We are just having fun reviewing and discussing comic books, graphic novels, manga, anime/animation, music and movies that we have recently read, listened to or watched.
For all you Magic the Gathering fans you’ll want to set your calendar for March 14. Wizards of the Coast is expected to release Magic the Gathering Duel Decks: Jace vs. Vraska. The sets will have 10 rare cards and alternate foil art cards of the Mythic rare cards “Jace, Architect of Thought” and “Vraska the Unseen”. The suggest price will be $19.99. This would be a nice addition to your Magic collection and/or trading card game collections.
A surprising announcement from LucasFilm. Leland Chee says the Star Wars continuity is being looked at a a possible single continuity. No more of the movie or television show takes priority over another story because it is in a different format. This will make it nice for fans, which I’m sure will still find something to argue about, but difficult for the archivist who has to keep everything straight. Another question will be how far back into the storytelling formats will they go to say something is continuity or not. Only time will tell. Here is one statement made by Chee:
Chee tweeted that “Star Wars Canon is now determined by the Lucasfilm Story Group.” Asked whether that meant that the new Star Wars comics will be considered canon, or that they could still be contradicted by the movies and TV shows, Chee said, “Story Group has a hand in all facets of Star Wars storytelling, including movies, TV, games, and publishing.”
And asked whether the goal is to dispose of the hierarchy (in which movie continuity took precedence), Chee said, “That’s definitely a primary goal of the Story Group.”
Bringing the comics in house (see “Marvel Gets ‘Star Wars’“) could make it easier to create a single continuity across all expressions of the property. Outside licensees such as Fantasy Flight Games (see “Second ‘Star Wars RPG’ Adventure“) will undoubtedly also be impacted by the new strategy.
Yu-Gi-Oh! always been a hot TCG, manga and anime. Now WizKids will be bringing collectors Yu-Gi-Oh HeroClix. This will attract your HeroClix collectors as well as the Yu-Gi-Oh collectors. The images above are just representations of what the HeroClix might look like, no final pieces have been shown yet to the public. The Yu-Gi-Oh starter set, with six figures, is scheduled for release on December 18. Then in February 2014 the gravity feed’s will hit the market. The gravity feed’s will have a total of 55 figures in the set with: 16 common figures; 15 uncommon figures; 12 rare figures; 9 super rare figures; and 3 chase figures. This set might be one you want to add to your gaming collection.
Here is what Sony Pictures has planned for the next Amazing Spider-Man movie. Check out the trailer Song released on it’s YouTube channel:
Warner Bros. has announced that Gal Gadot will be in the next Superman movie, portraying Wonder Woman. That means that the Big Three DC Comics Heroes will be in this movie (Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman). Sounds interesting and we all know that Warner Bros. is trying to get into a franchise set around the Justice League as Disney has done with Marvel Entertaiment’s Avengers franchise with individual movies around the main movie. The movie is scheduled to be released July 17, 2015.
On December 13, Konami will release the Yu-Gi-Oh: Shadow Specters Special packages. The packages will include three Shadow Specters booster packs and one of two Super Rare cards. These cards will be “Stardust Dragon” and “Tuning”. So just in time for the holidays you can purchase these for your trading card game collection or tell a friend as this being a possible gift for your trading card game collection.
BBC is having fun with the anniversary of Doctor Who. They are planning several evenings of Doctor Who programing starting November 18:
- Tales from the Tardis, a documentary program about the show’s history
- The Science of Doctor Who with Brian Cox, which discusses the science behind the show
- Doctor Who Explained, interviews of cast members from the show’s 50 year history
- An Adventure in Space and Time, a drama about the launch of the original Doctor Who.
- The Graham Norton Show, the BBC talk show, with Matt Smith and David Tennant as guests.
- The Doctors Revisited – The Eleventh Doctor, interviews and more about the Eleventh Doctor.
and then it will end, November 23, with the 50th anniversary special Day of the Doctor. Which has a new trailer that the “BBC” channel has uploaded on YouTube. Check it out:
Disney has inked a deal with Netflix for some Disney’s Marvel Characters. Netflix will air four original series for Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist and then also a miniseries for Defenders. The first series will make it’s debut in 2015 and is planned to be Daredevil.
We get a new Ms. Marvel in the Marvel NOW Universe. This looks to be a great new direction for the comic. Why people are having such a fuss is beyond me. We are supposed to be the melting pot of the world and with that comes diversity. I have friends that were Muslim and quite a few other ethnic groups and we never thought about our differences, we just thought about our shared interests and enjoyed each others company. I will give this a try just like I would any other comic book out there on the racks and if it is written and drawn well I will enjoy it just like I enjoy other comic books.
Viz titles are now available through the iBooks app on your iDevices. This pretty much makes viz available in all of the popular device formats. Welcome to the new age.