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What is it about this amazon that brings out the art in people?

All this week and part of next is another Wonder Woman makeover. Instead of giving her new couture, Mr Ellis bid his artful followers to re-imagine the character from the ground up.

We hated reducing MrSmite‘s ode to Heinlein with this Starship Trooper Wonder Woman. You owe it to yourselves to view the piece in its embiggened glory.

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We swear to you, faithful reader, RED is that new flick that won’t release soon enough. The vintage 80s rehash testosterone fest that is the EXPENDABLES just fell right of our radar.
Official site:
http://red-themovie.com/

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Official Synopsis

In the Madhouse Iron Man series Tony Stark travels to Japan to unveil a new ARC reactor project and peace initiative. He announces his retirement and the mass production of a new Iron Man Dio armor, but is soon forced back into action as problems arise with the Dio armor.

What We Learned:
There’ll soon be one other show on G4 worth our precious time. That first show being Attack of the Show.

Why We’re Gonna Watch:
This anime has been talked about for many months. Now there’s a nice trailer in which to focus our intent.Madhouse is a Japanese animation studio that has produced some of the most amazing anime we’ve layed eyes upon. A list of favorites include: The Animatrix (Program and World Record), Paprika, Paranoia Agent, Metropolis, Trigun, Millennium Actress, Perfect Blue and, well, our list could go on forever. Another reason to watch is Warren Ellis wrote it.

And, oh yeah, animated powered armor battles. Can’t forget those.

When’s it coming?
2011 on G4TV.

Official site:
We haven’t quite zeroed in on this one yet. This Wikipedia site should do for now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Anime
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We’ve really got to get our hands on this collection.

via warren ellis

Even though the movie RED is months away, the build-up for it begins now.
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Reach back. Way back into the annals of time. Look into that place already forgotten and swept under the rug of reality. Gaze into the midweek of May 2010. Warren Ellis tasked his Whitechapel minions to draw a cover. This would be a comics cover relevant to today and today alone.

REMAKE/REMODEL.

So here’s the deal:

You are an artist/designer.

You have to put together the cover for the first issue of something called WONDER WOMAN #1.

You have been told that Wonder Woman is an Amazon, that she wears steel bracelets and an eagle icon. You know nothing else about the character.

And that’s it.

It’s up to you what kind of company you’re at. Your interpretation of the vague guideline. What kind of comics you make. What era you’re in. Who you are, even. Go nuts with it.

–W

We chose five favorites from that week’s set. The other four lay below the cut.

Caution: all of these designs are radical interpretations meant to stir creativity. Also, at least one of them may be too sexy for work.

By Paul Sizer

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Sadly, we have not read Mr Ellis’ RED. This will have to change very soon.

Official Synopsis
Red is the story of Frank Moses , a former black-ops CIA agent, who is now living a quiet life. That is, until the day a hi-tech assassin shows up intent on killing him. With his identity compromised and the life of the woman he cares for, Sarah , endangered, Frank reassembles his old team (Freeman, Malkovich and Mirren) in a last ditch effort to survive.

What We Learned:
As we grow older, seeing well-aged professionals kick the snot out of wet-behind-the-ears whippersnappers becomes more poignant.

Why We’re Gonna Watch:
It’s right there in the post title. “Helen Mirren with a machine gun!” John Malkovich as a drugged out weapons expert, Morgan Freeman being Morgan Freeman, and Mary-Louise Parker being her sexy self are just gravy on that sandwich.

That’s right. A gravy sandwich!

When’s it coming?
October 15, 2010

Official site:
http://www.red-themovie.com/

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Last week our Comics column in TweetDeck exploded with video clip links to a documentary on comics creator Warren Ellis.

We can only guess that either sheer horror of anticipation or realization of dark secrets yet to be uncovered about the man prevented us from immediately posting a link to it.

A video link we shared below the jump.
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Apparently, TWO-STEP, a sciencefictional romance with guns and swearing in three issues that I wrote for Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti to draw, is being collected into a trade paperback by DC. It was originally published… god, 2003?

Like the man said. He wrote it in 2003. Based on the cover illustration alone we can tell Conner and Palmiotti “drew the shit out of it.” Plus “there’s a bloke in there who fucks cars.”

Ellis says this madness will be available in collected form in November.

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