Author: Carl Doherty
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Will Eisner Receives Google Doodle
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in Comic NewsMarch 6th marked the late Will Eisner’s birthday, and yesterday US Googlers were welcomed by a rather splendid “doodle” – the logo above Google’s search bar that changes to mark events and anniversaries. The logo even linked to further information on the seminal comic creator when clicked. Eisner died in 2005, but his legacy continues…
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Zonad DVD Review
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2009 Written and directed by: John Carney, Kieran Carney Cast: Simon Delaney, David Pearse, Janice Byrne Extraterrestrial invaders battle for the quaint town of Ballymoran in this low budget Irish comedy. Only, Zonad and his archnemesis Bonad aren’t aliens but two escaped lunatics – unlike “prot” in K-Pax, there’s no question as to whether these…
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First Image of Captain America’s Red Skull
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Entertainment Weekly has posted the first image of Hugo Weaving as the Red Skull – actually, an image of Weaving sans hideous makeup debuted several months ago, but that’s not quite the same – and he looks every bit the part. Perhaps the two surprises here (albeit minor ones) are just how sci-fi influenced the…
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Daomu #1 Comic Book Review
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Image Comics, $2.99 Writer: Kennedy Xu Art: Ken Chou “Based on the best-selling Tomb Robber’s Journal,” boasts the cover to Daomu #1. Those suddenly feeling excluded for never having heard of the series can be forgiven; the novels are allegedly a big hit in China, and writer Kennedy Xu has adapted his work into comics…
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New X-Men First Class Posters Spotlight Xavier & Magneto
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A couple of X-Men: First Class international one-sheets are currently doing the rounds, and while they don’t give anything new away, they’re pretty darn impressive nevertheless. 20th Century Fox evidently want to emphasise that this is a much a prequel as a reboot, though how faithful it will stay to the previous trilogy and the…
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The Walking Dead Weekly #4-6 Review
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Image Comics, $2.99 Writer: Robert Kirkman Art: Tony Moore With Robert Kirkman’s seminal zombie series making the transition to lucrative multimedia franchise, the first few issues of Image’s weekly reprint have served to remind us just how humble this series’ beginnings were. Yet even by issue 4 of the The Walking Dead it’s clear that…
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Brighton Rock (1947) DVD Review
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1947 Director: John Boulting Script: Graham Greene, Terence Rattigan Cast: Richard Attenborough, Hermoine Baddeley, Carol Marsh, William Hartnell, Wylie Watson Richard Attenborough became a cinema icon with his portrayal of small time gangster Pinkie, the baby-faced psychopath forced to marry naive waitress Rose (Carol Marsh) when she becomes a potential witness to his murder of…
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Arthur Flowers Performs ‘I See the Promised Land’
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in Comic NewsA clip from Arthur Flowers’ recent US tour, as he reads from I See the Promised Land, his graphic novel on the life of Martin Luther King, and explains how the project came about: