Sup ‘net! We’re heading down the final stretch of Secret Wars tie-ins. And they wrap up, we’re seeing some serious disappointing endings and outings. (The disappointment of the week will surprise you. Especially coming from me!) But there is also a particularly green title that turned out to be different than what it originally seemed! One of my favorite comic creative teams takes 2 of the top spots. The #1 pick this week doesn’t fight fair in the least. And I’ll tell you about the best Image title you’re not checking out. PRESS PLAY!
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Another Denver Comic Con has come and gone, this time, over the Memorial Day weekend. In only its fourth year, DCC had 101,500 attendees, up from 86,500 last year. To help make this possible, they rented some 500,000 square feet of the Convention Center — an increase of 20,000 square feet over last year, and just shy of the entire building. Even with an increase of size and numbers, the flow of traffic was handled well and congestion was kept to a minimum in comparison to other comparable conventions I’ve been to. The staff is still some of the friendliest I’ve dealt with and never seemed to get frustrated dealing with all the attendees.
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Marvel’s first Star Wars adventure in what will be a whole line of books set in the galaxy far, far away debuted last month to platinum sales and practically unanimous praise. Their second new series focuses on the well known and loved Dark Lord of the Sith himself, Darth Vader. It has already been said that Gillen and Aaron plotted a lot of their series together, and you can really see the overlap in the storytelling.
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The Wicked + The Divine is a book about music, pop culture, murder mystery, and various mythological deities. The basis for the story is that Gods live among the rest of humanity to inspire us, and two years later they die, until the cycle is started another 90 years later. Given only two years to live, these Gods love very colorful lives, but are to refrain from using their powers public. That is until Lucifer, is put on trial for exhibiting her powers to kill two men, and then framed for killing the judge at her trial. The book features Laura, a normal human who believes Luci, employ the help of a local journalist to find the true killer.
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Hey ComicImpact fans welcome to the Pick of the Week podcast where Simon and Sebastian explore last weeks strange new worlds with Nova and Star Trek’s City of the Edge of Forever, check in with Nick Fury and the gang in Original Sin, karate chop some Foot clan with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and wax philosophic with the pick of the week The Wicked + the Divine! It’s a full action pack episode that you don’t want to miss this week. So put on your earbuds and rock out to a new episode of the Comic Impact Pick of The Week podcast.
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The Iron Metropolitan arc comes off the heels of The Secret Origins fallout and deals with how Tony now copes with finding out he has a brother and that he is not truly a Stark. But instead of falling into his old alcoholic and destructive patterns, Tony and new found brother, Arno, are on a mission to build a new city. They have decided on Mandarin City off the coast of China, formerly run by the Mandarin through the use of mind control. Before they can start rebuilding, they have a few remaining Triad thugs wielding surplus Mandarin tech to clear out. These past two issues have made it abundantly clear that, while Gillen is building upon Fraction’s run by incorporating Iron Man’s most well known villain, he’s doing it it a different way than one may expect. While I was never much of a fan of the eccentricities of the original Mandarin, I’m not quite sure how I feel yet about this new ring-wielding Mandarin corps.
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Kieron Gillen returns to the show to talk about the end of his runs on Uncanny X-Men and Journey Into Mystery. We then get into his newer work, including the brand new Iron Man and Young Avengers series! Plus, we talk about his upcoming Image book with Ryan Kelly, Three…and of course, we talk about his awesome podcast, Decompressed! We also go through some listener questions and so much more!
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As the final issues of Ed Brubaker’s Captain America, Matt Fraction’s Iron Man, Jonathan Hickman’s FF, and Kieron Gillen’s Uncanny X-Men and Journey Into Mystery hits the stands, Pat and Antonio talk about their favorite moments from this amazing era of Marvel Comics history. We delve into the aforementioned runs, as well as Rick Remender’s Uncanny X-Force, Brian Bendis’ Avengers and so much more. We discuss what makes these runs so special, and we even go through some listener comments. Plus, we take a quick look at what’s coming next in Marvel NOW, and get into which books excite us the most!
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When writing about a site of recent historical significance, recent enough that those who were present as witnesses or participants to important events held there are likely still alive, you are not going to be able to please everyone. The beyond legendary New York music club CBGB is one such locale whose cultural impact on the musical spectrum of the last 35 years is so great it could never be given due justice in print or on film no matter how good the effort may be.
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