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Savage Dragon #70 © Image Comics

Drawing - Rick Grimes "daily sketch challenge"

Walking Dead/Zombie-themed sketch for today!

Since I already did various "Walking Dead" or zombie-inspired drawings in the past, I decided to stick with actual WD characters this time around.

So I took this occasion to remake this old drawing from 2 years ago:

Only this time, I went for Rick's TV version instead

Link on deviantArt - Time: 27 minutes

Here's some preliminary lines if ya wanna check 'em out:


Hopefully, Andrew Lincoln!Rick's recognizable enough here above :/

AwesomeCosplay Pics of the day: Walking Dead *spoilers*

*!!Warning!! Might contain Walking Dead!comics spoilers!!*

Here's the most awesome cosplay I've seen THIS WHOLE YEAR!


Clever!

Drawing some cards - Nara Kilday

Remember those? No? Oh man, not cool.... :(
Anyways!
Here's another one I did today!

I wanted to do a drawing of Nara for quite some time!
Finally manage to have a try~

From Josh Howard's cult series Dead@17!

Hack/Slash - soon to be a major motion picture! - again

This is a follow up to this post~

Stop the presses!
Don't make any movie YET!

Now that I got your attention...

Remember my discussion about an eventual Hack/Slash movie? (link above)
Well, I changed my mind.
Alright..so you re-read/remember/checked out my previous article? Good.

So, I admit, Allison Scagliotti could make a quite good Cassie Hack.
But
She isn't what I'd call a "scream queen". (which is, an actress that makes a lot of horror movies)

So here's my all-new better suggestion.
Brea Grant (some of you might know her from Heroes mostly).

Perfect match?

Better known as a fun blonde-haired gal, since I saw her with dyed hair in a zombie parody video, I thought she could work as Cassie better than anyone else.
And she already appeard in a bunch of horror movies (including slashers!) like: You're So Dead, Midnight, Halloween II, Trance and coming out next year Ice Road Terror.

PLUS she likes the character already!
She's known to be a bit nerdy (see any of her Heroes interview!), actually read comics (though Scagliotti did too) and actually loves Cassie so much she dressed as her for this past Halloween!

 

°___O

She's perfect for the character!
Tim Seeley already saw that, from the looks of her twister.

Now, hear me out Hollywood!
Don't pick that awful bimbo current-starlette-of-the-day Megan Fox!
Use an actress that actually as some interest in the series!
Allison Scagliotti! Brea Grant! But not Fox, god no!!

The Walking Dead - 1st impressions

So, yesterday I was finally able to watch the 1st episode of the live TV series based on the post-zombie apocalypse comic The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman.

Here's my first thoughts and impressions based on just that:

I really loved it!
Really! One of the best comic-to-live adaptations I've ever seen :)
It really had a beautiful cinematic feel!
And I mean that, unlike most current "hollywood" garbage-movies we've had lately. Most real "movies" dond't even have a nice look and feel, now all the time we only get shaky cams, digital blue or yellow-ysh recolored pics, 3D-gimmick to sell tickets and no content.


Here Frank Darabont and co. made a fantastic product. He's gonna direct a lot of upcoming episodes, write most of them and supervise the show, soe I've got big hopes for the future of the series.

Great production values, great shots, angles, scenes..etc..

Simply put, an amazing zombie TV show who rivals any of those recent zombie flicks easily!
And quite faithful to boot!

Hack/Slash - soon to be a major motion picture!

The Hack/Slash slasher horror comic has had this tagline written over its cover for so long... I was starting to think it was part of the logo...

Note the variation here: a studio was attached to the adaptation at this point!

But the story of this long overdue adaptation has been quite chaotic along the way...

I'll remember you quickly that I reviewed the beginning of this series already.
(I still wanna do the rest down the road)

First off, I'd like to point out....I'm in reality not a big fan of adaptations.
Be it the recent wave of Superhero successful adaptations or the 80s/90s ones.
The Walking Dead comics coming to TV screens.
Batman to theatres.
Classic scifi books into movies.
TV shows into full length flicks.
Movies into games.
Games into comics.
Etc..!

The original media is always the best one, the more creative one, and the only one using its medium at full potential.
But I like some of those adaptation. It doesn't mean it's bad!
Simply "less" good.
(some stories are meant to be told through a specific medium, that's all)

Anyway, Tim Seeley's Hack/Slash has always been a sort of homage to the 80s culture of Slasher/Horror flicks.
It's a movie genre!
So it's sort of natural it would come to the big screen at some point.
The question would have been: Would it be a studio project? Some corporate producers pissing on a well loved cult series just to get their share of money off it? Or a more independant project, by that people actually care about the source material?
Would it be an R-Rated horror gory movie like Friday the 13th or Nightmares on Elm Street?
Or some dumb PG-13 cash-in kid-friendly commercial stuff?

Anyway, back when the series started, it was quickly rumoured to be adapted, thanks to a cult following that started out as soon as the first couple of miniseries Hack/Slash had.

Then a Major Studio, Rogue Pictures, was announced.

Most Hack/Slash issues and trade paperbacks actually feature the tagline "soon to be a major motion picture" which has kind of become a running joke by now.

Now we're at a point where this serie is more popular than ever, it is currently being published at Image Comics. The folks over at Image have the means to adapt it themselves.

And what do we get?
Rumours about Megan Fox wanting the role.

One of these two is paid to dress like that. 
And would be actually the type of person to die first in an horror movie.

That's right.
Instead of getting a proper actress, or some fun gal who would be better suited for the role or deserve it...
Producers, being the usual... huh *stayin' rational, stayin' polite* hum.. money-fags they are want that bimbo-slut who is popular today.

I mean, that's basically saying "Heck! We know we'll screw the movie! We know it will be bad and we're not gonna invest a lot in it. So let's just take whoever is the current popular bimbo of the week!"

Anyway, those are just rumours.
But rumours like this mostly end up true.
My problem with it? Well, she looks like your stereotypical slutty-bimbo that gets killed in the first 10 minutes of a slasher!
Plus she doesn't have the brains for a smartass Cassie! >:(

 Even this girl in a "Jean Louis David" hair styling advertisment

here in Switzerland looks a helluva lot more like Cassie than Fox!

And the worse part? She's already saying in every interview she would love to play two comic book characters.
Cassie.
And Fathom.

Alright she could have Fathom.
Who the heck are exactly Fathom's audience? Horny 12 years old geeky kids?

Anyway, here's my own take on an Hack/Slash movie now.

Hack/Slas's already been adapted with live actors. In a stage play, just like Evil Dead the musical. (only, with less singing)
Called Hack/Slash: Stagefright.

It perfectly embrassed its B-movie spirit and even the gory aspect.

So all you would need would be to make a real horror movie out of this content!
And simply cast a scream queen as the main character!

My favorite pick would have been Halloween's Danielle Harris.
In my eyes she's the perfect Cassie, now that she's all grown up!

Seriously, picture her with shorter black hair!

But it seems like Tim Seeley and the other artists use Asia Argento as model for Cassie.
Best known as the daughter of the horror movie master Dario Argento, and she's already appeared as a monster/zombie kickass killer a couple of times.

Specially with her Land of the Dead costume on.

But I guess producers would prefer to go with a younger actress, to portray the 20s-something Cassie from the early books (and to attract a younger crowd)...

Anyway, since the announcement of the latest rumours this year of Megan Fox playing Cassie, Hack/Slash fans have started a movement to get their own voices heard, their own favorite pick for Cassie chosen.

It all started from some little mention on the web, then it went on, the idea grew up amongst fans...
Fans want Allison Scagliotti (Claudia Donovan on SyFy's Warehouse 13) to play Cassie!

I'll give 'em that. Good pick. She could easily look the part!

That's why they started a movement this summer.
The Allisonscag4cassie

Even Tim Seeley agrees with this choice!
And joined the movement himself!
You can see the nice t-shirt they made for Allison, signed by Tim with drawings 'n' all :D

Awesome!

This summer and in September, they did their first couple of shout-outs, hoping to make the studios realize we, fans, have a voice! And we don't want them to mess with Hack/Slash!

Here's the (old) awesome campaign video they did back then:



And here's Allison's answer from her own youtube account:



This gal got the spirit!
Now all we need is for this to actually happen~

Again, check out their page: Allisonscag4cassie

I didn't talk about this earlier, because I really wanted to review an Hack/Slash comic before..and then sort of forgot about it.. My bad! :/
Anyway, I'll have a news post up when they'll do the next shout-out!

TV News! ZOMBIIIIIIIEEEES!!

It's here!
It's finally here!

The trailer to the TV adaptation of the graphic novel The Walking Dead!



And it looks fun, great and pretty true to the comic spirit-wise!
Awesome!