Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Illustrator & Graphic Novelist Ashley A. Woods is joining Marvel Comics! The independent comic book creator (one of the artists behind Amandla Stenberg’s upcoming ‘Niobe’ comic) announced her new gig via twitter: “Excited to have my art on the world stage. After Niobe I work w/ Marvel & Rosarium Press”. Take a look out her amazing work below….
No matter what else went wrong with the Amazing Spider-Man movies, Andrew Garfield’s passion for the character was never in doubt. Unfortunately, along with being deeply invested in something comes the opportunity to be deeply let down. Garfield was asked what he learned from being Spider-Man and his answer is, well, very bleak: Well, nothing,…
Here’s a bit of trivia for you: when he was coming up with an idea for a new comic, art Jack Kirby witnessed a woman lift a car to get her child out from under it. The moment helped inspire one of his most famous creations: the Incredible Hulk. The interview, between Kirby and Gary…
New concept art reveals that the battle lines have been drawn. Do we now know which super-powered fists will be smashing into which photogenic jaws during Captain America: Civil War? Sure, ever since Robert Downey Jr. joined the cast of Captain America 3, we’ve known that Tony Stark and Steve Rogers would come to blows….
INFOLINKS_ON Last week Marvel announced “Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur,” starring a Black, teen female On August 13, Entertainment Weekly and various other media outlets announced a new monthly series from Marvel Comics titled “Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.” Written by Any Reeder and Brandon Montclare, the main creators of the critically-acclaimed Image Comics series…
Written & Produced by Bob Chipman Special Thanks this episode to Megan Kearns REALLY THAT GOOD is a new kind of film-criticism series, built around the radical premise that just because “everyone knows” a movie is a classic doesn’t mean it stops being worth a deeper look. That THE AVENGERS changed the landscape of action…
If there were a Venn Diagram of things geeks like, it would probably have spaces for stuff like “comics,” “awesome girls,” “nerdy space things,” “cool representation,” and, obviously, “dinosaurs.” In other words, it would basically be Marvel‘s new comic, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. The new series is a reboot of a short-lived creation from the…
Who am I? What am I doing here? (Ben Rothstein/Twentieth Century Fox via Associated Press) When I saw how “Fantastic Four” was ranked on Rotten Tomatoes, I ran straight to the theater. Eight percent fresh? I wondered. But how? Was that even possible? That was south of Congress and genital herpes. Now I know why….
The latest Fantastic Four flick is an abysmal flop of such proportions that multiple outlets have run what-went-wrong-style pieces in its wake. Today’s comes via The Hollywood Reporter and it is utterly delicious. Kim Masters’s “Fantastic Four Blame Game: Fox, Director Josh Trank Square Off Over On-Set ‘Chaos’” tells the story of a spandex-hungry studio…
In 1994, Fox called upon Roger Corman, legendary director of decades of forgettable B movies, to produce a Fantastic Four movie. The finished product was never released—but lucky for all of us, it’s now online. Fascinated fans have flocked to watch the film after Reddit spotted it at Dailymotion. Here it is, in all its B-movie…