Comics
We occasionally like to review some of the comics you should be reading here. It’s not our main topic, but we do enjoy reading quality comics once in a while.
First ‘Ender’s Shadow’ Comic Is Loyal to Novel While Welcoming Newcomers
Ender’s Shadow: Battle School #1 delivers where the Ender’s Game comic failed. It allows someone new to the property to pick up the comic and actually understand what is going on and form a relationship with the characters. While you do not need to go buy this comic right now, I would definitely recommend picking [...]
‘My Name is Bruce’: Bruce Campbell conquers all media
As y’all know, we’re big fans of The Chin around these parts. My man-crush on him was on full display while I recapped Burn Notice and it’s not like the rest of the Pop Critics gang aren’t fans themselves. And we’ve been looking forward to the release of My Name is Bruce for a while [...]
DVD Review: ‘Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow’
This review is brought to us courtesy of Cap’n Schwartz, one of our most devoted readers.
The best advice I ever received, was a number of years ago from my Kenpo Martial Arts instructor. At that point in time, I was involved with a girl who I REALLY REALLY liked… a lot. It was [...]
Mike’s Comic Pull List for Week of September 16th
Last week was a slim one for me in terms of reading comics. The new series from Stephen King, The Stand, was great fun and highly enjoyable.
But I haven’t read a good book in quite awhile, so while I was at Barnes & Noble last Friday, I saw Dexter Dreaming Darkly and just had to [...]
‘Y: The Last Man’ to be a Trilogy of Films with Big Changes
D.J. Caruso, the hopeful director for the upcoming film adaptation of the Y: The Last Man comic book series from Brian K. Vaughan, spoke to Sci Fi about the status of the script and any changes that will be forthcoming.
And some of them will no doubt annoy fans of the 10-volume graphic novel masterpiece. But [...]
Upcoming Marvel Teaser Cover
I just thought this drawing was seriously cool and wanted to pass it on to you comic book geeks. It could potentially be spoilerish, but no one really knows what the heck it means or even what comic book it was drawn for.
This comes via IGN and their Revelations series of articles. They also showed some other cool artwork and told us about the next big thing from Marvel called Dark Reign. The cover art below could possibly be the result of how Secret Invasion will finish and Dark Reign could refer to the time afterward?
First Look at the New Dark Towers: Treachery #1
I’m way behind on the Dark Towers comic book series, and it’s something I’d like to catch up on because so far it’s been fairly good. I’m still on the first graphic novel called The Gunslinger Born and have a few issues sitting on my nightstand of the next series, The Long Road Home.
The latest arc in the Dark Towers series is called Treachery and it hits shelves today, September 10th. Where The Gunslinger Born was material mostly taken from the Wizard and Glass book, The Long Road Home and Treachery are essentially all-new stories from Robin Furth (adaptation) and Peter David (script)
Mike’s Pull List for Week Of September 10th
It’s been a long week so far, and one of the highlights was getting to visit Atomic Comics today to grab the latest stuff from my box. The two comics in there were actually ones I’m not ready to read yet, but I did find two others that I was looking forward to.
Since last week though, I’ve really had a blast with Kick-Ass and Y: The Last Man, Volume 10 (my review is over here). The Mark Millar bloodfest that is Kick-Ass was one of those comics that I just couldn’t put down once it got going. I had been waiting to read issues #3 and #4 because I couldnt’ find #2, but when I finally got it and began to read, I’d finished all three before I knew what happened.
Marvel Set to Release Alternate Noir Universe in December
I was reading some stories over on IGN last night and came across this very interesting, new alternate universe series from Marvel.
It’s going to be called Marvel Noir and will immediately feature Spider-Man Noir and X-Men Noir in some retro, pulp adventures set in the post-depression era. According to IGN, they will be “gritty, character-centric remakes to classic characters.“
Kick-Ass Update from Mark Millar, Plus First Pictures of Nicholas Cage on Set
Mark Millar is pretty cool in the way he updates his fans via his personal website on all the happenings with his comic books, movies and anything else that he’s involved with. It’s always great to see guys like him embrace the internet marketing world we live in and share whatever information they can.
The web is an awesome viral tool in helping promote your stuff.
Yesterday Millar posted a big update about the upcoming movie, Kick-Ass, and by all indications, this thing is going to be bloody, evil and downright nasty. There were even stories last week about Nicholas Cage not realizing just how violent this thing was.
