• Coming soon: Battlestar Galactica MMO.  Slated to be a browser-based space strategy game, offered exclusively on syfy.com, this is being developed by obscure (and relatively unproven) Norwegian developer Artplant- which leads one to assume their app (or bid) wowed the Bigs behind such a high-profile and expensive license.

• Comic Book Resources has an exclusive preview of next week’s big release, Siege #3.

• Tor Books is offering 200 free copies of Cory Doctorow’s next YA novel For the Win to video gamers under 19 years old to review.  Says Cory:

If you’re under 19 and want a free early look at the book for review on your blog/paper/whatever, send a note with your address to torpublicity@tor.com with “FTW” for the subject-line.  Also include the name of your blog or school paper.  For fun, also share a game you enjoyed recently and why.

We did this with Little Brother a couple years back, on the grounds that books for young people should be available for young reviewers to write about, rather than just adult reviewers who try to figure out whether young people will enjoy them.  It was a real success and I’m happy to be repeating it.

• And because I think it’s effin’ funny that I could probably start my own Tron blog at this point (”Daily Recognizer” anyone?  Or how about “Bits?”), Disney is renting a Hollywood billboard (Santa Monica and Westwood) through December 2010 and posting new teaser images from Legacy every six weeks.  Here’s yesterday’s, the third poster (click to enlarge and bask in its total radness):

Greetings, Programs!  Personally, it’s been a tough week, so please forgive me my second Tron Legacy related post in four days.  Gotta go with what brought a smile to my face today.

First, the new teaser trailer for the film released earlier in the week.  It features Bruce “The Box” Boxleitner returning to the role of Alan Bradley/TRON, a return to Flynn’s Arcade, a classic Tron stand-up featuring the ENCOM logo, a Recognizer, Light Cycles, and Oscar-Winner Jeff Bridges as CLU (the purported villain of the film and CG-enhanced to look like Bridges ca.1990) and as Kevin Flynn ca.2011.

Let’s take a look:

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…And second, Disney World is emblazoning Epcot’s monorail with Light Cycles and jet walls.

“Is there a chance the track could bend?”

“Not on your life my Hindu friend!”

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Most impressive.

Fuckin A, man!

In the parlance of our time, of course.

Breaking Into Comics the Marvel Way is many things:

• A two-part (56 pgs each) showcase-cum-audition for newly recruited  artists.
• An anthology featuring some of Marvel’s most prolific and high profile writers (Brian Michael Bendis, Marc Guggenheim, Peter David, Stuart Moore, Jonathan Hickman, etc.).
• A guide by Marvel editor, writer and talent scout as to how these newbs got their work seen and why their stuff is worthy of publication.

I dig this idea immensely.  Inaugural gigs for potentially professional pencillers/inkers/painters are traditionally the worst assignments imaginable, and the chance of breaking out- let alone being seen by anyone other than your editor and your doting mother- are minimal at best.

This project turns that tradition on its ass.  “Sure I’ll give you a shot, kid. I need a fill-in artist on a two-page backup story in Cloak and Dagger Annual #15… Nah. I think I’ll team you up with Jonathan Hickman in this other thing I got.”  What a fantastic opportunity!  Here’s hoping the rookies knock it out of the park.

What’s more is the comic includes step by step submission information, and a sample script for the aspiring professional to manipulate the Marvel way.

Anyone remember the Marvel Try-Out book?

Don’t call it a comeback. That guy’s been here for years. DC’s Just Imagine Stan Lee, anyone? SHUDDER.

Marvel published a hardcover of their superlative Strange Tales anthology comics from Summer 2009. Featuring original work from the likes of  Peter Bagge, Paul Pope, Junko Mizuno, Stan Sakai, Dash Shaw, Matt Kindt and more, the book design is as sexy as the creator lineup is unbelievably talented.

]]> http://www.fpusadailyplanet.com/2010/03/04/pic-parade/feed/ 0 http://www.fpusadailyplanet.com/2010/03/03/davide-gianfelice-signing-31910-630pm/ http://www.fpusadailyplanet.com/2010/03/03/davide-gianfelice-signing-31910-630pm/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:57:09 +0000 Jeff Ayers http://www.fpusadailyplanet.com/?p=2157 Davide Gianfelice, the Italian artist whose fantastic work fills the pages of DC Vertigo’s Greek Street each month and splashed onto the American comics scene with his work on Northlanders, will be signing at FPNYC on Friday March 19th at 6:30pm.

That’s just one week after the 1st Greek Street TP (ONLY $9.99!) releases!

Boasting a “Greek Chorus” of sexy strippers, vengeful gangsters, a murderous youth and a disturbed clairvoyant teenaged girl, GREEK STREET is Peter Milligan’s reimagining of the brutal and visceral tragedies of Ancient Greece played out on the mean streets of modern-day London.

If you’ve not read Milligan and Davide’s Greek Street I suggest you get on your horse.  It’s pretty terrific.  But don’t take my word for it (cue Reading Rainbow ba-da-DUM)…

“…Crackles with Promethean Fire…” -Grant Morrison

“GREEK STREET roars out of the gate, asserting itself fairly quickly as something special.” – Newsarama

“The book has a great atmosphere…sex, violence, mystery, and…all the makings to be a good – even great – underworld drama.” -Ain’t It Cool News

You can also read the entire first issue for free here! There, wasn’t that good?  It only gets better, too.

I’m excited we’re hosting Davide.  I really loved his stuff on the first Northanders arc “Sven the Returned,” and he’s hella-talented.  Scope this  sketch he drew to promote our signing:

Visit Davide’s  blog.  “Bone up” on more of his work.

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Largely an attempt to pay off his exorbitant gambling debts, he’s offering them for a mere thirty bucks (plus $7 shipping).  They’re hand made and painted with watercolors and acrylic, so that’s not a bad price.  He’ll also be bringing them to the MoCCA Art Fest (coming up soon- April 10th and 11th here in NYC).

You can find them, along with more of Austin’s art at his blog WindyCornerMagazine.