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Fresh from the rain drenched Northeast, ComicMix Podcast brings you a guy who isn’t Elvis, a guy who isn’t on Gary Groth’s Christmas List and a guy who didn’t have a good time in front of his TV last Friday night! Plus a full rundown of comics that are coming – as well as those that are missing! We’ve got the lowdown on the Marvel Civil War trade paperbacks, we’ve got DC’s World War III complete in about 100 pages, and we’ve got news, views, reviews… and a two-headed calf!
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www.ComicMix.com ! Very smudge that is fashion to be had! Hey it's Mike Raub, starting off a new week with another podcast and a zillion new reasons to open your wall of waiting to see what's coming to the comic stores and to the DVD racks this week. We'll wake up Matt Raub and see what kind of TV and movie experiences he had over the past couple of days.
And we'll take a trip back in time to check out a guy who wasn't Elvis. All that and more on April 17, 2007. ComicMix! Yes! Anytime you have a giant crossover event like Civil War, well it's hard to keep track of everything. There's no question to that.
Sometimes you want to go back and dig up something you read a long time ago, or sometimes there's certain titles that you don't normally read that end up having something very important in them. That makes part of the story. This year Marvel is trying to make it a little bit easier by putting the entire Civil War saga into a series of trade paperbacks for you to either buy all or pick and choose the things that interest you the most. Now if you're interested in Civil War or you're just trying to catch up or you don't want to go digging through those comics to figure out what the hell happened to Captain America, well here's how you can go starting with Civil War trade paperbacks that are on sale right now. And that includes your basic Civil War trade paperback, Civil War The Road to Civil War, The Heroes for Higher Volume 1 trade, The
Ms. Marvel Volume 2 Civil War trade, and The New Avengers Volume 5 Civil War trade. Now coming later this month will be a whole series of things including trade paperbacks involving Civil War crossovers with The Amazing Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Thunderbolts, and The X-Men. There's also the Punisher War Journal Civil War tie-ins and the Civil War frontline books all together in one trade paperback. Alright if that wasn't enough then next month you'll get Black Panther, The Civil War trade paperback, The Civil War companion, Civil War Captain America which could be pretty important, the second volume of the Civil War frontline, Civil War Peter Parker, Spider-Man, Civil War Crimes, Civil War Wolverine, Civil War X-Men Universe, and Civil War Young Avengers and Runaways trade paperback. Finally it'll all wrap up in June with two more volumes, Civil War Marvel Universe trade paperback, and The Civil War Iron Man trade.
Put them all together you've got the entire saga which still again is a lot easier than having to go digging through those long white boxes to figure out what happened, when, and how it all works together. Prima Games, a division of Random House, has announced that it has an official and exclusive publishing partnership with Capcom. Now that's familiar to you especially if you're an old time game player. Capcom has done some great games over the years and they've got some great properties involved and now with this new deal they'll be doing original comics, graphic novels, video game novelizations, and a lot more. The characters involved are some pretty familiar ones as well like Resident Evil, Mega Man, Devil May Care, and Shade as well.
Shade by the way may be written by legendary writer Marv Wolfman, co-creator of the new Teen Titans and Blade. More on that as soon as we know it. ComicMix. What's coming out this is this week. You know it's got to be our favorite part of the week as you look along that big comic book where I can see all the big surprises and there are some this week for sure. Legion of Super Heroes in the 31st Century you may think that Johnny DC book is just for kids, it is not. A lot of the DC Johnny DC books like the JLA book and even the Batman book are pretty good and the first issue of Legion certainly deserves a look through for you.
For the Trade Paperback spot on your shelf or the hardback cover as well, Wonder Woman the greatest story is out this week. 52 is up to number 50. We have two more to go believe it or not. Aquaman Sword of Atlantis number 51, Batman of the Mad Monk Trade Paperback. Beautiful our work in there. If you skip the miniseries you can at least pay through this one. It's worth a look. Birds of Prey number 105, Brave and Bold number 3, Flash of Fastest Man Alive number 11 this week, Hellblazer number 231, Justice League of America number 8, and of course that Justice League of America number 8 variant that you need to talk to your retailer about. That's in there as well.
The Nightwing Annual number 2, Robin number 161, Shadowback number 12, Spirit number 5, Superman Batman number 34, and the four issues of the World War 3 book. Starting with part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4 this week. This will all dovetail between 52 and into Countdown so you're going to definitely want to take a look at that. Countdown begins before you know it. We'll be talking about that in the weeks to come I assure you. Also this week on the rack, put a note by this one. It is Manhunter number 30, a book that we thought was going to go away but didn't. And now it's back. We're going to talk to the creators of that book on Thursday and give you the lowdown on where it's been and where it's going to be going.
So make a note to join us for that then. From Image, Girls number 24, and Invincible number 40, another great book. From Marvel this week, Avengers, Mightiest Heroes is out, Civil War the Confession, second printing variant, check your retailer on that one, as well as the Mighty Avengers number 1 variant this week. Squadron Supreme, Hyperion versus Nightman, Cable and Deadpool number 39, Marvel Spotlight on Spider-Man, Mighty Avengers number 2, better grab that one you knew how fast number 1 went away. Moon Knight number 9, Sensational Spider-Man 37, Alderman Spider-Man 108, X-23, Target X number 5 comes along to wrap up the next to the last of that miniseries, X Factor number 18 and X-Men number 198, all this week from Marvel Comics.
On the DVD rack, starting out this week, well you know if you can't wait for Spider-Man number 3 if you find yourself marking the calendar off and crying as each day drags by slower and slower, you get a little bit of a treat if you go to the DVD rack and pick up Spider-Man 2.1. An extended repackaged version of that movie and a lot of great extras on that one. By the way, this week at the DVD rack it's almost like they blew out everything that was talked about at the Oscars. You get copies this week of Last King of Scotland, Freedom Writers, Notes on a Scandal and the easily forgettable Smoke and Aces.
From the direct to DVD pile, did you know that John Bon Jovi had done a movie for National Lampoon? It's called Pucked and it's out this week and we pronounce that one very slowly. From the TV side, well, Larry King, The Live Secret Interviews. I have no idea what that is but it's frightening in its own right. From early TV you get the second seasons of Laverne and Shirley, Happy Days and Morcon Mindy all on DVD sets this week. The very best of the Larry Sanders show, I really wish they'd do an entire box set of that. I would be first in line for it. And the award for the quickest thing from TV to DVD, Spongebob Squarepants, Friend or Foe, it aired on TV last weekend. It's out on DVD today.
ComicMix.com Ah, it is the Hall of Shame this week. The books that are supposed to be here but aren't here and you're going to ask when are they coming after all. Starting with a few from DC. Superman number 662, which should have been out coming this week. It'll be coming next week. That's not too bad. Only a week delay there. Jack of Fables number 10 will be now rescheduled to the 9th of May. Trials of Shazam number 7 has been pushed way ahead. You won't see that until the 23rd of May. And Superman 663 of course, again when one's late, the next one is as well. This will now be pushed until the first week in June.
From Image, negative burn number 10 has been rescheduled for the 25th. That's a week from now. Strange Girl number 16, again that'll be coming in a week. True Story, Swear to God, The Image Edition number 5, again coming next week. Only a week or so late. And Noble Causes number 29 has been pushed to the first week in March. From Marvel, Iron Man number 17, a book that has had a lot of heat lately and it's been moved from the end of the month until the first part of May. She Hulk 2 number 18 also moved to the first week in May and Wonder Man number 5 as well.
Amazing Spider-Man number 540, that's moved ahead two weeks. It'll be the second week in May. Onslaught reborn number 4, the next to the last issue of that second week in May. Ultimate Power number 5, that also coming out the 9th of May. And Ultimates 2 number 13 has been moved ahead to the 16th of next month. New Excalibur number 20 and 21 are being moved ahead as well for scheduling problems. Number 20 will be out the 30th of May. And number 21 you won't see until the 11th of July. ComicMix timeline, April 17, 1964.
And comics this week it was pretty historical when we walked over to the comic book spinner and we found Batman number 164, the very first of the new look Batmans. It looked a lot different, we were confused. But he was a lot cooler, that's for sure. Doom Patrol celebrated its first anniversary with issue number 88 and had the origin of the chief in that one. We got Hawkman number 2, Jimmy Olsen number 77 and 80 page giant number 1 with the greatest imaginary stories of all time. And that wasn't enough to dazzle us, we picked up Strange Tales number 122 with a Kirby Torch story and a Ditko Doctor Strange.
And Sargent Fury number 8 which had the very first appearance of Dr. Zemo. And Journey to Mystery 105 topped it all off with a Cobra and Mr. Hyde story with Thor. And then we had a couple of pennies left and we decided to take a chance on Mighty Samson number 1 which looked pretty interesting from Gold Key. In the news, French President Charles de Gaulle underwent surgery and was reported to be in good condition. And a two headed calf born in Utah was given less than two weeks to live.
Meanwhile, President Johnson spoke out against violence in civil rights demonstrations saying both sides should exercise moderation. In the movies you got lots of good team ups. It was Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen and Soldier in the Rain. It was Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn and Charade and Cliff Robertson and Jane Fonda in Sunday in New York. Television Tonight had Route 66, The New Breed, Twilight Zone and Burke's Law. So the premise here, Gene Barry was the millionaire but he was also the police chief.
You know it sounds kind of weak when you talk about it but the show had a certain panache to it for the 60's that's for sure. By the way we have to make a note that later on in the wake of all the Uncle and James Bond crazes, it pretty much ruined the show by making him a secret agent. On the radio sounding a lot like Elvis and doing a song that Elvis had done two years earlier was a guy that had one shot at the top of the charts and this was it. His name was Terry Stafford, the song. The song is called Suspicion.
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The show is way too dumbed down for this audience and really just seemed like killing two birds for sci-fi in trying to revitalize a comic book franchise that they themselves had a hand in killing while also creating a parallel to the very popular BBC show Torchwood.
I just had to give this show a 6 out of 10 only out of respect towards Jimmy Palmiotti, but it just seems like he keeps getting the shaft from those boys over at sci-fi. Don't forget you can check out my full review in all of its glory over on the site and until next time, you keep reading and I'll keep bitching.
It sure is an ugly duckling, but it'll get the job done. Alright, back in the middle of the week as we run down that DC comic that was here, gone, and back again. That's a pretty unusual story. We're going to have fun sharing that with you. More TV and movie rundowns, of course, and your comments.
We'd love to hear them. What do you think about all this? Let us know directly on the page. Just go to ComicMix.com or write us personally at podcast at ComicMix.com. Talk to you in a couple of days. Bye.
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Wow!This is stunning. Splash after spalsh! Beautiful stuff. Relentless. Where I saw Klimt before, now I see shades of Kirby and Mignola.I can't tell if these pages are meant to be a coda to the story we just read, a prelude to a new story or an entr'act in a continuing epic.It's like you're saying, "Ah, we MIGHT tell you THIS cool story, but we're not going to; we'll just give you a bit. And we MIGHT use some of THESE characters soon, but we're making no promises." You've taken years worth of stories (what other artists might take years to tell) and pressed it on us in just twelve pages.This is comics, but it ain't "sequential art," not by McCloud's definition. There's nothing sequential in how the disconnected stories are slapped side by side. It's not even illustrated fiction. We're just teased with tiny epic-lettes. HUGE stories are pared down to a paragraph. And you push, push, PUSH! I'm not complaining. I'm just saying that I have very little to compare it to. This is something very different. Very exciting. We're opening up a Playboy magazine and finding that it's ALL centerfolds!These stories are scattered about like the stones of Saxo's castle. Some are still hot, still on fire. Some are cool and fragmented. And we are left to try to piece together what the whole structure might have looked like. We can tell the architecture was grand. Even the fragments are compelling. But we still wonder what order it all went together in and what grandeur might be tossed aside, lost or forgotten.Finally, why the heck am I the only one commenting here! This is amazing, audacious stuff. I'll say it, "Brilliant!" I've seen NOTHING like this in comics, not in print or the web. I'm sure that something this novel and experimental won't appeal to everyone. But I can't imagine reading these twelve pages and not having SOME kind of opinion!
Mike Gold is always telling me stories about Del Close. I'm sorry I never met the guy. And Mike tells me that Del's basic rule of improv is; Affirm, Affirm, Affirm! Whatever idea the other guy tosses at you – catch it and twist it and toss it right back, only faster.Every once in a while I've been happy to work with, to collaborate with, a creator who makes great tosses! And Mike Oeming is right at the top of the list. Put Mike and me in a room for a few hours and we will come out with a new project! Or two. Or three.Mike and I have had so many story ideas for HAMMER OF THE GODS that eventually we understood that we would not live long enough to tell them all. Hey – and we both have a few other projects. So this FRAGMENTS collection is our chance to at least get a few of the many ideas out there for the readers.And we also wanted to add to the epic scope of the series.Tell your friends!And there's a lot more of BACK FROM THE DEAD still to come.
The credits on this don't seem right. Mark Wheatley: artist and writer. Mike Oeming: just writer?And is John Staton any relation to Joe?
Well look at that – you are correct – the credits are wrong. While I laid out and designed the pages, designed the display font and did a bit of the color – I am not the artist this week. Mike Oeming drew these beautiful images.John is not even slightly related to Joe. Joe keeps hoping to meet John some day. John Staton is an exceptional manga style artist on his own.