My Seattle hood comic book shop invited me to share my most anticipated comic books for 2013! Here are the new books, events and trends to look out for this year! Here is a special Zanadu Comics Videoblog:
Thanks to Perry, Howard, Casey, Morgan and Erin for a great experience every book comic Wednesday and for inviting me to share my geeky knowledge and excitement. Visit ZanaduComics.com for Casey and Morgan’s weekly picks!
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Will Marvel’s Merc With a Mouth and writer Cullen Bunn send an army of comic book geeks into the library and save classic literature?
Maybe not but Deadpool fans with savor a series of merciless mashups in Deadpool Killustrated, the followup to Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe.
Last week Bunn unleashed Wade Wilson on Moby Dick in the premiere issue. Deadpool will target Sherlock Holmes and The Three Musketeers in the series. Bullen tells Marvel.com why these classic were ripe for a mashup with the merc.
“Some of these books are favorites, yes. And I’d be lying if I said in some cases I’m not exorcising some demons left over from my college literature courses. There were a couple of other driving forces, though. First, I wanted Deadpool’s targets to be visually interesting and exciting. Second—and most importantly—I wanted to be able to connect the literary figure to the Marvel character—or characters—he or she might have inspired. Even though Deadpool is rampaging through the works of classic literature, we get to see the connection to the Marvel Universe in a strange way.”
“There are no rules. This idea is ridiculous, I know, and Deadpool is traditionally a funny guy. But KILLUSTRATED, like KILLS THE MARVEL UNIVERSE before it, is a horror story. No one is safe.”
From this art by Matteo Lollo is appears Wade is taking on Dracula and his vampire brides in the next issue.
Cullen Bunn begins a new arc for Flash Thompson called Toxic in Venom and will launch a brand new series Fearless Defenders next month starring Valkyrie and Misty Knight!
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Who had the brilliance to geenlight Doctor Who all those years ago? Whovians will discover how the classic time traveler came to television!
The first Doctor Who lives again in An Adventure in Space and Time. The upcoming film celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Time Lord and how the iconic sci-fi series was born. The BBC announced David Bradley (Argus Filch in the Harry Potter films) will portray the late William Hartnell, the first actor to portray the Doctor in the first serial An Unearthly Child. Bradley played a villain in the recent Dinosaurs on a Spaceship episode opposite current Doctor, Matt Smith. Brian Cox (The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, X2 – X-Men United) will play the BBC executive credited with the creation of the series. Filming starts the next month.
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The Joker is tormenting Bruce Wayne and promising the Death of the Family in the Batman books. Talia Al Ghul’s Leviathan has claimed an ally of Batman’s global family in Batman Inc.
Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham are bringing the pain to Gotham City in this week’s Batman Incorporated #7. This is just one of Burnham’s pages courtesy Comics Newsarama. Bruce’s ex-lover wants put his Batman franchise out of business. The battered heroes lost one of their own. In this issue we see the aftermath of Leviathan’s shocking assault. Damian will take on his mother’s champion with the fate of Gotham City hanging in the balance.
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Director Bryan Singer keeps delivering Uncanny casting news! Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Anna Paquin, Shawn Ashmore and Ellen Page are reprising their roles in X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Stars from the original three films will join stars of X-Men: First Class including Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Jennifer Lawrence.
The film will be based on the classic storyline in which mutants from the future try to change the past.
My geeky brain starting thinking of what else would make this sequel even more Astonishing X-fans! Here are 8 wishes:
X1 Hugh Jackman leading the real Last Stand! In the classic Days of Future Past storyline Logan leads the underground resistance in a future North America ruled by Sentinels. Magneto, Storm, Colossus and Kitty Pryde (now Kate Rasputin) are the only surviving X-Men. The heroes eventually break out of their concentration camp and join Logan on a suicide raid on Sentinel headquarters. Hugh Jackman is set to return so he could play the aging Logan on his last mission.
X2 Rachel Summers! The daughter of Scott and Jean is the key to the story. Rachel is telepathic and telekinetic like her mother and uses her psionic powers to send Kate’s mind into the present day body of a younger Kitty Pryde who must convince the X-Men to prevent an assassination that will lead to this dark future. Bryce Dallas Howard (yes I know she’s already been in a Spidey movie) would be perfect as tragic daughter of Scott and Jean. Rachel was forced to be a “Hound” and track down fellow mutants. In the comic books Rachel escaped the future and went into the past became the new Phoenix and joined the X-Men. She currently teaches as the Jean Grey School.
X3 Franklin Richards! The last surviving member of the Fantastic Four is in love with Rachel. The son of Reed and Susan Storm Richards is in the camp with the surviving X-Men and I won’t reveal his final fate. Mark Millar’s new role as Creative Consultant for the Fox controlled Marvel franchises includes the upcoming reboot of Fantastic Four. This film could serve as a reboot point for both franchises similar to J.J. Abrams’s Star Trek.
X4 Kitty Pryde/Kate Rasputin! Ellen Page is back so will she play the future Kate? Kitty is married to Colossus (as it should be!) but agrees to have her mind travel into the past to rally the X-Men to stop a chain of events leading to the dark future.
Continue reading X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Wish List!
Avengers #4 In the aftermath of the cosmic clash on Mars Jonathan Hickman sends the Avengers into the Savage Land and explores the origin of the new Hyperion.
Batman Inc #7 Can Damian save Gotham City? The survivors of Batman Inc take the offensive against Talia and her Leviathan.
Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time #1 Celebrate the Time Lord’s 50th Anniversary with this brand new IDW series starring ALL ELEVEN Time Lords! The adventure kicks off with first Doctor (William Hartnell) and the giant bugs, the Zarbi!
Hawkeye #7 The Avenging Archer helps victims of Hurricane Sandy in this special issue. You can help them too. The more issues are sold the bigger check writer Matt Fraction will write to help the recovery effort.
Injustice: Gods Among Us #1 The story that gets you ready for the upcoming video game starring DC Comics’ greatest heroes and villains from the makers of Mortal Kombat.
Invincible #100 Which path will Mark Grayson choose? Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley celebrate 10 years and 100 issues.
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Andrew Garfield will face Jamie Foxx as Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 but a second classic villain could be charging into the sequel! Paul Giamatti is in talks to play the Rhino according to The Hollywood Reporter Heat Vision.
Felicity Jones is also in discussion for an undisclosed role according to the story.
Giamatti and Jones would join a packed cast including Foxx, Shailene Woodley as Mary Jane, Dane DeHaan as Harry Osborn and Emma Stone who reprises her role as Gwen Stacy.
The Rhino debuted in Amazing Spider-Man #41 as Russian thug-for-hire who wears a horned body suit that enhances his strength, speed and endurance.
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The truth is out there! Mulder and Scully’s investigations of the paranormal and supernatural are back! The X-Files will be reopened in brand new and recollected comic books from IDW Publishing and Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products.
IDW’s publishing plan includes reprinting collections of the classic issues published intermittently from 1995 through 2009 and creating brand-new X-FILES comics to launch in June 2013.
“THE X-FILES is a classic property that helped redefine fans’ expectations for the science-fiction and horror genres,” said IDW’s President/Chief Operating Officer Greg Goldstein. “The possibilities for new comic stories are virtually unlimited!”
“The fans of THE X-FILES have remained loyal to the series since its conclusion. What better way to continue the show’s legacy and give back to them than through new stories in a different medium,” said Jeffrey Godsick, President of Fox Consumer Products. “IDW has worked with a number of our Fox properties, and we know they’re going to do great things with these iconic characters.”
“Few shows have captured the zeitgeist and fans’ imaginations like THE X-FILES, and fewer shows still have left people hungry for more in the way this one did,” said Chris Ryall, IDW’s Chief Creative Officer/Editor-in-Chief. “Our new series will be picking up where the second film left off, which will hopefully be as exciting for fans to read as it is for us to develop.”
The big question: who would you like to see write a new X-Files series?
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