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Do Cinephiles Dream of Celluloid Sheep?

@tlawson / tlawson.tumblr.com

Educator. PhD student. Writer. Critic. Cinéaste. Plus actor.
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I’m not sure I remember how to use this thing.

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augustheart

You know what? Fuck it. Everyone who reblogs this by… Hmm… June 6th gets a hand-drawn dragon head based off of what I think of you just by looking at your blog.

EDIT: if you see this, stop reblogging this. Everyone who already reblogged it, yes you’re getting a dragon! Yay! But I am one person. With tired hands.

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SURPRISE: we’re doing an all-new Squirrel Girl graphic novel because OF COURSE WE WOULD DO THAT.  There’s an interview with us here at Entertainment Weekly!

Oh, here’s the solicit text!

THE UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL BEATS UP THE MARVEL UNIVERSE! OGN

Written by Ryan North, art and cover by Erica Henderson, colours by Rico Renzi

  • Proof that we’re living in the best of all possible worlds: THERE’S GONNA BE A SQUIRREL GIRL GRAPHIC NOVEL!
  • It’s a stand-alone adventure that’s both great for new Squirrel Girl readers, and also for people who ALREADY know about how she can talk to squirrels and also punch really well!
  • Behold: a story so HUGE it demanded a graphic novel! A story so NUTS that it incorporates BOTH senses of that word (insanity AND the weird hard fruit thingies) (they’re fruits, did you know that?) (I didn’t until I looked them up just now, so looks like we’re ALL learning science from this solicit text for a comic book!)
  • Squirrel Girl has defeated Thanos, Galactus, and Doctor Doom. TWICE. But in this all-new graphic novel, she’ll encounter her most dangerous, most powerful, most unbeatable enemy yet: HERSELF.
  • Specifically, an evil duplicate made possible through mad science (both computer and regular) as well as some Bad Decisions. In other words, SQUIRREL GIRL BEATS UP THE MARVEL UNIVERSE!

Approximate release date???!?

October!  OF THIS VERY YEAR

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Huh! Who knew?

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tlawson

Sounds legit.

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They were out of Power Man/Iron Fist blank covers by the time I got to the signing, so I got creative in my request. (at Punk Monkey Comics - Music, Movies, and More)

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Bill Sienkiewicz

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kierongillen

Immortality, Of A Kind.

The girl in the white suit hid her nerves behind the cigarette.

The curtains opened. A pale man in pressed flannel frowned.

“Who are you,” he said, rubbing sleep from his eyes, “and what the hell are you doing on my window-ledge?”

The girl balanced on her bare heels, rocking back and forth.

“I… am a fan,” she said, “Don’t worry. I’m perfectly safe.”

“I wasn’t worried,” he said, “Lose the cigarette.”

“Sorry,” she said. Her face twisted, as if her muscles used to make apologetic expressions had atrophied through neglect.

“I wanted to ask some advice,” she said as she flicked the cigarette into the void behind her.

The man thought of his breakfast cooling.

“Make it quick,” he sighed.

There was silence, or as close to silence as the rumble of the city far below would ever allow.

“I have so much I want to do, and so little time,” she said, “I want everything. Is that so much to ask? Everyone says so. Everyone says ‘be reasonable’. But then I look at you, and everything you’ve achieved, and know that 'reasonable’ is defeatist. Any one sliver of what you’ve done would be an enviable career. That it takes it all in, is an impossibility. There’s so little time, and so much work I want to do. I’m going to die but I want to be immortal. I’m trying so many things, but I’m afraid of losing myself in a–”

“Enough,” said the man, “I’ve two things for you. Listen carefully.”

“Always finish the album,” said the man, “and get the hell off my window ledge.”

The girl nodded.

“You were my inspiration,” she said, as she stepped backwards, turning to a shower of ash and sulphur, leaving tiny sooty footprints on the ledge.

The man sighed as he turned from the window. A girl dressed in a white suit, smoking, with that hair? And I was apparently inspiration? No shit.

Still – she was far from the first, and she’d be far from the last.

Immortality, of a kind.

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Steve left a party by saying, in a somewhat loud but very cordial tone, “Good evening.” Once he was out the door, I said, “What a Dracula!” Ben Blacker replied, simply, “’Steve Agee’s Dracula.’” And then this.

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kateordie

I don’t fully understand it but I laughed through the entire thing, so

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mamalazzer

Seriously though, this scene. WHY DID THEY DELETE THIS SCENE?

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astolat

And as they went away with Luke letting Han’s hand trail out of his, I thought, “…as though millions of Han/Luke shipper voices suddenly cried out and were silenced.”

In all my days I’ve never shipped this till…

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stephrc79

Welp, if I didn’t ship it before…

True story from ancient fandom corner: people did ship it, and that shit was stomped on harder than any slash has ever been stomped on. There were lawsuits. SW slash went WAY underground–even in the days when all slash was underground. There were ‘zines, but they were precious as carbuncles and basically if you had one or wrote in one you were like a fucking badass slash bandit.

I may have reblogged this before but I am compelled to do so again.

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dharmagun

oooooh yes

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