Our friends over at GEEKSOUT.org are hosting an art show, geek party and fundraiser in honor of George Takei’s 75th Birthday! Check out the information below and take part in this awesome event!
George Takei has gone where no man has gone before. He’s been a Japanese internment camp survivor, a swashbuckling star-ship pilot, a civic do-gooder, a fanboy peace-broker, and a booming voice for marriage equality. He’s more than just a star on the Hollywood Boulevard sidewalk. George Takei is a positive force for good in the universe! There’s no one quite like him in American pop culture and we want to pay homage his work, life, and handsome face.
Geeks OUT is holding its big annual fundraiser with a night of artwork inspired by everyone’s favorite gay sci-fi icon. Would you like to donate artwork? Send an email to submissions@geeksout.org.
But regardless of whether you’re an artist or not, please join us for this big and geeky celebration.
Proceeds from the event will benefit Geeks OUT, an organization out to rally and represent the growing community of comics and sci-fi fans who are queer. Geeks OUT holds monthly social events and establishes a queer-positive presence at comic conventions. For more information, visitwww.geeksout.org.
Would you like to volunteer to help out with the event? Contact Joey at info@geeksout.org.
The release of Immortals on DVD is this Tuesday, and though we are usually strictly comics when it comes to the site, we absolutley loved this movie! It doesn’t hurt that the lead is Henry Cavill star of the upcoming Superman movie ‘Man of Steel’. As compared to it’s producer’s previous film, ’300′, Immortals was not only visually beautiful, but was able to incorporate many characters with out this feeling like X-Men United, full of powers, but lacking on character build up.
With Mickey Rourke as crazy King Hyperion, this movie, though godly, is quite earthly. With Hyperion threatening to destroy all of humanity by means of obtaining the ‘ultimate weapon’, the Epirus Bow, it will take Theseus (Cavill) a young villager, and unbeknownst to him, godly trained warrior, to protect the future of mankind.
Good vs. evil, god vs. man, destiny vs. freewill. Cavill’s performance makes us even more excited about ‘Man of Steel’, but for now, we don’t mind being engulfed in an immortals world, over and over again. When are we gonna get a comic version of this?
San Fransico illustrator Kevin Wada taps into two things we love, editorial fashion and comic books! His work [below] shows a Vanity Fair take on on Marvel Superheroines; Rogue, Ms. Marvel, Emma Frost, Polaris, Storm, Psylocke and Sage, as well as single designs of Magneto, Dani Moonstar, and Bishop. His contrsuct of Bishop is really outstanding. Using repeticious blueprint like lines to convey movement only adds to the over all, dare I say, sexiness of the character’s design. I call it a casual steampunk with a splash of plaid. Picnic anyone?
Illustration by Kevin WadaIllustration by Kevin Wada
Illustration by Kevin Wada
Illustration by Kevin Wada
You can find more of Kevin Wada’s work on his home page HERE or on his bloggerHERE .
It’s always a good morning when I sign into one of the millions of social networks I belong to and find beautiful art too look at! Check out these pieces by Evan. Such wonderful colors and interesting character designs! You can check out more of Evan’s work on his deviantART site HERE and make sure to follow his tumblr HERE .
Aquaman by Evan Bryce CranstonBarbara Gordon/ Batgirl by Evan Bryce Cranston
As a gay, hispanic comic blogger, I often have a take what I can get attitude when it comes to comics being in the mainstream. I accept for now, but do not give in to the fact that Hollywood L.A. executives frequently shove sub-par reincarnations of my beloved superheroes and their storylines down my throat in various forms of media, knowing that I’ll be submissive for the sake of spreading comic book goodness. You can just hear them shouting, “Bottoms up!”.
This is not that though. Not entirely. The world as we know it is SO into reality T.V. that the comic book industry was going to jump on the wagon eventually. I don’t have “the cable” so this may be coming a little late [which is not the subject of this article]. With all the recent hoop-la about AMC’s new “reality” series Comic Book Men, I had to tune in to see if my preconceived notions were accurate or if in fact these men would show me something I didn’t already know.
Image: AMCtv.com
Starring creator Kevin Smith along with comic store, Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash, owner Walt, associates Ming and Mike, and resident loiterer Bryan, Comic Book Mengives you an insight into what goes on within the inner working of a comic book store, its associates, and its customers. Well… kind of.
Frankly the show is more like if Antique’s Road Show and Spike T.V. had an aggressive yet boring child who was somewhat racist, but mostly insecure. And side note, it’s a boy.
The show is split up between Mike and Ming buying memorabilia from customers, with no sales, and the whole gang, Smith included, around a poker/podcast table talking about random facts, making each other laugh with Coors Light humor and racially assaulting Ming, who for whatever reason, must enjoy it. I digress though, the aggressive borderline racist humor comes mainly from Bryan Johnson. Though I’m sure they all see it as boys having a good ol’ time, Ming is constantly used/blamed/referred to when someone needs belittling.
He is the quintessential Kato in that Green Hornet’s mess.
The team spends much of the hour making fun of the people who come in because of personality and looks, though they themselves are visually laughable, sporting messy bangs under baseball caps, sweaty exteriors due to prolonged standing and second-rate super villian facial hair. All except for Ming, whose “metro sexual” exterior, and by metro I mean he uses soap, gets his hot seat in a hot seat with Saruman, I mean Bryan Johnson.
But it’s really not about looks people. It’s about the lack of delivery, lack of quality, lack of substance and sans Ming, lack of diversity. The bottom line; the creators believe this show is what the majority think about and want from comic book stores and the people who run and go into them. It’s a shame that this opportunity, with its big cable television budget fell short of its potential. Ready for this? If only there was some sort of variation to this show. A variant, if you will. [yeah I typed that].
thevariants.com
There are indeed small production YouTube shows, like The Variants, with its shoestring budget, that in one ten minute episode delivers the funny in a way that makes fun of the industry, but doesn’t make a mockery of it or its people. There is real knowledge and respect, not just random comic facts, that goes into each webisode. The cast, Richard, Ken, Keli & Barry, do a mighty fine job of putting a new spin on what it really means to work at and own an independent comic book store. It’s scripted comedy for a diverse audience, which makes it easily relatable.
thevariants.com
The Variants is certainly not afraid to push boundaries and comically compete with not just comic book based series’, but comedy shows everywhere. At the end of its second season, The Variantscast is gearing up for its third, and is sure to show Comic Book Menthat it takes more than the backing of a major cable network to bring hilarity, stay relevant and be interesting. You can check outThe Variantsat thevariants.com.
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