* Here’s a pretty quick and easy indicator of how tough a row Kenneth Branagh’s Thor movie has to hoe in terms of pleasing nerds: Topless Robot’s Rob Bricken dings the costumes worn by Thor, Odin, and Loki below for being too weird, while Comics Comics’ Dan Nadel dings them for being not weird enough. In terms of the history of Good Superhero Comics, that’s much more Dan’s territory than Rob’s, so advantage Dan if you have to pit them head-to-head; that said, I sympathize with Branagh and company for the tricky task at hand. You don’t just want to go straight-up Lord of the Rings faux-historical Viking warrior with them, but if you really went all-out Kirby/Simonson, you’d probably get a reaction akin to the one Speed Racer got.
* Speaking of the PictureBox empire, this is pretty funny: The site’s now hosting King Chubbo, that extremely filthy webcomic by Ken Sohn about him and his wife’s gross sex/fantasy life.
* Hey, look, Paul Chadwick has a blog. He says he’s working on a DC series with Harlan Ellison, a Dark Horse graphic novel with Mike Richardson, some Concrete short stories, a Concrete miniseries, a Concrete prose novel, and a kids’ series. (Via Michael May.)
* Alex Kropinak draws my Destructor character arm wrestling a Terminator. This is perhaps my favorite drawing.
Aw, thanks Sean : ) Glad you liked it.
I kinda like the THOR costumes and the Danish modern minimal set design. It’s actually a lot like I’d envisioned for a take on the Norse gods that I’d based a novel on some time ago.
Spooky now that I think about it.
Could this be the most art-ful of the Marvel offerings so far? There’s certainly an expectation of the fantastic that has been lacking in the film adapatations as of yet.
Well, you know, how much faith do you have in Kenneth Branagh as filtered through the Merry Marvel Movie-Making Society? That’s not a loaded question, even–I don’t know how much confidence to have.
Destructor looks kinda like Mr. Atom with sharp teeth.
That Thor picture looks great to me. I have no real anticipation for the movie, but then I didn’t for Iron Man, either – if it’s good, I’ll be glad and if not, I’ll wait for another movie to come along.
Simon: I can see that, sure.
Bruce: That’s far too healthy an approach to this sort of thing. Please remove yourself from the Internet.