Comics

Indie Comic Movie Fancast – Sweet Tooth

With The Walking Dead Series, Locke & Key having a pilot episode, and even Chew preparing for the screen, it’s clear that indie comics are on the rise in Hollywood. It’s only a matter of time before all of your favorite indie comics are seen on the little and big screen. In honor of this rise, I have decided to pick some of the up-and-coming indie comics and provide some wishful thinking as to how the cast should work out. In short, a fancasting. And this month, it’s all about Jeff Lemire’s Sweet Tooth.

Green Lantern #6 Review

Green Lantern has been one of my favorite series from the Dc Reboot because it is one of the only titles that has not changed during the transition to the Dc Reboot from the old Dc Universe. This series continues right from the last series without skipping a beat.

In this issue we see Hal Jordan try to get use to life without being a Green Lantern and try to be with Carol all at the same time. In the mean time we see Sinestro encounters a woman who holds the Book and Black. She shows Sinestro a horrible future and Sinestro knows he is in over his head. So, he asks Hal Jordan for help.

DC Gets New Artist for Animal Man and Others!

Surprising news this week.  It was announced on DC’s blog The Source that there would be a new artist on the popular New 52 horror title Animal Man.  Several other artists previously on a New 52 title will be reassigned to another New 52 title.

Artist Travel Foreman has been heavily praised for his artwork on Animal Man.  This made it all the more shocking to fans when DC’s The Source announced Foreman would be moved to Birds of Prey where he will be drawing urban cities and a slew of Gotham’s most beautiful women, which include Batgirl, Black Canary, Katana, Starling and Poison Ivy.  His story will have the Birds of Prey facing off against Talon and the Court of Owls previously portrayed in the popular Batman title in a new story arc entitled “Night of the Owls.”  The arc will feature a cross-over with the bat-family.     

Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye #1 – Review

Rodimus and company begin their quest for the Knights of Cybertron, co-beginning a new era of IDW’s Transformers franchise. This is a series that will clearly focus strongly on character interactions, but it ends up playing itself up too much for laughs at the expense of its central story.

For those not up to date on the current state of IDW’s Transformers franchise, the war between Autobot and Decepticon is over. The Autobots have won and retaken their homeworld of Cybertron, which has undergone drastic changes through the course of their war. Optimus Prime has gone into self-exile to smooth out the transition into a post-war era between Autobots and non-aligned Cybertronians. But rather than manage that uneasy transition, Rodimus has begun a movement to find the legendary Knights of Cybertron, who he believes will be able to usher in a new golden age for Cybertron.

Transformers: Robots in Disguise #1 – Review

The Transformers wade deep into political intrigue and moral ambiguity with Transformers: Robots in Disguise. It’s part of a new chapter in IDW’s Transformers continuity and one that seems to have a lot of potential as Autobots and Decepticons reluctantly work together to rebuild Cybertron.

The war between factions has ended. A flood of non-aligned Cybertronians have returned home, and Optimus Prime has gone into exile as a gesture that the war is over. Now, it’s up to Bumblebee to lead the Autobots in restoring civilization to Cybertron even though they’re no longer welcome on their own world.

Batman: The Dark Knight #5 – Review

After not taking this title seriously last issue, Batman: The Dark Knight #5 has some more clichéd moments that got a little chuckle out of me, but also had moments that created a sense of intensity. But the small amount of laughs and great premise failed to make this title pay off, with the major blemish of the work being it’s poor pacing.

Batman finally finds the “dealer” of the new drug turning Gotham’s deadliest criminals into super powered monsters: the Scarecrow! After being dosed with Scarecrow’s drug, Batman gets a “gift”: no fear.

Secret Avengers #22 – Review

Remender and Gabriel Hardman begin a new era of Secret Avengers, and this is definitely not the same book that Ed Brubaker began. While that isn’t necessarily bad, it does leave me unsure of what I think of the new Secret Avengers.

This is very reminiscent of Remender’s launch of Uncanny X-Force, which is really no surprise. This is him taking over the covert team of the other major team franchise at Marvel, and he is essentially doing the same thing he did with X-Force. The more covert ops elements of storytelling are played down in favor of becoming embroiled in a big new plot idea of Remender’s. For X-Force, it was Apocalypse and Archangel’s descent. Here, we have the Descendants, apparently a race of synthetic life spawned from a collection of the Marvel Universe’s most notable artificial beings. Also, the team gets a new headquarters. But unlike X-Force, it is not a blatant rip-off of the Batcave.