This has to be one of the greatest comic book ideas ever.  Zombies used to destroy terrorists.  Why the hell wasn’t this thought of earlier?  Why use troops when you can use zombies to instill fear and chaos?  Win the battle with some cadavers?  Perfect if you ask me!

Of course that wouldn’t make a great great story unless one gets free instead of burning up once the sun rises.  Now here we go, it’s going to be World War Z (sorry Max Brooks).  I have to say I had never even heard of this until today, and I’m glad I read it.  It was an awesome read, and points out a few flaws in the way our government goes into war with the middle east and how we actually operate it against UN regulations.

For more information head over to super hero hype or Red5 Comics.  This one’s definitely in my bag for it’s 6 issue run.

Seems like a comic news kind of day.  Then again I added several comic blogs to my rss reader today.  So looks like I’ll be mentioning quite a bit more about one of my favorite mediums since childhood.  So all of you out there, go and read some damn comic books.

I’m writing about something something I just just read over at the New York Times that really perked my interest.  Invincible by Robert Kirkman is getting the small screen treatment.  It’s definitely a fun comic and happens to be written by one of my favorite writers for the past year and half or so.  It’s really the technology that has me stoked.

But it’s not quite animation in the traditional sense. “I like to think of it as cinematic comics — digital cinematic comics,” said David Gale, executive vice president of MTV New Media, which is producing the episodes in partnership with Gain Enterprises.

I’ll be honest here I didn’t see the animation that was recently done of Astonishing X-Men #1, but it definitely sounds cool.  I may have to pop over to Marvel.com and check it out so I know what’s what with this style of animation.  The fact that they’re going to have up to issue #36 by september makes it awesome.  Perhaps when they catch up to #50 they will release new "episodes" as the issues are released monthly.  How cool would that be?

One of my favorite comic publishers Boom! Studios has started to release more of their catalog for free according to Newsarama.  They already released Northwind like this on Myspace (which I don’t have anymore, they should add facebook) and I assume that it helped them push some sales else they wouldn’t be releasing more.

For those that don’t know, the image I use in my header is from a Fall of Cthulhu comic from them.  I forget which number off the top of my head, but it seemed fitting with the theme I found for wordpress.  Too bad they’re not releasing that one for free, but they are releasing Cthulhu Tales.  I always figured anything with Cthulhu should be given out for free since it’s based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft.

In other comic news the full trailer for The Spirit has been leaked.  I know I’ll probably see this but it does look over the top.  Then again a lot of trailers seem to look that way and the film can be very good.  Then again will this end up like the latter two Matrix films?  Or is it going to be as awesome as Sin City?  Only time will tell.

Over at IGN Comics theres an interview with Fred Van Lente that perked my interest.  Of course I’m a huge fan of Robert Kirkman’s runs on Marvel Zombies, as well as his "The Walking Dead," so when seeing the image to the right I had to click it.  Of course I didn’t know that it was Fred Van Lente and not Robert Kirkman doing the interview.  So my hopes fell pretty dramatically at first.

In all honesty a third run of Marvel Zombies could be good.  It could also be absolutely god awful.  I don’t think this is going to be a sequel really.  After all, the heroes mentioned, it sounds like it’s going to take place during the same time period as Marvel Zombies 2 when the "Galactus" are out in space in search for more food.

I’ll probably pick this up since I’ve already read everything dealing with Marvel Zombies.  I don’t know how keen I am to have it in the main 616 universe though.

I’ve had a pretty stupid idea for a comic strip in my head for a long time.  Just have never really felt like I was a decent artist in the slightest as I can barely draw stick figures or even concentric circles.  Part of the curse of being left handed I suppose.  Well for shits and giggles I started sketching out the three pigeons that I need for this idea.  They seemed to be the easier of the two animals.

Basic premise is that the pigeons are trying to be all urban, hip, ghetto, while they’re actually from somewhere out in BFE.  Of course they’re going to run into a racket of street savvy squirrels that know the ins and outs of city life.

I don’t know why this sounds funny to me but it could be quite the laugh riot.  My first dealings with pigeons was on the farm I grew up on.  They were the dumbest birds I’ve ever seen.  So when I moved into the city and saw them acting like morons there I figured they were all pretty silly and stupid. 

Squirrels on the other hand seem to be shifty and always stealing shit from cart vendors.  Or just getting into all sorts of trouble.

There’s my first ideas.  I’m sure they’ll change greatly if I continue with this.  Just thought I’d share an idea with everyone.

It’s been a pretty heavy movie time lately.  Been pretty burned out and don’t really feel like doing too much.  The things I do feel like doing I don’t have the time for, or I just don’t have the gumption after doing crazy amounts of work and frying the brain.  On one of our more recent trips to Hollywood Video we picked up Confessions of a Superhero.  It’s a pretty weird idea for a documentary but one that works none the less.

It follows four of the many street "performers" and pan handlers on Hollywood Blvd in Hollywood of course.  You have Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk.  Why they chose three DC characters at first is beyond me ;)  Maybe there’s really not that many Marvel characters out there.  I also doubt there’s many independent characters as well.

Each person has a very similar story.  They all want to be stars.  They all come from a strange background, or from a poor one.  The exception is Superman who claims to be the orphan son of Sandy Dennis, though her family claims differently.  Odds are, despite being a nice guy, he’s a bit of a nut case.

I do hope that the Hulk makes it.  He’s honestly trying hard and doing his own thing.  Was homeless for four years while pursuing his dream.  That takes a lot of constitution.  By the end of the documentary he did win a role in a pretty shitty remake of Bruce Lee’s last film.  Though you have to start somewhere.

Batman is just a fucking looney bin.  Has some serious anger issues, and alluded to killing someone in the 80s.  If that’s true, he’ll probably end up in jail.  Not get scott free as he claims because of the way evidence was able to be obliterated back then.  If anything now a days the cops are able to find more evidence from cold cases than they were back then.

I honestly really didn’t care much for Wonder Woman as a person.  She seemed like the spoiled little princess from a small town to me.  She seemed like a crazy and good sort though.  Willing to do things, like marrying someone four days after meeting them, that most people wouldn’t do.  She might make it, but the way she talked it seemed like she isn’t really going to push extra hard.

Superman is definitely obsessed with what he does.  15 years doing the same thing?  Yeah that’s a little nutty, I would have gone on to do something else with my time.  His apartment is also completely covered wall to wall, floor to ceiling with anything Superman.  Yegad.  Though it was nice that he married his lady at the Superman convention in Metropolis Illinois dressed like Superman.  I may be a geek and a nerd, but there’s no way in hell I’d go that far.