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Mar. 25th, 2008 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lady_t_220Mister Huu made my Yahoo front-page headlines.
Hugh Jackman, who plays the mutant Wolverine in the "X-Men" action movies, is pairing with Virgin Comics to create a comic book series called "Nowhere Man," Virgin said on Tuesday.
The series, a futuristic science-fiction odyssey set in an era when men have traded their privacy for safety and security, will be written by Jackman and Marc Guggenheim, who wrote Marvel comics' "Wolverine" series and "Amazing Spider-Man."
I'm... still not sure what I think of this (Other than to comment that that's a really unflattering photo they have attatched, that makes him look over 50 and grizzled). Guggenheim was not among my favourite Wolverine authors and his last contribution to the series was the same point where I bailed out, but that's really no indication of his ability to write an original character or story.
(Hugh's narrative capabilities are, at this time, an unknown quantity.)
I'm also doubly not sure what I think of the idea of writing a comic with the hope in mind that it'll be popular enough to make a movie out of later. It's a little... weird. Why not just make the movie? I don't quite get it. I mean write a comic because comics are cool and you have a good idea that you think will work, don't write a comic because you don't know if the idea is enough to capture the mind of a film audience. I guess it just bothers me a little that it sounds kind of cynical in the way it's being presented, like purpose-building a franchise or something. Which could just be the product of taking a comment clearly out of context and interpreting it in that way, or it could be a unusually calculated marketing ploy. The former would be the preferable option, I don't so much like the cynicism inherent in the latter.
As an aside, in other articles JP has referred to it being a bit like Will Smith's character in 'I Am Legend' which makes no sense to me at all as "an era when men have traded their privacy for safety and security" sounds more like a mash up of every dystopia from 1984 to V for Vendetta and back again.
I assume this lone crusader will be the titular Nowhere Man, of course. Though that's about where the alleged similarity ends given the current information. (And now I have the Beatles stuck in my head again, damnit!)
Other than that, I've never had any interaction with comics published by Virgin. I'm a little scared to note that on their website they publish "Jenna Jameson's Shadow Hunter" the idea of which is enough to make me want to run screaming for the hills all on its ownsome. (They also publish Dan Dare which I didn't even know still existed...)
...More rooting around also reveals they deal with Nichols Cage's Voodoo Child and Dave Stewart's Zombie Broadway. (You know? The one from the Eurythmics who wasn't Annie Lennox?)
It's all kind of... odd.
Reading further, their 'about us' statement makes a LOT more sense out of the maybe-a-movie statement, given as creating comics that could expand to film, TV, games, online content etc etc is part of their core business idea.
I'm still not sure it isn't a bloody weird idea but at least some of their artwork is pretty...
http://www.virgincomics.com/
Hugh Jackman, who plays the mutant Wolverine in the "X-Men" action movies, is pairing with Virgin Comics to create a comic book series called "Nowhere Man," Virgin said on Tuesday.
The series, a futuristic science-fiction odyssey set in an era when men have traded their privacy for safety and security, will be written by Jackman and Marc Guggenheim, who wrote Marvel comics' "Wolverine" series and "Amazing Spider-Man."
I'm... still not sure what I think of this (Other than to comment that that's a really unflattering photo they have attatched, that makes him look over 50 and grizzled). Guggenheim was not among my favourite Wolverine authors and his last contribution to the series was the same point where I bailed out, but that's really no indication of his ability to write an original character or story.
(Hugh's narrative capabilities are, at this time, an unknown quantity.)
I'm also doubly not sure what I think of the idea of writing a comic with the hope in mind that it'll be popular enough to make a movie out of later. It's a little... weird. Why not just make the movie? I don't quite get it. I mean write a comic because comics are cool and you have a good idea that you think will work, don't write a comic because you don't know if the idea is enough to capture the mind of a film audience. I guess it just bothers me a little that it sounds kind of cynical in the way it's being presented, like purpose-building a franchise or something. Which could just be the product of taking a comment clearly out of context and interpreting it in that way, or it could be a unusually calculated marketing ploy. The former would be the preferable option, I don't so much like the cynicism inherent in the latter.
As an aside, in other articles JP has referred to it being a bit like Will Smith's character in 'I Am Legend' which makes no sense to me at all as "an era when men have traded their privacy for safety and security" sounds more like a mash up of every dystopia from 1984 to V for Vendetta and back again.
I assume this lone crusader will be the titular Nowhere Man, of course. Though that's about where the alleged similarity ends given the current information. (And now I have the Beatles stuck in my head again, damnit!)
Other than that, I've never had any interaction with comics published by Virgin. I'm a little scared to note that on their website they publish "Jenna Jameson's Shadow Hunter" the idea of which is enough to make me want to run screaming for the hills all on its ownsome. (They also publish Dan Dare which I didn't even know still existed...)
...More rooting around also reveals they deal with Nichols Cage's Voodoo Child and Dave Stewart's Zombie Broadway. (You know? The one from the Eurythmics who wasn't Annie Lennox?)
It's all kind of... odd.
Reading further, their 'about us' statement makes a LOT more sense out of the maybe-a-movie statement, given as creating comics that could expand to film, TV, games, online content etc etc is part of their core business idea.
I'm still not sure it isn't a bloody weird idea but at least some of their artwork is pretty...
http://www.virgincomics.com/
