“Interestingly enough, I did have breakfast with ["Dredd" writer] Alex Garland this morning. It’s not off the agenda. Clearly everyone has woken up to the fact that an audience has found this movie and loves it,” Urban told Collider. “It’s entirely possible, and if people want to see another installment then they should be vocal about that, because, it can happen. The power of fandom can resurrect projects. In fact, that’s what happened with ‘Star Trek.’ They weren’t going to do a third season until fans did a letter writing campaign and they continued that series.”

Of course, “Dredd” already has a sequel of sorts. A graphic novel from 2000 AD will be released in September, with more information likely being released around San Diego Comic-Con. That comic book’s story is expected to work as a direct sequel to the “Dredd” film.

Meanwhile producer Adi Shankar said he is working on a “Dredd” short film during a Reddit AMA back in March. It’s unclear if either of these other ideas has replaced that, but Shankar seemed pretty excited about the prospect of the short at the time. Maybe we’ll end up getting all three projects, and then everyone will have more “Dredd” than they know what to deal with.

Fatale #14 by Sean Phillips

Why did it have to be toothy Cthulu faces? I hate toothy Cthulu faces! The eerie use of black and white works quite well with this cover, followed by the stunning red center drawing attention to our femme fatale. She’s got her Chicago Typewriter prepped and ready for action. Judging from her outfit and the iron eagle looking symbol at the bottom, if I didn’t know any better I’d guess this issue take place during World War II! With a cover as intriguing as this one, I’m willing to check to see if I guessed right.

Conan the Barbarian #16 by Massimo Carnevale

In this issue, Conan embraces the hippie culture of the 1960s in Cimmeria, drops acid, and takes advantage of all the free love going around. All kidding aside, this is truly a beautiful cover. Carnevale just goes wild with the coloring, making it a pleasure to let your eyes wander and really soak-in the cover in its entirety. Great contrast of warm and cool colors, and creepy use of the dangling hands.

The Shadow #13 by Alex Ross

Speaking of contrasts, major props to Ross for this bloody masterpiece. It brings chills seeing the Shadow in the reflection, for it looks as if he’s trapped in a doomed city of some kind. The lady in white doesn’t look all that innocent for no matter who you are, everyone has someone’s blood on their hands (including her). Ross always succeeds with the angelic glow technique, for just from looking at this cover you’re lead to believe that she must be innocent in all of this. Absolute stunning job by Ross.

X-Factor #256 by David Yardin

“Always the artists,” –Mance Rader. Great use of faces forming from the blood, as it spirals out of a lifeless corpse front and center. It’s almost like following the yellow brick road, only nastier. The expressions on the faces are those of pure horror, for this death was shocking to everyone it seems, and Yardin does a fabulous job conveying that in a few brush strokes. The real question isn’t ‘who did it,’ but rather ‘who is going to clean up this mess?’

Batwoman #20 by J.H. Williams III

I now know what’s black and white and red all over (spoiler: it’s not a newspaper). Williams III does a superb job incorporating Gotham City and the occult-looking archeology into Batwoman’s cape, having it all connect together as a whole. It’s a great use of layout, something Williams III has been displaying for the past 20 issues with ease. The blood spatter up top only makes the cover that much more thrilling.

Wonder Woman #20 by Cliff Chiang

This is my favorite cover of the week, hands down. The sleek grayscale look of Wonder Woman and her logo is so cold feeling, that the swarm of red-hot hands make for an intense scene. The god baby with the blue eyes and aura is a little unsettling, but obviously it’s somehow special enough to warrant being surrounded by would-be babynappers. The arms alone remind me of the style of Saul Bass, which always scores extra point in my book. Bravo to Chiang for making a cover design so simple spring to life with just the right use of color.

Cameron Hatheway is the host of Cammy’s Comic Corner and Arts & Entertainment Editor of the Sonoma State STAR. You can take him to the river and drop him in the water on Twitter @CamComicCorner.

Opening in theaters and IMAX on September 6, the David Twohy film stars Vin Diesel, Karl Urban, Jordi Molla, Matt Nable, Katee Sackhoff, Bokeem Woodbine, Dave Bautista, Conrad Pla, Raoul Trujillo, Nolan Funk and Keri Hilson.

In the film, the infamous Riddick has been left for dead on a sun-scorched planet that appears to be lifeless. Soon, however, he finds himself fighting for survival against alien predators more lethal than any human he’s encountered. The only way off is for Riddick to activate an emergency beacon and alert mercenaries who rapidly descend to the planet in search of their bounty

The first ship to arrive carries a new breed of merc, more lethal and violent, while the second is captained by a man whose pursuit of Riddick is more personal. With time running out and a storm on the horizon that no one could survive, his hunters won’t leave the planet without Riddick’s head as their trophy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDxDEjDMreA

All six previous Star Wars movies have filmed in the U.K., including Elstree, Shepperton, Leavesden, Ealing and Pinewood Studios.

“We’ve devoted serious time and attention to revisiting the origins of Star Wars as inspiration for our process on the new movie, and I’m thrilled that returning to the U.K. for production and utilizing the incredible talent there can be a part of that,” said Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm, in a statement. “Speaking from my own longstanding connection to the U.K. with films like Raiders of the Lost Ark, Empire of the Sun and recently War Horse, it’s very exciting to be heading back.”

Representatives from Lucasfilm had a London meeting with George Osborne, chancellor of the exchequer, in establishing a pact to produce Star Wars in the U.K.

“I am delighted that Star Wars is coming back to Britain. Today’s announcement that the next Star Wars film will be shot and produced in the U.K. is great news for fans and our creative industries,” Osborne said in a statement.

Star Wars: Episode VII, scheduled for a 2015 release, will be directed by J.J. Abrams. Michael Arndt will write the screenplay. Further Star Wars installments are expected to hit theaters in 2016 and 2017.

Astonishing X-Men #62 by Phil Noto

You’re as cold as ice, willing to sacrifice your…looks? With all these younger versions of themselves bouncing around, it was only a matter of time before we started getting covers like this one. However this being Noto, it’s going to make for a damn good compare/contrast. Spiky hair (err, ‘icicles’) are all the rage for Bobby now, not the chrome-dome look he was sporting back then. Even the ice on older Bobby looks a little dirtier, and it makes sense if you consider how much time he’s been spending with Kitty Pride recently (the implication being she’s a dirty little girl). I love the textures Noto plays with, for it helps make this cover another homerun in his arsenal (mixed metaphors, I know).

Avenging Spider-Man #20 by Paolo Rivera

I’m so happy Marvel and DC are doing crossovers again! Amazo has been on the shelf for far too long and—what’s that? It’s the Chameleon?! He got me again! I swear, he’s the Gene Parmesan of the Marvel Universe! I really like how Rivera used each part of the cell to highlight Chameleon’s camouflage abilities. It makes it fun to test your knowledge of which character is which, even though almost all of them are pretty straightforward. I gotta admit though, I’m still not a fan of Nick Fury’s son/Ultimate Nick Fury, because it’s just uncreative and pandering the Marvel movie crowd. Other than that, fantastic cover!

Creepy #12 by Richard Corben with Dave Stewart

I used to always associate Mignola’s art with Dark Horse, but nowadays I find myself associating anything with Corben to Dark Horse even more. With a classic title like Creepy, it’s only appropriate to include a cover from a classic horror artist like Corben. With a style that makes a decaying zombie walking through an old graveyard look perfect, Corben is a modern day master when it comes to goblins, ghouls, and the undead. Corben goes with Creepy like a rotting corpse goes with a necrophiliac.

The Fearless Defenders #4 by Mark Brooks

Ah yes, the perfect cut-out cover for the 13-40 male demographic! All the fanboy cheesecake aside, Valkyrie’s outfits don’t stray much from ‘work’ for I don’t see a ‘casual’ outfit from the two provided. All work and no play makes Valkyrie a dull…I’ve got nothing, for she’s the sexiest Norseman since Alexander Skarsgård. The cutouts and bendy flaps send a punch right to the nostalgias, for I fondly remember the Aladdin version of this cover way back when. I always found it weird that Aladdin had a diaper-looking pair of underwear when completely ‘naked.’

Avengers Arena #9 by Dave Johnson

This is my favorite cover of the week, hands down. Immediately the cracking lava-esque background that engulfs Apex draws the eye, followed by Apex’s marionette work of Juston’s pet Sentinel. To contrast all the hot colors, Apex herself is as cool as a cucumber, looking to be fully in control of the situation. Johnson never fails to deliver, as this cover is another scratch on his ‘AWESOME COVERS’ bedpost.

Cameron Hatheway is the host of Cammy’s Comic Corner and Arts & Entertainment Editor of the Sonoma State STAR. You can let him marinade you with seasonings on Twitter @CamComicCorner.

We had 4 other podcasts/blogs represented this month:
Comics Alternative
Monarch Comics Briefing
Dangerous Bill Masters
Welcome to Heavenside

and 2 listeners:
Ian Gowan
Drew

Items mentioned:
p.42 (John Mayo) Catalyst Comix #1 DCBS 50%
p.51 (Derek Royal) Mind Mgmt #13
p.59 (Ian Gowan) Loster Johnson: A Scent of Lotus #1
p.67 (Trevor Chapman) Star Wars: Dark Times V6 TPB
p.71 (Bill Boehmer) Gamma
p.71 (Derek Royal) Gamma
p.107 (Drew) Batman: Year Zero The Director’s Cut #1 DCBS 50%
p.128 (John Mayo) Batman 66 #1 DCBS 50%
p.143 (Damian Smith) Collider #1 DCBS 50%
p.143 (Derek Royal) Collider #1 DCBS 50%
p.144 (John Mayo) Tom Strong and the Planet of Peril #1 DCBS 50%
p.163 (Derek Royal) Rocketeer/Spirit: Pulp Friction #1 DCBS 50%
p.184 (Bill Boehmer) High Ways TPB
p.192 (Drew) Satellite Sam #1
p.196 (Drew) Ghosted #1
p.196 (Derek Royal) Ghosted #1
p.198 (Bill Boehmer) Sheltered #1
p.201 (Damian Smith) Dawn: The Swordmaster’s Daughter and Other Stories
p.202 (John Mayo) Elephantmen #50 DCBS 50%
p.207 (Trevor Chapman) The Activity V3 TPB
p.M31 (Drew) Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #1
p.M54 (John Mayo) Deadpool #13 DCBS 50%
p.M85 (Trevor Chapman) Iron Man V2 HC
p.M92 (Trevor Chapman) Deadpool V2 TPB
p.238 (Derek Royal) Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales V3: Donner Dinner Party GN
p.241 (Bill Boehmer) Cul De Sac: Mighty Alice Goes Round and Round TPB
p.248 (Damian Smith) Pioson Elves v1 TPB
p.250 (John Mayo) Cyborg 009 GN
p.255 (Trevor Chapman) Jim Henson’s The Storyteller OGN
p.263 (John Mayo) All New Fathom #1 DCBS 50%
p.274 (Ian Gowan) Fearless Dawn in Outer Space #1
p.280 (Drew) Accelerators #2
p.283 (Trevor Chapman) Planet of the Apes Spectacular #1
p.284 (Derek Royal) Day Men #1 DCBS 50%
p.302 (John Mayo) Owl #1 DCBS 50%
p.320 (Derek Royal) Child of Tomorrow/VIP: The Mad World of Vigil Partch
p.321 (Derek Royal) Daniel Clowes Reader
p.330 (Bill Boehmer) Watson and Holmes #1 DCBS 45%
p.331 (Derek Royal) Stumptown V2
p.332 (Ian Gowan) Strangers #1
p.332 (Derek Royal) Strangers #1
p.346 (Derek Royal) Monster on the Hill GN
p.356 (John Mayo) X-O Manowar #15 DCBS 50%
p.365 (John Mayo) Tiger and Bunny Comic Anthology V1 DCBS 50%

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Like the company’s first release Anomaly, Shifter will have an augmented reality app that will display interactive 3D animation when pointed at key pages from the physical book. The app will take things one step further for Shifter, though. Shifter will also have another app, which is a face mapping app where you point your camera phone or iPad at yourself and it map animals onto your face that will move as you move, record your vocalizations, and you can automatically email them to social media.

The company is continuing to add features to its Anomaly app. “For Anomaly, in two weeks we’re updating ten more augmented reality points,” Haberlin said. “One of those points will be an interactive game. We now have the cover on the fancy box enabled. And we have the first interactive with vocalizations in the book. We have a scene in the book where the main character is sort of doing a pissing match with a big, giant character and they’re yelling at each other. You can now yell at one of the characters in the augmented reality and the character will yell back. Parents are going to hate me forever for that, but….”

Haberlin also said that word on Anomaly is spreading, and sales are still robust. “We’re selling out and it’s the first day of this show,” he told us at C2E2. “Every show we’ve been going to lately we’ve been bringing more and more copies. Right now it’s Friday at C2E2, 5 or 6 o’clock, and we’re pretty much sold out already. I think there’s growing knowledge about it.”

The Harryhausen family regret to announce the death of Ray Harryhausen, Visual Effects pioneer and stop-motion model animator. He was a multi-award winner which includes a special Oscar and BAFTA. Ray’s influence on today’s film makers was enormous, with luminaries; Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Peter Jackson, George Lucas, John Landis and the UK’s own Nick Park have cited Harryhausen as being the man whose work inspired their own creations.

Harryhausen’s fascination with animated models began when he first saw Willis O’Brien’s creations in KING KONG with his boyhood friend, the author Ray Bradbury in 1933, and he made his first foray into filmmaking in 1935 with home-movies that featured his youthful attempts at model animation. Over the period of the next 46 years, he made some of the genres best known movies – MIGHTY JOE YOUNG (1949), IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA (1955), 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH (1957), MYSTERIUOUS ISLAND (1961), ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. (1966), THER VALLEY OF GWANGI (1969), three films based on the adventures of SINBAD and CLASH OF THE TITANS (1981). He is perhaps best remembered for his extraordinary animation of seven skeletons in JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (1963) which took him three months to film.

Harryhausen’s genius was in being able to bring his models alive. Whether they were prehistoric dinosaurs or mythological creatures, in Ray’s hands they were no longer puppets but became instead characters in their own right, just as important as the actors they played against and in most cases even more so.

Today The Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation, a charitable Trust set up by Ray on the 10th April 1986, is devoted to the protection of Ray’s name and body of work as well as archiving, preserving and restoring Ray’s extensive Collection.

Tributes have been heaped upon Harryhausen for his work by his peers in recent years.

“Ray has been a great inspiration to us all in special visual industry. The art of his earlier films, which most of us grew up on, inspired us so much.” “Without Ray Harryhausen, there would likely have been no STAR WARS”
George Lucas.

“THE LORD OF THE RINGS is my ‘Ray Harryhausen movie’. Without his life-long love of his wondrous images and storytelling it would never have been made – not by me at least”
Peter Jackson

“In my mind he will always be the king of stop-motion animation”
Nick Park

“His legacy of course is in good hands
Because it’s carried in the DNA of so many film fans.”
Randy Cook

“You know I’m always saying to the guys that I work with now on computer graphics “do it like Ray Harryhausen”
Phil Tippett

“What we do now digitally with computers, Ray did digitally long before but without computers. Only with his digits.”
Terry Gilliam.

“His patience, his endurance have inspired so many of us.”
Peter Jackson

“Ray, your inspiration goes with us forever.”
Steven Spielberg

“I think all of us who are practioners in the arts of science fiction and fantasy movies now all feel that we’re standing on the shoulders of a giant.
If not for Ray’s contribution to the collective dreamscape, we wouldn’t be who we are.”
James Cameron