Now if they will get the Lone Ranger out a regular basis…
DYNAMITE TO PUBLISH GREEN HORNET COMICS!
Legendary Crime-Fighter to Appear in new Dynamite Series
Dynamite Entertainment is pleased to announce the latest star to join the Dynamite roster of incredible talent – the legendary Green Hornet! Star of film, television, radio and comic books, The Green Hornet is known for his distinctive mask, car (The Black Beauty) and faithful sidekick, Kato!
“We’ve been working on this one for a long time now, I believe four years.? Since we started pursuing this, they’ve also announced a movie for next summer,” explained Dynamite President and Publisher Nick Barrucci. “The Green Hornet is a cultural icon and touchstone for modern super-heroes, including the greats like Batman. To work with such a character, and faithfully represent him along the lines of how we’ve handled The Lone Ranger and Zorro, and the upcoming Buck Rogers, is truly a momentous opportunity.? Over the last 4 years, fans and creators have asked us if we were negotiating for the Green Hornet license, which we finally have (big YES!), and we will be announcing creators in the near future.”
The Green Hornet was originally created by George W. Trendle for an American radio program in the 1930s. Though various incarnations sometimes change details, in most incarnations the Green Hornet is Britt Reid, a newspaper publisher by day who by night goes out in his masked “Green Hornet” identity to fight crime as a vigilante, accompanied by his similarly masked Asian manservant Kato and driving a car, equipped with advanced technology, called “Black Beauty”.
NEW “HERO” CHOSEN BY FANS IN ‘CREATE YOUR HERO’ CAMPAIGN –NEW MICRO-SERIES ‘HEROES: DESTINY’ PREMIERES TONIGHT ON NBC.COM, HULU AND SPRINT WIRELESS PHONES
Fans Select ‘Santiago’ as the #1 Fan Favorite to Star in Mobile/Online Series; Robert Urbina Set for the Role of ‘Santiago’ and Lina Esco, Andrea Thompson also Star
BURBANK, Calif. – November 10, 2008 – After more than one million votes were cast, today NBC and Sprint announced the winning hero in the “Create Your Hero” campaign.
The winning character will star in the new online live action micro-series, HEROES: DESTINY. The first of four episodes will premiere tonight exclusively on online at NBC.com and on Sprint phones, one episode to be released every Monday at 9pm et/pt starting November 10.
Also announced today was the casting of Columbian-born actor, Roberto Urbina, to bring the character to life. Urbina stars in a story created by the show’s award-winning writers and produced in collaboration with the series creators.
Lina Esco (”Cane”) and Andrea Thompson (”24?) will also star in the innovative micro-series, being filmed on location in Los Angeles. Based on the Aspen Comics’ online illustrations which brought Santiago to life on NBC.com, the micro-series will be directed by Eagle Egilsson (”CSI: Miami,” “The Wire”).
“For the first time ever, Sprint and NBC gave Heroes fans a hand in the creative process,” said Bill Morgan, Senior Vice President, Corporate Marketing, Sprint. “And with the ability to vote and ultimately watch the new micro-series exclusively on mobile with their Sprint phones, we are demonstrating even more ways that our technology allows people to interact and be entertained.”
“Create Your Hero” began last season with fans selecting the characteristics of the new hero, including gender, name, special powers, personality and physical features. Each week fans voted on a different trait, which gradually evolved into two final character candidates: “Audrey” and “Santiago.” The winning hero, Santiago, 23, is an only child and lives with his mother in Lima, Peru. He works as an auto mechanic and hopes to go out in the world one day and accomplish something that makes his mother proud.
“We developed this campaign directly with Mindshare Entertainment as not only a great way to engage the fans with their favorite show,” said Barbara Blangiardi, Senior Vice President, Creative Partnerships and Innovation, NBC Universal, “but as an innovative project that connected Sprint’s marketing objectives seamlessly with our content, enhancing the overall viewing experience.”
The four-episode micro-series premieres tonight on NBC.com, Hulu, and Sprint wireless phones with sneak previews running each week during Heroes on NBC. The concept for the “Create Your Hero” project was developed in conjunction with “Heroes” creator Tim Kring. The production is a partnership between Mindshare Entertainment and NBC Universal Creative Partnerships & Innovation. To see HEROES: DESTINY the series, please log on to http://www.nbc.com/heroesdestiny.
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SuicideGirls > Interviews > McG For Terminator Salvation
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McG For Terminator Salvation
By Fred Topel
Sep 1, 2008
McG still has some childhood issues to work out. The director is a successful Hollywood mogul with several TV series currently on-air and a diverse resume of films. Yet he still gets sensitive when people make fun of his name.
He got a bit of reassurance when he showed footage of his latest work, Terminator Salvation, at San Diego’s Comic Con this summer. Scenes of future war zones with new Skynet robots battling the human resistance got cheers from the fans and showed him he was on the right track. Still, he brought up the name thing randomly.
“I mean, I remember when I was on Superman and people were kicking the shit out of me and saying, ‘What kind of guy calls himself McG?’” McG said to a press conference after his Comic Con session. “It’s the privilege of the public to just do that, not know that McG is short for McGinty and I’ve been called that since the day I was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. There’s nothing Hollywood about it. It’s the function of being poor and having three Joes in one household so they didn’t call me Joe, they called me McG, short for McGinty, my mother’s maiden name. But of course, as I say we live in a shorthand society, people do what they got to do.”
Such defensiveness may be unwarranted as people seem eager for his take on the Terminator franchise. Salvation picks up John Connor (Christian Bale) fighting the machines in the post-war future, but the focus is on a new character, Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington). We will also come across familiar faces like Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin) in the story.
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SuicideGirls > Interviews > Zachary Quinto’s Trek To Fame
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Zachary Quinto’s Trek To Fame
By Fred Topel
Oct 8, 2008
Often when an actor does press for one project, there’s really another big project that people really want to hear about. Harrison Ford’s last several movies were sort of excuses to get scoops on Indy IV. Zachary Quinto is in the rare position to have two equally anticipated projects. Trekkies and general sci-fi fans want to see his take on the young Spock in J.J. Abrams’ new Star Trek, but also want to know what’s up with Sylar in the new season of Heroes.
Spock is an icon dating back to the ’60s and Sylar has certainly earned a place in modern pop culture. Quinto could have two defining roles on his hands, one hero and one villain.
“I think there are elements of the characters that echo each other but I think they echo each other from very different, opposite ends of the spectrum,” notes Quinto. “Each of the characters employs a stillness and a rich internal point of view that informs the way that they behave and the way that they relate to people around them. It’s great fun to have characters that are rich and that are full of challenges and full of rewards. Both of these characters are clearly that. So as an actor, I don’t really approach a character as to whether or not it’s good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me. I think for numerous reasons both of these very different characters both find life in me.”
Both Heroes and Star Trek plotlines are closely guarded secrets, yet Quinto found ways to analyze each without giving away spoilers, though fans will have to wait until May 2009 to find out exactly how Spock met Kirk and beamed aboard the Enterprise.
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DeKalb Scene: Entertainment news from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois
Comic book treasures remain hidden inside Founder’s library
By ORLANDO LARA
The fourth-floor of Founders Memorial Library houses the Rare Books and Special Collections department. Except for a couple of students each year, its treasure remains hidden.
The cluttered room is home to about 10,000 single-issue comic books and graphic novels that are owned by the library.
Though it began after a donation in the late 1970s, the library’s collection has only been actively built for the past three years, said curator Lynne Thomas.
“I believe it is very important to document our popular culture in addition to our ‘high culture,’” she said.
Head of the department since 2004, Thomas said comic books are a unique American art form that need to be preserved.
“When we decide to save something for posterity, we are creating a canon because we’re deciding what gets saved,” Thomas said. “If it doesn’t get saved, then it has much less of a chance of being studied in the future.”
Thomas said she wants the collection to become a mid-level repository for student research. Michigan and Ohio State Universities have two of the largest university comic book collections, each with more than 200,000 titles, according to their respective Web sites.
The collection of non-circulating material includes a wide range of comic books and graphic novels.
Though some date back to the 1930s, such as the pre-“Batman” “Black Bat”, Thomas said the collection is strongest in Marvel and DC comics published in the 1970s and after.
This includes all of the major titles, like “Batman,” “X-Men” and “Spider-Man,” but also less mainstream comics, like “Birds of Prey,” “100 Bullets” and “Preacher.”
She said the Vertigo line is also well-represented, as are numerous Alan Moore titles such as “Watchmen” and “Swamp Thing.” The collection also includes nearly every issue of Neil Gaiman’s World Fantasy Award winning “Sandman” series.
Thomas said the collection has less Golden and Silver Age comics because their significant market value encourages owners to sell rather than donate them.
The collection also includes some self-published comics, such as Terry Moore’s “Strangers In Paradise.”
“It’s a comprehensive collection of what’s out there now,” Thomas said.
Rick Berg, manager of Graham Crackers Comics, 901C Lucinda Ave., said the more exposure college students have to comic books the better it will be for the business.
He said the library has a good collection and would like to see it expand.
Senior English major Gerardo Torres said he was surprised the library had a comic collection at all.
“I didn’t think it was something they would bother getting,” he said. “I thought they only focused on academic material.”
Currently, a portion of the collection is uncataloged, meaning they are organized by title and date, and are not yet in the library’s online catalog.
Though it is a priority, Thomas said it will take years before the entire collection is cataloged, due to the sheer volume of issues.
“It will be [cataloged] eventually; I am confident of that,” said Thomas. “It’s just going to take a while.”
She encourages everyone to use the collection, whether it be for research or not. She just asks people to have a particular title or series in mind.
Thomas said special collections are dependent on the curator, and she wants the library’s comic book collection to grow.
“My interest in comics and belief that they are an important art form that needs to be documented isn’t going to waver,” she said.
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Halloween comes early as Jacko’s wacko clan descends on LA comic store
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 1:54 PM on 09th October 2008
Not for the first time, Michael Jackson sent jaws dropping during a outing in Los Angeles.
The singer took his three children – Prince Michael, 11, Paris, ten, and Prince Michael II, six – shopping this week dressed as masked Halloween characters.
And never one to be left out, Jackson looked scarier than ever in a surgical mask, giant black sunglasses and a hooded jumper.
The family, who are rarely seen in public, browsed a comic book store together after slipping in through a back door.
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Off the wall: Michael Jackson and ten-year-old Paris arrive at an LA comic store wearing masks
When Jackson turned 50 in August he said he likes nothing more than spending time with his children.
‘I’m raising my children and enjoying it and teaching them to ride bicycles and how to read. I love it.’
The former child star also said his kids are enjoying freedom he never had at their age.
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Trick, treat, terrifying prank? A shop assistant was left in a state of confusion as the family descended on the store
‘I let them go to the arcade and go to the movies and do things.
‘I want them to get to do the kind of things I didn’t get to do,’ he added.
The children removed their masked once inside the store, giving onlookers a rare glimpse at their faces.
Prince Michael wore cream shorts, white trainers and a black hooded jacket on the outing while sister Paris wore a red jumper, shirt and black trousers.
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Jacksons unmasked: Onlookers were given a rare glimpse at Jackson’s children Paris, Prince Michael and little Prince Michael II (far left)
Their mother is Debbie Rowe, the 49-year-old nurse who Jackson married in 1997 but divorced in 1999.
She worked for the Beverly Hills plastic surgeon that Jackson used for his face-altering surgeries and was recently involved in a legal fight with the singer over child custody.
Jackson’s third child Prince Michael II, pictured with long black hair, green pyjamas and a dark coat, was born to a surrogate mother.
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Family day out: The Jacksons visited the Golden Apple comic store in LA
Geekvestment: Comic Books Are the New Stock Market
Comic Books Are the New Stock Market
Where should you put your money in these uncertain financial times? Once-prudent investments in housing and the stock market no longer provide safe financial refuge for your hard-earned dollars. But some suggest that, when searching for a stable place to invest your money, you need look no further than your comic book collection.
Some investors are selling off their stock and buying up vintage comic books, believing that the timelessness of comics offers a more secure long-term investment than stocks have of late:
Mark Craddock, manager of Comic Book World, in Florence, Ky., says stock-market investors also are turning to superheroes. “There’s kind of a buying frenzy” in vintage comic books, he says.
The “Silver Age Comic Book Pricing Index” of 32 frequently traded ’60s comics, was up 14.2% in the 18 months ending in July, while the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index was down 11% in the same period. Mark Haspel, president of Certified Guaranty Co. in Sarasota, Fla., which grades comic books, often for investors, says it’s on track to handle 200,000 books this year, up from 150,000 in 2007.
“Spider-Man is going to be here in 20 years — he’s not going away,” Mr. Haspel says.
This isn’t the first time comics have been suggested as a wise investment. Last year, Kevin Hassett, director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute noted that the returns on comic books beat out those of most other collectibles, including art and antiques.
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Watchmen #1-12 all CGC 9.8 Sold on eBay
A full set of Watchmen #1 through 12, all CGC-certified 9.8 realized $2,938 on eBay after 15 bids. Written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons and John Higgins, the limited series was originally published by DC Comics in 1986 and 1987.
Watchmen is set in alternate United States history when costumed adventurers are everywhere and the country is on the brink of nuclear war with the Soviet Union. The story follows a group of superheroes from the past and present and the events surrounding the mysterious death of one among them.
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Green Hornet Hype!
The Green Hornet television show, which aired in the 1960s, is often compared and contrasted to the 1960s Batman show, each produced by Twentieth Century Fox. The Green Hornet, played by Van Williams, was released after the success of Batman, who was played by Adam West.
Green Hornet’s story began with Britt Reid (Van Williams) who was handed management control over his father Dan Reid’s newspaper, The Daily Sentinel in Washington D.C. With his new found responsibility came a sense of ‘doing good in the world.’ This came quite naturally to Britt, as it is strongly suggested that he is the grand-nephew of the Lone Ranger. This association to the masked crusader inspires Britt to become a crime fighting masked hero himself, and thus the Green Hornet was born.
The 1960s television series, Batman, is known for its heavy usage of tongue and cheek, campy-comedic storytelling whereas the Green Hornet takes on a much more serious and realistic approach to crime fighting. Batman is also easily remembered for his many outlandish foes including the likes of the Joker, the Penguin, Two-Face, Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, and many more character gimmicks. The Green Hornet, on the other hand, battles fairly normal criminal individuals that exclude from odd gimmicks.
There is no need to mention the incredible amount of cool gadgets that Batman has in his arsenal, as most everyone has seen these tools in action. The Green Hornet, in comparison, has three pieces of equipment that he regularly works with. The first, and most important, is his supped-up car, the Black Beauty. Black Beauty had rockets, knockout gas, a special exhaust device that spread ice over the road, and brushes behind the rear wheels which, when lowered, sweep away tire tracks. The Green Hornet also used a special non-lethal gas gun and a ‘sting-gun’ that was able to penetrate steel.
Despite the Green Hornet television series only lasting a brief one season, it accumulated a loyal fan following. This could also be in accordance with Bruce Lee playing the Hornet’s martial arts master sidekick, Kato. (This was Lee’s debut to American television).
The Green Hornet is back in Hollywood again as movie talks are in the works starring Seth Rogan (Knocked-Up) as the Green Hornet and Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle) will play Kato. The movie is estimated to hit theaters nationwide June 25, 2010.
It is understood that Hollywood has the ability to skyrocket old comic book issues. It happened with Dark Knight, Iron Man, and Spider-Man. It will no doubt happen with Green Hornet, making now a fantastic time to purchase 1960s CGC-certified copies of the comic! Multiple Green Hornet comics are available for bid now at www.ComicLink.com in fantastic grades. Be sure to check out Green Hornet #1 graded at 9.4, it’s the second highest CGC has graded!
Green Hornet #1 9.4 available now at ComicLink.com
Green Hornet #2 CGC 7.0
Green Hornet #30 CGC 8.0
Green Hornet #45 CGC 9.2
Green Hornet #45 CGC 9.2
The Jedi face a devastating new Separatist weapon that’s in? the hands of General Grievous in the second of two episodes that mark the season premiere of STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS, an all-new animated series debuting Friday, Oct. 3? on Cartoon Network.
General Grievous and Count Dooku plot against the Jedi aboard the Malevolence, Grievous’s deadly ship, in “Rising Malevolence,” the second episode of STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS. The episode airs at 9:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 3, on Cartoon Network.
In “Rising Malevolence,” which premieres at 9:30 p.m., an attack by an unimaginably destructive weapon aboard a mysterious warship leaves Jedi Master Plo Koon and his clone troopers struggling to survive until Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano can find them. They discover that the ship is piloted by Grievous himself.
“Rising Malevolence” follows the 9:00 p.m. debut of the episode “Ambush.” STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS will introduce new episodes at 9:00? p.m. Fridays on Cartoon Network.
Series supervising director Dave Filoni helms the episode “Rising Malevolence” from a script by Steve Melching. George Lucas is the series’ creator and serves as executive producer, and Catherine Winder is producer.
“Rising Malevolence” features several prominent series debuts, most notably those of Jedi Master Plo Koon, General Grievous and his menacing warship, the Malevolence. Also appearing for their first time in the series are Anakin Skywalker and his padawan, Ahsoka.
Plo Koon’s presence was established in Star Wars: Episodes I, II and III, but his character was seen fleetingly in those films. Nevertheless, just as the seldom-seen Boba Fett became a fan favorite after The Empire Strikes Back, Filoni grew fascinated by Plo Koon. He chose the relatively unknown Jedi Master as his first project of character development.
“I liked the design of the Plo Koon character, and I also liked that he was a Jedi Master,” Filoni says of his initial attraction. “Like so many Star Wars fans, I had always wondered what other Jedi were like – and The Clone Wars presented an opportunity to explore those characters”
Melching said he, Filoni and script supervisor Henry Gilroy worked hard to reveal Plo Koon’s character by example – and, at the same time, offer greater perspective on the ways of the Jedi. Moreover, they reveal in “Rising Malevolence” an important connection between Plo Koon and Ahsoka Tano, Anakin’s Padawan learner.
“We were able to examine both Plo Koon’s personality and Ahsoka’s background by showing their bond and the extreme loyalty of Anakin and Ahsoka to their Jedi comrades,” Melching says. “They know he’s stranded and might not be alive, but if there’s even a chance, they’re going to find him. They have to deviate from their mission to try to rescue him, but they can’t endanger their larger mandate.”
The episode offers numerous scenes of Plo Koon and a small group of clones stranded in a disabled escape pod, which Melching says offered opportunities to expand on the thoughts, sensibilities and unique attributes of each clone trooper.
“The clones are really an army of one – they’re all the same guy. But their experiences in the war are all different, and that affects their relationships with other clones and their Jedi leaders,” Melching says. “They may all seem be the same guy, but they’re developing different personalities, and we work hard to show how they think, where they come from. That helps to define each episode. After all, the clones are ultimately the key to this war.”
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