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.
ABC has announced that for Captain America’s 75th Anniversary that they will be airing – Marvel’s Captain America: 75 Heroic Years. This special will give the history of the character through the years. The special will air Tuesday, January 19. So check you listings for your time.
How many of you remember this Marvel Comic and toy? It’s ROM! He’s back and IDW has him. I am working on my ROM series and lack some issues and I never had the toy and haven’t found one to pick up for my collection. Anyway, IDW has acquired the rights and is putting out a ROM: The Space Knight Free Comic Book Day issue to debut a new series in July 2016. Now I can’t wait until Free Comic Book Day gets here to get my copy.
Couple of trailers were released over the weekend. Here’s the first for X-Men: Apocalypse. Definitely anxious to see one of my favorite X-Men on the screnn in ArchAngel. Thanks to 20th Century Fox’s YouTube Page for the trailer:
Jimmy Kimmel Live! featured the first Captain America: Civil War trailer. Then they were kind enough to put it on their YouTube channel to share with everyone. Looks interesting.
Marvel is planning on adding to it’s prose novels in the next year. The have made arrangements for Margaret Stohl to write a sequel to her Black Widow: Forever Red marvel novel entitled Red Vengeance. Then they are also working with Eion Colfer to write an Iron Man novel and Shannon and Dale Hale to write a couple of novels, one for Squirrel Girl and the other Captain Marvel. Marvel is trying to get back into the prose market and they are working with well known authors to do so, could be interesting and fun reads.
It’s not much but Netflix has given us a teaser trailer for Marvel’s Jessica Jones. It sets the tone for the series at least.
Black Panther returns to the shelves in a new comic book series in Spring of 2016. Best of all bestselling author Ta-Nehisi will be writing the first year long story arc entitled “A Nation Under Our Feet”. Illustrations for the series will be provided by Brian Stelfreeze. Thanks to ICv2 for the heads up.
Netflix has begun streaming, through their YouTube channel, the teaser trailer for their next Marvel exclusive, Marvel’s Jessica Jones. One of the many reason I wish we had Netflix.
Loki get center stage in Joanne M. Harris latest novel, The Gospel of Loki. With Marvel bring interest back into the Asgardian legends this one looks interest since it is from Loki’s point of view. Thanks to GollanzBooks YouTube channel for the following trailer:
This is interesting. IDW Publishing is trying something new in the collectible market with the Star Wars license. They are producing blind packs for Star Wars Marvel minicomics, 3-D posters, 3-D glass, and trading cards that are puzzle pieces to form comic covers. All this for $3.99. Sounds good until you look at the break down of what’s in the packet. You have a chance to get one of the six mini comics, a chance to get one of the six 3-D posters, a pair of 3-D glass. Doesn’t sound to bad yet, but then you get to the trading cards. You get a chance of getting 1 of 36 cards. That’s going to be a lot of duplicates to get a full set of the 36 trading cards.
Don’t get me wrong everything looks neat and all and there will be collectors that love this, but for my wallet it’s just beyond my means.