Posted in Comics, SFW on 10/15/2009 11:27 pm by fanboi
Emplate is back and he’s hungry. He lived off his sisters (Penance) for a long time and a mutant with abilities like Bling (whose bone marrow produces diamonds) offers him a potentially unlimited sustenance. Good thing the X-Men aren’t likely to let her go without a fight.
The X-Men Legacy #228 images above incorporates a few previously released unlettered pages that were not included in the most recent preview.
5′11" Australian actor Ryan Kwanten was born November 28th, 1976 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is of Flemish (Belgian) descent. Ryan has two younger brothers who are also performers, one is in a band and the other at the Conservatorium of Music.
Ryan was discovered when his brother auditioned to get into an acting agency. He’d been waiting in the car and walked in as his brother and the agent walked out. The agent asked Ryan if he was there to audition too. He said no, but auditioned after she asked and ended up the one chosen.
When he was 21, Kwanten portrayed 16 year old Josh Morgan on all 26 episodes of the teen, preteen and children’s television series Spellbinder 2: Land of the Dragon Lord. He also appeared as Ben Lloy on 2 episodes of A Country Practice (one of Australia’s longest-running television dramas).
In 1997, he joined the cast of the Australian soap opera Home and Away, playing lifeguard Vinnie Patterson. Kwanten starred on the show for several years, becoming a sex symbol. He eventually chose to leave the series in 2002, shortly after his character married and became a father.
Ryan Kwanten has since been cast as sexy Jason Stackhouse, Sookie’s loveable meathead lothario brother from HBO’s too hot for primetime vamp drama True Blood (based on Charlaine Harris‘ Southern Vampire Mysteries). Kwanten’s undeniable sex appeal has been put to great use in that series as he appears nude and sweaty or least shirtless in just about every episode.
He has been nominated for a 2009 Scream Award for his role as Jason.
To prepare for a shirtless scene, Kwanten employs a get-ripped-fast trick that can help any man looking forward to a beach weekend. He cuts down on refined carbs, opting for protein and vegetables. He also avoids alcohol, and drinks water or protein or vegetable shakes instead. “It’s boring, but it’s not a crash diet,” he says. “I’m still eating the same amount of food, and I only have to keep it up for a few days.”
In adition to his onging role on True Blood as Jason Stackhouse, Ryan Kwanten can also been seen in the movies (Dead Silence – from the writers and director of Saw, the coming of age football drama America Brown, and Liquid Bridge – a surfing action adventure). I don’t know if he gets a naked as he does in TrueBlood in the movies though. Someone let me know?
DV8 was a 90’s WildStorm title about a black-ops team of fairly nasty gen active youths. DV8 are not heroes or even nice people. Nor are they friends (in fact they dislike one another). They are a deviant group of amoral, self-centered and in some cases psychotic super powered teens in over their heads in the complicated world of international espionage a la Wildstorm.
DV8 inexplicably arrive in the middle of an Stone Age world after having been “on ice” for some time. They have to sort out where they are and how they get there while simultaneously dealing with the problems and issues they have with each other. Soon they realize that this is not earth, but some kind of alternate world, full of warring tribes. And their dramatic arrival of eight brightly colored superhumans literally falling from the heavens into a primitive society has made them Gods in the eyes of the primitive populace.
If you are that self-centered superhuman teenager being received by a rapt group of people who suddenly start worshiping you as a GOD, how tempting would it be to just play along with it, have some fun, enjoy it for as long as you can? DV8 is a million miles from anything approaching an authority figure, brimming with superpowers and are leading armies against each other.
It should be interesting to see the effect this group of borderline villains could have while being worshiped as gods by an undeveloped society. Series author Brian Wood has a serious interest in DV8. He’s pitched DV8 to WildStorm easily a half-dozen times over the last decade, and even this version now wasn’t an easy sell. I used to read it back in the day, so I’m happy to see the dysfunctional characters return for an 8-issue self-contained, stand-alone story (art by Rebekah Isaacs).
Former small screen Jimmy Olson Justin Whalen can’t seem to get much of a big screen break. Except for Terry Hatcher, the cast of Lois and Clark hasn’t gone on to much.
Would-be superhero, Ed Gruberman, who possesses no super powers must join a team of misfit heroes-in-training known as The Super Capers. Having only faith, Gruberman must travel through time to uncover an evil plot involving some gold bullion, a fiery femme fatale, and a criminal mastermind with a dark secret about Ed’s past.
Doesn’t look PARTICULARLY promising, but I’m fascinated at Hollywood’s love affair with comic book/superhero properties. Its just too bad they don’t pick a better story to start with.
I’ve been sifting through my old posts as part of a big project I’ll be announcing soon and discovered a few gems among the refuse I wrote up, but didn’t post… this one and the next few are from the vault.
