February 7, 2006

How to survive a bad roommate…

by Josh at 10:00 pm

This April, Dark Horse Comics will be publishing the first of a four issue mini-series called ArchEnemies. Back in college, I used to play RPGs with the writer, Drew Melbourne. ArchEnemies is about a superhero and supervillian who are archenemies (go figure) bent on each other’s destruction. In their secret identities and unbeknownst to [...]

December 5, 2004

Fearing for movies based on comics

by Josh at 6:54 pm

Okay… First, there was the whole Paul Greengrass directing Watchmen thing that I wasn’t so sure about. I didn’t mention this in my earlier post, but previous incarnations of the Watchmen project had Terry Gilliam attached. That’s quite a downgrade.
But the news just keeps getting worse. Chris Columbus to direct Sub-Mariner? Nick Cassavetes to direct [...]

November 28, 2004

Online Graphic Novel

by Josh at 4:34 pm

The Thanksgiving weekend has given me the time to finish watching the twelve hours of flash animation that is Broken Saints. I heard about it a couple weeks ago because of its upcoming release on DVD and it sounded interesting. Plugged as “graphic literature” it’s an online graphic novel that many were comparing [...]

November 23, 2004

Movie version of Watchmen lands a director

by Josh at 12:45 pm

Reuters is reporting that Paul Greengrass, director of The Bourne Supremacy is set to direct a film version of the graphic novel Watchmen. How you feel about this probably depends on three things.
1. How you feel about a Watchmen movie in general. I always have mixed feelings about books being made into [...]