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#43: Getting Around To It

Comic Book Daily Staff
June 17, 2011

Every week Comic Book Daily asks the question and the crew (and special guests) give their answers; we’ll be doing this for 52 weeks. Tip of the hat goes to the gang at Scans Daily for the inspiration and Scott VanderPloeg for this week’s question. This week's 52Q comes as I look at a pile of abound: sixty collected editions stacked beside my chair. What comic are you buying but never get around to reading, and why do you keep putting it off?

Humanoids Week Wrap Up

Scott VanderPloeg
June 17, 2011

So concludes Humanoids week here at Comic Book Daily. Here’s a list of reviews available: I Am Legion Madwoman Of The Sacred Heart Weapons Of The Metabaron Day Of The Magicians Legend Of The Scarlet Blades Screaming Planet Elias The…

Scott VanderPloeg
June 17, 2011

Our last review of Humanoids week on Comic Book Daily: Elias The Cursed by Corrado Mastantuono and Sylviane Corgiat. Here’s the publisher’s blurb: [quote]Fallen king Elias is on a quest to reclaim the face that was stolen from him by…

Why the First Films in a Franchise Tend to Suck

Shelley Smarz
June 17, 2011

So, before work this morning, I popped onto Rotten Tomatoes to see how Green Lantern fared in terms of film critics’ response. As of this writing, the “Tomatometer” is at 22% (with an average score of 4.4/10) with 93 critics…

Undervalued Spotlight #89

Walter Durajlija
June 17, 2011
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More Fun Comics #73, DC Comics, November 1941 Now here’s a comic book that should be getting a lot more respect and a lot more attention. More Fun #73 introduces two major DC characters, Aquaman and Green Arrow. Both were…

G.I. Joe: Tales from the Cobra Wars

Ed Campbell
June 17, 2011

In the summer of 1989 I was sitting in my room, with pad and a pen, writing out what I had hoped would be the greatest piece of G.I. Joe fiction ever. After two paragraphs I got bored. So unfortunately…

Alexa Tomaszewski
June 17, 2011

After being stuck in limbo X-Men Legacy readers get a giant-sized mystery and a new team on a mission to find Legion's missing personas. The title is one of few Marvel series to have avoided renumbering and is known as the title staying honest to each characters history. In the character-driven issue every beat of the plot flows fluidly from panel to panel in what might become the last surviving X-book.

Scott VanderPloeg
June 16, 2011
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Humanoids week continues at Comic Book Daily with a look at Alexandro Jodorowsky’s Screaming Planet. Here’s the publisher’s blurb: [quote]All that remains of a prosperous, warm planet destroyed by the madness of its inhabitants many years ago…A living piece of…

The Onion Reports on Greg Lantern’s Opening Weekend

Peter DeCourcy
June 16, 2011
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[via The Onion] In my opinion the best part is “YEAH GREEN LANTERN, SURE WHY NOT!” Apologies to Andrew Ardizzi who hasn’t been seen since this film was announced over 400 days ago. Our thoughts are with his family (he,…

DCU Reboot: A Reaction

Shelley Smarz
June 16, 2011

It’s been a little over two weeks since DC announced that it was rebooting its Universe and releasing a whole slew of #1s. During that time, I’ve struggled to organize my thoughts on the subject, how this will affect the…

Comic Book Docs

Brent Chittenden
June 16, 2011
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In this post is an idea I wish for someone to use because I have not the resources to do it myself. But we’ll get to that. I love documentaries. Okay, I love good documentaries, especially those about music. Standing…

Walter Durajlija
June 15, 2011

There are some great topics on this weeks show. Hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija discuss film studios abandoning the San Diego Comicon, the last issue of the Uncanny X-Men, the return of Valiant and of course, DC’s move to…

Grant Morrison Gives His Perspective on the DC Comics Reboot

Peter DeCourcy
June 15, 2011

[via the good people at ComicsAlliance.com] Leave your comments below. I have faith in Morrison.. not so much the rest of them.

Humanoids? Who?

Scott VanderPloeg
June 15, 2011

This is an open letter plea to Humanoids North America as part of Comic Book Daily’s Humanoids week: number one get yourself a public relations person and number two start adding material to your books. I’m a big fan of…

Andrew Ardizzi
June 14, 2011

Fear Itself is the biggest comic event this summer. Large, strong, burly chracters are getting hammers left and right, transforming into these cool god-like bad-asses. In all this you may be asking, "where's Deadpool? What's Wade up to?" To answer that question, friends, I've entertained looking at Deadpool's participation in this little summer event. It's Hamma-time!

Scott VanderPloeg
June 14, 2011

Humanoids week continues on Comic Book Daily: today we’re looking at Legend Of the Scarlet Blades by Saverio Tenuta. Here’s the publisher’s blurb: [quote]Cartoonist Saverio Tenuta writes and paints a twisted tale of a masterless Samurai named Raido searching for…

Auteur Theory

Peter DeCourcy
June 14, 2011
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So the DC Comic Solicits were released yesterday to a big underwhelming thud. It’s not that there weren’t any interesting ideas shown; see the wonderful solicit for Wonder Woman. It’s just I’m underwhelmed with a sense of not caring. I…

Scott VanderPloeg
June 13, 2011
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Welcome to Retailer Q, spinning 52Q’s format at top Canadian comic retailers. Comic Book Daily asks the question and our retail friends give their perspective. DC’s announcement of rebooting their line with 52 series debuting in September, releasing in print and digital on the same day, has taken the comic world by storm. As a comics retailer what impact do you foresee? How will this change affect you?

Scott VanderPloeg
June 13, 2011

It’s Humanoids week on Comic Book Daily: today we’re looking at Day Of the Magicians by Michelangelo La Neve and Marco Nizzoli. Here’s the publisher’s blurb: [quote]Drazen has completed his training as a Magician and is determined to fulfill the…

Andrew Ardizzi
June 13, 2011

Last week issue two of the Arkham City mini-series was released. The mini-series, serving as the bridge between the highly successful video game, Batman: Arkham Asylum and its sequel Arkham City, is five issues long and looks to elaborate on the story after the first game while setting up the conditions for the follow-up. Does the book measure up to the game, or is it just another video game-comic book tie in? Onward!

Movie Cameos

Ed Campbell
June 13, 2011

With the recent release of X-Men First Class (which features two cameos), I got thinking about cameo appearances in our favourite Super Hero movies. Easily there could be a Pick 5 list on just Stan Lee’s appearances alone (hmm… maybe a…

#43: Getting Around To It

Humanoids Week Wrap Up

Elias The Cursed

Why the First Films in a Franchise Tend to Suck

Undervalued Spotlight #89

G.I. Joe: Tales from the Cobra Wars

X-Men Legacy #250

Screaming Planet

The Onion Reports on Greg Lantern’s Opening Weekend

DCU Reboot: A Reaction

Comic Book Docs

Comic Culture June 15th

Grant Morrison Gives His Perspective on the DC Comics Reboot

Humanoids? Who?

Fear Itself: Deadpool #1

Legend Of The Scarlet Blades

Auteur Theory

Retailer Q | #1: DC Reboot

Day Of The Magicians

Batman Arkham City #2

Movie Cameos