Tag: Brian K. Vaughan

A comic book store can be a vast and wonderful landscape, but sometimes it’s nice to have a compass to help you as you wander those aisles. With that in mind, the Hero Complex and the mighty G4TV.com have teamed up for a weekly series of video recommendations. Geoff Boucher of the Hero Complex will select and celebrate a new release  from the vivid world of superheroes and more traditional-minded fare, and the always insightful Blair Butler of G4′s Fresh Ink blog will recommend a worthy new release from the “non-Spandex” side of comics, those graphic novels and alternative press titles that use their comics panels in the name of memoir, literary experimentation or underground voice. NOTE: In the video below I screwed up! “Ex Machina” is published by the good folks at Wildstorm, not sure how I got that mixed up in my head. – Geoff Boucher MORE PICKS: “Let Me In” / ...

I’ve told you before how much I admire "Ex Machina,"  and I wanted to let you know about a fun surprise in the newest issue, No. 40, which hit stands today. (Stop reading now if you don’t want any cats let out of any bags. …) The story, written by Brian K. Vaughan and drawn by Tony Harris, finds Mayor Mitchell Hundred seeking collaborators for an autobiographical project — a graphic-novel account of his first term as the chief executive of New York City. The final few pages of the issue have some guest creators drop by, and they are none other than writer Garth Ennis and artist Jim Lee. Nice! – Geoff Boucher Image credits: Wildstorm/DC Comics

Director D.J. Caruso now says he hopes to make a film trilogy based on the "Y: The Last Man" comic books that will star Shia LaBeouf and also tweak a basic element of the plot — even though he knows any departure from the original risks the wrath of fanboy purists. "It is tricky to suggest changing things. I’m sure the fanboys will stone me and my kids for daring to change a thing. But Brian K. Vaughan [the writer of the comics] loves the ideas we’ve come up with. He even said said, ‘You have to think outside the box because the reason this story hasn’t been made into a movie so far is that we haven’t thought outside the box.’" I sat down with Caruso the other day at one of his favorite spots in Los Angeles, the ...

The Sunday Review: "Ex Machina: The Deluxe Edition" By Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris (Wildstorm, hardcover, $29.99) Which graphic novel would you hand a curious friend who had never read one but wants to give the medium a try? A lot of fans automatically say "Watchmen," which makes perfect sense, I suppose, considering the fact that it changed the ambitions of the entire sector with its cinematic sensibility, gravitas and heart-rending emotional nuance. But, really, Alan Moore’s 1986 epic is so steeped in comic-book lore and deconstruction that its greatest appeal is to true believers. If you didn’t grow up reading the tidy escapades of the Justice League, Moore’s flawed mystery men aren’t quite as jolting or disturbing. "Watchmen" may be the perfect graphic novel, I just don’t know if it’s the best first graphic novel. "The Dark Knight ...