WonderCon 2011: Spotlight on Robert Kirkman
Here are some highlights from the Spotlight on Robert Kirkman panel at WonderCon 2011:
Update on Season 2 of The Walking Dead:
-Kirkman will do more writing for the upcoming season
-He has relocated to LA with his family so he can be there everyday to work on the scripts.
-TWD filming to continue in Atlanta.
-Still in talks with Joe Hill and Stephen King for individual episode development, but they are not on board yet.
-On diverging from the comic: “To do what happens in the comic would bore me to tears…let’s do THIS (something else) instead.”
-Hopes to gain experience in the editing room and other areas of working on a TV show like this.
WonderCon 2011: DC Nation Panel
Here are some of the highlights for the DC Nation Panel at WonderCon 2011:
-DC has always been committed to giving the readers what they ‘like, what you don’t like, and what gets you excited about comics’.
-Glad to hear people like how things are going, and always listing to input from the fans, including restarting the letters from fans sections at the back of issues, which helps give the creators a boost and keeps them connected on a personal level.
-Fan question: ‘So War of the Green Lanterns, what’s that about?’ Didio: “Well, the Green Lanterns… are at war”.
-Fan question: Deadman: Is he still alive or is he dead right now? Answer: Yes.
WonderCon 2011 Coverage
It’s time again for WonderCon! This year is the convention’s 25th Anniversary and we have a lot of exciting coverage planned. Watch this space for our ongoing list!
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Blu-ray Review: Hereafter
Death, and what happens after we die, is a very deep (and common) question that remains a big mystery for all of us. Is there anything out there? Is there any way for us to possibly know? These are the questions posed in Hereafter, the new release from director Clint Eastwood and Warner Bros Pictures.
We are treated to three (barely) intertwined stories about three lives being affected by death and how the characters deal with it. Matt Damon plays a retired psychic who has turned away from his gift of talking with the deceased. A French television reporter named Marie (Cécile de France), who is covering a news story in Thailand, gets caught up in a tsunami and can’t escape.
Blu-ray Review: Venture Bros The Complete Season Four
Now maybe I got a little intoxicated before starting this review, but I don’t think my opinion would have changed in the slightest: The Venture Brothers Season Four Blu-ray is the most concentrated source of awesome that money can buy. I am 90% sure that isn’t the whiskey talking, and is instead my unadulterated devotion to this genius series. If you are a fan of comics, science fiction, or anything that uses the word “adventure” in its genre tag, you probably already know about The Venture Brothers from their first three excellent seasons. If not, you should. Look into it now. They are on Blu-ray (and DVD)!
Comics Review: The Walking Dead #83 (MASSIVE SPOILERS)
By Matt Sernaker
There are a few moments in comics these days that really make you stop and reflect on what you just read (the shocking death of [REDACTED] in the penultimate issue of Y: The Last Man was a massive jaw dropping shocker that still makes me sad to this day). For those of us who have been reading the ongoing story of The Walking Dead, we have become accustom to Robert Kirkman’s knack for keeping his audience guessing…and the newest issue (#83) again not only pushes the envelope, but is also rather disturbing on multiple levels.
So many spoilers in the rest of this article. Read at your own risk.
Blu-ray Review: Skyline
by Karl Madsen, ComicsOnline.com
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
By now we all know what happens when we travel to foreign countries for a vacation. Beaches, exotic drinks with fruit and little umbrellas, local customs, disappearances, human trafficking, torture, sacrifices…and so much more to make you never want to leave. So how mundane and boring would a vacation in Los Angles with your movie mogul friend be?
MegaCon 2011: DC Universe
Dan Didio, Geoff Johns, Tony Bedard, Steve Scott, Rob Hunter and Ethan Van Sciver were all present to discuss the DC Universe at MegaCon.
Geoff Johns said he’d be writing a new Aquaman series but said he could not say more then that. Didio asked fans not to ask what happens after Flashpoint because it had stopped a previous panel. Via phone Peter J Tomasi said that fans would be very happy with the ending of Brightest Day.
We were told that we would learn who had been chosen as the White Lantern’s champion in the coming week. They thanked fans for having stuck through the series and again siad the payoff will be in the conclusion. They were glad to have brought back Maxwell Lord in Justice League: Generation Lost. Didio said theres so much potential with him as a character.
MegaCon 2011: Aquaman Book to be written by Geoff Johns
Geoff Johns announced at Megacon that he will be writing a new Aquaman series later this year following the events of Brightest Day.
What does this mean for the other heroes who have recently been disintegrated by the White Lantern? Hawkman and Hawkgirl fans can only hope that good news is around the corner. Can Geoff Johns do for Aquaman what he has done for Green Lantern and The Flash? Only time will tell, but Aquaman may be Johns’ greatest challenge yet. It has not been firmly established whether this will be a ongoing or a limited series.
Is it possible that Aquaman will be the chosen champion of the White Lantern?
DVD Review: Batman: The Brave and the Bold- Season One, Part Two
The adventures of the Caped Crusader have made their way to DVD in Batman: The Brave and the Bold – Season One, Part Two! With help from Booster Gold, Etrigan the Demon, Black Canary, Blue Beetle, The Huntress, and Aquaman, Batman is able to successfully save the day, week after week!
Episode Highlights:
“Trials of the Demon!”- Batman is transported back in time to save Jason Blood! Now Batman must team up with Etrigan the Demon and Sherlock Holmes to stop Jim Craddock’s mystical plan to gain immortality. Batman recognizes his future foe and tries to save him from becoming the Gentleman Ghost. This episode features a nice homage to the Batman Elseworld‘s story “Gotham by Gaslight”.
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Anime DVD Review: FLCL (Fooly Cooly), The Complete Series
It’s not a tumor!
Finally, finally the brilliant OVA (Original Video Animation) from the creators of Neon Genesis Evangelion is available in a single DVD or Blu-ray format, loaded with juicy extras! FLCL or Fooly Cooly follows young Naota in awkward flirtations with his brother’s ex-girlfriend, as he suddenly encounters a guitar-slinging alien girl named Haruhara Haruko, her sentient yellow Vespa, and a slew of robots Naota must fight. Luckily, he has the aid of Canti, a TV-headed humanoid bot that sprouts from Naota’s own noggin. All this madness is brought to you in glossy, vivid animation with a bangin’ soundtrack.
Giveaway: Tron 2-Movie Blu-ray Collection (Contest Ended)
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Movie Review: Sucker Punch
What happens when you put five incredibly hot (and scantily clad) women against Steam-Powered-Mechanical-Zombie-Nazis, Dragons, Monsters, Robots, and Stone Samurai Warriors? You get Sucker Punch, the newest spectacle from Director Zack Synder (300, Watchmen). This new visual endeavor starts off as a slow-going intro to a psychadelic music video (enter: Jefferson Airplane’s ‘White Rabbit’, just in case the audience wasn’t aware that they should be on a hard-and-fast acid trip), crescendos into a dystopian first-person-shooter (ala Bioshock), and ends with a half-hour attempt to tie fantasy and reality together in a satisfactory ending.
Book Review: The Wise Man’s Fear plus interview with Patrick Rothfuss!
By Brenda Waldrop
Patrick Rothfuss follows up his wildly successful first novel “The Name of the Wind” with this superb telling of “day two” in Kvothe’s story.
To say that “The Wise Man’s Fear” was one of the most superb pieces of literature I’ve had the pleasure to read in some time would be an understatement. Every one of just under 1,000 pages is suffused with such incredible detail that the reader is instantly whisked away into Kvothe’s world of Sympathy and music, treachery and betrayal, friendship, love, and madness. The pages practically turn themselves, and if like me you have a day job that requires your presence, you’ll find yourself suddenly realizing that sleep is overrated!