Behind The Panels Issue 131 – Superman: Earth One Volume 3

Welcome to BEHIND THE PANELS Issue 131, the comic book show that makes crime pay full retail, even if we bought it on sale.

In this issue, Superman tempts children with his hot chocolate, and that’s not the only Sex Criminals on television. ALSO a brand new team-up series for DC, the Aurealis Award nominations and some kind of geek related challenge. THEN It’s The Black Hood, Suiciders, Spider-Gwen, Agent Carter and more in What We’ve Been Reading and Watching.

PLUS our Kick-Ass Pick of the Week: SUPERMAN: EARTH ONE VOLUME 3 by J. Michael Straczynski, and Ardian Syaf. This is BEHIND THE PANELS.

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Vintage Clip of the Week

In which Superman lures unsuspecting children into his lair with the promise of hot beverages

What We’ve Been Reading/Watching

This Week (25 February): The Black Hood #1, Batman #39, Curb Stomp #1 (Boom! Studios), Suiciders #1 (Lee Bermejo), D4VE #1, Orphan Black #1, The Amazing Spider-Man #15, Spider-Gwen #1

Watching: The Flash (because we forgot to talk about it last week), The Walking Dead, Gotham, Arrow, Agent Carter (Season Finale)

Next Week’s Highlights: HaloGen #1, Con Job #1 (Jimmy Palmiotti), Neverboy #1, Green Arrow #40, Harley Quinn #15, Blackcross #1 (Warren Ellis), Big Man Plans #1 (Eric Powell), Descender #1 (Jeff Lemire/Dustin Nguyen), Nameless #2, Saga #26, All-New Hawekeye #1 (Jeff Lemire/Ramon K. Perez), Neverboy #1, Guardians Team-Up #1, Princess Leia #1

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (mid-season return), Gotham, The Walking Dead, Arrow

News Headlines

• A new DC Comics team-up series starring Brandon Routh, Victor Garber, Wentworth Miller and Caity Lotz has been announced. Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, Marc Guggenheim and Sarah Schechter are set to executive produce.
• Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick have signed a two-year overall deal at Universal TV, bringing some of their creator owned shows to television starting with Sex Criminals.
• The nominations for Australia’s 2014 Aurealis Awards have been announced. For Best Graphic Novel/Illustrated Work, the shortlist includes Left Hand Path #1 (Winter City Productions), Awkwood (Milk Shadow Books), “A Small Wild Magic” (Candlewick Press), Mr. Unpronounceable and the Sect of the Bleeding Eye (Milk Shadow Books) and The Game (Deeper Meanings Publishing)
• Sega and Capcom characters will crossover in Archie Comics’ “Worlds Unite” event in May
• Vertigo will release a new Mad Max: Fury Road prequel comic with George Miller, Nico Lathouris and Mark Sexton writing, and Riccardo Burchielli, Leandro Fernandez, Tristan Jones, and Mark Sexton on art duties.
• Tom Ellis has landed the lead role in Fox’s Vertigo adaptation Lucifer
• Dean Caine and Helen Slater have been cast in unspecified roles in the upcoming Supergirl series. The show has also added Calista Flockhart as Cat Grant, “Homeland” star David Harewood as Hank Henshaw, Chyler Leigh as Alexandra “Alex” Danvers and Laura Benanti as Kara’s Kryptonian mother

Kick-Ass Pick of the Week

Superman Earth One: Volume 3

John Dee’s™ Geek Related Challenge…or something

This week’s challenge comes to us from John Dee, and is as follows:

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Next Week (132): Starlight by Mark Millar and Goran Parlov

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Music used in this episode includes samples from Hans Zimmer’s Man of Steel score, The Kinks’ “(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman” and Willie Nelson feat. Snoop Dogg “Superman”