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Geek Vibes Nation
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Vibes Nation
GVN Exclusive: Valeria Favoccia's Character Concepts For 'By A Thread Vol. 2' (ComiXology Originals)
When it was announced that fan-favorite writer Scott Snyder was launching another title for ComiXology Originals and Image Comics, many were excited. However, the intrigue deepened when it was revealed that Scott would collaborate with his son Jack on the project. Thus, on October 10th, 2023, ComiXology Original's 'By a Thread' was born, featuring art by the talented Valeria Favoccia. Synopsis Ten years ago, a deadly and mysterious infection spread across the Earth's terrain, forcing humankind to live in communities precipitously built above the ground. Growing up on Needle Three, Jo barely remembers a time before darkness enveloped the world. But when our hero's community comes under attack by the despotic Charon and his forces, Jo and his friends must decide whether or not to venture across the wasteland in search of a safe haven as the world hangs by a thread. Arriving on June 3rd, Scott and Jack are thrilled to bring fans the second volume of their exciting tale. Ahead of the June 3rd premiere, we're excited to showcase artist Valeria Favoccia's concept art and character descriptions for Scott and Jack's 'By a Thread.' ART and CHARACTER DESCRIPTION by Valeria Favoccia: Charon: When I first heard about him, I suggested his name after the ferryman who carries the souls into the afterlife and I'm very happy that we decided to keep it! I wanted him to look almost inhuman, something that gives you creeps just staring at him, with a solemn presence and a shaman inspiration. I've read some people saying that he looks like Vessel, the Sleep Token singer, but I didn't know the band when I created him, even if it's true that they have similar vibes. Ren She was the hardest one to bring to life. We worked a lot on her design to reach the final result. Her biggest inspo were the swan and Lady Gaga. I love how Gaga has this ethereal elegance but with a creepiness underneath and I wanted to recreate something like that. Also, the Swan is elegant as well, but lethal and fierce. Her weapons remind me of wings and even her cape, when she fights! Admiral For her, I've used the same inspo/design that I used for crystal soldiers and Rowan & Juniper's Father's uniform. She's determined, she doesn't care about the outside world and she's very dedicated to her role, so I didn't want to spill too many emotions on her, just a powerful, cold, military woman. Juniper She's Rowan's twin sister and when I thought about her design I wanted to make it a mirror version of Rowan. So, she has her hair short too, but it goes down her face, she has a cape too, but her one is straight and a sign of power. I wanted a practical outfit that looked like a uniform. Also, I love Devil May Cry very much, so I wanted to give them some sort of Dante/Vergil vibes. Charlie She's the one who cares about the other the most. Her design was inspired by a friend of mine. I want her to almost look like an idol, with short light pink hair and puff lips. She's very clever, she's an engineer, so I wanted to give her a comfy, urban but cool design that almost looks like a repair shop worker. Jo Jo is my favourite one (don't tell the others!!) I was free to explore whatever design I wanted to create, and I think he came out on the first try. He has all the things that I enjoy drawing, messy hair with bold shapes, black scars that almost look like tattoos, a loose tank top and overall, an urban but all-black outfit. I just enjoy drawing him, I wanted something that feels as natural as possible for me, but also to reflect his aura. He's grumpy but brave, he almost lost every hope but has huge beliefs in his friends. Looking at him, you know that he won't let go that easily without fighting until the end. Canon He's the purest soul of the group. I didn't want him to look like a stereotypical Japanese nerd boy, so I gave him a nice twist with his hair -which I think makes him look cool- and I play a lot with his shirt, giving him a fun design to wear. Also, his red glasses are his signature as they give him a more childish look but also joyful. Muscles This was supposed to be a guy in the beginning, if I'm not wrong, a buffed and strong one, but I just wanted a huge girl even too much huge to be real but that nobody asks questions about her stance, she's just like that. Of course, her outfit is inspired by wrestlers and boxers, and I wanted to play with her hair to give her a unique shape. If you look at her you can almost say that's some sort of a buffed Taranee from W.i.t.c.h. series. 😊 Hunter I wanted them to look sneaky and stealthy, something unpredictable. The most important thing in Hunter are their eyes and I play a lot just with their gestures and expressions, I think that even if they're almost completely covered with clothes, they are one of the most expressive character of the group. I designed a hat which I think gave them some more dynamism (and also, I would love to wear one if I could!) and decided their colors that I think goes well with Muscles since I think about them as one thing. ComiXology Originals 'By a Thread, Vol 2, Issue 1 by Scott Snyder, Jack Snyder, Valeria Favoccia, and Whitney Cogar comes to digital June 3rd. Senior Writer at GeekVibesNation – I am a 60 something child of the 70's who admits to being a Star Trek/Star Wars/Comic Book junkie who once dove headfirst over a cliff (Ok, it was a small hill) to try to rescue his Fantastic Four comic from a watery grave. I am married to a lovely woman who is as crazy as I am and the proud parent of a 21-year-old young man with autism. My wife and son are my real heroes.
Geek Feed
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Feed
Walton Goggins is Back in New Teasers for Fallout Season 2
Walton Goggins has been having a stellar run the past few months with The White Lotus and The Righteous Gemstones , and now he's set to come back to the Wasteland as the Ghoul in the next season of Fallout . Thanks to Amazon Upfront, we have a bunch of new promos for the series including some mock-ads with Goggins' Cooper Howard as well as a teaser for the Ghoul and Lucy (Ella Purnell) arriving at New Vegas. Check this out: It's also been confirmed that the series is expected to premiere this December. With Fallout Season 1 premiering last year, it's kind of surprise that we're going to get the follow-up this year. With The Last of Us and Rings of Power taking several years inbetween seasons, it's great to have a high-budget sci-fi show actually consistently release a new season yearly. So far, we know that Lucy and the Ghoul have teamed up to go after Hank MacLean (Kyle MacLachlan) who has been revealed to be part of the brain trust that caused the Nuclear War that destroyed the Earth. We don't know how much of New Vegas is going to be the setting, but fans know that place is going to be filled with all kinds of kooky characters and factions—plus some messed up Vaults with all kinds of experiments inside them. As for Maximus (Aaron Moten), it's kind of hinted that he's going to be promoted within the Brotherhood of Steel, and it's possible they could be coming to New Vegas as well and this could be Max's chance to run into Lucy again. Catch the second season of Fallout when it comes to Amazon Prime Video this December. Hopefully we can expect the third season by 2026 as well.
Gizmodo
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
A Decade Later, ‘Mad Max: Fury Road' Shines as Chrome as Ever
The early 2010s had a number of blockbuster action movies that would either light the world on fire or come and go without immediate fanfare. In the former corner, you've got The Raid, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and the original John Wick. And in the latter, there's Pacific Rim and one Mad Max: Fury Road, a movie that still feels like revelation years later. Fury Road released May 15, 2015, and was the first Mad Max movie since Beyond Thunderdome back in 1985. Franchise creator George Miller tried making a fourth movie off and on throughout the decades, but the stars finally aligned at the top of the decade when Tom Hardy, soon to be the breakout of Christopher Nolan's Inception, was revealed as the new Max. Mel Gibson played the wandering wastelander in the first three films, but the actor's age and his controversies at the time led to a recast. And that was just one of several shakeups during a tumultuous years-long production. Miller's original idea of 'violent marauders fighting for human beings,' first hatched in 1998, went unchanged years later, even as everything else around the movie did. From Hardy and costar Charlize Theron's on-set clashes (partially owed to his disruptive tardiness), to location changes and a forced production pause (and plenty other roadblocks), it's a wonder this movie exists. It's equally incredible that it all led to a critically acclaimed, award-winning movie considered one of the best of its decade and in the action movie genre. To give an idea of how eye-opening this film was, Hardy publicly apologized to Miller during a press event in Cannes for his frustration during filming and not understanding the director's intent, only to get the full picture when seeing the finished product. When Fury Road came out, it was thoroughly examined for its exploration of what feminism and toxic masculinity look like in a post-apocalyptic wasteland obsessed with car culture. It's a movie with a lot on its mind, and it's as subtle about those things as a man shredding on a flamethrower guitar next to giant speakers. But if you're not into such things, or had no clue what Mad Max even really was, you likely didn't see this in theaters; at the time of its release, it was famously beat out by Pitch Perfect 2 at the opening weekend box office. The two films could be considered the Barbenheimer blueprint: they've got nothing in common beyond both being headlined by women, but the internet wasn't at the point back then to where it was willing to riff on a perceived clash between two movies seemingly on opposite ends of the masculine/feminine spectrum. Or maybe it's just Mad Max itself that's the issue. Since Fury Road, the series has been sustained via the 2015 game from Avalanche Studios—not a direct tie-in to the film, but semi-connected to it—and 2024's Furiosa, a prequel starring Anya Taylor-Joy as a young version of Theron's future Imperator. The game got a mixed reception and the prequel a fairly strong one, but neither struck a chord with audiences at the time. Furiosa was famously a bomb (one of several for Warner Bros. over the past year), and the game's underperformance resulted in its planned DLC being canceled. (In its case, releasing the same day as Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain was not a wise move, and pleas to shift the game's date were ignored by WB.) Acclaimed as the last two films have been, Mad Max is surprisingly unable to maintain a mainstream cultural presence. Time certainly plays a factor into things—unless you're Star Wars, decades between installments hasn't really done favors for any franchise—and it might also come to how easily it can be perceived as a homunculus of other properties like Borderlands and Fallout, who share some of its DNA. On paper, it feels like Mad Max in its current form is one big hit away from mainstream audiences fully Getting It right away instead of months or years after the fact. If Furiosa coming out feels like a miracle, it might be a very long shot that Miller will get to reteam with Hardy for Wasteland, a Max-starring prequel intended as the capper to this desired trilogy. Even so, that Fury Road and Furiosa get to exist at all is enough. Both films feel authored and fully realized like Miller wanted to get everything in his head on screen before he couldn't, and it's just great that what's on his mind includes lightning sandstorms and bikers paragliding with explosive-tipped lances. Time has been kind to Fury Road, and with luck, the same will be true of Furiosa when its own significant anniversaries hit. The series seems comfortable existing on its own modest ambitions, and maybe that's enough as it and Miller keep riding on.
Los Angeles Times
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Inside the buzzy closet sale for L.A. fashion ‘it' girls
Some advice: If you love something, set it free — even the Miu Miu heels. This was the notion that two friends, Quinn Shephard and Francesca Goncalves, were discussing in a sun-kissed setting (a 'pool somewhere,' Shephard recalls). They wanted to barter their old clothing, but that was a sticky prospect in Los Angeles — the scene is riddled with suspicious stares from thrift store employees and digital cold wars with teenagers on Depop. There's pomp and circumstance at every turn. 'So many people are like: I go to Wasteland or Crossroads and I get $3,' Shephard explains. 'They're not nice to me.' Shephard and Goncalves wanted to start a closet sale that felt more like a fun hangout with friends. So one day last summer, Shephard and Goncalves hit the streets of Silver Lake, asking small businesses if they'd host an event that they were calling Outfit Repeater L.A. Shephard jokes that Goncalves is the 'mayor of Silver Lake' — the kind of Gatsby-like woman who makes Los Angeles feel like a small town, chatting with strangers with an endearing openness. Finally, they arrived at Constellation Coffee, a contemporary, sleek coffee shop. To their surprise, the manager agreed to host Outfit Repeater L.A. that upcoming Sunday. 'She's used to indie filmmaking, where you have to go up and ask people for things, and there's power in that,' Goncalves says of Shephard, the director of TV shows including the Hulu drama 'Under the Bridge.' Goncalves works in Stanford Medicine's genetics department. With their event fast approaching, Shephard and Goncalves created a blitzkrieg of advertisements across social media and posted fliers on lampposts throughout the neighborhood to drum up excitement. 'We literally put up fliers until 2 am. It's so funny because Quinn doesn't do anything unless it's 100%, and I'm like that too,' says Goncalves. The first Outfit Repeater L.A. event was a success, drawing a crowd of fashion enthusiasts and women who wanted to sell their beloved wardrobes directly to buyers, bypassing the intermediary of a thrift store. Women attendees eagerly inquired about selling their own clothes at the next event, offering up locations and contacts. 'New coffee shops wanted to host us, and new girls wanted to sell,' Goncalves says. 'It snowballed into this thing where it's just getting bigger and bigger, completely by accident.' Since then, Outfit Repeater L.A. has garnered a reputation as the Eastside's hippest trading post for 'it' girls, creatives and fashion trendsetters. Sellers have included independent film darlings like Geraldine Viswanathan and Francesca Reale, as well as fashion influencers with enviable style, such as Macy Eleni. Despite its newfound fame, at its core, the closet sale is inclusive and accessible to people of all income levels. 'I wanted to keep it very accessible. I charge a seller fee that's so low, just to cover expenses. It's not just vintage resellers or influencers that can afford to sell,' says Goncalves. Goncalves attributes the success of the event to a hunger for social events that offer an alternative to the monotony of bar hangs. 'People are tired of the bar scene,' she says. Shephard explains that the appeal is simple: 'It's like going to a party with your friends for the day, plus you make money.' At a recent Outfit Repeater L.A. event at Lamill Coffee in Silver Lake, actor Kate Mansi was selling her wardrobe after discovering the event through a friend's recommendation. 'I'm always selling stuff on Instagram,' Mansi says. 'It's nice to do it face to face. Clothes have a story. It's nice to hear the story of the piece you're inheriting.' Mansi adds, 'I have a very Virgo system with my closet where I turn the hanger backwards if it's something I haven't worn, and if in a year, I still haven't worn it, it must go.' On this Sunday, one of those items was a well-loved blue polka-dot romper with puff sleeves, which Mansi found at a vintage store years earlier, and she sold it for $20. Another was an All Saints trenchcoat, priced at $40, and a gray A.L.C. blouse, for $30. A classic denim Levi's jacket found a new home for $30. Mansi parted ways with a black dress by Jonathan Simkhai, one of her favorite designers. To the woman who bought it, Mansi wisely prescribed that she wear the dress casually with flats or boots. At a time when fashion retail has shifted online due to the pandemic, an in-person thrifting event has been warmly received by the community. 'I'm focused on each sale being a unique thing that people walk away from, having gotten a cool piece and making a few new friends and maybe a lover or boyfriend,' says Goncalves. Alena Nemitz, who has been creating social media content for Outfit Repeater L.A., met her partner of five months at one of the events. 'I was selling, and they were walking through and introduced themselves to me,' she says. 'Now we're dating, which is so cute.' Eleni, who wrote a book on thrifting called 'Second Chances,' was one of Outfit Repeater's earliest sellers and champions. Growing up with a single mother in Dayton, Ohio, Eleni explains that she was bullied for thrifting during her childhood and is overjoyed to see a new generation embrace it. She believes some of the newfound eagerness for thrifting comes from an increased awareness of the devastating impact of fast fashion. 'When I was a teenager, I wasn't seeing videos on my phone of the inside of a Shein factory,' she says. 'The curtains have been lifted, and there's no way to claim ignorance as to where things are coming from anymore.' Outfit Repeater L.A. has built a community of shoppers excited about clothing, Eleni explains. 'Everyone is gassing each other up about how fabulous they look,' she says. 'I love seeing people's faces light up over other people's things that they're ready to be done with. It's less [about] people trying to flip a profit and more people just trying to swap their clothes, share their clothes with each other.' Goncalves describes the endearing experience of spotting items she sold from her closet on other women around Silver Lake. The world suddenly feels smaller and warmer. 'I think clothes are so personal, but they are fleeting in a way,' she says. You love something and you want to pass it on, but it's still your life and your ecosystem, even if it's not right for you anymore.'
Tom's Guide
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Tom's Guide
‘Fallout' season 2 gets first trailer along with release window — and it's already been renewed for season 3
The Wasteland is returning sooner than expected. At a recent industry presentation, Amazon previewed the first 'Fallout' season 2 teaser, and while it hasn't been officially released online yet, the footage is already out in the wild. Along with the leaked teaser, Amazon confirmed a December 2025 release window, which is earlier than expected considering season 2 just wrapped filming. And in even bigger news: 'Fallout' has already been renewed for season 3. So yes, we have some juicy news to fill the void until season 2 hits the small screen, and there's actually a lot to be excited about. First teaser for 'FALLOUT' Season 2Premiering December 2025 13, 2025 Following the breakout success of its debut season, 'Fallout' quickly became one of Prime Video's flagship shows. It reportedly reached over 65 million viewers in its first 16 days. According to series star Aaron Moten (who plays Maximus), 'Fallout' is expected to run through season 5 or 6, giving the story plenty of room to grow and explore the scorched Earth in even greater detail. 'Fallout' season 2 picks up after the observatory showdown, focusing on Lucy (Ella Purnell) and The Ghoul (Walton Goggins) as they pursue Hank (Kyle MacLachlan), who fled in power armor toward New Vegas. Now, the duo are hot on his trail, determined to uncover buried secrets as they face potential new threats like factions and Deathclaws. Along with the season 2 release window and season 3 renewal news, Vernon Sanders, head of television at Amazon MGM Studios, said in a statement: 'We are absolutely thrilled that our global Prime Video customers will be able to delve deeper into the wonderfully surreal and captivating world of Fallout. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. 'Jonah, Lisa, Geneva, and Graham have done an exceptional job bringing this beloved video game franchise to vivid life on Prime Video.' There isn't an official synopsis for season 2 yet, but we can speculate based on how season 1 ended. Lucy and The Ghoul are currently hunting down her father, who escaped in a suit of power armor after shocking revelations about his true past and Vault-Tec's involvement in the nuclear apocalypse. Hank appears to be heading toward New Vegas (a major location from the games). Meanwhile, Maximus, now a fully armored member of the Brotherhood of Steel, is likely to face conflicts between loyalty, power, and morality as the Brotherhood's agenda expands. Although many details of the story are still being kept secret, showrunners Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet confirmed that Robert House, also known as Mr. House, will have some kind of role in the series. In the game, Mr. House controls New Vegas, with his brain connected to a supercomputer that has allowed him to survive from the pre-war era into the post-apocalyptic world. The cast of 'Fallout' includes Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, and Walton Goggins, who took the stage at New York's Beacon Theater during the Prime Video upfront event to announce the premiere window for Season 2. The lineup also features Kyle MacLachlan, Moisés Arias, Frances Turner, and Macaulay Culkin, who is said to be playing a 'crazy genius-type character.' 'Fallout' is a collaboration between Amazon MGM Studios and Kilter Films, developed in partnership with Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks. The show is led by showrunners and co-creators Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner. Executive producers include Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy of Kilter Films, along with Todd Howard representing Bethesda Game Studios and James Altman for Bethesda Softworks. Of course, we don't know anything about season 3 considering season 2 isn't even out yet, but it's possible we'll remain in New Vegas for a while considering there is a lot to explore in this new setting. For now, we know a third season is definitely on the way, and that new episodes will drop sometime in December 2025. In the meantime, stream the first season of 'Fallout' on Prime Video for a refresher, or stream the best shows like 'Fallout' while you wait for season 2.
