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brandolsn

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  1. What Do Artists Do All Day - Frank Quitely
  2. Not that I've seen, and not on the pages I have. Jim I remember emailing Kara about it back in the day and her replying that Tony inked all his WD art in marker - was wondering if anyone else had heard that before. Here's a good example: http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=128682
  3. ... that leads off to some other questions, but like you say, there may be no way of knowing unless directly involved. Anyone know or read interviews with Kirkman/Moore over the years about how much Moore was involved in actual plot/story creation for the first 6 issues (and beyond?). How about the physical character designs - were they all Moore or Kirkman too? Same questions for Adlard on issues 7+.
  4. For those who feel the art quality has fallen, when was this prime Adlard period that you're comparing to?
  5. I agree with you Darabont did not "chicken out" of the big scene at the end, but to me as a writer it might have been shocking, but it also felt too rushed. My head is ready to explode. I could have sworn the ending was different. I remember they went back to Thomas Jane's house but then went to a diner or something. There, they were writing in a journal and remembering the events that had occured. Then they all left and it was unresolved what caused the event and we were left to imagine what happens next. I didn't see the movie in the theatre. It must have been on DVD or downloaded. However, after doing a quick Google search I see nothing about an alternate ending. And all the video clips I could find have the ending you guys are describing. So my questions are: 1.) Was there an alternate ending? If so, maybe the disk I watched it on was somehow set to play that ending. 2.) How did the Stephen King ending go originally? 3.) If I'm totally wrong, any idea what movie I'm thinking of? It's driving me nuts. I do watch a ton of horror and thriller movies so it's possibly. But I would have bet it was The Mist. This will help. http://www.avclub.com/articles/book-vs-film-the-mist,10191/
  6. http://coronacomingattractions.com/news/exclusive-review-pilot--script-walking-dead-tv-series Exclusive: A review of the pilot -script for The Walking Dead TV series Posted by Patrick Sauriol on Sunday, January 24, 2010 . Is there such a thing as having too much dead people in your entertainment quota? The answer to that question will only be known if AMC decides to give a greenlight to a TV series based on Robert Kirkman's ongoing comic book series about life after the zombie apocalypse, The Walking Dead. If you haven't been paying attention, the 2000s saw the zombie finally rise to mainstream status with a horde of well-received movies in this monster genre: the Resident Evil films (with a fourth now in production); a remake of Dawn of the Dead; 28 Days Later and its sequel which gave the idea of a slow moving corpse a twist with its fast runners; zombie comedies Zombieland and Fido; and the return of the father of modern zombie cinema, George A. Romero, with two new ghoul films, Land of the Dead and Diary of the Dead (and there's a third forthcoming, Survival of the Dead.) With all of that box office success one would think that television executives would be looking to cash in on the zombie hype and get a TV series on the air. Actually, one network did try: back in 2007 CBS ordered a pilot called Babylon Fields which could be best described as a drama set after the dead return from the grave. After viewing the pilot the network decided that the show didn't fit in with the network's fall schedule, and so a series was never ordered. So much for zombies on the tube, right? Well, not really. Just like any good zombie it's hard to keep the idea of a zombie TV series dead and buried. Last summer the rights to Kirkman's Walking Dead were sold to AMC. Fans of the book may have felt somewhat reassured when it was also mentioned that Frank Darabont would be directing the pilot, as well as writing the pilot's screenplay and serving as an executive producer on the show. The director of The Shawshank Redemption, The Majestic, The Green Mile and The Mist, Darabont was also a producer on a proposed sequel to The Thing, the 1982 John Carpenter movie. Unfortunately that four-hour mini-series never got further than the screenplay stage, but when I reviewed it last year, I found the -script to be an outstanding idea for a continuation of The Thing. If Darabont could bring some of that quality found in the Thing mini-series sequel to The Walking Dead TV show, then AMC's Mad Men audience may be in for a real ride. Only as recently as last week did AMC order a pilot to be made from Darabont's Walking Dead screenplay. If the cable network likes what they see then there'll be a Walking Dead TV series coming as soon as this fall or perhaps around the start of 2011. So, here is the big question: does Darabont's Walking Dead pilot have the necessary ingredients to be not just a decent horror TV series but a good drama? The answer: Yes, it does. Contained in Darabont's 60-page pilot -script are all the elements to make the show a success. There's plenty of horror that happens in those 60 pages. The director's -script covers the broad range of the zombie horror emotional spectrum, such as giving us moments of extreme gore (hey, any zombie TV show wouldn't be a zombie show if it didn't have folks being munched on!), moments of shock value (hey, you didn't think that there was a zombie hiding behind that car, did you?) and the moments that I believe are the best indicator that The Walking Dead TV series has what it takes to transcend the boundaries of being simply labelled a horror show, the psychological horror scenes. Those scenes are the hammers that you're going to remember and the ones that are going to propel this show to be viewed as something more important than just a scary show. If you're familiar with the beginnings of the comic then you'll be on familiar ground when you watch the pilot episode, even though it would appear that Darabont isn't interested in making a direct adaptation of the comic book's origin story. Our hero is Officer Rick Grimes, a deputy for a small Georgia town outside of Atlanta. About 15 pages into our story Grimes is involved in a police incident where he receives a near-fatal injury. After being taken to the hospital and falling into a short coma, our law enforcement man awakens to find the hospital empty and the telltale signs that something very bad has gone down while he was out. The way that Darabont chooses to introduce Grimes to the post-zombie world is nearly identical to the opening moments of Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later but it's forgivable; the impact of the changed world is that much more heightened with Grimes serving as our introduction to it. From there Grimes tries to find his family, his wife Lori and their young son Carl. He returns to his home and finds the neighborhood deserted, his wife and son gone. Still not fully comprehending what's happened, Grimes is saved by another father and son who have taken up shelter in a neighbor's house. From these two survivors Grimes learns about the zombie plague and the rules of life: if you're bitten, if a zombie so much as scratches you, you become infected, you die and then you become a zombie yourself. We're also shown some of the rules of the game that the Walking Dead zombies adhere to: there are "walkers", the ones that slowly come up to you. The walkers are slow and a head shot will take them out. That said, there's a lot of walkers out there and if they decide to come at you at once, save that last bullet for yourself, you dig? From his new neighbors Grimes is told that his family may have decided to head into Atlanta where the government was setting up a safety zone. With that info, Grimes heads off by himself and makes his way into the city. What happens in the next 20-or-so minutes is pretty intense for our hero and I want to leave it for Darabont to show to you. I'm not sure if Darabont is the kind of guy that puts in camera effects into all of his screenplays but in his Walking Dead -script there are a couple of places where he describes the visual tricks that he wants to do to heighten the surreal nature of a scene. There's a moment where Grimes is in a tough situation and has to fire a pistol at close quarters at a zombie. In the environment that he's in, Grimes is momentarily deafened by the blast. In Darabont's -script, the description of what we the viewer should experience to communicate the deafness is in there. Reading that sort of scene as well as a few others like that made me more interested in seeing what Darabont's visual style is going to be in this show. If you were a fan of the comic book before, now you know that the pilot's set-up of the Walking Dead story follows a similar arc as the comic's but it's not exact. I'd guess that about half to two-thirds of the first two issues are contained in the pilot episode but there's also new material. For instance, we now get to see the incident that brought Grimes to the hospital (the comic begins with him coming to in his deserted room) and there's some changes with what happens when he is in Atlanta that differ with the comic's depiction of events. Darabont seems to know what he's doing and in the places where he chooses to include new material, with his changes/additions better serving the story and bring more characterization (at the beginning and middle) and intensity (at the end). In particular there was a new revelation concerning the plight of the other father that Grimes finds living in his old neighborhood that's not in the comic. This new material really underscored the sense of what kind of deep and unsettling world the survivors are now living in. Darabont's also done a solid job of knowing what works from The Walking Dead and sometimes reproducing it exactly in his screenplay, such as the case with the bicycle Grimes comes across and the reaction of its former owner to the officer's arrival. The Walking Dead pilot doesn't sell out its concept for the sake of finding a wider audience. This is a show set in a world where families have died and the survivors haven't had the time to cope with their losses, much less come to terms with civilization collapsing around them. Knowing the course that Kirkman's comic book takes and now after seeing how Darabont's chose to make the pilot more of a drama than a flat-out horror action show, AMC's Walking Dead has fantastic potential. The Walking Dead could even do for horror what the new Battlestar Galactica did for science fiction. Cross your fingers and hope that the show comes together as well as it did on the page.
  7. I didn't see it in a theater and bought the first DVD release with both versions. I watched the black and white first and thought it was great. A few days later I tried watching the color and couldn't finish. It didn't look right at all after seeing it in b/w. There's no way Walking Dead will premiere in b/w on tv.
  8. I dunno if that's the best description to get a new reader on the series Here's a great source - scroll down and click on chapter 21 in the left column http://idwpublishing.com/idwx/ I'm surprised to read some didn't enjoy Head Games as much as Welcome to Lovecraft. Head Games #6 is one of the best issues in the series.
  9. Chimichanga is in' awesome. The best single issue Powell has done in a long time. Go buy it. It's only a 3 issue mini but issue 1 just came out a couple weeks ago so it will be a while before it's collected.
  10. What criteria does it take for an artist to graduate to the all-star level? Can handle a monthly comic? Worked on high profile titles at Marvel and DC? Paid the highest page rate? Creator owned work? Success outside the comic book industy?
  11. Just finished it. Could be, but I'm guessing he saves something like that for issue #60 You might be right since that would be roughly the last issue in the next TPB. He's good at leaving cliffhangers on the TPB's. Yep, exactly
  12. It is another great one. That cover is also very memorable as a surprise when the issue came out, as the solicited cover didn't have Rick on it.
  13. $5K was the asking price. I'd be surprised if it actually sold for that much.
  14. Yeah you're right - there weren't many zombies after that. I actually fell asleep for a few minutes half way through but did go back to watch what I missed after waking up.
  15. it's just listed as 2009 and still in process of edit. the filming started in sept of last year and this is a pseudo sequel to diary (as long as he doesn't cast another canadian whose character is from baltimore "what is that aboot?") i hope he gets a few more out before he becomes one of them... J I've avoided seeing Diary... I did catch up with some zombie entertainment over Christmas: Dead Set (AWESOME), Resident Evil Degeneration (not great), and World War Z (not done yet but so far it's incredible).
  16. WALKING DEAD OMNIBUS V.2 is coming out WEDNESDAY JAN 14TH Do you have all the signed/numbered hardcovers?
  17. Definite WOW issue. Rick attacking like a zombie is brilliant! The page of him covered in blood, chasing down and killing the rapist while Carl looks is incredible. Adlard is so awesome.
  18. How about don't read a thread about a comic you're not current with.
  19. I did a quick flip through when I took it off the shelf and gave a pffft seeing Maggie alive - but loved the issue after reading. Now we get to see how the group treats her after the suicide attempt, if she gets through it, or tries again - which is much more interesting than having her die, especially after so much death in the No One Is Safe arc. The exchange between Rick and Sarge was awesome - just what neither of them need, an excuse to shoot someone. I've become more and more distant from Rick since issue #49 - it's hard to look at what he's becoming, even though I understand why and feel so bad for him. Kirkman is handling him perfectly. Something very bad is in the future for Rick - something worse than death. Maybe he'll accidentally kill someone that's very important to him - Carl or a new intimate partner (Michonne?). Then he could leave the group and carry on alone. The book could then follow Rick, the group, or go back and forth between both! Also, I'm amazed that Kirkman has put out issues so close together to catch up. I know he wanted to catch up to Invincible, but it's also to make the lateness up to readers. It says a lot. He could have just left the gap, started releasing issues monthly, and had a big head start on his guaranteed shipping starting in the new year.