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The first look of Sebastian Stan as Bucky. ICv2’s article reports that Sebastian played a little bit darker Bucky, which is more in line with today’s rendition of Bucky. He was a soldier, not a fun loving young man. With a more serious and darker Bucky could this be a dovetail into future Captain America movies? The most prominent being were Bucky comes back as Winter Soldier as written by Ed Brubaker. The link is for the short article.
Joss Whedon is looking for Nick Fury’s assistant for the upcoming Avengers movie. ICv2 and several other sites are reporting that Morena Baccarin, Cobie Smulders, Mary-Elizabeth Winstead and Jessica Lucas are being considered. If the assistant is in fact Commander Maria Hill, illustrated above, then just by looks alone Marena Baccarin would be a shoe-in. Also Marena has been in Firefly and Serenity that were Joss Whedon projects and Joss is known for sticking up for his past actors. Follow the link to the full article and pictures of the other possible actors.
ICv2 reports that Top Cow and Platinum Studios are in talks of bringing Matt Hawkins’ Vice to the big screen. Will it make it? Who knows. Follow the link to the short article.
Who will be the next Lois to Superman’s Clark? ICv2 has some ideas of who might be looking at the roll. Follow the link to the full story.
Batnam and Dynamite join forces for a comic book/graphic novels rights to George R.R. Martin’s fantasy series A Song of Fire and Ice. The way it looks issue will be released first and then the collected editions will be available. When the collected editions do come out libraries will definitely want to pick this up. The article also mentions that HBO has the rights to do a TV series which will fuel interest in this series. Follow the link below to the full article at ICv2.
Dark Horse Comics announced that they are continuing on publishing prose novels. Later this year they will be publishing Supernatural Noir, edited by Ellen Datlow and The Damned Highway, edited by Nick Mamatas. Both titles are horror anthologies and will be available later this year. This will be another opportunity for libraries to tie in their graphic novel collections with their book collection, specifically the horror genre. Follow the link to read the full article.
http://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/245/dark-horse-continues-expand-prose-publishing-progr
Classic Darkwing Duck is being offered from Boom Kids. So librarians that are wanting to boost their children graphic novel section will want to pick this one up. Below is a link to the pricing and ISBN information. You can order it straight from Boom or from the vendor of your choice.
http://www.boom-kids.com/darkwing-duck-classics-vol-1-tpb.html?SID=i8c2c867m2uqjh1qm85tm6rah6
The University of British Columbia’s journey Cinephile is planning an issue featuring anime. A call for articles have been sent out, once published anime will make it into academia, which doesn’t happen very often. Anime like manga, graphic novels and American animation do not receive many alcaldes of this nature. This link will lead you to Anime News Network’s short article on this.
ICv2 reports that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in talks with Warner Bros. to be in the upcoming Batman movie. Speculation is that he might be considered to play the Riddler.
TokyoPop has posted a trailer of their upcoming documentary, on Hulu, American’s Greatest Otaku on YouTube. If your anime and manga fans at your library don’t know about this yet, what are you waiting for?