The Boys are Back! After an eventless summer, the crew are back, rockin’ da mic, bring you all the jibber-jabber about comic books. In this episode Marty, Chris and Chris shake off the cobwebs and fire up the Zoom to talk about the hobby they love. Was that vague enough for ya?
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September 30, Mt. Laurel, NJ: As the challenges affecting the comic industry and world at large continue, Dynamite is extending the timeline for returnable titles into the holiday season. The new window now stretches to comics with a November 25 in stores date, and those on November 2 Final Order Cutoff.
Preorders on Dynamite’s catalog have been rising in recent months, with the cycle for October releasing products marking the strongest month of the year for the publisher. Though Dynamite acknowledges that all of their deeply valued retailer partners are in different individual situations, based on local laws, health and safety, and business environments. To support all those on the “front lines” selling comics week in and out, and continue the vibrant recovery efforts, Dynamite is stretching returnability options once more.
Titles falling into this extended window include the hotly anticipated kickoff to year two of Christopher Priest’s acclaimed run on Vampirella, the blood and guts-flowing second issue of DIE!NAMITE, both with awesome covers by superstars Peach Momoko and Lucio Parrillo, plus all the great Dynamite classics fans look forward to each and every month!
Fresh off his being ranked #38 on the “100 Independent Black Superheroes You Should Know” list by the World of Black Heroes, Titan the Ultra Man returns! In TITAN THE ULTRA MAN #3, Titan squares off for Round 2 against the murderous Mauler who has brought along some friends. Introducing the deadly Fight Klub! In this hard-hitting, action-packed issue Titan learns the first rule of Fight Klub…EVERYONE DIES!
The campaign is now live –https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tonykittrell/titan-the-ultra-man-3-titan-returns
PORTLAND, Ore. 09/30/2020 — Image Comics President and SPAWN creator, Todd McFarlane, will pay tribute to Chadwick Boseman in the upcoming SPAWN #311 with a cover in memory of the late actor who brought to life Marvel’s Black Panther character in the Avengers films.
“Given the limited amount of minority characters in the comic industry today that are considered major Superheroes, I thought it appropriate for one of those well-known heroes (Spawn) to pay tribute to a man who made a lasting impact on helping shape such a strong superhero of color,” said McFarlane. “Chadwick Boseman is a person who honed his skills and then made a career using them. Then he fought a fight against his own body that showed the true spirit of this man. We should all admire the traits Chadwick shared with us. And the inspiration he gave to millions of children around the globe who got to see a strong, meaningful and proud hero that looked like themselves.”
SPAWN #311 Cover B by McFarlane (Diamond Code AUG200369) will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, October 28.
A couple of DC Omnibuses I've been waiting for sometime are finally available.
One was solicited over a year ago, then cancelled only to be resolicited again. As of last week, it was finally released. The Legion of Super-Heroes: Five Years Later Omnibus vol. 1 collects the series by Keith Giffen and Tom and Mary Bierbaum that imagined a darker future for the United Planets and the now adult members of the Legion.
This was the run that got my interested in the Legion of Super-Heroes.
The publication of the Batman by Grant Morrison Omnibus vol. 3 was probably never in doubt, but it's been one I've been eagerly anticipated since they embarked on this series. Batman RIP has good, but marred by changing ideas of what the series was going to be and the need to fit in with the Final Crisis event. Batman and Robin was better still, but to my mind Batman Incorporated is the best of Morrison's work it takes the Silver Age-y flourishes with a modern sensibility that had surfaced from time to time in the early portions of his run and makes it the centerpiece of the seris.
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Title: Madam Satan # 1 One Shot
Publisher: Archie Comics
Story by: Eliot Rahal
Art by: Julius Ohta
Lettering by: Jack Morelli
Coloring by: Matt Herms
Main Cover: Julius Ohta
Variant Cover: Robert Hack
Price: $ 3.99 US
Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
Website: www.archiecomics.com
Comments: Madam Satan’s origin is gone over quickly. Madam Satan now rules Hell. Madam Satan visits Diamon the King of the West. She handles him quite efficiently.
Madam Satan though is given a lesson on who Lucifer really was. Madam Satan had become Ruler of Hell yet she was bored. So what better than to go back to torment Sabrina and others.
The art showing the demons in Hell is not scary at all. Even Madam Satan when she shows her true face is only mildly frightening. For a horror comic, it needed more horror in it. Having Madam Satan stand or sit around for most of the comic just listening to others or talking is not all that exciting. She herself finds ruling Hell boring. It is nice to be the Ruler but sometimes it turns out not to be what you expect.
Madam Satan is just a lady looking for thrills to entertain herself. It would be nice to see a lot more of what makes her, her. Maybe her childhood. Plus what exactly is she? A demon, she hybrid, a human, a witch?
The ending is anti-climatic as Madam Satan goes to school.
Title: Trumps book 1
Publisher: Silverline
Writer/Creator: Roland Mann
Pencilers: Anthony Pereira, Thomas Hedglen
Inker: Thomas Florimonte
Colorist: Sid Venblu
Letterer: Brian Dale
Price: $ 4.99 US
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Website: http://www.silverlinecomics.com
Comments: On the world called The Deck there are warring factions that match up with the four suits of playing cards. The art is beautifully presented. The court has intrigue. The characters are presented in a wonderful fashion and you get to learn something about each fast.
With the hearts and diamonds, and especially talking about Jack, does not differentiate between them enough, making it really hard to follow which one is which. It is easy when they are in the panel yet not so easy when they are just being talked about.
The Main Joker’s Keep is neutral ground in this war of suits. The suit that wins each war is called the Trumps.
The Aces are the most powerful. Here we see the Ace of Clubs enter the war and he is a game-changer.
The art looks great throughout the issue. The character’s facial expressions are all well drawn. The story needs more focus to make it easier to follow what is going on and why, plus why people are doing what they are doing. The characters being named after cards is fine, yet you still need to get into who they are and why they are doing what they are doing. Their emotions and backgrounds. Why should the reader care about them and who wins?
The Ace of Clubs is drawn so powerfully looking and he is full of authority as he issues his degree it is wonderful to see.
Comic Book Cats, number 70: Heroes for Hire #9, penciled by Pascual Ferry, inked by Jaime Mendoza, written by John Ostrander, lettered by Jon Babcock and colored by Joe Rosas, published by Marvel Comics in March 1998.
Heroes for Hire written by John Ostrander was a lot of fun, and probably one of the most underrated series Marvel released in the 1990s. Ostrander assembled a really eclectic, interesting cast of characters and told some great stories. Unfortunately, it only lasted for 19 issues, but I look back on it fondly.
Most of the series was penciled by Spanish artist Pascual Ferry, some of his earliest work in comic books. Ferry’s style really suited the energetic tone of Ostrander’s scripts.
Leading the group was Jim Hammond, the original Human Torch, who had temporarily lost his powers. During this time Hammond had a number of orange tabby cats, and here we see several of them lounging about his office at Oracle Inc.
Awakening in an unknown environment, the renowned Bat-Family will soon come to realises their perplexing situation is only the beginning of a dastardly, maniacal scheme of one equally manic Clown Prince of Crime…
CAST:
Nightwing – Tommi Krasic
Red Hood – Tonino Luketic
Robin – Tyson Cooke
Red Robin – Erik Osterlund
Batgirl – Jaime Unmack
V.O. Batgirl – April Joseph
Joker – William Bakker
V.O. Joker – Tommi Krasic
Thug #1 (Ricky)/Thug #3 – Hunter Harvey
Thug #2 – Antoni Opacak
Thug #4 – Daniel Foster
CREW:
Director / D.O.P / Producer / Costume Artist / Editor – Tommi Krasic
Producer / Camera Operator – Robert Juric
Camera Operator – Erik Osterlund
Gaffer – Peter Cooke
Best Boy – Tonino Luketic
Grip – Hunter Harvey
Battle of the Bat-Family has been a dream come to produce, and could not have been accomplished without the amazing cast and crew who gave their all when times got challenging. Thank you to those at Distillery Logistics for providing us with the primary location over several days, and finally thanks to everyone for their support throughout this gruelling process. Nonetheless hope you enjoy the film as much as I enjoyed making it…
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It would be reasonable to ask what's the use of a print episode guide to a TV show in an age where the internet makes the basic information readily available on the likes of Wikipedia or IMDB? If you're dead set against it, I won't be able to convince you, but I would say a good episode guide doesn't just relate facts easily amenable to one internet search. At a minimum, a print episode guide should collate information that would likely require multiple searches to get, but a truly good episode guide presents a depth of research not generally achievable on the internet. It moves beyond the basic facts to give insight into episodes for someone already familiar with the basic facts.
If it has a flaw, it is that it is not concise. Every season is its on volume, and every volume is sizable. But then, the audience for this sort of detail would just go Wikipedia if they wanted surface detail.
Where Kesler's book resembles Alan Asherman's The Star Trek Compendium in being a similar sort of thing to These Are The Voyages, but much less detailed and confined to one volume, Palmer's book only gives a detailed plot summary of every episode, a list of the primary actors involved (with pictures), and a number of stills from the episode. In the number of photos it exceeds the other works mentioned, but that's the only way. There is not insight into the creation of the episodes. It doesn't even list the screenwriters.
So is it valueless in this age of the internet? Well, it does contain information you'd need to go to Wikipedia, IMDB, and Aveleyman to get, so it simplifies your searches, but it's got a high price tag for that. My recommendation would be Kesler's book, if you can find one.
There are three cultural groups the partially terraformed Venus of the 25th Century: the Aerostaters, Ishtarians, and Aphroditians.
The Aerostaters are nomads you engage in trade and herding from their dirigible cities. They are stereotyped as friendly and fond of festivals and large parties.
The Ishtarian Confederation dominates the planets surface-to-orbit transport. They are most known for their theocracy and mystic religion.
The Aphroditians are natives of the southern continent. They are descendants of the original colonists of Venus and live in a society constructed around large fiefs controlled by one of several families. The people are mostly farmers or miners. They are stereotyped as shrewd traders, but also stubborn and hot-tempered.
Venusian Genotypical Traits
Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution and Wisdom scores increase by 1. You may also increase your Strength or Intelligence by 1.
Age. Same as humans.
Alignment. Any.
Size. Venusians are Medium.
Speed. Base walking speed is 30 feet.
Nictating Membrane. You have a Advantage against attacks which might cause you to be Blinded.
You can catch up on installments here.
Earth is mostly devastated and under the thumb of RAM (Russo-American Mercantile), a megacorporation that rules Mars. Several planets have been partially terraformed, and humans have been genetically engineered to live on them. Plus there are gennies, artificial transgenic organisms developed to help in the colonization of the solar system.
The system the game used was a 2e derivative, which means it would probably be relatively easy to adapt to 5e. Not that any version of D&D is ideal for science fiction gaming, in my opinion, but hey, it's there so it's good for a blogpost or two.