Speed Round reviews with Alex & Pete!
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- The Anchor #2
- Batman/Doc Savage #1
- BPRD 1947 #5
- Daredevil #502
- Green Lantern Corps #42
- The Ghoul #1
- Hellboy: The Wild Hunt #8
- Punisher MAX #1
- REBELS #10
- Red Herring #4
- Supergod #1
- Unwritten #7
- Walking Dead #67
 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #612: When did the main Marvel U Electro turn into the Ultimate U Electro? Did I miss something? Anyway, that aside, The Gauntlet begins, which will reportedly put ol’ Spidey through the wringer over the next few months, having him go up against all of his oldest villains. And its off to a pretty solid start, with Mark Waid (always a good script) and Paul Azaceta (the perfect pencils for a sweaty, heat wave type tale, and he draws some great electricity). I’m not blown away by this, as the twists about Electro’s health, and his new MO seem reminiscent of other, recent Spidey arcs, but I have to reiterate: kudos to Steve Wacker and team for making Spider-Man a consistently solid and fun read for a very long time, and putting some of the most talented pencilers in the business on the title, taking chances on non-traditional superhero artists like Azaceta and Marcos Martin.
DARK AVENGERS #11: Sigh. I just have a soft spot for the Molecule Man, I’m sorry guys. And I really think Bendis has hit his groove with this title, mixing his patented naturalistic dialogue with action, perfectly complemented by Mike Deodato’s moody art. Plus, in this issue, we get some painted pages by Greg Horn, and I don’t know the last time I saw interior art by the guy, but it looks great. This is a great looking comic, lots of fun, and I’m going to be a little sad to see it go (assuming it does, in fact, go after the upcoming Siege event).
Yes, it is I, Norimaro — James Bond of videogame girls and comic book babes — here with my top secret, patented single page peeks at this week’s new Marvel releases! Fear my elite scanner skillz and check back later for this week’s DC Teases!
Marvel has provided PCS with a behind-the-scenes video detailing the making of their new Astonishing X-Men motion comic.
Alex & Pete review Batman and Robin #6, Locke & Key: Crown of Shadows #1, and Dark X-Men #1.
Bleeding Cool Rich Johnston has some good news for Joss Whedon fans still broken up about the cancelling of Doll House–Dark Horse Comics’ Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8 is getting the deluxe motion comic treatment. (Voice actors–click that link for casting call details.)
I love the idea of motion comics, especially as a means to attract new, younger, indifferent-to-print readers; though I’m still happy to read the funny pages, rather than click through links for my own comics fix. I think the Whedon-penned Astonishing X-Men motion comic by Neal Adams’ Continuity Studios has been the best conceived motion comic of the recent lot, with actual CG animation adding fluidity to the original John Cassaday illustrations, turning AXM into something not unlike the old 1960s Marvel cartoons). As an evolutionary link between printed comics and fully animated cartoons based on comic runs (see Superman/Batman: Public Enemies), the Continuity design seems like the best approach to motion comics, rather than a video file comprising pan-and-scan panels and spoken word balloons.
Of course, that doesn’t necessarily mean Dark Horse will go that route with their entry into this new medium. But with the potential for significant mainstream crossover appeal with Buffy in the title, this could be the motion comic project that determines the style and technology expected of all motion comics to follow.
Yes, it is I, Norimaro — James Bond of videogame girls and comic book babes — here with my top secret, patented single page peeks at this week’s new releases from Image, IDW & Dark Horse! Not a big batch here, but check later today for DC & Marvel Teases!
Midtown’s latest weekly podcast is up and this week’s guest is the one and only Brian Michael Bendis, talking all about Marvel’s Siege event, plus exciting news on Ultimate Comics Spider-Man, Powers and it’s upcoming TV adaptation!
Midtown Comics Monday Podcast: Brian Michael Bendis
Alex, Justin & Pete review PunisherMAX #1, S.W.O.R.D. #1, and Strange #1!
After last week’s successful impulse buy of Punisher: The List (rocking book, with a second printing on the way–check it out), I decided to pick up a few more older new books with my weekly pull to play catch up with those sometimes-forgotten, but always on my mind corners of the comic universe. (I stuck with Marvel this week, apparently still content forgetting the corners of their distinguished competition.) So I grabbed the no-longer-recent 50th issue of X-Factor to see what Peter David, Jaime Madrox, and friends were up to since I dropped the book more than a year ago.
Turns out X-Factor Investigations relocated, not just to another town, but to another time! And this issue was the conclusion of what seems to have been an epic journey to the future that saw the Multiple Man, with an all-growsed-up Layla Miller, at his side battling an evil tricked-out uber-dupe, a senile and sinister old Doctor Doom, and a part-cyborg Cyclops who has been hacked for villainy by the bad Doctor. Helping Madrox and Layla in this future imperfect are Ruby, Cyclops’ future daughter (with Emma Frost?) and Trevor Fitzroy, whom I remember was a key villain in not-appearing-in-this-comic Bishop’s oh-so-90’s time-travelling origin story. I was hoping to see my old favorite X-Man Longshot in this issue, as he appears on the cover, but he was only name-dropped. How the heck did he get pulled into this?
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