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Missed a post yesterday and missed the entire week on Lost from the Start, but today through Sunday I’ll be tweeting from New York Comic Con. To make things easy, I’m embedding my feed here, but follow along on twitter as usual too.
See you there!
I can honestly say that it’s pretty rare that I find out about the existence of a comic series that interests me that I didn’t know existed, but this weekend as I was sorting through the cheap boxes at NYCC, it happened.
How this passed me by I don’t know, unless it wasn’t distributed to newsagents in the UK when it came out. I mean, I was in those regularly looking for the latest Marvel and DC issues around 1986, and I don’t know how I could have missed it.
I liked the TV series, even if I didn’t watch all of it because ITV tended to show it too late at night. A couple of years ago, we bought the entire miniseries, sequel and regular series (not as good as the original but greatly enhanced by the legendary Michael Ironside) and loved them all in spite of the high cheese factor.
Hell, I even picked up the sequel novel that ignores the regular series a few weeks back.
But there was a V series that ran for 18 issues?
News to me! Sadly, the dealer only had five of the eighteen issues published or I would have picked up the whole damn thing.
I’m even vaguely excited about the upcoming remake – although as I doubt they’ll have eighties-era Jane Badler and Faye Grant in it, it will have a disadvantage.
Ah, Faye Grant.
I had such a crush on her when I was a kid.
To see all my twits for the day, click here but in the meantime…
The DC Panel (start at the bottom!)
RichLovatt: And we’re done. Heading home for bsg, methinks!
RichLovatt: Johns just took a nice little shot at Marvel pricing.
RichLovatt: Rucka on Detective for 12-14 issues at least.
RichLovatt: Sorta uncancelling Blue Beetle?
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RichLovatt: Ted Kord, Black Lantern. Done. Jonah Hex, sadly, not.
RichLovatt: The Hawkfolks sound like they could be in trouble in Blackest Night.
RichLovatt: Aquaman will be in Blackest Night next. Next weekly series will be in a diff format – backups?
RichLovatt: Johns and Tomasi still on the GL after Blackest Night.
RichLovatt: Kid Flash on stage. Think I preferred SDCC’s Supergirl…
RichLovatt: Robinson’s doing a Shade mini? News to me!
RichLovatt: Robinson and Rucka yapping about Superman. No real info.
RichLovatt: Blackest Night #0 free on fcbd
RichLovatt: Ah. Didio has a lot of lantern tees on.
RichLovatt: Its almost making sense. Unlike FC. The problem wasn’t Batman, it was everything else. Ah well.
RichLovatt: Explaining RIP and FC.With a slideshow. I kid you not.
RichLovatt: Ah, DC loyals like FC. Well, a few of them.
RichLovatt: I would like a Darkseid Monkey.
RichLovatt: Peter Tomasi just got pulled on too.
RichLovatt: James Robinson’s here too, and Sterling Gates.
RichLovatt: Oops, meant Wayne not Shreck. Didio’s already taking shots at FC himself. Berganza’s here too.
RichLovatt: Didio, JJones, Schreck, Johns, Sattler, Rucka. Didio has a blue lantern tee.
RichLovatt: George Perez is first on the stage. Reminder: pick up this week’s comics.
RichLovatt: Guy in front has some great Mad Hatter sketches. Ayers, Sale, Chiang…odd character to fixate on tho.
RichLovatt: Room’s packed, and much bigger than the Marvel room.
RichLovatt: Where is Didio, that chirpy chappy?
RichLovatt: In the DC Nation panel. Wonder if there’ll be grief over Final Crisis?
The Marvel Panel (start at the bottom!)
RichLovatt: Mr Negative and Anti-Venom DR minis.
RichLovatt: Parker is on The Hood, Tieri is on Lethal Legion. Bunch of other books too.
RichLovatt: Cornell and Mark Brooks on DR Young Avengers
RichLovatt: Hickman and Dale Eaglesham on FF after Millar and Hitch leave
RichLovatt: Tieri and @JimMcCann are here too
RichLovatt: @AgentM is probably in here somewhere too!
RichLovatt: And Jason Aaron
RichLovatt: Full house and damn hot in here! And Christos Gage just showed up too.
RichLovatt: Bendis,slott, pak, remender, hickman, parker, diggle, cornell, joe q, fraction – big panel
RichLovatt: #nycc Weird – these panel room seems a lot smaller than last year.
RichLovatt: Big line for the dark reign panel
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The NYCC kicks off today. I’m at work this morning but should be there for the afternoon (when it’s open to we non-professional types).
In the meantime, don’t forget to follow me on Twitter this weekend, and keep back checking the blog.
In lieu of a Lost post (I’ll get to it at some point!), a true story…completely non-comics, movie or TV related.
Last summer, my wife and I attended a friend’s wedding in a small village in France, and lots of other friends came along too. My wife was a bridesmaid and as a result (and because we were traveling from NYC), we ended up staying with a group of friends in the village for a few days beforehand.
The weather was beautiful, the venue spectacular and the entire day and evening went off without a hitch, except for the part where I accidentally blew one of the venue’s fuses and plunged about 150 people into complete darkness for about twenty minutes in the middle of the speeches.
Ahem.
Anyway, how could we possibly end the evening, after numerous bottles of wine?
By taking photos of each other jumping of course!
Yes, that’s me proving that even in extreme heat, wearing an extra layer of clothes to prevent perspiration showing pays off. And that not mugging for the camera is a genetic impossibility for me, even while I’m in mid-air.
But the real highlight came when a friend and I decided the best way to finish up was to re-enact the leaping dance move from the end of Dirty Dancing.
Sadly, no photographic record of the landing just a split-second later exists.
I don’t know how I get dragged into these things, I really don’t.
My old friend Chris Partin of The Comic Addiction has managed to convince me to join in a Twitter challenge to see which of us can get to 300 followers first.
Chris wanted to say 500, but I wanted to try to do this before the end of the year.
So if you’re on Twitter, please follow me – and if you’re not, sign up and do it.
Also, it’s a good time to follow as I’m going to be tweeting the New York Comic Con starting tomorrow afternoon!
Continue Reading »Just a few last panel pics…
The ladies, they loved the men from Moonlight – Alex O’Loughlin and former Logan Echolls, Jason Dohring.
Kal Penn, Neil Patrick Harris and the writers of Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. SuluJohn Cho couldn’t make it.
Brendan Fraser and the director and producer of the sure-to-be-pants Journey to the Centre of the Earth 3-D.
Continue Reading »The Hellboy II panel was a highlight of the weekend – barely anyone got a word in past Guillermo Del Toro’s passionate, four-letter filled answers to any questions that came his way. Sure, Ron Perlman growled a couple of jokes out, Doug Jones answered a few questions, Mike Mignola talked designs, Selma Blair looked great and Luke Goss owed us nothing but this was Del Toro’s show.
Thing is, the man was really impressive – he clearly loves what he does and will help people do the same. Want an internship? Email him at abe_sapien@hotmail.com to be considered. Got a portfolio of designs for creatures? Show him at the shows – a few people a year make it onto his next film.
Del Toro brought some friends….
…and some were kinda freaky!
But not as freaky as Luke Goss and his brother Matt….
Continue Reading » The truth may have been out there, but the big screens in the IGN theatre helped me see it…and is it just me or has Chris Carter turned into Mike Farrell?
Three of the Final Four: Eyepatch not included.
Three of the Final Four: Eyepatch not included.
Robot Chicken’s Seth Green and Matthew Senreich were the best bit of the Lucasfilm panel.
Just a few posts with some pics from this weekend’s New York Comic Con. I’ve decided that I’m odd with cons – I like going to panels (especially the movie and tv ones) and I like wandering the floor, taking in the booths and rummaging through back issues but…I never go and talk to creators.
I know that’s kind of weird, but its not like I’m going to get a sketch off them (nowhere to put them) or an autograph (never been that interested in that kind of thing), and going up to them and saying ‘nice job with suchabook’ just feels odd to me. Not that I don’t think that they’d appreciate it, either – I’m pretty sure everyone likes to be told people enjoy what they do – but I’m just not that kind of guy.
I also singularly failed to meet up with anyone I net-know, only bumping into David Gallaher a couple of times. Everytime I passed the Lulu table, Val wasn’t there and despite keeping a keen eye out I failed to see a Little Stuffed Bull.
Ah well. In spite of that I had a great weekend…sorry for the picture quality – need a new camera.
I don’t think I’d like him when he’s angry.
A good looking Hulk wave, and Elektra strikes a pose.
Two pack – Agent of SHIELD and a Hand ninja? And there’s a Fury variant? Must…resist…purchase…
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From the Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Gentle Giant preview crate from the NYCC…don’t know about you but that looks kinda alien-ish to me…
Via IGN. I can hear the TV show theme music now…
And according to IGN, Tim Roth (the Abomination) will be at the New York Comic Con Hulk panel…
Yep, Tim Roth! :
Hey, thinking about it that poster design does look familiar…
Less than three weeks out, the New York Comic Con schedule is online in grid form or as a full listing.
Lots to do, with Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, Incredible Hulk, Wanted, Hellboy II, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, The Spirit, Chronicles of Narnia, Harold and Kumar, WALL*E and Robot Chicken all represented – although no Iron Man…which I kind of suspected for a couple of reasons…
Oh, and there’s some comic stuff too…
Continue Reading »Earlier this week, the Newsarama Blog wondered what the younger Kuberts have been up to since their DC contracts haven’t exactly ended up with them producing a great deal of work.
Well the answer is simple – they’ve been producing the New York Comic Con 2008′s poster (click for the NYCC blog):
It’s nice and all, but I wouldn’t mind seeing that Action Comics Annual…
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It wasn’t all panels, of course!
The floor was dominated by stands from most of the major companies – Marvel, DC, Dark Horse (oddly no Image that I saw), Top Cow, Previews – whilst also making room for smaller ones – Fox Atomic in particular look like they’re coming out with some good stuff soon.
Artist Alley upstairs was crammed all weekend, and I’m not really one for signatures or sketches so I steered clear after a few wanders round. Signings on the main floor – including Stan Lee, of course – drew big crowds but one of the bigger lines I saw was at a small retailer in the back who had Rob Liefeld signing. The man may be approaching pariah status, but he still has his followers and he was happy making time for them.
On the retailers front, the back of the main floor was crammed with good stuff. I raided a dollar-a-book retailer early Sunday, and came away with about 80 books…most filling some holes (Spec, Web, FF, lots of old Marvel annuals), but I also picked up a full run of Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and the first 8 issues of the new Green Lantern Corps so I’m looking forward to catching up with Guy.
I also – and I blame my wife entirely for this – spent a ridiculous amount of money on a piece of art for the apartment. It’s really something that we bought using some wedding money from last year, and frankly I can’t believe she went for it – let alone dragged me in there in the first place. It’s a canvas print of Alex Ross’ Tango – numbered 14/100.
And damn, it’s pretty.
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David Arquette is just cool.
Let’s see – he’s funny; he has an incredibly attractive wife; according to my wife, he’s very cute; he acts; he writes; he directs; he produces. He’s also on MySpace here.
The Tripper – starring Jason Mewes (also in attendance and looking nothing like Jay), Balthazar Getty, Thomas Jane, Jamie King, Lucas Haas and Paul Reubens amongst others is Arquette’s feature directorial debut – and he wrote it to boot.
It’s a pretty low-budget horror that hearkens back to the horror flicks of the 70s – a Reagan-masked killer has Halloween undertones – and, from the looks of the trailer and scenes we saw, really doesn’t skimp on either the gore or, refreshingly, the comedy.
In fact, it looks pretty damn awesome. The film itself also has a site on MySpace here – check it out in all its bizarre glory.
Continue Reading »Let’s see…an hour with JMS talking about the writing process?
I’ve enjoyed a lot of JMS’s work; the first four years of Babylon 5 contain some of the best hours of TV ever, and I’ve enjoyed a lot of his Spidey and FF work, and can appreciate that even the stuff I didn’t enjoy was very well written – so this was really a no-brainer for me.
And it was quite probably the best class I never paid for.
Yes, there was the usual advice you get from these things: if you want to write, write. But there was also a lot of other things too.
He suggested that everyone speaks in the writer’s voice – but the trick is realising that they will speak about different things and have different viewpoints.
His 9/11 issue of Spidey is one of the most memorable comics of recent times, and even though people have criticised some elements of it, there is no denying that it’s a powerful and important issue, and perhaps the truest emotion that I’ve ever seen in a comic. He was going to turn down the suggestion, but decided to make a list of whys and why-nots first. The first thing he wrote in the why-nots column was ‘There are no words.’ Forty five minutes later he had the entire issue written, and it wasn’t changed through to production.
JMS’s invocation of Norman Corwin will definitely make me check out his work.
I was also very taken with JMS’ theory that the more important the emotion, the less words you need.
As an example, he used this:
6 words – Will you go out with me?
5 words – I like you a lot.
4 words – I care for you.
3 words – I love you.
2 words – Marry me.
What, he asked, is the most powerful thing you can say to someone?
1 word – Goodbye.
Damn.
He’s good.
Continue Reading »Danny Fingeroth moderated a panel consisting of Stuart Moore, Christos Gage and Peter David – ostensibly to talk about deadlines, but it quickly became about writing in general.
Each writer had different takes on the process, whether it be because of the books that they’ve worked on, their experiences outside the field or the editors they’ve worked with. PAD admitted that he routinely ends books with cliffhangers that he doesn’t have a clue how to resolve, and prefers not to do 6 month outlines as he rarely sticks to them.
Chris spoke about the need to be adaptable and quick when making edits, and Moore commented that really, that was true – for example, he knew Firestorm was in trouble when he took over so he generally wrote every 5-6 issues as though they would end the book, even if it wasn’t an arc as such.
Obviously, a lot more was said and I’m sure that there will be articles out there which cover it in a lot more detail.
I think that the person who impressed me most here – and actually, he was on a couple of other panels – was Chris Gage. He came across as a very intelligent, approachable and passionate creator. It doesn’t hurt that he’s been writing great stuff for the past couple of years, or that his Civil War: Casualties of War was probably the best CW tie in out there, either.
Continue Reading »He’s a legend. A foul-mouthed, very funny legend.
Smith didn’t bother with big talks or interviews or moderators but instead spent a full hour taking questions of all sorts from the audience, serious or not.
A random selection:
- If you could see two characters or real people fighting who would it be? Swedish Chef from the Muppets and MLK Jr. MLK would win.
- If you could kill one superhero forever who would it be? Superman – that stuff about it being the writers’ limits that limit the story is rubbish.
- What did you think of Superman Returns? If you’d have told him he’s enjoy X-Men 3 more than Superman Returns, he wouldn’t have believed you. Also, what he thought was missing from SR was a reaction from Lois when she realises her son is Superman’s if he’d mindwiped her after Superman II – because she wouldn’t remember having sex with him.
- What did you think of Lord of the Rings? Very well made but it kind of felt like three films about walking.
He was actually very generous and not too mean with some of the people who asked questions – even when they really deserved it – and, despite taking the phrase potty-mouth to a whole new level (and you really don’t want to hear the Ryan Phillipe phrase…) he was very, very funny.
Sadly, no questions as to whether the last 3 issues of Daredevil: The Target would ever see the light of day…
Continue Reading »A panel with Rich Johnston (LITG), Colleen Doran and CB Cebulski about breaking into comics proved very interesting indeed, as the three shared advice and experience.
Johnston acted essentially as a moderator, pitching in with advice when he could add some. Colleen was great, and provided very sound and practical advice from her experience – that all creators will have dry patches so it’s vital to handle finances properly, for example – while CB was really helpful for potential writers in the room, suggesting best points of contacts, what to pitch, what not to do, what books might be a good move right now and what opportunities might be coming up soon.
Great panel, and thanks to all involved…now, must…get….writing.
Continue Reading »- Ringing in the New Year with a theraflu watching Central Park fireworks from my kitchen #livingthehighlife http://t.co/p5XrdavM
- Wait. Did someone change twitter again while I was away? Serves me right.
- Happy New Year, Brits!
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