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Hi, it's Mike Raub. Some pretty interesting things are waiting for you down at the comic book store, so grab your wallet. We'll give you a tour and a point to everything on the rack you need to buy Coming Up On. August 5th, 2008. ComicMix U's. So with the superhero movies bringing in well a billion bucks this year, whatever happened to White Out, the film version of Greg Rucka's graphic novel.
Last year, we're talking 2007 in San Diego. We actually saw scenes from the completed movie that stars Kate Beckinsdale. We expect it to be out way before right now. Well, Warner Brothers has officially decided on the release date and it's April 24th, 2009. Why so long? Well, their thinking is that with the fallout from the writer's strike that superhero movies will be very, very scarce come 2009. With only one or two in the pipeline.
And White Out will debut just about a week before the big one, which is Fox's X-Men Wolverine movie. Meanwhile, the producer of wanted, Mark Platt, is optioned Steven Grant's graphic novel, Two Guns. You might remember Boom Studios is currently serializing Two Guns on their website. They update the crime saga with a new page every day so you can get a jump on things and check it out for free at the Boom Studios website. The Hollywood reporter says that the Walt Disney Company has acquired the rights to monsters attack network.
The graphic novel released in 2007 and drawn by Nima Surratt, involving a team of adventurers who are on a Pacific island populated by assorted giant monsters. No report of whether this would be a live action or an animated or CGI feature. J.K. Rowling has finally decided what she's going to do with the Tales of Beadle and Bard. And now it looks like you'll be able to get your own copy. As you remember, we told you about there were only six copies existing of the original book.
Well, now Tales of the Beadle and the Bard will be available to everybody come December 4th of this year. It'll be published by Rowling's favorite charity, the Children's High Level Group. It'll be a regular edition for just about eight bucks and a limited edition you can choose, which will be around $100 and include additional illustrations and other material. All proceeds from the book will go to charity. Hello, this is Mick Foley, author of the Hardcore Diaries and this is Comic Bitch Radio.
What's coming out this is Bitch This Week. If you're strolling to your hopefully friendly comic book store this week, you'll find a couple of titles from Big City, including Dragon Cross number seven, Tempest number seven and Toto number seven as well. They do have some variant covers that maybe your retailer got. Dark Horse this week checks in with Buffy the Vampire Slayer number 17, then over to DC for Army and Love, The Art of War number one. A new six issue miniseries begins here.
Love that first one, so this should be interesting. Also, Authority number one back again from DC. There's a countdown arena issues collected in one trade paperback and then in Detective Comics number 847, the continuation of Batman R.I.P. Which has been a sellout pretty much all across the board and recently at the San Diego Comic Con, Dan Taddio pulled an audience on just who they thought should be taken up the role of Batman. Hypothetically speaking, St. Bruce Wayne was gone.
Anybody here think that they're crazy to be Batman? How about Tim Drake? Tim Drake? Okay, Jason, Jason Tadd. Jason Tadd it is.
Serious? Well, we'll see as Batman R.I.P. continues again with another title next week. TMZ is collected in another trade paperback. This is number five in the series. It's called The Hidden War. Well, look at this.
Final Crisis number one, the director's cut special this week. And Final Crisis number three, a seven issue run still rolling along. A little slower than DC would like. Hawkman special number one by Jim Starlin this week tying into the Rand Thanigarh War. There's the Hellblazer presents Chaz the Knowledge number two in a five issue series.
House of Mystery hits number four. Infinity Inc. is at number 12. I believe it's pretty much almost over for that one. Jack of Fables is at number 24. Jonah Hex number 34 rolls in, as does another issue of Manhunter up to number 33 there.
Again, like we said, Batman R.I.P. heats up in a big way with Nightwing number 147 and Robin number 176. All together with an issue of Detective Comics this week to continue that story arc. There's a nice showcase volume of the House of Secret stories, the first in that series. We get Storming Paradise number two in a six issue miniseries from DC. Supergirl is in at number 32.
A beautiful Joe Kubert tour comes in at number four. A couple more left to wind that up at six issues. Of course, there's Trinity number 10. We get Vertigo Double Shot number one which reprints both Young Liars and House of Mystery. And we get Final Underground number 11, The War of the Time for God number four.
Twelve issues will be in that one before it's over. And the World of Warcraft hardcover collected the first volume in that series from DC. From Devil's New, Demon Wars continues in volume two. This is the second issue of the Demon Spirit miniseries. There'll be three issues when it's done.
There's a couple of different covers to this one. And speaking of multiple covers, you'll find a whole bunch with Hacks slash number 14 this week. That's one of the books that is on its way to being a motion picture. And attached to it is writer Justin Marks who tells us just how that happened. Well with Hacks slash, it was a book actually that had been given to me by a friend about a year, year and a half ago.
And at the time it was already set up as a movie. And I said, well, that'll make an incredible movie. And good luck to everyone who's doing it. You know, I was kind of jealous. And then it was a couple months ago that I was actually in Bangkok where we were doing the Street Fighter movie.
And I got a call saying that, you know, they're looking for someone to come in and work with Todd, the director. And to, you know, and to work on a script for them and to sort of push it through to try to get it ready for production. And so I literally got back on a plane 17 hours going back to LA to try to get that job. Just to complete the circle, Justin is the guy who came up with the Super Max Green Arrow prison movie on the way, hopefully not too far down the road from DC. Also from Devil's Dew this week is a first issue of Rest, actually the zero issue that kicks everything off.
Rest is that new series that is involved with Milo Ventimiglia, who you know is Peter Petrelli from the NBC series Heroes. And Milo tells us exactly what you'll find in Rest. It comes from a script written by a guy named Michael Sullivan. It's a story of a guy who's a little down in his life. You know, he's behind in work.
He is out of shape. He's just not doing so good. He's a young man. And he comes in contact with an old friend who helps him to take an experimental drug that allows him to not have to sleep. And once he takes this drug, all of a sudden, you know, he's at peak alertness and he has 24 hours a day to stay awake and do whatever he wants.
So while the rest of the world is sleeping, he can get done anything that he wants to. So his efficiency at work is through the roof. He's physically fit now at this point. And his life is just seeming to go in that great direction of a very happy, happy, full life. But at the same time, there's a downfall to that.
You know, if you can't sleep, you can't dream. If you can't dream, where's the reset button to your day? Every day. You know, you're in this perpetual cycle of a day that never ends. It just gets light and dark and light and dark and light and dark and you don't sleep.
And then also the effect that's going to take on the world. Now imagine if a drug gets out, because this is just experimental. The early stages, imagine if the drug gets out and the world is 24 hours a day. Nobody sleeps. You know, it's just this bound and jogging mad.
We're going to Dynamic Forces this week for Army of Darkness number 11, the Long Road Home. The boys check in with number 21 this week. And we get Red Zone, number 36 from Dynamic Forces. From Gemstone, a couple of great Disney books for all ages. Walt Disney's Vacation Parade number five and Uncle Scrooge number 377.
From him each, we get Armory Wars 2 number three in that five-issue miniseries. Second issue of the Brit trade paperback collection. This is called AWOL. We get the second printing variant of Invincible number 50. You may want to check that one out.
There's also Jack Staff number 18 and Kyle Baker's Special Forces number three in that six-issue miniseries. Plus Sword number 10 this week from Image. Some interesting choices from Marvel this week, starting with the amazing Spider-Man Family number one. There's Criminal 2 issue number four and Dead of Night featuring Man-Thing, the trade paperback collection of that series you might have missed.
Speaking of collections, there's the Essential Man-Thing volume two. We get Eternals number three this week and another trade paperback. The Fool Killer trade paperback collecting the Fool's Paradise issues. There's a Franklin Richards one-shot. This one's called Summer Smackdown.
There's another issue of Jon Favreau's series, Iron Man Viva Las Vegas. This is number two in that four-issue run. There's the King-sized Spider-Man Summer Special. And there's a couple of issues from the Marvel Illustrated series, including Moby Dick number six, which winds that one up. And Three Musketeers number three in a six-issue run.
There's Marvel 2 and 1 number 14, New Exiles number nine. And the return of NYX, this time it's No Way Home. We get the first of six issues this week. And there's also a variant, so check with your retailers on that one. There's Patsy Walker Hellcat number two in that five-issue series, gearing up for the movie.
Funisher War Journal number 22, Secret Invasion checks in with Secret Invasion Frontline number two. That is a five-issue series. There's the Spider-Man trade paperback, Japanese Nights. That's in a digest form and it's volume number one. Also this week, Terry Morden doing Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane season two number one.
That'll be five issues. And the All Ages of Spider-Man magazine number two. Twelve is back, thank God. You can hardly wait for another issue with that. It's twelve number seven in the twelve-issue run.
There's Venom Dark Origin number one, five issues there. And there's a Wolverine one-shot called Wolverine Killing Dades, simple this week from Marvel. A couple of other items of interest. If you're a Lego fan, there's Brick Journal number two from Two Morrows. And for Virgin Comics this week, Beyond number three, which is in a five-issue Remini series run.
If the TV summer season's a little slow for you, don't worry. The DVDs will not be this week, starting with movies that include Nim's Island, The Counterfeiters, a direct-to-DVD Heather Graham movie called Misconception, and a lot of repackaging done, including new versions of Ultraviolet, Heavy Metal, Starship Troopers Returns with repackages of the first and second movie in that series,
and direct-to-DVD and new this week is Starship Troopers 3. If you're a Kevin Sorbo fan, there's a repackage of Crawl this week, and one of the more interesting repackage deals includes something called I Love the 80s with some of the biggest movies of that decade, brought back in brand-new versions that includes Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Pretty in Pink, and of course Footloose.
Plenty of TV on DVD this week, including Star Trek, the original series. The remastering continues, this time with season number two. There's a special edition of Lonesome Dove, that highly rated award-winning western series. From not long ago on television, this is in Blu-ray as well. Also this week, there's Family Ties season four, Get Smart season one.
The Masters of Science Fiction series, it ran on cable. You probably missed that. A lot of folks did. A great collection of material here as well. And for the die-hard Dr. Who fan who's having a problem and going into withdrawal, there are a couple of packages of earlier Who material, including Dr. Who Black Orchid
and a special edition of Dr. Who, The Five Doctors. It was probably the best summer the superheroes would see for a couple of more decades, thanks to the Batman TV show. Over at DC, we got Adam number 27, which had a time pool story with Ben Franklin. Plenty of Batman out there this week.
There was a 25 cent, 80-page giant that had some great old stories in it. We got Black Hawk number 225 and Superboy met his first foster parents in Superboy number 133. Marvel this week had Fantastic Four number 56 with Claw the murderous master of sound. Amazing Spider-Man was a number 42 this week. We got a great collection of old Captain America stories with Fantasy Masterpieces number five.
And 25 cents was laid out for Fantastic Four annual number four, which had Johnny Storm and Wyatt Wingfoot and the Inhumans as well. A lot of other superheroes were on that spinning rack this week, including Magic Man and Nemesis in Adventures of the Unknown number 168 and Forbidden Worlds number 139 from ACG.
And we got that beautiful Steve Ditko work in Captain Adam number 83 from Charles. 1966. And the news gang warfare in Chicago continued, leaving one dead. The U.S. bombers attacked the demilitarized zone in Vietnam for the fourth time this week. And first daughter, Lucy Baines Johnson staged the final rehearsal for her upcoming wedding.
In the movies, Disney had that darn cat. It was a little more frightening of who's afraid of Virginia Woolf. There was Sex and the Single Girl. Still in the theaters was the sound of music. There was Born Free and Walk Don't Run, better known for its theme than for the movie itself.
On TV tonight, an episode of Hank, Alfred Hitchcock, sing along with Mitch, a CBS special on a White House wedding. But all my cool buddies were waiting to see the latest with Jim and Artie. Probably one of the better seasons of Wild Wild West. On the radio was a clean cut American singer born down in Georgia,
who started having hit records as early as 1962. Along about 1965, his touring buddy Roy Orbison convinced him to make a move to England. That did not slow down Tommy Rowe, who continued to have hits on the American charts all through the decade. Just like this one, Sweet Pea. It's a busy week for us.
When we're back, we talk more with Steven Moffat and Julie Gardner about what's coming down the road for some of our favorite BBC shows, including Torchwood and Doctor Who. Robert Culp and William Cadd talked proudly about the revival of The Greatest American Hero. And there's some summer reading on the way as well, and you don't have to miss any of it.
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