Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNRDGjjQwwE&has_verified=1

Y'all remember Garth Ennis' The Pro, drawn by Amanda Conners with Jimmy Palmiotti on inks yeah? If not, it's an amusing little book about a superheroine who's more likely to be turning tricks rather than turning in crooks. It sits proudly on my bookshelf snuggled inbetween all my other Ennis books but now you don't even need to it, you can watch it thanks to this animated short. Thanks Mr Palmiotti. The Video is for Adults only so to watch it please click on the image below or here.

Link: http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/102138-exclusive-joe-carnahan-on-taskmaster-and-preacher

It seems that lately all we do on this blog is talk about movie adaptations of comic books, who's in those movies and how much they're goin to suck/rule/destroy my world view. I do love that comic books are being taken a lot more seriously and it's a pleasure to see some of my favourites up on the big screen in amazing technicolour especially when it's down well. The thing is, I also feel that some things need to be left well alone, some stories need to kept pure without being seen through Hollwood-o-Vision and in my opinion Garth Ennis' Preacher is at the top of that list.

First it was going to be movie directed by Rachel Talalay (Tank Girl), then it switched to a HBO tv show, then back to movie this time with Sam Mendez (American Beauty) but that proved fruitless so now A-Team director Joe Carnahan has thrown his hat into the Preacher ring via an interview with Superherohype:

"And the other thing I'm really keen on or interested in is 'Preacher' because I'm a big Garth Ennis fan and I love that series and that's out there, and that might be something… I really love that. You gotta do the Allfather (D'Aronique) and all that crazy sh*t and I haven't seen a script and I don't know what it is, but yeah, we'll see. Who knows?"

So there you go, not exactly 100% locked in or anything but Carnahan's comments are enough to give us an excuse to talk about Preacher and why I'm some bloody precious about it. To sum up Preacher is very difficult (for you noobs check out ol' faithful, so much happens and we take so many sidetracks that meander through Ennis' fucked up view of the world and that's kind of the point. Preacher is more than the sum of it's parts but to leave bits out which you'd inevitably have to do with a movie adaptation would in my mind b detremental to the story as a whole. Which is also why I think out of all the possible versions that have been bandied about, the TV show was the best and most viable possibilty. Only a TV show could give the story the time and development it deserves, of course it's have to be HBO as there's some pretty messed up stuff in there.

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Link: http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2009/11/sgt-rock-francis-lawrence-akiva-goldsman-joel-silver.html

Looks like another potential Sgt Rock feature is in the offing. According to the Hollywood Reporter it'll be directed by Francis Lawrence of Constantine and I Am Legend (neither of which I was a big fan of) fame. My exposure to the DC character has been extremely limited, I knew the name but it wasn't until his recent appearance in Wednesday's Comics, where he had his own one page feature each week that I got to know the Sarge. The new film proposes to take Rock from his usual period World War II setting and instead move the story to the distant future. Bad idea. From what I can tell part of the charm of Sgt Rock, created by Robert Kanigher and Joe Kubert in 1958, is that he's a no nonsense hardcore military man of his time, a sort of pulp hero in the same vein as Indiana Jones; if he ain't fighting Nazis then what's the point?

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Link: http://www.avatarpress.com/

About three years ago I discovered Preacher by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon and since then I have been forever changed. Melodramatic? Yes, very much so. Any less true? No way. Preacher started me looking at comics other than those that contained capes and tights, and I've never looked back. I still pick up all my superhero stuff but now I love to search out stories that have nothing to do with all that and simply lose myself in a well crafted genre story, the more messed up, the better. Which brings us back to Garth Ennis and his new offering from Avatar Press; Crossed.

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