May 2013 archive

Graphic Bits Reviews: Five Ghosts #3, Miniature Jesus #2, Occupy Comics #1 and Sex #3

Occupy Comics #1

Don’t have time for full reviews of comics? Then check out Graphic Bits: bite sized chunks of comic book goodness designed to get behind the panels and into your hearts. This week (22 May 2013) is so big that we’ve gone into a second column! For the other one, see here, you! First up, we check out Five …

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Behind The Panels Issue 58 – Arrow

In this issue, we have a ton of new trailers including Avengers Assemble, Batman: Arkham Origins and Man of Steel. James Robinson leaves Earth 2 and Whedon confirms Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver and Iron Man for The Avengers 2. Not enough? How about what we’ve been reading, a vintage clip PLUS our Kick-Ass Pick of the Week: …

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Review: Green Lantern #20

Green Lantern #20 - Dog Mahnke

It’s the end of an era as Geoff Johns delivers his final sensational issue of Green Lantern after a definitive decade-long run.  As the opening montage to this oversized anniversary issue reminds us, writer Geoff Johns has fundamentally changed the Green Lantern universe. Under his guidance, we witnessed the rebirth of Hal Jordan, the resurgence …

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Preview: Age of Ultron #10 A.I. decides Ant-Man’s past and future

Age Of Ultron #10 A.I. - Ant-Man

With the Age of Ultron event winding to a stumbling close, and Avengers A.I. to follow not long afterwards, Marvel have been teasing a interlude issue for the last few months called Age of Ultron #10 A.I. Today, Marvel released the four pages of art and a brief description, and it seems that it is …

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Watch the Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox trailer online

Flashpoint Paradox

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has released the first trailer from the for the forthcoming original animated film, Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox. Based on the bestselling DC Comics mini-series Flashpoint, it sees Flash wake up to find that his powers are gone and the world has radically altered around him. He must figure out how …

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Graphic Bits Reviews: Batman Incorporated #11, Daredevil #26, Justice League #20 and Talon #8

Daredevil #26 - Chris Samnee

Don’t have time for full reviews of comics? Then check out Graphic Bits: bite sized chunks of comic book goodness designed to get behind the panels and into your hearts. This week (22 May 2013) is another big one! First up, we check out a Grant Morrison-less Batman Incorporated #11 (DC Comics), a conclusion of sorts in Daredevil #26 …

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Quicksilver to appear in both Avengers 2 and X-Men: Days of Future Past

Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch

It’s now all over the web that Evan Peters will be joining the cast of X-Men: Days of Future Past, the prequel/sequel in Fox’s X-Men universe. The news came via director Bryan singer, who tweeted out the following: As we know, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch were recently announced by Joss Whedon as appearing in his …

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Review: Akaneiro #1

Akaneiro #1 - Vasilis Lolos

A fable-turned-video-game-turned-comic is an effective re-imagining of Red Riding Hood set in feudal Japan from American McGee. It’s often very easy to dismiss licences that are connected with video games, as they are typically less interested in storytelling than they are in selling games. Yet the comic that accompanies American McGee’s online game Akaneiro: Demon Hunters is …

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Review: The Bounce #1

The Bounce #1 (Image Comics) - David Messina

Joe Casey swaps sex for drugs as a slacker get super and continues to subvert the perception of modern superhero comics. Since the 1980s, a sub-genre of superhero comics have grown increasing darker and cynical, deconstructing the core elements to demonstrate disillusionment with the ideals that funny books once aspired to. In a post The Dark Knight Returns and …

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Review: The Green Team – Teen Trillionaires #1

The Green Team: Teen Trillionaires #1

DC makes another grab at being, like, totally zeitgeist and stuff, and this time is a little closer to being on the money. A few weeks ago, DC launched The Movement, the first in a series of books aimed at grabbing some of the Occupy coin. At the very least, it was designed to appeal …

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New Man of Steel trailer, Zod attacks the Earth

Man of Steel Zod Trailer)

We were initially skeptical, but as Man of Steel draws closer, we are getting pretty excited. This latest trailer turns up the action by another 40% or so, as General Zod (Michael Shannon) starts getting a bit stroppy with the puny humans over the location of Kal-El/Superman (Henry Cavill). The action in this trailer is …

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