Most rock stars have tried to cross over into other forms of business as their careers grow whether it be acting or whatever else but there is some rock stars who realize their image might be perfect for comic books. Because of this, the Phoneix News Times have come up with a list of the 5 best comic books that rock stars brought out:
Kiss (Marvel, 1977)
There have been many Kiss comics printed since this first one, but what makes this comic the Kiss comic to have is the way it was printed: using the blood of the band members. A registered nurse drew blood from Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss (which was witnessed by a notary public), and then the blood was dumped into vats of red ink at Marvel’s Borden Ink plant. The comic features Kiss in four different stories, with guest appearances by such characters at The Avengers, Dr. Doom, and Spider-Man. Inked by Allen Milgrom (Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man; X-Factor) and written by the late Steve Gerber (co-creator of Howard the Duck), the first Kiss comic is the most collectible in rockdom. The first pressings of the 66-page comic included a concert centerfold, and to buy one today, fans will need to fork over anywhere from $100 to $150.
Gwar (Slave Pit Funnies, 1995 – 1999)
Metal band Gwar is a comic book, so it’s only fitting they printed their own comics for a while. Like the first Kiss comics, the Gwar comics feature a handful of stories in each issue, each one dealing with the band destroying something, someone, or someplace. Fans of the band will recognize the full-color artwork as that of Hunter Jackson, who (until 2002) did all the artwork for the band, in addition to making prosthetic limbs and props for the band’s stage show.
The Amory Wars (Evil Ink Comics, 2004 – present
This comic is written by Claudio Sanchez, frontman of progressive metal band Coheed and Cambria. The comic’s storyline is also the focus of the band’s concept albums. The basic premise is that there’s a struggle for power in a place called Heaven’s Fence, a collection of 78 interconnected planets. The hero is Claudio Kilgannon, and he must ultimately fight Wilhelm Ryan, ruler of Heaven’s Fence and murderer of Kilgannon’s family. While I’m a huge fan of Coheed and Cambria’s music, I couldn’t get into The Amory Wars. The artwork (by Chris Miller) is decent, and the slick, full-color pages are nice, but the traditional sci-fi plot (struggle for power on a fictional planet) didn’t pull me in. I never warmed up to the story’s hero, either, and there aren’t any intriguing, strong supporting characters to help maintain my interest, either.
Death Dealer (Verotik, 1995)
The coolest thing about the first Death Dealer series is that legendary artist Frank Frazetta (whose 1973 fantasy painting inspired the whole Death Dealer franchise) provided the covers. The worst? The stories were written by Glenn Danzig, who’s a much better punk and metal singer than comic book writer. That Frazetta didn’t give his full blessing on a Death Dealer storyline until 2007 (which Danzig had nothing to do with) is evidence of this. Danzig doesn’t deviate much from the storylines in James Silke’s Death Dealer novels — we have a lone, bad ass barbarian who wears a helmet possessed by the god of death, trying to defend his forest from Mongol-like invaders, but who uses dry, deadpan dialogue and has no points of empathy for the average Joe. The art for Danzig’s Death Dealer comics is killer (thanks to the work of folks like Simon Bisley and Liam Sharp), but the weak storyline reads like fan fiction — which it pretty much is.
The Umbrella Academy (Dark Horse Comics, 2007 – present)
My Chemical Romance singer Gerard Way created this comic, which has a layered storyline filled with interesting characters. The Umbrella Academy is a group of disbanded superheroes who were each trained from birth by an alien disguised as a human named Sir Reginald Hargreeves. Their goal was to save the world from a mysterious threat. After Hargreeves’ death, the group reunites and resumes trying to save the world. It’s not an outside-the-box plot for a comic, but Way keeps it interesting with characters like the knife-throwing Kraken and the levitating medium Séance. The artwork, by Gabriel Bá (Casanova) and James Jean (winner of seven Eisner Awards), is also stunning in its dark, surreal simplicity.
To be honest I only really knew about the KISS comics, but I thought this list was kind fun. What other comic books do you think should be up here?
Former KISS guitarist Vinnie Vincent was arrested in Tennessee yesterday on charges of assault and now more details are emerging – which includes 4 dead dogs.
Vinnie, whose real name is Vincent Cusano, was arrested by police for assault against his wife after he allegedly smacked her in the face and then she was held on $10,000 bail. TMZ reports that as well as smacking her in the face he also dragged her through a pile of broken glass and when police arrived to the scene they found 4 dead dogs lying around.
His wife, Diane, claims that the couple had an argument over another woman that Vinnie was talking to and when the argument escalated a plate got smashed and then he hit her on the face and dragged her through the glass from the plate.
Diane finally managed to escape the house and drive herself to the police station where she made the complaint against him, when police arrived to the house they found four dead dogs in sealed containers. She told them that the dogs were “killed by one of their aggressive dogs.”
Wow that is all some crazy shit going there, TMZ says that animal services have been contacted to investigate the dead dogs.
You know when you’re watching a movie and there’s a passionate kiss in the film and you imagine the actors being an incredible kisser? Well maybe you don’t do that but I do sometimes, but anyway they aren’t all good kissers according to Hollywood Life. They’ve come up with 8 actors who are the worst kissers in Hollywood.
Robert Pattinson
Believe it or not, R-Patz isn’t the perfect kisser he appears to be. Closeness is good, but there is such a thing as TOO close. “My nose is running all over the place … and Reese had this wig on, and literally, I was wiping my nose on her wig,” he told MTV about his love scene with Reese Witherspoon in Water For Elephants.
Angelina Jolie
Angie’s Wanted co-star James McAvoy described kissing her as “awkward, sweaty and not very nice.”
Emma Watson
Hogwarts’ most fashion-forward student could apparently use a few lessons in the art of the smooch. Her Harry Potter co-star Rupert Grint compared her aggressive technique to that of an “animal.”
Orlando Bloom
When asked which of her Pirates of the Caribbean co-stars was a better kisser, Keira Knightley answered, “Johnny Depp certainly wasn’t bad.” Poor Orlando!
Leonardo DiCaprio
Leo may have been irresistible to Kate Winslet in Titanic, but his magic mouth apparently doesn’t work as well on land. “I think Leonardo is a nice guy, but I wouldn’t want him as a lover,” said Virginie Leydoyen, Leo’s co-star in The Beach. “I can’t really remember his kiss.”
Victoria Beckham
The late Corey Haim once admitted that ex-girlfriend Victoria “does this little grr gnaw thing,” which he likened to “a girl gnawing on your lip.”
Matt Lanter
While we have a feeling she may have been kidding, AnnaLynne McCord had less-than-kind things to say about locking lips with her 90210 co-star: ”[Matt] actually is a really bad kisser, so it kind of sucks.”
Jason Segel
He may have landed Kristen Bell AND Mila Kunis in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, but Jason’s How I Met Your Mother co-star Alyson Hannigan wasn’t as big a fan of his — at least not at first. “[Alyson] told me she would not do any romantic scenes with me as long as I was smoking,” Jason said in an interview. (Smoker’s breath? Gross!)
In a recent interview with Access HollywoodKristen Stewart talked about her on screen kiss with Dakota Fanning in their movie “The Runaways”.
Kristen, 19, stated:
“She was 15, and I wasn’t allowed to grope her, I’m actually not kidding, there are major restrictions that I don’t remember [from] when I was younger. I don’t want to give anything way. It’s a really passionate, hardcore scene.”
Wait, what? You weren’t even allowed to grope her? Dear Kristen, if you want to grope the body of a 15 year old, feel free to touch yourself. Then videotape it, I always need shit to make fun of.
source: Kristen Stewart On Kissing Dakota Fanning: ‘I Wasn’t Allowed To Grope Her!’ [Access Hollywood]
NBC’s “Heroes” continues to slip in the ratings (last night’s was 2.3/6 in 18-49, 5.4 million viewers overall), but it looks like fans will have something to look forward to on next Monday’s episode.
The above photo was just sent out by the studio with the following official description:
HEROES
HYSTERICAL BLINDNESS
10-12-2009 8:00PM
SELF-DISCOVERY ROCKS THEIR WORLD AS OUR HEROES ENCOUNTER NEW ABILITIES, TRY TO RECALL PAST LIVES AND STUMBLE UPON AN UNEXPECTED KISS — MADELINE ZIMA, DAWN OLIVIERI, DEANNE BRAY, TESSA THOMPSON, ERNIE HUDSON, RAY PARK AND ACADEMY AWARD-WINNER LOUISE FLETCHER GUEST STAR — Samuel (Robert Knepper) prepares for new additions to his family, while Lydia (guest star Dawn Olivieri) warns him of the consequences. Claire (Hayden Panettiere) discovers that her roommate Gretchen (guest star Madeline Zima) may have a hidden agenda. Meanwhile, Peter (Milo Ventimiglia) finds an unexpected way to connect with Emma (guest star Deanne Bray), who would prefer to stay distant. Elsewhere, a different side of Sylar (Zachary Quinto) emerges as he desperately tries to remember the person he used to be. Masi Oka and Cristine Rose also star. Rachel Melvin and Jack Wallace also guest star.
Desperate for ratings much? I think everyone is OVER Heroes, and most certainly over Hayden Panettiere.
source: Heroes: Claire & Gretchen’s First Kiss! [Superhero Hype]
Well here is the Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried lesbian kiss that everybody has been talking about.
I am going to complain because this is not the kiss I have been hoping for. Sure they are both hot and it’s a lesbian kiss but it is not worth all the panty raving that has been going on. I was expecting something along the lines of Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair in Cruel Intentions.
But I guess I will be grateful because I love lesbian kisses especially if they involve Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried .
Marge Simpson, voiced by Julie Kavner, plants a smacker on her attractive pal in the living room of her family home in Springfield while husband Homer looks on.
But all is not what it seems – it transpires that the smooch is a figment of beer-swigging hubby Homer’s imagination.
The lardy mid-lifer had been panicking about the disasters that could befall his family after his insurance expires but soon started day-dreaming about his wife locking lips with another woman.
The episode – How The Test Was Won – aired in America last night but will be shown in the UK this Sunday on Sky1.
The show has been broaching lesbianism more over the last few years and revealed in 2005 that Marge’s disapproving older sister Patty was a closet lesbian, who consequently gets engaged to a female golf player Veronica.
Veronica was later discovered to be a man who disguised himself to get on the Ladies Professional Golfing Association tour and was promptly dumped by Patty when she found out.
On a cold day last December, an actor playing a part against Angelina Jolie leaned over and kissed her. The only trouble was, it wasn’t in the script.
“I try to be selective with my improvising,†said Jason Butler Harner, who is her co-star in Clint Eastwood’s upcoming “Changeling.†So he checked with the director first. “Clint approved,†he said. “He could see it happening and he said, ‘Do it and we’ll see what happens.’â€
That Clint sure is a sneaky one.
Jolie was supposed to be pushing Harner against a wall. It was the movie’s climatic scene, and her character, Christine Collins, was supposed to be confronting his character, Gordon Stewart Northcott, and asking him, “Did you kill my son?†(The film is based on a true story; in the 1920s, Collins’ son was abducted, and another boy was “returned†to her instead. When she insisted that the second boy was not her son, she was deemed hysterical, when actually it was a case of LAPD corruption).
“I had talked to her at the beginning of the day,†Harner said. “We had a big scene, and we’re supposed to be coming out of our corners, so it was a ‘How do we do this?’â€
Nowhere in that talk did he mention he was planning to lay one on her, however. But Eastwood approved because he likes to shoot and use things that actors don’t expect — a scene they might well believe is just a rehearsal, for instance. So for the big climax being shot the last week of a 35-day shoot, he wanted Jolie to be caught off guard — and she was.
“She slapped me and she held me and she hit me and it was great,†Harner said. “She totally went with it. She’s really smart. She’s beautiful, but she’s really smart, and she’s a great actress.â€
“That guy invited the parents of the kids he killed to come the day before he was executed,†Harner said, “so he could tell them where the bodies were, or how he did it. But when they got there, he said, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about.’ He was demented and deserved a lot of things [to be done to him]. Including a slap, at the very least.â€
She just increased in “sexual fantasy” ratings with men.
