Begorrah! Where’s me shilelagh?
Hm, how does one celebrate St. Paddy’s Day in comics book terms?
Apparently Banshee (Sean Cassidy) no longer has a green costume so that kinda sucks.
The CBR forum discusses Irish superheroes.
A video of Irish writer Garth Ennis (and Darick Robertson…with Laura Hudson!)
The Dublin City Comic-Con’s Myspace Page. No word on whether there will be one in ‘08.
Hm…is that it? Why doesn’t someone make a comic book version of the legend of Cúchulainn? Think of the visuals for his battle rage alone!
The first warp-spasm seized Cúchulainn, and made him into a monstrous thing, hideous and shapeless, unheard of. His shanks and his joints, every knuckle and angle and organ from head to foot, shook like a tree in the flood or a reed in the stream. His body made a furious twist inside his skin, so that his feet and shins switched to the rear and his heels and calves switched to the front… On his head the temple-sinews stretched to the nape of his neck, each mighty, immense, measureless knob as big as the head of a month-old child… he sucked one eye so deep into his head that a wild crane couldn’t probe it onto his cheek out of the depths of his skull; the other eye fell out along his cheek. His mouth weirdly distorted: his cheek peeled back from his jaws until the gullet appeared, his lungs and his liver flapped in his mouth and throat, his lower jaw struck the upper a lion-killing blow, and fiery flakes large as a ram’s fleece reached his mouth from his throat… The hair of his head twisted like the tange of a red thornbush stuck in a gap; if a royal apple tree with all its kingly fruit were shaken above him, scarce an apple would reach the ground but each would be spiked on a bristle of his hair as it stood up on his scalp with rage.
UPDATE: From the comments, the comic book versions of Cuchulainn (pronounced, sort of, koo-CULL-in): Illustrator Connor Willumsen:
And…the standard…
03/17/08 at 8:40 am
“Why doesn’t someone make a comic book version of the legend of Cúchulainn?”
Sláine from 2000ad is partly based on this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sl%C3%A1ine_%28comics%29
03/17/08 at 9:59 am
I thought this sounded familiar.
I wish someone would make a Slaine movie.
Heck,…I really wish someone would make a Nemisis movie.
03/17/08 at 9:59 am
I thought this sounded familiar.
I wish someone would make a Slaine movie.
Heck,…I really wish someone would make a Nemesis movie.
03/17/08 at 10:01 am
Wow!
That things faster than I expected.
(One of those spellings is correct. I’m pretty sure.)
03/17/08 at 10:28 am
Cuchulain was the original inspiration for the Hulk. TRUFAX.
(…I don’t know if that’s actually true, but I want it to be.)
There is a comic called An Táin which features Cuchulain. Here: previews. Unfortunately, it’s in Irish, but the publishers have provided an English translation of the text and the art is very pretty.
03/17/08 at 10:33 am
“Why doesn’t someone make a comic book version of the legend of Cúchulainn?”
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=52343&zoom=4
03/17/08 at 10:35 am
Cúchulainn is never far from my heart …
03/17/08 at 12:20 pm
“Why doesn’t someone make a comic book version of the legend of Cúchulainn?”
Soon-to-be-rock star Connor Willumsen is on it…
http://connorwillumsen.blogspot.com/2008/01/cchulainn.html
http://www.drawingboard.org/viewtopic.php?t=62133
03/17/08 at 6:04 pm
I wish someone would make a Hulk movie.
(…never mind,….)
03/17/08 at 7:40 pm
I’m pretty sure that Banshee’s costume is a casket these days. Just sayin’
03/17/08 at 7:52 pm
that was a great interview with Garth and Darick! Thanks.
03/17/08 at 11:12 pm
That Bachalo image is one of my favorite drawings of Banshee.
However, as Crackerbob pointed out, Banshee is dead last I checked (which I thought was almost as big a mistake as killing Colossus), so that kinda sucks even more.