Month: July 2012

New THOR Creative Team? Who’s WORTHY?

 

courtesy Marvel.com

  The Marvel NOW! tease machine is in full blast. This image featuring WORTHY. Aaron. Ribic. Nov ’12 appeared on Marvel.com. Jason Aaron & Esad Ribic on a relaunched Thor book? Marvel NOW! relaunches the Marvel universe with 20 new titles from October 2012 to February 2013. 

  “Whoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall have the power of…THOR!” is inscribed on the mystical hammer. A wild card could be another character becoming the new Thunder God but it’s unlikely. The Worthy were non-Asgardians chosen to wield mystical hammers by the Serpent in Matt Fraction’s Fear Itself. I would love to see Valkyrie in her own series after her starring role in Fear Itself: The Fearless.

  Matt Fraction is wrapping up his Mighty Thor run and Kieron Gillen is wrapping Journey Into Mystery with the Everything Burns crossover. Gillen and Greg Land were featured in the Invincible teaser which have fans assuming the duo will be the Iron Man creative team. Fraction and Salvador Larroca are leaving after an epic run. Jason Aaron has written Ghost Rider, Wolverine and is currently writing Wolverine and the X-Men.

If this is the new Thor team – do you deem them Worthy?

By Editor

Batman The Dark Knight Trailer

    Frank Miller’s classic Batman tale comes to animated life in Batman: The Dark Knight. Peter Weller stars as an older Bruce Wayne forced into retirement along with other costumed heroes. A violent gang called the Mutants is terrorizing Gotham City. When Harvey Dent aka Two-Face resurfaces the Batman comes out of retirement and becomes a target for the police, old foes and new enemies.  MTV Geek posted this exclusive trailer for Batman: The Dark Knight part 1.

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  Batman: The Dark Knight part 1 arrives September 25, 2012.

Here’s a link to the Absolute Dark Knight by Frank Miller. This is THE graphic novel that reinvigorated Batman and comic books. A MUST read for fans of the Dark Knight.

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Patrick Stewart “Makes It So” in Seattle!

 

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  Emerald City Comicon announced the first celebrity guest for 2013 and it’s huge! Sir Patrick Stewart of Star Trek: The Next Generation and X-Men will appear at the Seattle con March 1-3, 2013. He will be appearing Saturday and Sunday only.

  Emerald City Comicon shattered records with over 53,000 attendees at the Washington State Convention Center.

  Hellboy creator Mike Mignola will be returning to ECCC in 2013.

  Back to gushing about Sir Patrick Stewart…I love Captain Jean Luc Picard and no one else could have played Professor Xavier but I also remember him as Gurney Halleck in Dune. “Gurney Man” is one of my favorite characters in my all time favorite sci-fi book. Say what you will about David Lynch’s version but Stewart was perfection as the brave warrior for the Atreides.

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Top 5 Comic Book Picks for 8/1/12

Avengers vs X-Men #9 courtesy Marvel.com

Avengers vs. X-Men #9 The last Avenger standing is…Spider-Man? The embattled heroes stage a raid on the X-prison and the true nature of the Phoenix Force is revealed.

Earth 2 #4 Green Lantern, Flash and Hawkgirl against the ancient evil crawling out of the planet. Plus the debut of the Atom-Smasher!

The First X-Men #1 The legendary Neal Adams reveals a secret chapter Wolverine and the X-Men long before Professor founded the team.

Hawkeye #1 The Avengers’ archer in a brand new series by Matt Fraction and David Aja with Young Avenger Kate Bishop under Clint’s wing.

X-Factor #241 Is this the beginning of the end? Havok is on the way out. Strong Guy is ticked. All the book’s long running plotlines are coming together in Breaking Points. The big payoff for Marvel’s odd mutant detectives starts here!

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James Bond Skyfall Trailer

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  James Bond is dead….long live James Bond. Daniel Craig returns as 007 in Skyfall. The trailer for the new 007 film is live. Bond is assassinated by one of his own under orders from M but as Ian Fleming wrote “you only live twice.”


  Here’s what we know: M (Dame Judi Dench) loses a drive containing covert agents in terrorist organizations. Eve (Naomie Harris) is ordered to “take the shot” killing Bond. Ralph Fiennes is a government agent cleaning up the mess made by M. Javier Bardem plays the villain Silva who says “mommy was very bad.” Both men appear to want to make M pay for her sins. 

 Berenice Marlohe’s Severine works for Silva. And we met Q (Ben Wishaw) and he’s just a kid but what a cool delivery, “less of a random killing machine…more of a personal statement.”

  Director Sam Mendes and Daniel Craig have said Skyfall echoes the Sean Connery 1960’s Bond films. I definitely get a From Russia, With Love vibe but with a modern, faster pace from this trailer. Silva reminds me of a Red Grant (Robert Shaw) but much more powerful and crazier with a touch of Hannibal Lecter. Bardem kills it and steals the show!

What was your favorite moment?

Thanks to 007.com. By Editor

Hawkeye Solo Book

Hawkeye #1 courtesy Marvel.com

  The Avenging Archer’s solo comic book debuts this week. Hawkeye #1 marks the reunion of writer Matt Fraction and artist David Aja. The duo (along with Ed Brubaker) last worked together on The Immortal Iron Fist.

  Aja told Marvel.com his lifelong love for Clint Barton is what led to the reunion.

 “Hawkeye was one my favorite characters when a kid,” he recalls. “One of first Marvel comics I read was Avengers #25, and I [fell] in love with [the] guy; he acted as real person, was a complete jerk, so I suppose I identified with him.”

  For Fraction Hawkeye represents a challenge after taking on the X-Men, Iron Man, and Thor.

  “Never had the chance to write a character like him, or to do a book like this before,” the writer reveals. “And I wanted to chronicle him in an ongoing series because it’d keep me from getting bored. Repetition bores me to death. I had this idea for how to do a book that wasn’t like anything else we’d seen him in before, wasn’t like anything I’d done before, and couldn’t stop thinking about.”

Hawkeye #2 courtesy Marvel.com

  Fraction went on the describe this series as Clint’s life outside of team and what drives him after the events of AvX. I was excited that Kate Bishop (you could call her Lady Hawkeye of the Young Avengers) will be in the series.

  “She’s his junior partner, his apprentice,” says Fraction. “It’s a very Avengers relationship—meaning Steed and Peel—and she’s as adrift as he is. What the hell are these two doing with their lives? Turns out, helping people is what they have to do to get through the night. In costume, in life, doesn’t matter. Good guys don’t punch a time card at 5:00.”

  For the more from Fraction and Aja here’s the Marvel.com link.

  Fraction is one of the luckiest writers at Marvel. Iron Man and Thor movies were released during Fraction’s early runs on the those series. I don’t remember his clever quote exactly (at an Emerald City Comicon panel) but I think it went something like “nice of Marvel to do a million dollar promo for my comic book.”

  Hawkeye awareness will be at an all time high with the success of  Marvel’s The Avengers then Jeremy Renner (who played Clint Barton) is on the big screen again this month for The Bourne Legacy. Good timing for a Hawkeye launch.

 Hawkeye also is currently leading Secret Avengers  by Rick Remender. No word on if Clint will be part of Jonathan Hickman’s Marvel NOW! Avengers relaunch.

By Editor

 

James Bond In Skyfall Teaser Trailer!

 

courtesy 007.com

  It may be a teaser for a trailer and wow does it deliver! In the Skyfall teaser we learn about M’s past coming back to haunt her. Mallory (Ralph Fiennes) in a cool tone confronts M (Dame Judi Dench) over losing a disc with the “identity of every covert agent embedded in terrorist organization across the globe.”

  During that dialogue you see 007 (Daniel Craig) is the agent who lost it and then he’s on top of a train. M orders “take the bloody shot” and as assasin shoots James Bond on a moving train and he falls.

 

 …And I freaked out! The trailer arrives tomorrow. Skyfall opens this November.

Thanks Deadline.
By Editor

Batman in Detective Comics 12 Preview

Detective Comics #12 courtesy DC Comics

  The countdown is on to Tony Daniel’s final Detective Comics after a spectacular Batman run starting way back with Grant Morrison on R.I.P. The artist will be moving on to Justice League in which he’ll draw DC’s biggest icons and the New 52 debuts of classic villains like the Cheetah.

 

Detective Comics #12 courtesy DC Comics

  DC Comics The Source provided preview art from Detective Comics #12 written and drawn by Daniel and a promise of the final fate of Charlotte Rivers, a guest appearance by Robin. Plus Two-Face the hero you cheer for? Daniel’s backup story starring Harvey Dent continues.

By Editor