For The Love of Quickies
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Ok, just a few quick links and blurbs here…
Geekanerd has compared some promo shots from the upcoming Watchmen movie with corresponding panels from the comic.
Here’s my favorite, even if it doesn’t have a direct counterpart in the comic:
Newsarama has an interview with Mike Carlin and Tony Bedard about DC’s Countdown and has some preview images of what’s coming, most notably this:
Rich Johnston has a new rumor regarding a new series being spawned:
Look for a new “Gotham Girls”-style series to spin out of “Countdown,” starring Harley Quinn and Holly Robinson. And on art, none other than Stephane Roux.
I’m sure I heard one fangirl out there go “squee.”
That squee was me, actually.
Back to Newsarama, who has new preview pages for Fantastic Four #554 (I don’t care) and the new X-Force #1, which is kinda awesome.
Here’s their pitch:
X-Force, Party Patrol?
Comic book crossovers are like a party. Characters come over, hang out, have a good time, put their feet up on the furniture, and then after leaving a mess for the host to clean up, they go their own way. Marvel, because of the leaving-the-mess-behind part, had not done an X-Men crossover in over a decade until this fall’s cataclysmic “Messiah Complex.” But even that storyline left a mess behind that had to be cleaned up. The X-Men were on the hunt for the first mutant child born since House of M depopulated Marvel’s mutant population. Not everything went well, and that’s where February’s X-Force #1 comes in!
In the aftermath of “Messiah Complex,” Cyclops comes to realize that there are some problems the X-Men simply aren’t equipped to deal with. Special circumstances call for special operatives, and he assembles a new X-Force team — Wolverine, Warpath, X-23, and Wolfsbane — to handle the dirty jobs, the questionable jobs that no one else can handle — or be trusted to handle! New X-Men writers Craig Kyle and Chris Yost and artist Clayton Crain open a new chapter in X-Force history in the first part of “Angels and Demons” as the team comes together for their first assignment, one that the X-Men can never know about!
No Marvel mutant fan will want to miss this high-octane team book. With a line-up of some of the X-Men’s most feral characters, X-Force #1 promises action and excitement as the team takes on the dirty missions — and the post-crossover-party clean-up! Look for X-Force #1 in this month’s Marvel Previews, and catch the excitement!
Finally, MTV Movies Blog reports that eagle-eyed viewers of I Am Legend will catch plenty of inside jokes and shoutouts, including a fake movie poster for my favorite film that will never be made:
Sometime around the turn of this century, movie geeks began buzzing over a proposed showdown between the two biggest icons in comic book history. Now, a new movie poster is advertising 2009 as the release date for the long-awaited “Batman vs. Superman,” and the flick is finally coming to a theater near you.
Annnd I’m spent. Back to Heroes and my comic book backlog
tag: Batman Beyond, Batman vs Superman, comics, Countdown, Cyclops, Feral, I Am Legend, Warpath, Watchmen, Wolverine, X-23, X-Force, Movies, Countdown, Harley Quinn, Holly Robinson, Batman, Superman
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