Tag: Joe Casey

Top 5 Comic Book Picks for April 10, 2013

Batman #19 courtesy DC Comics
Batman #19 courtesy DC Comics

Batman #19 Bruce Wayne vs. Jim Gordon?

Harbinger #11 Is Bloodshot gunning for Peter Stanchek and his Renegades? How will the kids react to Project Rising Spirit’s new mission? Harbinger Wars continues this week.

Sex #2 How does a former crime fighter get his thrills when his super hero fantasies are over? Joe Casey’s shocking story of a repressed ex-hero’s submersion into a city’s twisted underbelly.

Star Wars #4 Princess Leia sets a trap for an Imperial spy in the rebel fleet. Luke Skywalker is grounded. Will the future Jedi’s flirtation with a fellow pilot become a dangerous romance? Han Solo’s escape from the Empire leads to an adventure in the dark underworld of Coruscant. Brian Wood’s new adventures set during the original trilogy continue to thrill and amaze.

Ultron #1AU  What if your father took over the world and killed a lot of superheroes. Life was already tough for Victor Mancha. Now Age of Ultron brings more daddy issues for the android son of Ultron. Kathryn Immonen focuses on the former Runaway and future star of Avengers AI. Can this tortured teen escaped his evil father’s shadow to forge his own heroic future?

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Top Comic Book Picks for March 6, 2013

A+X #5 courtesy Marvel
A+X #5 courtesy Marvel

A+X #5 Iron First teams up with Doop? Laughs will definitely ensure when the Kung Fu Master meets the mystery mutant blob who always steals the show!

Age of Ultron #1 The insane android wins! Only a handful of heroes are left to stand against the onslaught of the

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Willow Wonderland #5 Willow’s mission to restore magic leads a confrontation with the greatest evil before can go home!

Detective Comics #18 Batman Continue reading Top Comic Book Picks for March 6, 2013

2013 Comics to Watch Videoblog!

Zanadu Comics Seattle First Round Table Group 1/11/12
Zanadu Comics Seattle First Round Table Group 1/11/12

    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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Most Anticipated 2013 – Image, Dark Horse, Indie

Fatale #1 cover courtesy Image Comics
Fatale #1 cover courtesy Image Comics

Fatale Flashbacks Standalone stories starring the Femme Fatale of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’s epic horror/crime noir series. Those genres get a twist of spaghetti western in Fatale #13 in a tale of Josephine and the Fatale curse in the old wild west. (Image)

Manhattan Projects Jonathan Hickman’s stange tale of twisted history and weird science evolves in a frightening way when the scientists behind the MP now control the earth! (Image)

Sex #1 Joe Casey (Image, March) A former superhero obsessed with having as much sex as he can? Is this like Shame but with capes?

The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys by Gerard Way and Becky Cloonan. The front man of My Chemical Romance who made The Umbrella Academy is back with a new series spinning out of his band’s 2010 album. (Dark Horse Comics)

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Hulk Smash Avengers! Joe Casey Knows Avengers!

Hulk Smash Avengers #2 courtesy Marvel.com

  Hulk helped create the Avengers (thanks to Loki’s meddling) but didn’t stick around. When Marvel’s The Avengers hits the big screen the Green Goliath will be fighting with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes this May. Hulk Smash Avengers hits comic book stores that month too. The 5 part series will feature different teams telling tales of the big guy and his odd relationship with the team. Joe Casey and Max Fiumura reveal an untold tale of a clash between Hulk and the Avengers in issue two. Casey knows his continuity history and revealed when this story happens to Marvel.com.

  “This story fits in very specifically with Avengers continuity, right between issues #182 and #183,” he says. “For anyone who’s as obsessive about their Avengers continuity as I am, they would know that those were the members that would be hanging around the mansion at that point. Captain America’s in there, too, but there’s a reason why he’s not directly involved in going after The Hulk.”

Hulk Smash Avengers #2 courtesy Marvel.com

  “Like I said, I can be a nut about Avengers continuity, so I wanted to make sure this story fit perfectly into the timeline of a period that’s probably my favorite run of Avengers comics, the Michelinie/Byrne issues from the late 1970s,” he notes. “Those are the comics that really hooked me when I was a kid, so to find a way to fit our story into that continuity was extremely cool.”

For his entire interview and more awesome preview art by Fiumura here’s the Marvel link.

Geek confession: I had a subscription for the Avengers in the awesome Micheline/Byrne run and could kick myself for not saving them!

For an awesome retro X-Men tale by Casey – check out his Children of the Atom series with artist Steve Rude. Casey is appearing at Emerald City Comicon in Seattle this weekend.