Where fiction collides.
If you’re more interested in ringing in the next trilogy of Halo than the new year, consider reading my interview with Halo 4 Senior Art Director Kenneth Scott and Halo: The Art of Building Worlds author Martin Robinson. Both had some great things to say about Halo: past, present, and future.
My review of The Art of Hammer: Posters from the Archives of Hammer Films from Titan Books is now online at Mookychick.co.uk. The book is full of silly slogans on campy posters and best of all, lots and lots of horror.
Calling all film junkies! New from Titan Books, The Art of Drew Struzan makes a wonderful fixture for your bookshelf or coffee table. You can read my full-length review at OneMetal.
Among the many stars and attractions of Hollywood quietly sits Drew Struzan, artisan and connoisseur. His fame belongs to the golden days that fewer people remember but many revere: the artistry of film posters. His diligently rendered paintings sell as collector’s items and hang in centerpiece frames, evocative of emotion and passion for classic films directed by household names like Spielberg, Lucas, and Guillermo del Toro.
The Art of Drew Struzan, a new coffee table-type hardcover from Titan Books, is dedicated to commemorating Struzan’s work over the last thirty-some years. Filmmakers David J. Schow (The Crow) and Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption) introduce the book, 300+ pieces (both full color posters and compositions) sandwiched between crisp pages.
Need a book recommendation? … This probably isn’t it. But for kicks, you can check out my review of the Terminator Salvation: Trial by Fire novel over at OneMetal.
Terminators: They’re the machines that keep on going, despite apocalypses, despite a hailstorm of bullets, despite Skynet and box office Armageddon. They can lose mechanical limbs, survival time warps, and outmaneuver even the smartest Resistance soldiers. Much like these metal exterminators, Terminator Salvation refuses to let humanity win … and by that I mean give humanity a break already.
Last year, director McG restarted the film series with Terminator Salvation, a movie starring Christian Bale and Sam Worthington. In yet another act of overkill, author Timothy Zahn expands on the movie’s events with his spin-off novel, Trial by Fire.
The movie Tank Girl grabbed my attention, showed it a good time, and then debased it (and my morals) while skipping around singing musical numbers and making out with kangaroo men. The new Titan Books trade Skidmarks pretty much pulls the same trick, only I’m wise to its act—or at least indifferent.
Read the full review at OneMetal, or hey, hunt down the book and see for yourself: Bollocks.
Conceived from the British minds of Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett, the punk rock female powerhouse known to indie comics readers as Tank Girl struck infamous gold for its brash dialogue and dramatic, almost psychedelic visuals (Hewlett would later animate the band Gorillaz). The title even inspired a film that bombed the box office despite rocketing ambition. Previously, Titan Books introduced audiences to a compilation book called The Cream of Tank Girl. Now Skidmarks ranks as the publisher’s latest, first appearing as a twelve-part series in Judge Dredd Magazine.
With her reckless friend Barney needing expensive medical care, Tank Girl enters the no-rules Watermelon Race at a chance at snatching the first place, multi-billion dollar cup prize. Rufus Dayglo, whose talent has decorated Tank Girl comic pages before with The Gifting and Visions of Balooga, illustrates Rebecca and her pals as they squash rival cars and speed toward the finish line, her beloved Balooga co-manning the tank. Of course, their hopeful clean victory hits a few bumps along the road, including a technical snag, a dangerous shortcut, and a lead-footed new competitor.
