Archive for the 'Comics' Category

Alan Moore as Teenage Manga High School Girl

Posted by KirkUltra7 on July 19th, 2010

This was just too cool not to post. It’s a fan manga by Japanese artist Ryusuke Hamamoto, featuring Alan Moore as a teenaged girl in high school.

Glycon lives in her locker.

The comic looks absolutely hilarious.

Ryusuke Hamamoto’s Official Site
Ryusuke Hamamoto on Deviant Art
Ryusuke Hamamoto on Twitter

(Found via Technoccult)

There are a few comics around about Alan Moore in his adult male form as well.

Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham did a comic about Moore, True Things, from The Extraordinary Works Of Alan Moore.

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And this hilarious piece from Something Positive:

Alan Moore vs. Death

A few more Alan Moore related links:

Index of Alan Moore Interviews
The Alan Moore Fansite
The Alan Moore Archives at Technoccult

Alan Moore started a magazine recently called Dodgem Logic which everyone should be reading. A lot of our favorite people are contributing to the magazine, including Josie Long and Steve Aylett, and of course Moore himself.

(Electric Children has some exciting news about all of them coming soon.)

The Bone Video Game (+ Novels)

Posted by KirkUltra7 on June 7th, 2010

Bone, one of my favorite comics of all time, is currently being adapted as a serialized video game (and a cool looking one at that).

Click here to see!

And in even cooler news – Three new Bone novels, a trilogy titled Bone: Quest for the Spark, have been scheduled for release in 2011, detailing the adventures of new group of Bones in the valley.

BONE: Quest for the Spark is a slightly different kind of thing. It is not a comic; it’s a novel. A series of three novels written by Tom Sniegoski that follow a new generation of Bone characters into the Valley.

I was a bit unsure about this project when Tom first suggested it, but when I read the first book I laughed so hard, I agreed to do it. Scholastic was so blown away by it, that they decided to make it available in hardcover and wanted the illustrations, of which I think I’m going to do about twenty, full bleed and in color.

Link

Tall Tales, a graphic novel collecting both out of print and new materials, will be out in August.

The graphic novel will feature new Smiley Bone and Bartleby stuff by Jeff Smith!

Links

Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Volume

Bone Prequel: Rose

Bone Handbook

Boneville – The Official Bone Homepage

Bone Cover Gallery

Bone Fan Animation

Tall Tales

Superman Dream Portal

Posted by KirkUltra7 on January 15th, 2010

Dragon Ball Multiverse

Posted by KirkUltra7 on December 11th, 2009

This is Dragon Ball Multiverse, the epic Dragon Ball Z fan manga from France. Written by Salagir with art by Gogeta Jr. It’s available in eleven languages, with new pages added every week.

Dragon Ball Multiverse Page 0

Dragon Ball Multiverse RSS Feeds

Dragon Ball L’Adventure Continue by Gogeta Jr.

They have an autobiographical mini-comic about the making of the series as well. This is their theme song.

See also:

Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!

Superman is Real – Part II

Posted by KirkUltra7 on November 12th, 2009

A few weeks back, as Hillary and I were driving through Austin, we came across an interview on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and a man who says a vision of Superman gave him healing powers.

Richard – So I was traveling every other weekend, about. . . I think it was about thirteen hours one way. And on one of these trips, I was pretty much exhausted, and I guess you could say I hallucinated, George. I. . . A woman walked in with her little daughter with a lazy eye, asked me what I could do for it, and I saw, of all things, a hologram of George Reeves as Superman standing there, very bizarre. . .

His x-ray vision, which was yellow so that I could see it, went into the little girl’s eye, and I could see an energetic blockage there. Now I know one thing for sure; there’s cranial techniques that can help eye problems like that, but if you stick your finger a little child’s mouth, they’re liable to bite, and they can bit hard.

George Noory – Oh yes they can. Sharp little teeth.

Richard – Yeah, so I wasn’t going to do that, so my only other option was to go with this visual hallucination, and so what I wound up doing is touching the area where I saw the, the “x-ray” if you will, go into her head, and when I touched it, there was a flash of light that I could see with my internal sight. And then the little girl started blinking at me, and I asked her “What’s wrong?.” and she said “There’s two of you.” Well, there’s something called binocular vision, which is how we see, and then our brains take those two fields and superimpose them to make one stereoscopic field. She was seeing normally and her lazy eye was corrected in that moment.

The next day, when I got up, everyone I touched experienced changes just from my touch. And that was the beginning of what later came to be called matrix energetics.

George Noory – You-

Richard – Now I think the hallucination was probably an archetype for x-ray vision, that’s the only thing I can figure. Otherwise Superman. . . I was a fan of Superman in the ’50s, he was my favorite Superhero. . .

George Noory – You conjured him up, Richard, didn’t you?

Richard – I think so, yeah. You could say that maybe, George, he was a guide or and angel or something, some hyperdimensional character, and that’s another possible interpretation. The point of it is though, after that event, my energy field, something happened that drastically changed the way I looked at reality.

Coast to Coast

And of course this article deserves special attention – How Superman Defeated the KKK

In a 16-episode series titled “Clan of the Fiery Cross,” the writers pitted the Man of Steel against the men in white hoods.

As the storyline progressed, the shows exposed many of the KKK’s most guarded secrets. By revealing everything from code words to rituals, the program completely stripped the Klan of its mystique. Within two weeks of the broadcast, KKK recruitment was down to zero. And by 1948, people were showing up to Klan rallies just to mock them.

(Link via io9)

The Adventures of Superman radio show episodes are available for free here at Internet Archive.

See also:

Superman is Real

The Weird Fishes Graphic Novel

Posted by KirkUltra7 on October 23rd, 2009

The Weird Fishes graphic novel by Jamaica Dyer has finally been released by Slave Labor Graphics. You should definitely buy it.

Warren Ellis said it best:

“The only explanation for Jamaica Dyer is that she was built by aliens and dropped here to show us all how crap we are compared to her.”

Behold the Weird Fishes preview:

Previously on Electric Children:

Weird Fishes

The Dr. Strange Film Script from the 1980′s

Posted by KirkUltra7 on October 2nd, 2009

From the excellent Supervillain comes this discovery of an unproduced Dr. Strange script from the 1980′s.

The Emma Peel Sessions 16: Strange Overtones

Alex Cox, the guy who wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and wrote and directed Repo Man, Sid and Nancy, and Walker. He sat down with Stan Lee and hammered out a Dr. Strange story that includes Strange, Wong, Dormammu, Baron Mordo, and the Ancient One – then proceeded to write a script which went as far out as possible without changing or distorting those elements. Weirdly it presupposes both The Invisibles vol. 2 and the modern superhero film. It’s literally a film that could not be made in the time period it was written in, and the best part is the only thing that stopped it was corporate infighting. It’s really forward looking for what you can do with a superhero film – it’s not an origin story, it’s not about how the hero inspires anyone, or about revenge, or about superpowers even. All the baggage thats accepted in any superhero comic related film in the 30 years between Superman and Iron Man isn’t here. Hell, even Robocop – the best superhero movie ever – is an origin story. Cox dug Robocop quite a lot it seems – or he dug Dark Knight Returns – because there are echoes of it all through this Dr. Strange.

(Link via Aaron)

You can read the entire script for free at the author’s homepage.

More on the Sorcerer Supreme. . .

Sanctum Sanctorum Comix

Doctor Strange Covers

Mark Waid on the New Doctor Strange Series

A New Film by Neil Gaiman and Guillermo del Toro?

Spider-Man Episode 28: Doctor Strange

Doctor Strange: The Sorcerer Supreme (Animated Movie)

A live-action Doctor Strange film was made in 1978. You can see the preview here, or watch the entire movie here.

X-Men Love

Posted by KirkUltra7 on September 8th, 2009

As a treat for all you X-Men fans out there, this is a map from UncannyXmen.net of every X-Crush and X-Love Affair had in the series so far.

Click to see. . .

(Found via Miriam)

Free Rival Schools Comics Online

Posted by KirkUltra7 on June 19th, 2009

Rival Schools, the comic book based on the classic cult fighting game from Capcom, is now available for free on the Udon Comics website.

Check it out.

Batman Greatness

Posted by KirkUltra7 on June 16th, 2009

Brendan McCarthy’s Batoy

BATBOY was a pitch for a ‘Larry David’ kind of slacker approach to the superhero thing. DC Comics turned it down and also, Mark Millar’s recently released KICK ASS was a bit too close. Sometimes a good story and good character don’t make it, just because of bad timing. But I think there’s something about BATBOY that I’d still like to tinker with… and see if I can get another ‘take’ that works.

Bill Murray Could Have Been Your Batman

Before Tim Burton put his dark vision of the Caped Crusader on screen, there was a campier, more fun-loving Batman pitch on the horizon, with Bill Murray playing the lead. While we all know Bill Murray can pull off Bruce Wayne’s smarmy millionaire/likable troubled guy schtick better than George Clooney and Val Kilmer combined, I’m really interested in what Murray’s tongue-in-cheek Bats would have been like. Murray told MTV, “”I would have been a fine Batman. You know, there have been a number of Batmen. I like them… I thought Mike Keaton did a great job as Batman. It’s obviously — it’s a great role.”

Batman: Arkham Asylum

The story is being co-written by Paul Dini (Batman: The Animated Series, Detective Comics) while Wildstorm is crafting the appearances of the characters. Game Informer teases that Arkham Asylum will be the ultimate Batman experience and the voice cast will reflect that, featuring Kevin Conroy as Batman, Mark Hamill as The Joker and Arleen Sorkin as Harley Quinn in the game, reprising their voice roles from the long-running DC Animated Universe. Tom Kane joins the cast as “Commissioner Gordon”, “Amadeus Arkham” and “Warden Sharp”. The game will be based on the 70-year Batman franchise as a whole rather than being tied to any particular adaptation. Arkham will run on Epic Games Unreal Engine 3. The Windows version will make use of Microsoft’s Windows Live service, allowing players to earn gamerscore. In April 2009 ads began appearing in the PlayStation Home service advertising the ability to play as The Joker. IGN later confirmed that The Joker will be available at the launch of the game as a free download from the PlayStation Store, but will only be playable in the Challenge Maps. Joker is exclusive to the Playstation 3 version and is not playable on either the Xbox 360 or PC versions.

Batmen vs. Darth Vader

I had this dream where Darth Vader was turning people into zombies at the mall; I was part of this team of rookie Batmen sent to stop him. It was the nerdiest dream I’ve ever had.

Man-Bat Spotted in Mexico

“Mexico: State of Chihuahua Terrorized by ‘Man-Bat’ – A Report” by Professor Ana Luisa Cid, details that the creature is a “very tall entity, standing some 2 meters tall, with two pairs of wings (one pair larger than the other). Its face is covered in fur and has red, bloodshot eyes. Also reported are a pair of small, kangaroo type hands that it held loosely, as though it lacked any strength in them.”

. . .

There seems to be full-scale panic over the above or another Batman seen in La Junta, Guerrero, Mexico. The witnesses of this winged humanoid with a fur-covered face and a height of 2 meters are also tying the reports to local livestock deaths.

Synchronicities Surrounding Heath Ledger’s Death and The Joker

“Well,” [Jack] Nicholson told reporters in London early Wednesday, “I warned him.”

Though the remark was ambiguous, there’s no question the role in the movie earmarked as this summer’s blockbuster took a frightening toll.

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The last set of pictures from the Imaginarium set include this of Ledger as a Pierrot, a sad clown and fool with, according to some claims, very early origins including this startling statement “It is also claimed that in ancient times, the broad red mouth of the character was created by physically cutting the mouth to make it larger” i.e. exactly the same a Chelsea Grin we flagged as being a feature of the current celluloid incarnation of The Joker which draws on early legends and stories (although I’d want a solid source for that claim).

And here is a cool short fan film all about Batman’s sidekick Tim Drake, the third Robin.

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