Comics

You’re What’s Wrong With Comic Books

You may have noticed that a lot of Indie books have been getting some good/decent reviews lately and probably think we/I’m am being biased. That these little books aren’t that good because you’ve seen the art and thought that it looks like crap compared to the two big multi-million dollar companies that you’re used to. Well maybe I don’t see comics like that. I don’t see art like that. Each and every comic I personally review is judged on its own merits, but granted there are times when similarities or past creators work is brought up.

But what aggravates me the most is that comic book fans are so unwilling to give a comic a chance if it’s not from the big two. You can make an argument here that Image and Dark Horse are part of the big league too, but they’re not. They may not worry about going out of business anytime soon but they are far from being the top dogs of Comics. I can’t even remember the last monthly book I saw from Dark Horse as they’ve mostly moved into releasing Manga and are making a killing there. Otherwise Hellboy and B.R.P.D. is the only thing coming out on a regular base. Buffy was promising for a while, but it seems that once Joss leaves a book it can’t stand on its own.

Comic Movie Night: Wigram Productions Gets Jeff Smith’s Rasl

Lionel Wigram, who famously hatched a graphic novel version of Sherlock Holmes before
setting that franchise up at Warner Bros., has tapped into another
comic for a feature film project. Wigram Productions has acquired rights
to RASL, a black-and-white science fiction noir comic book
series written and drawn by Jeff Smith. RASL is an ex-military
scientist-turned-art thief who jumps to parallel universes to steal
treasured pieces of art. During these trips, he gets discovered by his
former employer, and finds himself trying to protect the world’s most
dangerous secret. Smith, who launched the series in 2008, also writes Bone, a series that has received 10 Eisner and 11 Harvey Awards. Wigram, who just wrapped Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows,
said he was tipped to the comic by colleague Peter Eskelsen and bought
it with his own cash. “We’ll team with a writer and figure out how to
adapt it to the screen and hopefully it will become a big movie
franchise for Warner Bros.,” he said. ICM brokered the deal. Wigram will
produce, and Eskelsen and Jeff Smith will be exec producers.

Bethesda Softworks and Dark Horse Comics Announce RAGE Comic Book Series

Bethesda Softworks®, a ZeniMax® Media
company, and Dark Horse Comics today announced a three-issue comic book
series based on id® Software’s upcoming RAGE® video game. This original
miniseries is being written by Arvid Nelsion, the acclaimed creator of
Rex Mundi, and penciled by Andrea Mutti (DMZ). The cover art is being
created by Glenn Fabry, best known for his work on Hellblazer and
Preacher. Set prior to the events in the game, the comics are an
extension of the RAGE universe and will provide numerous insights into
the game’s storyline. The first of the three comics will be available in
North America and the UK on June 22, 2011.

Madhouse does the X-Men Anime

X-Men” the anime series is set to premiere on April 1st in Japan and
Animax. Fans can expect an English version later this year on the G4
network along with Wolverine and Iron Man. An anime version of Blade is
also in the works.
“X-Men” anime is set one year after the death of Jean Grey and after
the X-Men organization has effectively disbanded. However, Hisako Ichiki
(a mutant created by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday in Astonishing
X-Men) — a mutant middle school girl living in northeastern Japan — has
gone missing. An emergency call for help reunites the X-Men where they
travel to Japan and encounter a supremacist cult called the U-Men.

Alpha Flight Changed My Life

The first issue I read of Alpha Flight
was the first comic book I read after taking a three year hiatus from
light comic book collecting. I had less than twenty comics at the time,
simply a casual reader that knew bare-boned facts about Batman from the
animated TV series rather than the comics and did not faithfully walk
into a comic store every Wednesday in need of my weekly comic book fix.
Before this one issue of Alpha Flight I was more interested in
other things. This one comic took my life in a completely new
direction and became my favorite series – if not for the nostalgia then for the array of colorful characters and story that I feel are lacking in most comics today.

I do not even remember where I got the issue from, but I remember reading Alpha Flight
#15 with non-existent expectations. By the end, I had already grown
attached to the few characters portrayed in that one particular issue.
Looking back, whenever I read over that issue of Alpha Flight I
look at it a little more objectively; it was a great issue but still
had its share of flaws. But the entire series embodied qualities I
enjoyed: teamwork, friendship and the horrendous pain of losing this as
more and more members of Alpha Flight were killed off in the coming
years. All these qualities made this series amazing to me and
encouraged me to try and find more.

Still No Batwoman #1 for You

DC Comics’ Batwoman
will undergo another delay, with the publisher moving the series’ debut
from February to April. A spokesman for DC, which previewed art from
the first issue just two weeks ago, didn’t respond this morning to a request for comment. The much-anticipated comic, by J.H. Williams III, W. Haden Blackman
and Amy Reeder, initially was scheduled to begin in July, but instead DC
released a one-shot in November designed to serve as a primer for the ongoing series.

27 #4 – Review

With just seconds left before his power switches, Will teleports back to rescue the last child being held hostage. As he does he finds the kid being interrogated by the hostage taker. Will distracts him and then teleports his hands into the guy’s head and rips his face apart. He grabs the last kid and teleports once more to the lab at UCLA. The Quantum math student is freaking out about all the kids and doesn’t know what to do with them. He tells the student to call the cops since that’s all they can do and begins saying goodbye to Mae; his niece that was one of the hostages and also the reason for his good deed.