Monday is for Hunting

Howdydo. Another Monday, another update. Gabe continues the gripping saga of Simon Trask:

The Hunter page 2

Of other interest, I've got a story in an online anthology that some fine folks at the Michael Avon Oeming Board over at Jinxworld put together. The antho's called SECRET PROJECT and there's a bunch of interesting stories by a number of burgeoning creators in there, updating with a new comic every other week. Here's a cool cover thing that Mike Oeming did for it:

Check out the stories so far at the link below:

SECRET PROJECT

My story went up today and it will be familiar to regular Untrue Tales readers, but give it a look for insight into how I've cunningly designed Untrue Tales to function in both web-friendly landscape and the more traditional portrait format. Oh, I'm so terribly clever. Yeah.

So I just watched the newish Ultimate Cut of Watchmen.

I really love this movie. Still think it's just about perfect, and I love the addition of the Black Freighter stuff and the extra scene with Hollis Mason especially. I remember some of the music choices as being somewhat controversial, but I really dig all the song placement too. The one weak spot continues to be with the Veidt character. I just feel that Matthew Goode plays him as so coolly evil from the get-go that he just seems so obviously the villain. This is as much the fault of the director as the actor I suppose. I think the character would have been more effective if he had been played with more eager innocence - almost kindly in his machinations. I think a young Jeff Bridges would have been perfect in the part. No contemporary actor immediately springs to mind, except maybe Jude Law, but he seems maybe a little too on the nose. I don't dislike Goode though, so it's not a major problem for me. And all the other actors are incredibly spot on. I would single out Jackie Earl Haley for being particularly great, but I think he just pops out to the fore because Rorschack is so compelling as a character. Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Ackerman, Patrick Wilson and Carla Gugino are all equally as good in their respective parts. And I say Dr. Manhattan looks cool and creepy as hell. I totally buy the CGI work there. It's really almost miraculous how good the movie turned out. I don't think even Terry Gilliam could have done as well as Zack Snyder. Okay. I'm done gushing now. When I finally get a bluray projector this'll be the first movie I buy and then I'll probably come back and write all the same shit again. Except in high def.

Anyhoo, here's another little teaser for my latest Zuda hopeful:

Over and out.