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Marvel Welcomes You to "Carnage USA" - Comic Book Resources

It's a whole new meaning for "red state" as Carnage’s maniacal reign of terror continues, courtesy of the critically acclaimed creative team of Zeb Wells and Clayton Crain, in Carnage USA #1 (of 5)! With Carnage leaving a wake of bloodshed and lunacy throughout the nation, Spider-Man and the Avengers must go on a brutal hunt to capture Cletus Kasaday before the American heartland falls under his mass-murdering spell.

I will buy this for Crain's art.

New Statesman - Alan Moore: "I've disproved the existence of death"

Since 2008, he has been occupied largely with writing his second novel, Jerusalem, due for publication next year. It could easily be the oddest novel ever written. Ostensibly a history of Moore's home town, Northampton, it features his favoured technique of appropriating characters from other literary works; the author describes its middle section as being like a "savage, hallucinating Enid Blyton".

Its wider purpose, Moore says, is to "disprove the existence of death" -- but that is if he can get it into print at all: it will clock in at 750,000 words, making it longer (by far) than Vikram Seth's hefty A Suitable Boy and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. The book is so long that the only printers who might be able to tackle it are Bible-makers.

His first book, Voice Of The Fire, is one of the best books I've ever read.

Ol' Cap's feelin' blue! Check out some new Captain America pics and his spiffy new website!
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Captain America Trailer | Official Movie Site | July 22, 2011

SISKEL & EBERT & ROEPER & PHILLIPS Versus The DC Comics Movies!! Herc's Classic TV Clips Of The Day!!
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Watch the clips. Good fun.

Oh man...just to know that it's Hugo Weaving acting under those(REALLY GOOD PRACTICAL MAKE UP)fx has me loving this movie long time.

Yeah, that looks badass!

Alan Moore’s Neonomicon To Be Collected With The Courtyard In September Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors



This book was ****ED UP.

Frank Miller’s Holy Terror From Legendary Comics In September Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

Originally Holy Terror was to be Batman: Holy Terror by Frank Miller. But when DC fired Bob Schreck over the Batman pottymouth episode, that was not to be.

The main character was rejigged, renamed The Fixer, and now this revenge fantasy, thematically one man taking down those responsible for the 9/11 attacks, but no doubt having wider reference and meaning, will be published ten years to the month after that tragedy, by Legendary Comics. Frank Miller’s Holy Terror, in September, in hardcover for $29.99.

I hate to say it, but... pass.

100 Bullets Is

Two years ago, writer Brian Azzarello gave the cryptic clue about a potential television adaptation of his Vertigo series 100 Bullets, telling MTV “Television — there’s an idea!… That’s all I’ll say. Television… or maybe something that’s not just TV” which was taken as a reference to HBO.

Well, yesterday, things got a lot more concrete. DC Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns spoke to Fast Company and in the midst of a discussion of multi-media brand extensions of various projects said;


There are stories throughout the decades that work really well. There are also really great characters. For instance, there’s a character called Hourman. He’s been around for 60 years, but has never had his own series. So we develop him in house a little bit more, and then we talk to the people at Warner Television about what their take could be. Raven, who is part of the Teen Titans, is another character we’ve explored. Raven’s very well-known and loved, but she’s always been part of a team. You’ve seen Rosemary’s Baby? Picture that kid grown up. So it’s a really interesting mythology to delve into. Vertigo has a comic, 100 Bullets, which is a great story if you like crime comics, and it’s going to be a great TV show. Vertigo comics tend to create their own worlds, so we can see clearly what each story line is, and consider them for television or film.