Extra Sequential Podcast #90-Grand Finale!

57 mins. Yes, it’s the big finish, our fond farewell, our last hurrah. In our most rambling episode yet, we talk about a bunch of comics, Turok, the master of sit-com theme songs, an awkward Italian song contest, David Bowie’s wife, Michael Jackson as Spider-Man, alternate cinematic realities, and much more! Fare thee well and thanks so much for listening!

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2:10 NEWS

Joss Whedon’s film Cabin in the Woods will actually get a limited theatrical run in Sydney and Melbourne

The Dark Knight Rises, and The Amazing Spider-Man trailers

Mark Waid’s comics website, Thrillbent launches

Charles Burns’ upcoming The Hive

Free Comic Book Day thoughts

14:33 WHAT WE’VE BEEN READING

Buffy Season 8 motion comic. A must for fans of the TV series.

Perfect Strangers: The Video Game. “Nothing’s gonna stop me now!”

Road to Perdition. Featuring a baddie Daniel Craig.

Archaia’s great Hard Cover freebie.

The Strange Talent of Luther Strode. Blood, and stuff.

Daredevil Volume 1. Mark Waid, Marcos Martin and Paolo Rivera bring the fun back to superhero stories.

The Cartoon Crier. Depressing, but free!

Showcase Presents The Spectre. 620 pages of righteous vengeance and criminals getting their gruesome comeuppance!

May 5, 2012
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The Walking Dead Game Trailer

Now available is the very well reviewed first episode of The Walking Dead game, based on the hugely popular comic and TV series. Below is a trailer and all the necessary info.

Telltale Games today released an all-new trailer focusing in on the story of ‘A New Day,’ the first episode of The Walking Dead games series based on Robert Kirkman’s Eisner Award-winning comic book series.

Players will be able to experience the first episode of the summer-long adventure horror series, which arrived today* for download on PlayStation®Network, PC and Mac, and will release very soon on Xbox LIVE Marketplace for Xbox 360.

Episode one, ‘A New Day’ and the following four episodes deliver an experience tailored by the decisions that each player makes, leading to multiple paths through the story. Players take on the role of Lee Everett, a man convicted of murder, now given newfound freedom and a chance at redemption in a world devastated by the undead.  Intense life or death situations will force the player to explore the darker sides of human nature, and they will meet familiar characters and visit locations from the world created by Robert Kirkman, foreshadowing the story of Deputy Sheriff Rick Grimes in The Walking Dead comics.  The first episode will sell for 400 Microsoft® Points on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace, $4.99 on PlayStation Network and on PC and Mac as a season pass covering all five episodes for $24.99 from the Telltale Online Store and other digital distribution outlets.

Telltale would like to remind fans that they can purchase the game for PC or Mac via their Telltale Online Store and via Valve’s Steam service, as well as other digital distribution services.

Telltale plans to release The Walking Dead for Apple’s iOS platform later this summer.

The Walking Dead is rated ‘M’ (Mature) for Blood and Gore, Intense Violence and Strong Language by the ESRB.

For more information on the game, visit the official website, Facebook and follow us on Twitter. For more information on The Walking Dead comic books, visitwww.skybound.com.

April 30, 2012
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He-Man, Pac-Man and Mega Man

I spoke yesterday at Perth’s Swancon about the DC relaunch of last year. The general consensus of my fellow panellists and the audience was that it has yet to work. However DC may be getting in my good books if July’s He-Man series from James Robinson and Phillip Tan is any good. This is a nice surprise and there haven’t been any Masters of the Universe comics for years. I’m looking forward to this.

Go to MTV Geek for an interview with Robinson.

Staying with nostalgia, here are two interesting live action fan films based on classic video game characters. Here’s a creatively reinvented Pac-Man, and Mega Man X which was made for only $700.

 

April 7, 2012
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Assassin’s Creed 3 Trailer

Arriving just after Halloween this year is the third entry in this innovative franchise, and the setting has jumped forward to the American Revolution. As is to be expected, it looks great.

March 6, 2012
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DC’s Video Game Comics Sale

Starting on February 21 and running for 4 days is a great sale on heaps of DC Comics’ video game tie-ins. Details below and start shopping here.

Prepare to level up your video game comic book reading experience.

DC Digital Comics is offering a sensational sale on all titles based on some of the best-selling video game franchises of all time.

Journey deeper into madhouse with special tie-in limited series that sets the stage for the critically acclaimed, award-winning sequel to BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM, BATMAN: ARKHAM CITY—including exclusive digital chapters.

Discover the secret history of Ghost from MODERN WARFARE 2; head to battle with Marcus Fenix and Delta Squad in GEARS OF WAR; unleash Hell with the six-issue DANTE’S INFERNO; fight against infection with BSAA Agents Gere and Sugarman in RESIDENT EVIL; and much, much more.

We’ve got 100 video game comic issues to stock your inventory with—all for only .99 cents each! Grab them while you can before we hit the reset button and this sale disappears!

The 4-Day Video Game Comics Sale begins 2/21!

Play the game! Read the comics!

February 18, 2012
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The Art of the Mass Effect Universe Review

At Broken Frontier you can check out my review of next week’s art book for the popular Mass Effect games.

Review here, and preview below.

January 31, 2012
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Spidey and Star Wars on TV plus Supes on Console

Similar to Cartoon Network’s upcoming DC Nation block of programming is Marvel’s version, led by the long in the works Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon. It launches on April Fool’s Day (yes, true) and is called Marvel Universe. It will feature not only Spidey, but also the return of The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes cartoon and some other animated and live action bits and pieces.

Talking about overdue TV series, the Star Wars live action show at least has a name – Underworld. Producer Rick McCallum says that there have been 50 scripts completed so far, and that the show will focus on the seedy underbelly of the Star Wars Universe. I’m keen to see this, so I hope that despite the budgetary issues it gets made.

Superman, unlike Batman, hasn’t had a good video game in a long time. Here’s some great concept art from  a 2008 Supes game that never came to be unfortunately. It would’ve featured Darkseid, Kalibak and more and was code named Blue Steel, just like the Jamie Lee Curtis film, or Zoolander’s facial expression!

A game that has been made though is this new one called Marvel: Avengers Alliance which will launch on Facebook sometime this year. Just before the film, I’d imagine.

January 11, 2012
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Win Batman From Arkham City

Thanks to the excellent Good Game TV series on Australia’s ABC you can win this intimidating life-size Batman statue from the best selling Arkham City game. You have to create an original 1 to 4 page comic starring Batman and one of the Good Game crew, perhaps as a baddie, a civilian needing rescuing or even a potential Robin! Go nuts and good luck.

All relevant rules here and the competition closes November 14.

October 29, 2011
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Arkham City Gets Better

I’ve only played a few minutes of Batman: Arkham City and in short, it’s awesome. It’s about to get awesomer though on November 1 when the Nightwing (the grown up original Robin) DLC gets released. His inclusion has been teased for a while, but this is the first in-game video to be shown.

XworkZ Studios have been inspired by the game and have created the costume Batman sports in the game, (which has sold 4.6 million copies in its first week of release!) and have got it spot on. See more photos right here.

 

October 27, 2011
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New Modern Warfare 3 Trailer

This new single player trailer for Modern Warfare 3 makes me want it even more. It’s released on November 8.

 

October 8, 2011
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Batman’s Arkham City Skins

I still haven’t finished the first game to do Batman justice, Arkham Asylum and probably never will, but the sequel, Arkham City looks very tempting. It’s out on October 19 and also features Two-Face, Catwoman, Penguin and a few others, and even Robin, in a costume that looks like Tim Drake’s early version. Nice. I was looking at the Coming Soon box at JB Hi-Fi and it comes with some pretty cool extras here in Australia, including Tim’s alternate Red Robin skin.

Batman himself also comes with a slew of skins. Yes, a slew. Unfortunately, different countries get different skins apparently, but I’m sure some eager gamers will find a way around that. Below you can see what’s available and from left to right we have Batman Beyond, The Dark Knight Returns (which Aussies get! Woo hoo!), Batman: Earth One (from the upcoming OGN), Classic Batman, The Animated Series and finally, the standard Arkham City costume.

JB’s collector’s edition also comes with a Batman animated film. Unfortunately it’s the anime anthology Gotham Knight from a few years ago. It would’ve been so much better if they could put in one of the more recent animated films based on the comics, like Under the Red Hood, or even Batman: Year One, seeing as that’s being released at the same time.

 

August 1, 2011
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Bats and Spidey Trailers

Movie studios are learning that if you can’t beat them, join them. Just one day after The Amazing Spider-Man trailer leaked online, Columbia have released the official version. The film stars Anderw Garfield (The Social Network) as Peter Parker and opens in July 2012. Time will tell if it’s too early for a reboot, but so far, and including the released pics, this looks pretty enjoyable. The film is the first to feature Peter’s parents, and has some rooftop acrobatics reminiscent of the parkour game Mirror’s Edge.

The same story applies to the teaser for next year’s final Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, and it is a teaser, with not much new footage. Equally as impressive are these two fan made posters which mash up the posters from the entire trilogy.

Lastly, the new version of Marvel vs Capcom 3 is out in November, which features 12 new characters (below) and more. 

Capcom:
Strider
Firebrand
Vergil
Frank West
Phoenix Wright
Nemesis

Marvel:
Ghost Rider
Dr Strange
Nova
Rocket Raccoon
Hawkeye
Iron Fist

July 21, 2011
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Batman: Arkham City Footage

Batman: Arkham Asylum was the videogame that Batman deserved, and come October 18, we’ll get the sequel, with Catwoman, and Robin as playable characters (the latter only as a Best Buy DLC though). Baddies such as Two-Face, Riddler, Hugo Strange and Harley Quinn show up and Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill reprise their roles from the ’90s cartoon series and the first game as Batman, and Joker. Below you can see 12 minutes of footage from Arkham City, comprised of cut scenes and great gameplay. Yes, there are 2 moments where dialogue is digitally altered so as not to reveal spoilers.

July 2, 2011
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Extra Sequential Podcast #38-Body Image

67 mins. This week we talk about body image in superhero comics, plus the Spice Girls, the Royal Wedding and sagging shelves.

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2:45 NEWS

Dark Horse Comics’ Digital Store

Shannon Wheeler ‘s I Thought You Would Be Funnier can now be read for free online

Captain America and The Avengers film info

Free Comic Book Day on May 7

8: 28 WHAT WE’VE BEEN READING

Portal 2

Brightest Day #24 – John Constantine and Swamp Thing travel from Vertigo to the DC Universe

Avengers #12.1 – Spider-Woman gets captured by the evil smarty pants team, The Intelligencia. The Avengers rescue her and meet Ultron, who then vanishes. Not for newbies but great art by Bryan Hitch.

Action Comics #900 – The controversial landmark issue in which Superman renounces his American citizenship, plus some other cool tales.

The Complete Peanuts Vol. 1 1950-52 – Charles Schulz’s classic and funny work with Charlie Brown and co.

A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible – an experimental webcomic

34:15 FEATURE TOPIC – BODY IMAGE

We look at the sexy spandex brigade and how male and female characters are treated differently.

April 30, 2011
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