Ben Templesmith tweeted a sketch he did of Wolverine that he offered up as line art for any aspiring colorist to practice on. BleedingCool.com reported it here and guessed that it might be a future cover, which Templesmith later shot down.
So the Wolverine movie comes out this week.
1. Leaked copies have been SAVAGED by fans.
2. From what watchers of the leaked copies have indicated, they've turned one fan favorite character into a walking, talking (?) cluster fuck.
3. Rumors of multiple endings (ala CLUE) are somewhat worrisome when used as an indicator of quality.
4. Swine flu epidemic doesn't exactly encourage one to attend a packed showing of a blockbuster movie.
What will I be doing at 12am Thursday night/Friday morning?
Watching X-Men: Origins: Wolverine.
So, you know, they'll think I'm voting for them to do something exactly like this again. Sorta like X-Men 3 & Spider-Man 3.
Ugh. My addiction to seeing summer popcorn flicks
It isn't embeddable yet, but over on MySpace, 20th Century Fox has made the new trailer available. This seems to be the way tentpole movies debut their trailer: tack it on to a big Friday release and then throw it online the following Monday.
You'll have to add the movie's profile as a friend in order to see it, but you can find it here.
From Lee Newman of Ultimate Comics, the list of top-selling books at one of their locations in North Carolina for what was released on 11/12/08. Pull lists are not included, as this is meant to capture what is being bought off the shelf.
1. Amazing Spider-Man #577
2. The Stand: Captain Trips #3
3. Batman: Cacophony #1
4. Action Comics #871
5. Nightwing #150
6. Wolverine #69
7. Detective Comics #850
8. BPRD: The Warning #5
9. Green Lantern Corps #30
10. Dark Tower: Treachery #3
Commentary:
It was a light week and rain on Friday and Saturday hurt our sales a bit. The new store is on one of those "main street" type strips next to Duke Campus. It is not a mall or a shopping center with a major draw so the weather can have adverse effects on foot traffic into the store. That is what happens when a large group of your clientele is vehicleless and the rest thinks it will be too hard to park... although when the weather is bad Ninth St suddenly becomes an easy place to park.
1. Stupid Spider-Man all over the place. As mentioned in the comments last week, yes the creative team does play a part in this, but natural attrition has not happened since New Ways to Die ended. Seems like a lot of the One More Day haters may have just liked what the end result was after all.
3. Little disappointing. The art is hurting this one big time, I am hearing a lot of gripes in the stores.
4. New Krypton is a success!!! Action is in the top ten.
The man who wrote SATANIC VERSES says he's a super-hero expert?
"I'm a world expert on superhero comics," Salman Rushdie told us last night at the New York Public Library's Library Lions benefit, where he was among the honorees. "I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me." The Satanic Verses author owns oil paintings of Spider-Man and Wolverine, signed by Stan Lee. Also, he collected comic books as a kid, but, sadly, his father threw them away. "They’d be worth so much money now if he hadn’t done that. You know, 1950s and sixties Dell Comics, and Marvel; it would be worth a fortune,” he said. And while he hasn’t yet written a superhero into one of his novels, Rushdie's actually considering writing a comic book. "Just recently I’ve been approached by a couple of publishers of what are now called graphic novels to say, would I like to do one. And, I mean, I haven’t said yes. But I am quite interested."
But who knew: Drew Rosenhaus reads a lot of classic Stephen King...and comic books. His favorite characters are Batman, Punisher & Wolverine. He "typically like(s) the guys that don't have super powers and get by on other things".
He discussed this in an ESPN chat and on the ESPN Football Today podcast with Jeremy Green. He didn't discuss it on ESPN FANTASY FOCUS: FOOTBALL, but it's the best of the ESPN podcasts out there.
I often read/hear people complaining that so many of today's super-hero comic books are just fanfic dressed up and published. Normally, I really don't see it at all. Sometimes, I see it...but don't get the problem.
Take OLD MAN LOGAN, for instance. So many of the elements in the story could have come from someone just throwing wild ass ideas out there that don't have to take the time to fill in all the blanks. There's a clunky moment or two where Millar has thugs spouting out Ashley's heritage, again, when that just seems unnecessary.
But overall? Those wild ass ideas are executed very well and accompanied with beautiful artwork to make (so far) a damn enjoyable story.
Maybe someone out there can tell me where the fanfic complaint comes into the super-hero comic book pastime? As far as I can tell, it's just a way of trying to say you don't like a story and dress it up more like a factual observation than one's singular opinion.
(original two video version of the trailer was pulled down; here's a replacement)
Doesn't hit stores until January. I'd still lay 5-to-1 odds that it hits shelves before the end of the Damon Lindelof mini does.
SCHWAPP!!! featured reviewer Lee Newman (who we may be losing to another site soon) reviewed Logan earlier this week of here. But I was so impressed by it that I felt it needed double coverage...as the pick of the week!
by Lee Newman
Logan #1 "Ultimate Comics, we have more comics then your shop has!"
Published by Marvel
Written by Brian K Vaughan
Art by Eduardo Risso
Wow, leave it to BKV to make the most interesting Wolvie story since Millar’s final issue. Like Wolverine (Vol. 2) #32, this book is set in World War Two. Here, Logan meets Atsuko in the Japanese country side and after the last page which has an awesome reveal… you know this can’t end well.
Vaughan is sparse with the internal monologue. While the lack of narration hurt early issues of Wolverine Origins, Vaughan uses it to cut down on the Noir kitsch and allows the character to breath. Here we find out (at least in this Marvel Knights title, which the line really seems to be going the Elseworlds route of late) that Wolverine’s memory has been spotty for a long time. Evidently, the House of M events brought back the repressed memories on display here (further confounding my attempts to figure out what that MK means in the top right corner of the cover). There is an interesting story set up here with plenty of foreshadowing to what is in store the three issues. As always, BKV brings solid dialogue and great plotting.
A top notch effort. Worth picking up before scant ordering makes it hard to find. With all the hype of the end of Y, movie talk and Vaughan’s gig as Lost writer, this may be hard to find in a week or
two. Also, like Origin before it, when Wolverine is good, the fans go crazy.
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