Captain Action, From Moonstone Options

[Glen Davis]

Finally, some news on the character's revival. Did anyone else send in pitches?

http://www.comicsbulletin.com/features/120076027446022.htm

[Ron Fortier]

As much as all this is exciting and fun, has anyone else but me noticed that in this "hat-less" age we live in, there doesn't seem to be an
artist out there who can draw a decent hat. These young dudes try to do a fedora and the results are sad. Now we have someone trying to
do an old fashion flying cap and the first cover image in this series looks...well...sad.
I remember way back when the running gag was young artist couldn't draw feet. Now it seems to be hats giving them fits.
Jay's South American artist, when doing the western series, did excellent cowboy hats.

[ChuckMoore]

I hadn't really thought about it, but that's quite true. I always liked The Shadow's chapeau. Now that was a hat of all hats in my book. In that case, drawn wrong, it would be an utterly different character.

[Ron Fortier]

Recently my good pal, artist Dario Carrasco of Canada started drawing what is intended to be a new pulp charcter from the 30s and the sketches he did of the hero were awesome..until you got to the top of his head..where he is wearing the goofiest looking hat in the world.
It's suppose to be a fedora, but Dario simply can't get it right. Amazing. Any yes, the key to getting the Shadow down was always in being able to capture that marvelous slouch hat he wore.

[Glen Davis]

I never thought about how difficult it must be to draw a hat. I've seen professional artists unable to get the ubiquitous ball cap right, too.

[ChuckMoore]

While on the topic of the Shadow, check out Erik Burnham's sketch found here. Erik is our newest forum family member as we welcomed his web comic "The Down Side" to our forum over the weekend. I'm finding he's quite the talented sketch artist as well!

[Erik Burnham]

Chuck Dixon once said he thinks artists could use a book on hats. Some could use a book on one hat -- the policeman's cap.

But hey, they are a hard row to hoe, especially fedoras and such at different angles.

When you get it right, though, it feels great.

[ChuckMoore]

Erik, I notice in your post you mention...

"It’s because of that damn look — it’s so iconic. So cool. I would love to get my hands on the character… to write or to draw or to both. It’d be a great bit of fun. Blazing 45s. Coal black eyes. Blood red scarf…"

Just to let you know you are in great company here. Some of the real legends of pulp (starting with Ron Fortier and many of his friends) bump around this forum on a very regular basis. There's a lot of iconic goodness hidden around the posts here. I think you'll be pleased!

[Ron Fortier]

Leave it to Dixon to come up with a solid idea like that. And of course Erick, your own chapeau is a real winner. Thumbs up on cool.

[Erik Burnham]

Erik, I notice in your post you mention...

"It’s because of that damn look — it’s so iconic. So cool. I would love to get my hands on the character… to write or to draw or to both. It’d be a great bit of fun. Blazing 45s. Coal black eyes. Blood red scarf…"

Just to let you know you are in great company here. Some of the real legends of pulp (starting with Ron Fortier and many of his friends) bump around this forum on a very regular basis. There's a lot of iconic goodness hidden around the posts here. I think you'll be pleased!

Absolutely.

It's always nice to discuss things with folks who aren't going to be responding with:

"Wizard never mentioned that!"

(;

[Floydman]

I think the first and third picture make him look like he's wearing a pizza on his head...but a nice job on the last picture on the page...now THERE'S a hat!!

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[ChuckMoore]

Very true!

Pizza hat...


Cool hat...

[Ron Fortier]

I agree here, totally. And again, this is all a generational thing. Artists today grew up pretty much in a world where men go hatless.
When you think back to the 40s, everybody wore hats, from gangsters with fedoras, cowboys and their ten gallon wonders and the military
heroes like Blackhawk. I even went so far to make a certain green hat the central focus of one of my old Green Hornet comic tales.
Was tons of fun to do. You want to feel old? Ask any teenager you know what a haberdasher is?

[Glen Davis]

I saw the advertisement for issue #0 in the latest issue of previews.

Here's hoping it's good!

[ChuckMoore]

Official Info From Moonstone



Writer: Fabian Nicieza | Art: Ruben Procopio | Cover: Uwe Jarling
32pgs, color, card stock cover, $3.99

Forget Mr Bond…this is the real deal super-spy Man-of Action! Welcome to Moonstone’s first “Comic Novella”, as we alternate prose and color illustration every other page! An exciting new highly satisfying, & longer lasting, reading experience!

To become an elite covert operative, he abandoned his name. He became ADCO-1, top spy for the top secret A.C.T.I.O.N. Directorate, His mission: to assume the identities of those co-opted by the alien Red Crawl and infiltrate their operations. On his first mission, what he found was an enemy secret large enough to require he create of a brand new identity. He gave up his name to save his country, but to save the world, he became... CAPTAIN ACTION! A ground breaking new direction in comics, as well as the year one untold story of Captain Action, written by (Thunderbolts) Fabian Nicieza and art by sculptor extraordinaire Ruben Procopio!

RETAILER INCENTIVE #1: receive one FREE copy of Capt Action for every 4 purchased.
RETAILER INCENTIVE #2: for every 2 copies purchased of Capt Action, you can purchase 1 copy of the Ruben Procopio cover variant edition @$2.00 net!

[Glen Davis]

There's more information on the series at The Pulse today.

[Glen Davis]

At first I was unsure whether this was an April Fool's gag, but the legendary Murphy Anderson, who designed the original box art for the action figure is contributing to the project.

http://www.icv2.com/articles/home/12319.html

[ChuckMoore]

Sweet!



That will go a long way toward preserving the vintage feel needed.

[Jessie Garrett]

I think I still have the original 1-3 Captain Actions somewhere. Now I gotta look for them

[Glen Davis]

Some more info on the series.

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=152833