Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's award-winning All Star Superman series is getting animated!

While I'm a big fan of Grant Morrison's non-mainstream comics, All Star wasn't the best thing he's done by a long shot, in my opinion. Honestly, the only thing that made ASS (heh) work at all, was the art, which was beautiful. Mind-blowing colours as well!

What it looks like that art has been adapted into, in order to be animated, doesn't really ring true to me. I probably won't ever see this, even though I own the ASS books. Just not interested, I'm sorry to say.

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So, we've gotten a look at our first shots of Chris Evans as Steve Rogers!\

Not quite Captain America yet, but man, I am startled at how much like the comics' Steve Rogers they've gotten Evans to look! It's dead-on accurate to my eyes!

Also, holy crap - Evans looks H-U-G-E! Dude's been eating... his super-soldier serum, it looks like.

I am feeling optimistic about this movie. Hoping for goodness!

The band is "My Chemical Romance", a band I only know because the lead singer wrote the comic "The Umbrella Acadamy" which seems interesting, but I just haven't gotten around to reading.

The Umbrella Academy is said to have been majorly influenced by the writing of Grant Morrison, the mad-genius behind stuff like Doom Patrol, The Invisibles, and host of other amazing drug-induced comic visions.

So now Grant gets a guest appearance in a My Chemical Romance music video. I dunno about the sound, but look is pure Grant Morrison, with a sort of Tank-Girl-Fuck-You flair.

It looks pretty sweet, yes. But can you dance to it?



The term "Pop-poclypse" is mine, by the way. I'm claiming it.

Here's a few photos of January Jones as Emma Frost, for the up-coming "X-Men: First Class". 

XMFC is said to be a period piece, taking place in the 1960's, which sort of explains Emma's funny costume. I assume that in the rest of the movie we'll get to see the rest of her body, as it's not really Emma Frost unless she has giant tits on display. Which I guess is cool. 



Again, these photos are everywhere on-line, but I grabbed them off of Bleeding Cool, so that's who gets the nod from me. 



Now, just for the record, "X-Men: First Class" sounds less like an X-Men movie to me, and more like bad fan-fic. It sounds like a bad idea, with a weird cast. It doesn't sound like a good usage of the X-Men Franchise.

That said, these photos look pretty hot. Is that the best we can hope for from this movie? A few hot shots of a girl who kinda looks like the character she's supposed to be playing? Well, that'd still be better than "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" and all the crap that came with that movie.

Do you know who Emma Frost is? She fought the X-Men back in the 70's, with the Hellfire club, and later joined the team, when Grant Morrison was writing the book. I always loved this picture of her that Frank Quitely drew...

 Well, a bunch of places got these photos up last night... For those not in the know, these are for the up-coming big-budget, live-action Captain America movie, staring Chris Evans and Hugo Weaving. 

I saw them at Bleeding Cool first, so that's who I'll give the credit to. They've got a fourth photo up; I only put up the three I thought were the most interesting. 

Word is that these photos are of a stunt-double, not Chris Evans himself.



I don't really care. I think these photos look sort of like the pictures you'd see getting taken if super-heroes were real. You'd see shots of them and think "eh, looks kinda fake," and stuff like that, and then the heroes would show up and punch you so hard your teeth would come out your bum, and that'd be cool.



I dunno. It's a pretty cool suit & shield (VS Batman's "cape & cowl"?)... I've got no real complaints about it. Yet!

Looks like Captain America to me!

Also, I guess these guys work for the Red Skull. They got bikes too!

 At his blog, Bully The Little Stuffed Bull, author Bully (the little stuffed bull) revealed a bit of seemingly perfect casting, at least according to one photo...

Lady Gaga as Dazzler!



Now, I know nothing about Lady Gaga, because I am old and out of touch, and I'd like to keep it that way. But I do love this comparison photo. 

Also, I think Lady Gaga is just Marilyn Manson in more effective drag. They've got the same nose. 

 Clint Eastwood as Kal El? The man of tomorrow of steel? Not a bird, a plane, a mean cop, a tough cowboy, but...

SUPERMAN?

Yeah, could of happened, Clint told Hero Complex recently. 



Back in the last 1970's, Clint Eastwood says he was approached to take on two seminal franchises - Superman, and the Post-Sean Connery James Bond. While the first of those castings is a bit of a shock, the second is also way out of left-field, since the majority of Bond-actors have been from the UK.

Says Clint, “I can remember – and this was many years ago – when [Warner Bros. President] Frank Wells came to me about doing Superman. So it could have happened. This was when they first started to think about making it. I was like, ‘Superman? Nah, nah, that’s not for me.’ Not that there’s anything wrong with it. It’s for somebody, but not me."



Eastwood went on to explain: “I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality. Maybe they do super things or more-than-human things — like Dirty Harry, he has a knack for doing crazy things, or the western guys — but, still, they’re not caped crusaders.”

Cool quotes from a cool guy, but man it's hard to not want to imagine the different movie we'd have gotten to see, and the whole different world that movie would have created. I suspect that superhero movies would be very different today, if Clint Eastwood had played Superman.

But that's not the superhero Clint Eastwood was interested in.

“Hey buddy,” Eastwood said with a thumbs-up gesture, “the Sub-Mariner, that’s the one I always liked. I had all of those comics when I was a kid.”



Now, Clint Eastwood as the Sub-Mariner - that is a movie I would pay money to see! I can't even imagine The Man With No Name in those little swimming shorts Namor wore... But I'm trying! 




NOTE: You'll notice that there's a few more photos in this post than usual. That's because Clint Eastwood is fucking awesome.

SuperHeroHype reports that Neil Gaiman's best-selling and genre-redefining much-aclaimed graphic novel series, The Sandman, may be getting turned into a TV series.

Nobody has been hired to adapt the series yet, but "Supernatural" creator Eric Kripke may be at the top of the studio's list. Or maybe not. 

I have never wanted to see Sandman get filmed, as it is an excellent graphic novel, and I think some of it's strongest story points come from it's medium. Also, it would take a lot of work and money to do Sandman right, and it's hard to imagine that once a lot of money got invested into it, the whole thing wouldn't just turn to shit.

BUT... As long as it's not Tim Burton I guess I'm okay with it.

Newsarama's Jill Pantozzi is calling out the Avengers as being... well, one big sausage fest.

Her words, not mine, but I will be quoting her a whole bunch.

In fact, that may have just become my official subtitle to the move.

Great...

She's got a point though. I guess when the studios learned, via the first Spider-man movie, that women were willing to watch super-hero movies, the studios also decided that women were only good for kissin' and rescuing.

No Fat Chick Heroes!

You'd think Mr. I Write The Ladies Joss Whedon would be looking to beef up the roles for women in the big-time action franchise, but maybe that's simply out of his hands.

Taken from Edgar Wright's Blog!

Says Wright: "This is a piece of animation that my amazing brother Oscar did way back in June 2008 to explain the physics of the battle between Scott Pilgrim and Matthew Patel."