#July2011
‘Batman: Year One’ Animated Movie Gets A Trailer.
The animated adaptation of Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli’s classic Batman defining tale has gotten itself a trailer. It’s hard to adapt the son of a bitch into anything, but it seems to be relatively dope. Within the parameters and everything, it could work.
Save for Wayne’s voice. Youch.
Hit the jump to check it out.
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300 Sequel Isn’t ‘Xerxes’ Anymore. Now Titled ‘300: Battle of Artemisia.’
As much as I like Gears of War, or Fast and the Furious, or Rocky III for my fill of overtly homoerotic Freudian wet dreams, none were so flagrant and glorious as 300. Where is my second coming of dudes all but coming on one another? Running around, phallus in hand, glazed with sweat and spitting about camaraderie. I need it!
There was a sequel promised. Xerxes! I looked to it for this fill. It stalled, but it may live once more as 300: Battle of Artemisia.
Frank Miller’s ‘Holy Terror, Batman!’ Coming Out In September. Sans Batman.
Back when Frank Miller announced Holy Terror, Batman!, it seemed like it was too ludicrous of an idea to exist. Impossible, even. Time passed, nothing was said, and that only concretized that notion. Eventually Frank Miller announced it was going to happen, just without the Batman part of it. Which made it infinitely less cool, since Batman fighting Al Qaeda…without Batman is just some dude whupping terrorist ass. Even after that, not much was said regarding the title.
Like the One Ring, years passed and it was largely forgotten.
Until now. This pig is coming out in September.
Piece of Art From ‘Dark Knight Returns’ Sells For Over $400,000. Woah.
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A single piece of art from Frank Miller’s ‘The Dark Knight Returns’ just became the most expensive single piece of US comic art. Ever.
Monday Morning Commute: Raps, Bats, and Brews
Hello there, my name is Rendar Frankenstein and I am a real science fictional being. Living in the year 2010, I am endowed with a number of futuristic powers, including instantaneous global communication, access to digital television, and the ability to ward off disease with a pill. I have a portable computer and after I consume enough caffeine it extracts stories from me.
I feel sorry for the chronically nostalgic.
Monday Morning Commute. With the workweek rearing its ugly head, we all need movies, books, music, comics and other distractions to stay strong. On Mondays I’m going to tell you about the various ways I’ll be spending my time in the upcoming week. Give my list a glance, then tell me what you’re using to curb the 9-5 blues.
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Listening / My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
I have had a real up-and-down relationship with Kanye West. On the one hand, his first three efforts (The College Dropout, Late Registration, and Graduation) are three of my all-time favorite albums. But 2008’s 808s and Heartbreak was a truly depressing collection, as it not only demonstrated the fickle nature of inspiration but the public’s mindset of putting the cart before the horse. Then, of course, there is the fact that Mr. West has serious mental problems and is an arrogant bastard.
DEFEAT. 002 – Smashed Fruit & Liberated Seed
[DEFEAT. is Rendar Frankenstein’s truest attempt at fiction. Presented in weekly episodes, the novella tells the tale of Daryl Millar – a hero who dies at the intersection of pop culture, science-fiction, war epic, and fantasy]
Daryl got out of the car, took three steps, and then stopped dead in his tracks.
Frank Miller Directs Gucci Ad, It Sort of Sucks.
Frank Miller is my boy. If for only The Dark Knight Returns. I mean, he’s given me more than that, but that alone gets him into my Hall of Champions, Perverts, and Heroes. So, despite the fact that he directed a Gucci advertisement recently that looks like a federal-program sponsored version of Sin City, I’m going to try and remain positive.
The commercial stars Chris (Captain America) Evans, Evan Rachel (I Think She Banged Manson) Wood, and A Real Cheap Knock-Off Of the Sin City/Spirit set.
Hit the jump to check it out.
Frank Miller is Going to Fix You
For years, rumors and whispers have abounded that Frank Miller would return to Batman by having him fight Al Qaeda. The project, titled Holy Terror, Batman!, has been plagued by criticism and alleged concerns of DC’s higher-ups (I guess I could see how depicting a superhero as fighting a real-life terror network could be seen as an obscene act of trivialization).
Well, according to the LA Times, Frank Miller is still going ahead with the project; just without the caped crusader. In place of Bruce Wayne, a new hero called The Fixer will battle Al Qaeda. Miller explains:
“I pushed Batman as far as he can go and after a while he stops being Batman. My guy carries a couple of guns and is up against an existential threat. He’s not just up against a goofy villain. Ignoring an enemy that’s committed to our annihilation is kind of silly, It just seems that chasing the Riddler around seems silly compared to what’s going on out there. I’ve taken Batman as far as he can go.”
“It began as my reaction to 9/11 and it was an extremely angry piece of work and as the years have passed by I’ve done movies and I’ve done other things and time has provided some good distance, so it becomes more of a cohesive story as it progresses. The Fixer has also become his own character in a way I’ve really enjoyed. No one will read this and think, ‘Where’s Batman?‘”
I see all of the potential problems that will arise from the release of this project (which, by the way, DC is not going to be involved in). With that being said, I can’t help but get excited about new Frank Miller work – he’s a goddamn comics legend and anything he releases is at least worth considering.
A page from Holy Terror!
Shoulders of Geniuses
I’ll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you’re using here: it didn’t require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn’t earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don’t take any responsibility… for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now — you’re selling it — you want to sell it!
Frank Miller Debuts Art From 300 Prequel: Xerxes, Homoerotic++!
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Frank Miller is fucking insane. And so while I don’t really think there’s any need for him to follow-up his graphic novel 300 with a prequel, Xerxes, I can’t help but be excited. The dude is superbatshit crazy! I mean, he wanted to write a comic book about Batman kicking the shit out of Al-Qaeda. So generally I’m going anywhere he’s going, just to see what sort of madness he’s going to bring to the table.
Miller spits some deets!
via slashfilm:
The time frame begins 10 years before ‘300′ and the story starts with the Battle of Marathon” … “The lead character is Themistocles, who became warlord of Greece and built their navy. The story is very different than ‘300′ in that it involves Xerxes search for godhood. The existence of gods are presupposed in this story and the idea is that he well on his way to godhood by the end of the story. With Themistocles I have a character who is almost the dead opposite of Leonidas in that Themistocles was a lying, conniving, brilliant, heroic figure. He was nicknamed ‘The Subtle Serpent’ and he always manages to do the exact right things that will result in him benefiting greatly.
