'Once Upon a Time' graphic novel features The Evil Queen

Once Upon a Time: Shadow of the Queen cover by  Nimit Malavia

With Disney as Marvel's new stepmother, get used to movie and TV characters lording over comic books. HM Regina no less will be the main attraction in a graphic novel based on ABC's Once Upon a Time. (ABC is a Disney company.)

Once Upon a Time: Shadow of the Queen, out September, will delve at length into the Huntsman's past and cast a new light on his relationship with Regina. The story is a continuation of "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter," an episode from the first season. 

With OUAT producer Dan Thomsen behind the narrative, the graphic novel is expected to be canon material. Nimit Malavia, Mike Del Mundo, Vasilis Lolos, and Mike Henderson are on board for the art.

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Eva Green to battle Greeks in '300' sequel

Look who's being boxed in.

After torturing Johnny Depp in Dark Shadows, Eva Green will be smiting hot shirtless men in the follow-up to Zack Snyder's 300.

According to USA Today, Green will play Artemisia, leader of the Persian navy and Xerxes' second-in-command who is using her authority to wage a personal vendetta against Sparta.   

Events in 300: Rise of an Empire will take place at the same time as the original film, hence a 'parallel movie.' Noam Murro will take over from alleged homophobe Snyder as director.

With her smoldering look and dagger stares, Green has really made Hollywood casting a tad easier.

The Seeker

Normally, Souls, the parasitic extraterrestrials in Stephenie Meyer's Invasion of the Body Snatchers The Host, are altruistic and Zen-like creatures. They are painfully honest, so much so they have done away with cash registers on sheer trust in one another. Shedding blood is alien to them. Most humans are imbeciles in comparison; if our lives were not that special, we wouldn't think twice of relinquishing our bodies to them. 

But The Seeker is an anomaly. Intent on wiping away the last pockets of human resistance, she will not dither about murder if it served the purpose. 

Selina Matias

Some of the most maleficent villains come from Asian cinema and television. Just look deep in the well for proof.

In the Philippines, a soap called Mula sa Puso ("From the Heart") has an outstandingly inhuman character named Selina Matias. Ridiculously manipulative and helplessly evil, Selina elicited so much hate from viewers across the island nation; there were even reports of tomatoes being hurled in public at Princess Punzalan, who played the role.

Let's just say The Bold and the Beautiful's Sheila Carter has nothing on Selina. Whereas Sheila and many other soap villains killed and maimed for the Man, Selina was out for the Money. Her onus was to obtain the copious fortune her half-brother Fernando would lavish on her niece Olivia. A bundle of pesos is apparently thicker than blood. 

Selina's faults are grievous and many, an incomplete litany of which follows:

• urged Fernando and Criselda to take Olivia away from Magda and move to America
• disfigured Magda's face with acid
• kidnapped Olivia on her 18th birthday and buried her alive
• planted a bomb in her goon's briefcase
• drove a lawyer insane by having her raped 
• shot husband Ysmael
• hired someone to pretend as Olivia's real mother
• rained bullets on that woman inside a phone booth
• had Magda's brother sodomized in prison
• shot Rafael's mother
• had Mariel raped
• tried to murder Mariel's mother
• crippled Leo with a piece of wood
• drugged and took pictures of Magda beside a naked man 
• shot Olivia on her wedding
• kidnapped Olivia's baby
• gave Olivia a dead cat as gift

Her caliber of evil is such that it overlaps with terrorism already. No Filipino alive in the late 1990s could forget this:

Running for two years straight, Mula sa Puso caved in to jump-the-shark moments, and Selina provided many of them. This bitch survived cancer, a car explosion, and even a staggering fall from a high-rise. Terminator, meet Selinator.

A remake of Mula sa Puso in 2011 featured Eula Valdez as the demon incarnate. The new version supplied a backstory to Selina's malevolence and lengthened her criminal record some more: 

• loosed dogs on Magda's mother
• smothered Criselda on the hospital bed
• killed her own daughter

There must be a special place in Hell for Selina: a bus burning for eternity.