bizarro [...]
How To Watch The Watchmen
While the studios squabble over rights to the Watchmen movie, Dave Gibbons has extended a lifeline to frightened fans. Joined by jacket designer extraordinaire Chip Kidd, Gibbons has released Watching the Watchmen, an appropriately titled coffee table tome that creates the experience of watching over the artist’s shoulder.
Alan Moore may have given scrupulous directions for [...]
