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Bullet Sunday 407

Posted on Sunday, November 16th, 2014

Dave!Put down that shot of Jägermeister... because Bullet Sunday starts... now...

   
• Foundation! Literary sci-fi nerds around the world (myself included) had a simultaneous orgasm when it was announced that Jonathan Nolan would be adapting Isaac Asimov's seminal work, the Foundation trilogy for HBO...

Foundation Book Cover Art
Foundation's Hari Seldon by Michael Whelan

My fear is, of course, that Foundation will get completely screwed up like Edgar Rice Burrough's A Princess of Mars did... but Nolan seems to be a serious fan, so here's hoping.

   
• Ash! As if a Foundation TV series isn't enough, it was announced that Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell will be bringing The Evil Dead back as a Starz television series in 2015!

Evil Dead Poster Art

Kind of amazing that a cult property like The Evil Dead would be getting resurrected like this, but I'll take it.

   
• Salmon. John Oliver's Last Week Tonight came up with a mind-bogglingly cool set of guest-appearances for one of their latest bits...

Now that's pretty epic.

   
• Lighthouses. Stunning.

   
• Attack! While I was in Africa, I was always joking about how great it would be to see some kind of unbelievable animal attack scenario... like leopards attacking an elephant... or a herd of impala attacking a lion... or whatever. Little did I know...

Holy cats! I would have put my money on the lions. Way to go there Tantor!

   
• Ass. A couple months ago Marvel Comics unleashed a shit-storm of controversy when they got famous Italian artist Milo Manara to create an alternate artist collector cover for the Spider-Woman relaunch. I was blissfully unaware of the controversy until I saw a link to an article at Elle magazine where somebody was commenting that she looked like a porn star. I remarked at the time that this was pretty ironic given how Elle Photoshops their models to within an inch of their lives to look like porn stars. And, in many ways, their work was far dangerous because young girls looking at the Spider-Woman cover would immediately know it wasn't real... whereas with Elle they're presented with women that look real and whose beauty is obtainable but, in reality, are not.

Fast-forward to today, and one of my friends sent me this link...

So apparently Maddox is blogging again. Kinda. I don't always agree with him, but I think his take on Spider-Woman #1's alternate cover is pretty dead-on. Especially considering that kids today don't give a crap about comics, and most of the people reading them are adults that grew up with them.

   
And now... back to my impending hangover, already in progress.

Comments

  1. B.E. Earl says:

    I’m encouraged that they are going the HBO mini-series route for the Foundation series instead of trying to make a movie (or three) out of them. I’ve always thought that it was un-filmable. So pretty much anything will be a bonus for me. Well, except the John Carter treatment as you mentioned.

  2. I think Manara draws the Spider Woman’s cover. He has a very famous style. A big name of italian “Bande dessinée” (comics). 🙂

  3. (You mentioned him… Forget my comment! ^_^ I meant that it does not surprise me if Manara raises controversy)

  4. martymankins says:

    I honesty haven’t read this post yet. Didn’t realize you also shared the Salmon Cannon video. Loved it and laughed my ass off.

    And that elephant fought hard. Way cool to see that.

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