ComicMix Radio: Rating The Dark Knight
The controversy over just who should see The Dark Knight heats up in the UK, while over here we hide out at the comic shop among a stack of great new trades out this week, plus:
- Sony fast tracks Flash Gordon
- Ted McKeever gets collected
- Devils Due’s Josh Blaylock introduces us to Mercy Sparx
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Broadcast 245. ComicMix.com. Clear off the bookshelf and grab your wallet. ComicMix.com. Hi, it's Mike Raub. Another great week at the comic book store.
This time we get to collect some of the things you may have missed in some cool trade paperbacks. Plus a look at a brand new series from Devil's Dew that's a little hellbent. That and more on the way on August 12th. 2008. ComicMix.com. You've read the stories about how Dark Knight is not too far behind Star Wars and Titanic to be the biggest movie of all time.
But here's kind of a different problem they're facing. Over in England, the Dark Knight opened on July 25th and the BBFC there, the British Board of Film Classification, gave the movie a 12A rating, which means the movie is suitable for people 12 years and older. Since then though, the BBFC has received a lot of complaints about the movie's rating and now, according to BBC News, they're thinking of changing it. Also, when you look around the world, the movie's received some interestingly different ratings in different countries.
For example, in Australia, Dark Knight was rated M for Mature. In Denmark, it was rated for people 15 years of age and older. In Finland, people 13 years of age and older. In the Netherlands, ages 16 and older can go see the movie. And of course, here in the US, Dark Knight got a PG-13.
Sony is moving ahead fairly fast, according to the Hollywood Reporter on the Flash Gordon project. They won the rights to the science fiction property. In a post-Iron Man bidding war back in May, now they've assigned the writing task of the movie to Matt Sazama and Buck Sharpless, who right now are working on Dracula Year Zero for Universal and working on Cobalt 60 for Watchmen director Zack Snyder. Big news for independent comic fans in October.
Image Comics Shadow Line Group is going to team with acclaimed artist Ted McKeever for a project. It's been a couple of decades in the making and it is the Ted McKeever Library and it begins with the complete transit. Ted McKeever Library hardcover volume one, which includes transit and 156 page black and white hardcover, goes on sale for about 25 bucks in comic stores around the first of October. Fresh off their work from Devil's Dew, Milo Ventimiglia and his partner Russ Cundiff of Devete Pictures have another comic project.
This one is called Berserker and it comes from Top Cow. It's a concept created by Rick Lovert about people who discover they have superhuman ancient Norse powers as they are pulled into an underground war that hasn't been going on for centuries. The concept was originally given to them as a television pilot, but Ventimiglia thought it might work better in the comics medium to begin with. Look for information on publishing dates on the way soon from Top Cow. Hey, I'm Milo Ventimiglia and listen to ComicMix.
ComicMix Radio. What's coming out this is It's Week. There's a few wrap ups of some great series that have been chugging along through the summer and some nice trade paperback collections as well this week at the comic store. From Dark Horse, BPRD the warning number two in that five issue series and then another shot from the Hellboy universe in Hellboy the Crooked Man number two. That's a three issue series.
Also from Dark Horse, we'll get goon number 27 and the Oh My Goddess trade paperback already up to volume number 30 on your shelf. From DC, there's 100 Bullets number 94. Geoff Johns Great Work continues in action comics. Number 868, the Batman R.I.P. storyline getting hotter and hotter. This time there's Batman number 679, which is the next installment and that also has a variant edition as well.
There's Batman Confidential number 20, which continues the Batgirl Catwoman story with that great artwork by Kevin McGuire. Also for all ages, Batman Strikes number 48. There's Booster Gold number 11, Check Bay number 29, the third issue of Chuck, that's a six issue series, winding into the news TV season, which won't be that far away from right now. There's the Death Blow trade paperback and then you live.
And from Final Crisis, couple of second printing variants. There's Final Crisis Requiem number one, Second Printing and Final Crisis Rogue's Revenge number one, Second Printing Variant. And then on the new side, Final Crisis Revelations number one, which begins a five issue run. There's Gen 13 number 21 this week, Green Arrow Black Canary number 11, Green Lantern Corps number 27 and the Justice League International hardcover volume two.
Legion of the Superheroes in the 31st Century for the All Ages group hits number 17. The Millennium storyline contained in one trade paperback this week, as well as a new printing of Robin year one as well. Simon Dark number 11 this week comes out. You can catch up on the past and Simon Dark, what Simon does, a new trade paperback. Also speaking of catching up, Supergirl getting ready for a big creative change.
Catch up on what has been going on there in Supergirl Beyond Good and Evil in a trade. There's the Fourth Testament trade paperback that's called Exodus. And there's for the All Ages group Tiny Titans number seven. Of course another issue of Trinity, this time up to number 11. And Wonder Woman number 23 and Young Liars number six this week from DC.
Devil's New publisher Josh Blalock takes his turn at writing a comic with the new Mercy Sparks. It begins this week with issue number zero and enthusiastically Josh can tell you everything you need to know about the new Devil Girl in comics. Mercy is a Devil girl who is secretly hired by Heaven to take out rogue angels that are among us. You know she looks like a hot blonde kind of badass tattooed rock and roll girl in the day. But she switches over and she's actually like a full blown out red devil girl.
The angels are all you know, a lot of them are muses, some of them are like guardian angels. But the ones she has to hunt down are muses so they're all drawn to music. It's a really interesting visual. Also from Devil's New Worlds of Dungeons and Dragons number three which comes with a couple of different covers. From Dynamic Forces this week Brothers in Arms number three, Lone Ranger number 12 and Zorro number six.
Great Summer reading with Walt Disney's comics and stories number 693 and Uncle Scrooge number 378 both from Gemstone. And a big lot from Image this week beginning with Broken Trinity Darkness. There's a couple of different covers there. Firebreather series number two this week also from Image and Frank Frazetta's Dracula meets the Wolfman one shot. There's Golly number one, Hyperkinetic number two which is a four issue series.
Spawn number 181, Transhuman number three in that four issue series and Walking Dead number 51. From Marvel Amazing Spider Girl up to number 23 there's the second printing variant of Astonishing X-Men number 25 this week. As well as a second printing variant of Captain Britain and the MI-13 which is a Secret Invasion book by the way. And there's also a Secret Invasion edition when the regular Captain Britain and the MI-13 number four first printing hits this week. There's Gen Next number four that's a five issue series and finally a low uprising number three.
What's it been? Almost a year waiting for that one. Still one more to go in that four issue series. We get the Invincible Iron Man number three, second printing variant there and the last issue of the Last Defenders storyline. For the All Ages group there's Marvel Adventures Hulk number 14 and the Marvel Adventures Hulk trade paperback digest to volume number three. We get Punisher number 60 and the one shot Punisher kills the Marvel Universe which also has a skull variant.
Secret Invasion number five this week with a bunch of different variants and some one shots as well. There's Secret Invasion Inhumans number one that'll be four issues. Secret Invasion Thor number one which is three issues and Secret Invasion X-Men number one which will be four issues as well. There's Craven's Last Hunt contained in a Spider-Man trade paperback this week that should look good. Universal War number two also this week which is a three issue series.
As well as a Wolverine trade paperback collection of Get Mystique and X-Men Origins the one shot involving Jean Grey. Another week where there's more good collections than new content on DVD. Directo from the theaters you get the secret this week. Smart People's on DVD something called CJ7 as well. The Felon, Wesley Snipes and the Art of Ward 2 and The Legend of the Shadow of the Sword this week on DVD.
Upgrading to Blu-ray here are some of your choices this time including Half Past Dead. So you're slowly upgrading your collection to Blu-ray while your choices this week include Wesley Snipes in seven seconds. Maximum Risk Half Past Dead but my better choice involves what I think is the high point on the resume of Val Kilmer. The Great Doors movie. From TV to DVD this week you have South Park Season 11 The Wire season number five.
There's the complete series of True Calling this week. The first season of Caroline in the City and the entire season of True Calling. Again my best bet for this one though goes for the DC Super Heroes package which includes all those great filmation cartoons from the 60s and the 70s. And one of the best packages ever just stay with the store and look at it. It will be the best part of your day.
Updates several times each day. ComicMix.com. ComicMix timeline August 12. $19.99. It was another good Wednesday down at the comic shop this week as we got JLA Foreign Bodies the one shot from DC.
Also Superman number 149 preacher number 54. Green Lantern annual 8 checked in along with Batman Chronicles number 18 and Catwoman number 73. From Marvel we got Uncanny X-Men 373. The Earth X series was up to issue number 7. And we got the first issue of Wild Thing.
There was Gambit number 9 and Humans number 10. Hulk number 7. And Spider-Man chapter 1 first issue as well. From Image we got Sychor number 2. Tales of the Darkness number 5.
And the Kiss Sychocercus. Remember that's still rolling at issue number 23. Dark Horse had the first run of Buffy the Vampire Slayer into number 12 and the Dark Horse presents annual for the year. And Chaos Comics checked in with a big chunk on the rack that included Mankind number 1 and Lady Death Rapture number 4. 1999.
In the news a white supremacist accused of opening fire in an LA synagogue was arrested. Several TV advertisers including Proctor and Gamble and Sears said they're going to pay riders to develop more family friendly programming for television networks. And the Soviet President Boris Yeltsin gathered advisors to plan the quelling of an Islamic rebellion in southern Russia. In the movies we were still fascinated with a matrix. We had no idea how far it was going to go in American Pie.
There was Inspector Gadget, The Sixth Sense, Mystery Men and a better cartoon of the decade. There are two kinds of metal in this yard. Scrap and art. You got to eat one of them, eat the scrap. What you currently have in your mouth is art.
Timeless, the best way to describe Iron Giant. Television Tonight had episodes a bunch of Whose Line Is It Anyway on ABC. There was David Blaine's Street Magic Special, episodes of Frasier and Third Rock, and the 1999 Teen Choice Awards with an up front performance by Blink-182. On the radio was a brother and sister act out of Toronto that had one trip to the chart.
That was a song that ended up on the soundtrack of the movie Go. Listen for a sample of the song More More More and Steal My Sunshine. Here's Len. Back in a couple of days there's more summer reading on the way and then we're going to explore probably one of the bigger phenomenons you might not have heard of. It's called Jane and the Dragon, best selling book, animated series on the way and you're going to want to know what it's all about.
You don't have to miss that. You can subscribe to us easily on iTunes. And meanwhile back on ComicMix, brand new installments of Hammer Of The Gods by Mike Oeming and Mark Wheatley, more Black Ice from Mike Baron, Dick Giordano and Frank McLaughlin continue with more White Viper and that is all free. Get updates too on the very latest news and commentary from ComicMix at Facebook, Twitter and Myspace. Talk to you in a couple of days. Bye.
