{"id":1048,"date":"2008-07-25T06:51:21","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T13:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2008-07-25T06:51:21","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T13:51:21","slug":"sdcc08-news-i-can-use-days-0-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=1048","title":{"rendered":"SDCC08: News I Can Use, Days 0 & 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like 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.<\/p>\n

Here’s the stuff I found interesting and exciting so far.<\/p>\n

* Entertainment Weekly set up an amazing panel<\/a> 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:<\/p>\n

As long as there’s print, there’ll be comics. We’re a cheap, easy, nasty, swarthy medium.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

AMEN.<\/p>\n

* A few awesome items dropped on Wednesday night, including Darwyn Cooke adaptations of Parker crime novels<\/a> from IDW. Talk about a perfect marriage of creator and story.<\/p>\n

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* Wolverine crashed Fox’s movie panel<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

* The Disney\/BOOM! deal<\/a>. Mark Waid writes The Incredibles! Mark Waid also writes the Muppets! Have I died and gone to comic book heaven?!<\/p>\n

* More Wednesday news: Ed Brubaker will write a web series for Sony<\/a>, Angel of Death, starring Zoe Bell.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

* Agents of Atlas ongoing<\/a>, by Jeff Parker. YES. I want a whole story arc devoted to Ken Hale exploring the spaceman toilet on Bob’s flying saucer.<\/p>\n

* As he did last year, your pal Bully<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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