The comic “Y: The Last Man” certainly deserves an apocablog writeup all its own, and some day I’ll get around to it. The story in “Y” starts out with all male mammals on earth dying, except for its titular hero, Yorick Brown, and his pet monkey, Ampersand. Mostly the story concentrates on dealing with the social and logistical circumstances of the situation, but the question of “what happened” certainly runs under it.

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Comics are getting a little more love these days than they did during the past couple of decades as high profile comics adaptations are more or less successful (Spiderman, X-Men, Superman, with more on the way) and TV shows and movies continue in comics (Buffy Season 8, as one example).

With “28 Weeks Later” opening in a week, there’s a roughly 23 week gap left between it and “28 Days Later”. This gap is addressed in the comic book “28 Days Later: The Aftermath”, available as a trade paperback written by Steve Niles (also of “The Complete 30 Days of Night”).
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Dark Horizons offers some corrections from Fox about recent reports on Ain’t It Cool News which I’ve ranted about (er, covered) recently.

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The thing about the first Spiderman film was that Spiderman looked like Spiderman. More amazingly, he moved like Spiderman. He web-slinged (web-slung?). While it didn’t follow the original Spiderman stories to the letter, it captured the heart and soul of them and still kept an impressive number of details faithful.

The first X-Men film managed to largely do this as well… I didn’t think it was quite as successful, but at the time it felt like the most faithful comics adaptation I’d yet seen, especially considering how it had to deal with the excessively complicated long-term story of the X-Men. Plus, it managed to make fun of superhero suits.
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Ain’t It Cool News reports that Galactus - Devourer of Worlds - will be voiced by Laurence Fishburne in the upcoming Fantastic Four film. Fishburne seems like a great choice to voice the big G… his voice is deep, strong and distinctive. If he told me he hungered, I’d want to do something about it.

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Though only vaguely apocalyptic, some of these things related to ‘Apocalypto’ are simply too good to pass up. This will be the last time I blog about ‘Apocalypto’ for the near future, unless something really bizarre happens (which gives it even odds, I think).

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Richard Kelly’s film “Donnie Darko” blew me away the first time I saw it. I still haven’t seen the director’s cut; it’s something I really want to see sometime soon. “Donnie Darko” had the misfortune to feature an aircraft accident and be released in the US soon after September 11th, 2001. Very few movie theaters would even touch it.

Since Donnie Darko, he also wrote “Domino” (directed by Tony Scott), an over-the-top insane bounty hunter film which was also poorly received but blew me away.

Kelly’s latest film is “Southland Tales”, billed as an “apocalyptic story set in Los Angeles”, starring “The Rock”, Sarah Michelle Gellar, who’s still trying to find her post-Buffy footing, and Seann William Scott (I’m sorry, but what the hell is up with that extra ‘n’, anyway)?

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While we’re all still a-twitter about Ron Moore’s SciFi Channel reincarnation of Battlestar Galactica (whose characters who now lived through at least two apocalypses), there’s still a community of folks who are jonesing for the old show. For them, the comic book mini-series “Battlestar Galactica: Cylon Apocalypse” will be published in February 2007 (which is coming much sooner than it seems like it has any right to). The comic’s writer, Javier Grillo-Marxauch says he approached the project as if he were writing an episode of the old, Six-less series 30 years ago, avoiding covering the same territory that the current TV series is in.

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At long last: the lost collaboration between Marvel Comics and Jack Chick - Galactus is coming!

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While, not strictly speaking, apocalyptic in nature, you might consider this to be apocalyptically bad. Or silly. Or WTF.

One swamp monster wasn’t enough. Both DC and Marvel Comics had to have their own swamp monsters. And while Marvel’s Man-Thing often seemed a rip-off of DC’s Swamp Thing, Man-Thing actually debuted a month before Swamp Thing did.

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