Category: Comics


‘Mouse Guard: Legends Of The Guard:’ Buy This Book!

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June 3, 2010

An important comic has been released this week. It’s called Mouse Guard: Legends Of The Guard.

For years now, I’ve been a fan of Mouse Guard, a creation of David Petersen. In many ways, it is a shame to call it simply a “comic book” because it communicates information about so many different sciences, including history, natural biology, and ecology. It really should be called “literature” because it does so much more than just tell a great story. I consider this title on par with Maus, one of the most literate and “adult” in the good way comic stories every told. I truly love these books!

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‘The Futurians’ Return To Comics!

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May 18, 2010

As reviewed by me here on the SciFiPulse website, the first issue of Avatar Of The Futurians can now be ordered at your local comics store! The fact that the driving force behind this comic is David Miller, a co-worker of mine, has absolutely nothing to do with this entry! Here is the official release:

Dave Cockrum’s Futurians Return!

From the creative mind that gave the comics world the All-New, All-Different X-Men springs forth The Futurians!

David Miller Studios is proud to create new adventures of one of Mr. Cockrum’s greatest creations: Avatar Of The Futurians!

In this first mini-series, super-powered immortal Andrew Pendragon gets top billing as Avatar of the Futurians! Avatar returns to his English home for a family funeral and encounters an ancient evil from his past, an evil that could consume all of Great Britain. Issue #1 sports an awesome cover by Legion Of Super-Heroes and Flash artist Greg Larocque.

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Images Of Batman – 5

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May 11, 2010

This series of articles has been outlining how much of an influence the character of Batman has been in my life. I’d like to include just a few more thoughts before I turn my at­tention to other areas of interest.

The Batmobile. I know that “chicks dig the car,” but automobiles are often a “guy” thing.

I have already discussed how much I love the Batmobile on my blog in a previous entry. But let me add a few more points about it.

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Images Of Batman – 3

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May 8, 2010

Previously on “Images Of Batman:” Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns rocked the comics industry and led to a hit feature film.

During the early ’90s, I used to comb the Internet looking for any news on Star Trek for the COMSTAR, the monthly publication for the U.S.S. Chesapeake club. I’d print every credible item I could find about the franchise in the newslet­ter. Of course, while I searched for Trek news, I’d look up other topics of interest, including Batman.

After the Batman movie had earned a huge take, word came across the web that Fox was going to air a new animated series about the Caped Crusader.

As a long-time Batman fan, I’ve seen pretty much every animated show based on the character. And it hasn’t been pretty.

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Images Of Batman – 2

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May 7, 2010

Last entry, I began to explain just how much of an influence Batman has had on my life. When I ran out of energy, Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns was about to be pub­lished.

Now, I had given up comics prior to this event, as I pointed out previously. But Batman’s sidekick, Robin, was instrumental in me getting back into buying them again.

The New Teen Titans comics, with Robin as the team leader, was a hot item for DC Comics. My brother Randy never stopped col­lecting comics even though I had. So, when he had trouble getting New Teen Titans #1, I was recruited to go to a local comics specialty shop to buy one.

That was a significant change for com­ics fans. Having a store dedicated to comics meant not having to rifle through drug store racks or shelves. It also meant being able to get nearly all the comics you wanted without missing issues, which often plagued and discouraged collectors.

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Images Of Batman – 1

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May 6, 2010

It’s always a bittersweet thing when some­thing you love comes to an end. You know, that kind of thing makes one nostaglic.

For example, the recent release of the entire Justice League and Justice League Unlimited DVD set and Bat­man Beyond collection makes me happy because I now have all of the Bruce Timm animation of DC Comics characters ever shown on TV tucked away in my DVD collection.

But it also means the end of an important era of creativity and some of the best storytell­ing I’ve ever seen. Now, I dearly loved the recent direct-to-DVD Justice League: Crisis On Two Earths, which was based on a script intended to bridge the gap between JL and JLU, but no more JLU and BB episodes or movies are expected to be made anytime soon. (A Batman Beyond comic mini-series will be out in a few months, so that will help ease the pain some!)

I can’t help but think back to Batman: The Animated Series, based on my all-time favorite comics character, the Dark Knight.

And I realized just how much influence Batman has had in my life. Let me share some of that with you.

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Ah, Warm Weather Returns

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May 3, 2010

It’s the first Monday in May as I write this, and the temperatures sure feel like Summer! Personally, I love this season most of all even though I am a big Christmas/Holiday Season fan as well. The warm weather makes me want to do more, not less. Cold weather makes me stay inside and look for less adventurous things to do.

I’ve already listened to my “Summer Songs” playlist on my iPod several times. It includes many tunes I never hear on the radio anymore, including “In The Summertime” by Mungo Jerry, “Summer” by War, the recent remix of “Summer Breeze,” “The Boys Of Summer” by Don Henley, “Summer Rain” by Belinda Carlyle, “Sunshine On My Shoulders” by John Denver, “Summer’s Child” by David Lanz, “Summertime Blues” by Eddie Cochran, “Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days Of Summer” by Nat King Cole, “Saturday In The Park” by Chicago, and “Summer Of ’69” by Bryan Adams.

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Second ‘Iron Man’ May Soar At Box Office

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May 3, 2010

After helping with Sunday night’s podcast, I began my weekly contribution to SciFiPulse.Net by writing up many of the stories that will appear on the site on Monday morning, thus giving site head honcho Ian Cullen a well-deserved night off. But since we in the club are so very interested in what happens behind the camera as well as what happens in front of it, I’m printing it here as well. I won’t do this very often, but I think this one is really worth double-dipping it.

I am 'Iron Man' 2!>>Will Iron Man 2 do well in the U.S. as some have predicted? Apparently so, if you can go by box offices around the rest of the world this past weekend, according to comingsoon.net.

The sequel to the 2008 hit grossed $100.2 million in 53 countries worldwide over the weekend, according to numerous reports. Returns from the U.K. ($12.2 million), Mexico ($7.3 million) and Russia ($8.2 million) are way ahead of opening-weekend numbers for the first Iron Man, which bodes well for its domestic release on Friday, May 7.

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Another Free Comic Book Day

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May 2, 2010

Free Comic Book DayToday was a day comics fans in the States enjoy.

On the first Saturday in May each year, comic book companies give out (well, the store owners actually do pay for them) special books that highlight the products they sell. All this helps attract old and new comic fans to their local specialty shops, and that will hopefully keep the industry surviving and hopefully even growing.

This year, I felt there was a significantly improved level of quality compared to previous years. In the last several years, I felt that the different companies were pushing — well, stuff that sucked, as a friend of mine would say.

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I Love The Batmobile!

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April 30, 2010

“Where does he get those wonderful toys?” — The Joker in Batman

The first thing I ever read was a Batman comic, so I guess it comes as no surprise that I am fascinated by and love to collect things associated with the Dark Knight. But the thing I enjoy the most is Batman’s transportation, the Batmobile.

How I love this one!It seems like every artist who draws an issue of a Batman comic has to create his own version of the Batmobile. Some have been terrific, while some have been silly. I mean, who could drive a car with huge and intricate spikes jutting out of the thing? Not even Batman can pull that off!

I’m going to list some of my favorite versions of the Batmobile next. And if I can find some of the silly stuff, I’ll post that, too!

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