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April 25, 2012Batman: Arkham City | Game of the Year Edition Trailer
April 23, 2012Rocksteady Studios have just announced the Game of the Year Edition of the award winning Batman: Arkham City. It will include Catwoman, Nightwing, and Robin Add-Ons. As well as an Arkham City Skin pack, Challenge Pack, the Batman: Year One movie, and finally, introducing the final Chapter; Harley Quinn’s Revenge Expansion Pack. To be released May 29th.
7-year-old’s Dream of Being Batman Comes True
April 22, 20127-year-old Kye Sapp wanted to be Batman for a day and he got his chance to fight crime. The Arlington, Texas-based non-profit a Wish with Wings created a “Wish with Batwings” for Kye, who is battling leukemia.
Sergeant Christopher Cook of the Arlington Police office of communication said they turned “Arlington into Gotham.” The six hour adventure took six weeks of planning and involved Ky fighting crime throughout the day. Kye was joined and had the help of his brother and sister as Batman sidekicks Robin and Batgirl.
The day was a series of missions and started with stopping a robbery at a local bank where they caught the Joker and returned the bank’s money. That was followed by stopping a purse snatcher and stopping the Riddler who placed a car bomb. That allowed Kye to witness the city’s bomb squad and bomb robot in action and set off the pretend bomb. The final stop of the day was City Hall where he received the key to the city.
It took 35 people to make the special day happen including volunteers from Wish with Wings, off-duty police and fire fighters and some actores.
Kye is currently in remission, but still has three years of treatment ahead of him.
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April 19, 2012It was new comic book day yesterday… what’d everyone get?
Around the Blogs:
The Beat – CON WARS! Hobby Star Sues Wizard over “Toronto Comicon” – Doesn’t this seem like a bad “what if” comic book discussion?
Hispanically speaking News – New “Che” Graphic Novel Inspired by His Most Famous Portrait – This could be really good.
The Economic Times – The Archie empire witnessing an ugly wonership row between Nancy Silberkleit and Jonathan Goldwater – I want a comic adaptation!
Publishers Weekly – David Hyde To Leave DC Comics – Think I should apply?
Marvel – Fightin’ Fanboys: Jon Jones Vs. Rashad Evans – Can’t wait to watch this fight.
Around the Tubes Reviews:
CBR – Batman #8
ScienceFiction.com – Womanthology: Heroic
CSI Librarian – Graphic Novel Reviews: Daredevil vol. 1, Punisher vol. 1, and Spider-man & The Human Torch
Complex – Review: “Night Of The Owls” Begins The Biggest “Batman” Storyline In Years
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Comics and Batman Inspire Terrorist?
April 14, 2012Convicted terrorist Tarek Mehanna was sentenced to 17 and a half years in prison on Thursday by U.S. District Court Judge George A. O’Toole. The Massachusettes resident claimed in his statement during his sentencing that the values that lead and inspired him to support al-Qaeda came partially from comic books and specifically Batman.
Mehanna was convicted of seven counts, three for providing false statements to the FBI, conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country and conspiracy to provide support to al-Qaeda. Mehanna translated numerous al-Qaeda documents into English and posted them online.
From his statement before the court:
When I was six, I began putting together a massive collection of comic books. Batman implanted a concept in my mind, introduced me to a paradigm as to how the world is set up: that there are oppressors, there are the oppressed, and there are those who step up to defend the oppressed.
I’m sure Frank Miller is cringing at this one.
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Batman and Catwoman On the Cover of Entertainment Weekly
April 12, 2012Entertainment Weekly releases their summer movie guide this week with none other than Batman and Catwoman gracing the cover.
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Comic Book (sort of) Weekly Reviews – 2/15/12
April 9, 2012I haven’t been catching up in my reading as much as I’d like… but I’m putting a big effort in this week…
Avengers #22 – Osborn’s actions are noticed by more than just the media. The President has to get in on the action and decide how he’ll react to Osborn’s rise. There’s some solid stuff here, but the political end of things falls flat.
Story: 6.75 Art: 8 Overall: 7
Avenging Spider-Man #4 – Spidey and Hawkeye team up for a pretty decent story. It’s a nice self-contained issue, but the art isn’t quite up to snuff. Not bad, just not great.
Story: 7.25 Art: 6.75 Overall: 7
Batman #6 – Batman’s battle with Talon and Court of Owls continues. So freaking good. Scott Snyder’s writing and Greg Capullo’s art is a team up from heaven. Amazing stuff.
Story: 9 Art: 9 Overall: 9
Captain Atom #6 – A man or a rat? And does it matter? Captain Atom fights the being and contemplates how he was experimented on and became what he is. On top of that we’re flash forwarded twenty years to one hell of an event. The series is very good, I just wish more people recognized that.
Story: 7.75 Art: 8.25 Overall: 7.75
Daredevil #9 – Daredevil is going to take on the Mole Man, for some reason. The issue is solid, especially because of the art and how it plays with what Daredevil sees with his radar and what really awaits him. There’s a reason that Waid’s series has gotten so much praise. This is a perfect example.
Story: 8.75 Art: 8.75 Overall: 8.75
DC Universe Presents: Challengers of the Unknown #6 – There’s something old school about the issue and series, but I really don’t have much interest in the story.
Story: 6.5 Art: 6.75 Overall: 6.5
Fables #114 – There’s a lot of stories going on here. The Northwind training continues, there’s the story of a demented evil toy, folks check out Castle Dark and then there’s the revolution in Oz. So much going on and some is good and some gets the short shaft. Still, a solid series that always pays off.
Story: 8 Art: 8.25 Overall: 8
Fear Itself: The Fearless #9 – We get a better sense of Valkyrie is up to, but as a whole, the series is a bit boring and rather long.
Story: 6.75 Art: 7 Overall: 6.75
Generation Hope #16 – Kenji and others plot against Hope…. I actually hope they kill her. Such a wasted character.
Story: 6.5 Art: 6.75 Overall: 6.5
Green Lantern Corps. #6 – The Lanterns take on an army and Stewart makes a tough choice to save Oa. There’s some items here that’s likely to have long term impact for the series and Corps.
Story: 7 Art: 7.25 Overall: 7
The Invincible Iron Man #513 – Stark and War Machine fight to protect the Chinese and Stark realises he’s caught in something bigger as it becomes clear to him that Stane and Mandarin have teamed up. But, it’s that last page that made me smile as we get a hint as to what’s to come.
Story: 7.75 Art: 8.25 Overall: 7.75
The New Avengers #21 – The other part of Osborn’s plan. We see him take on Cage’s team and I have to say a Wolverine vs. Clor fight is pretty damn cool.
Story: 7.75 Art: 8.5 Overall: 8
Nightwing #6 – Dick learns who Saiko is as a benefit performance for his parents takes place. The story is ok, but overall, the story hasn’t hooked me quite as it did in the beginning.
Story: 7 Art: 7.5 Overall: 7
Supergirl #6 – Anyone else feel like this whole Worldkiller thing is a bit too much like Doomsday? There’s some solid stuff here, but overall the story is so-so. I really wish the series focused again on Supergirl discovering her new world and figuring things out instead of this distraction.
Story: 7 Art: 7.75 Overall: 7
Thunderbolts #170 – The team escapes and there’s a glimpse of the future. The story is ok, but I’m not a huge fan of the time travel device. It’s a bit better of an issue than the last few.
Story: 7 Art: 7.75 Overall: 7
Ultimate Comics X-Men #7 – The issue is ok and I’m sure there’s much more to it for long time readers. The story plays a lot in what came before this current volume and for new readers, there’s just nothing there to really hook you or make you care about it. There’s something about Pietro’s actions, but what comes after is meh.
Story: 7 Art: 8.5 Overall: 7
Uncanny X-Men #7 – The fight in Tabula Rasa continues and a lot happens, not much I really care about. The follow up to the events in Uncanny X-Force has been a big disappointment.
Story: 6.75 Art: 7 Overall: 6.75
Venom #13.2 – The team takes on the denizens of hell. The story is drawn out and some of the art is great, but overall, this could have been a two or three part story.
Story: 6.5 Art: 7.5 Overall: 6.75
Winter Soldier #2 – The story involving sleeper agents and a gorilla wearing a jet pack and machine gun is fun and entertaining, but the art, while solid, is also a bit hectic, making it difficult to figure out all of the action like a movie with too shaky a camera. Overall a decent series, but there’s something not quite clicking from the usual quality I’d expect from a Brubaker book.
Story: 8 Art: 7.25 Overall: 8
Wolverine #301 – Wolverine continues to fight the Hand… again… and Sabretooth is there. The art keeps switching in the issue, which actually hurts the book. The story is ok, but nothing special.
Story: 6.75 Art: 6.75 Overall: 6.75
Wonder Woman #6 – So much going on, just so much. Something isn’t clicking for me. The series is interesting but there’s just something I’m not following. A shame, because the series started so clear and was so good….
Story: 7 Art: 7.75 Overall: 7
X-Factor #232 – Madrox’s journey ends, thankfully. Can’t say I was a fan of that storyline. But that ending could be interesting, or not….
Story: 7 Art: 7.5 Overall: 7
Video of Batman Being Pulled Over in Maryland
March 30, 2012Earlier this week, we brought you news about how Montgomery County Police in Maryland had pulled over Batman. Well, here’s the video of that traffic stop. The reason he was stopped was the lack of license plate, replaced with his famous logo. When the Caped Crusader showed his license plate, the officers let him go onto his scheduled appearance at a local hospital.
Yesterday, Batman sat down with the Washington Post for a live Q&A and showed off the man beneath the mask.
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Lego Batman 2: DC Superheroes Revealed Cover Art
March 30, 2012Could this be the first “Lego” video game I try?
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March 30, 2012The weekend is almost here….. yay!
Around the Blogs:
ICv2 – ‘Beware the Batman’ – Not sure about this one….
Around the Tubes Reviews:
CBR – Avengers Vs. X-Men #0
What Culture! – Avenging Spider-man #5
CBR – The New Deadwardians #1
Paste Magazine – Comic Book & Graphic Novel Round-Up (3/28/12)
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