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  1. All star Batman & Robin #4
  2. Exclusive: Who Might Direct Ant-Man? First word on the new Marvel movie. September 7, 2005 - It was recently announced that Marvel Entertainment has secured a $525 million loan package that will allow it to produce 10 films based on its comic book characters, specifically Captain America, the Avengers, Nick Fury, Black Panther, Cloak & Dagger, Dr. Strange, Hawkeye, Power Pack, Shang-Chi and Ant-Man. Paramount will distribute the films, which will carry a price tag somewhere between $50 million-$165 million each. According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Marvel chairman and CEO Avi Arad said he officially will begin attaching scriptwriters to all 10 projects beginning Wednesday and that, though he has a wish list, he's unsure which movie will be released first." IGN FilmForce has learned that British filmmaker Edgar Wright is poised to direct Ant-Man. Wright apparently plans on making Ant-Man a comedy. Neither Wright's reps nor Marvel responded to our inquiries for comment. Wright wrote and directed the zombie laffer Shaun of the Dead. He also has been linked with the upcoming projects Hot Fuzz and Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life. In the comics, Ant-Man was Dr. Henry "Hank" Pym; he also fought crime under the pseudonyms of Giant-Man, Goliath and Yellowjacket. As The Marvel Database reminds us, Pym discovered a group of subatomic particles and produced two serums from them, one that could reduce someone or something in size and another to restore them. Testing the serum on himself, Pym was reduced "to the size of an insect. Pym became entrapped in an anthill and was pursued by the ants within. ... Inspired by his experience in the anthill, Pym undertook a study of ants, and theorized that ants communicate through psionic/electrical waves transmitted through their antennae. After months of work, Pym succeeded in creating his first 'cybernetic helmet,' which would enable him to communicate with ants through transmitting and receiving psionic/electrical waves. Thinking that someday he might want to use the shrinking potion on himself again, Pym also designed a protective costume for himself." Pym eventually became a costumed crime-fighter, serving with The Avengers and also marrying (and later divorcing) fellow superhero Janet Van Dyne, a.k.a. the Wasp. With Pym's blessing, Scott Lang later became Ant-Man II; he died in action.
  3. just a thread for any news and previews from the comic book world and to kick off with JEPH LOEB MOVES TO MARVEL The DC writer heads to the House of Ideas to do Ultimates with Joe Madureira! PLUS: Exclusive first look at Joe Mad’s new art! As Newsarama reported from Chicago, the rumor of Loeb and Madureira following in the footsteps of Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch was popping up on the floor throughout the weekend, though at the time, E-i-C Joe Quesada wouldn’t confirm a thing, only saying “â€The Ultimates Vol. III and the announcement of the new creative team that will prove to be the biggest and most unexpected announcement in years.†Which, arguably, is true. While the style and scope of Ultimates is something that Loeb has proved himself up to the challenge of tackling time and again, Madureira on pencils will represent a dramatic stylistic shift in artistic style for the series, far and away from the realistic (and occasionally Hollywood-inspired) pencils of Bryan Hitch. During the series’ first run, and even into the early part of its second, conversation about creators taking the book after Millar and Hitch often ran towards seeing the book end when the creators left, rather than continuing, given the acclaimed work the two had done with the characters. Even Marvel, when the question was raised, often left the answer up in the air, though Millar, speaking to Newsarama last week said that Ultimates ending when he and Hitch left would be the worst scenario the two creators could imagine. Millar said: “Honestly, our worst nightmare would have been the book finishing. All that work to end up a mini-series? No thanks. We put some solid foundations here on these character revamps and I couldn't be happier to see it continue. This book makes them more money than just about anything else out there. Add the fact that it's 2.99 too and you'll understand this was never a consideration. Not a chance. Nor would we have wanted it.†Likewise, in speaking about the (then unnamed) new team, Millar added: “Bryan and I kind of gasped when we heard the team because it's not who you would expect. But that's brilliant because someone coming in and aping our style would have been depressing and out of date. This is a great, new direction from the book and an inspired choice on Marvel's part. I've got a huge amount of respect for the team and am looking forward to the book more than anyone. That said, I hope they aren't too good. Then I'll just be pissed off.†Obviously, while shifting the controls of a popular franchise from one set of creators to another is a risk (with, in this case, the added factor of a stylistic art change), it’s not he first Millar has been art of. Arguably again, parallels could be drawn to The Authority changing hands from Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch to Millar and Frank Quitely. At the time, fans had serious doubts of whether this, then relatively unknown Millar and a stylistically different artist could ever hope to match Ellis and Hitch’s landmark run on the series. The pairing of the creators marks their first time working together again since a very brief two-issue stint on Uncanny X-Men (#329-330), co-written with Scott Lobdell in 1996. Ultimates 2 should end later this year, or early next. Presumably, Ultimates v3 will show up in the second quarter of 2006.
  4. ah crap i spelt the topic wrong, must preview posts more
  5. ok so im gonna sign off now but i look forward to meeting people at the trocodero tomorrow see y'all then
  6. my sherona awesome tune! beach boys good call.
  7. a good point well made, must tune in today
  8. good tunes, added get a job, sweet home alabama, hold of me to the list also added afternoon delight (anchorman)
  9. havent had an iron bru in ages, will have to get one for lunch
  10. smokey bacon flavour?
  11. has to be ketchup for me! and the bacon not too crispy
  12. all my life what a awesome track! when i get a mobile which is good enough, im gonna have that opening guitar riff on loop as my ring tone, however dont think i'll add it to the holiday cd, thats usually my getting ready to go out and take care of buisness tune
  13. with brown sauce or ketchup?
  14. ok so im going on a extended weekend trip to the south of france in sept, and after i heard a song randomly on the internet this morning, it made me think of driving in a car on holiday in the sun. So now im gonna try and make a whole CD of extremely cool holiday tunes. I've only selected three at the moment, but they should give you an idea of where im coming from island in the sun-weezer, this is the tune that start all this off, i havent heard it for years and it put me straight into holiday mode, even though its raining outside holiday- greenday, nuff said good enough- cindy lauper, watched the goonies yesterday, the ulimate going on an adventure film any suggestions? please help me out?
  15. A First Look at Ultimate Avengers Source: The Dude August 8, 2005 'The Dude' tells Superhero Hype! that the first footage from Ultimate Avengers was shown at Wizard World in Chicago this weekend: The movie is due (straight to dvd) in February of '06. According to the panel from Marvel and Lions Gate (the new MLG Studio) this is the first of many films to come. The idea is to make full length animated movies based directly from story arcs. The clip shown was one-minute of test footage that came straight out of the pages of The Ultimates first story arc as they're taking down the Hulk. The art was exact except for Captain America who looked like he usually does. The clip had a real mature feel to it, we are far from Spider-Man and His Amazing Fiends here. The one-minute of footage was a "world premiere" and was conceived by an overseas studio that was given the first story arc of The Ultimates (Marvel Comics) and told to "bring it to life." The result was breathtaking. The concept as the panel described it is completely targeted to the fanboy crowd. They want to make dreams come true and feel that they can do it at a profit by releasing the movies straight to dvd. Imagine McFarland's "Torment" storyline from Spider-Man or "The Dark Phoenix Saga" being presented true to form, right down (in some cases) to their original artistic stylings. This could really start off something big for all comic companies. We'll never see "The Dark Knight Returns" live-action, but imagine an animated version... Anyway, enough dreaming, you get the concept. The footage ran like this: - blackout, heavy breathing. - man's face looking stressed, closes in on his eye which lights up green. - growling, roaring, screaming as Hulk happily torments a city's downtown. - Hulk beats up a building, pan back over the shoulder of Giant Man. - Giant Man carefully walks through the streets stepping over buildings. - Giant Man squishes Hulk like a bug into the building. - Close-up on Hulk's squished face, he smiles. - Hulk takes it to Giant Man ending with a knockout blow that drops him. - Shield flies and nails Hulk. - Captain America attacks, toe to toe. - Hulk gets the upperhand and is about to nail Cap. - Boom! Hulk is lit up by lightning. - We see Thor winding up for another and...BOOM! - Blackout and heavy breathing. This clip looked like it was pulled right out of the Ultimates book. Captain America looked like himself in the regular universe, but here's hoping they adjust him as well. The movie will be out in Feruary of 2006 and it's potential looks incredible so far.
  16. Im personally really looking foward to this as it should the closest to the source material than any comic book film before it, plus it doesnt have to worry about box office as its going straight to dvd! With Wizard's Richard Ho moderating, Marvel's Craig Kyle and Lion's Gate Family Entertainment's Ken Katsumoto sat down with an over-capacity audience at Wizard World Chicago Saturday afternoon to discuss the first of a proposed series of direct-to-DVD animated releases featuring Marvel properties. Taking several pages directly from the books, "Ultimate Avengers" is slated to be the first release, in February 2006, based on the first six issues of "The Ultimates" by Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch. The film will run 75-80 minutes with letterboxed format, will be recorded in Dolby Digital 5.1. sound and be aimed at PG/PG-13 audiences. With availability at all major retailers, the price point has not been settled on yet. After the prerequisite "this company is great" material from both parties, they discussed the new studio MLG, where they used a "fantasy league" styled method of cherry picking talent to try and make the best product possible. "Doing these straight-to-DVD in an animation allows us to keep them as true as possible to the comics," Kyle said, "and keep the kind of emotion and look and feel you love from the books. I think we're coming very close, it's an exciting opportunity and it's for you guys." Katsumoto mentioned a meeting with Avi Arad where this first project was likened to the NBA All-Star game, with huge talents finding a way to work together. Look for Nick Fury (based on the Ultimate design), Black Widow, Thor, Hulk, Giant Man and the Wasp, among others. "Avi's mandate was not 'make a good animated movie,'" Kyle said, "it was 'make a great movie.' We're all dying to deliver, you guys have huge expectations. We're doing our best to deliver. If they do well, there's no reason we can't continue. " They wanted to get Hawkeye in the film, but Kyle said, "We couldn't give him the screen time. We just didn't want him to be in the background once, with an arrow, and everybody's like 'hey, Hawkeye!'" They also said the film would not stray too far from the source material, with the World War II segment as the opening scenes. "As close as we get to 'Saving Private Ryan,' we tried," Kyle said. "There won't be any of that 'ooh, he missed,' 'they all make it to shore' stuff. Broken glass, violence, romance. This is not Saturday morning stuff." There will be some deviations, though. "There are moments of this film where you can grab a panel from the book and hold it up to the screen. To fill the time of the movie, we had to expand upon it and build upon it. We tried to grab specific shots." But some things just went too far, even for this treatment. Don Wu will be doing the animation work on this film, and they called on the talents of many veterans of "Batman: The Animated Series" including Frank Parr on design, producer Bob Richardson, and Kurt Geida ("Return of the Joker") and Steve Gordon as co-directors. "Steve took Bryan's designs and opened them up so we could animate them," Kyle gushed. The films will not all be "Ultimate" based -- "We're not planning to say these all synch up," Kyle said, and the "Iron Man" feature will be based on the classic Marvel Universe version. "There are places that we thought if a hero were to do that in a moving picture, it would be hard for the audience to come back to them. Victimizing women, it's just when you cross that line ... we try to make the smart choices. Everything in our film is motivated. I think you'll find as you watch the film that everything makes sense. We had a good script and we built from there." Also, there's no need to look for the current American president in this film, nor any overt political statements. "We think that it has to go and be organic in the story," Katsumoto said. "There are some political aspects, more in the second film than the first, but we're not really trying to make a statement about today's affairs. We never move forward with that kind of intent, but if it happens that way, great." They were also not willing to disclose voice casting, but promised there would be no stunt casting. "We found the best voices possible," Kyle said, "it needs to sound like Captain America, not Julia Roberts. We know we can never cast the voices as well as you do, we could never feel the explosions as much as you do. That's the beauty of comics. You finish the journey." "Ultimate Avengers" is the first of eight proposed character-based films, focusing on Captain America as the through line (as well as in the sequel, based on Millar and Hitch's second six issues). There will be a second "Ultimate Avengers" feature in the second quarter of 2006, an "Iron Man" one (written by Greg Johnson and produced and conceived by Frank Parr) for the third quarter, and a fourth animated feature that they were coy about discussing. Of the latter, they did say that it is a lesser-known Marvel character, that it would be an origin story, and that the character is not an Avenger. After a considerable lag time, the film will be released for prime-time broadcast viewing with a partner they were not willing to disclose. The promotional plans for the project will ultimately include television ads and the like, but their first instinct was to bring the work "to the fans. If we haven't gotten our core, we haven't done our jobs," Kyle said. "Wizard's helping a lot, at each 'con coming, we're going to have a different one-sheet release that Bryan [Hitch]'s working on." They are open to toys and soundtrack CDs, but there's no concrete plans now, as they're still hiring the composer and orchestra to score this film.
  17. i love that bit in the simpsons!
  18. just a place to put some awesome drawings and covers which should be shared with the world ultimate fantastic 4 #25 infinate crisis #1 amazing spiderman #526
  19. heres a nice wallpaper sized image of the new ghost rider series for anyone who wants it, plus is anyone else reading new avengers at the moment. Never bothered with the old school avengers but this is great, i agree with them putting the big hitter in like spidey and wolverine, yes they have a million books out already, but this is one of the best, the trade paperback is out soon or now i think, check it out
  20. I ve been enjoying reading the house of m series, very nice way of bring the entire marvel u together, plus i want to see how it all pans out and see if the fallout is as big as they are hyping it up to be who is layna miller? why is scarlet witch human? why is hawkeye back? just what happened before everything changed?
  21. picked up issue one of silient dragon, very good, art is great and if its anything like andy diggle's work on the losers it should be action packed,
  22. personally im looking forward to this new series as the art is beautiful
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