COMICS BLEND

Blast Into the Past With DIVAS, DAMES & DAREDEVILS

After your enjoy this week’s brand new comics I encourage you to enjoy a blast into the past with a brand new collection that celebrates rarely seen tales of super women.

Divas, Dames and Daredevils: Lost Heroines of Golden Age Comics is packed with high adventure with hard boiled detectives, tough reporters, daring pilots, masked vigilantes and powerhouse champions with extraordinary abilities. Today fans celebrate when a female superhero headlines her own comic book series. This collection takes you back to an era when women ruled the anthology comics.

This is the second book from Mike Madrid. The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy and the History of Comic Book Heroines) celebrated the women we love and how they influenced and were influenced by society. Now Madrid shines the spotlight on forgotten heroines who kicked butt as cops, journalists, spies and goddesses devoting a chapter to the different types of heroines followed by a classic tale not seen in decades. Continue reading Blast Into the Past With DIVAS, DAMES & DAREDEVILS

SUPERMAN & WONDER WOMAN Double Date?

Superman/Wonder Woman #4 courtesy DC Comics

Superman/Wonder Woman #1 was blockbuster mix of romance, suspense and action by Charles Soule and Tony Daniel. Clark and Diana’s clandestine date in the skies turned into a rescue mission.

DC Comics shared a look at Superman/Wonder Woman #4 in which Clark and Diana encounter another power couple. You could call this a double date from hell! Continue reading SUPERMAN & WONDER WOMAN Double Date?

Top 5 Comic Book Picks for October 16, 2013

Avengers #21 After the blockbuster events of Infinity #4 (tell me you didn’t cheer when Thor “hammered” the arrogant enemy!) how will Earth’s Mightiest Heroes defeat The Builders? What price will Captain America pay for victory?

(I have to include in this pick…)

New Avengers #11 More Infinity #4 fallout! Has Black Bolt fallen? Why are the rest of the Illuminati on a rival Earth while Thanos and the Builders reach our world?

Batman and Robin #24 One of the best Batman books evolves again. Continue reading Top 5 Comic Book Picks for October 16, 2013

PUNISHER Goes West, Becomes The Prey

The Punisher is back but now he’s the hunted! Marvel announced Nathan Edmondson and Mitch Gerads will launch a new Punisher series as part of the All-New Marvel Now in 2014.

Frank Castle is heading west to Los Angeles to take down a gang but learns he’s the target of a mysterious group.

I love how the creators reveal their take on Frank and how he’ll stalk criminals in L.A. to Marvel.com. Continue reading PUNISHER Goes West, Becomes The Prey

The WOMEN Of BATMAN Previews

An exciting new year for fans of women of the Batman family. Here are some highlights of DC’s books coming in January starring the bad and beautiful women of Gotham City.

My favorite cover is for Harley Quinn #2 by Amanda Conner. In the second chapter Harley and Poison Ivy team up to save…puppies and kittens? Conner and co-writer Jimmy Palmiotti bring the mad fun to caper that’s sure to wrong.

Batgirl #27 and Catwoman #27 are tie-ins to Gothtopia, John Layman’s final arc of Detective Comics. Knightfall, one of my favorite new villains from Gail Simone’s first arc is back to finish what she started – killing Jim Gordon. Continue reading The WOMEN Of BATMAN Previews

Bloodshot and H.A.R.D. CORPS Preview

Blood and H.A.R.D. Corps #15 courtesy Valiant

Here’s a preview of Valiant’s Bloodshot and H.A.R.D. Corps #15 from co-writers Christos Gage & Joshua Dysart and artist Emanuela Lupacchino.

“Project Rising Spirit has just activated a new crop of expendable suicide commandos…and they’re first field mission is a one-way ticket into the crosshairs of Toyo Harada!

Trapped in an enemy stronghold, Bloodshot has been broken – dismantled piece-by-piece, nanite-by-nanite by the Harbinger Foundation’s most disturbed minds. But when Bloodshot’s signal goes dark, who can the black ops military contractor known as Rising Spirit bring in to recover its most expensive soldier? Time to call in…H.A.R.D. Corps!” Continue reading Bloodshot and H.A.R.D. CORPS Preview

All-New NEW WARRIORS Revealed

Announced at New York Comic Con – an all-new New Warriors goes on patrol in the All-New Marvel Now in 2014.

Original members Justice and Speedball will be joined by the new Nova (Sam Alexander) and Scarlet Spider. Writer Chris Yost (Scarlet Spider) tells Marvel.com the mission statement for the newest incarnation of the team:

“Evolution has gone off the rails. There’s super humans, mutants, Inhumans, Atlanteans, clones, alien hybrids, demigods—humanity’s future is no longer certain as the dominant life form on the planet. The war that’s being waged now is one of ethnic cleansing, so to speak; someone wants to save humanity by killing everything else.

The New Warriors are a collection of everything listed above, fighting for the right to survive. They’re eight people from different corners of the Marvel Universe, coming together to do the right thing, to be heroes. Continue reading All-New NEW WARRIORS Revealed

FOREVER EVIL January 2014 Preview

The Crime Syndicate’s grip on Earth is slipping as villains rebel and heroes are reborn. DC Comics shared a look at the Forever Evil books kicking off the new year and continuing the epic event. Make room for more evil as The Blight invade, too.

FOREVER EVIL #5

With everything to lose, Lex Luthor and his Injustice League raid the stronghold of the Crime Syndicate with consequences so devastating, the DC Universe will never be the same.
Continue reading FOREVER EVIL January 2014 Preview

Escape. Engage. Enjoy.