Heroes … and losers?

As we pack out bags for The Mighty Pittsburgh Comicon, help us clean off the news desk with stories ranging from Elvis to Stan Lee’s fetish to yet more second printings and amazing ticket sales for Spider-Man 3! We prime you for the Big Convention, tell you where the Martain Manhunter will be popping up, review the return of Heroes and trip back to when Steely Dan managed to irk a nation of football fans. The Midweek Big ComicMix Broadcast – #32 if you are collecting them all – is packed full. Trust us.

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Another day and another day. Here we are in the middle of the week and we are packing our bags for Pittsburgh here but we got some house cleaning to get to before that. Gotta clear off the news desk for you find out if Matt Robles is impressed with heroes as we were and check out a guy who's almost as stiff in the Spider-Man suit as Toby is. All that and more on… April 26, 2007

ComicMix Mike Allard's Mad Man Atomic Comics number one sold out from Image and they're happy about it they're responding with the second printing of the first issue and a brand new cover of a mic on that one Meanwhile Mad Man Atomic number two will be out in about a week and Mad Man Atomic number three will be on the stands in the first part of June The very latest Hopkow Marvel Comics crossover is going to be a fairly fat issue with a lot of characters including the darkness and Witchblade

Doctor Strange, Ghost Rider and Hulk it's all called Unholy Union and it'll be out like I said during the summer in an oversized edition Images collecting Jim Valentino's highly regarded Normal Man comics into one big volume this year The Complete Normal Man collects every single Normal Man story including the 13 issues of the original series The Normal Man Megaton Man crossover The Normal Man 20th Anniversary special

Rarely seen convention strips, advertisements, covers and a lot more It's all in one big volume for 1995 and it'll be out in June 3DD Entertainment joins in the people marking the 30th Anniversary of the passing of Elvis Presley this summer with the new release It's an exclusive 60 minute high-def TV special called Elvis Close as a Brother produced by George Klein One of Elvis's lifelong friends includes an Elvis music soundtrack, photos, newsreel and archive footage

Well finally if we knew it had to happen the Sci-Fi channel is announced officially they will be picking up season 3 of Doctor Who from BBC Worldwide It'll debut in July, they'll run the Christmas special The Runaway Bride first and then pick up season 3 with Martha right after that Meanwhile over on SciFi.com you'll have a chance to vote on a brand new series and get a sneak peek of it as well It's called Outer Space Astronauts, it's going to air exclusively on SciFi Pulse

You'll get to the side of the show, gets a green light and goes on to real TV There'll be five vignettes from the show, you'll be asked to fill out a survey and hopefully it'll pass Well do you have your tickets yet for Spider-Man 3? Wait a minute, you're saying the movie's not even out yet Well pre-sales right now according to MovieTickets.com are three times that of what it was during the same period for Spider-Man number 2 Fandango.com said Spider-Man 3 tickets are moving four times faster there than any of the two previous Spider-Man movies

And right now that puts it on track to be one of the best-selling movies of all time The season finale of The Batman on Kids WB looks pretty interesting First of all it'll be the very first episode to feature other characters beyond the Dark Knight This time it's Detective John Jones, the Martian manhunter who appears This will eventually lead next season to an appearance from some form of the Justice League

Way back a few broadcasts ago, we talked to you about Marvel then and now An evening with Stan Lee and Joe Cassata, it was a very special DVD hosted by Kevin Smith All to benefit the good people at the Hero Edition, well it is shipping a little late The DVD which sells for $24.95 will now be shipping probably at the end of this month Within the next couple of days the time you hear this

You get more information at thenandnowdvd.org And remember all proceeds do benefit the good people at the Hero Initiative As we get in the broadcast that's going on the road we are heading to Pittsburgh Oddly enough where there's a comic convention, the Pittsburgh comic convention so aptly named Takes place going on Friday through Sunday of this weekend, the 27th, 28th and 29th

If you really need to look at the calendar Now for more information contact the good people at Comics World, Mike and Renee George They can be reached at 814-4674-116 I got a feeling they're going to be a little too busy to run to the phone So if you really want to come to the convention and we hope you do

It's at the Pittsburgh Expo Mart on Mall Boulevard in Monroeville, PA You can look it up on the web at their website of course, PittsburghComicCon.com Now we're going to be there hopefully to talk to a lot of good people over the weekend But I got to tell you there's some great stuff going on One of the biggest events on Friday of course begins with the celebration of the end of Strangers in Paradise

Should I say a celebration? Well they're going to look at it from a positive end Terry Moore will be there as well They'll be running the Strangers in Paradise documentary on Friday There'll be a special event on this Sunday for Terry and lots of time to sit down and talk to him about his future plans Also a lot of media guests as well

Some of the folks from Farscape will be there on Friday including the highly entertaining Gigi Edgerly We're hoping to talk to her On Saturday something very interesting at least to us So we hope to you as well If you come by you'll have a chance to say hi to all of us at ComicMix

And a special presentation called What ComicMix Means to You We'll be there, Mike Gold will be there, Tim Truman as well Mike Grell, lots of great time to talk about what we've got planned here at ComicMix And to get some feedback from you as well Plus to talk to Mike and Tim about some of the great work they've done now

And in the past On Sunday George Perez will be there for what they're saying His last convention appearance until 2009 So he'll be able to talk about Brave and Bold and a lot of other things Lots of anime and movie marathons, gaming events and a lot more

A huge guest list I printed off a list of the people that are going to be there And it came to 60 pages So I'm telling you there's a lot of folks to talk to Again if you have a chance, PittsburghComicon.com is where you get information

But we'll be going along And we'll be broadcasting there direct on Saturday Talk to us during the broadcast Of course, we'd love to see you if you're on the premises In the meantime if you can't make it there and join us on Saturday

We'll do our best to share all the excitement with you right here on the broadcast ComicMix.com ComicMix Timeline April 26, 1978 Well when you were able to find a comic book store in 1978

This week you found some really nice comics waiting for you Including Aquaman number 62 That had that classic story with the death of Arthur Curry's son Batman family number 18 Clothian conquered number 11

And Superboy and the Legion of Superheroes number 240 With some damn fine artwork by our buddy Mike Grell in there Over at Marvel we got Star Wars number 12 What if number 9 that had that 1950's Avengers story by Roy Thomas That's coming to play lately in the Marvel Comics world

And we got John Carter Warlord of Mars number 13 In the news, President Carter pleaded with Congress to approve his task Cut he said that if it didn't pass it would cost every American family $600 And in Seattle a cargo ship containing 37 tons of marijuana was seized In the movies you got Return from Witch Mountain and the Betsy

And a couple of classics that came from totally different areas of taste First of all one of the very best from Woody along with Diane Keaton It was Annie Hall Those who can't do teach and those who can't teach teach Jim It was a little softer than Annie Hall but still a memorable movie direct from Broadway

Great performance by Richard Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason Neil Simons, The Goodbye Girl On TV tonight you got episodes of Grizzly Adams Charlie's Angels, Ain't Is Enough And a little series that didn't last long

But right now it's sold a lot of movie tickets The Amazing Spider-Man was 13 episodes on CBS Believe it or not that was stretched out over two seasons Including a made for TV movie that kicked the whole thing off Only notable actors in this

Well the pilot, J. Jonah Jameson was played by David White That was Larry Tate in Bewitched And the guy in the suit, Nicholas Hammond His other big part was the elder Von Trapp's son in The Sound of Music Not a half bad live action show

A little campy if you get a chance to grab it while you're waiting in line to see Spider-Man 3 Stick it on your iPod and take a look On the radio another music controversy this week Now the mere mention of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team in this song Had a lot of cities up in arms cause they were jealous

These guys are winning game after game after game And you know how football fans are Still a little big hit record for the Steely Dan guys It's Deacon Blues And died behind the wheel

They got a name for the winners in the world I want a name when I lose They call Alabama Crimson Tide Call me Deacon Blues ComicMix

ComicMix.com Finally somebody used their powers I don't know about you but I was pretty darn impressed with Heroes this week Let's find out right now what Matt Raub thinks Hey there Comic fans, Matt Raub here

And I am back once again to review yet another TV gem In the return of NBC's hit superhero franchise Heroes I for one could not wait for the return of the TV I caught myself grasping at my TV guide

Looking for things to keep my mind off of the constantly ticking countdown For the return of my favorite characters We were left with yet another huge cliffhanger Which I guess the show is pretty good at In which Hero and his zany sidekick Ando

Are teleported five years into the future Right in sight of the ruins in which you used to lie New York City Plus we had an edge of the seat ending With Peter Bertrelli being attacked And the

Possibly killed by none other than the supervillain, Cylar These storylines and a few more were just a taste of where this episode was going And now let's take a look at this episode Entitled 0.07%

One of the first scenes back is where we left off in Ciresh's apartment where Cylar is holding hostage Where we left off last time is where we start up this time In Ciresh's apartment where we have a stand off Between Cylar and Peter Bertrelli

And this had to be one of my favorite scenes In the series thus far Because we're finally over the whole How do I use my powers and where do we come from and who's the bad guy? And we're finally on to the whole knock down drag out fight

Seeing as how Peter and Cylar are pretty much The most powerful characters on the show thus far This was an awesome battle My only problem was that it was over a little too quickly And I just wanted more

We also touched on Linderman's story a bit And not only does he have the powers to heal A plant or a human I suppose Also he's not just a bad guy He's just, you know, a little dark

He revealed to us that he's always wanted to help humanity With a pseudo justice league of sorts And if that means that Peter needs to bowl himself up In New York City in the process Killing 0.7%

Then so be it Overall this episode held all my expectations Exactly where I wanted And it was yet another episode that we are going to wait for next week In which Hiro and Ando are actually in the future

And we get to see where we left off last I give this episode a heroic 8 out of 10 With my only note that I want a little more Christopher Eccleston next time Until next week, my name is Matt Raub And yes, I'm addicted to healing

Comic M I X Train leaning on 10-5 Or anheim, a Zuza, and cooked among dust Alright we are out of here and on the way to Pittsburgh We will see you at the conventional course

Listen to us direct if you are there Stop by and say hi, if not, we will share it all with you Comments of course, you can do that Anytime you would like to on the website Just click on the comments, tell us what you think

Or write us direct at podcast at ComicMix.com We will be doing Doctor Who season 3 Another look at that with Matt on the weekend And our ComicMix comic book master series continues as well Talk to you in a couple of days

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