Battle Angel Alita Trailer Drops And It's... Interesting...

I have been a huge fan of the Battle Angel Alita manga for a long time and so when the new trailer for the big budget Hollywood film dropped a couple of days ago I was suitably stoked.

The film is directed by Robert Rodrigues and seems to follow the story arc of the original manga graphic novel by Yukito Kishiro. I'm looking forward to the film as the original manga is an immense sci-fi masterpiece, however I do have a few reservations, namely the fact that Alita herself has HUGE eyes and looks strange. I know that in the manga she has big eyes, even in relation to the others around her but I hope that she doesn't fall into the uncanny valley genre where she looks out of place with the rest of the cast. The recent Planet of the Apes film worked because most of the cast were digitally created and so you didn't really notice the difference between computer created and real world actors. In this case the difference might be just too great to take. We'll see but I hope to be going day 1 to see this film.

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Gustavo Viselner, Pixel Artist Extraordinaire

Gustavo Viselner is a pixel artist who is working through the films of the latter half of the 20th century and turning them into pixel arr, reminiscent in style to the point and click adventure games of the 90's. Among the many films he has created pieces of work from are The Princess Bride, Forrest Gump, Star Wars and Aliens. I would definitely recommend that you check out his awesome work.

Mark Millar Signs My Swag

Mark Millar is the writer of such amazing works like Kick-Ass and Wanted, both of which were turned into pretty solid Hollywood films. Millar has a skewed take on the traditional superhero tropes and stories and it is this original take that I and many other comic fans find so interesting.

When I heard he was doing a signing at Gosh Comics in London I knew I had to get some of his comics signed and meet the great writer. The queue was really long, about 50 people long when I got there half an hour early to beat the rush.

However it was worth the wait and I had a chance to chat with him. I have been told that the next script for Chosen (American Jesus in some territories) has been written so after 10 years we will finally see what happened to anti-Christ Jodie Christianson.