Saints be praised - there’s a new Milk and Cheese strip, and it’s online FREE!
Ah, is there anything more satisfying than intelligent, ferocious rage?
We’re gonna try to draw the Iron Man coverage to (more or less) a close today with this little link. Michael Cho, of the Toronto Chos, has been quietly stockpiling Iron Man illustrations from an impressive array of illustrative talents, displaying them on his blog for all to see. There’s enough good stuff in there to help you waste at least 15-30 minutes of your Friday away once the boss heads “home” early for that “dentist appointment” on the back nine.
Marvel has released a new trailer for the upcoming Wolverine & The X-Men cartoon, this one without the unapproved alt-rock Foo Fighter soundtrack (which got the show’s producers a lawsuit — why not just use the classic theme from ’90s toon?), plus some extra scenes featuring tons of cameos from both mutant and non-mutant Marvel characters. Really looking forward to this — love the costumes, the tone, and the blend of the movies and comics — though between this and X-Men 3, I’m a little tired of seeing Cyclops portrayed as soft serve!
So, I’m putting together my monthly comic book order, and I’m reading item descriptions in order to make sure I’m ordering collections of the proper stuff. I get to the description for the “Annihilation Conquest” Vol. 2 hardcover and I notice something odd.
Collects Annihilation: Conquest - Wraith #1-4, Nova #4-7. and Annihilation: Conquest #1-6
According to the description on Amazon, this book only collects “Nova” 4-7. I don’t remember reading 1-3, so I do a quick double check of Vol. 1, and sure enough - there’s no Nova in it. I search for the Nova TPB to see if 1-3 are just filler or what, and here’s the description:
Exploding from the pages of Annihilation, Nova rockets into his own ongoing series! In the wake of the chaotic Annihilation Wave, a desperate galaxy cries out for law and order. In the past, an army of peacekeeping Centurions delivered stability. But the Nova Corps are dead and gone - now there is only Richard Rider, the man called Nova. But can a lone human police an entire universe? He has near limitless power - now he must do all he can to bring punishment to the wicked, help to the oppressed and justice for all! Strap in as the acclaimed writing team of Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning (Annihilation: Nova), superstar Sean Chen (Sensational Spider-Man) and cover artist Adi Granov (Iron Man) slam your mind into hyperdrive! Collects Nova #1-7.
Sure looks like it’s all important to the story. Hell, the entire trade’s wrapped under a cover with “Annihilation” in the title! Did anyone out there read it? Am I going to be missing any vital information Marvel’s dumping in order to conserve space? I’ve been getting the Annihilation hardcovers from the beginning because I like having the story presented in a minimum amount of separate books and in the proper order, but this is leaving knd of a bad taste in my mouth…
Steve: Batman Begins is a tough movie to grade because it has all the ingredients for a great movie, but shits the bed after the Bruce Wayne training sequences. The nonsensical and physically impossible (by any universe’s established rules) monorail/subway/train sequence alone knocks 10 points off the movie’s score. Add to that the insanely bad water poisoning plot, the fact that Nolan can’t seem to direct a fight scene without turning off all the lights and the ridiculous bit with the Batmobile running along the rooftops of century-old buildings and the horribly ill conceived romantic subplot is almost unforgivable. 65%
Duncan: The first third or so of Batman Begins is great, gritty pulp, and for a good while you’re convinced this is going to be something special. Then, despite a superb cast and Nolan’s cool, stylish approach, it falls prey to an all-too-typical superhero movie problem: it tries to do too much and becomes a clunky, self-indulgent mess. There are some nice moments here and there, and overall I still think it’s worth watching. But that can’t hide the fact that Nolan cannot direct an action sequence to save his life. 77%
There’s an entire subculture of these modded “My Little Pony” figures, and while they leave me pretty old for the most part, every once in a while one of them just jumps out and amazes me…in a good way! This Iron Man inspired mod is definitely among the latter!! Note the Stark-stache in the second pic.
In a show if pretty big support for “The Spirit,” Lionsgate just emailed out an announcement that they’re changing the release date for Miller’s adaptation to Christmas Day 2007.
On behalf of Lionsgate, we are pleased to announce a new release date for THE SPIRIT - now opening on CHRISTMAS DAY! Frank Miller’s upcoming film adaptation of Will Eisner’s legendary comic strip will now be hitting theaters nearly a month earlier than originally planned. According to VARIETY, “Lionsgate prexy of theatrical films Tom Ortenberg said the decision to shift the film to Christmas Day came after the project was presented to fans at New York Comic-Con.”
It’s a sad state of affairs when someone pays $10.50 for a ticket to see something like “Superhero Movie,” and an even sadder one when Comedy Central pays $2.7mm for the TV rights to the same movie. It’s so sad, it makes little children cry. Why do you hate little children, Comedy Central?
“Superhero Movie” is blasting its way onto Comedy Central, which has agreed to pay the Weinstein Co. $2.7 million for cable rights to the picture as part of a deal that also includes pre-buys of two unreleased titles: “Fanboys” and “The Promotion.”
