If you’re gonna be at New York Comic-Con this weekend(if you’re not there already!), be sure to check out some of the live painting going on all weekend at the Art Whino booth #889.
The movie trailer for The Avengers has debuted. We don’t know why you wouldn’t have seen it yet (you know who you are), so we’ll do you a favor and make sure you see it now!
DC’s 52 issue re-launch is officially in the bag and today moving on with second issues being released even as I type this. What are the lessons we can all take away from this?
People like first issues (and surprises):
Yes, that’s true. I have three issues of Spawn #1 to bear this out. First issues allow you to get in on the ground floor of things. Of course, most folks will always want to get in on no-brainers such as Batman #1 but what it really did and should be is help you find new characters and creators. Of all 52 titles initially released, I’d have ranked Animal Man very low on my “BUY” list. WRONG! Oh, how wrong I was. Having read Animal Man 1 & 2, it is a comic you deserve to be reading. It is smart, well-drawn and has a plot that dares the reader to not follow-up. The true success of Animal Man was that not only did it make me add the title to my pull list but it made me seek out other things by AM writer Jeff Lemire such as Sweet Tooth and Essex Countyand I’m glad DC opened that particular door.
People (me) don’t like it when you Yoga-tize a smart, capable woman of color who was OK with not being rail-thin:
DC, you’d better bring back my capable, fat, black Amanda Waller who scares Batman and reminds me of my own mother.
Do it NOW.
DC, whenever you would massively screw something up, I could always point to Amanda Waller as the one thing you’d gotten right from the get-go and kept it right. From her first appearance on, I always loved that Amanda Waller had no problem with who she was. She was a short, fat black woman who through years of hardship and hard work, earned the right to be whoever she damned well pleased. I appreciated that in at least one instance in the DC Universe, someone had thrown out the cookie cutter and asked of the artist to draw what needed to be seen. Let Amanda Waller eat again, DC.
People, nailing a face to a wall doesn’t say, “Detective:”
In Detective Comics #1, the end comes with a fairly well-known Batman antagonist having his face nailed to a wall. Maybe it’s just me but this plays more as “Saw” Comics than “Detective” comics. For a better use of the “detective” theme, see Batman #1.
People (Men) don’t draw women like ladies:
Having read Catwoman #1, I can see what others have been going on about. Yes, when you see Catwoman for the first time you may think, “Wow, the new Catwoman comes with less head,” due to the artist’s drawing her as a flashing series of ass and boob shots before we even see her face two pages later culminating in a four page sex scene where she gets her fratboy on and pretty much sexually assaults Batman. This scene is gratuitous and does not honor the characters at all. They deserve better and as I read this issue, all I could think was,“ When did Catwoman become“Crazy Nasty Ass Honey Badger?”Get it together, guys. Everyone deserves better.
That said, what did YOU take away from DC’s 52 #1?
In a blend of comics and hip-hop, Tumblr site Longboxes On 22′s takes your favorite superheroes and pairs them up with new and classic hip-hop album covers. Some of the match-ups are pretty ingenious, and I’ve picked my top ten.
#10. Superboy – Thank Me Later
Young Justice + Young Money. A decent effort, if nothing else.
#9. Ol’ Dirty Baron – Nazi Please
This one’s just hilarious. Nothing like a fascist super-villain with a Jheri Curl to brighten up your day!
#8. Digable Lanterns – Ringin’
Definitely one of the more inventive pairings. Especially with a Lantern that is, in fact, a planet.
#7. Capt-M – Kingdom Come
Would anything else really be more fitting?
#6. Batman – In My Lifetime, Year One
This one trumps Capt-M for me by virtue of it drawing from my favorite Jay-Z album for inspiration, as well as me being partial to Batman.
#5. DDevil – All Eyez On Me
Yeah, he might be throwin’ it up to the Westside, but like Tupac, DD’s East Coast, first and foremost.
#4. Thor – Thou Art Too Legit For Thy To Quit
The only way it could have been better is if I could imagine Thor doin’ the Typewriter dance in parachute pants . . . But Deadpool already beat ‘em to it!
#3. War Machine – Only Built 4 Armor Linx
Between Iron Man doing the Ghostface pose and the Avenger’s emblem hangin’ in the back, that’s what’s up.
#2. Dr. Octopus
Arguably one of the most seamless blends of a comic character with the original album cover. Dr. Octagon would be proud.
#1. Spider-Man – Illmazing
One of the first entries on the site, and still the best, in my opinion. Science geek or not, you could almost imagine a young Peter Parker bumpin’ Nas’ first CD as he looked out his bedroom window.
There’s been a lot of talk about some of the representations of female characters in DC comics since their “New 52″ initiative, rebooting the entire DC Universe. Many have taken issue with such characters as Harley Quinn, the younger and slimmer Amanda Waller, Starfire, and Catwoman, criticizing DC Comics for portraying them in an overly sexualized manner. Having given myself some time to think about it, I wondered . . . . How do NBC sitcom characters feel about all this?!
I remember coming across the trailer for this a month or two back, and thinking it looked pretty impressive. If you haven’t already, you can check out the trailer in the video below. The full 35-minute film is now available on the website, caseyjonesthemovie.com. Definitely worth checking out.
Recently, I was asked the question, “What was your first ever comic?”
It’s odd how much joy this question brought me because until about a month ago, I’d completely forgotten what the exact comic was. I knew that I just simply loved comics. I mean, does a fat kid remember his first slice of pizza? Does a furry remember the first time they… you know, I wouldn’t even know.
With comics, you just know that somehow, you got to this place and that, to this day, you still enjoy it.
If you’ve been itching to play Sony Online Entertainment’s DC Universe Online since it launched earlier this year but never did, soon it will be easier than ever. Hit the jump for the details of this Massively Multiplayer Online game for PS3 and PC becoming free-to-play in October.
Say what you will about Marvel, but I still think the Ultimate line they created a decade ago was, and still is, one of the best ideas they’ve had in a good long while. For a time, it was interesting to see alternate versions of classic characters like Spider-Man, X-Men, and the Avengers. Creators like Brian Michael Bendis, Mark Bagley, Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch, and others, took these characters and put them in an entirely different light. . . . . and the whole Ultimate Universe would eventually become a clusterfuck of monumental proportions.
Deadline is reporting that FOX has bought the rights to the DC Comics character The Spectre, and are now in the process of developing the property as a supernatural drama for the network.
The Spectre, which has received a script commitment, centers on a former cop serving time in afterlife limbo who hunts down earthly criminals on behalf of the dead — and mortals soon to be dead if ultimate justice is not served. DC Entertainment’s sister TV studio Warner Bros TV will produce with Gerber Pictures.
A reactionary move on Fox’s part to contend with the Deadman series being developed over at the CW? Who knows? But Deadman’s got Supernatural creator Eric Kripke running the show, and The Spectre has . . . . the screenwriter of Love Happens.
