Unbound Comics

Marvel Artists

admin — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 07:13:39 +0000

I haven’t done an Artist Spotlight for awhile so I thought it was about time I did. I really couldn’t decide on one artist to focus on, so instead I’m spotlighting comic art for the month of December from Marvel Comics (yes, I realize this defeats the purpose of a “spotlight” but I do what I likes and I likes what I do).

Let’s start with this great image from Daredevil: Father drawn by Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada. I thought it was a pretty original layout.

Next, lets move on to this cover for Marvel Zombies #1 by Arthur Suydam, an artist who I have never heard of. Suydam takes the classic cover from Amazing Fantasy that introduced Spider-Man and changes Spider-Man into… well… a zombie. I’ve seen a million takes on this cover, but I think this one might be the best.

Skottie Young draws this cover for New Warriors that is obviously a parody of the Brady Bunch tv show. I love the energy Young conveys on his characters, and I love the cartoony style he uses. This guy is perfect for comedy comics.

This next cover is from the mini-series Son of M, which spins off of the other mini-series House of M, which spun off the Avengers: Dissasembled story arc. But thats not important right now. What is important is that this is a great cover by John Watson.

And now finally I present to you the cover to Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk by Leinil Francis Yu. It just looks awesome.

Anaheim Angels

admin — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 06:23:52 +0000

Tonight begins probably the biggest series of the season for my Anaheim Angels – a three-game series versus the Oakland A’s at Anaheim. The Angels (along with the Texas Rangers) are currently two games behind the A’s in the American League West Division. After these three games at home against Oakland, my Angels had to Texas for four games, and then finish the season at Oakland with another three games. So yes, this is the final homestand at Anaheim. And, although it may sound cliche’ tonight’s game is pretty much do-or-die. Well, maybe not exactly do-or-die, but damn close. It’s been a helluva season for the Angels so far. If the team wasn’t plagued with injuries, and the starting pitching rotation had lived up to expectations, we probably wouldn’t be in the situation that we are now. We’d probably have the American League West Division locked up, or close to it.

I will be at tonight’s game at Angels Stadium tonight to support my team. (No athletic supporter joke needed.) In fact, I will be sitting in the front row on the right field wall. Hopefully that means I’ll catch myself a Vladimir Guerrero or Garret Anderson home run. At this point, I don’t know if I’ll be going to the game tomorrow, but I will be going to Sunday’s game – the last home game of the season for my Anaheim Angels.

Sin City directors to re-team for horror flick

admin — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 06:06:56 +0000

Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez are teaming up again, this time for a horror movie for Bob and Harvey Weinstein’s new Weinstein Co. Tarantino and Rodriguez will each direct a 60-minute segment for a horror film to be titled “Grind House.” It could be the first in a series of films, Tarantino says.

The film, which is planned for a spring 2006 release, also will include its own trailers, bonus materials and added extras from other filmmakers that will be packaged together between the two horror flicks in a tribute to the old, big-city movie houses like those on New York’s 42nd Street that earned the moniker grindhouses for programming genre pics back to back

Neil the Horse

admin — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:25:16 +0000

Arn Saba’s comic book has been described as “somewhat esoteric, not mainstream, and sprinkled with intellectual humor and obscure references”.

Savage Dragon

admin — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:24:15 +0000

Savage Dragon is a long running superhero cop comic by Erik Larson, one of the early books published by Image. I decided to check this book out because it’s been around quite a while, and gotten a fair amount of acclaim.

I was trememdously disappointed. The beginnings of this comic are, simply, crap. Written during the early, illiterate days of image, Savage Dragon is a pointless mix of ultraviolence and ultra-style. It’s a comic written for that dumb fourteen year old who thinks it’s cool when a big green finned guy breaks a big shark headed guy’s spine apart, or whatever. There’s nothing of substance here, no plot, minimal characterisation, no pacing to speak of, just kewl violance and maham.

The plot is: Savage Dragon is a big ultra strong green guy who has amnesia and is found by a cop at the sight of an exploded warehouse. The Chicago police are overwhelmed with trying to contain the supervillian population and can use a big invinvible green guy to help them out. Dragon says no, then says yes, and gets to kick a lot of ass, in between being pissy and angsty. Naturally, they’ll be a new shocking moment of ultraviolance whenever he has a chance of being happy.

The real disappointing part of this book is the formula. Larson will create a bunch of visual designs for villians, throw them in there with no setup or characterisation, and have dragon fight them. Everybody’s a two dimensional chiche.

There are signs by the end of the first volume that things might get better. Dragon starts evolving from a big angry guy to a archtypal good cop. It’s not much, but it’s something. Like I said, I’ve heard good things about the book, but it seems way too ’superhero guys need to go kick the crap of supervillian guys’ for my taste. There’s a way to do superhero stuff with class and plot, and, this ain’t it.

Publisher: Image
Author: Erik Larson
Volumes Reviewed: 1

Plastic

admin — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:21:10 +0000

Bottomless Studios’ anthology of caustic humor, featuring “Vitriol”: “The scenes in ["Vitriol"] between Rick and Lilith reminded me somewhat of ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ‘– they were that clever, cruel, and intense.” –Katherine Keller, Sequential Tart

Tex Arcana Book

admin — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:19:08 +0000

John Findley takes the reader into the Old West the historians won’t tell you about… the weird, haunted, and occult old west of Tex Arcana. The comic is an Adult serialized fantasy tale that was published sporadically in HEAVY METAL magazine

World Without End

admin — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:17:19 +0000

Jamie Delano and John Higgins present World Without End. A six-issue mini-series first published by DC in 1990 and 1991, and now at Unbound Comics.

Hugo Tate: O America

admin — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:15:51 +0000

Hugo Tate has fled the grim, suburban sprawl of his London home and gone looking for soul food beneath the big, bright skies of the USA. But the best laid plans…

Called “a small masterpiece” by Time Out and “one of the most terrifying (and elevating) reads in comics” by Comics Forum, this e-book reprint is a great introduction to writer and artist Nick Abadzis and his existential everyman Hugo Tate.

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet

admin — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:12:04 +0000

When the king is killed, Prince Hamlet is called upon to cast off his old life and take up his sword as his father’s avenger and the rightful King of Denmark.

As a foreign army masses on the border, Hamlet is thrown into a struggle between the person he has always been and the King he was born destined to become. He haunts the castle halls, plotting, raging, and feigning a madness that threatens to become all too real.