Title: AND PENGUINS, TOO!
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Comic ID #2884
Title: AND PENGUINS, TOO!
Print Status: Available
Title: AND PENGUINS, TOO!
Print Status: Available
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Wong hemisphere for 30 Days of Night – that took place in Alaska. But we get your meaning…
The title of the story makes a lot more sense when you read the graphic novel by writer Greg Rucka and artist Steve Lieber. A black and white comic with many scenes taking place in the “whiteout” of the blizzard going on during the story certainly is more fitting visually than most of the images that I’ve seen from the trailers.
Trevor, I’ve seen panels from the comic book and it looks very much like Frank Miller’s Sin City work – except in reverse.
There are a couple of movies about Sir Ernest Shackleton the Explorer. Not as glamorous as Kate Beckensale but a touch more historically relevant. He is pretty awsome.
Um, Whiteout (the graphic novel) has been in print long before 2008. It’s been one of my favourite pieces ‘o comic book business for at least 10 years.
Sadly, the movie is getting HORRIBLE reviews, so all my enthusiasm to see it has been killed.
My bad. I meant 1998.
Fixed!
Tom, don’t forget that the hours of daylight leading up to the sun not rising again for however long would be down well under an hour of daylight per-day anyway. Its not like the earths axis suddenly shifts from normal to no sun at all. So 3 days before total darkness is still pretty much dark all the time anyway. And shes a US Marshal, are they really just going to leave her there just because its dark?
The art style was chosen on purpose, to emphasise the conditions of the setting. Rucka needed someone “who can draw cold,” and do so in black and white. Steve Lieber, the artist, actually has the first issue available for reading on his web-site. http://www.stevelieber.com/whiteout/
It’s interesting that you mention Frank Miller, because he did the cover art for the series.
The title refers to the weather condition when snowfall or wind causes reduced visibility because of all the snow. Effectively obscuring your vision in a sea of white; a whiteout. In the comic book, conditions are twilight and the sun isn’t meant to set for several weeks, and doesn’t play much of a role in the story, so calling it “Blackout” would make little sense. If the movie changed that, I have no idea why other than what you put forward: a race-against-time plot device.
I hope that helps explain a few things, at least about the setting in the comic book. I haven’t been paying much attention to the movie since the trailer came out advertising it more like some sort of sci-fi story instead of a murder mystery. I know trailers are not a good source for telling you what a movie is about, but they can be a good indication of the amount of respect the original work was treated with.
That’s a really great sale Tom. I’ve been meaning to add to my collection and pick up Year 3 and Spoiler II for ages and this gave me the perfect opportunity to finally do it. Order placed! Thanks!
Meant to mention this yesterday.
What about AVP? That was sort of a time-limity story set in Antarctica. Not a whodunnit.
And not really good, either. Uh…what what my point?
Haven’t seen this. It looks intersting though. A murder mystery in Antartica? Lot different from the run-of-the-mill mystery movies about mafia vs FBI agents. XD
Well…months and months later I have finally made it thru the entire TH series…and its fantastic!!! Love every one of them. The art has really come a long way and it was fun to see all the different styles attempted. Gonna keep reading though I almost wish I didnt have to wait every other day for the new ones now (grin).
Hey, Pete.
Thank you for the wonderful compliments. I really appreciate them!
I need to start giving out special medals for people who make it through the archives! 😀
Tom,
Regarding your PVP guest comic – it was fine, except one grating thing:
in the future, please write ‘definitely’, in stead of ‘definately’.
thanks.
Uh oh…
Yeah, “definitely” is one of my kryptonite words. I always misspell it.
I bet you won’t be the first to tell me about it, either.
Gotta send a revised version to Scott.
Tom: I think the styles between Whiteout and Sin City are pretty different, but you’re absolutely right that Whiteout has a lot more white where as Sin City uses a lot more black.