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Ticket Stubs (P)review: DC Showcase Orginal Shorts Collection

Victor — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:11:45 +0000

SUPERMAN/SHAZAM! THE RETURN OF BLACK ADAM ANCHORS DC SHOWCASE ORIGINAL SHORTS COLLECTION THE SPECTRE, JONAH HEX, GREEN ARROW INCLUDED ON COMPILATION DUE NOV. 9 FROM WARNER HOME VIDEO

BURBANK, CA (August 5, 2010) – Warner Premiere, DC Entertainment, Warner Bros. Animation and Warner Home Video have expanded the realm of superhero storytelling beyond the popular DC Universe [...]

Monarch Comic Briefing Vol 3 #53 – Week of Jul 20, 2010

Victor — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:18:06 +0000

Trevor Chapman is back with Ed discussing some of the major plot points in recent comics.

This podcast is brought to you by the fine folks at FRPgames.com and the letter “L”.

The Big Con: As Seen at SDCC Comic Con 2010

Nick — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:10:53 +0000

Followers of the Fist,

As your man at the floor at San Diego Comic Con 2010, I did my best to grab document some of the sights of the floor for those poor fans stuck at home. Below is a modest attempt to capture the absolutely overwhelming convention. You won’t believe how big it is until [...]

Off The Rack: X-Factor #207

Matt — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:52:02 +0000

Peter David really knows how to write a comic book. He has all the action and excitement that superheroes should have with enough detective Noir and surprising storytelling to keep you wanting more. Typically, David likes to split up his team and have them working in different directions. In this issue, one storyline continues to [...]

Monarch Comics Briefing Vol 3 #54 – Week of July 14, 2010

Ed — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:53:30 +0000

Ed chats with Andy Howell. Andy is a pilot and is stationed near the abandoned Air Force base where they are filming parts of the Green Lantern movie. He sent these photos and discusses ‘visiting the set’.

Besides that they discuss:

Brightest Day Green Arrow Avengers Justice League Ed’s shoes

This podcast was brought [...]

Off the Rack: Avengers – The Children’s Crusade

Matt — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:51:31 +0000

Billy Kaplan and his friends have a lot to prove. As Young Avengers, these teens are trying to be taken seriously by older counterparts like Captain America and Iron Man. They have to hold their own fighting evil villains while not getting in trouble with their parents. And, as if that wasn’t enough, writer Allen Heinberg has [...]

Off The Rack: New Mutants #15

Matt — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:20:03 +0000

The New Mutants have grown up a lot in the past couple decades. Years ago, they were a team of teenage mutants who hoped to train hard enough to become X-Men. You should be careful what you wish for.

The members of the New Mutants haven’t teamed together in a long time. Since their breakup, Sunspot [...]

Off The Rack: Rawhide Kid – The Sensational Seven

Matt — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:58:56 +0000

This isn’t a typical John Wayne Western story in any fashion. The Rawhide Kid’s new miniseries, The Sensational Seven, has lots of gun fighting, heroic cowboys, sneaky villains, and a very sexy Annie Oakley. However, what makes this story different from other Westerns is that main hero of the story is more interested in helping [...]

Off the Rack: X-Men #1

Ed — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:45:44 +0000

Guest Reviewer: Ed from Monarch Cards and Comics

In Marvel’s continuing bid at world domination through market share, a brand new ‘adjective-less’ X-Men #1 hit the stands this week. Written by Victor Gischler (Deadpool, crime novel “The Deputy”) and penciled by Paco Medina (also Deadpool) pick up the ongoing X-Saga right on [...]

Ticket Stubs News: Spider-Man Recast!

Benton — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:07:49 +0000

For the upcoming reboot of the amazing Spider-Man, the role of Peter Parker/Spidey has been given to Andrew Garfield (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Doctor Who). The next as-yet untitled Spider-Man film will be directed by Marc Webb ([500] Days of Summer, The Office), scripted by James Vanderbilt (The Losers, Rundown), and is due out July [...]

Off the Rack: Avengers Prime #1

Victor — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 06:48:59 +0000

The dust has cleared after the end of Seige. The bad guys have been carted off. Every one gets a chance to take a breather. Thor, Iron Man and Steve Rogers take a moment to survey the devastation and wreckage. Both Iron Man and Steve Rogers offer their help and then promptly get into an [...]

Off the Rack: The Avenger #1

Victor — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 03:06:54 +0000

Secret War….Civil War….Secret Invasion….Dark Reign….Siege….

All these story lines have lead us to this point, the opening of The Heroic Age. Norman Osbourne has been taken out of the picture. It’s up to Steve Rogers (formally Captain America) to put things back together.

The Avengers #1 replaces New Avengers and Mighty Avengers in Marvels lineup and re-installs [...]

Ticket Stubs: Captain America: The First Avenger (P)review

James — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:30:14 +0000

A first look at the new designs of the Captain America that Chris Evans will be wearing in the upcoming The First Avenger movie. The images are 3-D renderings of the designs and Chris Evan’s face.

The design seems more inline with Cap’s outfit from the Marvel Ultimate line than the traditional Marvel 616 version. Much [...]

Off the Rack: Age of Heroes: #1

Victor — Fri, 28 May 2010 09:36:14 +0000

Age of Heroes #1

Age of Heroes is a four issue mini-series taking a look at a handful of character’s each issue and seeing how The Heroic Age is effecting their corner of the Marvel Universe. Each issue will give us a brief glimpse at three to four heroes in four to six pages.

In this [...]

Off the the Rack: Monarch Comics Briefing Vol 4 #50 – Week of May 19, 2010

Victor — Thu, 27 May 2010 08:28:30 +0000

Ed is back, at least bi-weekly (meaning every other week). This week he is joined in the shop by our Canadian friend, Mr. Trevor Chapman as will as the dynamic duo, Health and Andy.

Topics for this week include:

Siege Blackest Night Brightest Day Dark Reign Second Coming

Off the Rack: Dark Avengers #16

Victor — Thu, 13 May 2010 08:23:58 +0000

Dark Avengers #16

This is the end. Marvel’s #1 selling book is closing out with a bang. After the events of Siege #4, this last issue of Dark Avengers shows us where each of Osbourne’s team ends up. This is the Zamboni that clears the path for The Heroic Age to start.

The story opens just [...]

Off the Rack: Sentry – Fallen Sun

Victor — Thu, 13 May 2010 07:52:16 +0000

Siege: Fallen Sun

Siege has ended. The good guys won. So, we are left with clean up and putting things to rest.

Here we deal with the heroes that knew The Sentry best “burying” him and giving him a proper eulogy.

The story opens at an undisclosed cemetery with a small group of heroes. Through flash-backs and [...]

Off the Rack: Siege #4

Victor — Thu, 13 May 2010 07:25:16 +0000

Siege #4

This is the book we’ve been waiting for. Literally. Two weeks late, the end of the year long Dark Reign storyline has finally arrived. We know the story’s end. Osbourne will be dethroned, The Sentry dealt with, and our heroes on the winning side. But, as a wise man once said, it the [...]

The Toybox: Marvel HeroClix – Web of Spider-Man Expansion

Victor — Wed, 05 May 2010 07:12:13 +0000

Everyone’s favorite neighborhood wall-crawler returns in this first ever Marvel HeroClix set dedicated to Marvel’s most popular character. WizKids/Neca has announced the August release of Marvel HeroClix: Web of Spider-Man Expansion for the Marvel HeroClix Collectible Miniatures Game. The Marvel HeroClix: Web of Spider-Man Expansion includes 64 new HeroClix figures (56 new sculpts) including characters [...]

Off the Rack: X-Men – Second Coming

Matt — Sat, 01 May 2010 01:11:22 +0000

The newest miniseries mutant crossover, Second Coming, is everything a fan loves about the X-men books. Previously, in during the last X-event, Messiah Complex, the planet’s remaining mutants thought that they were a dying race. When a mutant child is born, several groups race to protect/acquire her. In the end, it is Cable wins taking the [...]

Ticket Stubs Preview: Thor

Victor — Sat, 01 May 2010 00:43:34 +0000

Paramount Pictures released a photo of Chris Hemsworth (Kirk’s father in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek) dressed as Thor from their upcoming movie that is set to release 2011.

In related news, Marvel Studios released that it is developing some of the lessor known Marvel characters such as Luke Cage, Dr. Strange, Ka-Zar, Dazzler, and Power Pack [...]

Off the Rack: Free Comic Book Day Preview

Victor — Sat, 01 May 2010 00:12:34 +0000

May 1st, 2010 is Free Comic Book Day at comic book shops nation wide. DC Comics, Marvel, Dark Horse, Image, IDW, Dynamic Entertainment, BOOM Comics, Wizkids/NECA, and host of other publishers are supplying your local comic shops with comic book samples of series you may be interested in.

There will be comics aimed at every comic [...]

Live from C2E2 – Vertigo & Marvel Panels

Benton — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:25:50 +0000

Last Friday Mike & I went to a pair of panels discussing the future of Vertigo and Marvel.

The Vertigo panel was led by Karen Berger, and featured seven Vertigo authors and artists. Some of the topics brought up:

* American Vampire – This book features a different take on vampires than the norm. Scott Snyder [...]

Off the Rack: New Avengers #62

Victor — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:46:38 +0000

The interesting thing about the “linked” Avengers Siege titles (New Avengers, Dark Avengers, Mighty Avengers, etc.) is that instead of telling stories between the pages or issues of the main Siege mini-series as typical of the previous cross-overs, we are being shown what happened in the few hours right before Osbourne and H.A.M.M.E.R. attacked Asgard.

This [...]

Off the Rack: Dark Avengers #14

Victor — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:15:25 +0000

If you haven’t been reading this storyline then, hey, your gonna be sorry.

So as we get closer to the end of Siege, more and more secrets are pouring out about Sentry and Norman Osbourne. As we learn details about who, what, why, and how Sentry is, the more pay off I feel I have gotten [...]

Ticket Stubs: Planet Hulk

Victor — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:23:32 +0000

Marvel Studio’s newest direct-to-video release is an adaption of writer Greg Pak and artist Carlo Pagulayan’s 2006 epic, Planet Hulk. The story ran in Marvel’s Incredible Hulk monthly series as has been collected into several versions including a Planet Hulk Omnibus in 2007. This is Marvel’s attempt to adapt recent story line for their direct-to-video [...]

Off the Rack: Siege and Siege – Embedded

Victor — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:28:21 +0000

Well, this is it. This is supposed to be the Marvel big event that we have been waiting for. The one that’s supposed to be the game changer and set the stage for all Marvel plot points to come. Secret War, Disassembled, House of M, Civil War, Secret Invasion, Death of Captain America, Dark Reign, [...]

Off the Rack: Nova (Recharged and Rebirthed)

Victor — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:53:57 +0000

So, you’ve been reading DC’s Blackest Night and Green Lantern Corps is one of your top listed comics. You like series that have an epic space feel to them with a little police-type based procedural trappings. One day you’re in your local comic shop. You patiently wait your turn to talk to the comic guru [...]

Off The Rack: SWORD

Matt — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:49:20 +0000

The Sword is a story that has been missing from the Marvel Universe. How Earth deals with alien intervention is an area that hasn’t been explored in great detail. The Sentient World Observation and Response Department (S.W.O.R.D.) is Marvel’s space-based answer to S.H.I.E.L.D. and was established during Joss Whedon’s run on Astonishing X-men.

Agent Brand, as [...]

Off the Rack: Imperial Guard – Realm of Kings

Matt — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:55:03 +0000

If you’ve been paying attention to the Marvel Universe and I mean the universe away from the planet Earth, then you’ve seen a lot going on. Skrull invasions, Vulcan’s Shi’ar war on everybody else, and attacks from the Negative Universe have left once great empires in pieces. Now, with their Empress Lilandra dead and Vulcan [...]