Friday, March 4, 2005
ADAM HUGHES COVERS CATWOMAN
Adam Hughes is beginning what he said he hopes will be an extensive run as new Catwoman cover artist with Catwoman #44 in June.
"I hope it will be like my Wonder Woman run," Hughes said. "As long as they let me do it, I'll be there.
"I love working on a DC book and have been looking for a regular gig. And nobody's let me play in the Batman universe until now."
What does Hughes think of Catwoman's most recent costume, designed by Darwyn Cooke?
"I love it! I'm really excited about doing that one," Hughes said. "It looks like it just came off the rack. It looks like anybody could get it from your friendly neighborhood bondage shop. It looks very real."
Hughes said he also has done a Power Girl cover (probably for a reported JSA: Classified title) and looks to be doing more than covers soon.
"I want to be back on interiors for 2006," he said.
BLADE: TRINITY DVD UPDATE
New Line Cinema has released an image of the Blade Trilogy DVD box art as well as menus from the Blade: Trinity DVD.
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Blade: Trinity will be released on April 26 as a double-disc set in both R-rated and Unrated editions. The Unrated edition will include 10 extra minutes of footage.
A 28-page comic book -- limited to 12,500 copies -- will accompany both the R-rated and Unrated editions. Written by Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray, with art by Amanda Conner, the Blade: Nightstalking comic reveals the never-before-seen backstory of Abigail Whistler as she meets her father for the first time and rescues Hannibal King from the vampires.
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SPIDER-MAN CLASSICS
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Toy Biz has provided The Continuum with a preview of Assortment 13 of its Spider-Man Classics action figure line.
Assortment 13 includes Flip 'N Stick Spider-Man, Aqua Blast Spider-Man, Soak 'N Toss Spider-Man and Magic Change Mysterio.
The figures should be in stores by April.
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NEW SIMPSONS EPISODE
Lucy Liu provides a guest voice in a new episode of The Simpsons scheduled to air on Sunday, March 13 on Fox.
The episode is called "Goo Goo Gai Pan" and also features Robert Wagner.
Here's how Fox describes the episode:
"After watching a video on menopause, hosted by guest voice Robert Wagner, Selma realizes that she missed her chance to have a baby and decides to adopt a baby girl from China. Selma encounters a bump in the road when the application asks for her husband's name. In an act of desperation, she puts down 'Homer Simpson.' Soon, Selma and the Simpsons are off to China to pick up her baby girl, while Homer must pretend to be her husband. When their charade is finally revealed, the functionary, Madam Yu (guest voice Liu), takes Selma's baby back. Homer and the gang must devise a plan to rescue the baby from the orphanage."
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MARVEL COMICS FIRST LOOKS
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For covers and four to six-page previews of upcoming Marvel Comics titles, CLICK HERE.
Titles include Spider-Man Team-Up Special, Spider Girl #83 and Secret War #4.
Look for more First Looks on Saturday here in The Continuum.
VIPER COMICS' THE MIDDLEMAN
Viper Comics will be publishing The Middleman, a new comic created by Javier Grillo-Marxuach, a writer and supervising producer of ABC's first-season hit series Lost.
Viper's Jessie Garza told The Continuum that the monthly four-issue mini-series, which mixes elements of Men in Black and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, will begin in July.
"He was a reader of Dead @17 and liked our design work and design elements," Garza said of Grillo-Marxuach.
The art for The Middleman will be by Les McClaine, whose credits include Slave Labor's Highway 13.
"It will be black and white, with gray-scaling," Garza said.
In other Viper news, look for a Josh Howard art book to debut at Comic-Con International in San Diego in July.
BRIEFLY
* Cartoon Network's Justice League Unlimited will again be visiting the world of Batman Beyond in a future episode, The Continuum has learned.
* Artist Paolo Rivera has signed an exclusive contract with Marvel Comics and already has his next assignment.
"I'm not sure if I can say anything specific," Rivera said. "But what I'm working on is so huge, it'll pretty much take up the entire length of the contract to complete. I already have my dream job, so I suppose this would qualify as my dream project. And it's with a writer whose work I love and who has a superb approach to collaboration. In addition to that, I'm currently painting a series of covers starring the most evil Marvel supervillain on the planet..."
* Here's a first look at the variant cover to Runaways #1 from Marvel Comics.
* Kids' WB! has released ratings highlights for the February sweeps. The Batman ranked among the top five broadcast spots in the key demos of Kids 2-11 (2.7 rating/10 share), Kids 6-11 (3.0/12), Boys 2-11 (3.6/13), Boys 6-11 (4.2/16), Tweens 9-14 (2.9/13) and among the top five overall program spots in Male Tweens 9-14 (4.6/20).
* Coming Saturday: Marvel news and much more!!!
COMICS CONTINUUM BACK ISSUES
In case you missed The Continuum's recent coverage, here are some links:
* For Saturday, Feb. 26, including Sin City movie news, CLICK HERE.
* For Friday, Feb. 25, including an interview with Constantine's Djimon Hounsou, CLICK HERE.
* For Thursday, Feb. 24, including Top Cow news, CLICK HERE.
* For Wednesday, Feb. 23, including Devil's Due Publishing's solicitations for May, CLICK HERE.
* For Tuesday, Feb. 22, including Justice League Unlimited news, CLICK HERE.
* For Monday, Feb. 21, including interviews with Batman Begins' Christian Bale and Fantastic Four's Julian McMahon, CLICK HERE.
* For Sunday, Feb. 20, including the DC Universe panel at WonderCon in San Francisco, CLICK HERE.
* For Saturday, Feb. 19, including the Vertigo/WildStorm panel at WonderCon in San Francisco, CLICK HERE.
* For Friday, Feb. 18, including Marvel Comics' solicitations for May, CLICK HERE.
* For Thursday, Feb. 17, including Image Comics' solicitations for May, CLICK HERE.
* For Wednesday, Feb. 16, including news on The Batman's second season, CLICK HERE.
* For Tuesday, Feb. 15, including an interview with Constantine's Keanu Reeves, CLICK HERE.
* For Monday, Feb. 14, including DC Comics' solicitations for May, CLICK HERE.
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