DR. OBSIDIAN RETURNS…

Pulp hero, Dr. Obsidian was a 1930's pulp and serial hero who faded into obscurity after a series of scandalous events. Or was he?

Learn more about Dr. Obsidian here.

GRIND PULP PODCAST LAUNCHES!

Samaritan by Bobby Nash

The Grind Pulp Podcast is a new review podcast that has released their first episode. In addition to discussing New Pulp, the podcast also reviews New Pulp stories and movies, including Samaritan by Pulp Ark Award Winning Author, Bobby Nash.

About Grind Pulp Podcast:

Grind Pulp Podcast was created for the discussion of film and speculative fiction selections related to Grind Pulp. What is Grind Pulp? We're so glad you asked. Imagine you've woken up beneath and overpass surrounded by bottles of rotgut with a mirror shard in your hand. Your clothes are soaked in neon green blood, and your pants are down around your ankles. You pull them up and begin to wonder what wild ride brought you here. That wild ride is Grind Pulp.

The Grind Pulp Podcast is hosted by Andrew Crevier, Jeronimo Brown, and James Malone. Listen to episode 1 here.

LEE GOLDBERG FAST TRACKS HIS LATEST NOVELLA!

Coming February 2013

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New Pulp Author Lee Goldberg has announced a new novella called FAST TRACK debuting in February.

The author offered a peek at the great cover from Jeroen ten Berge. The Fast Track novella is based on the movie Goldberg wrote and produced a few years back.

Learn more about Fast Track here.

PULP ON FILM

 Could Tarzan and Zorro be headed back to the big screen and small screen, respectively? It looks that way.

According to a Variety article, The USA Network is currently deciding on a present-day reimagining of the legend of Zorro called simply "Z" executive producers Naren Shankar (CSI, Grimm) and Louis Leterrier (include "The Incredible Hulk, Clash of the Titans), and writers Whit Brayton and Zack Rice.

Set in modern-day Los Angeles, "Z" will chronicle the rise of Diego Moreno from an orphaned teen and raising his sister with little supervision, to an infamous hero fighting to save the city.

For all the details, please visit www.variety.com/article/VR1118063664

The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly announced that Harry Potter director, David Yates is working toward a new Tarzan movie with True Blood actor Alexander Skarsgard stepping into the ape man’s loincloth. See below for details.

What do you think, pulpsters? Are you excited for these pulp heroes to return to your TV and movie screens?

For a look at Tarzan's Centennial Celebration, click here.

IRON SKY COMES TO IDW

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IDW Publishing, along with comic production house Hazmat Studios and film production company Blind Spot Pictures, have announced an Iron Sky movie tie-in graphic novel in March.

Drawn and colored by the team of Gerry Kissell and Amin Amat, the artists behind IDW's best selling graphic novel Code Word: Geronimo, and Xbox's comic game tie-in Alan Wake. The book will also feature original pin-up art by Miguel Angel Abad and Darren Douglas, and chronicles the battle against the return of history's most notoriously evil villains, the Nazis, who unbeknownst to us, escaped to the moon following their defeat in World War II.

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"The graphic novel is a prequel to the hit sci-fi action film Iron Sky produced by Blind Spot Pictures, and focuses on how the Nazis ended up on the moon, and how Udo Kier's character, Wolfgang Kortzfleisch, became Der Uberfuhrer," Kissell said. "Part steampunk and part comedy, the graphic novel was written masterfully by Alan Wake scribe, Mikko Rautalahti. who has a wicked sense of humor."

The book will be 104 pages, with 67 pages of comic art with an additional 33 pages of production art, behind the scenes bonus material, and other exclusive material written by the film's director, Timo Vuorensola.

Learn more about Iron Sky: the movie at www.ironsky.net.
Learn more about IDW and their books at www.idwpublishing.com.

DISNEY RELEASES JOHN CARTER OF MARS TRAILER

Based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs Barsoom novels, the full-length trailer for Disney's John Carter of Mars movie has been released.

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John Carter of Mars is inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet Mars, and becomes embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions and discovers that the survival of the planet and its people rests in his hands.

John Carter is a sweeping action-adventure set on the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars). John Carter is based on a classic novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan, whose highly imaginative adventures served as inspiration for many filmmakers, both past and present. The film tells the story of war-weary, former military captain John Carter (Taylor Kitsch), who is inexplicably transported to Mars where he becomes reluctantly embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions amongst the inhabitants of the planet, including Tars Tarkas (Willem Dafoe) and the captivating Princess Dejah Thoris (Lynn Collins). In a world on the brink of collapse, Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes that the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.

For more information on Disney's John Carter of Mars movie, visit http://disney.go.com/johncarter or follow on Twitter at @JohnCarter.

Iron Man 3 director says that Doc Savage movie ain’t dead yet

According to Blastr.com, That epic new Doc Savage movie we’ve been waiting on for eons still has some life left in it. Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, The Last Boy Scout) is attached to direct the strapping hero and believes the adaptation will get his full attention once his other little comic movie, Iron Man 3, is done.

Black came aboard the project back in 2009 to co-write the screenplay, then was assigned to direct for Columbia in February of last year. It is rumored to be a period piece set in the ’30s, the era in which pulp magazines were enjoying vast popularity. Seems like a juicy gig for the pulp-loving Black’s exotic tastes.

In a chat with Comic Book Resources at last week’s Long Beach Comic Con, Black outlined the feasibility of the Man of Bronze bursting onto the big screen soon:

“If we do Doc Savage, the challenge is make it adult,” said Black. “I think that there are so few practitioners of action movies these days who are doing worthwhile stuff that it behooves me to try to weigh in and try to do the Raiders Of The Lost Ark-type stuff, to try to recapture the magic. When I stood in line for a summer movie when I was coming up at eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old, I stood in line for two and a half, three hours and you got the goods! They delivered! And if they didn’t, you went outside and said, ‘Arg, Indiana Jones 2′ wasn’t that good, I stood in line for three hours!’ Now, you don’t know what you’re getting!

“There’s just, I think, a decrease in the quality of these types of comic book action movies, and so it’s almost irresistible, sometimes, to try and shore that up a little, or weigh in at least with my opinion about what’s wrong and how it should be. It’s not the next thing I want to do. I want to do something more serious, a smaller movie at some point. I’m sure there’s a Winter’s Bone in my future. But for now, I’ve immersed myself in comics. I do want to do Doc Savage. The script is still evolving and I’m kind of busy, but I want to get it right and I want to do it.”

Doc Savage was first published in U.S. pulp magazines during the glory years of the ’30s and ’40s and was created by publisher Henry W. Ralston and editor John L. Nanovic. Lester Dent served as the beefy action hero’s main writer. Savage was a surgeon, scientist, adventurer, inventor, explorer, musician and martial arts master. Raised from birth to fight crime and evil, he lived in an Empire State Building-like skyscraper and kept a secret frozen lair in the Arctic. The popular bare-chested badass would go on to appear in radio serials, film and comic books, and was reprinted for modern audiences in a series of paperbacks.

In 1975, a faithful but campy version hit Hollywood, titled Doc Savage: The Man Of Bronze starring ex-Tarzan actor Ron Ely. Let’s hope Black’s rendition returns to the retro rawness and adventurous spirit infused in the original comics. Old-school heroes never die, they just keep swingin’.