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A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne from a misspent youth of watching monster movies on TV, perusing the sun-faded goods at the local video rental shop, and staining his fingers with ink from the Video Movie Guide. Areas of interest include science fiction, film noir, horror flicks, '70s disaster pictures, Bond movies, '90s action, giant robots, dinosaurs, super heroes, and the exuberantly schlocky output of Cannon Films. He also enjoys both Star Trek and Star Wars when they're good, and maybe even more when they're bad. As a Canadian, he also has a vested interest in Canadian movies and TV shows, especially the cheesier ones dubbed "Canuxploitation."
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Mike Mignola, the comics visionary most famous for his monster-hunting creation Hellboy, is back with an all-new graphic novel. Inspired by Mignola's love of myths, legends, and monsters, the new graphic novel is the first in a new series from the legendary creator. Now, Collider is proud to exclusively present a preview of Uri Tupka and the Gods, which is on store shelves today.
The new book is a follow-up to Bowling With Corpses and Other Strange Tales from Lands Unknown, a graphic novel anthology composed of stories inspired by folklore; Uri Tupka and the Gods takes place in the same shared universe. It follows the titular Uri Tupka, a onetime doctor of theology who now finds himself a hated heretic, as he travels in search of the truth about the gods that rule his world. As Mignola described it, Tupka will "barely escape one disaster after another—pirates, bandits, witches and demons, giants and monsters. There is also a talking cat and a queen of the vegetables because, of course, why wouldn’t there be?" Mignola writes and draws the book, while it is colored by longtime collaborator Dave Stewart.
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Who Is Mike Mignola?
Mignola broke into the comics industry in the 1980s, working for Marvel on books like Incredible Hulk, Alpha Flight, and Rocket Raccoon, and for DC on Phantom Stranger and Batman; famously, he covered the "A Death in the Family" Batman storyline, in which readers could call into a hotline to determine whether Batman's sidekick, Jason Todd, lived or died at the hands of the Joker. He became known for his distinctive style, which used heavy inks to mimic the look of medieval woodcuts. In 1994, he wrote and drew Hellboy: Seed of Darkness, a creator-owned comic published by Dark Horse Comics, that introduced his signature character, an orphaned demon raised to hunt monsters for a shadowy government agency. The character became wildly popular and has gone on to star in a bevy of graphic novels, as well as four big-screen movies. The most recent, Hellboy: The Crooked Man, was co-written by Mignola.
"This is some of the most fun I’ve ever had drawing comics," said Mignola. And if this isn't enough Uri Tupka for you, he has good news: "I’m already well into the follow-up book to this one (Uri Tupka and the Devils) with plans to do many more stories about this world. I feel that so far I’m still just scratching at the surface of this thing."
Uri Tupka and the Gods is now available wherever books and graphic novels are sold. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
Release Date April 2, 2004
Runtime 122 minutes
Producers Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin, Mike Richardson
English (US) ·