Extra Sequential Podcast #57-Aquatic Characters

64 mins. Our maritime message is that you listen to this aquatic adventure for your audio canals, as a tidal wave of seafaring superheroes and stories washes over you. Also, six-packs, Eddie Murphy and arm wrestling and our attempt to mock Aquaman’s harpoon hand, and lustrous hair. He’s the King of the Seven Seas! He demands respect people!

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2:15 NEWS

An old comic from the creators of Asterix comes to life

Chuck Norris and Van Damme in The Expendables 2

Another Beetlejuice film is coming our way

Top Shelf’s huge sale

Seth and Daniel Clowes tour

Writer J.M. DeMatteis’ weekend workshop

Fables for Japan charity comic

11:29 THEME – AQUATICNESS 

The massively popular One Piece by Eiichiro Oda

The whacky Seaguy from Grant Morrison and Cameron Stewart

Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese

Asterix and Obelisk and their battles against pirates

Gestalt’s The Deep – with a sequel now on the way!

Freakangels by Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield

Michael Turner’s Fathom from publisher Aspen

Cartoon Snorks

Tales of the Black Freighter – the pirate story within Watchmen. Also an animated film.

Namor

Aquaman (Read more about him on page 30-37 here at the digital ES mag). Preview of the relaunched #1 here.

Ian Churchill’s Marineman

Jay Piscopo’s The Undersea Adventures of Cap’n Eli and its spinoff Sea Ghost

Abe Sapien

Cursed Pirate Girl

Popeye

Steve Pugh’s Shark Man

X-Men: Regenesis

Marvel have bene teasing the post-Schism state of the X-Men with images featuring a wide cast of characters. With each image they’d unleash, one more character would lose the silhouette. Now, all the characters stand revealed, including Colossus in Juggernaut’s helmet by the looks of things.

X-MEN: REGENESIS – Choose Your Team!

After the cataclysmic events of X-Men: Schism, all of mutantkind will be forced to make the biggest decision of their lives. What team will you choose?

Join the conversation on Twitter with #XMenRegenesis!

UNCANNY X-MEN #1 (SEP110591)
Written by KIERON GILLEN
Art & Cover by CARLOS PACHECO

Variant Cover by DALE KEOWN
NOVEMBER 2011

 

GENERATION HOPE #13 (SEP110610)
Written by JAMES ASMUS
Art & Cover by IBRAIM ROBERSON
Variant Cover by DALE KEOWN
NOVEMBER 2011

X-MEN #20 (SEP110600)
Written by VICTOR GISCHLER
Art by WILL CONRAD
Cover by ADI GRANOV
Variant Cover by DALE KEOWN
NOVEMBER 2011

NEW MUTANTS #33 (SEP110607)
Written by DAN ABNETT & ANDY LANNING
Art by DAVID LOPEZ
Variant Cover by DALE KEOWN
NOVEMBER 2011

Atomic Robo: The Ghost of Station X #1 Review

At Broken Frontier is my review of the sixth volume’s debut of Red 5’s flagship hero, Atomic Robo.

Read my full review here.

 

The Frontiersman #27

The latest issue of the digital mag from Broken Frontier is now up, and it’s awesome, and I don’t just say that because I wrote some of the content. Not much content sure, but there’s some great stuff in the 118 pages including a run down of all 52 new series from DC, with some insightful comments from the creators themselves, features on Buffy Season 9, a history of Canadian super team Alpha Flight, the complete debut issue of Spontaneous from Oni Press and much more!

Get it here now for only $1.49!

Dark Horse Comics Look See

Geekweek has a cool look at the Dark Horse Comics HQ, the comics publisher behind Hellboy, Conan, Buffy and much more. There’s a few photos, but the real interesting bits are the short interviews with founder Mike Richardson, Director of Publicity Jeremy Atkins and managing editor Scott Allie.

“If a comics shop makes the effort to do it right, it can prosper,” Atkins maintains, “And Dark Horse is ready to help with incentives.” He points out that the company provides special vouchers for free online content that you can only get at your local comics shop. “We have never forgotten the vital role of the comics shop. It provides a social function, just like an independent record store or bookstore.” An upcoming incentive for the fall is a line up of three new titles that will debut their first issues in print for 99 cents and their first digital issue for $1.99: “Orchid,” by Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine), available Oct. 12;“House of Night,” by best-selling author P.C. Cast and her daughter, Kirsten Cast, available Nov. 9; “The Strain,” based on the bestseller by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, adapted by David Lapham (“100 Bullets”), available Dec. 14.

Sticking with Dark Horse, MTV Geek has a creator commentary/interview with writer Christos Gage, focused on the new Angel & Faith #1. Obviously, it’s spoiler-filled, but is necessary reading for fans of Buffy and co.

Extra Sequential Podcast #56-Comics We Wanna See

77 mins. After a few brief news items we launch into comics we’d like to see some day. This involves dream projects, concept variations and fond memories of 80s cartoons and forgotten 90s TV shows. We also sing. A lot and mention Gerard Depardieu, She-Hulk and Mad Max.

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2:24 NEWS

Brian Wood at Marvel

Alpha Flight ongoing series

Superman film costume pics

Conan’s failure at the box office

17:14 THEME-COMICS WE WANT TO SEE

 

Carnivale

Nowhere Man

ThunderCats

Star Trek comics NOT based on any of the movie/series characters, and New Frontier

Bionic Six

Asterix and Obelix from new creative teams, ala Spirou and Lucky Luke

Marvel and DC combining forces into one mega-publisher

Peter David returning to Hulk

(good) Indiana Jones comics

Original Phantom stories from Australia

Different iterations of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, such as this great ’80s one

The Ultimates Volume 3 by Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch

Hard science fiction comics

Tom Neely for a new Popeye series, like his surreal “Popeye: Doppelganger”

More Elseworlds tales from DC Comics

Also, comics that do exist but that you may not know about, such as Dark Crystal, X-Men Forever, X-Factor Forever and Buckaroo Banzai.

Check out Project Rooftop and Superman 2000 too.

The Eldritch Kid Review

I must admit, I enjoyed this a lot more than I was expecting to. The latest OGN from Aussie publisher Gestalt is a scary and entertaining mix of the Western and supernatural genres. Read my review here.

The Big Bang Theory and DC Comics Team Up

This is my 1800th post. Wow. That went fast.

My podcast co-host Mladen and I disagree on the entertainment value of The Big Bang Theory. I actually quite like it, but maybe that’s just because I like to see comics being discussed during prime time. It would be good to see fanboys and girls portrayed as something other than uber-nerds though.

Well, the show is now being syndicated, ie, repeatable daily, and DC Comics is teaming up to celebrate by offering Big Bang themed backing boards and more goodies.

Further details here, in which you can also see the below excerpt featuring the BBT boys, which after some searching I discovered is from Power Girl #4 from 2009. Read more pages of that ish here.

 

Superman Film Costume Pics

Here’s the first, good look at the costume on actor Henry Cavill from the currently filming Superman reboot. Yep, no red undies, some annoying texturing and some kinda interesting black edges. See more right here.

Cool Cities and Cars

Here’s a funky gallery of posters celebrating cities of a few superheroes, and ads from some of pop culture’s best cars. Go here to check out artist Justin Van Genderden’s site.

PowerCon Cereal Geek Mag Cover

What a mouthful that title is. Cereal Geek is a digital mag devoted to the wonderful ‘toons of the ’80s. Power-Con/ThunderCon is a new convention devoted to He-Man and ThunderCats. Below is the cover by comics artist Ed McGuiness as a special Con cover for the mag. Great stuff.

Batgirl #1 and Season One Previews

Confirming the presence of the events of The Killing Joke upon Barbara Gordon is this new 6 page preview from next month’s Batgirl #1, by Gail Simone and Adrian Syaf.

 

At FanExpo Canada Marvel showed the first interior (though unlettered) pages from their 4 Season One OGNs designed to retell origins for a new audience. See pages from Daredevil, Fantastic Four, X-Men and Spider-Man right here.

Guest Buffy Blogs

Over at the Dark Horse Blog they’ve just started a series of guest posts from Buffy sites to celebrate next month’s release of Buffy Season 9 #1. Read the first post from Buffyfest here.

Starting today we will be featuring Guest Blog posts by fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer here on our site. We are really excited about Buffy Season 9 comics arriving on Comic Shop shelves Sept. 14th and wanted to reach out to fans and get their thoughts about Season 9 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer in general. Whedon fans are legion and probably some of the most generous and passionate we’ve ever encountered. We’re excited to share their enthusiasm for Buffy here on our Blog.
On a related note, artist Rebekah Isaacs will be doing a few signings at some New Hampshire comic shops for Angel & Faith #1 next week. Details here.

 

Gene Luen Yang on Christianity and Comics

Magazine/site Sojourners has a well researched and well written article on the relationship between Christianity and comics, two of my fave topics, by comics creator Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese, Level Up).

Read it here.