Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Awesome List: Middleman, Captain Cook's Extraordinary Atlas, Hulk cartoons, and more

Burn After Reading poster



From the Coen Bros. upcoming spy comedy. Gotta love that Saul Bass-inspired design.

Game of Thrones TV Show

I couldn't make it through the first book, but it looks like progress is being made on getting the story to me in a different form (because it's all about me). Novelist George R.R. Martin has the update.

Middleman



I've been watching ABC Family's new, comics-inspired series Middleman. It's too soon for a full review, so I'm just saying here that it's pretty awesome. The characters are charming and funny, the dialogue is clever, and the plots are insane. The pilot episode featured Chloe from 24 as a scientist whose supercomputer took over a gorilla's brain and turned him into a Tommy gun slinging mobster.

The only complaint I have is the Power Rangers-quality effects. I'm gonna stick with it a while and see if I can get past that though because otherwise I love it.

Oddly Normal

My friend and sometimes collaborator Jess Hickman was recently interviewed about her work on volume 3 of Otis Frampton's Oddly Normal series of fantasy graphic novels.

Essential Giant Monsters



I see enough Top Ten Giant Monsters lists that I don't usually link to them (or many other Top Ten lists at all, for that matter). Robert Hood's list is different. Rather than just assigning personal rankings to the multitude of giant monsters in the world, he's created a comprehensive list of what he believes are the essential movies in the giant monster genre. It's quite a check-list and would provide a good year's worth of viewing material for anyone hoping to see them all.

Here's a Top Eight list I can get behind though

Topless Robot's Top 8 Coolest Sesame Street Toys Ever. Admittedly, it's a nostalgia thing. I had and wore out nos. 1, 4, 6, and 8 as a kid.

The Lies of Locke Lamora



This is the second recommendation from the friend who also told me about Peter David's Tigerheart (which I picked up from David at Wizard World Chicago, by the way). My friend describes The Lies of Locke Lamora as a cross between Ocean's 11 and Robin Hood with some fantasy elements thrown in. Sounds good to me. (Although I much prefer the cover I posted to the garish one on the US mass market paperback.)

Captain Cook's Extraordinary Atlas

ABC is developing a show about a girl who finds an atlas of a secret world underneath our own. Whether or not the Harry Potter and Pan's Labyrinth comparisons are justified, it sounds tailor-made for me. And it stars the little girl from Silent Hill.

New Hulk cartoons



It was inevitable. And bring 'em on, I say. Even the Gamma Corps one where he's leading She-Hulk and Doc Samson into battle.

John Carter movie "update"

Not really an update; just a reminder that the format of the developing John Carter of Mars movie could be anything. Live action, 2D cartoon, computer animation... nothing's been ruled out. According to writer/presumed director Andrew Stanton, that will all be determined by the eventual script.

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