Photos from Massive Black Workshop Jan 2008

Irene Gallo just recently blogged about the Massive Black workshop held in Seattle in Jan 2009 and has provided tons of great photos from the event.

Great stuff.

Pictures of Absolute Sandman with Slipcase

I love looking at people's bookshelves and see what they've got. So today, I did a search for Absolute Sandman on Flickr. All pictures shown in this entry are from Flickr and will link back to their respective owners.

Absolute Sandman is actually a 4-volume hardcover compilation of all the Sandman issues. It comes with a slipcase. You can read more about Sandman and its history on Wikipedia.




Notice how the Absolute editions have more colours added on.


Oh, and notice the size difference too.

















I haven't got a chance to read any Sandman yet, but I shall find a way to get them.

Here are some Amazon links if you want to find out more on the books. The reviews on are overwhelmingly positive.

Open Season 2 and Shrek straight to DVD

Do you know that Open Season 2 is a straight-to-dvd (Amazon link)? Or do you even know it exists?

The trailer doesn't look very good.







By the way, they have a straight-to-dvd addition to Shrek as well, called Shrek The Halls (Amazon link). And they are selling that for $12 for a 22 minutes video. Not really worth the money.

Shane Acker and Tim Burton's 9 Coming on 9.9.09

Directed by Shane Acker, produced by Tim Burton, 9 is looking great. You can check out more of 9 on wikipedia. So far there's very little on it, not every an official movie website.

Here's the original same name short film it was based on. It was created by Shane Acker.



No news on any books coming with the movie as yet.

Disturbing anime live action movies coming up

I've read some scary news on the web. Some of them have already came true. Here's the list.

1. Dragon Ball Evolution


Seriously?

Oh yeah, it's serious enough. They have the Dragon Ball Evoluvation website for it as well.

You can already check out the cast from IMDB. It's not looking good. Not looking good at all.

I can imagine doing a 3D animation movie on Dragon Ball easily. There are countless 3D Dragon Ball computer games available and they show viability. But live action? Seriously? Why would anyone want to take a highly stylized comic and turn it into live action? Because they can?

2. Cowboy Bebop (live action)
When I first read it on conceptart.org, I was stunned beyond words. Cowboy Bebop is one of my favourite anime.

There can only be two outcome to this. It's either going to amazing, or it's going to stink so very bad.

3. Akira (live action)
Warner Brothers has acquired the rights to make this masterpiece anime into two movies. The news might be from Feb 2008 but it still sends chills down my spine.