Wednesday, July 28, 2004

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

I've decided to make the titles of all the links posts random quotes. Today's is by Quentin Crisp. Now onto the links:

Comics-

According to my sources DC Comics is developing a comic based on the popular X-box franchise Halo. Plans are to have a single writer on the book with a series of rotating artists working on each arc.

Mark Millar Talks Wolverine

Jordan Raskin talks Industry of War

Tom Manning's Runoff is spotlighted at Newsarama

Doc Frankenstein and Shaolin Cowboy Previews
I wasn't looking forward to these at all till I saw the preview pages.

Stan Lee and Komikwerks and The Pulse has the news as well.

The Myth of 8-Opus

The Pulse talks with creators about webcomics.

Gilbert Hernandez explains the new Vertigo book Sloth

Ale Garza on Batgirl

Eisner Winners have been announced if you missed them

Why Do "You" Read Comics?

All the Rage has rumors of an "Ultimate DC" Line, Adam Hughes on Batman and Wonder Woman minis, new Concrete, and Aftermath

Check out the excellent Basement Tapes by Casey and Fraction. Good points are made.

Steven Grant talks about the change in tone of this years SDCC.

Augie supplies us with some reviews including the wonderful Family Reunion by Lieber and Stewart. It did it's job and made me want to pick up the book the moment I set it down. Alas, I didn't, but I plan to.

Tony Moore is almost popping up as much as Kirkman these days. Check out his new book Fear Agent.

Dates for FCBD were discussed

Is it really news anymore that a company is publishing Manga? Everybody's doing it. C'mon you know you want to!

Matthew Craig talks Patriotic Superheroes

Randy Lander of The 4th Rail posts some sketchs from his SDCC '04 sketchbook

Movies-

Joel Schumacher to Wake the Dead

ILM and X-men 3

The Batman Costume

Elektra Lesbian Scene Fanboys rejoice.

Brosnan says goodbye to Bond and looks like a dork in the new mustache. Please tell me they aren't making a comeback.

3 people from Singapore break movie watching record

Revenge of the Sith

Bradbury's A Sound of Thunder becomes a movie.

A Simpsons Film is confirmed

Spielberg On Transformers Film

The New Fantastic Four talk.

Awesome Sin City Posters and it's a Translation of the book not a Re-imagining

Courtney Crumrin has been picked up by FOX

If you haven't seen it yet, check out World's Finest by Sandy Corrola and then check out this interview. After that make sure to read about his upcoming Aquaman movie.

Aronofsky Directing Watchmen

Rights to The Spirit have been purchased by Odd Lot Entertainment

New Line is making Death

More information on the Transformers movie.

A new Zorro is coming.

Geoffrey Rush in talks for Pirates sequel

Damon, DiCapprio, and Scorcese in Infernal Affiars

Ghost in the Shell 2 now has a trailer

More details on the FF movie

Design-

Are You Happy?

Newspiece Magazine

Shaul has an interesting site in both Hebrew and English. The solution was pretty elegant I think.

Very nice illustrations at HPX1

Check out this beautiful site

Cool motion graphics at Diesel Dreams

Once Upon a Forest is always a feast for the eyes

Misc-

Celebrity Lookalikes

Now you too can have a talking car and make that cool Woosh Woosh sound.

Real Networks has discovered how to make their files play on the Ipod despite Apple.

Meanwhile Apple seems to have a problem with a Fuse.

For Johnny Bacardi, proving "you can put anything with Johnny and it sounds cool", take a look at Johnny Whatever.

Enjoy!