Four-Color Coverage

The Los Angeles Times’ “Hero Complex” blog ran an exclusive feature this morning:

This just in — three-time Oscar nominee Amy Adams will play journalist Lois Lane in Hollywood’s revival of “Superman.”

For the full article, click here.

Marvel has released the first trailer for this summer’s Captain America: The First Avenger.

Captain America: The First Avenger hits theatres on 22 July 2011.

Last week, DC Comics’ “The Source” blog posted an entry with the first picture of Adrianne Palicki in her costume for the upcoming Wonder Woman television series:

It appears to be a melding of the traditional costume with the new comics version, as designed by Jim Lee.

In the week since this hit the Internet, there have been MANY comments – pro and con – about it. On the whole, I’m okay with it. I will agree with some commenters that the color palette for the pants may be a little “bright.”  But, it’s also a studio shot; it could look entirely different by the time the show hits the air and/or when it’s being shot against scenery and not just a blank white wall.

Sunday – 31 October 2010
It’s literally been more than a month of Sundays (07 Sept 2010) since I’ve posted here.  I have a draft of a post from a few weeks back that may still see the light of day, but we’ll see how that goes…

In the past month-and-a-half, 4CC (and my other sites) have changed hosting companies. The overall transition has been rather painless, but making sure that all of the behind-the-scenes details have been taken care of has been a slow process. (It’s been slow mostly due to the fact that I have had other things that were a bit higher priority on my docket.)

In the past nearly-eight weeks, there have been a lot of good books that have hit the shelves. There have also been some good features on the big and small screens. I hope to touch on some of them in the next week or two.  In the mean time, here are a few tide-me-overs:

• The premiere of The Walking Dead is tonight on AMC. (Check local listings for time/channel)



• Bullet Dodged: What’s Burton’s Superman Would’ve Looked Like
• Comic Con 2011 Registration Opens Monday

And that’s it for now!

From Comic Book Resources:

Warner Bros. Pictures has released the Comic-Con International-exclusive character teaser posters for Green Lantern that, in addition to showcasing stars Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively, give us our first official glimpses of Mark Strong as Sinestro and Peter Sarsgaard as Hector Hammond. As a bonus, they also give a nod to the Green Lantern oath.

To read the rest of the article – and to see the posters – click here.

Check this action out:

Yeah… I know….

Release date: 02 November 2010

By way of Comics Alliance:

In a move sure to please his diehard fans, Joss Whedon, creator of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Angel,” “Dollhouse,” and “Firefly,” announced at today’s Visionaries panel at San Diego Comic-con International that is he definitely directing the “Avengers” for Marvel.

For the rest of the article, click here.

Comic Book Resources takes a look at Alan Moore’s refusal to reclaim his rights to the Watchmen property:

Alan Moore, whose tumultuous relationship with DC Comics is legendary, claims the publisher offered this week to return the rights to his most famous creation — in exchange for a concession.

“They offered me the rights to Watchmen back, if I would agree to some dopey prequels and sequels,” Moore told Underwire today. “So I just told them that if they said that 10 years ago, when I asked them for that, then yeah it might have worked. But these days I don’t want Watchmen back. Certainly, I don’t want it back under those kinds of terms.”

To read the rest of the article, click here.

Marvel confirmed this morning through a press release that their iPad App is real, is ready, and is a launch title for the device. The App itself is free and will be similar to ComiXology’s current iPhone application for digital comics, as ComiXology handled development of the App. Individual issues will be offered at $1.99 each.

To read the full article, click here.

Newsarama writer Lan Pitts interviews Bruce Brown, author of a graphic novel “about” H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu mythos:

H.P Lovecraft and children. Usually the two don’t go hand in hand, but we’ve stumbled upon a rare occurance. Bruce Brown’s OGN, Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom published by Arcana, re-invisions Lovecraft’s dark world through a rather unique lens and hands the nightmarish universe off a much younger audience than you would expect.

To read the full article, click here.