Freshly arrived for this New Comic Day, I just love this cover for the second Green Lantern Omnibus: They just don’t do superhero covers quite like that today… (art by Gil Kane and Murphy Anderson, (c) DC Comics) Actually it’s a top week for some cracking new graphic novel releases, including the gorgeous looking slipcased [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 21, 2011
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Back again for the final comic of DC’s New 52 – week 2. I hadn’t planned on running this review alone. But it surprised me so much I though it deserved more of the spotlight…. Right, sleep and then straight back into work on DC: The New 52 – week 3 – coming very soon! [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 20, 2011
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Green Lantern #1 By Geoff Johns, Doug Mahnke and Christian Alamy Kicking off the Green Lantern corner of the rebooted DC Universe (aside from the appearance in Justice League mentioned last week) comes this issue and really, who else would DC have for writing this than Geoff Johns, a man as synonymous with Green Lantern [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 18, 2011
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Let’s start the working week with some comics-themed fun animation – The Shell Show! The Shell Show: The Punisher from The Shell Show on Vimeo. The Shell Show: Thor from The Shell Show on Vimeo. The Shell Show: Green Lantern from The Shell Show on Vimeo.
Continue reading...Friday, June 24, 2011
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My daughter Molly has no idea who these Green Lantern people are (“some movie or something” was her response when asked) but she sure recognised the Glee reference on these Glee/ Green Lantern Corps mashups from Randy Mayor (via Comics Alliance)……. And whilst on the subject of Glee… surely there’s a comic adaptation in there [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 17, 2011
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E.Asylum has some of the Green Lantern movie’s cast discussing the movie (out this very weekend), superheroes and comics: E-Asylum.TV Green Lantern Cast Talk Comic Books and Superheroes from ruben rodriguez on Vimeo.
Continue reading...Sunday, April 10, 2011
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You know, I really can’t decide on this. The first minute or so looks like a video game advert (you know the bits where they stick the phrase “not actual game footage” on screen?), and that stupid little mask is just plain ridiculous, but towards the end there’s a little feeling that this might just [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 31, 2010
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Over on the Superfriends Of Nostalgia & Comics Facebook page (which you should really be a member of – tis a great comic shop after all), Michael has a few things to say about the new Green Lantern teaser poster series….. “It looks like a really bad video game version of Sinestro. All it looks [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 22, 2010
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For some reason (maybe simply the pretty colours exciting my inner child) I really like the cover for Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps, which is hitting shelves today. Nice, simple, colourful, effective. And it makes me want to wear my power ring. (cover art by Dave Gibbons and Rudolfo Migliari, (c) DC Comics)
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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V For Vendetta star Natalie Portman has been announced as the female lead for the upcoming Thor movie, which will be directed by heavyweight thespian-director Kenneth Branagh. Portman will play Jane Foster, a character who featured heavily in earlier Thor comics as the nurse assistant to Thor’s alter-ego Doctor Donald Blake and was more recently [...]
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
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