Kick-Ass – Designed for the big screen from day one?

Dave Lizewski isn’t the class jock, he isn’t the class geek either.  He’s just your average inbetweener.  He has good taste in movies and music, the class babe thinks he’s a dawk and he wishes his Dad could get over his mother’s death when he was fourteen.  His biggest escape in life is through comic books.  Then as exam pressure mounts he gets to thinking about what he wants to do with his life…

Is ‘30 Days of Night’ a smooth transition to celluloid?

Successful movie adaptations of novels are rare.  Directorial attempts to compete with a reader’s imagination more often than not fail for obvious reasons.  But what about adaptations of comics?

Before any movie goes into production it goes through the storyboarding process, and what better way to describe a comic than a series of unfolding events detailed in a storyboard.  So if a director followed each comic ‘panel’ exactly, would an adaptation to the big screen equal the original format?

The Nightly News – Issue 1

As a broadcast journalist with a conscience ‘The Nightly News’ is refreshing.  Many of my colleagues sensationalise tragic events, not pausing for a second to think about the effect it could have on those involved.

Only last week I was reporting on a story about an old couple found dead in their home.  Two weeks passed before they were discovered, one of the bodies was in such a bad state of decomposition it’s head had come off.

The reader that afternoon sounded like she was getting off on the fact!