First look at Sinestro

Ok yesterdays post was about the new Green Lantern trailer, so this time I'm going to make a post on a character from Green Lantern, and that is the arch-foe of Hal Jordan, Sinestro. Sinestro was once a Green Lantern like Jordan, until he was found to be using his ring to control his home planet of Korugar. After being kicked out, he acquired a yellow power ring and for years fought Jordan and the heroes of Earth. Several years ago he formed his own core, the Sinestro Corps, dedicated to spreading fear throughout the galaxy. Mark Strong plays the pre-villain Sinestro in the movie, so if there is a sequel, there will be some excellant ring battles. Mark your calendars for June 30 friends. This is gonna be epic.

First Green Lantern trailer!!

It's here!! Yes comic book fans and movie lovers, the first trailer for the summer hero movie Green Lantern is here. With Ryan Reynolds in the hotseat as Hal Jordan and a fantastic cast as the supporting characters, this promises to be a film of epic proportions. Just type in this link (http://screenrant.com/green-lantern-trailer-rob-87990/) to see the trailer and a whole bunch of the stills, allowing fans to properly soak in the awesomeness of the movie. It premiers June 30 this summer and I don't know about the rest of you put I am going to hit up that midnight show madness!! Light em' up gang and prevail against the Blackest Night this June.

Comic Book Artists and Writers: Alex Ross

Today's post will be on one of the more interesting artists of the comic book world, Alex Ross. Ross has contributed to this industry in a way that no other artist has. He has made the fantastic heroes, the stuff of dreams and daytime thoughts more real than ever before. He does not draw these characters as the other men of this profession do, he paints them. And he also uses friends and look-alikes to humanize the men and women in tights. His first break into comics was his story Marvels, the history of Marvel Comics from the 40's to the 60's through the eyes and life of a normal photographer. After the success of Marvels, he penned the story Kingdom Come, which takes place ten years into the DC history, the world being overrun with power mad superheros, the progeny of the former heroes. Superman, having been retired for those ten years after the Joker killed Lois and the entire Daily Planet staff, comes back with the old heroes to teach this new generation what it means to be a hero. He then wrote Uncle Sam for Vertigo, the Earth X series for Marvel and the two sequels, a series of tabloid sized stories for DC in celebration of their 60th anniversary. In 2004 he published a book on his work, Mythology and has been currently doing cover work for various comic book companies including Dynamite Entertainment and some of their hero books. To Mr. Ross I say, God bless you for all you've done sir.

Comic book artists and writers: Mark Millar

Today's post is going to cover Mark and the work he's done over the years. Breaking into the business in the late 80's writing Trident Comics book Saviour, Millar then moved onto 200o AD, Sonic the Comic and Crisis. In 1994, Millar was hired by DC and began writing for Swamp Thing. In 2000, Millar had his big break, replacing Warren Ellis on The Authority for WildStorm. Due to DC censoring the violence in Authority after 9/11, Millar left the company. His most famous work for DC is the Superman: Red Son story in which The Man of Steel's rocket lands in the Ukraine and he becomes the champion of the Communist Party. Joining Marvel's fold, he created the Ultimate X-Men book for Marvel's Ultimate line, wrote the first six issues of Ultimate Fantastic Four which allowed him to create the Marvel Zombies line. He wrote the plot for Marvel's Civil War series, Marvel 1985 and Old Man Logan. His most famous work to date is the 12 issue mini-series Kick-Ass, in which a kid in the real world becomes a superhero for the heck of it, then gets caught in a war between two inspired heroes Big Daddy and Hit Girl and the Mob. Millar is currently writing the story for the second Kick-Ass series, Kick-Ass 2. To Mr. Millar I have only one thing to say, your work rocks and speaks volumes about your love for this stuff.

Comic book writers and artists: Jim Lee

Alright, today's post is going to be on the fantastic artist Jim Lee! Jim's done a lot of amazing work over the years, starting out at Marvel in 1986 doing pencil work for Alpha Flight and then Punisher: War Journal in 1989. After filling in for Uncanny X-Men artist Marc Silvestri, where he co-created the character Gambit, Lee helped launch the new X-Men book in 1991, in which he became the regular artist and did co-writing as well. After that he moved on to create the company WildStorm, doing artwork for WildC.A.T.S., Savage Dragon and Deathblow among others. In 2003, Lee collaborated on the 12 issues in the Batman pages that would become the story arc "Hush". This was followed by a year long stint with Superman, then doing the artwork for Frank Miller's series All Star Batman and Robin. In February of 2006, Lee was announced as being a concept artist for the upcoming DC MMORPG game DC Universe Online. In February 2010, Lee was named alongside Dan DiDio as Co-Publisher of DC Comics. To Mr. Lee I say, keep on creating fantastic artwork, and keep on bringing more awesome comics to the world.

Comic book writers/artists: Alan Moore

Alright, today's post will be covering a man who took the happy, carefree world of comics that we all knew and in 1986, turned it on its head. That man is Alan Moore. Moore started out doing scripts for British comic books including Warrior and Marvelman. He then came to America in 1983, working on DC's then flagging comic book Swamp Thing. He then penned a two-part piece in Vigilante on domestic abuse and wrote the famous "For the Man who has Everything" story for Superman, followed by "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow". In 1986, Watchmen was released to the public, and the affect was amazing. Moore had created characters (based on the Charlton Comics group), placing them in the world at the height of the Cold War, having played a huge part in the war, and the world up to that point. In 1988 he released the Batman story entitled "The Killing Joke", after which he left working for DC over royalty issues. After returning to mainstream comics work in the 90's, Moore started an imprint group of WildStorm Productions, calling it America's Best Comics. His first work was the comic entitled "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", in which classic Victorian England characters band together to save the world. His next works included the famed comics Tom Strong, Greyshirt and Nubia. He has recently returned to doing independent work, and his upcoming work "The Moon and the Serpent Bumper Book of Magic", is to be published in 2013 by Top Shelf Productions. From all of us fans to you Mr. Moore, thank you for all that you have done and continue to do for this fantastic enterprise.

Comic book artists and writers: Stan Lee

Alright folks, for those out there who actually follow my blog, I apologize for being gone so long, school has just gotten a bit crazy. But I'm back and I'm starting up again. I plan on doing at least two more posts on comic book writers/artists after this one, then once all the new movies start popping up I'll be doing posts on those. But now to move on to the topic of today's post, the one and only Stan Lee!! Stan has been in the comics biz since the glory days of the 1940's, when Marvel (known as Timely Publications) started out. Stan's first work was a back story he wrote for Captain America #3, and then in 1941, became the editor-in-chief and art director until he replaced Martin Goodman as publisher in 1972. In the 60's, Stan was part of the teams that created some of the most recognizable heroes of today, including the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, The Avengers, the X-Men and a whole bunch of Marvel's other lead characters. Despite no longer actually working with Marvel, Stan still works with superheroes in his company POW! Entertainment. He has continually made guest appearances in the movie's staring his creations and is regarded as one of the most famous men in comics. To Stan Lee I say, bless you sir for your years of hard work and dedication. Excelsior!