As the owner of an iPad 2, when I want something to read, I often search the iBookstore (Apple), Amazon (Kindle app), Barnes & Noble (Nook app) or Kobo (Kobo app) though if I want to read some comics, I tend to look elsewhere.
For instance, I have the Marvel and Dark Horse Comics apps, where I can download digital comics, though they don’t, visually speaking, take advantage of the iPad’s graphic capabilities.
TIll now. There’s a company called Madefire, that features digital comics by well-known artists and writers like Liam Sharpe (a co-creator of the company), Gary Erskine, and Dave Gibbons.
The comics covers similar ground current ones do–both digital and traditional–do, though they add a 3D element (and occasionally music) that needs to be seen to be appreciated.
The initial run consists of six titles: “Engine,” “Treatment,” “Treatment: Tokyo,” “Captain Stone Is Missing,” “Mono,” and “The Irons.”
They all vary in terms of art and subject matter, though when their stable of creators and books grow, I suspect that Madefire is going to get very popular, very fast.
Though for some reason, I keep calling them ‘Mediafire,’ as opposed to ‘Madefire.’
Ron Perlman: A Class Act
image courtesy of Chud.com
Actors are often portrayed as a vain, selfish lot; an impression they don’t always attempt to undermine.
So, imagine my surprise to hear that Ron Perlman endured four hours in the makeup chair to once again become Hellboy, not to film a sequel to Hellboy II: The Golden Army, but to make a wish come true.
The wish Perlman worked to realize was that of a little boy named Zachary, who’s undergoing treatment for leukemia.
His desire was to meet and become Hellboy.
It was facilitated by the Make-A-Wish Foundation and Spectral Motion, the special effects house that worked on both Hellboy films, among many others.
This is why Ron Perlman is a class act, whom I can’t wait to see in Hellboy III, a class act all the way.
And in reference to that Hellboy sequel, it could happen. It earned $165 million on an $85 million budget, so as long as Perlman and Guillermo Del Toro want it to happen, it probably would.
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