On this hour of Sound on Sight: coming attractions. Next Friday sees the release of UK director Edgar Wright’s third feature, the anticipated comic adaptation Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World. We got a chance to see it early at the Fantasia Film Festival, and we’ll be letting you know if it’s worth the hype – [...]
There are some who would say that the Western genre, one of the fundamental underlying narratives of American culture, has been done to death. But there are those who would use psychotropic drugs and earth magicks to bring the genre back to life, sort of like Frankenstein at Burning Man. Jonah Hex, the latest in [...]
For the past few years, Mark Millar has been writing some of the most exciting, mature, and original film storyboards in recent memory. The fact that he has the nerve to call his work ‘comic books’ is only mildly insulting to those of us who don’t want to see the medium transform into log lines [...]
listen now Download the show in a separate window Though the first cycle of Superman and Batman films were box-office successes, the comic book adaptation cames of age with the 2000 release of X-Men. Provided, of course, ‘of age’ is defined loosely, since these are films that essentially portray science as being a mix of [...]
Listen now Download the show in a separate window The term ‘Worldbuilding’ originates from science fiction literature, and refers to the laborious process of creating an imaginary universe from the ground up. Clearly, Australian director Alex Proyas is familiar with the concept. His breakthrough 1994 comic book adaptation The Crow was set in a urban [...]
Listen now Download show For over 20 years, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen miniseries has been upheld as the prototypical ‘graphic novel,’ used by generations of comic fans to justify spending a lifetime chasing Spawn back issues, rubbing off to Mary Marvel, and buying Batman underwear at Zellers. In the comic, Moore, one of [...]
It’s the year’s most anticipated film, so accordingly we’ve got an extended look at The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan’s latest Bat-opus. We’re going to look in-depth at Nolan’s work on the series, as well as getting into the nitty-gritty on the film itself, both in spoiler and non-spoiler segments. If you haven’t seen it yet [...]
Listen now! Click here! Download show Episode 44: The Spanish InquisitionIn a nice bit of synchronicity, Fantasia has offered us a slate of new Spanish fantasy and horror films – specifically, the much-hyped “verité” thriller [rec], silent throwback La Antena, apocalyptic thriller Before the Fall, and the time-travel black comedy Timecrimes. Meanwhile, over in Hollywood, [...]
Listen now Download show The Hulk debuted in The Incredible Hulk #1, by writer Stan Lee, penciller and co-plotter Jack Kirby, and inker Paul Reinman. The original series was canceled after six issues, with the finale cover-dated March 1963. Lee had written each story, with Kirby penciling the first five issues and Steve Ditko penciling [...]
listen now! Download 1st hour Listen Now! Download 2nd hour The term “alternative comics” is one of several labels applied to a range of comics that have appeared since about 1980, in the wake of the undergound comix movement of the late 1960s and early 70s. Typically, these are authored independently by a single creator; [...]
Listen now! Download show Marvel Comics was founded as Timely Publications in 1939, and is now the largest comic company in the world. It was founded by Martin Goodman, a pulp-magazine publisher whose first publication was a Western pulp in 1933. Expanding into the emerging and by then already highly popular new medium of comic [...]
Download the show! Download show A comic book — or comic for short — is a magazine or book containing sequential art. Although the term implies otherwise, the subject matter in comic books is not necessarily humorous; in fact, it is often serious and action-oriented. Comic books are so called because some of the earliest [...]
Listen now! Download show You know the summer is on it`s way with the opening of the first blockbuster film. Iron Man opens up this week with a projected 65 millions box office take. What better way to open our show than with our review of the film and an interview with director John Favreau. [...]
