POOR MAN'S STEADY CAM

Anyone want to direct their own movies?

Well I do and I don't want to spend much doing them...so here is a cool link to a product i bought. its a 40 buck steady-cam that works pretty darn well. Go to the page, look at the videos he has taken and read all about this cool product. I bought one and it fits most smaller digital camera and works like a charm. You will thank me.

http://steadycam.org/

ASTROBOY

Saw it the other day with brandon peterson. beautiful animation and set pieces...and that was about it. The characters were not interesting and the story itself made little sense about a war monger running for mayor needing to "endanger the entire human race" so he could win election. uggggg. the father as well was a bit of an asshole with the way he treated his son before and especially after the " accident" honest, this movie suffers from some real middle of the road scripting that had some cool ideas that were never explored. real disappointing altogether and a complete waste of time for me. I don't know about you...but my time and money is precious to me. I hear all of japan is pissed off at this adaption. I can't wait till my pal Steve Bunche gets a hold of this movie. It always amazes me how something that seems so obvious and easy to make can become a cluster fu*k so easily.

anyone else see it? opinions.....

AMANDA CONNER SKETCHES.

This is simply one of the many reasons I love her dearly...her sense of humor. enjoy! these are not for print, each is owned by the people that commissioned them and you must get their permission to use them on other web sites.
repeat: these are not to be clipped and used elsewhere.

AMY, AMY, AMY....

loveeeeee her music, but maybe she should wear t-shirts? Honest, I wish she would get back in the studio and get to work on some more music. I worry about this woman.

BACK TO BROOKLYN PHIL NOTO COVER

this was the "chase" cover to BACK TO BROOKLYN #1 from image comics. I think I still owe Phil some cash for this...not sure. I met phil years ago at a Megacon in Orlando...at the time I was looking for an artist on the Beautiful Killer I was writing and amanda came up to me and dragged me over to phil's table in artists alley . I got his info and hustled his work to the crew at Blackbull comics and they agreed there was that certain " something" to his work and off we went. Phil and I have become good friends and I am always a tiny bit jealous when he gets to work with other writers...but i find this is a natural thing when yo think so much about the person and the work. and i do. SO...this is one cool cover all around.

LITTLE KNOWN FACT: we optioned this book to UNIVERSAL years ago and Jessica alba wanted to play the main character, so universal hired a "writer" to do the screenplay based on the book. well, jessica was promoting and even mentioned the project on Jay Leno once and I was very excited about all this. I even got to speak to the " screen writer" they hired and we talked about the property and the important details not to lose.

well, a couple of months later I got to read the finished screenplay and I thought it was a disaster...nothing like the book at all...and worse, the " writer" made an innocent character into a cold blooded character. it had no heart, lost its soul and suffered from the disease where a writer thinks he can "fix" something that didn't need fixing. Yeah, thats my opinion, but it soon became a lot of other peoples opinion. They asked me for nots and i handed the liaison around 8 pages worth... well, needless to say, the screenplay did not go over well, jessica bailed and we got our property finally back from universal.

hey jessica, give me a call...we can fix all of this. really.

Blue wednesday

well, i just needed a good title to post these photos. for me, if i post them, I don't have to keep them on my computer. My buddy Brandon peterson suggested I post photos of sexy guys for the ladies. sorry gals, not gonna happen here. I like to look at is as a place where the gals here can enjoy photos of sexy gals as well. There are plenty of web sites that offer that...these are some of my favorite female celebrities...wearing some blue.

In real life, I have met two of these gals and spoke to both. can you guess which?

CHOHO'S

This is a drawing amanda did at a can, dealing with FRANK CHO'S wonderful obsession with breasts. enjoy.

assorted stuff.

I noticed i posted art and such about PAINKILLER JANE, THE LAST RESORT and VIKING PRINCESS...and not one comment. are there any comic people following this blog? wondering.

Also, Got a new cat called dash that we got and it isn't using the litter box yet and its on day 4...its peeing on the friggin plants nice enough, and it hides almost all day in a dark corner in the basement area. when its out, its cute enough, but its driving me a bit nutty. I just want it to shit in the box...is that too much to ask?

saw that PARANORMAL movie and didn't like it. the trailer on tv actually shows the last shot in the movie and it lost me in the middle at the Ouija board scene. honest, nothing rang true to me in it...what kind of person wouldn't leave the house, keep all the lights and tv on and not have a weapon by the side of the bed. this just made it worse for me that the movie was actually about stupid people being haunted. saying over and over " you cant leave the house because the demon will follow you" isnt enough for me...I would have slept in the friggin car. didn't buy it one bit, but glad it was done on the cheap and not a part 6 of something.

BIG BANG THEORY is on tonight. watch it. its fun.

AMANDA CONNER is not only my girl , but she is my favorite person in the world and i have the most fun with her. every day i wake up next to her is a gift. there...I said it. I am crazy about her.

yeah, thats amanda with another favorite gal pal of mine Kristanna.

SEXY MONDAYS

The usual monday tradition of surfing the web and finding pictures I think are sexy. your opinion may differ. which one of these photos "does" it for you? let me know in a post.

POWERGIRL DRUNK

This was a convention sketch amanda conner did of our hero having a bit too much to drink. all in the name of fun, so please, bloggers, turn the anger dial down.

PAINKILLER JANE

For the last couple of months, we have been going back and forth with offers on the PAINKILLER JANE property. Mostly from studios and people wanting to make the original version of the character into a film/tv series or a direct to disc film and so on. We had to say no to a few pretty good offers because after watching the property get watered down twice now with the sci -fi original movie and then the 22 episode T.V. series, well...it's gonna get done right or we aren't going to do it at all.

We put the comic on hold for a bit as well because of a ton of commitments and also because I felt there will be a better time for the books to come out ...the other cool thing is that the full run of the 22 episode show has run in its entirety in over 120 markets and is a hell of a lot of languages.

These days, name recognition is everything in tv and film and Jane's time will be coming again soon. Right now we are looking at a pretty good deal once again on the table and hopefully we will have some good news for the fans of the character this coming year.

till then, enjoy the PAINKILLER JANE graphic novel collections available at a store near you, or on amazon.com.

EYE CANDY FRIDAY

we all need some eye candy. Which is your favorite flavor?

POWERGIRL #8 COVER

The diamond previews ran this cover, but not with the finished color job because of schedules and when the catalog had to go out. this is the actual finished cover by AMANDA CONNER and PAUL MOUNTS.

I want a poster of this.

right now it is my screen saver on my computer. everything about it is wonderful.

A MADONNA FAN

I get a lot of crap from certain people that I am a fan of Madonna's music and the lady herself, but I can't help but admire her and her work. sure she has done some crazy things, but imagine being in the spotlight 24/7 and try to tell me some things you do wouldn't make people lift an eyebrow now and again. Her life story is an interesting one for me. here are some cool photos of her i found. enjoy the madonna love.

THE VIKING PRINCESS

Here are a few rough pieces by my good friend PHIL NOTO featuring scenes from a book called THE VIKING PRINCESS that is in the pipeline for next year. Phil is not doing the actual interior art, but i figured i would show these beautiful pieces. hope you enjoy them.

GOD, ANOTHER PICTURE OF ME WHEN I WAS 16.

POWERGIRL PREVIEW WITH LETTERING

I t really helps if you post any kind of response at the website featuring the preview, NEWSARAMA.

HERE IS THE LINK...http://www.newsarama.com/php/multimedia/album.php?aid=31378

Famous monday bonus. Eva Mendes.

SEXY MONDAY 2

I find each of these has their own unique sexiness to them. what's your opinion?

1978 flashback.

These two photos I took off an old friend's facebook page. thanks lisa Newman for reminding me how much I was out of fashion. Photos like these are priceless...and also remind us all that there is always hope. the one with the car, thats my dad in the background. good times that, when in the thick of it, you don't realize how good you have it. I got to find one of my girlfriend stacy from those days.

THE MONOLITH,SCI-SPY, , HAWKMAN, CATWOMAN and DEADPOOL.

Remember the 12 issue series we did for d.c. comics a few years back? no? well, thats too bad. it was a series we put our heart and soul into and artist PHIL WINSLATE, in my opinion, did some of the best work of his career in. For years, its been an ongoing joke between Bob Wayne, Dan Didio and myself about when they will finally collect the series into a trade book...and guess what?
Nothing has changed...lol...it seems it will remain single issues till either Justin, Phil or myself kicks the bucket or someone makes a film or t.v. series about it...of if I win the lottery I can afford to buy it back.

Yeah, that sucks but such is life...i got a whole list of past work i would give anything to be collected into a trade. Also on that list all the Ryan Sook Hawkmans, all the Paul Gulacy Catwomans, the Gulacy SCI-SPY series and my 9 issue run on Deadpool including the issues where it was Punisher vs Deadpool.

ENJOY the cover gallery folks. lol....

Jimmy