Category: Television

Top Comic Book Picks for 11/28/12

All-New X-Men #2 courtesy Marvel

All-New X-Men #2 New mutants are popping up across the world. Cyclops has gone full-blown revolutionary. An X-Man travels back to a key point in the team’s history in hopes of saving the mutant race. How will the original five students of Xavier (including Jean Grey!) react upon seeing their future?

Arrow #1 Brand new adventures of DC’s crusader from the creators of the hit CW series and legendary Green Arrow comic creator Mike Grell.

Batman Incorporated #5  Bruce Wayne’s son is now the Batman? Bruce is in Arkham Asylum? Grant Morrison takes you back to the dark future he created in the modern classic Batman #666.

FF #1 Meet the new Fantastic Four? Medusa, Ant-Man, She-Hulk,  and She-Thing take the place of Marvel’s First Family in a brand new adventure by Matt Fraction and Mike Allred.

Uncanny Avengers #2 The Red Skull committed one of the most shocking and heinous acts I’ve seen in comics – and now he’s more powerful than ever with a freakish new army and bizarre new weapon. Can Captain America, Thor, Havok, Wolverine, Scarlet Witch and Rogue stop more mutant acts of terror?

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Legendary Voice Actors and Comic Creators For Emerald City Comicon

Fearless Defenders #1 courtesy Marvel

Winnie the Pooh, Scooby Doo, Wolverine and Venom? Sounds like a scary MAX book! The creators and voices behind these classic characters are more reasons buy tickets for Emerald City Comicon in 2013! The stellar lineup just got more star packed!

Comic Book Creators:

Cullen Bunn (Wolverine, Venom, Fear Itself: The Fearless, Fearless Defenders)

Paul Jenkins (Origin, Batman: The Dark Knight, Sentry, Incredible Hulk)

Laura Martin Award-winning colorist (Uncanny Avengers, Avengers vs. X-Men, The Mighty Thor)

Andy Owens Inker of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Swamp Thing, Superboy

Voice Actors:

Grey DeLisle (Daphne of Scooby Doo, plus roles on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Catwoman in the Batman: Arkham Asylum videogame and the upcoming Injustice: Gods Among Us)

Jim Cummings (Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Darkwing Duck)

 

 

Emerald City Comicon is March 1-3, 2013 in Seattle. Tickets are now on sale.

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Top 5 Comics For 11/21/12

Captain America #1 courtesy Marvel

Captain America #1 The Star-Spangled Avenger’s new adventure take a sci-fi spin. No country. No allies. Steve Rogers is alone in a bizarre dimension packed with new enemies and an amped up old villain

Indestructible Hulk #1 Bruce Banner and his monstrous alter ego working together? Meet SHIELD’s biggest, brainiest new agent!

Batwoman #14 The thrilling showdown between Kate and Wonder Woman against the madness of Medusa!

Star Trek #15 You’ve got to love Spock in a stache! Yes, it’s time for a brand new adventure in the Mirror, Mirror universe!

Wolverine and the X-Men #21 This may be Thanksgiving week but a terrifying new villain stalks the staff and kids of the Jean Grey School! Frankenstein’s Murder Circus turns Storm, Logan and Bobby into their strangest new showstopppers.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Starbuck in Seattle! Dirk Benedict at Emerald City Comicon

courtesy Emerald City Comicon

  I’m excited to share that Dirk Benedict is coming to Emerald City Comicon next year! The actor played two notorious ladies’ men on two iconic television shows of my youth. On the original Battlestar Galactica Benedict played Lt. Starbuck. The Colonial pilot blasted Cylons, seduced ladies but Apollo and the fleet could always count on him when they needed him. I admit I had the Starbuck action figure along with a Colonial Viper and Cylon Raider.

  Benedict then played Templeton Peck aka Faceman on the classic series The A-Team. This was another great role to showcase Benedict’s charisma, charm and comic timing. The Montana native attended college in Walla Walla, Washington and performed in Seattle theatre productions before becoming a pop culture icon with two classic characters.

  Benedict will be appearing all three days. Emerald City Comicon is March 1-3, 2013 at the Washington State Convention Center. Tickets are on sale online or visit a local comic book shop selling tickets – and pick a book or three while you’re there!

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ARROW Casts Farscape, Stargate Star

courtesy The CW

Producers of The CW hit ARROW are making it hard for die-hard sci-fi fans not to tune in! Ben Browder (Farscape, Stargate SG-1) will join the series as DC Comics character Ted Gaynor according to IGN.

The Blackhawk Squadron member will be the former commanding office of bodyguard Diggle on the series. Browder recently guest starred on the Doctor Who episode A Town Called Mercy. I LOVED Browder as John Crichton on Farscape. Ted Gaynor hits Starling City in the eleventh episode.

John Barrowman (Torchwood, Doctor Who) will join the series in a yet undisclosed role.

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Celebrate WILLOW! Can She Bring Magic Back to BUFFY?

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Willow Wonderland #1 courtesy Dark Horse Comics

Let’s celebrate the approval of marriage equality victories in Maine, Maryland (and my state Washington) by celebrating the gorgeous and enchanting lesbian of the Buffyverse!

Willow is back in a brand new series!

In a world without magic Willow Rosenberg grabs Buffy’s scythe and sets out to set things right!

  Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow Wonderland #1 begins the new adventure this week. Jeff Parker and Brian Ching weave a new tale starring the sweet witch of the Buffyverse from Dark Horse Comics.

I’m loving this cover by David Mack.

Willow is a groundbreaking character. She may bring magic back to the world of Buffy. Willow can now marry in more states in the U.S.

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Neil Gaiman Returns to DOCTOR WHO!

 

Matt Smith as The Doctor courtesy BBC America

  Neil Gaiman crafted one of my favorite and heartfelt episodes of Doctor Who ever! The author of The Doctor’s Wife will write a new adventure for the Time Lord featuring the Cybermen!

  Warwick Davis, Tamzin Outhwaite and Jason Watkins will join Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman for the episode.

 “Cybermen were always the monsters that scared me the most! Not just because they were an awesome military force, but because sometimes they could be sleek and silver and right behind you without you even knowing. ’ He added, ‘And with one of the all-time classic monsters returning, and a script from one of our finest novelists, it’s no surprise we have attracted such stellar names as Tamzin, Jason and Warwick,” Executive Producer Steven Moffatt told the BBC.

  Doctor Who returns at Christmas and then for 8 episodes in 2013.

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Top 5 Comic Book Picks 10/24/12

Astonishing X-Men #55 courtesy Marvel

Astonishing X-Men #55 The villainess who blew up Logan, mindwarped the team and enslaved Karma has given the X-Men a mission impossible in Madripoor! Innocent people are caught in the crossfire of Hatchitech weapons around the globe. Will the team sacrifice Karma to stop Hatchi?

Batman Incorporated #4 Move over Batman and Robin, here comes Wingman and Redbird?! What is the Dark Knight’s connection to these new crusaders? Talia Al Ghul escalates her plot to Damian.

Captain America #19 The end of an era. Ed Brubaker’s final issue of the hero he revitalized. Artist Steve Epting returns for Brubaker’s final Steve Rogers story.

Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation2 #6 Can the Doctor convince Captain Picard to join forces with the Federation’s greatest enemy? Will the Time Lord shatter his new alliance with the Enterprise crew in order to defeat the Cybermen?

Wolverine MAX #1 Logan unleashed in a brand new, more mature readers only book by crime novelist Jason Starr. Is Wolverine the pawn or target of a terrorist plot in Tokyo. The X-Man gets to cut loose!

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