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Comic artist Bill Seinkiewicz (X-men, Moon Knight) playing around with a tablet drawing program.

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JWR said:
Comic artist Bill Seinkiewicz (X-men, Moon Knight) playing around with a tablet drawing program.

[video]http://fcmx.net/vec/get.swf?i=003702[/video]

Sorry having trouble getting this to enbed.
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Adgy is going to get wood! :grin:
 
Before He Died, Thieves Tried To Steal Tony DeZuniga’s Identity | Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

Warning. This is the kind of story that can sicken a grown man’s stomach.

Earlier this year, Jonah Hex and Black Orchid co-creator Tony DeZuniga suffered a heart attack and was hospitalised, his family stretched trying to pay medical bills and make it through. Last week, he passed away.

But before that happened, someone tried to scam his friends using Tony’s reputation. This e-mail was sent out to many;

From: Tony DeZuniga <xxxxxxx@xxxx.com>
To: undisclosed recipients: ;
Sent: Sat, Apr 28, 2012 5:39 am

This message may be coming to you as a surprise but I need your help.Few days back we made an unannounced vacation trip to Manila,Philippines. Everything was going fine until last night when we got mugged on our way back to the hotel,all cash and credit card were stolen off us but luckily for us we still have our passports with us.

I’ve been to the Embassy and the Police here but they’re not helping issues at all they asked us to wait for 3weeks but we can’t wait till then and our flight leaves in few hours from now but we’re having problems settling the hotel bills and the hotel manager won’t let us leave until we settle the hotel bills, we are freaked out at the moment … I really need your financially assistance Please let me know if you can help us out?

Regards

Tony DeZuniga
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This official Watchmen toaster should get Alan Moore even angrier | Blastr

Here's a snippet from the company's official press release:

"These collector toasters will imprint iconic images from your favorite Warner Bros. films and television series onto slices of bread to make a fun impression on your breakfast, lunch or midnight snack! The extra-wide slots allow you to not only toast bread, but also bagels and more. UL tested and approved, it includes illuminated function buttons for cancel, reheat and frozen. The toaster design is a beautiful glossy black finish featuring the logo from the film or television series, and is a compliment to any counter top."

The toasters are expected to be available this September. It's not clear yet just what image will be imprinted on your breakfast if you get the Watchmen model, but smart money's on Rorshach's face, because then you can play that game with yourself where the toast looks up at you and cries "Save us," and you can look down and whisper "No."
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Dr. Naysay said:
Good. It was a great idea ruined by stupid stupid people.
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But if you read the article it seems as if it is being re-kajiggered for a relaunch

However, DC has already said in September they're going to have a bunch of #0 issues to show stuff that happened before the #1 issues. There will also be a late August JLI Annual scheduled to be written by Geoff Johns and Dan DiDio, claiming to tie into the "shocking" events of JLI #12 and that it's essentially where DiDio is going to end the tale of O.M.A.C. by revealing his true nature - since his own book was one of those first New 52 titles cancelled. Also of note is that Batwing #12 features the JLI on the cover as well, as he's recently joined that team.

The fact that Johns, who's currently writing the main Justice League title, is stepping in for the JLI Annual that is asking the question "is this the final adventure ever for the Justice League International?" would seem to indicate that there are plans afoot for some kind of revamp or relaunch (they do love a re-launch). The most recent issue of Justice League dealt with trying to get the team to open itself up to new members, after all, and Green Arrow tried his damnedest to be one of them - only to be recruited by Steve Trevor for a different, unrevealed team. Will they trot out a Justice League Elite, perhaps, to coincide with the release of the animated film Superman vs. The Elite? Or is it just getting canceled like any other book would?
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Leviathan: graphic novel of a gigantic cruise ship lost at sea for 20 years - Boing Boing

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Sounds pretty awesome.
 
James Badge Dale Joins IRON MAN 3 as Eric Savin

With production only a few weeks away, the cast is firming up for director Shane Black’s Iron Man 3. Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, and Don Cheadle are all set to return for the third installment of the Iron Man franchise, with Sir Ben Kingsley, Guy Pearce, and Rebecca Hall rounding out the newcomers of the cast. Now one more Marvel newbie has been added in a particularly interesting role, as Variety reports that James Badge Dale (The Pacific) has joined the cast as Eric Savin aka Coldblood. Hit the jump for more.

The plot of Iron Man 3 is said to draw heavily from Warren Ellis’ Iron Man: Extremis comic series and will reportedly involve nanotechnology and the spread of a virus. Kingsley is set as the villain (rumored to be The Mandarin), Pearce is playing Aldrich Killian, and Hall is poised to play a scientist who matches wits with Tony Stark.

Per Variety, Dale will be playing Eric Savin. In the comic series, Savin was a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army at Camp Killan who was put in charge of Project: Ultra. More interesting, though, is the fact that the character eventually stepped on a land mine and was resurrected as the cyborg Coldblood via cybernetic surgery. There’s no word on whether he’d appear as Coldblood in Iron Man 3 or if his role in this film is simply setting the character up for future Marvel installments, but it’s certainly an exciting prospect.

I think Dale makes a fantastic addition to what is already an impressive cast. Credit goes to Black and Marvel for choosing talented thesps in lieu of “pretty actors” or people chosen simply for their commercial value. Dale impressed earlier this year in The Grey, and he’ll next be seen in Robert Zemeckis’ Flight. Furthermore, he has roles opposite Brad Pitt in World War Z and in Disney’s The Lone Ranger.
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Adgy will squee a bit.
 


This looks far better than I was expecting. Still, it does look like a mashup between The Cape and a Bowflex commercial, but it doesn't look ridiculously bad.
 
Dan DiDio Calls Before Watchmen A “Love Letter” To Alan Moore’s Creation. Plus New Jim Lee Covers. | Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

DiDio does also respond to Moore’s accusation that DC are “completely shameless” for this project, saying;

“Honestly I can understand why he might feel the way he does because this is a personal project to him. He has such a long and illustrious career and he’s been able to stand behind the body of work he’s created. But quite honestly the idea of something shameless is a little silly, primarily because I let the material speak for itself and the quality of the material speak for itself.”

We also get a little back and forth over Moore’s claims that DC is doing nothing but build on twenty-five year old ideas of his, DiDio saying “Realistically some of Alan’s strongest works at DC outside of Watchmen were built off of characters like Swamp Thing which was created by Len Wein, Superman, Batman, so many of our great characters he’s worked on and they helped build his career.”

The Guardian reports Moore’s response to this point; “I understood that whether I had created the characters like John Constantine, or whether I’d simply recreated them beyond all recognition like Swamp Thing, that these would just go into the general comic company’s stockpiles. I’ve never objected to that. I mean, I don’t think it is necessarily the fairest thing, but I’ve not objected to that, The thing was, that wasn’t what we were told Watchmen was. We were told that Watchmen was going to be a title that we owned and that we would determine the destinies of.”

And that’s the difference. DC says Watchmen was work-for-hire at the beginning. But at the beginning, the creators said they rejected a work for hire agreement and got one that was described as creator-owned, as aspect that was widely reported at the time. Until the creators realised that suddenly this was no longer the case…
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