Mark Strong has been cast as the Villain Sinestro in The Green Lantern Movie.
..smoldering...Photo; IMDB.com
Strong seems like an excellent choice to play the Green Lantern gone bad. It should be interesting to finally get to see Sinestro in a live action movie. With Mark Strong as Sinesto and Peter Sargaard as Hector Hammond, the villians alone are making me want to see this film.
-Aaron M
grrr...arrrggg
The Austin Wizard World Comicon has announced James Marsters as their first celebrity guest.
Marsters played the role of the oh-so-sexy vampire Spike on television shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.
Marsters will also be appearing at the Philadelphia and Chicago Wizard World Comicons. I can’t wait to see who else will be appearing at the Austin Comicon!
-Aaron M
Cover from Marvel.com
Second Coming is the third instillation to the Messiah Complex and the Messiah War! The story will conclude Cable & Hope’s journey from the future wrath of X-Man Bishop to the present where all characters collide in what promisses to be one of the most exciting story lines since The Dark Phoenix Saga! A schorcher for sure! Coming out in March 2010
Ok MaD fans the following news may requiring a wet-knap…or making me breakfast! The Astonishing comic line is expanding like my downstairs area due to this AWESOME NEWS!
Art by Kaare Andrews
Artist Kaare Andrews
Marvel is putting out a relaunch of Astonishing X-Men as well as an AstonishingSpiderman/Wolverine comic that is sure to be awesome!
Some preview art by Kaare Andrews is enough to make my mouth water, and his art is awesome too!
Check out Marvel to read more about the hopes for the two series sure to satisfy everyone’s “X”-rated cravings!
[side note check out those jeans on Logan...o.k. I'm done]
(image from DC Comics)
Do we love a murderous, demented sociopath? We do when she’s this well-dressed! More seriously, I’m speaking of the illustriously unstable Cupid. Our manic Mutant of the Week, she was originally a soldier for the secret para-military organization Cobalt. With a birth name like Carrie Hartnell, you’re kind of guaranteed to star in a Stephen King novel or start a messianic cult. She does not disappoint! Driven a bit mad by a black ops mission gone horribly wrong, she was shaken to her core and signed up for drug treatments to make her an unflinching soldier once again. The compound named ATE did that and more, driving her to want more and more of almost everything. It increased her physical prowess to super-human levels & caused amnesia. This cocktail of catastrophe was released on Star City and the city could never be the same afterwards. Cupid has murdered many of the newer Green Arrow villains and though her madness seems to be abated, who can say what the future may hold? I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for anyone with a Green Arrow fixation. Cupid, I lub ya, babe.
-windiebird
(image from Marvel’s Siege #1)
Ladies & gentles, I have a confession. I am a teenage drama queen. And more importantly, Siege is blowing my mind! Siege is Marvel’s four-part miniseries culminating in seven full years of drama and setup on good ol’ Earth 616, focusing on Norman Osborn’s attack on the newly-materialized Asgard. There are, as always, tie-ins and one-shots that fully flesh out the details and background of the story but the meat of the conflict is contained in the main series. We prefer all meats to be well-contained.
Anyways, I love many Marvel characters but I have certainly been spotty in my following of the Marvel U’s story in the past few years. I’ve picked up a few collections (House of M, Death of Cap, things like that) but I haven’t been a True Believer. With talks about the dawn of a new Heroic Age for many of our favorite marvelous heroes it had me thinking about jumping back into the fray of collecting.
Siege, if you had any doubts, is THE perfect place to jump in on. The reader is given a brief introduction in the beginning of the book and it is more than enough to follow the story contained in Siege. THEN at the end of the first issue, we’re given a special round of Cup O’ Joe wherein Joe Quesada explains all of the threads that have led to Siege and what might come next. Honestly, it’s like this series was made for me. Not only am I feeling up-to-speed with the rest of the readership but I’m truly (and sexually) excited for what’s to come and what I might be able to get in on with this bright age approaching. I’m recommending Siege for anyone with the ability to read and an interest in Marvel. Which should be everyone. I’ve been catching bits of Blackest Night as well and we’re quite “stoked” (we ams so straight, y’allz) about Brightest Day and what that could mean for the DCU as well but I had to share my newfound, polyamorous attraction to Marvel!
Looks like everyone is headed towards the light (Italian dressing at the salad bar).
Happy Olympics Day & enjoy your Valentine’s!
-windiebird
So if you haven’t heard Superman is getting another chance on the big screen. Christopher Nolan the director of the revamped Batman films, has been asked to help Superman get his much needed makeover.
Promotional image released by Warner Bros
Nolan most likely will not direct the new Superman movie only help point it in the right direction. This will not be a follow up to Superman Returns it will be a completely separate film. I was actually hoping for a Wonder Woman, Flash, Teen Titans or even a Superboy movie before they made another Superman film. The main thing I hope they do in the next film is introduce a Superman villain other than Lex Luthor.
- Aaron M
The comic book publisher Archaia and The Jim Henson Company have teamed up to create a Fraggle Rock comic mini-series. Issue #1 will be released in April following a Fraggle Rock/Mouse Guard flip book will be given out on May 1st on Free Comic Book Day. Archaia also plans on releasing a Dark Crystal and Labyrinth mini-series coming out later in 2010.
Cover from MouseGuard.net
