My friend Ed wrote an insanely cool original web series called Angel of Death that debuts today on Crackle.
Angel of Death stars Zoe Bell (who you've seen double all kinds of people, but probably didn't know it. She also spent much of Death Proof riding around on the hood of a car being awesome) as an assassin who "gets stabbed through the skull; she survives, but the head injury leaves her with an awkward side effect: She
suddenly develops a conscience."
Ed talked to Hero Complex (one of the best comic/sci-fi/geek blogs on all of the 'tubes) about the show:
He said the plot was inspired by medical reports he saw about a Texas man who walked into an emergency room with a hunting knife jutting out of his skull.
"Then I had this image of this assassin standing, like, in a doorway
holding a gun with a knife sticking out of the top of her head and
blood trickling down her face," Brubaker said. "They green-lit it
before I even wrote it, and they started filming two weeks after the
final draft. I guess that's the world we're living in right now."
Ed is awesome. His Incognito and Criminal are two of my favorite comic series, ever, he made me want to read Captain America (then made me a fan), and his The Man Who Laughs is a must-read for Batman geeks.
[Video has been unembedded due to loud autoplay issues. You can still watch the video at Crackle.]
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I heard about this from Doug Jones and I am so excited. I had not looked into it yet and didn’t know that Zoe Bell was staring. I am really excited, I loved her in Death Proof (okayokay I totally had a female hard on for her esp when she got on the hood) I will definitely be following it. Thanks for the announcement/reminder.
I will definatly be watching this. I have a huge crush on Zoe, the woman is a phenom.
Zoe was great in Deathproof and looks to be great in this… at least the 7 minutes of it in part 1. Glad she has the spotlight for this one.
I love the transitions. I’ve watched that gun transition in the first scene 4 times now.
Thanks for the heads-up. I liked the first chapter, and this has now been added to my bookmarks.
Wil, if you haven’t already you should read The Immortal Iron Fist. Brubaker and Fraction did a bang up job on that series from the get go taking a minor league character and making him cool.
I love Brubaker’s Cap as well. I haven’t enjoyed the character this much since the Kirby days.
Wil, i think it is funny that you sell your own books with an amazon affiliate account. Don’t you get something for each sale anyway? 🙂
Cheers,
G.
That was a pretty cool video.
Thanks.
K.
Ed’s Captain America was fucking fantastic. I have never been that big of a fan of Captain America, but after reading Bruebakers take on Cap, I flipped my view. It was astonishingly good. As far as Incognito goes, I haven’t read it yet, but when the TPB comes out I will surely get it.
He is by far one of my favorite writers in the comic book world. Alan Moore is up there a little higher, but most legends are. Brian K Vaughn also blew me away with the “Y The Last Man” series and Kirkman is doing a good number on me with “Walking Dead”, both of those extremely strong series from fantastic writers.
By the way I read “Just a Geek” in one sitting. Very good book. I actually cried at a couple moments due to how close it came to my real life. When you were talking about your Aunt I started to remember my father and it brought a small tear to my eye, a genuine tear, and normally I am as emotional as a robot. Great read. Keep them coming and I will keep buying them.
Now all I have to do is FINISH some of the things I am writing, including my script for my movie…wish me luck.
Michael
Brubaker’s Captain America is the comic that got me back into comics, and still my favorite thing of his. Just finishing up the last volume of Sleeper (awesome) before diving into Criminal. Put him together with Zoe Bell, and I’m guessing “awesome” will fit in nicely.
Sounds very cool.
As a side note, my grandfather was a doctor in the 1940’s, and one day a guy walked in to his hospital saying someone just told him he had an ice pick sticking out of his head. Sure enough, the guy had been in a bar fight, and never realized what had happened. The ice pick had gone all the way in, right between the lobes of his brain, so they basically just pulled it out. Sadly, the x-ray went missing sometime in the 70’s.
I cannot go to that link, it redirects me to a blank page. Is it maybe because I’m in Canada? Or is it gone? Do I have to be a member of Crackle? Can anyone help me, as I’d really like to see it? Thanks!
It is because you are Canadian…we got to see the first episode at first, then it got yanked outside the US.
The best part of the Death Proof DVD was the extra feature about Zoe Bell. Just awesome. Tarantino is obviously a big fan of hers and I think the 2nd half of the movie was just a way for him to spotlight her.
Crackle can go die in a ditch. The navigation on that site is atrocious, and they’re shutting non-USians out of their content. Feh, I say.