Comics

Batman #2 – Review

Batman is the best series out of the new 52, and hopefully we can all agree on that. The second issue is just as good as the first, and offers up a decent amount of answers while posing some new ones. Last issue we see that Dick Grayson’s DNA was under the finger nails of the corpse found by the authorities. Did Dick kill the man? No, obviously not, and we find out what really happened early in this issue. It’s a cool scene between Bats and Nightwing, and Snyder does a good job of showing the relationship these two characters have with each other.

Fear Itself #7 – Review

The final issue of Marvel’s current cross-over event. I realize you may have missed my reviews on the previous six issues of the series. That’s probably because I did not read them. Still, I thought, hey, how about coming in right at the end, why not? I think it’s fairly obvious that Marvel’s latest pull for sales has gone largely unnoticed here at Player Affinity what with being overshadowed by DC’s New 52. Well, maybe there’s a reason for that.

Batman: Odyssey #1 – Review

Wow, there is a lot of Batman out and about at the moment. I think he’s ranking somewhere below zombies and above Spider-Man in terms of over-exposure at the moment. I think he’s shown up in roughly fifty-two of the New 52, has a movie in the works, and just got a new video game. Of all the Bat-ventures available, why pick Batman: Odyssey? Maybe because it is one hundred percent out of its metaphorical mind.

Justice League #2 – Review

The Justice League has always been the flagship of the DCU.
How could it not be? The team consists of all its major heroes. It’s always
awesome seeing your favorite characters teaming up to fight a common cause. In
Justice League #2, the heroes aren’t exactly working together yet.

And the Next Movie is… Hack/Slash

Ever since this now renowned horror series hit the stands the creators said it would become a movie. It hit the stands in 2007. Still no movie. With all the remakes now in the world of horror people are begging to see some originality, and transferring this series from comics to a feature length film would be the perfect Halloween treat.

A lot of speculation has gone in to what it could be about and who should play lead heroine Cassie Hack, behemoth of a bodyguard and friend Vlad, and the various other supporting characters in Hack/Slash. I’m here to say what I think should be, and hopefully one day will be in the future Hack/Slash movie. The movie needs to have the combined blood shed and comedy that the series has, and therefore deserves some of the greatest names in horror.

DC Teams Up with General Mills

Earlier today, General Mills and DC announced that they will be teaming up in an attempt to promote literacy in younger children. The writers that will be working on the comic series Joshua Williamson, Doug Wagner, Paul Tobin, and Scott Beatty, and they will feature art from Christian Duce and Derec Donovan and other popular DC artists.

Ron Marz’s Witchblade Run Ends with Issue 150

After an almost sixteen year run beginning in November of 1995, Ron Marz 71 issue run on Witchblade will be coming to a close later this year with the final issue being Witchblade #150.  Writer Ron Marz and artist Stjepan Sejic are stepping away from the Witchblade project to work on another top secret Top Cow title.

Writer Ron Marz, who has been writing Witchblade since issue #80 (and with artist Stjepan Sejic since issue #116), has too many projects going on and had to let one go. That title was Witchblade. He will still be continuing his ongoing series Magdelena, his series for Image featuring the samurai vampire hunter Shinku, and the Top Cow event of the year Artifacts, where Sara will continue to appear. Her character is not completely gone in Top Cow continuity, but her book will be.