If you’re a fan of Robert E. Howard, then you should be in Cross Plains, Texas, this coming weekend.
The annual Howard Days runs Friday and Saturday, June 13-14, though the gathering informally begins on Thursday, June 12.
The REH United Press Association website, REHupa.com, has a rundown of what to expect at this year’s Days.
For those of us who aren’t able to attend, videographer Ben Friberg has been recording the panels and speakers at the past few gatherings. I’ve put together a Youtube playlist of his coverage of last year’s gathering that you can watch below.
USLAN TALKS ABOUT PULP HEROES: For the past 10 or 15 years, there have been rumblings of movies featuring the top Street & Smith pulp heroes: The Shadow, Doc Savage and The Avenger.
Finally, writer and producer Michael Uslan offers the most concrete details of what’s been going on with the characters, over at the Bleeding Cool website.
Roger Ash of Westfield Comics talks with Uslan about how “Justice Inc.” morphed from film plans to a comic series: “Some years back, I was working on a way to bring the Street & Smith pulp/comics super-hero trinity of Doc Savage, The Shadow and The Avenger to the silver screen. Marvel and DC movies were all about first introducing single heroes then eventually teaming them up in a group.
“Thinking out of the box and based on my decades of Batman experiences,” Uslan continues, “I decided to try the reverse tactic and start the three of them in one tenuous team-up film, then split them up into individual movies. I wrote a treatment and used ‘Justice Inc.’ as the title. I always liked that title and knew that before there was a Justice League. Before there was a Justice Society, there was a Justice Inc. Ultimately, we could not travel that path in cinema and separated out the characters into a Doc Savage movie project and a Shadow movie project, while eventually and briefly, The Avenger wended its way toward TV.”
There’s much, much more in the Bleeding Cool interview.
