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Mini Reviews: Gladiator II

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Gladiator II

Sometimes, the staff at Graphic Policy see more movies than we’re able to get reviewed. When that happens you’ll see a weekly feature compiling reviews of the movies, we just didn’t get a chance to write a full one for.

These are Graphic Policy’s Mini Reviews and Recommendations.

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Gladiator II – Although obviously not an instant classic like its predecessor, Gladiator II is a solid piece of spectacle that remixes elements of the original while adding fantasy/escapism elements. It’s like restarting a video game after loosing to the final boss and winning in the end.

Playing the arms dealer/gladiator owner Macrinus, Denzel Washington steals every scene he’s in as a man of opportunity in a decadent time. (The sequence where he plays peek a boo with a monkey/consul is priceless.) Gladiator II doesn’t have has a tight narrative arc as its predecessor, and its fight scenes don’t build Hanno’s arc like it does with Maximus.

At times, it just feels like Ridley Scott is crossing items off his action sequence bucket list, but he and Paul Mescal’s weary facial expressions capture the vibe of a world that has been exploited by wealthy, powerful warmongers far too long.

Overall Verdict 7.1

Ridley Scott and Scott Free team with Mechanical Cake for Three Graphic Novels

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Scott Free and Mechanical Cake

Scott Free and Mechanical Cake have partnered together for the launch of three original graphic novel series: Modville, Hyde, and Nick. Ridley Scott will lend his meticulous eye and unmatched world-building skills to the projects.

Mechanical Cake has engaged comic book legend Dave Elliott, co-founder of Radical Comics, as Editor-in-Chief and enlisted top-tier artists Bill Sienkiewicz, Chris Weston, Dan Panosian, Brian Rood, Hendry Prasetya, and Eko Puteh.

Modville is a Sci-Fi/Southern Gothic crime drama involving AI humans (“mods”) in future New Orleans. Hyde imagines a world where Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Mr. Hyde” did not die, and instead lives beneath the streets of London where he conducts experiments on others. Nick is a foundational Yule war story, steeped within the arcane Norse legends. 

Modville Book 1 of 8, over 100 pages, drawn by Hendry Prasetya and Eko Puteh, is complete and will be available for pre-order in March 2025, along with first-issue previews of Hyde and Nick. A sneak peek at all three projects is available at Mechanical Cake.

Vault’s Resonant is being adapted for television streaming

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Vault’s comic series Resonant will be adapted for television by CBS Studios, Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions, and First Purge director Gerrard McMurray. 

McMurray will executive produce, write, and direct the Resonant show which is targeted for the BET+ streaming platform. Vault CEO and Publisher, Damian Wassel, and Vault’s Head of Film & Television, F.J. DeSanto, will executive produce alongside Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Jordan Sheehan, and Clayton Krueger for Scott Free.  

Resonant is the Vault horror series co-created by writer David Andry and artists Alejandro Aragon and Skylar Patridge. In Resonant, A decade has passed since the first Waves hit, unleashing humanity’s darkest impulses and plunging the world into chaos. Paxton, a single father of three, must venture from the secluded haven they’ve built to restock the medicine his chronically-ill youngest son needs to survive. When the somewhat routine trip goes awry, Paxton and his children-now separated-will battle everything in their path to reunite.

Resonant

Around the Tubes

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The weekend is almost here! What geeky things will you all be doing? Sound off in the comments below.

Here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web to help you kill time until your work day ends.

CBLDF – Columbian Cartoonist Sued Over Political Pig – Well ok then.

Newsarama – Ridley Scott In Talks To Direct Greg Rucka Comic – Report – Please. Please. Please. Please.

 

Reviews

ICv2 – The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America

WonderCon 2013: Matt Kindt’s Mind MGMT Gets Weird!

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With the recent announcement that Ridley Scott is producing its story for a big-screen release through Twentieth Century Fox, Matt Kindt’s MIND MGMT has been one of the most highly buzzed-about comics of 2013.

Dark Horse Comics announces it plans to take the series through thirty-six issues, in which Matt Kindt will refuse to stop melting readers’ brains. The next arc begins in July with Mind MGMT #13. Prepare for Mind MGMT’s most surreal tales yet in this first in a series of one-shot stories! How will sleeper agent the Home Maker maintain her cover when Mind Management invades suburbia?

MMGMT #13 FC WRK

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It’s new comic book day, what’s everyone getting?

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Complex – The 25 Comic Books You Need To Read Before You Die – Agree with this list?

Cinema Blend – Gore Verbinski To Direct Graphic Novel Adaptation Pyongyang – One of my favorite graphic novels, so consider my ticket bought already.

Kotaku – This New Super Street Fighter Graphic Novel from Udon Delivers a Greasy Battle Royale – Fight!

Bleeding Cool – Ridley Scott To Produce Movie Of Matt Kindt’s Mind MGMT – Another movie I can’t wait for.

 

Around the Tubes Reviews

The New York Review of Books – Batman: Death by Design

Talking Comics – Bedlam #3

CBR – Uncanny X-Force #1

Talking Comics – X-O Manowar #9

The Beat – Young Avengers #1

Prometheus Trailer

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It’s been a pretty solid week for movie trailers.  Today saw the release of Ridley Scott‘s Prometheus.

A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.

Really this doesn’t have much to do with comics other than 1) I can’t wait for this, 2) there’s a lot of comics based on Alien and this might be a prequel or at least in that universe, 3) because I want to.