Written by Sam Humphries | Art by Jen Bartel | Published by Image Comics | Format: Paperback, 168pp
From writer Sam Humphries and artist Jen Bartel (Black Panther) comes a new Image Comics neo-noir series. I was immediately struck by the gorgeous cover of the trade paperback which was also the cover of the very first issue, and so I dove in head-first.
We follow a young woman named Nina Rodriguez who, regardless of what everyone else in her life believes, knows what she saw ten years ago. She saw monsters and magic, she knows she did, but nobody else can remember. Why? Also, when he sister, whom she lives with, is kidnapped by a beast, she is forced into meeting those visions of her past once more, fighting to gain control of her life again and attempting to save her sister in the process.
The illustrative work from Bartel is what immediately...
From writer Sam Humphries and artist Jen Bartel (Black Panther) comes a new Image Comics neo-noir series. I was immediately struck by the gorgeous cover of the trade paperback which was also the cover of the very first issue, and so I dove in head-first.
We follow a young woman named Nina Rodriguez who, regardless of what everyone else in her life believes, knows what she saw ten years ago. She saw monsters and magic, she knows she did, but nobody else can remember. Why? Also, when he sister, whom she lives with, is kidnapped by a beast, she is forced into meeting those visions of her past once more, fighting to gain control of her life again and attempting to save her sister in the process.
The illustrative work from Bartel is what immediately...
- 2/10/2020
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
Image Comics' "Blackbird" #1, available October 2018, is written by Sam Humphries and illustrated by Jean Bartel, with covers by Bartel and Fiona Staples:
"...in this neo-noir fantasy, 'Nina Rodriguez' is positive that a secret magic world ruled by ruthless cabals is hiding just beneath the veneer of Los Angeles. The problem: everyone thinks she's crazy. The bigger problem: she's not crazy -- she's right..."
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"...in this neo-noir fantasy, 'Nina Rodriguez' is positive that a secret magic world ruled by ruthless cabals is hiding just beneath the veneer of Los Angeles. The problem: everyone thinks she's crazy. The bigger problem: she's not crazy -- she's right..."
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- 7/25/2018
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Short film programmers from Berlin and Tribeca called for lighter fare at a masterclass in Abu Dhabi.
Filmmakers from the UAE put questions about shorts to festival programmers at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival this week and wanted to know if their submissions needed a strong “message”.
“We don’t want a message, we’re over that,” laughed Maike Hohne from the Berlinale. “Seriously though, you don’t need to have a ‘message’ in your film.”
Tribeca’s Ben Thompson added: “There’s a lot less comedy in submissions than drama and festival programmers love comedy. They don’t tend to win a lot of awards but do get into a lot of festivals because the world is a serious place.”
The panel, titled The Long and Short of It – I’ve Made a Short Film, Now What?, also included Alice Kharoubi from the Cannes Film Festival and Nina Rodriguez from Guanajuato International Film Festival.
Hohne added that...
Filmmakers from the UAE put questions about shorts to festival programmers at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival this week and wanted to know if their submissions needed a strong “message”.
“We don’t want a message, we’re over that,” laughed Maike Hohne from the Berlinale. “Seriously though, you don’t need to have a ‘message’ in your film.”
Tribeca’s Ben Thompson added: “There’s a lot less comedy in submissions than drama and festival programmers love comedy. They don’t tend to win a lot of awards but do get into a lot of festivals because the world is a serious place.”
The panel, titled The Long and Short of It – I’ve Made a Short Film, Now What?, also included Alice Kharoubi from the Cannes Film Festival and Nina Rodriguez from Guanajuato International Film Festival.
Hohne added that...
- 10/30/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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