Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Flash! Ah-Ahhh...!

Dynamite Entertainment, who recently snagged The Shadow, has grabbed another classic...
The initial 6-issue story arc will be an adaptation of the first two years of the original Alex Raymond comic strip.
Alex Ross plotted the series, handled character designs, and will contribute covers.
Erik Trautmann is scripting and Daniel Lindro is illustrating the series.
Francesco Francavilla will be doing alternate covers.
Overall, I'm interested, but Lindro may be a little too dark an artist for a bright action-adventure series.
But it couldn't be any worse than the recent manga-influenced Flash series from Ardden.

Monday, August 22, 2011

Jessica Alba: Fallen Fantastic Femme?

Spy Kids 4D: All the Time in the World did only $12 million?
 Nobody wants to see Jessica Alba anymore?
(And Machete did so well...)
Even Love Guru did better than this!!!

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Reading Room: RACE FOR THE MOON: 3 Rocketeers "Long, Long Years"

The first of the 3 Rocketeers stories illustrated by Jack Kirby and Al Williamson.
Exactly who wrote them is questionable.
Though Joe Simon was the editor of Race for the Moon (and later, Blast-Off), it's not certain if he wrote the Kirby-penciled tales. (If there's info about this in Simon's autobiography, please let me know.)

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Listen to a Lost Hero on National Radio Day

August 20th is National Radio Day, celebrating, among other aspects...
old-time dramatic radio, which presented an astonishing number of action heroes including those created for radio...
Green Hornet

Captain Midnight
  Lone Ranger
Mysterious Traveler
Mr District Attorney
Big Town
and those adapted from other media...
plus
classic one-time presentations like
War of the Worlds
 Enter the "Theater of the Imagination!

Check out the
Atomic Kommie Comics
storefronts featuring
Big Town
Captain Midnight
Blue Beetle
Green Hornet
Green Lama
Mr District Attorney
Mysterious Traveler
War of the Worlds
Kool Kollectibles!

Friday, August 19, 2011

Golden Age Comic NEGRO ROMANCE on PBS' "History Detectives"

Our "sister" blog, True Love Comics Tales™ is running a classic romance tale from the very HTF 1950s comic Negro Romance, which was recently featured on PBS' series History Detectives!
One of the few pre-1960s comics that didn't feature stereotyped Black characters, and there are links to the History Detectives website and the complete segment from the show.