Archive for June, 2007
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Here is your weekly dose of Edit, but to truly comprehend this week’s picture you must checkout the second picture after the break. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I won myself a copy of the “Midnight Crossing” trade. It will be signed by Mike Carey and personally mailed to me from him!
The contest that Carey came up with was simple. You had to take a character from a comic and a character from a play or novel and have them meet and interact. Here is the quick scene that I wrote for the contest: ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The final voting of Round One of KIRK vs PICARD ends today. I wasn’t one of the five finalists, but I was one of the honorable mentions. Round two starts tonight and writers have until Monday to submit their new sequences.
So hopefully I’ll get more than just an honorable mention in Round 2.
This is wrong and unfair and not cool! Kristen Bell is now dating Zachary Quinto (Sylar).
Jeff Smith has a new book and shared a teaser on his website!
The image above is the cover for a 6 page preview comic I’m working on for the San Diego Comic-Con International. It’s also going to be the cover of RASL no.1 when the series starts coming out from Cartoon Books in 2008.
I just got this press release in the mail. It’s VERY well written. I wonder who in the world could be helping Th3rd World with all their marketing? Weird the press release says they are based out of Ocean City, MD.
For Immediate Release: TH3RD WORLD STUDIOS LOVES RETAILERS
The first issue of “Omega Chase,” a sci-fi mash-up of Zombies and the Old West, appeared in Wednesday’s Diamond Previews and its publisher, Th3rd World Studios (http://www.th3rdworld.com/), is doing its best to accommodate retailers.
“We know we are a new company and it’s hard for stores to take a chance and place orders with us,” Th3rd World Studios Co-Publisher Mike DeVito said. “That’s why we are making all of our titles returnable. Any issues of ‘Omega Chase’ not purchased within four months of its release date, Th3rd World will buy back for a substantial percentage of the cover price.” ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Thanks to an economical $34 million budget, the recent “TMNT” CG-animated feature took in nearly three times that cost in its theatrical release – and is expected to do loads more on DVD.
Suffice it to say sequel possibilities have seemed likely, and according to Mirage Studios’ Steve Murphy at The 5th Turtle, they just got even likelier this week.
“As of two weeks ago Imagi Entertainment (the TMNT movie animation studio) informed Mirage Studios that there was a 50-50 chance of a CGI film sequel. Last week they upped the odds to 70-30 in favor of a sequel, as talks between Imagi and their distribution partners Warner Brothers and the Weinstein Group seem to be heading in a positive direction.”
Hopefully we’ll get a decent story and villains next time around.
In one of the oddest pieces of recasting you’re ever likely to see, Jason Dohring is joining CBS’ “Moonlight.” Dohring is the latest piece of recasting on the vampire private investigator drama, which has undergone some reimagining since “Angel” veteran David Greenwalt came on as showrunner.
Alex O’Loughlin still remains on board as the show’s central blood-sucking gumshoe. That hasn’t changed. His human love interest has gone from Shannon Lucio’s intrepid TV reporter to Sophia Myles’ dogged Internet reporter.
Dohring will step in for Rade Serbedzija as the ancient vampire Josef, the main character’s mentor. Serbedzija is a 60-year-old Croatia-born actor most recently seen in “Shooter” and on this past season of “24.” Dohring, of course, is a 25-year-old Ohio-born actor most recently seen breaking hearts as Logan Echolls on The CW’s “Veronica Mars.”
One good bit of news is that Fox’s turning of the “Die Hard” franchise into a PG-13 effort hasn’t yielded the extra rewards that it was hoping for – and thus will hopefully put the kabosh on other studios considering similar ideas.
The moderately well-reviewed “Live Free or Die Hard” took in $9.1 million on its opening day yesterday (including Tuesday night previews), a solid but relatively quiet debut that slots it in between “Cats & Dogs” and “Legally Blonde 2″ as the 27th highest Wednesday opening of all time.
Both those films went on to make just over $20 million on their first weekend (ironically enough the last “Die Hard” film had a $22 million opening weekend in 1995), around $35-40 million in their first five days, and garnered just over $90 million in total. The previous three “Die Hard” films have all hovered between $83-117 million domestic totals, and despite higher ticket prices it’s looking likely that this one will fall into that range as well.
The big question will be foreign box-office with the first film’s international take just over half the domestic tally, yet by the third film the foreign cume was nearly triple that of the domestic haul. The very jingo-istic tone of the advertisements and July 4th angles of the film’s storyline itself may have a negative impact on that front which is why international marketing has downplayed those aspects as much as possible.
I got this photo in my email today from Apple with the message “Say Hello To iPhone. Today.” So I figured I will explain why I won’t be saying hello to an iPhone. There are three main reasons I don’t want one.? The first is that it costs just as much as a Playstation 3. If I’m going to spend that much money it would so be for a Playstation.
The second reason is that the iPhone will only work with Cingular. I wouldn’t mind switching from Verizon to Cingular except for in MD and the DC area, Verizon gets the best reception and EVERYONE has Verizon.
Then finally, Apple really screwed up the iPhone because the largest one only has 8 gigs of memory. I have an iPod with 80 gigs and I have trouble fitting TV shows and music on it. What the heck would I do with something that only has 8 gigs?
This is about the most extreme sport anyone’s ever dreamed up: space diving. A group of space scientists who aren’t actually insane aim to give it a try by 2009, jumping from 120,000 feet in a specially designed space suit that looks like a buggy-rollin’ getup, but without those silly roller skates. The daredevils hope to develop the technique not only as a sport, but also as a possible escape route for astronauts in low Earth orbit.
After they’ve mastered the 120,000-foot jump, their ultimate goal is to engineer survivable jumps from 150 miles or even higher above the earth. In a controlled dive, the jumpers would reach blistering speeds of more than 2500 mph, and as they begin to enter the earth’s outer atmosphere, a special drogue shoot opens, stabilizing their descent and preventing uncontrolled tumbling which could be fatal.
As soon as they get closer to the Earth’s dense atmosphere, their freefall slows to escape velocity, a mere 120 mph. At 3000 feet, a conventional chute opens, lowering the intrepid adventurer to terra firma. That’s going to be one brave soul who first attempts this apparently maniacal act. But with the right technology, it might just work. Sign me up.
Ever chopped part of your finger off in a bagel slicer? I’m more of a waffle man myself, but if you’ve ever sacrificed a chunk of skin to the bagel gods, you know that getting skin grafted on is a doubly painful experience. Not only does it involve surgery on your wound but you also need to cut some extra skin off somewhere else to serve as the donor. Owies!
Looking our for non-masochists, a Cambridge, U.K., company has created a “skin-graft replacement product” — essentially a synthetic skin. Since it uses much of the same elements in normal human skin (collagen-based fibroblasts, for you med students), it’s technically called an allogeneic replacement, which means it’s from an unrelated donor. In a trial, six volunteers had the lab-manufactured product, called ICX-SKN, grafted onto a wound or burn. After 28 days, the synthskin had fully integrated with the patient’s, closing the wound.
Not much going on in the Entertainment industry, so here are so pics of Me and Sarah picking blueberries! We went yesterday and in an hour we managed to pick over 8 and a half pounds. What’s odd is that during the hour she only ate 3 berries and I ate a LOT more than that, but I still managed to pick .12 pounds more than her!
By picking them ourselves, we only had to pay $1.75 a pound. I’ve never bought a blue berry in my life, but Sarah says that’s SUPER SUPER CHEAP and well worth it. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Lisa, of Neptune Comics (where I get my comics), and I had a phone convo today about her new group P.O.W.E.R. and how we can get the word out. The purpose of the organization is Promoting Ownership, Writing & drawing, Editing and Reading by more women and minorities in the comic book industry… so it’s a good cause.
Basically POWER is putting out feelers and trying to come up with a positive pro-active campaign… whether it be some sort of book drive or a letter writer session.
Now that we have a good start at growing our network, it’s time to take some action. In order to get ourselves noticed we need to do more than just join an on-line network — otherwise we’re not much different than MySpace. This is a call for action! I’m looking for ideas that will grab attention and show the comic book industry that we’re serious. Maybe a letter writing campaign where everyone sends in the letter along with a bra, or an offensive comic book cover that publisher released. Maybe a HUGE book drive that we all work on together and send the books to an inner city library somewhere. What do you think? Any ideas/suggestions? It’s time to act!
So if you have any good ideas or want to sign up for P.O.W.E.R. check it out here.
Speaking of Pop Candy, here is an AWSOME find that Whit just posted about. Someone merged “Pirates of the Caribbean” with “Goonies!” Maybe if they had actually done this, the final two “Pirates” films would have been watch-able.
