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She's a Pass (end version)


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[Purge!]

This curio has been mentioned on facebook and on Pat Mills blog,


It's a story called Purge! that was published in Creepy #73, 1975. Drawn by former 2000AD stalwart Ortiz.


Few sample pages,








Found this article too,

And here's a rather Judge Dredd comedy police state official in the short story Purge! from Creepy #73, Aug. 1975, decked out in gear that suggests Ortiz might have been paying attention to visual developments in the freshly-launched Métal Hurlant. Attribution is tough in the Warren magazines, though; the colorist on this story is Warren's notoriously hands-on editor-of-the-time, Bill DuBay, who was famous for extensively reworking writers' scripts and sometimes re-drawing art to reflect story alterations (or, admittedly, to cope with the somewhat dodgy translation process scripts would go through to reach the publisher's stable of European artists). The motif seen above — a dual narrative on opposite halves of the page, linking up later in the story — was used before in stories by DuBay himself and Jim Stenstrum (another interesting writer who pretty much vanished from comics with the end of the b&w magazine era), and eventually hinges on a very self-referential punchline: the materials the bottom character is smuggling in his suitcase are back-issues of Warren magazines.


http://www.tcj.com/this-week-in-comics-62211-studies-in-delayed-thrill-power/

[Xenogenesis]

Not a huge fan of Jimmy Camshaft but here's his rather competent and portentous 1978 student film, Xenogenesis starring William Wisher*




*Yes, that William Wisher.

[Johnny Copeland]

Every dog has his day, and a good dog might just have two days -Johnny Copeland

With Arnold Schwarzenegger out of office we knew it was only a matter of time. That time has now elapsed: Arnie will reprise his role of Conan the Barbarian in a movie called The Legend of Conan.

[DREDD'S MEGA-CITY ONE EFFECTS]

DREDD'S MEGA-CITY ONE EFFECTS


The Daily and fxguide's exclusive look at the visual effects of Dredd 3D. Find out how the real world city of Johannesburgh, South Africa, was turned into the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Mega-City One.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ9OFwFxxt4

[Mute the music]

Mute the music

[Coming To A Marvel Comic Near You...MIRACLEMAN!]

Coming To A Marvel Comic Near You...MIRACLEMAN!


The final chapter has now been written in one of the longest running copyright/ownership sagas in the world of comic books.  With a few filings in the Trademark court, MIRACLEMAN has now been set free, in a manner of speaking, and is now owned, fully and solely, by Marvel Comics.

In 2001 Neil Gaiman filed an opposition against Todd McFarlane's trademark registration for Miracleman.  It's a little known aspect of the bigger case, and it has been running, concurrently, with the main cases involving the two.  Only two days ago the case was resolved with the opposition being withdrawn and the case closed, but there was more.  In addition to the opposition being withdrawn, McFarlane has had to abandon his claim on the Miracleman name for all time.  As if that wasn't good enough, only last week a new trademark application was lodged for Miracleman, this time by Marvel Comics.


http://ohdannyboy.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/coming-to-marvel-comic-near.html#.UFHC4TbCD2k.facebook

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[Jock Concepts]

May as well start a new thread for this stuff.

Jock Concepts

Re-reading the Judge Dredd story The Land Race prog 47 - Dredd was serving his term as Moon Marshall - I spotted in one of the panels a curious little ship above Joe's head.






Anymore oddities in the prog?

[Red Dawn]

Red Dawn - the remake that time, and taste, forgot. It's now getting released.



"Originally it was the Chinese," Hutcherson says. "And then there was the thought that the Chinese own most of the companies making movies and that maybe it wasn't the best idea in the world."

In the end, the attacking forces became the North Koreans (aided by the Chinese and Russians). Meanwhile, the members of the small-town high school "put aside our John-Hughes-Breakfast-Club difference and unite" to fight off the attack, Peck says.

"There's the spider-trap moment when we just appear out of the ground," Peck says. "Red Dawn fans are going to be blown out by it."

[$100 million]

Here's another film SCI-FI film production that's only begun marketing 3 months before release with absolutely nothing released before it -this one costing $100 million and made by the Wachowskis - and again it's time enough to get people aware and doesn't cost half your production budget.


http://beyondthemarquee.com/11108/

[OMNICORP]

New OMNICORP website thingamy:








http://www.omnicorp.com/

New interview at CBR:


http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=38457

[CYCLE]

How the other side are





Beautiful lookin' Hungarian Sci-Fi film by a film-maker with a fabulous name: Zoltan Sostai




CYCLE






The Astronaut arrives on a strange rooftop, disorientated he looks for answers, encountering a strange masked man who seems to know more than he is saying. Behind them both approaches a deadly black fog that slowly covers everything.

The Astronaut runs, finds a doorway and suddenly is back on the roof, repeating his actions?! He seems to have only a short memory but he needs to find a way home.

He starts to stay for longer in different strange scenes where he meets the same people again and again, but each time they act differently and the stories they tell change.

The film focuses on a universal problem solving situation rather than on classic linear storytelling.

Like TRON meets ENTER THE VOID, this film is a visual assault and a fresh narrative rhythm - you will be amazed and perplexed until the very end.


http://www.cycle-themovie.com/trailer.html


World premiere at SCI-FI-LONDON:


http://www.sci-fi-london.com/news/cinema/2012/03/five-world-premieres-sci-fi-london-2012









History of the Arkanar Massacre or Hard to be a God

Believe it or not this is a modern Russian film that's been in production for the past 12 years directed by Aleksei German, it'll be debuting in Cannes. It looks genuinely like a Tarkovsky film from the 60's. It's an adaptation of the Strugatsky brothers novel Hard to be a God, the film is called History of the Arkanar Massacre. Who knows what the fuck it'll be like though.

"On another planet, which goes through its middle ages, a group of historians from Earth live pretending to be average people. The main character, known as Don Rumata, is disgusted by cruelties he observes on everyday basis but is prohibited by his superiors from interfering and thus changing the natural course of history of the planet. The only thing the historians have a right to do is to protect and help few individuals who seem to be different from everybody else and can benefit the entire planet through their knowledge and ideas. Rumata has to find one of these people, Budakh, and rescue him from the hands of Don Reba, a ruler of the country and an insane tyrant."







http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KtqwQLGkao








Dau



Another insanely ambitious Russian production:


Five years ago, a relatively unknown director -Ilya Khrzhanovsky- began one of the wildest experiments in film history. Armed with total creative control, he invaded a Ukrainian city, marshaled a cast of thousands and thousands, and constructed a totalitarian society in which the cameras are always rolling and the actors never go home.





A movie based on the life of Soviet quantum physicist Lev Landau 1908 – 1968. To film it, Khrzahnovsky has done the unthinkable: he's set up an exact replicable of a Soviet town inside an enormous brick building, where saying the wrong word can either mean loss of paycheck, or, loss of job.










http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201111/movie-set-that-ate-itself-dau-ilya-khrzhanovsky

Alan Moore revealed that the next League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen project to follow the conclusion of Century this summer, is to be called Nemo: Heart Of Ice, and that forty of the forty-eight pages involved have been written so far... and that we'll see it before the end of the year...

Nemo appears to be on his deathbed in LOEG: Century 1910, and this adventure is set in he twenties, so something is up. Moore told the throng that "It takes place in Antarctica and [the work of H.P. Lovecraft] is a major component. You figure it out."


http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/02/05/nemo-heart-of-ice-league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen-comic-for-end-of/

Angela Bowie & Ben Carruthers.






Model, actress, musician and writer Angela Bowie, who was married to pop star David Bowie for ten years, wearing a skintight black catsuit for her role as The Black Widow in a proposed TV series, 1975. The series, based on a character in the Daredevil comicbooks, was never made. (Photo by Terry O'Neill/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)


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In 1966, animator Gene Deitch collaborated with Czech illustrator Adolf Born to create this 12 minute version of Tolkien's classic tale. It never saw the light of day.


It's truly amazing how faithful to the source material it is:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UBnVL1Y2src#!

[Paul is currently working on DREDD]

Paul Leonard-Morgan is a BAFTA-winning, Ivor Novello-nominated composer, who is rapidly becoming one of the most sought-after film composers in the UK, and beyond. Fusing strings with electronica, his unique cinematic style has seen him in high demand, both as a producer/arranger for bands, and as a soundtrack composer for film and television.




01/11/11 Paul is currently working on DREDD. Directed by Peter Travis (Vantage Point) with screenplay by Alex Garland (28 Days Later, Sunshine), DREDD, the adaptation of the cult comic book character, is being made by DNA Films/ Lionsgate.









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This looks quite brilliant, a modern world with the occult as its foundation rather than science- a bit like Top 10 but with magic. It really should have been put into series production, since it hasn't, maybe Moore'll end up back doing BSG spin-offs for his sins. I'd say the leaking of the pilot is to see if there's a measure of public interest that might spark interest at rival telly companies.


http://vimeo.com/30506799