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.
Disney is trying to reach out to the romance readers with Marvel Heroines, through it’s Hyperion Books publishing branch. This new venture will hit shelves in June with She-Hulk Diaries by Marta Acosta and Rogue Touch by Christine Woodward. You might check them out to and see if they are something you want in your collections.
First trailer for Ironman 3 coming out Summer 2013. Thanks to Youtuber “ENTV” for the following trailer and ICv2 for the heads up:
WizKids is bringing out three 2012 HeroClix Seasonal Holiday Figures. They will be: Hobbit Holiday Elf (for the upcoming Hobbit game); Mephisto (for the Marvel HeroClix game); and White Lantern Batman (for the DC HeroClix game). There is no release date yet. Therefore, your library’s gaming fans might want to hit their local hobby store and see if they can reserve a set. This would even be a cool set to use as a give-away if your library sponsors gaming tournaments with HeroClix.
The Japanese studio MADHOUSE is teaming up with Marvel Entertainment again to produce a direct-to-video Ironman film. The title of the film will be Ironman: Rise of Technovore. It is planned for a Spring 2013 release.
ABC and Marvel are teaming up for a third Storm title. However, instead of it being an original graphic novel like the first two titles, this will be a mini-series first and then I am positive it will be collected into a graphic novel. The mini-series is entitled, Castle: A Calm Before a Storm. Be sure to put this on your purchase list for when it is distributed as a GN.
ABC has order a pilot from Joss Whedon, Marvel TV and ABC Studios, for a possible S.H.I.E.L.D. series. If this will get picked up will be interesting. I would want it to be in no earlier than an eight o’clock time slot and preferably nine o’clock so they can do storytelling that fits in with this clandestine organization.
This might be one Trading Card Game libraries will be interested in that have gaming collections and tournaments. Upper Deck is working on a Marvel Universe deck building game. It is being designed by Devin Low, formerly of Magic: The Gathering. This game is fairly familiar in that players will battle each other, but it has one twist, the game itself has built in villains that attack the players trying to destroy them. No release date is scheduled yet and the working title is Legendary.
Why they ever replaced Thomas Jane as the Punisher I will never know. I always thought he was the best person to portray the character and I wish they would do another movie with him. We get the next best thing from Thomas Jane himself. He has made a short fan film were he reprises his role. This is awesome (can you tell I’m a Punisher fan) get Jane a new movie. It is up on YouTube under “#DIRTYLAUNDRY” put up by YouTuber AdiShankaBrand and it already has over 2 million hits. If you like the Punisher you need to check this out on YouTube. Be warned it has sexual content and extreme violence.
Similar to DC’s New 52, Marvel will be revamping their universe. The event comes out of the Avengers vs. X-Men event. Titles will receive number 1 issues again and costumes will be redesigned. This will take place in the later part of the year during October – December and possibly into the first part of 2013. Librarians be prepared to recognize old heroes in slightly or completely different attire.
Amazing Spider-Man opened today so if you have not already seen it this will be something to consider for this weekend. Thanks to YahooMovies for the following trailer: