Comics News Roundup Reactions For Thursday! American Vampire! Henry Cavill! Skybound Virtual Comic Con!
Leonardo DiCaprio, George Clooney and Matthew McConaughey are sitting around discussing a movie they want to make.
DiCaprio says “I’ll be the lead actor”
Clooney says “I guess I’ll be the director,” McConaughey says “I’ll write, I’ll write, I’ll write”
American Vampire Returns for Its Final Chapter in American Vampire 1976
With Vertigo gone, this one will be on Black Label. American Vampire 1976 #1 by Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque will publish on October 6, 2020. This is Clay’s 45th birthday. He will buy this book. He was born in 1975, so he is glad the vampire didn’t make him into a vampire baby as a 1 year old.
“The characters in ‘76 are in a really dark place in terms of the fight against evil,” says Snyder. “The '70s mirror our current era in many ways: the anxiety, the fear, and the re-examination of American identity. The book opens on Skinner Sweet working outside of Vegas doing death-defying Evel Knievel-style stunts, trying to die. There’s a kind of Son of Sam plot in New York City with Cal and Travis, a political thriller plot with Felicia, and all sorts of '70s iconography. It’s my favorite arc so far.”
REACTION: CHEERS! Let’s wrap this thing up. BAT! 🦇
LINKS: DC Comics Blog
Man of Steel and The Witcher actor builds Supercomputer in Quarantine.
The Internet Reacts.
It’s not Kelex, but it will have to do.
Okay, Henry Cavill building a PC is cool, but what about Ben Affleck in an interview 20 years ago talking about his childhood Commodore 64 and forecasting the rise of streaming audio and video services? What if all superheroes are actually big computer nerds? pic.twitter.com/DTRTBNQpMQ
— Anil Dash (@anildash) July 16, 2020
REACTION: My girlfriend hasn’t stopped talking about Henry Cavill today, a change in our household from me talking about Ben Affleck’s Batsuit and the Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice: Tech Manual.
LINKS: The Verge
Skybound holds Virtual Comic Con this Weekend
Join the Image Comics imprint for a two-day virtual comic con this weekend on July 18th and 19th.
A two day Virtual Pop-Culture Experience, celebrating Skybound’s creators across comics, video games, and beyond, marking the kick-off for Skybound’s 10-year anniversary.
REACTION: CHEERS! Watching Kirkman on Comic Tropes putting Nick Spencer on blast for not giving Ryan Ottley enough action in Amazing Spider-Man really got me! I want more!
LINKS: RSVP/WATCH
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