Running a bit late this week. Pull had a nice mixture of books this week; a bunch of books with dinosaurs, a few books I've come back to after dropping off for a while, surprisingly a couple of books full of interview scenes.
Comics for 4/20
Avengers Academy #12
Doctor Who: A Fairytale Life #1 (of 4)
Mass Effect: Evolution #4 (of 4)
Power Girl #23
Iron Man 2.0 #4
Hulk #32
Super Dinosaur #1
Fables #104
Thunderbolts #156
Black Dynamite: Slave Island
18.4.11
Issue Forth - Week of 4/13/11
No true #1 issues in my pull this week, but a new event kicked off over at IDW, a couple new story-arcs started over at Marvel, both helmed by Kieron Gillen and one of which with a freshly re-re-branded title, and there were a couple of excellent one-shots starring two of comics' greatest Nazi-punchers.
15.4.11
Comics reviews 4/13/11
Ten reviews. Three (horribly run-on) sentences each. GO!
Cobra Civil War #0
Carnage #4 (of 5)
Batman and Robin #22
Uncanny X-Men #535
Captain America: The Fighting Avenger one-shot
Journey Into Mystery #622
Batgirl #20
Iron Man 2.0 #3
Hellboy: Buster Oakley Gets His Wish
Amazing Spider-Man #658
12.4.11
A Few Space-Dollars More
Perhaps I'm a bit biased as a fan of both western and space stories, but the space-western is a genre that I think has been woefully underdeveloped. That's why I'm always thankful when iTunes starts downloading a fresh episode of Sparks Nevada, Marshal On Mars.
Since 2005, the Thrilling Adventure Hour (formerly Thrilling Adventure And Supernatural Suspense Hour) is a monthly comedy show currently performing at Largo at the Coronet in Los Angeles. The show consists of a series of scripted sketches done in the style of old-timey radio serials, such as paranormal dectives/lushes Frank and Sadie Doyle (Paul F. Tompkins and Paget Brewster) in Beyond Belief and The Adventures Of Captain Laserbeam featuring John DiMaggio as the eponymous hero, with a rotating cast of regulars, and a crazy-impressive list of guest stars. Being stuck on the east coast, I've missed out on the live shows, but thankfully, starting this past January they've begun posting a weekly podcast of rotating episodes, available on iTunes and through SoundCloud. Easily my favorite of these is the two(-robot)-fisted pulp tale of Sparks Nevada (Mark Evan Jackson) and his somewhat-loyal sidekick, the native Martian Croach (Mark Gagliardi).
Playing the western pastiche to the extreme, America has expanded "ever westward to the wildest west all, outer space", and Sparks roams the Martian wasteland, righting wrongs and wrangling hyper-cattle. Featuring guest stars such as Samm Levine, Chris Hardwick and Comedy Death-Ray's Scott Aukerman, the episodes so far have been telling one-off stories of Spark and onus-bound Croach's adventures in the Martian frontier, encountering aliens, robots, rustlers and mad preachers, as well as competing for the affection of the Martian-raised vigilante, the Red Plains Rider (Busy Phillips), and an over-arcing story of an impending doom coming to Mars in the tail of Haley's Comet.
The first episode, recorded at the Thrilling Adventure Hour's first show at the Largo, is available here, along with all their other currently-released episodes. The series is fun, with dry wit and over-the-top stories, a great play on the old serial tropes, and every episode opens with a damn-addictive theme song by Eban Schletter and Andy Paley. I think Sparks himself put it best: "I'm from Earth."
Since 2005, the Thrilling Adventure Hour (formerly Thrilling Adventure And Supernatural Suspense Hour) is a monthly comedy show currently performing at Largo at the Coronet in Los Angeles. The show consists of a series of scripted sketches done in the style of old-timey radio serials, such as paranormal dectives/lushes Frank and Sadie Doyle (Paul F. Tompkins and Paget Brewster) in Beyond Belief and The Adventures Of Captain Laserbeam featuring John DiMaggio as the eponymous hero, with a rotating cast of regulars, and a crazy-impressive list of guest stars. Being stuck on the east coast, I've missed out on the live shows, but thankfully, starting this past January they've begun posting a weekly podcast of rotating episodes, available on iTunes and through SoundCloud. Easily my favorite of these is the two(-robot)-fisted pulp tale of Sparks Nevada (Mark Evan Jackson) and his somewhat-loyal sidekick, the native Martian Croach (Mark Gagliardi).
Playing the western pastiche to the extreme, America has expanded "ever westward to the wildest west all, outer space", and Sparks roams the Martian wasteland, righting wrongs and wrangling hyper-cattle. Featuring guest stars such as Samm Levine, Chris Hardwick and Comedy Death-Ray's Scott Aukerman, the episodes so far have been telling one-off stories of Spark and onus-bound Croach's adventures in the Martian frontier, encountering aliens, robots, rustlers and mad preachers, as well as competing for the affection of the Martian-raised vigilante, the Red Plains Rider (Busy Phillips), and an over-arcing story of an impending doom coming to Mars in the tail of Haley's Comet.
The first episode, recorded at the Thrilling Adventure Hour's first show at the Largo, is available here, along with all their other currently-released episodes. The series is fun, with dry wit and over-the-top stories, a great play on the old serial tropes, and every episode opens with a damn-addictive theme song by Eban Schletter and Andy Paley. I think Sparks himself put it best: "I'm from Earth."
9.4.11
Maybe I'm just being Space Paranoids but...
Whether we admit it or not, I think a lot of us were worried how Marvel getting gobbled up by Disney would affect things. I think at this point we can admit it's been fairly negligible so far, other than, say, the quarterly deaths for sales thing. So I imagine some eyebrows were raised back in December when Spider-Man debuted this outfit the same week Disney's Tron Legacy opened:
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| Art by Humberto Ramos, colors by Edgar Delgado |
Now, even though that costume was discarded a couple of issues later, it's been said that this was a coincidence, and I'm willing to believe it, especially since Marvel was already openly promoting Tron with a series of variant covers around the same time. And this could just as easily be a coincidence like the Spider-Man thing, but seriously, this is the grand villain reveal you debut the day after Tron Legacy comes out on DVD?
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| Left: Fear Itself #1, Art by Stuart Immonen, colors by Laura Martin, Right: The Worthy concept art by Marko Djurdjevic |
Granted the Worthy concept art has been circulating for a while longer now but c'mon, that's just pushing it. However, for the time being I'll remain skeptical of any underhanded cross-promotion, at least until May brings us the X-Pirates.
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