And here’s our first full look at Bat-breaker Bane, as played by Tom Hardy in next year’s The Dark Knight Rises. It’s obviously cold wherever he is, as he’s certainly more rugged up than his comics equivalent. There’s also a camouflaged Tumbler which looks like the prototype seen in the first film in the trilogy. [...]
Digital Superman Sale
This weekend DC Comics are offering 99c classic Superman stories. Everybody’s been talking about Superman over the past few weeks, and here’s one more reason. This weekend only we’re offering fans a chance to download their favorite issues for $.99 during the Superman 101 digital comics sale. We’ve got all those classic issues on sale [...]
Extra Sequential Podcast #51-Eisners & Old City Blues
49 mins. We discuss this year’s Eisner Award winners, including some surprises and a few faves, plus examine the recent OGN from Archaia, Giannis Milonogiannis’ sci-fi mash-up Old City Blues. Also, Home Alone 2, Garfield, the exclusion of Jedis and more. LISTEN TO IT BELOW, DOWNLOAD IT HERE OR ON iTUNES You can [...]
Captain America: The First Avenger Film Review
I must admit that I’ve always been more of a DC Comics guy rather than a Marvel reader. As a huge comic book fan for the last two decades, Superman, Batman and co. have always filled my collection more so than the likes of Spider-Man, X-Men, etc. However, it’s pretty obvious that the last few [...]
Marvel: Season One Info
Perhaps, and understandably, spurred on, by DC’s massive success with the Superman: Earth One OGN last year, Marvel are trying something similar with their characters, in order to get the attention of comics newbies. It’s actually a good idea and should be done more often, as walking into a comic shop for the first time [...]
New He-Man Mini-Comics
Dark Horse are creating new comics to be packaged with Mattel’s upcoming He-Man action figures, and the stories will be a continuation from the original ’80s mini-comics. Wow. Good news. You can read an interview here with their writer Tim Seeley (Witchblade). The covers are by Eric Powell (The Goon) with interior art by Wellinton [...]
David Mack’s Swamp Thing Cover
Mladen and I discussed the first issue of Brightest Day Aftermath: The Search for Swamp Thing in a recent Extra Sequential podcast episode in which we focused on Swamp Thing. I saw the second ish at the comic shop today and didn’t grab it, as the first issue really wasn’t that great and my investment in [...]
Hulk vs Dracula #1 Preview
Could this be the end of Bruce Banner? Quite possibly. DEATH CLAIMS The HULK? Witness the cataclysmic showdown between Dracula, Lord of the Undead, and Dei-Hulk that changes the life of the gamma-irradiated monster… FOREVER! FEAR ITSELF: HULK VS. DRACULA #1 (JUL110595) FEAR ITSELF: HULK VS. DRACULA #2 (JUL110596) Written by VICTOR GISCHLER Art by [...]
Kirby Krackle’s Super Powered Love Out Now
Nerdcore band Kirby Krackle’s third album, Super Powered Love, has just been released. They’ve also released new merchandise, a music video and a live album from Australia recently. Yay! Get SPL right here or on iTunes. The album cover is again by artist Jim Mahfood and comes with an 8 page booklet and includes 13 songs [...]
Com.x’s Babble
From English publishers Com.x (Cla$$war, 45, and it’s spinoff BlueSpear-out next month!) comes Babble. All we know so far is that it’s written by Lee Robson with art by Bryan Coyle and is described thusly: Carrie Hartnoll is a girl lost in a life going nowhere fast, until a chance encounter with an ex-boyfriend affords [...]
Sam Sarkar Interview
Now up at Broken Frontier is my interview with Sam Sarkar, writer of the new Image mini-series, The Vault. The first issue is out tomorrow and is definitely worth picking up. It’s a smart underwater mystery with a good mix of science and the supernatural, and it looks great too, with art by his Caliber: [...]
Heaps More DC Comic-Con Art
Ooh, pretty. From the last day of the San Diego Comic-Con, comes a heaping helping of sketches and art for September’s DC relaunch, showing how the new designs of characters such as Hawkman, Lois Lane (and her potential hairdo), Kid Flash and more progressed. See more, including Animal Man, Supergirl and Red Hood right here. [...]
2011 Eisner Awards
Announced at Comic-Con was the full list of the prestigious Eisner winners for this year. As usual there’s no surprises, including CBR as Best Comics Related Journalism, but there’s a few deserving surprises, such as Daytripper, Return of the Dapper Men and Darwyn Cooke. And a comic shop in Israel. Called Comics & Vegetables. Yep. However, it’s [...]
Extra Sequential #50
60 mins. Join us as we celebrate our first milestone episode and talk about heaps of Comic-Con news, and a few recent reviews. We also answer some fanmail and talk about bad Robin Williams’ films, MacGyver, Klingons, Jarvis Cocker, and invisible pants. LISTEN TO IT BELOW, DOWNLOAD IT HERE OR ON ITUNES 6:54 NEWS [...]
