The time has come for more Voltron: Legendary Defender. The adventure continues for the Voltron Paladins with their never ending quest to take down the Galra empire. Fans have been waiting with baited breath after the second season finale and the wait is finally over. How does this season compare with others?
Picking up some time after the battle with Zarkon, the Paladins are working towards helping take back the Universe from the Galran empire, one planet at at time. Unfortunately the are opposed by Zarkon’s son, Prince Lotor, who seems to be much more cunning and devious with his plans than his father. Throughout the season, Lotor finds ways to lure the team into traps which they barely escape and finding ways to use them for his own advantage. Will the team succeed and what of their missing leader, Shiro?
If the second season of the show made everyone think the series was on the precipice of ending, the goal of season three was to show how much more story there is to tell. The concept of their being alternative realities is introduced in a successful manner. It isn’t too outside of the ballpark of what has been shown so far, as the series has utilized the idea of space travel through wormholes and finds a way to tie it all back into the mystery and mythology surrounding Voltron. The season also features return of a character from the original show who many probably thought would never appear.
The shorter length of the season is noticeable. Yes, it was creator’s intent to have shorter seasons so content can come with a diminished wait but it does feel like half a season. To this end a lot of plot elements are introduced but not fully flushed out. The residents of the Galaxy being unable to accept the Blade of Mamora because they are Galra. The backstories behind Lotor’s Generals, other than the fact they are all female and seem formidable in battle. The development of Keith and his role as a leader is introduced but shows he has long way to go to match his original counterpart. He is still quick to anger and constantly comparing himself to Shiro. All of these elements help to showcase just how much more story is left to tell in the series.
The production behind the show hasn’t decreased a bit. The art is on point and offering some great visual moments through the season. The episode The Legend Begins is of particular note by showing the origin of Voltron and the history behind the original Paladins. The music is uplifting as always as well. A piece which really stuck out was the background sound of The Journey as it helped to convey a sense of isolation and loneliness.
Overall this is a good season with plethora of great moments and revelations are explored. It doesn’t end on a massive cliffhanger like the previous seasons have which is would have been better as the wait for new content is shorter. Still, it does show there is a lot to look forward to and isn’t without a perfect episode (The Journey). It is an entertaining season of Voltron: Legendary Defender but not the best presented so far.
Netflix wants all the content! The streaming service just grabbed Spike Lee for a 10-episode series update of his 1986 film ‘She’s Gotta Have It.’
The first production photo hit the internet Friday.
About ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ The seriously sexy comedy stars breakout actress DeWanda Wise as Nola Darling, an uncompromising woman in her late twenties struggling to define herself and divide her time among her Friends, her Job and her Three Lovers: The Cultured Model, Greer Childs, The Protective Investment Banker, Jamie Overstreet and Da Original B-Boy Sneakerhead, Mars Blackmon. Nola is not who you want her to be. Nola is now—she is outspoken, complicated, progressive, unapologetic, passionate, sexual..
Netflix series trailer.
Original trailer from 1986. Lee shot the entire film in 12 days during the long hot summer of 1986.
Lee directs all 10 episodes, this is his first television series. ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ stars DeWanda Wise, Margot Bingham, Chyna Layne, Elise Hudson, Cleo Anthony, Lyriq Bent, and Anthony Ramos.
The series hits Netflix on Thanksgiving, November 23, just in time for a family conversation.
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YouTube Red announced Friday the streaming service has ordered 10-episode of ‘Cobra Kai,’ a comedic follow-up to the ‘Karate Kid’ which stars Ralph Macchio and William ‘Billy’ Zabka.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, YouTube Red out bid Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and AMC for the series.
About ‘Cobra Kai’ Set to bow in 2018, is set 30 years after the events of the 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament and revolves around a down and out Johnny who, seeking redemption, reopens the infamous Cobra Kai dojo. It reignites his rivalry with a now-successful Daniel, who has been struggling to maintain balance in his life without the guidance of his mentor, Mr. Miyagi (the late Pat Morita). The half-hour comedy follows the duo addressing demons from their past and present frustrations — through (what else?) karate.
No word on if Elizabeth Shue or Robyn Lively will be involved in the series.
Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg are working on the script for the show.
With multi studios bidding on this series, it has to be a hit. Right? Comment below.
‘Marvel’s Inhumans’ ended up looking more like ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ than an IMAX worthy film or at the very least a Marvel Netflix series, and the first reviews of the pilot are not holding back.
THE REVIEW QUOTES WERE TAKEN DOWN AT THE REQUEST OF ABC AND MARVEL STUDIOS.
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The ‘Inhumans’ will get a two-week engagement with IMAX on September 1 to screen the first two episodes. Then the first two episodes will air Friday, September 29 at 8 p.m. EDT on ABC to launch the series.
‘Marvel’s Inhumans’ explores the never-before-told epic adventure of the royal family including Black Bolt, the enigmatic, commanding King of the Inhumans, with a voice so powerful that the slightest whisper can destroy a city. After the Royal Family of Inhumans is splintered by a military coup, they barely escape to Hawaii where they are greeted with surprising interactions with the lush world and humanity around them. Now they must find a way to reunite with each other and return to their home before their way of life is destroyed forever.
‘Marvel’s Inhumans’ stars Anson Mount as Black Bolt, Iwan Rheon as Maximus, Serinda Swan as Medusa, Eme Ikwuakor as Gorgon, Isabelle Cornish as Crystal, Ken Leung as Karnak, Ellen Woglom as an undisclosed character, Sonya Balmores as Auran and Mike Moh as Triton.
If this is an epic disaster by Marvel Studios, Disney, and ABC – maybe the silver lining will be renewed talks with FOX to bring the X-Men to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Previously on ‘The Mist’, Eve didn’t trust Jay. Kevin shouldn’t have trusted a doctor and Mia dealt with the ghosts in the mist.
Who do you trust?
This episode played out a lot of the new character dynamics brilliantly. Finally, after seven episodes, there was real tension. Starting with Nathalie and her defying the faith of Father Romanov. Everything that happened in the church portion of the show was fantastic. Connor finally managing to exert some form of power brought the character back to life! His faith in Nathalie and her message turned him into the very thing he was against from the priest. The final battle of faith was creepy and prophetic, Nathalie’s decision to face the mist naked vs Father Romanov full church attire spoke volumes. The show has worked hard to show the mist as an almost psychic entity, by using the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse they cemented the argument of Mist vs Faith. Naked Nathalie won and started her reign as leader of the church with a lie.
Who Is Jonah?
Fake Bryan’s arc this week also fed into the paranoia of the episode. Who are you if you don’t even know your real name? Thankfully, due to Mia’s screaming during her detox, he now has a memory. Sadly it’s not a good one, it seems that Jonah has been used as some type of test subject for something. I’m hedging my bets that this will tie into what the mist is and how Arrowhead is connected to it. His decision to trust Mia and help her through the harrowing detox. It’s added a deeper level to both of them, Mia chose to come back and Jonah has chosen to trust in someone other than himself.
How long until we find out Adrian raped Alex?
At this point, they’re not even being subtle about it. During Kevin’s dark and detailed description of what he would do the rapist, the camera all but put a spotlight on Adrian’s terrified face. Even with the attempt to soften Adrian through his burgeoning relationship, I’m not buying it. There’s a reason that Nash picked him as the only one with evil inside him.
The fact that all of Kevin and Co’s segment was set in a psyche ward really set the tone for the episode. Kevin has continued his downward path to darkness, he’s even admitted it to himself. He said very early on there was nothing he wouldn’t do to get to his wife and daughter. This week he proved it.
Why isn’t the mall interesting?
I’ve been patient, I’ve waited and now I’ve officially given up. The mall had so much potential, especially with them diving into two camps quite early on. Sadly it’s just not living up to the hype. Gus stashing food wasn’t even interesting, neither is the paranoia directed towards Eve’s camp. Speaking of Eve, she desperately needs something to do. At the moment she’s serving no purpose other than to snarl at Jay. Another character they’re desperate to portray as a good guy, which goes against the allegation that he’s the rapist. The biggest issue with the mall is the safety they have. There are very little threats and or danger. I imagine they’re going to go down the “people are the worst monsters” route with the mall, the pacing for the story is just dull.
Verdict
Despite my moaning about the mall segment, this was another strong episode. The danger of the psyche ward and the battle in the church brought some genuine tension. Frances Conroy finally had something to do this week and she excelled at it. Every scene with her in, she dominated. The pay off was a spectacular battle of faith. The fact that the mist has let both Alex and Nathalie survive is obviously going to play out over the next few episodes and I for one can’t wait to watch it!
In a world that already hates and fears them – what if only Black people had superpowers? You just read the concept for the Black Mask Studios Series ‘Black’ which was just optioned for a film by Studio 8, according to Deadline
After miraculously surviving being gunned down by police, a young man learns that he is part of the biggest lie in history. Now he must decide whether it’s safer to keep it a secret or if the truth will set him free.
‘Black’ was created Kwanza Osajyefo and Tim Smith 3, Jamal Igle was the artist on the book.
Osajyefo is a former digital editor at Marvel and DC Comics – best known for launching DC’s Zuda imprint, which published Bayou, High Moon, Night Owls, as well as Supertron, Celadore, Black Cherry Bombshells, Bottle of Awesome, and I Rule the Night. Smith 3 is a 15-year veteran in the comic industry. Igle is the recipient of the 2011 Inkpot Award for Outstanding Achievement in Comic Art He is also the writer/artist/Creator of Molly Danger for Action Lab Entertainment, along with the VP of Marketing and Publicity. He’s penciled for Marvel and DC Comics.
Studio 8 was established in 2014, EVP Creative Jon Silk will over see the development of the film. No release date, production schedule, or casting news was released at this time. Sony will handle distribution.
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Justice League not only has the monumental job of introducing DC’s most iconic heroes, but the film also needs to set the stage for future films in the DC Extended Universe. Zack Snyder has ensured that future films will be set-up in Justice League by introducing a handful of supporting characters, including the introduction of The Flash’ love interest, Iris West. Speaking to SuperHeroHype, Kiersey Clemons (Dope) discussed her role as Iris West in Justice League, and it seems like the character is involved in some pretty exciting scenes.
“I finished all my stuff with Zack [Snyder], I wish him well and I have no idea what’s going on right now, but I’m sure whatever they’re doing is necessary. I know the parts that I did introducing Iris are f*cking sick. I can’t wait to see the movie. I’m so happy that I’ve been introduced to this genre because I didn’t really have any type of desire to be a part of any superhero world. And then I stepped on the set of “Justice League” and I was like, “Holy sh*t. All right!”
After her primary role in Justice League, Clemons will star alongside Ezra Miller in the recently announced Flashpoint movie. While Clemons couldn’t say much about that particular project, the actress did reveal how she’s approaching her schedule, in preparation for the film.
“I am just taking it project by project. I have so many projects in the works that I’m not necessarily gonna be on camera for, but I’m producing and writing. I’m kind of filling this space by working on that stuff, so when it comes around for Flash I can get our movie done and then I can produce my own stuff. The Flash is gonna be taking up a lot of my time throughout the year acting, so I want to make sure I’m preparing to do the other things I wanna do when it comes to creating and casting! The f*ckin’ actors I wanna see. I wanna see some sexy black men in a movie, you know what I’m sayin’? Those are the movies I’m gonna make.”
Clemons will be introduced in Zack Snyder’s Justice League, which will land in theatres on November November 16, 2017. Flashpoint is currently without a release date.
Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman’s (Henry Cavill) selfless act, Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) enlists newfound ally Diana Prince to face an even greater threat. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to recruit a team to stand against this newly awakened enemy. Despite the formation of an unprecedented league of heroes — Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and the Flash — it may be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions.
Political correctness just took a hilarious turn. The creators of Comedy Central’s critically-acclaimed show Broad City recently announced that the name Trump would be censored for season four. The comedy duo already implicates this censorship on their web-shorts.
“There’s no air time for this orange (person),” co-creator and star Ilana Glazer told USA Today. “We bleep his name the whole season.” Glazer went on to say she and co-creator/star Abbi Jacobson rewrote much of the new season once “this game-show host became president of our country.”
“We didn’t originally write it like that,” said Glazer in a summer TCA conference. “This season we did more rewriting than ever before, more creatively versus logically in the rewrite period because this election happened and the world changed.”
Abbi and Ilana were very vocal in their support of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election, and they’ve been just as vocal with their disdain for Donald Tr*mp. As previously noted, this satirical censorship is nothing new. Check out this clip below:
This is a rather bold move for a comedy show to pull, but this is nothing new for Comedy Central. The TV network is home to some notorious shows like Chappelle’s Show and South Park, the latter just recently declared will not talk about Tr*mp at all. Both South Park and Broad City have found unique ways to handle the current political climate.
What do you think of this censoring decision? Do you find it humorous or offensive? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
Broad City follows stoner best friends Abbi and Ilana as they navigate their hectic & hilarious lives in New York City. The show’s fourth season is premiering on September 13th. A fifth season is already confirmed by Comedy Central.
Dave Alvarez is a name that harkens back to my youth when I was a newly transplanted resident of Puerto Rico back in the summer of 1996.
I still remember when my parents told me that my father had gotten the orders for us to move to Puerto Rico. My sister, I don’t think minded so much (she was nine at the time) but as someone who had only lived there from birth until the age of two and visited only once since I was the least bit happy. Was I going to be forced to move from New York City the greatest city in the world to live in Puerto Rico? Did they have anything I had here? The TV shows? My comics? Anime? Oh, my God, I’m going to be screwed and so bored and miserable.
Luckily for me, I turned out to be wrong. Very wrong. Dead wrong. Which brings me to Dave Alvarez. You see right outside Fort Buchanan (the base we lived on) is a mall called San Patricio and in that mall, is a comic book shop called Metro Comics where I happened upon a comic called Changuy. Now my Spanish isn’t perfect and while I can have a conversation it’s a bit of a chore for me to read. But man, that didn’t matter with the beautiful animation quality art that Dave was pumping out.
For those of you wondering what Changuy is about its basically Gizmo Duck meets Darkwing Duck and that’s not doing it justice. Because it is its own thing and in my opinion lovingly inspired by the Disney Afternoon shows. Here’s a bit of a more appropriate description from Dave’s Facebook page for Changuy.
FENIX CITY! Crime is taking over it. A girl mouse named Julie builds a super suit with the latest technology to fight crime. The purpose? To sell it to the police, convince them that anyone can use it, but her project was rejected by the RSI, (Ribonucleic Scientific Institute). She decides to test it alone, and that’s when Arturo Mozambique, a common everyday change, decides to test the subject for the experiment. Now Fenix City has a new superhero. Someone that uses incredible weapons… throws himself down buildings, eats junk food, and leaves his face etched in every wall (nobody’s perfect). He is CHANGUY!
Come on I dare you to tell me that doesn’t sound like fun. Besides his work on Changuy, his fantastic newspaper strip Yenny and other comics. Including work for DC, Boom! and IDW. Dave is also a prolific character designer, storyboard artist and animator with extensive credits in the animation business.
And today we will get to know a bit about him, his love of comics and animation and his newest creations ChickenDuck and Vejigantes which I think is going to be a smash sensation and give Pokemon and Yo-Kai Watch a run for their money.
Now let’s get to that interview.
Marco: Okay so generally I hit people with a couple of starter questions. Your basic getting to know you but we’ll leave that for later. Because right off the bat, I want to talk a bit about Vejigantes.
So, tell us how the property came to fruition. If I’m not mistaken it started with your son asking you if Puerto Rico had its own Pokemon?
Dave: Yes, this came out of a mix between Pokemon and Yokai Watch. My kids are very into those and one Sunday morning we started to talk about how specifically those creations show traits of Japan and how their culture shows up in their animated shows. The obvious question popped up.
Do we have creatures or monsters in Puerto Rico? We talked about the Chupacabras and out nowhere…the Vejigantes. Which by no mean are creatures at all but talking about the Chupacabras sort of brought the idea up.
My youngest started to draw scribbles of what he thought were Vejigantes and that’s how it began.
Marco: That’s a great origin story. Now to further expand on that. What has the journey been like to get this project where it is. I’ve been following you since before you started Vejigantes but seeing it grow from a thought to designs, a card game, animation tests and plush dolls has been fascinating. What is the end goal?
Dave: The end goal is to develop a strong franchise that could stay and represent our culture in a fun way just like Japan does. The Vejigantes story is fictional so by no means I mean to teach anything through it but to entertain and create a Puerto Rican presence in the world.
Marco: Before we talk some more about The Vejigantes and the recently announced news of Changuy lets go back to your early beginnings. What made you fall in love with comics and animation? And tell us a bit about your journey getting into both entertainment fields.
Dave: I fell in love with animation first. My room walls were filled with Animation Magazine’s posters and “scenes” that I drew on my own. I wanted to learn animation but it was too expensive and my family didn’t have the resources to pay for that so I chose to make comics instead.
I wasn’t into super heroes, I was more into European comics and artists like Peyo’s Smurfs or Asterix. I saw a lot of beauty on the artwork but there was one thing that I didn’t catch that much and that was expressions.
So, I chose that as my starting point. I wanted to make expressive comics.
Getting into the field was a work of God. I cannot explain it any other way. I saw a couple of Looney Tunes comics and saw a submission request address, so I wrote to them. They answered back rather quickly so I send some samples back. A year later they called me back.
The caller was Peter Tuminello from Warner Bros Entertainment. At first, I thought it was a joke but when I realized it was real I was beyond excited. My first task was Animaniacs and after that, I was asked which book I wanted to keep drawing so I chose Looney Tunes.
After that the road to comics was interesting. I met a lot of people from comics and the animation field. At the end, I ended working on what I wanted to do first which was animation.
Marco: Now let’s talk some Changuy. Recently you announced on your Facebook page that Changuy was coming back via independent comic book publisher Angry Viking Press. How did that come together because it’s been quite a while since Changuy was in any comic shops? I wish I still had my lone copy I bought back in 96 or 97. I cherished that thing. Was this something you were pursuing? I noticed you also mentioned that there would be updates concerning toys and animation. Anything you can talk about right now?
Dave: Changuy was the first independent comic that I made in Puerto Rico. Edward Santiago was the writer, Jovany Zapata the letterer and David Martinez co-created much of Changuy’s world with me. The comic somehow traveled around the US and raised some interest from a couple of companies. Sadly, none of them came to fruition.
Jason Canty, Founder, and CEO of Angry Viking Press have asked me to add Changuy to their title lineup so I decided to give it a shot. As you said before, this is a comic that was published only in Puerto Rico in the 90’s so if it were to be published again, things have to start from the very beginning.
In benefit to the original audience in Puerto Rico, this comeback will show some origins that were unexplained back in the day. Also, the original crew will be back with a couple more new artists like Jessa Otero and Gabriel Rivera.
The animated bits have the talented voices of Ivan Joel Vega as Changuy, Marielena Alcaraz as Julie, Jose Saul Nieves as Rocketiger, Jesus Tobas as Mukarom, Lius Nation as 123 Fish and Cesar Soto as Professor Blips.
Marco: To continue the discussion about Changuy tell the readers a bit about the comic and how it came to be. I remember reading on your site a recent story you told concerning that and I want our audience to read that too because to me it sums up nicely the spirit of comics the passion and the can-do attitude it has.
Dave: The creation of Changuy was simple and naive. Tim Burton’s Batman Returns was playing on theaters. Everyone was talking about this new dark Batman and how he came to wipe Adam West’s image from our minds.
The Disney Afternoon was also a big thing by the time so you may imagine where this story is leading to.
My grandpa built me a small wooden drawing room at my grandma’s marquesina (that’s the Puerto Rican equivalent for a garage). My friends came up to visit very often to draw or just to joke around in this place. One Saturday my friend David Martinez dropped by and we started talking about Batman and how that leather suit would be a bad idea for crime fighting in Puerto Rico’s 98 degrees up weather. No matter what we couldn’t stop thinking of Adam West (not Keaton) sweating gallons under that suit.
We were laughing so hard and we started to draw thumbnails of silly situations. Batman in a drive-thru, Batman sitting on the city hall’s stairs sweating drops in mid-day waiting for the mayor to show up…etc.
Somehow during all the silliness, the Disney Afternoon topic came up. We started talking about how these classic characters were now heroes. I started sketching a Batman type Chango, (a Chango is a Puerto Rican crow).
Darkwing Duck was part of the Disney Afternoon and we talked about how he was different from all the other duck designs. I said “well, that’s because he has Roger Rabbit’s face with a duck beak over” So needless to say we tried a crow beak over the RR head shape.
The suit changed during the design stage. I’m a fan of European comics. I love the detail they add to every story. Asterisk was one of those samples. So Changuy’s suit is a salute to Uderzo’s character. He had wings on his head too at first but that changed eventually. His relationship with the Rocketiger is also a nod to Obelix and Asterix.
That weekend was glorious. Characters and situations were popping out of our minds.
We heard about this store owner who was publishing comics to all of those who had a good proposal. (Dave’s Comic Clan) So we came to him with a small Changuy story. He published what we called “el comic rosita”, (the pinky comic) because he used pink paper to publish it.
After that, we felt confident enough to publish our first formal Changuy comic book. So, we went to a printing shop where they gave us the whopping figure of $1,200 for 900 comics. We look over in other shops but prices go higher as we looked further…so it was up to the $1,200 place to do it. Needless to say, I didn’t have the money.
One afternoon I heard that my dad got a bonus at the factory he worked at. I didn’t know how to ask him so I prepared this whole presentation and how I was going to give him back his money and eventually “pay the house with the proceeds”. (That didn’t happen, of course).
One evening, after supper, I came to him trembling with my notebook full of childish dreams. He didn’t even let me start. He just smiled and pat me on the knee. He said that he trusted that I was doing the right thing. So he gave me the money.
That started it all.
Another good friend of mine Edward Santiago joined us to write stories for Changuy. Today he’s a polished screen writer.
I have a horrible handwriting so Jovany Zapata joined us for lettering. He had awesome skills and patience to do it. More friends like Yoani Fontanez and Gary Javier, (now the best editorial cartoonist I’ve seen) helped us on the way.
We distributed the comic book on our own. We filled Edward’s Toyota with $10 of gas and ran from West to East and North to South in a weekend. I still remember how much we joked around while driving and dream about the impossible. We traveled hoping to sell some comics so we could print the next issue or just to make enough money to fill the tank so we could return home.
We managed to print 6 issues. Printing prices sky-rocketed making impossible to do more.
In 2007 an editor of the newspaper El Nuevo Dia asked us to return Changuy as a comic strip. (I must add that Changuy was originally titled “Changay” (pronounced: Shan-guy). Silly concerns about readers misreading “gay” since the paper was distributed in the US came about so hence the title change).
By that time, I was really busy with the Looney Tunes comics so master illustrator Richard A. Cruz took over the art. The strip lasted a year or two. Its humor was overrated by their average elite readers.
A few attempts were made after that.
Today Angry Viking Press is bringing Changuy back to print. I’m deeply grateful to Jason A. Canty for believing in the bird or should I say…the Chango
Marco: I love that story. I never get tired of reading it. It’s so punk rock. Is there anything else you’re working on besides Changuy and Vejigantes? I’ve seen the ChickenDuck images you’ve been posting.
Dave: About ChickenDuck, yeah, there’s a small project circling around this crazy duck. ChickenDuck was a character that I created years ago. I had an image of him as a screensaver on my computer back when Windows XP was a thing.
Years later my friend Kyle Carrozza was helping me illustrate and write the Kee Kee Koki comic strips. I showed him an image of ChickenDuck. He later suggested that he should join Kee Kee as a sidekick character on the strip. That was working well, only that ChickenDuck was a more fun character to write for.
This year I posted some images of Kyle’s proposal for ChickenDuck on the comic on Facebook. Somehow people seemed to dig the character a lot so I started to make short animated bits along with my friend and Looney Tunes writer Bill Matheny. Everything is taking shape so I hope that ChickenDuck can become an official thing soon.
There’s a Kickstarter about this right now.
Marco: That’s fantastic to hear. I hope it’s a huge success. We’ll definitely need you to give us some more info on the Kickstarter at the end of this interview. Now besides your creator owned stuff and personal animation projects what are you currently working on for others in animation and comics? I know you did a story in the Jonah Hex-Yosemite Sam one shot. Which by the way I love.
Dave: I’m still playing multi-task man for comics and animation. Lol. I still illustrate the Looney Tunes comics on a regular basis. The Jonah Hex story was the most recent project. A real challenging one, by the way. Joey Cavalieri, the editor in chief told me that I could illustrate the story differently from what I normally do so I chose to redesign the Looney Tunes by mixing Bob Clampett’s, Tex Avery’s and Whitman comics style with a bit of Disney. Yeah, that’s quite a mix but it was fun.
Marco: And now this brings us to the end. But before you go I’m going to give you the chance to PIMP YOUR STUFF. This is your moment to tell the readers where they can follow you on social media, and what they should check out that you’re working on. Basically, it’s your moment to make a passionate plea to the readers as to why they should check you out and purchase your work.
Dave: Thanks for the awesome interview, Marco. Regarding my work, you may follow me on Facebook.
My official web page for commissions and art is Dave Alvarez Studios. Also, there’s our ChickenDuck Kickstarter project. You can help us create our next cartoon by following this link: The ChickenDuck Show
And last but not least, I encourage everyone to find and read more about Puerto Rican comics. Yes, I make Changuy, Yenny, and Vejigantes but there are so many creators and their creations waiting for you readers to follow their adventures. Just Google names like Turey El Taino, Sharky Tunas, Pepito, Tato y Kenepo, El Profe, El Isleño among many others and you’ll see what I’m talking about.
Samuel L. Jackson is out promoting his next film ‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard,’ and during a press junket the actor revealed his production schedule to ‘Glass’ the M. Night Shyamalan follow up to ‘Unbreakable’ and ‘Split.’
‘We start rehearsal on [September] 18th and I start shooting on the 25th. (…) I’m anxious,’ said Jackson to Collider.
‘Glass’ will look to Jackson to carry the film as he reprises his character Elijah Price (Mr. Glass), and we all know, the greater the villain, the better the hero.
About ‘Glass’ M. Night Shyamalan brings together the narratives of two of his standout originals—2000’s UNBREAKABLE and last year’s SPLIT—in one explosive, all-new comic-book thriller: GLASS. From UNBREAKABLE, Bruce Willis returns as David Dunn as does Samuel L. Jackson as Elijah Price, known also by his pseudonym Mr. Glass. Joining from SPLIT are James McAvoy, reprising his role as Kevin Wendell Crumb and the multiple identities who reside within, and Anya Taylor-Joy as Casey Cooke, the only captive to survive an encounter with The Beast. “Following the conclusion of SPLIT, GLASS finds Dunn pursuing Crumb’s superhuman figure of The Beast in a series of escalating encounters, while the shadowy presence of Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.
‘Glass’ hits theaters on January 18, 2019.
‘Split’ was an unexpected surprise at the box office in 2017, all eyes will be on ‘Glass’ in 2019. Do you think Shyamalan can handle the pressure? Comment below.
