Comics

Broken Trinity – Pandora’s Box #2

There are thirteen artifacts that make up the Top Cow Universe. Two of those artifacts are: The Ember Stone and the Glacier Stone, which are fire and ice. The Ember Stone seeks to unite the thirteen artifacts and bring about lots of nasty things to the world. Functioning as an opposite, The Glacier Stone needs to keep the artifacts away from each other. Either can harm or help another artifact. The Obsidian Stone a.k.a. Pandora’s Box, like anything else in the Top Cow Universe, must have a bearer to unleash its chaos. Somehow, it’s not very comforting that Pandora’s Box isn’t as bad as the thirteen artifacts being together.

Broken Trinity is a prelude, if you will, to Top Cow’s Artifacts series coming out this summer. Whereas Artifacts will deal with all thirteen of the artifacts, Broken Trinity deals only with bearers of the Ember and Glacier stones trying to stop the possession of Pandora’s Box. Glorianna Silver bears the Ember Stone allowing her to transform into a dragon. Her opposing force of nature is one Michael Finnegan, an Irish Gun-runner and the reluctant bearer of the Glacier Stone.

Fantasy and Comic Artist Frank Frazetta Passes Away

Legendary fantasy and comic artist Frank Frazetta has passed away due to a stroke on May 10 2010. He was 82 years old.

“A New York City native whose career began in the comic book field at the end of the Golden Age, Frazetta was best known for his fantasy illustrations. From his character and genre-defining run of cover images depicting sword-and-sorcery hero Conan The Barbarian to his own haunting Death Dealer painting and character, the artist found immense popularity across a wide spectrum of fans. From fantasy buffs to heavy metal bands and from comic collector’s to western enthusiasts, Frazetta’s paintings not only inspired many imitators and followers but also made him incredibly popular and comparatively wealthy for a creator in the field of genre art.” Source CBR

Brightest Day #1

In the zero issue for Brightest Day, Deadman a.k.a. Aliveman, traveled from one resurrected super person to the next. The entire issue was very reminiscent of another DC series… 52. The pacing, the structure and the voice of the series are nearly the same.

This issue continues where Green Lantern #53 left off, with Sinestro bringing Hal to the white lantern. The lantern came falling back to Earth after Blackest Night and now sits in a crater in the middle of a small town. Hal attempts to move the lantern, but is unable to. The white lantern is the now the sword in the stone and the group must find its Arthur. The story then cuts to Deadman, who is still traveling invisibly from one resurrected hero to the next. He was invisible in death and now wonders why he’s invisible in life as well.

Irredeemable #13 – Review

Last year, at this time, the Plutonian snapped and destroyed Sky City. The Plutonian, for those who don’t know, is Boom! Studio’s answer to Superman. He’s the most powerful being on the face of the planet, but he’s also the most insecure. He’s everything that Superman is and isn’t. Whereas Superman was accepted by Lois Lane upon revealing his identity, the Plutonian was not. The Plutonian’s Lois, felt as if a sick joke had been played on her thus, she rejected him. Then the Plutonian did something stupid: he gave a weapon to a scientist without knowing the weapon’s function. Just so the scientist would stop bad mouthing him in the press. The Plutonian may be based off of a Superman archetype but he is anything but. He more closely resembles DC’s Superboy Prime, a younger version of Superman, with the same powers but not the same maturity to use them properly.

DC Comics Batman Previews

DC had it’s own set of previews this week for its Batman release. Bruce Wayne’s highly anticipated return begins this week. Grant Morrison and Chris Sprouse begin the mini-series with Cave-Man Bruce. It seems that you can take the Bat out of time but not out of the man. Six issue series finds Bruce displaced from the Omega Effect and forced to travel to his rightful time. The only question about this series is will Bruce give up the role of Batman much like Steve Rogers has done?

Marvel Previews and Sneak Peeks

Marvel release a slew of previews for it’s title releases this week. Join us as we take a stroll through the previews and new releases this week.

First up we have Deadpool Corps #3. I’ll be honest, I have no idea why this book exists or even why people are so in love with Deadpool right now. Every Deadpool book purchased put money in Rob Liefeld’s bank account and that’s one of comics deadly sins. For those who are interested in the book written by Victor Gischler and draw by Liefeld, the title ships this week. Dead Dog, or whatever that thing wearing the Deadpool mask is, must save the Dead family from Nukes, Aliens or whatever ridiculous scenario conjured up to see issues. 

i,Zombie #1

Gwen Dylan is a beautiful woman that happens to live in a cemetery and works as a grave digger. She’s also a Zombie: the eat-your-brains type of Zombie. Gwen spends her days digging graves and burying the dead for the cemetery. At night, however, she undigs those graves and eats the brains of the buried. When she does, Gwen eats their memories. The dead then ask favors of her. It’s only fair; after all she is eating their brains. Gwen’s best friend is a Ghost named after Eleanor Roosevelt, or Ellie for short. Ellie, as you can imagine, also lives at the cemetery. It seems like Gwen’s world is full of the monsters of myth.

Gwen and Ellie take a girl’s night out before Gwen has to get back to digging. They end up at Dixie’s, a truck stop diner owned by an ex-assassin… Supposedly. The girls are verbally assaulted by Scott the Were-Terrier. Scott, a.k.a. Spot is heavily infatuated with Gwen and lavishes her with expensive collectables. Gwen leaves Dixie’s when she sees someone from her “old life”. There’s a lot of mystery surrounding Gwen. How did she become a Zombie? Why does she still look human? Who was she in her old life?