Comic Geekdom

Dave Gibbons, illustrator of Watchmen, recently stopped by an Apple Store in NYC to talk about Snyder’s upcoming film, reminisce about some past attempts to get it on the big screen, and dazzle with his impromptu sketching skills.

Before The Dark Knight came out we thought we had a lot of marketing materials. We thought the same prior to the release of Iron Man. But neither of those films seem to be holding a flame to the sheer amount of materials (mostly photos) that we’ve seen online for the upcoming comic adaptation Watchmen.

The chaps at Summit Entertainment and Wildstorm/DC Comics will be releasing a comic miniseries, written by Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman; Art by Bruno Redondo. It should help us figure out what this Push movie is all about.

We knew it was coming. We’ve been waiting all night. And it is finally here — the second full-length Watchmen trailer.

So because Wanted turned out to be pretty good. Does this mean that Hollywood should take its liberties with the strengths and tone of ‘The Boys’?

No.

Kevin Smith has revealed some full color pages from his upcoming comic series “Batman: Cacophony,” which he has been working on with his good friend, artist Walter Flanagan.

It is the 6th of the month and Watchmen fans know what that means — time for another behind the scenes video journal.

Comic book writer and creator Mark Millar has big plans for Superman on the big screen. How big? Try The Godfather big.

Over the course of the last few weeks, we’ve seen all kinds of comments about the upcoming Thor movie, most of which were negative. With that in mind, we would like to set everyone straight with a list of reasons why Thor is going to work on the big screen.

Next year’s release of Kick-Ass will mean different things to different people. For fans, it will be fun, cinematic escapism. For creator Mark Millar, it’ll be “the greatest movie of 2009.”

Should comic book superheroes that already made their filmic debut be rebooted and given a second go-‘round on the silver screen?

For nearly 70 years Batman has survived, and now thrives, in the public eye. How has a cynic with dead parents and a list of enemies as long as his cape managed to captivate our attention? Sit in on a conversation between FSR Staffers Robert Fure and Adam Sweeney as they discuss the Caped Crusader.

A post has appeared on Rob Zombie’s MySpace blog claiming that another favorite Grindhouse faux trailer, Werewolf Women of the S.S., is being made into a comic book.

Director Guillermo Del Toro likes surprising us on film, but when it comes to the people he works with he likes to keep the surprises at a minimum.

We take a look at our favorite quirks of Hellboy.

How much mayhem could he cause if there were no ratings system to hold him back? Writer Joe Harris and artist Juan Doe have an answer to that question in their one-shot “The Joker’s Asylum: Scarecrow”, a take on Scarecrow…if he were in a slasher flick.

Steve Niles is very quickly becoming one of the hottest writers out there. Just recently Steve partnered with Microsoft to pen a comic for their Zune Arts division called The Lost Ones.