Comic Books (And The Movies / Shows Based On Them)

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This would seem to represent the inverse of this thread...

Chuck Palahniuk Reveals Graphic Novel Sequel To 'Fight Club' On The Way

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In another age, when red-blooded males like Norman Mailer roamed the earth, the absolute most rebellious-chic thing you could do as a writer was be interviewed by Playboy. And thus it has come to pass, 40-odd years later, it's still a thing and Chuck “Fight Club” Palahniuk has given an interview to Hustler (read it here), the younger, naughtier sibling to Hugh Hefner's creation. And lo, he has spoken of a “Fight Club 2.”

Hold your horses, though: it's not a movie (yet). For now “Fight Club 2” is just a graphic novel, in which Tyler Durden reemerges from the character who, to spite the movie version's Jack, Palahniuk is calling Cornelius. “He’s living a compromised life with a failing marriage, unsure about his passion for his wife. The typical midlife bullshit," the author explains. "Likewise, Marla is unsatisfied and dreams of accessing the wild man she’d once fallen in love with. She tampers with the small pharmacy of drugs that her husband needs to suppress Tyler, and— go figure—Tyler reemerges to terrorize their lives. “

“Typical midlife bullshit”; Mr Palahniuk pulls no punches, gentle reader. To find out exactly what it all involved, though, we'll have to wait until 2015, as currently scheduled, which gives us a while yet to talk about whether or not “Fight Club 2” will get made into a film. Or, you know, not talk about it, first rule, etc. etc, you fill in the blank. [via FirstShowing]

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maddie Dec 3, 2013 8:11am
This sounds like a terrible idea.

Coby Dec 12, 2013 10:30am
I'm not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, Fight Club is my favorite movie and book ever. On the other, I think both the movie and book had great endings, and we don't really need a sequel. See my blog for more: http://cobyscomics.blogspot.com/2013/12/fight-club-2.html
 
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arf777

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grokit said:
This would seem to represent the inverse of this thread...

Chuck Palahniuk Reveals Graphic Novel Sequel To 'Fight Club' On The Way

75


In another age, when red-blooded males like Norman Mailer roamed the earth, the absolute most rebellious-chic thing you could do as a writer was be interviewed by Playboy. And thus it has come to pass, 40-odd years later, it's still a thing and Chuck “Fight Club” Palahniuk has given an interview to Hustler (read it here), the younger, naughtier sibling to Hugh Hefner's creation. And lo, he has spoken of a “Fight Club 2.”

Hold your horses, though: it's not a movie (yet). For now “Fight Club 2” is just a graphic novel, in which Tyler Durden reemerges from the character who, to spite the movie version's Jack, Palahniuk is calling Cornelius. “He’s living a compromised life with a failing marriage, unsure about his passion for his wife. The typical midlife bullshit," the author explains. "Likewise, Marla is unsatisfied and dreams of accessing the wild man she’d once fallen in love with. She tampers with the small pharmacy of drugs that her husband needs to suppress Tyler, and— go figure—Tyler reemerges to terrorize their lives. “

“Typical midlife bullshit”; Mr Palahniuk pulls no punches, gentle reader. To find out exactly what it all involved, though, we'll have to wait until 2015, as currently scheduled, which gives us a while yet to talk about whether or not “Fight Club 2” will get made into a film. Or, you know, not talk about it, first rule, etc. etc, you fill in the blank. [via FirstShowing]

academicfightclub2.jpg

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maddie Dec 3, 2013 8:11am
This sounds like a terrible idea.

Coby Dec 12, 2013 10:30am
I'm not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, Fight Club is my favorite movie and book ever. On the other, I think both the movie and book had great endings, and we don't really need a sequel. See my blog for more: http://cobyscomics.blogspot.com/2013/12/fight-club-2.html
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First six pages can actually be read on Playboy's site- http://www.playboy.com/articles/fight-club-2-exclusive-6-page-preview-chuck-palahniuk

And from Deadpool land- fan-made Deadpool vs crappy Wolverine: Origins Deadpool. Chimi-fucking-changas!

 
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EveryDayAmnesiac said:
Free Comic Book Day 2015!

http://www.freecomicbookday.com/Home/1/1/27/992

Hit your local stores for freebies, memorabilia exhibits, and lots of cute girls in costume! :brow:

I'm pretty much only going for one reason. :D
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Despite all the troubles here, there is a small cosplay parade by my favorite Baltimore City comics store if you're in the area. And Mark Waid is at Cards, Comics, & Collectibles in northwest Baltimore County today. Gonna try and get there this afternoon.
 
grokit

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So is dubai the next san diego?
Money :disgust:

Sci-Fi City


DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—

At the Middle East Film & Comic Con, wardrobe secrets were spilling. A Saudi teenager revealed how he used toilet paper rolls to make an oversized shell for his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles costume. Two young Omani boys eagerly demonstrated how to use Elmer’s glue to recreate the Dragon Ball character Goku’s perfectly spiked hair. And for the smart hijab wearer, a group of young Emirati women showed how to craft a Maleficent headpiece to perfectly cover the hair. (The secret? A lot of electrical tape.)

Four years after its inception, the MEFCC has morphed into perhaps the most high-profile pop culture event in the region. By the close of the convention on April 11, nearly 50,000 attendees had streamed into the three-day extravaganza at Dubai’s enormous World Trade Centre, smashing last year’s attendance by almost 40 percent. The event drew more than 250 exhibitors, artists, and celebrities from the film, television, and comic worlds.

“Remember when the first [MEFCC] was, like, a tent in somebody’s backyard?” Max Landis, Hollywood screenwriter and host of the convention, joked onstage during the kickoff.

He was exaggerating, but just barely: At the first Con, in 2012, just a few thousand attendees sat in a tired old marine club building on the outskirts of the city like nerds on the periphery of a high school dance. Indeed, culturally, Dubai might still seem like an unlikely place for a raucous weekend party of sci-fi aficionados, but it definitely looks the part. During a speech, William Shatner—Captain Kirk himself—seemed impressed: “I don’t know much about Dubai, but it is like out of someone’s futuristic imagination.”

(much more...)
 
arf777

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Just saw Age of Ultron. Given the negative reviews, I expected it to be worse than the 1st one. It was not. It was surprisingly good. Loved Paul Bettany as the Vision. They do mess up a bunch of comics continuity (including some related to Infinity Stones), but I knew that was the case. And Thanos appears, with a jewel-less Gauntlet, in the mid-credits scene.
 
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arf777 said:
Just saw Age of Ultron. Given the negative reviews, I expected it to be worse than the 1st one. It was not. It was surprisingly good. Loved Paul Bettany as the Vision. They do mess up a bunch of comics continuity (including some related to Infinity Stones), but I knew that was the case. And Thanos appears, with a jewel-less Gauntlet, in the mid-credits scene.
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A jeweless Gauntlet???!!!:hmm: Blasphemy!!!:rant:
 
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An impressive level of geekiness - a website that just tracks how many exclamation points Rob Liefeld, co-creator of Deadpool and Cable, uses on Twitter every day, with summary statistics on his past exclamation point use.

http://www.excitableliefeld.com/

And if you go to the Google Spanish to English translation tool and enter 'Eobard Thawne' in the Spanish box (the Reverse Flash's real name) 'Professor Zoom' (a name the character used in the comics for some time) appears in the English box. Doesn't work translating English to Spanish or anywhere else on Google translate, just Spanish to English.
 
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And Suicide Squad image released. Personally not wild about any of the looks in this pic - Leto looks good but he isn't in this image. Margot Robbie, especially, looks like kind of lazy fangirl cosplay. No frill or bells, wrong colors (red and blue, not red and black), no mask.

I could do better Harley Quinn cosplay, and I'm male, fat, bald, bearded, and crippled. Too bad. Was really looking forward to this. I'll still see it, but probably not in a theater.

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Was so psyched by the near-mint copy of Infinity Gauntlet #2 I picked up on free comic book day, I tracked down and bought a near-mint of Infinity Gauntlet #1, this one signed by George Perez (obviously a bit more money than the unsigned #2). Not quite as cool as if it were signed by Jim Starlin, but maybe one day...

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...and possibly the funniest thing Marvel AR has done- three way argument between Captain America, Deadpool and Wolverine over which one of them is good, which one bad, and which one ugly (from Deadpool 2012 15-17, "The Goos, the Bad, and the Ugly". Really long for Marvel AR- goes on and on..."When did Steve Rogers become such a jerk?"-Deadpool

 
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grokit said:
I really enjoyed guardians of the galaxy last night,
on the big screen in hi-def :tup:

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Best movie I've seen in a while, solid 9/10.
It was like a hybrid of men in black and star wars :lol:
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And of course Star Wars itself owes a huge amount to comics, especially Jack Kirby's New Gods. And Men in Black was a comic book before it was a movie.
 
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Two things. First, my new favorite Deadpool variant, Winnie the Pool.

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And a classic Kirby, sans colors, of Fin Fang Foom. Wonderful art, but WHY DOES HE HAVE PANTS???? HE'S A REPTILE! HIS JUNK IS INTERNAL! Do we need to hide cloacae now? (I think that's the plural of cloaca).

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arf777

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Dammit. NBC is not renewing Constantine. 1st recent comic book-based show not renewed for a 2nd season. I really liked it. They'd teased the Spectre, a character I'd really like to see- it would've opened the door to introduce a version of Hal Jordan. Warner Brothers is supposedly shopping it to other networks. But if they were really committed to it, they could put it on CW.

http://comicbook.com/2015/05/08/nbc...il&utm_term=0_7a2d10cb6e-1dd157ba9b-269210601
 
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"They called me 'Mr. Glass.' "

One of the best "comic book movies" of all-time?

Well, possibly my favorite comic book movie of all-time, though not actually based on a comic book.

What I love so much about this movie is that a first-time viewer won't realize it's a "comic book movie" until the end - I feel this is the best and smartest (and only good) twist Shyamalan has done.

No big battles. No cheesy one-liners. No grand absurd entrances. No costumes or body armor or fancy weapons. Just a small (origin) story in a comic book hero universe. And an assload of Hitchcock moments.

Not a fan of Shyamalan, but this movie is an absolute fucking masterpiece from beginning to end - what Shyamalan shows, what he doesn't show, the pacing, the story, the vibe, the music, everything.

Samuel Jackson's character is the definition of a comic book villain. And his final speech is amazing, and will leave no one without an understanding of him. Like the best comic book stories, readers / viewers feel as much for the villain as they do for the hero...

Bruce Willis does a perfect job at just playing himself ... if he were a sad, reluctant, regretful superhero... :ko:

So many iconic moments, shots, dialogue... just a great fucking movie. The scene of Mr. Glass falling down the stairs make my skin crawl every time. Still can't even really watch it.

A fucking masterpiece. The only Shyamalan movie that gets better with repeated viewings. Although, it's easy to see why it did not do as well in theaters as The Sixth Sense - an hour into it, and the first-time viewer still doesn't know what the fuck the movie is supposed to be about.

Tarantino lists it in his top #20. :tup:
 
arf777

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EveryDayAmnesiac said:

"They called me 'Mr. Glass.' "

One of the best "comic book movies" of all-time?

Well, possibly my favorite comic book movie of all-time, though not actually based on a comic book.

What I love so much about this movie is that a first-time viewer won't realize it's a "comic book movie" until the end - I feel this is the best and smartest (and only good) twist Shyamalan has done.

No big battles. No cheesy one-liners. No grand absurd entrances. No costumes or body armor or fancy weapons. Just a small (origin) story in a comic book hero universe. And an assload of Hitchcock moments.

Not a fan of Shyamalan, but this movie is an absolute fucking masterpiece from beginning to end - what Shyamalan shows, what he doesn't show, the pacing, the story, the vibe, the music, everything.

Samuel Jackson's character is the definition of a comic book villain. And his final speech is amazing, and will leave no one without an understanding of him. Like the best comic book stories, readers / viewers feel as much for the villain as they do for the hero...

Bruce Willis does a perfect job at just playing himself ... if he were a sad, reluctant, regretful superhero... :ko:

So many iconic moments, shots, dialogue... just a great fucking movie. The scene of Mr. Glass falling down the stairs make my skin crawl every time. Still can't even really watch it.

A fucking masterpiece. The only Shyamalan movie that gets better with repeated viewings. Although, it's easy to see why it did not do as well in theaters as The Sixth Sense - an hour into it, and the first-time viewer still doesn't know what the fuck the movie is supposed to be about.

Tarantino lists it in his top #20. :tup:
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Never actually seen this. Gonna have to check it out.

Just added to the collection- Secret Wars 8, first Spidey black suit as symbiote (technically appeared as a costume a couple months earlier, but Secret Wars is where he got the thing). Officially near-mint, but it is in better condition than some brand new comics I have.

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I tells ya, as soon as I got the VAS and GAS under control I go all collectable nuts. Then I get that under a little control and I start spending too much on vintage comics. WTF.
 
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