Spider-Man, Heroes, and Free Comics… Oh My!

If there ever was a best week ever in Pop Culture, this is it! Spider-Man 3 is moments away from opening, Heroes is heating up and Free Comic Book Day rolls in on the weekend! 

The ComicMix Big Broadcast for Tuesday starts out with a full shopping kist of comics and DVDs you can’t miss, ranging from the end of 52 to the Best Of Fletch – plus news on Magneto on the big screen, Adult Swim expanding on the small screen and Scarface in the comics. We also trip back in time to when Jed Clampett was a private eye!

Please note: The Heroes review contains spoilers. It comes at the end of the podcast, so if you TiVo’ed it, you might want to bail at the sound of Matt’s voice.

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www.ComicMix.com You ever wanted to know what it's all about? I don't know what it's all about. That's what it's all about. We know what it's all about.

That's what it's all about. That's what it's all about. That's what it's all about. I'll tell you what it's all about. It's about being smack dab in the middle of the busiest week in pop culture for the year.

That's for sure. Hi, it's Mike Raub. The broadcast is back from Pittsburgh and we are getting ready for Spider-Man 3 just days away. Free comic book day right after that. What about Heroes last night?

And we're going to trip back in time to win Jed Clampett Hunter the Varmus of the two-legged variety. All that and more on… May 1st, 2007. ComicMix. News.

Fox and Marvel Studios have announced that David Goyer has been tapped to direct a live-action Magneto feature film, which will be spinning out of the X-Men before you know it. He's of course best known for the Batman and Blade movies. The film will be set in the 40s and 50s and deal with Magneto's origin. There will be a younger character of course playing Magneto,

but there will be appearances by Sir Ian McClellan in the film. What's with all this things? I need to change. I'm dirty. I'm bad with the sex and the envy and that…

I just suck at undercover. And we got to mention the fact that all over the internet this weekend were some very strong rumors that Sarah Michelle Geller might be Harley Quinn in the next Batman movie. We'll let you know if we hear anything definite on that. For today only, Disney is streaming 9 minutes of their next feature, Ratatouille, if you want to see it.

Of course you can go to Disney.com to get that 9-minute trailer and the movie opens on June 29. April Levine is promoting her new released CD, The Best Damn Thing, with some anime shorts developed by her, which are available on the Anime Network's mobile offering. In addition of course, she's done that Make 5 Wishes manga series being published by Del Rey. The first volume is out and sold out.

Del Rey is going back to press for a second printing. Make 5 Wishes volume 2 hits the stores on July 3rd. DC says that they've asked Lost producer Damon Lindelof through the introduction to the hardcover collection of Brad Meltzer's Justice League of America stories. Those will be out on June 7th, again in hardcover. And Lenoir celebrates a decade with slave labor with issue number 13 coming in full color in a few weeks.

It features a celebration gone wrong when Lenoir receives a missmaled invitation to a birthday party and decides to attend anyway. It's a great way to start the series again, Lenoir number 13 in color coming out early in the summer from slave labor graphics. IDW Public Week has announced they're doing a prequel in comic book form to the movie Scarface. Say goodnight to the bad guy. Come on.

The last time you're going to see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you. The book will be set in the 70s and like we said it will be a prequel and there will be a lot of references of course that die-hard Scarface fans are just going to love. Sony and Telemundo are producing some mobile phone content based on their TV novella Zorro running right now on Telemundo. It includes short video clips that update the best kisses and the best fights and the best chases from the series.

Even if you can't speak the language text the word Zorro to 386 and access the content. Adult Swim has announced that they're moving to a seven night a week schedule starting with the addition of Friday nights in July. Of course that will have the premiere of the Robot Chicken Star Wars special we told you about on ComicMix a week or so ago. Also some new series which includes Super jail, Fat Guy Stuck on the Internet and Lucy Daughter of the Devil as well as returning favorites like Harvey Birdman, The Boondocks, Venture Brothers and Aqua Teen Hunger Force among the other.

ComicMix. All right grab your wallet here we go here's what's in the funny bookstores this week starting from Dark Horse. Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic number 16 Buffy the Vampire Slayer up to issue number three and the first issue of Hellboy Darkness Calls that six issue miniseries out this week from Dark Horse. Over to DC nice thick volume of those war the time forgot stories great Andrew and Esposito artwork and some cool dinosaurs as well.

Who doesn't love a cool dinosaur? That's all in one big showcase volume from DC this week. 100 bullets number 83 and 52 number 52 to wind that down you can finally stack up all the way in a box and get ready for countdown it starts next week. All New Adam number 11 and the first trade volume of the All New Adam stories my life in miniature this week. Checkmate number 13 Danger Girl Body Shots number 2 Deadman number 9 from Vertigo. Detective number 832 Green Lantern 19.

Hall Girl number 63 Jonah Hex from Jimmy at number 19 this week and Justice League Unlimited still probably some of the best Justice League stories ever written. That's up to issue number 33 you can catch any of those you want to because they're pretty much standalone stories. Midnighter number 7 that really good Jeff Smith Captain America mini Shazam the Monster Society of Evil next to the last issue of that number 3 this week. Superman number 662 Tying into TV from Wildstorm Supernatural Origins number 1 and Teen Titans number 46 from Devil's Dew that first Chucky issue is out this week with a number of different covers including a photo cover and a couple of variants. Check with your retailer on that GI Joe America's a League number 23 and from dynamic it is Battlestar Galactica Cylon Apocalypse number 3 Dark Zena number 1 and Raise the Dead number 2.

Get ready for the summer comic book season the very beautiful Walt Disney's vacation parade number 4 from Gemstone at Image spawn number 167 out this week and then Marvel the all new official Marvel Handbook update number 2. Astonishing X-Men 21 The Avengers Initiative number 2 from the Civil War trade paperbacks we've been telling you about over the week. This week you grab Captain America Civil War Wolverine Civil War and Young Avengers and Runaways Civil War. Stephen King's Dark Tower Gunslinger born number 4 as well as the variant on that out this week and speaking of variants second printing of Fantastic Four number 544 that also was out but you better check with your retailer. Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man number 20 Ghost Rider Trail of Tears number 4 Incredible Hulk number 106 there's more Hulk stuff coming to hang on for that.

Iron Man number 17 that's been selling out quick so grab it quick. Loner's number 2 another book that sold out from the first issue last time let's see what happens here. Marvel Illustrated Last of the Mohicans number 1 Marvel Zombies Army of Darkness number 3 as well again as the variant issue of number 1 on that second printing. Grab that if your retailer has it. Ms Marvel number 15 Omega Flight number 2 from Michael Oeming Punisher number 47 Runaways number 26 from Joss.

Sensational Spider-Man Annual number 1 and Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane number 18. Thunderbolts presents Zemo Born Better number 4 Last Issue with that miniseries Ultimate Fantastic Four number 41. Wonder Band number 5 again the last issue of that miniseries and getting set up for World War Hulk the prologue world breaker out this week from Marvel. On the DVD shelves this week Little Children you may have heard about that during Oscar time and speaking of Oscars Dreamgirls comes out in two versions this week as well as Alpha Dog and Hitcher. New versions of a couple of great 80's classics starting with Fletch from Chevy Chase.

Traffic with murder you know one of those manure spreaders Jackknife on the Santa Ana. God awful mess. And a new version of this film it's Officer and a Gentlemen. From the TV side we get sets of the Girls Next Door that reality series from Playboy. Season 2 of Melrose Place and season 2 of 90210.

King of Queens season number 8 out this week and Will and Grace season number 6. On the comic book shelves this week we got Amazing Spider-Man number 204, Fantastic Four number 218, The Savage She-Hulk that version number 4, and from DC Green Lantern number 218, All Out War number 5, Action Comics number 507, and the coolest book of the week goes to Adventure Comics remember that one number 471 with a double shot of Plastic Man and that really cool little Star Man strips. In the news actor Martin Sheen said that he learned from his role in Apocalypse Now that veterans in the US are facing a lot of problems and he's advocating an anti-draft plank on the national democratic platform this year. Arab gunmen continued their hold on the Iranian embassy of London and President Carter stepped out of the White House to join the campaign trail.

In the movies there was Shiter and All That Jazz, Sellers in being there, Sheen again in Apocalypse Now, and Richard Gere looking a little too comfortable in American Jigalow. Now on TV tonight was a show called Palmerstown, USA. I have no idea what that was, but the sad part was that some of the great classics of the late 70s were on their last legs this week in 1980. We had Starsky and Hutch, Morgan Mindy, and Benson, but over on CBS, Jed Clampett was hunting down bad guys. It was right at the peak of Buddy Epson in Barnaby Jones. On the radio a group who named themselves after the sounds of Santa Monica, you know him better as the SOS band, songs called Take Your Time.

We can do it, take the time, do it right, we can do it anything, do it tonight, take your time. ComicMix.com ComicMix.com Alright, I may be going out on a limb here, but I think last night's Heroes was pretty damn amazing. Let's find out if Matt thinks so too. Hey again Time Travelers, Matt, Rob here back again to review this week's astonishing episode of Heroes, entitled The String Theory.

Now after last week's amazing episode where we get one step closer to the big finale in the exploding Peter Petrelli, we are left with Hero and Andor transported five years into the future with a destroyed New York and a new scary future Hero. This week takes us right into the action off the bat as Hero gets arrested by the now leader of the FBI, Matt Parkman, and future Hero and Andor decide to go on a mission to get him back. We get a bunch of spread out stories here basically to explain where all the main characters have been for the past five years or so. We see that Jessica is dead but Nikki is still alive and now dating the very Neo-esque and very powerful Peter Petrelli. While Claire is hiding as a waitress in Texas and other than her being a brunette now there's not a whole lot to her story,

Mr. Bennet and the Technopath Hannah now run an underground establishment that helps to hide the new breed of special children and as expected Nathan Petrelli is president with Mohinder as his vice. The great thing about this episode is that knowing that this is the future that isn't going to happen, the writers were allowed to pretty much do whatever they wanted, knowing that there wouldn't be any continuity holes for future episodes. This pretty much includes going on a complete hero's killing spree. Now among the heroes killed are Micah, D.L., Nathan, Claire, future Hero, Mr. Bennet, and sadly Molly the Shapeshifter. And granted none of this has any effect on the final three episodes but it still is fun just to kill off all those main characters.

Now being as this episode had its own continuity, the big reveal is that President Nathan, who had just passed a law exterminating all of people with special abilities in the country, is really not Nathan but Cylor after he absorbed Molly the Shapeshifter's powers. We end the episode with yet another tease of the epic battle waged between the two most powerful characters on the show so far, Cylor and Peter. And again I can only pray that we get a longer version of this before the season's out. A great episode through and through resembling a very Days of Future Past kind of feel.

I give it an overall 9 out of 10. Truly great stuff from Tim Kring and the team. And next week we start off with the final three episodes of season one, also known as chapter one, which begs the question, who's gonna off Cylor? Now for the whole scoop on the episode you can go to the website and I will be back in just a matter of days with yet another review from the deep dark world of TV and movies. Take care. Activating emergency escape pod. It's super neat and fun to fly. Alright next on the agenda Spider-Man 3 and of course free comic book day looms right after that.

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