Yearly Archives: 2013

The first atomic cannon was fired in Nevada on May 25, 1953

This week’s challenge is to choose one of the Atomic based public domain comic book characters from the link below…

http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Atomic_Characters

and remake them for 2013!

You only get one entry so give it your best shot!

 All entries must be in JPG or PNG form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like the HeroMachine forums, ImageShack, PhotoBucket, or whatever);

• Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name;
• The image must be new and designed specifically for the Pop Quiz;
• Please name your files as [your name]-[character name].[file extension] before you upload it. So DiCicatriz, for instance, would save his “Bayou Belle” character image as DiCicatriz-BayouBelle.png.
• Please make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this). See this post on how to get the direct link for most sites.

Contest closes Sunday, May 26th at 6:00pm eastern.

The Pop Quiz has been resurrected. Check the Blog tomorrow morning for your first 36 hour challenge.

Colleen Atwood

Colleen Atwood has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design ten times and won Academy Awards for the movies Chicago in 2002, Memoirs of a Geisha in 2006, and Alice in Wonderland in 2011. Atwood has collaborated several times with directors Tim Burton, Rob Marshall and Jonathan Demme.

Her movie career started after a chance encounter with someone whose mother was designing the sets for the film Ragtime, and she got the job of a PA (production assistant) in the film. She worked as an assistant to a costume designer and eventually earned her first film credit for A Little Sex.

An important turning point in her career came when, through the production designer with whom she had worked in Joe Versus the Volcano, she met director Tim Burton. Atwood and Burton worked together on over seven films in the next two decades, starting with Edward Scissorhands and including Sleepy Hollow, Ed Wood, Big Fish, Planet of the Apes, and Sweeney Todd.

Selected Design Credits

2012 Arrow (TV series)

2012 Snow White and the Huntsman

2012 Dark Shadows

2010 Alice in Wonderland

2009 Nine

2007 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

2004 Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

2003 Big Fish

2002 Chicago

2001 The Tick (TV series) – Pilot (2001)

2001 Planet of the Apes

1999 Sleepy Hollow

1996 Mars Attacks!

1990 Edward Scissorhands

I know this is old news but, considering that the new series of Doctor Who has just finished, I still want to moan about it. A couple of months ago Steven Moffat (head writer on Doctor Who) went on record as saying he didn't like using the Daleks because it's so obvious that they'll lose. Now please forgive me this rant for a minute, but who goes and watches a dramatical tv series, reads a comic or watches a film and thinks 'oh, I wonder if the good guy will win?'??????? For gods sake, by that logic he should just get rid of all villains and cancel the show and in fact every show, film, comic, novel etc, because its obvious that the hero does't lose!!!!!! The only time the bad guy wins is when you see Simon Cowell laughing his way to the bank.

However, this bring me to an interesting point and this weeks big question: Are arch-nemeses (Daleks, Magneto, The Joker, the aforementioned high trousered one) overused?