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Elfquest Fans Make Their Own Movie

By ComicsAlliance Staff (Subscribe to ComicsAlliance Staff's posts), Posted Apr 8th 2011 10:00AM
Filed under: Video, 'Fone Finds, Sci-Fi
From ComicsAlliance: A landmark of self-publishing and cult success, Wendi and Richard Pini's Elfquest is among the many independent comic book series whose translation to film could actually be pretty cool. The highly symbolic story of variously beautiful creatures in a philosophical struggle between tolerance and hate, progress and conservatism, and all sorts of crazy sex stuff, 'Elfquest' movie rumors have existed for nearly as long as we can remember, and a specific project announced in 2008 has yet to materialize.

Unsatisfied with this state of affairs, producers/actors Stephanie Thorpe and Paula Rhodes took matters into their own hands with 'Elfquest: A Fan Imagining,' a nearly five-minute, trailer-style short film that was produced with the blessing of the Pinis. Reflecting the fact that Elfquest has attracted far more female readers than most mainstream comics, 'A Fan Imagining' was created by and stars women almost exclusively.
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Ang Lee's Unused 'Hulk' Robot Busts Out Of Its Shirt

By ComicsAlliance Staff (Subscribe to ComicsAlliance Staff's posts), Posted Jan 7th 2011 7:00PM
Filed under: Behind the Scenes, Video, Sci-Fi
Animatronic Hulk
Truly, Steve Johnson is the richest fuel for the Internet's geek blog engine. The special effects master known for his creature work on such films as 'The Abyss,' 'Ghostbusters,' 'Spider-Man 2,' and 'Where the Wild Things Are' was the source of some of ComicsAlliance's most popular blog posts after he released never-before-seen photos of costume concepts for 'Superman Lives,' the aborted Tim Burton film that was to star Nicolas Cage as a bizarre glow-in-the-dark Man of Steel.

Johnson recently launched a YouTube channel with which to release tens of thousands of hours of behind-the-scenes footage from his 30-year career in special effects, and among that material is an astonishingly advanced animatronic version of the Hulk. Developed for Ang Lee's 2003 film 'The Hulk,' the unused robot appears to eclipse the middling quality of the CGI version we ultimately saw.

Check out video of this technological marvel after the jump.
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