In the search for material, movie studios have hit the bottom of the comic-book barrel. (Jonah Hex? Really?) Now they’re turning to anime and manga for inspiration, which Complex details in the 2009 Style & Design package from our latest issue. Read on to learn about four manga titles that might be going Hollywood on us. And no, we’re not counting Astro Boy…
What’s not to like about movies inspired by comic books? (Besides the shitty ones, of course.) The explosion-filled murkfests keep us entertained while reminding us of our childhoods reading Marvel and DC. Though all superhero movies inevitably include the obligatory hot girl, we’re way more interested in the sexy super-villains than the good-girl love interests. Fuck that bland Kirsten Dunst ish!
So when pictures from the set of Iron Man 2 surfaced recently, we were excited to see Scarlett Johansson playing Black Widow…which subsequently reminded us of our other favorite villainous vixens. We picked the 8 hottest bad girls from comic book movies so see if your favorite villain made the cut…
Many comic artists have mastered the art of drawing sexy female characters, but none are quite like Paul Pope. The man behind titles like 100%, Batman: Year 100, and PulpHope: The Art Of Paul Pope was kind enough to collaborate with the Complex team on “Mirror, Mirror,” the sexy skin shoot from our June/July issue. The concept: two hot women—one illustrated, one photographed—getting intimate in a house-of-mirrors. We just posted the whole story online, so enjoy, sexually repressed nerds!
Who’s watching the Watchmen? Director Zack Snyder hopes YOU are.
In the February/March 2009 issue of Complex, we brought you a “Shotcaller” interview with Watchmen director Zack Snyder (click here to read the article). Like his adaptation of Alan Moore’s epic graphic novel, our feature was so deep that we had to edit some of the brilliance out just to make it fit on newsstands.
To see the complete version of the film that Snyder wanted to put out, you’ll have to wait for the director’s uncut ultimate blowout version of Watchmen on DVD, but you can get all the extras from our interview right now. Read on for Snyder discussing his relationship with Alan Moore, being spoofed and his awesome upcoming projects…
CLICK HERE TO READ THE REST…
Straight up, a gay superhero is coming to your TV. Got a problem with it? Suck it.
Pause. Take a second to acknowledge how far we’ve come as a society that comic legend Stan Lee is executive producing a series about a gay superhero for Showtime. The project is based on openly gay writer/director Perry Moore’s novel Hero, which tells the story of Thom Creed, a teenager and the world’s first homosexual superhero, who wrestles with his secret identities when he’s not pinning villains.
Creed isn’t actually the first gay do-gooder. (Did you really think the super-chiseled men in tights running with the super-chiseled man-women were straight?) Whether their homosexuality was declared or merely implied, gay heroes have long existed in comics and have helped pave the way for this new series. Check out some of the gay do-gooders to grace the pages of Marvel and DC comics over the years. (Forget the indies'like indie rock and indie rap, it goes without saying that they’ve always been gay)…
Last year when The Simpsons movie hit theaters, BK launched a promotion called “Simpsonize Me,” where you could turn a photo of yourself into a Matt Groening-style cartoon. But since then, Dean Fraser has been the only one still going hard, Simpsonizing a wide variety of pop culture icons for a little project that he’s calling the “Springfield Punx“.
Some of the characters Dean has rendered include Dwight from The Office, Neo from The Matrix, and even former Simpson’s writer Conan O’Brien. This month, Fraser is focusing on Marvel, posting a different superhero or villain from the comic universe each day. In addition to three of the Avengers pictured above (Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man), he’s dropped 12 other characters so far. Check ‘em out below…
CLICK HERE TO READ THE REST…
“Are you what we think you are????”
You youngins may not be up on our boy Archibald Andrews'after all, Archie comic books originated way back in 1941. But after stumbling upon a batch of old-school Archie covers, we realized that the redhead kingpin probably has a lot in common with you: He’s irresponsible, forever broke, crazy about hot chicks, bi-curious, and loves to… wait, hold up, rewind. Bi-what? Yeah, you heard us. We’re not saying he ever played tug-head with Jughead, but Arch was kinda loose with guys and gals. We’ve got archived evidence as proof.
Right after 9/11 came along and broke a couple of buildings off in our ass, cartoonist Davd Rees (who first emerged with My Fighting Technique is Unstoppable) gave us all a much-needed catharsis with his insanely profane and hilarious Get Your War On series of clip-art comics.
Now it’s almost seven years later and we’re less freaked out than we are in utter disbelief at the major hoodwinking we (and the rest of the world) received at the hands of our functionally retarded president. Well, guess what? Get Your War On is back, it’s as pissed-off as ever…and it’s on video! Watch the promo and first two episodes below.
CLICK HERE TO READ THE REST…
We were the first American magazine to feature this Amsterdam hottie, but we’re happy to see her making new friends. [Hollywood Tuna]
Heavy D shows his Jamaican roots on a possible comeback record with Junior Reid. [Nah Right]
Vans is plaid, not played. [Kicks On Fire]
Gears Of War 2’s head designer in charge teases fans with more hints about the soon-to-be Xbox classic. [Das Gamer]
The cover art for the fifth Scott Pilgrim installment is revealed. [Scott.Ning]
While Ayo! Scott was off gallivanting at Comic-Con and pointedly not telling us about any of the cool shit he saw, we sat here in New York and got progressively more resentful. And now, when faced with the first footage of next May’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine that Hugh Jackman debuted at the Con, we’ve pretty much decided that we’re gonna go upside his film-critic dome with a roll of quarters in a sock when he prances back in the office.
Then again, the teaser is so crazy that the admittedly crappy cameraphone quality is still enjoyable. The footage, which focuses most on Wolvy and Liev Schreiber’s Sabretooth before they became the mutants we know and love, also gives a glimpse of some other X-Men standbys like Gambit and Blob. Even will.i.am makes an appearance, though we’re already on record as not seeing the logic of that casting. Our only other concern is that Deadpool (played by Ryan Reynolds) is nowhere to be found. Watch the footage below.
CLICK HERE TO READ THE REST…
