CBF Episode 20: Comic Con Coolness Recap
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Well Tim and I didn’t go to Comic Con but that is not going to stop us from sharing some of the cool things we saw around the Internet about SDCC.
Here’s some of what we thought was cool. What did you see there that we missed?
- Batman Inc
- Green Lantern panel – Ryan Reynolds recites the Green Lantern Oath to a little kid.
- Avengers Assemble
- DCU Game – Who do you trust?
- Marvel anime dvds coming.
- There was a stabbing
- The Walking Dead trailer
- My friend’s project – The Zombz
- Young Justice
- Tron Legacy
- DC Brightest Day teaser image
- The Macho Man Randy Savage
CBF 2010 Mid-Year Report Card
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We’re days away from San Diego (the comic world in general, not us – we’re glued to our desks playing Pokemon) and I felt it good to review what the 1st half of 2010 brought to us from the lands of Marvel and DC. This site has devoted a lot to DC books as of late, but there are still a few good Marvel showings that came out that weren’t Avenger-related. That being said, we really felt DC gave a lot to the readers from both its superhero and Vertigo imprints. Enjoy the show and all the best to those attending San Diego this year! |
CBF Quick Picks #21 : American Vampire #3
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With Avengers #1 officially kicking off the Heroic Age and Brightest Day #2 once again bringing the Geoff Johns awesomeness, you would think it would come down to these two in the front running for Quick Pick of the week. Then comes along another stellar Vertigo series that re-energizes the vampire mythology. Scott Snyder and Stephen King are amazing in this new portrayal of the popular creature and Rafael Albuquerque has superstar written all over him with the styles he brings to both talented writers. The whole series screams of the theme defiance, both in what the main characters are doing against the traditional European breed of vampire and in what Snyder and King are bringing to the table against the many other TV and movie series that are already portraying them. Enjoy the show and give me your thoughts on the series! |
CBF Quick Picks #20: DC Rules The Universe
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There was too much going on in DC land to limit this to one or two books to Quick Picks this week. As much as Return of Bruce Wayne deserved a good amount of hype, I was thoroughly impressed by a bunch of DC offerings. DC is hot right now and I’m glad they’re continuing to build other franchises beyond the Batman and Green Lantern names.
This is not to say that Marvel didn’t have a good week too – just that DC did things one better. Marvel wrapped up Siege and officially began their march into Heroic Age. It was nice that they finally wrapped up all those threads, but my review here on iFanboy can give you some insight as to why I felt it could have done a whole lot more.
Enjoy the podcast!
DC Animated DVDs Getting A Trimming
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The animated world takes a moment of silence…
It’s interesting after being on the Graphic.ly chat last night discussing the past and future animated offerings from Marvel and DC that we get this article. Looks like Bruce Timm needs to trim down his choices for the next few DC animated DVDs for the foreseeable future what with sales looking bleak lately for the last few offerings. A darn shame if you think about it – what they had in mind would have really been interesting had it been given the “Timm-iverse” effect.
Hit the Play button and leave your comments and thoughts. Anything you think we can do about this? Should we go grab our pitchforks and go poke the mainstream audience with them?
CBF: 14: Geek Girls, DC Changes, Green Lantern Recap
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(A little tech problem in the beggining. Audio begins about 10 seconds after start.)
Our first podcast of the new year (dang we’re slow) begins with big thank yous to the Geek Girl Network for throwing a great Tweet Up, with gifts from Think Geek. Thanks to Kristin, TheNerdyBird, Big Kev and the Other Guy, and Pink Raygun for showing us a great time. I also haz a monkey. His name is Melvin.
We talk about the major changes over at DC and a little Green Lantern. Enjoy!
CBF Quick Picks #12 : Joe the Barbarian #1 & Siege #2
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I braved a foot of snow to bring you this podcast…
A double dose of Quick Picks comes to you this week to make up for the lack of one last week. 2010 has been excellent so far for the comic book medium and made it difficult to choose which one to talk about. Ultimately, I approved of a new creator-owned effort from Grant Morrison and forgave Marvel for flooding their 1st entry in the Siege series with ads and features after they put out a stellar 2nd part.
NOTE: I’m still working on the audio issues, so I’m hoping you all can bear the echoing and scratching sounds here. Pretend it’s your cat howling and scratching at your legs…
The Brightest Day Arrives
So it looks like DC wasted no time in getting this week started with some new buzz:
DC sold me on two aspects: 1) it’s a bi-weekly series that will run concurrently with the main Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps books and 2) Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi will be writing the series as well. That’s enough to let me know that the characters will have the same voices and that we get to see what the writers have in mind for the post-Blackest Night world of DC. No artists have been announced yet, but I think it’s safe to say that Johns and Tomasi will get the best around as usual.
My only concern is any potential burn-out on Johns’ part because he’s been sending out scripts like a madman as of late, not to mention him now having more creative editorial input on DC books in general. But I have confidence that they’ll juggle this properly for him because Green Lantern has been a gold mine for DC and I’m sure they don’t want to mess that up now.
Click the image to read more about it on DC’s blog.
CBF Quick Picks #8 : Peter & Max
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Welcome to 2010! Tastes like chicken…
Today, we go into the first novel of Bill Willingham’s Fables line that talks about the sibling rivalry between Peter and Max Piper of the pied piper lore. I’m constantly amazed at Willingham’s talent, especially in how he writes this out in novel format as opposed to the monthly comic format he’s used to writing in. And the origin tales of the pipers fit so well into Fables continuity that I’m hoping we’ll see them show in the monthly series. A good page-turner (though a bit tedious in the beginning if you already know your Fables concepts) and definitely recommended for both long-time Fables fans and fantasy fans overall.
Happy 2010 from CBF!
We’ve arrived at the next decade. Hope everybody enjoyed themselves in 2009 and are prepared for more fury from Mike and myself in 2010. Marvel definitely seemed to enjoy the last of 2009 with the official acquisition of them by Disney made known yesterday.
As we prepare to see what the comic world has to offer this year, we’d like to see what you wish to see come out of 2010 in comic books. We already know Blackest Night is wrapping up in DC, Siege is just getting started in Marvel, and Vertigo is continually pushing new and fresh material at alarming rates. What do you expect to see come out of these books and others? What would you want to see overall this year?
Let us know your thoughts and resolutions for the year to come. We already know what Wolverine’s are. What do you say, bub?
Indeed…