Posted in Comics, Preview on 02/17/2009 09:04 pm by fanboi
One of the most interesting things to come out of the Mark Millar / Bryan Hitch run on the Fantastic Four was a brand new group of legacy heroes from generations in the future. Well besides Doc Doom murdering An elderly Sue Storm from the future in revenge for a humiliating power draining procedure (that was interesting too). If you liked Future Sue’s troops too, you are in luck!
The Hooded Man, Banner Jr, Lightwave, Psionics, Natalie X and Alex Ultron can be seen in the pages of Fantastic Force by writer Joe Ahearne and artist Steve Kurth starting in April.
The script for the first page has been “leaked” all over the net, but doesn’t reveal much other than it picks up where the funeral issue left off. The second issue’s cover says alot more. What do Polaris, Phoenix and the Scarlet Witch have to do with this group of heroes born generations later? Any guesses?
Here is a new music video from Petros an out Harvard student who writes, produces, records and edits his music videos in his dorm room. Not sure if it’s up to club standards (popapathy spotted it as student work immediately), but it is not bad for student work. Below the video see a photo of Petros as a pot smoking speedo clad Michael Phelps from a ceremony honoring James Franco as the Hasty Pudding Club Man of the Year.
Posted in Comics, Preview on 02/17/2009 03:30 pm by fanboi
News of this came out awhile ago, but I wanted to sit on it until the last 2 covers in the 5 part polytych were revealed so I could assemble the complete image for you. The “Deathtrap” crossover runs in “Teen Titans Annual 2009,” “Titans” #12-13, “Vigilante” #5 and “Teen Titans” #70-71.
Following the events of “Teen Titans Annual 2009,” on sale April 1, writers Sean McKeever and Marv Wolfman team-up with artists Fernando Dagnino and Raul Fernandez to tell a five-part crossover in the pages of “Teen Titans,” “Titans” and “Vigilante.” The story is part of DC Comics’ Faces of Evil campaign, whereby whereby the villains of the DC Universe take center stage in a series of one-shots and special issues of existing series.
In the story called “Deathtrap,” the featured Face of Evil is none other than Jericho, a former Titan and the son of classic Titans supervillain, Deathstroke the Terminator, whose plan of attack is to eliminate both teams of Titans in one fell swoop.
I’ve been liking Teen Titans a lot better than Titans lately – I’m eagerly anticipating seeing the new line-up (allegedly Static, Bombshell, Blue Beetle, Miss Martian, Kid Eternity, Wonder Girl, Kid Devil and Aquagirl) in action. I hope Ravager ends up on their side of the line as well. I””m a big fan of Rose Wilson.
Posted in Comics, Review on 02/17/2009 01:40 pm by fanboi
The Gay Comic Geek was so livid about Final Crisis he felt the need to change his nom de plume to the Angry Comic Book Nerd and share a Valentine rant encouraging viewers to take a dump on copies of it they see on shelves. I wouldn’t recommend doing so as I think your local comic book store may frown on that.
His rant is preceded by a very concise explanation of the previous Crises and their merits. Like myself and many others, he found Final Crisis disjointed and confusing at best and at worst a stinking pile of crap, but he really does his best to sum it all up while amassing a list of unanswered questions.
Noone can deny a number of extremely dynamic moments – but the plot threads were woven too loosely and the ending completely failed to pull them together into any sort of clear picture. I can handle experimental storytelling, but you at least need to pull it together at the end so someone can get a true idea of what happened.
A few interesting quotes from Grant Morrison’s Newsarama Final Crisis Exit Interview, parts 1 and 2
The A was Anthro and the Z was Kamandi. First Boy to Last Boy, with the whole DC Multiverse in between. In the end, as I got really into the story, it changed shape a little and now concludes, as it began, with the First Boy, now an Old Man.
And the Grant Morrison explanation for why I kept thinking I’d missed a chapter as I was reading…
I choose to leave out boring, as I saw it, connective tissue we didn’t really need for this story to work. I choose to leave out long-winded caption-heavy explanations that bring readers ‘up to speed’, even as they send them to sleep. And we left out the line-wide crossover tie-ins that have every detail of backstory spelled out laboriously by writers desperate to get back to their own plotlines. Otherwise, the whole thing is there on the page in word or picture form…and when interestingly-shaped story spaces can be opened out to make room for enthusiastic speculation and debate that adds to the fun. Looking up characters you thought were simply generic cavemen or monsters and finding they have histories you can explore and adventures you can read adds another interactive layer that takes you deeper into the mysteries and complexities of the DC virtual reality.
ummmmm – BIGTIME cop out. Story cheat. Sure he knows the whole story – but the reader is left guessing. When I want to guess, I read a whodunit.
As for why it was a FINAL crisis, it was the Final Crisis of the Monitors as well as the Final Crisis of the Fourth World, but even Morrison seemed doubtful it is really all that final.
the Grant Morrison definitive “reading order”…
FINAL CRISIS # 1- 3
SUPERMAN BEYOND # 1- 2
SUBMIT
FINAL CRISIS # 4 – 5
BATMAN #682 – 683
FINAL CRISIS # 6 – 7
Not to mention FINAL CRISIS: Legion of 3 Worlds which still has 2 more issues but happens (in the future) before Final Crisis #7. My brain hurts. No wonder people are confused.
