SDCC08: News I Can Use, Days 0 & 1
SDCC08: News I Can Use, Days 0 & 1
Jul 25Like many a male, I get angst in my pants…and like many a comics fan, I have my RSS reader and Twitter follows loaded to hell with just about every source I can think of to get all the latest news out of San Diego Comic-Con.
Here’s the stuff I found interesting and exciting so far.
* Entertainment Weekly set up an amazing panel featuring Jim Lee, John Cassaday, Matt Fraction, Mike Mignola, Robert Kirkman, Colleen Doran and Grant Morrison. What a line up. My favorite quote of many fantastic quotes, from Matt Fraction:
As long as there’s print, there’ll be comics. We’re a cheap, easy, nasty, swarthy medium.
AMEN.
* A few awesome items dropped on Wednesday night, including Darwyn Cooke adaptations of Parker crime novels from IDW. Talk about a perfect marriage of creator and story.
* Wolverine crashed Fox’s movie panel with footage from next summer’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Shitty title, but the movie sounds cool. And I can’t help myself–I enjoy seeing Hollywood megastars pander to nerds. Is that wrong? Ten years ago, the best pandering we could hope for was a pitying smile from the alternateen behind the counter at the comic book shop, and now celebrities are gladhanding Len Wein. I’m down with that.
* The Disney/BOOM! deal. Mark Waid writes The Incredibles! Mark Waid also writes the Muppets! Have I died and gone to comic book heaven?!
* More Wednesday news: Ed Brubaker will write a web series for Sony, Angel of Death, starring Zoe Bell.
The concept (“a remorseless assassin…becomes so haunted by her victims that she decides to kill the people who ordered the hits, one by one”) sounds a little faux-Tarantino, but I love that Brubaker is getting the chance to play in such a new distribution format. Hopefully it will mean a very pure Brubaker script, as opposed to something that’s been processed a few times through the Hollywood shit machine.
* Agents of Atlas ongoing, by Jeff Parker. YES. I want a whole story arc devoted to Ken Hale exploring the spaceman toilet on Bob’s flying saucer.
* As he did last year, your pal Bully has probably the best daily con roundups you’ll find, especially if you’re just looking for what’s fun and strange at the con.
