Batman: The Animated Series was first broadcast on Fox from September 1992 to September 1995. It was the first entry in what would turn into a new DC shared continuity universe. And it also surprisingly took on a much more adult tone. It was a show where both kids and adults could enjoy alike.
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Bryan Cranston (of “Breaking Bad” fame) was on Howard Stern’s radio program this morning to promote his new Broadway Play which begins this week (he plays former President Lyndon B. Johnson in “All the Way.”). Of course the subjects of “Breaking Bad” and the casting rumor of him playing Lex Luthor in the new “Superman” movie came up. And this being Stern, the topics of him getting crabs, having threesomes, and wishing death on an ex-psycho girlfriend worked its way into the conversation as well.
Spider-man: The Animated Series that aired on Fox from 1994-1998 was the best of all the animated Spider-man programs to date. Each episode actually consisted of a story and an attempt at character development. As storytelling in live action television seems to have evolved over the years, many of these animated programs (not included the prime time ones) have de-evolved. I feel as if the newer animated programs have really been dumbed-down and their target audience seems to be aimed at five year olds (which is fine if you’re a five year old).
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I loved comic books as a kid. I still sometimes enjoy them as an adult (and I use that word loosely). I came across this fun little book a while back entitled “How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way.” Now it’s not so much a lesson in how to draw. It’s more of a lesson on how to draw characters in the style that Marvel does it, hence the title. No one is going to become a great comic book artist from reading this book but it is informative. It’s definitely an old one, but I think the styles probably still hold true today. But then again, what do I know. I can barely scratch two sticks together to form a stick figure.
As any true Star Wars fan knows by now, George Lucas’s first draft of “Star Wars” was radically different than what we eventually saw on screen. And I mean radically different! I think it’s the perfect example of why you don’t shoot your first draft and serves as a lesson to all writers that the real writing begins with the rewrite.
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I’ll admit that I know very little about this property.
“Guardians of the Galaxy is an upcoming American science fiction superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. It is produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The film is intended to be the tenth installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The film is written and directed by James Gunn, with a story by Gunn and Nicole Perlman, and features an ensemble cast including Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Lee Pace, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Djimon Hounsou, John C. Reilly, Glenn Close, and Benicio del Toro. In Guardians of the Galaxy, an American pilot named Peter Quill finds himself the object of a manhunt after stealing an orb coveted by the villainous Ronan. In order to evade Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a group of misfits including Gamora, Rocket, Drax the Destroyer and Groot. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate stand — with the galaxy’s fate in the balance.”
Here is a Comic Strip that I developed years back. It was a ‘test strip’ for a possible comic strip series. For various reasons, I never pursued it beyond this one panel. I wrote the ‘test strip’ while a very talented artistic friend (Sean McMenemy) did the art work. I may consider revisiting it soon and making it a series on this site.
