Who doesn’t love Bruce Campbell? If you don’t you should hang your head in shame.
No, really. Go do it now.
For the rest of us, here’s a great quote from Don’t Call Me Ash-Campbell from today’s show floor.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: Jason Momoa on Conan the Barbarian
It’s still a few months away, but there are many of you who are really wondering what the upcoming Conan the Barbarian reboot is going to be all about. According to star Jason Momoa, it’s going to be a revenge story.
“It kind of is an origin story,” he explained. “It’s rebuilding and rebooting the franchise…It starts with his birth, what happened to his family, what happened to his father—obviously his father is killed—and him going into the pirating and the thieving and wandering and being the degenerate that he is and then usurping a throne and finding out who killed his father. It’s a revenge story, with a little bit a love in there.”
As much as I loved the original Conan, I’m willing to line up to see this take on the Robert E. Howard character.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK: Warren Ellis on digital comics
Writer Warren Ellis has a great quote over at Digital Spy, that puts a bit of perspective on the digital market.
Granted, there are many other outlets other than the iPad, but save for the computer, other portable media devices haven’t taken off the way the iPad has.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: The Avengers will be massive
The Avengers movie will need to start ramping up production soon if it hopes to pull in the fans of the Marvel film franchises. The big question floating around is, “How good of a film will the Avengers be?” Chris Hemsworth, who plays Thor, got a peek at the film and thinks it is going to be huge.
“I saw a very early draft and, yeah, it’s incredible… Look, everything about the story in the comic books is huge. You have these huge, big superheroes and these huge, big egos kind of crammed into one small space. Reading the script, it was massive. Everything about it was like ‘oh my god.’ I said to Joss [Whedon], ‘I don’t know how you’re going to shoot this thing,’ but I’m excited to be on-board and let’s give it a go.”
So there you go. It will be massive. Huge. Crammed with egos. Probably the most important part about the quote is toward the end, when he wonders how the film will be shot. No doubt everything will come together at the end, but massive effects work tied to a massive story are going to require the skills of very talented people, and if the story turns out to be a Kree/Skrull war then the effects houses in H’wood are going to be very busy.
Watch Mike Deodato draw Wolverine
Mike Deodata had a really great quote the other day that I wanted to share with everyone.
I got an email from a young comic artist wanabee who wanted to know how old I was when I started working at Marvel, so that he could have an idea how long it would take for him to break in, as well. He was feeling already too old. He’s nineteen.
I told him that age doesn’t matter.
One of the worst artists I know of started at Marvel when he was 20.
One of the best artists I know of — Hal Foster — started his immortal creation, Prince Valiant, when he was 40.
You can start at Marvel at 20 and be a zero. You can start at 40, never work for Marvel and yet be a genius.
Age doesn’t matter. Talent does.
Now watch as Mike cranks out a Wolverine sketch.
Quote of the Week: Mark Waid on Dan DiDio on 52
Man, I knew there was a reason Mark Waid was one of my favorite people. In an interview with Ain’t It Cool News, Waid spilled the beans on nearly every company he’s ever worked for.
“The biggest challenge [of 52] was actually, wisely, kept from us by [editor] Steve [Wacker]. EIC Dan Didio, who first championed the concept, hated what we were doing. H-A-T-E-D 52. Would storm up and down the halls telling everyone how much he hated it. And Steve, God bless him, kept us out of the loop on that particular drama. [Editor Michael] Siglain, having less seniority, was less able to do so, and there’s one issue of 52 near the end that was written almost totally by Dan and Keith Giffen because none of the writers could plot it to Dan’s satisfaction. Which was and is his prerogative as EIC, but man, there’s little more demoralizing than taking the ball down to the one-yard line and then being benched by the guy who kept referring to COUNTDOWN as ‘52 done right.’”
I think this is a fascinating look at the company, and actually puts a lot of what is going on into perspective. You’ll want to read the entire article, as there are enough quotes that can be pulled that would fill a month of Sundays worth of Quotes of the Week.
And if you are interested, we did our own little interview with Mr. Waid a while ago, where he hints at some of these things…
Major Spoilers Quote of the Week: Webcomics
“I know there are plenty of web comic artists who are able to subsist on the income they make from their website, but they aren’t making money from their comics; they’re making money from merchandise. Not to belittle web-only comic artists, but when their income is derived from t-shirts, it makes them salesmen first, artists second.”
– Neil Swaab
Oh man, talk about opening mouth and inserting foot. This lead to all sorts of reactions including this well thought out post by Jeph Jacques, which ultimately lead to Mr. Swaab issuing a public apology.
Oh and hey, those webcomic things have a bunch of panels at the New York Comic Con, featuring many of those webcomic gurus featured in the image above.