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Monday Runaround – Ngrahs With Attitude

Published Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:14:09 -0500

BalloonWatch: For a man who's meant to be the master of spells, his contemporaries don't seem to be able to spell his first name.

Though at least their grunting expressions are more politically sensitive than Thulsa Doom's.

ConcreteWatch: Paul Chadwick, creator of one of my favourite comics, Concrete has created a new home for the rocky environmentalist.

On PaulChadwick.Net, Chadwick talks about his collaboration with Harlan Ellison for DC Comics, a graphic novel with Mike Richardson (no prizes for who will publish that), three 8 page Concrete shorts finished and unpublished, a Concrete novel, a new Concrete mini-series and a new kids series.

Busy man.

HexWatch: As Jonah Hex is routinely critically panned and Toy Story 3 praised to the skies, with those respective performances reflected in the box office figures, one brave and possibly rather stupid critic decides to zig where others zag. Armond White in the New York Press writes;

So, although Jonah Hex doesn't effervesce like Neveldine & Taylor's own avant-garde innovations, Crank and Crank: High Voltage, Hayward yet makes it pell-mell; it's still got N&T's anarchic spirit. That alone makes Jonah Hex the best movie to open this week—easily overshadowing Toy Story 3. It's a great coincidence that Toy Story 3 opens as Hayward graduates to N&T's adult fantasy. He uses the tale of a Confederate soldier-turned-bounty-hunter, Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin), who defies North and South allegiance, to address political and moral responsibility that Toy Story 3 trivializes.

ToyWatch: Talking of which, the opening scene of Toy Story played for real… (via /Film)

GuidoWatch: My cartoon for Guido Fawkes this week, following the "all politicians are scum" mood of the blog, has caused all sorts of ruckus. Which, you know, should be the point.

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