All posts by Thom Williams

Affleck & Damon to Produce “Sleeper”

The Eisner Award-winning team of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips got together between 2003 and 2005 to write and illustrate a comic called Sleeper. Sleeper is about a double agent named Holden Carver who has the ability to store pain and transfer that pain through skin on skin contact, which also makes him impervious to pain [...]

November 22, 2013 Thom Williams Comic Books 0

Scarlet Witch Casting News for Avengers 2

While Scarlet Witch’s speedster brother, Quicksilver, will most likely be played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson of Kick-Ass fame, there hasn’t been much news on who will be playing Scarlet Witch. Early reports saw that Saoirse Ronan (Hanna) was up for the role, although now sources are saying that she has turned the role down. Now it [...]

August 21, 2013 Thom Williams Comic Books, Movies 0

Romita Jr. on his future after Marvel Comics

Not too long ago, artist John Romita, Jr. didn’t renew his contract with Marvel Comics after roughly 40 years of working with the publisher. It won’t be for another year until his work with Marvel will come to an end, but the co-creator of Kick-Ass sat down with ComicBook.com and seems very enthusiastic about life [...]

August 16, 2013 Thom Williams Comic Books 0

Batman: Arkham Origins Multiplayer Trailer

Think you got what it takes to beat down three members of the Bane squad and three members of the Joker squad while they’re in the middle of a turf war? Sounds easy enough, right? How about if they’re controlled by actual players online? Now what if I told you they have the ability to [...]

July 31, 2013 Thom Williams Comic Books, Random Rants 0

A Few Possibilities for the Superman/Batman Movie

With the hype continuously building for the sequel to this year’s Man of Steel, rumors are flying all around the internet on what we can expect in the Superman/ Batman crossover movie. Whether it’s taken from the pages of World’s Finest or Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns is still anyone’s guess, so I figured [...]

July 29, 2013 Thom Williams Comic Books, Movies 0

X-Men Film Spinoff: X-Force

Director Jeff Wadlow (Kick-Ass 2), and comic book writer Mark Millar, have been teasing a possible X-Force film while out promoting Kick-Ass 2. It’s reported that Wadlow will write the script, and possibly direct, while Lauren Schuler Donner will return to produce, making this her 8th producer credit in an X-Film. Both Wadlow and Millar [...]

July 29, 2013 Thom Williams Comic Books, Movies 0

Lego Marvel Super Heroes Gameplay Footage

During San Diego Comic Con, Gamespot sat down with Arthur Parsons, the game director at TT Games, to show us all a pretty lengthy demo of what we can look forward to with their upcoming release of Lego Marvel Super Heroes. In the demo, we get to see a large number of characters in their [...]

July 25, 2013 Thom Williams Comic Books, Random Rants 0

DC Comics Introduce… The Burgher Thing?

A quick Google search of the word “burgher” will show you that the Merriam-Webster definition is “an inhabitant of a borough or town/ a member of the middle class/ a prosperous, solid citizen.” So what does DC Comics have in mind for their new character- The Burgher Thing? Well, supposedly the character is a previous [...]

July 25, 2013 Thom Williams Comic Books 0

With San Diego Comic Con officially at an end, one movie has everyone here at Slack Jaw Punks super excited, and that movie is Guardians of the Galaxy. Director James Gunn led the panel for the film alongside actors Chris Pratt (Star-Lord/ Peter Quill), Zoe Saldana (Gamora), David Bautista (Drax the Destroyer), Karen Gillan (Nebula),

July 24, 2013 Thom Williams Comic Books, Movies

Man of Steel Sequel To Feature Batman

With San Diego Comic-Con in full effect, now is the time for big, exciting announcements to be made. So far, it seems like one of the biggest announcements to be catching the attention of DC Comic fans took place at the Warner Bros. panel, when Harry Lennix (General Swanwick from Man of Steel) took stage [...]

July 21, 2013 Thom Williams Comic Books, Movies 0

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