PP at Marvel.com re: Strange Tales
Marvel’s got an interview with Paul Pope (conducted by Sean T. Collins) in anticipation of the forthcoming Strange Adventures #1 up here.
Marvel.com: Did you read super hero comics when you were a kid?
Paul Pope: Sure, I read everything, I read as much as I could get my hands on. I read Tintin, Donald Duck, Byrne’s X-MEN stuff, MOON KNIGHT, Lone Wolf & Cub, Heavy Metal…I read everything.
Marvel.com: Did you have favorite artists, characters or issues that you recall now?
Paul Pope: Yeah, I liked the venerable late ’70s/early ’80s artists from Marvel. I loved Sienkiewicz, Byrne, I was into Alan Grant. Steve Rude on Nexus was one of my favorites. Love & Rockets, I was into that kind of stuff. I like Kirby as well, I would say.
Marvel.com: What else are you working on right now, and what do you have coming up?
Paul Pope: My longer projects for First Second—Battling Boy and after that the sci-fi story THB—are still in the works, and both have long gestations since both are book-length projects. But right now, my pulp/retro-sci-fi strip Strange Adventures with Adam Strange is appearing weekly in Wednesday Comics. Strange Adventures functions as a “bridge” between my more conventional super hero work (such as Spidey or FF for Marvel and Batman for DC) and my more fantasy-oriented, classic myth-meets-super hero work of Battling Boy. In my current comics work, I am trying to recapture the pure science fantasy, highly imaginative comics I read as a kid in Heavy Metal magazine, fusing it with a sense of classic high heroic adventure from old comics, such as Captain Easy or Terry & the Pirates.
Second Skin Showing in NYC August 7th-9th
Second Skin is a terrific documentary on MMORPGs is showing in New York this weekend at The Tank (354 W. 45th St.).
I highly recommend checking this film out if you’re not off to the Hamptons…
First episode of “Crazy Sexy Geeks” premieres.
Friend of the blog, Alan Kistler, just premiered the first episode of Crazy Sexy Geeks, where he talked to “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” star and comic book writer Amber Benson.
This program, meant for every fanboy or fangirl is pretty excellent. Kistler, with co-hostJose Ramos, tackle a topic every episode and this time around it’s women superheroes. Give it a view, let us know what you think.
Dr. Horrible sequel being worked on.
King of the Nerds Joss Whedon told MTV News that they are working on the sequel to his groundbreaking online musical series, “Dr. Horrible”.
“We’re in there plugging. The writers are trying to put something together,” Whedon told MTV News. “We haven’t even decided on a venue. We have a story and we’re working that. We’re just starting with that.”
“Doesn’t matter if it’s big or small, [we're just] just figuring out the story,” he explained. “We’re really excited about what it is. More, I cannot say.”
The soundtrack was one of the best I’ve heard all year. Having watched a couple of episodes of “Dollhouse” compared to this I think Whedon is more interested in playing in the Dr. Horrible and feature film playground than national television. This is happy news that there will be more Dr. Horrible, but considering stars Nathan Fillion and Neil Patrick Harris have full time shows in “Castle” and “How I Met Your Mother” it could be tough to get them back together for a sequel.