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it's hard to believe we made it to the middle of the week but we did. Hi it's Mike Raub. Tell them where we are. Hi my name is Mark Andraco, writer of Manhunter and you're listening to ComicMix. Thank you Mark. Mark will be back to explore the mystery behind a DC title that is here, gone and back again. But more on that later. Plus between now and then some news, a rundown on this week's

Doctor Who Season 3 episode and a song that Radio refused to play. That is just part of what we're going to hit on. April 19th, 2007 ComicMix News. CBS's alternative programming department, i.e. reality TV guys, are cranking out a number of new shows. In fact, it's the most pilots in the history of CBS this summer.

Some of the shows include Life is a Song where participants will perform an important event in their life such as a marriage proposal as a musical. The Wizard hosted by Craig Ferg is in a game show with improvisation and scripted comedy routines. Game Show in My Head featuring former Saturday Night Live player Chris Kattan. Power of Ten with Drew Carey hosting a game show that has

contestants guessing the results of a nationwide survey using five questions. Wait a minute. We've seen that before. Also, Do You Trust Me and Pop Dynasty are a reality series in development about three members of the Jackson family as judges for singing competition. This summer, by the way, CBS is also going to return Big Brother to the

schedule again and a new series from reality master Mark Burnett called Pirate Master. Well, it still seems unclear as to when we're going to see the completion of that Last Son storyline over in Action Comics. Right now, Jeff John says that he and Richard Donner's story will probably appear again in Action Comics number 851, which comes out in June. Then the last two parts of the series

will end up in Action Comics annual number 11 to be out later in the summer. Well, there was a flurry of casting for superhero movies this week, starting out with Edward Norton getting cast as the Incredible Hulk. I'm sure you saw that. Did you catch the fact that Christina Ricci is going to be Trixie in the live speed racer movie that will be out sometime early in May of 2008? She joins Susan Sarandon

and John Goodman, who are going to be speed racers parents. Aliens invade in a special event coming in May on the Cartoon Network. It's like the old days in television when certain characters would appear in all the shows in one evening. This time it lasts for an entire month, particularly the shows that run on the Cartoon Network on Friday evening. It begins with the first appearance of the Aliens on

an episode of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends continues the next week on Ed, Ed and Eddie. Then next week on Jim Partners the Monkey and finally Camp Laszlo and then ending with an Alien Marathon and a special Alien episode on the grim adventures of Billy and Mandy on Memorial Day. Long time independent publisher Heroic Publishing has announced the

launching of comics on screen dot com. It's a joint internet media venture that will eventually put all of Heroic's entire inventory of comics from the past, present and the future available on a subscription only basis for viewing 24 hours a day on the internet. It'll include material from Flare, Flare Adventures, Liberty Girl, Champions, Roy Thomas' Anthem and a lot more titles

and the cost to be around $9.99 a month. Again that's comics on screen dot com. Well it's another big sell out for Dynamo 5. Do we have to say I told you so again this time Dynamo 5 and Image number 2 is sold out. They're going back for a second printing which will be available sometime later this month. It'll feature an all new cover. Dynamo 5 number

3 in case you really don't want to miss that will be out coming on the 9th of May. ComicMix dot com. ComicMix timeline. April 19th, 1973. And comics this week if you are a Kirby fan use your luck to have Mr. Miracle number 14 and Demon number 9. Shazam number 3 from CC Beck came along from DC and

as well as that 100 page spectacular with the great set of Justice League stories from the past and present. Speaking of the past, Bill Everett returned to Namor in Submariner number 60 and Jerry Conway and Rich Buckler came along with FF number 133 to try and keep that book alive. In the news 8 cartons of documents including plans to bug the Watergate hotel were taken

from the White House so claimed the lawyers in that pending case while White House counsel John Dean said he will not be escaped go to the upcoming trial. In the movies you got Brother Son and Sister Moon this week, a very bad sequel class of 44 and a movie that probably never should have been remade. As campy as it was, the original Poseidon

much better than anything else. TV tonight gave you the Flip Rosen show Mod Squad, a Bob Hope special with a mixed bag of Milton Berle, Joey Hetherton and the Supremes as Bob's guests and Carl Malden teamed up with a young Michael Douglas in something called the Streets of San Francisco. On the radio,

this week a couple of interesting notes starting with a song that almost nobody heard. The song was called Superfly Meets Shaft. It was done by a couple of guys named John and Ernest. Now the background on this involves a guy named Dickie Goodman. Dickie came along in the 50s and ran all the way into the early 70s and his only claim to fame was he took bits and pieces of current top 40 songs

and made funny little comedy records out of them. They're fun and nostalgic at best. So who were John and Ernest? Well we're not really sure. They could have been involved with Goodman. They certainly ripped off his style. But their song Superfly Meets Shaft this week was big in some areas as well as where other radio stations totally refused to play it. For example, the biggest top 40 station in the country at the time,

WABC in New York, never touched the record. But right across the water, the big top 40 there, WWDJ in New Jersey, they had it from their top five. Why? Why do you decide? We interrupt this record to bring you a special bulletin. Superfly is missing. We now take you to our on the spot reporter.

I have several witnesses here with me. Sir, when was the last time you saw Superfly? And you, sir, can you describe the suit Superfly was wearing? You know, I think there's a lesson for Don Ives in there somewhere. Well, there was one song back this month that every radio station was playing. And today the band is still getting a lot of airplay.

They're considered to be a classic rock mainstay for songs like Ballroom Blitz and Fox on the Run. In April of 73, though, the suite hit it big with Little Willie. Comic. M-I-X. ComicMix.com.

Manhunter is a book that's had almost a checkered history with DC, even if you don't count the leanings all the way back to the Golden Age. There were some big changes in the title during the one year after period. And since then, it's been up, down, canceled, brought back, and pretty much in the limbo area. You don't believe me? Ask the guy who writes the book, Mark Andreko.

Well, it was canceled and then uncancelled and then canceled again and uncancelled a second time. All in six months, which has been great for my nerves. So where does it stand right now with Manhunter? Right now it's open-ended. It's uncancelled. There will be a couple-month delay between issue 30, which is out in two weeks, and 31,

just because we thought we were canceled. So 31 will be out at the end of July, early August. And a third trade collection will be out in August as well. The book's been almost famous for having a lot of crossover characters and stories over the past year or so. Are there any more coming?

If they feel natural, yeah. My biggest issue with doing any sort of crossover is making sure that they fit. I don't want it to be what I called the original Crisis Crossovers, where they're like, oh, look, the skies are red, and then they go back into their story. I lucked out with tying in the Shadow Thieves trial to an identity crisis because of his Murder of Fire form,

and with the Olmec Project being able to tie in Olmec's history to the history of the Manhunters. I've been really fortunate. And even with this Wonder Woman, the trial of Wonder Woman, it's all fallen together very organically. I don't think we're going to see Kate suddenly on a space station planning Dark Side. It's just not where the book should go.

If the tie-ins feel organic, yes. And I'm absolutely forced to. They are my bosses. But they've been great so far. So we have a really nice rhythm going.

All in all, Mark's having a good time. It's a blast to write. I'm thrilled that I get to continue doing it because the characters are really, really fun to do. Manhunter number 30 out this week. Look for number 31 coming in a few weeks and catch up on what's been going on with any of the Manhunter trades at your local comic book store.

ComicMix dot com. Comic M I S. All right. Got your TARDIS colored earmuffs out. If you really want to wait until sci-fi drags out the Doctor Who season three episode sometime in two thousand and ninety eight, put them on right now.

Otherwise, get ready as Matt Raub dives into the newest episode right now. Hey all Matt Raub back once again for yet another TV review of futuristic heroism and hijinks as we review episode three of Doctor Who's season three entitled Gridlock. You know, it really just feels like yesterday when I was getting all giddy about the very first episode of this season, the brand new Martha Jones and all. And here we are already a quarter of the way done. And it really seems like we're all time travelers.

Well, sans TARDIS, of course. In this week's episode, the doctor and Martha travel to the future of New New York and this time not the Ritzy Hospital high rise we saw last time. This time we are in the slums. You fought me to the slums. That's right, Martha.

This week we start off deep in the bowels of the city where the term bumper to bumper truly has meaning. The expressway from New New York to New New Jersey is so packed with cars that it takes roughly 10 years just to move four miles. And of course, in all the chaos, two ne'er-do-wells hoping to get in the carpool lane, kidnap Martha, and yet again it's up to the doctor to save her. Now yet another time where my hat gets tipped to the creators of this show is that in saving Martha, the doctor jumps from car to car hoping to jump to the right one. We see about seven cars in the entire episode and the greatest part is they're all the same set.

The entire story was based off shooting things out of order in the same room, just changing the furniture and filling it with different actors. I was truly thrown back by this episode because it's so ingenious. Now I highly doubt the show is lacking in a budget, but the sheer fact that they had the means to do more and didn't show why this series is number one. Moving on, in trying to find his companion, the doctor comes across the same old friend he saw last time he was in New New York. That's right, the big old head in a jar himself, the face of Bo.

Now those of you a big a die-hard fan as I am remember that the last time we saw Bo, he said that he and the doctor would cross paths for one final time and there Bo would tell the great secret to the traveling stranger. Well, this is it and what did that big old face have to say? You are not alone. That's right, the season three story arc has begun. Now those of you still a little slow in the uptake should know that he's talking about the only other time Lord to survive the war, the Master.

And no, it won't be Eric Roberts. Instead, yet another famous Brit as Life on Mars, John Sim takes the role. Lots of great stuff to look forward to here and looking back on the episode, I give it a beaming eight out of 10 with sadly yet another week for more. Don't forget to check out my full review over at the website and until next week I leave you one haunting word. Exterminate.

Well, next time we mean it'll be the weekend. Maybe spring will be here. One thing for sure. We're going to continue our ComicMix comic book master series. Another person who's been the foundation of one of the greatest characters in the history of comics.

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