Posters For Upcoming Tintin Movie

At the moment, I'm finding it hard to care too much, but I imagine as the release gets closer, my interest will grow proportionately.




Sourced from blledingcool.com, who sourced them from empire and deadline, i think.

Evil Totoro

Totoro actually at a certain level inspired this kind of dread in me.

Arrested Development Stuff

Sources Unknown

September11th

I had a thought this morning at work as I was preparing breakfast, that people shouldn't keep saying the term 9-11. There were a couple reasons I think for this. Firstly, it's a date, not a slogan. It's a tragic date, but I don't know the date when the bombs landed on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We seem to be defining the whole of human history by this one date. It's not September 11th anymore, it's 9-11. It's stands for something now, and by keeping on referring to it in that way, it seems to me we can't let go of the past, we 're holding onto the hurt.
Also, the rest of the world doesn't necessarily write the date down month/day/year. 9-11 to me means the 9th of November. It's this USA-centric view of the world, which needs to change. Brad wrote about something similar on his blog. By continually referring to it in the way "we" do, we keep accepting or perpetuating the idea that the USA is the be all and end all. I think we've seen recently that the US isn't some unassailable paragon of power. And they're responsible for their own downfall.
Anyway, that's all I really had to say. Got to keep watching HSM3 now.
Hiroshima-August 6th
Nagasaki-August 9th

Trailers.

So I went to the movies last night, and I saw three trailers.
The first trailer was for a film called The Zookeeper. It seems to be the "story" of a zookeeper who comes to work one morning, or evening, or sometime, and all the animals can talk. And he freaks out. And that's it. There's no story there. Maybe the film does have a story, though I suspect it doesn't, not really. But is this what passes for a trailer now? There was no suggestion of a story, there was a couple of "gags", and that was it. Am I expected to go see this movie based on that?
The other two trailers were better, but I can't even remember now what they were.
This rant really isn't going anywhere.

Battle Shoe

From the website/blog of artist Phil Noto.

Favourite Interpretations of the TMNT 2

So for this second look at my favourite interpretations of the TMNT, I chosen the recently animated film. While I wasn't blown away by the film as a whole, having some problems with the story, I really did enjoy the turtles themselves. I thought the characterisations and relationships between them were really well done. And the scene from which I grabbed these stills is one of my favourite scenes from any movie, I think it's that good. Excellent atmosphere with the rain and the neon, great character momnets as Leo and Raph have a confrontation about where they all stand now, and a pretty good fight to boot. What's not to love?


(Sorry about the quality of the pics, I was grabbing them of a small file size)

Favourite Interpretations of the TMNT 1

I've recently been re-reading some old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics, and reading some stuff I hadn't, and I've kind of been struck with the fun and imagination of these comics. They're just cool, full of crazy adventures and sci-fi concepts and ninjas and soap opera aspects, it's a pretty good time. So I just thought I'd share some of my favourite iterations of these characters by different creators.
First up is Michael Zulli. I was lucky enough to find his 2 issue run from Volume 1 series in the backbins of Comics Etc ages ago, and it really blew me away. His interpretation of them is much more realistic and detailed, and that series is also much more tied up with the kind of mystic side of the ninja. Zulli's turtles look like turtles, giant swamp creatures from a nightmare perhaps. It was a very different way of looking at these familiar characters.
These few panels below are from a 4 page story in an anthology volume of the TMNT, and I suspect it came a bit before the series I bought, as it the head shape is more in line with the traditional TMNT look, but you still get a sense of his detail and linework. I reckon people just saw this and demanded more, so he was given a larger platform, but I don't know if that's true.


Click on the image to enlarge (in case you don't know) for a better view.

Bansky Angry Birds

I'm essentially just putting this to push the below post down the page a bit, since the video is too big as in wide and pushes into the side script.

Indian Kids Movie Trailer=Weirdness

I don't mean to be culturally insensitive, and maybe this makes sense if I spoke Tamil or whatever dialect of India it is from, btu I'll let you judge for yourselves.

Tony Jaa/Sammo Hung Collaboration?

No details confirmed, just reports and rumour, but as I've kind of posted Tony Jaa news before here, I thought I should continue to share. Especially as it concerns Sammo Hung.
So the word is that Tony Jaa is shopping a movie around Hong Kong, and Sammo Hung is attached to choreograph. If this works out, that's good news, providing the director is competent. Ong Bak proved we don't need a complex story, so just as long as Sammo can put Tony through his paces, and it's filmed competently, should be a good return for Tony Jaa and a step in rebuilding his career.
Details can be found at Twitch.

Tyler Stout's Kill Bill Poster

I thought I was in with a chance at buying this poster, but no, it sold out before I could refresh the page, so I just thought I'd show you here, since I can't show you the copy I couldn't buy.

What If Star Wars Was A Drink

Some Star Wars Related Pics

So I posted these on some friends FB walls, but thought I'd post them here as well, since there's a lack of permanency there, though that perception is also false. Anyway, I know Phil Noto from his comic work, so assume this came from his blog or something like that, but the other one I don't know where it came from, though the watermark down the bottom of it probably gives it away. Anyway, I liked them.

City Of Blinding Lights

Batman Concept Art

There's some computer game called Arkham Asylum, which I don't really know much about, but I came across some concept art for it, which is real pretty.

Storm Drain

Driving Home From Richard's

Chicken Noodle Soup

Comic Blog with Guest Star!

This week's video has special guest, Ricardo Wellhousen, joining me on the couch. It's great, but long. Maybe I should edit it down a bit.

I seem to be having trouble with this, so i may have to cut it in two.

Backlog Comic Blog 2

Backlog Comic Blog

Poetry

This is a performance of some "songs" I did at a fundraiser for flood stuff.

Comic Video for 3 weeks ago

Comic Blog from 4 Weeks Ago

Comic Video for 5 weeks ago

Next Comics Video

Comic Video Blog for Comics Released 8/12/10

Comic Video Blog 3

So, here's the next one.
To make it more interesting, play the drinking game where you need to take a shot every time I touch my nose.

A New Comic Blog Video 2

Yeah, this si the second part, so it's just as long and boring as the first part, if you watched that. And it full of inaccuracies, kind of. Anyway, I'll try make the next one better, though I have to admit, I kind of also like how much it sucks. You can make up your own mind.

A New Comic Blog Video

Hey Folks, thought I'd try something like this for a while, a video blog about comics. It's pretty long and boring, so you may not care, but I'm going to keep trying and see how it goes.

Bangkok Knockout

I don't know if this film has a story or a plot, and I'm not sure I care. It would be nice if it had one, but I don't know if it's necessary.

The Superfriends Rock It!!

Between Zach and Bruce

Zach Galifinakis. Bruce Willis. Between Two Ferns. I think I found my new favourite.

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: Bruce Willis from Bruce Willis

Am I the only one laughing at this?

Bansky Does SImpsons Opening Sequence

I Think My Favourite Part Is The Bear

Or maybe when the prisoners casually strut out of the jail.
It's all good.

Clarence vs. Household Appliances #1

New Toy, New Post

This is a picture of me, taken at McDonalds, and uploaded at McDonalds, on my new MacBook. Pity the internet here is a bit slow, I was trying to download a program, but it kept timing out. Oh well.

True Grit

I Don't Know (Updated)

Just came across this painting, which is untitled and uncredited, so I don't know what to tell you. It took me about 30 seconds to realise what the subject matter was, and when I did, I knew I had to share it. I tried to do a google image search, but came up empty handed. So, nice job, unknown artist, I look forward to seeing more of your work.

Update: I found out the artist's name. Dave Greco.



Do you recognise them?

Random Lyric Generator

Also, Clay has a new post.

Animal Pictures That Made Me Smile

Continuing to clear out images from the ol' Blog Folder. Hope at least one of them makes you smile. Vote in the comments section for your favourite.

The Train Wreck Continues

The devil is in the details.
So tried to get some detail into Tim's face to make it unmistakably Tim, and of course made look less like Tim. But it still looks interesting. The colours I brought in to try bring a clearer distinction between the face and the background, but I'm afraid it may have gone too far. We'll see.



I'm just kind of painting random images in this one, but hopefully random with design. We'll see where it leads. Definitely not finished.

The Watterson Influence

Continuing to clear out the folder of images I like and wanted to share.

How Did The Dinosaurs Die?

I got a whole bunch of pictures piled up in my blog folder, so I'm just going to start putting all these up.
Hope some of them make you laugh or smile like they did make me.

Clarence Walks Through A Minefield

Tyler Stout: "Let The Right One In" Poster

I came across this poster for "Let The Right One In", and loved it. It's by an artist named Tyler Stout, who seems to do a few of these kind of things. I've seen some of his past stuff, and particularly liked his "Iron Man 2" poster, so I've posted a few here for you to peruse if you like.
Visit his website.It's worth clicking on even just for the cool little flash(?) animation on the opening page.

Let The Right One In

Iron Man 2

Robocop

Inglorious Basterds

The Flight Of The Conchords

The Warriors

Twitch Top Kills

Over at Twitch, they've started a new column celebrating the best kill shots in film, and their first one is a doozy.



Yeah, thank you India. I wish I could sit through a whole movie from you without getting frustrated, but at least you do produce great clips.

Today Is "Read Comics In Public Day", Apparently.

I found out too late. I was in public today, and I could've easily read comics while in public.
Now I have to wait a year.