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- San Diego always brings us big surprises, and this year’s already started off with a bang. Kevin Smith has announced his long-awaited return to the world of comics, where he, along with pal Walt Flanagan, will write and pencil respectively. Perhaps even bigger news is the return of Kevin’s personally-created villain for the book - Onomatopoeia, a villain who hunts and kills superheroes (we always loved that the first hero he was seen killing was from the News Askew home base town of Harrisburg, PA). Newsarama has the full story :
- SDCC ‘08 - DiDio on Kevin Smith, Batman and Onomatopoeia
As was announced by special panel guest Kevin Smith himself at today’s DC Nation panel at San Diego Comic-Con, the filmmaker and occasional comic book writer will be coming to DC Comics starting in November.The three issue miniseries will re-introduce the unique villain (and flashback to English class), Onomatopoeia, who first saw life in a two-part story in Smith’s Green Arrow run (issues #12-#13). The character is largely a mystery, and has had only very minor appearances since Smith’s original story. What is known about Onomatopoeia could fill a thimble – he can perfectly imitate the sounds around him, may have some super-human abilities, rarely, if ever speaks, and is deadly with many kinds of weapons. He nearly killed Connor Hawke during his first appearance.
As for the character’s origins, Smith related the idea behind the character in a 2007 interview, saying: “When I did Green Arrow, I went with Onomatopoeia for a villain, just because I loved that word, and it kind of formed the character inasmuch as he would say sounds out loud. It only kind of works – I think – on a comic book page because if you have a gun going off, they usually write BLAM! and then you can have, you know, the character saying “BLAM!” in a word balloon, but like if you tried to do that cinematically you can’t really rock it. A gun in a film sounds completely different. It doesn’t read as BLAM! and so to have a dude say BLAM! after a true gunshot, all these people would be like ‘he’s just retarded’. I think it works great in print and on a comic book page. I don’t think that character would translate very well outside of that.”
While the announcement of the three issue miniseries due to start in November may have caused some in attendance to roll their eyes, given the notorious lateness (and unfinished nature) of some of Smith’s previous comic work, Didio told Newsarama: “The best part of it all - we have scripts in hand! The story’s already being drawn by Kevin’s feature collaborator, Walter.
“We never really used the character after Green Arrow, because we felt it was so unique to Kevin,” DiDio continued. “So when he called and said he wanted to do a story that featured Batman and Onomatopoeia, we couldn’t resist but to go ahead with this. It’s a really good Batman story, and will be coming out at a time when people’s attention will really be focused on the character.”
Last week, a vigilant scooper spotted Smith and Flanagan at the NYC premiere of “The Dark Knight” - This fits right in with the duo working together on the book. Adding a villain like this to such an iconic character is brilliant, and the perfect way to return to a medium that we’ve missed Kevin in for many years. With lifetime comic fan Walt Flanagan drawing from Kevin’s words, it’s going to be a real treat. Expect big things for this all too short 3 book series. IGN chimes in as well. We’ll keep you posted as we hear more on this and more from San Diego. What a way to start. - This weekend, Kevin and Scott will sit before the MPAA and watch “Zack & Miri Make a Porno” together. Afterwards, they will stand before the audience and explain the reasons they feel that the film deserves an “R” rating. So far, we’re fairly certain that the cuts Kevin has made were cuts he’d have made anyway, so at this point, we don’t have a sanitized film. Let’s hope it stays that way. Of course, we’ll see it all on the eventual DVD, but who wants to wait that long? And, who wants to see some major funny stuff excised? Not us.
Other sites are also behind the movement, as this is the first NC-17 rating that’s been getting public notice in some time.
Our friends at VideoETA suggest that folks send kind emails to the MPAA’s head of classification showing support for Kevin and the film. They note that so far, Kevin has not yet been forced to make an MPAA-required cut to make a rating (all previous edits have been of his own decision).
Cinematical notices that the MPAA’s ratings site doesn’t even mention the film at all anymore.
The Movie Blog wonders what might be so offensive that the film is going through this process, considering the donkey scene in “Clerks II” made it through without issue.
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triangleites [ _curlyfries ] |
11:06a | Mattress shopping - help! I live in the Raleigh area - anyone know of a good place to buy a mattress? Anyone have any tips to keep in mind? What route did you take? The cheaper the better of course, but I understand that a mattress is an investment. I'm a single gal on a budget. Lend me your ears! Current Mood:  curious |
| wral_localnews | 10:43a | UNC seeks to ground 'helicopter parents'  University orientation helps parents loosen ties with children to limit outside interference with student life on campus. |
| wired_news | 6:36a | Net Neutrality Gains Traction In '08 Senate Races All 16 of the Democrats running for the U.S. Senate say they support the concept of net neutrality as a fundamentally important issue that underlies the future of ideas and the economy. 
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punch_an_pie [ aeire ] |
7:59a | Comic for 7/25/08 Is now up Check the news section on the web site for ComiCon Information, Booth Number, Etc etc etc!!! |
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metaquotes [ technoinfidel ] |
7:45a | It's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be! ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) Current Mood:  silly |
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scans_daily [ benchilada ] |
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| slashdot | 2:49p | Hacked Oyster Card System Crashes Again |
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eponin10 |
10:38a | birthdays! Happy birthday, ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} deirdre_c! Hope your day is wonderful! |
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eponin10 |
10:34a | just one week... Really. I'd like to go more than a week without injuring myself. I am the queen of stupid, tiny injuries. I tripped at work on the rug. Or rather, the toe of my sandal caught on the rug and I fell. On my knee. *winces* Not super painful, just achy. *grumbles* In less than pleasant news, my Mom got a call yesterday that my great-aunt had died. It was sudden and unexpected, though apparently she hadn't been feeling well for the past couple of months. I know I probably should be feeling upset, but I never really saw that side of the family a lot once I hit my teens, and I've only seen them twice in the last 15 years, so while I'm sad, I'm not upset, if that makes any sense. I almost think I feel a bit guilty that I don't feel upset. Current Mood:  uncomfortable |
| someposifeed | 2:37p | [SP] Comic-Con 2008 Sketches pt 1 If there are any problems with the comic or website, or if you have any questions, comments, or complaints you would like to address directly to Randy, please email him at choochoobear@gmail.com. |
| wral_localnews | 10:00a | Man charged in I-40 death of trooper death due in court  Edwardo Wong III, the suspect in the shooting death of Trooper David Shawn Blanton Jr., has a hearing scheduled for Friday. |
| wral_localnews | 11:04a | Funeral set for Army nurse Holley Wimunc  Funeral services will be held next week in Dubuque for an Army nurse killed in North Carolina. |
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whatwasthatbook [ carta ] |
9:30a | I remember reading a book when I was in middle school about a group of schoolchildren who were troublemakers. I only vaguely remember the plot, but there was something about them being sent off to a special school that was kind of awful. I think maybe some of them lived in cars? There was a kind of anarchist vibe running through the thing. I think the title was something like The Scratchyard Kids, - I know for a while when I was looking, I kept getting it confused with The Pushcart War, I think because of a similarity in the title style. I remember it was kind of a dark, disturbing book for me at age 12, but also fascinating. I'd love it if someone knows what I'm talking about, it's been driving me batty for years. Some details: * I read it from my school library in the early 80s, but I doubt it was a new release * I was living in the Southern US at the time * I feel like it was a hardcover with line art on the jacket, but I don't remember * The kids in the story were very tough, streetwise. * Oh, I think they staged some kind of rebellion against the school? * To my twelve-year-old self, it was very dark and kind of scary in that all these kids were BREAKING THE RULES. And the battle between the kids and the teachers was kind of intense. Sound familiar at all? |
| wired_news | 12:01p | IPhone 2.1 Update to Bring Turn-by-Turn GPS? Looks like the already-overdue iPhone 2.1 software update will extend the functionality of GPS: the device will know not only where you are, but in which direction you are going and how fast you are moving. This is being interpreted by many as the coming of turn-by-turn navigation.
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| wired_news | 12:00p | Did the U.S. Army Arrange a 'Sweetheart' Deal to Sell Russian Helicopters to Iraq? Earlier this year, the Defense Department quietly gave a U.S. company a contract to provide 22 new Russian-made Mi-17 troop transport helicopters to the Iraqi military in a deal worth an eye-brow raising $325 million, DANGER ROOM learns.
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| wired_news | 6:43a | China Asserts World Domination -- in Web Surfing China asserts it has the largest internet population in the world, the first time any country has surpassed the United States in that metric. With 253 million people online despite strict government restrictions and blocked sights it deems subversive or pornographic, China's surfers grew more than 50% in the last year alone.
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| overheardnyc | 10:00a | God Help Him If He Shows Up There in a Codpiece and Plumed Hat Female tourist: I don't want to go to Harlem. |
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dragoncon [ fosteronfilm ] |
2:04a | The Dragon*Con Film Track & Festival Announce a Screening of Yesterday was a Lie This is a remarkable science fiction noir film produced and starring Chase Masterson of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine). Find out more in the Festival blog. ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} dcon_filmfest |
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dragoncon [ maddykins ] |
1:38a | Dr. Horrible Sing Along Blog Costumes Dr. Horrible Sing Along Blog Costumes!!?? ( If you havent seen it its Joss whedons newest piece of amazing-ness here www.Drhorrible.com I SWEAR I want to do it... any one in on this? You can even get the shirts here http://www.jinx.com/drhorrible I dont care who I am I just want to walk around with both characters lolol... tempted to be Penny and walk around with the homeless sheet. omg omg omg I dont need more costumes....alright fine...anyone else in? :D -Maddy |
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warren_ellis |
3:18p | On Videomail I noticed the other day that the new update of Twitter desktop client Twhirl includes support for the microvideoblogging service Seesmic. Microvideoblogging is probably a fairly absurd compound word, but it really does attempt to be a Twitter for video, in that it’s designed at least in part to facilitate both video statements and conversational call-and-response video. I think the limit on video length is a couple of minutes (can’t remember for sure, am at pub and basically can’t be bothered to check right now). Flickr, of course, now supports short videos — 90 seconds, I think? Something like that. And this week, I noticed a new entrant. 12seconds.tv. Applying the intent of Twitter to video. Like it says on the can: Twitter gives you 140 characters of text, and 12seconds.tv gives you 12 seconds of video. I played with it a bit yesterday — tried three videos, only one of which played. But it’s a lovely idea. As is tying Seesmic into Twhirl, which puts “social video” (if you like) on your desktop. I know a lot of people who love email because they hate the phone. But I also know a lot of people who’d rather phone, or send a photo, than write an email. And it’s that that has always made me wonder why videomail, in these broadband days of ours, has never made a bigger dent. Why I don’t get videomail in my inbox along with email. Seesmic itself, I can’t get into. I don’t know anyone on the service, and clicking at random seems to either put you in the middle of a conversation you never heard, or gives you someone talking with an unhealthy level of excitement about how they’re going to eat a chocolate cookie. But if I had friends there, I’d doubtless be pleased that their sends were being interpolated with the Twitter device that lives on the desktop and pulls things down without my having to think about it. 12seconds may even prove workable for a more general populace, with its Twittery limitation. Regardless of its eventual fate, it’s an interesting iteration of the whole microblogging thing. And it’s one of the services that may eventually make my inbox more interesting. (written on the Eee at the pub) (Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.) |
| newsaskew | 1:22p | Smith, Flanagan To Create New “Batman” Comic Series… |
| newsaskew | 1:21p | More On The Dreaded NC-17… |
| bbcnewsworld | 2:02p | Obama world tour reaches France US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama arrives in Paris for a brief visit on his world tour ahead of the November election. |
| wral_ncnews | 9:37a | Funeral for Army nurse killed in North Carolina Funeral services will be held next week in Dubuque for an Army nurse killed in North Carolina. |
| wral_ncnews | 9:03a | Judge to hear testimony from Cary jogger's friends Friends and family of slain jogger Nancy Cooper and her husband Bradley Cooper are headed to court to try to resolve a custody arrangement for the couple's two children. |