Blackest Night 8 Final
By Walt | April 5, 2010
Eight months has passed and Geoff Johns has brought the conclusion to the Blackest Night series. Written by Geoff Johns and penciled by Ivan Reis, Blackest Night involves a personified force of death resurrecting deceased superheroes and seeking to eliminate all life and emotion from the universe. Geoff Johns has identified the series’ central theme as emotion. Both Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver have stated that “Blackest Night” is the third part of a Green Lantern event trilogy that began with Rebirth and continued with “Sinestro Corps War“. But it was very far reaching changing some events of Final Crisis and bringing a new direction in the DC Universe and introducing the White Light Entity that triggered existence. Also a series of events in the story bring back: Maxwell Lord, Professor Zoom, Jade, Hawk, Captain Boomerang, Firestorm, the Martian Manhunter, Aquaman, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Deadman, and Osiris. And if that is not enough Hal Jordan and Barry Allen realize the Black Lantern Batman being a fake means Bruce Wayne is still alive.
We have learned that the White Light Entity is a powerful source that later is represented in a White Power Battery on a distant road in a crater. We know that all the spectrum’s of light have a power battery and will play a part in the Green Lantern Saga in the future. We learned that men and women make choices in life and death situations that control who they are. We know that we will see more illumination of the events of Blackest Night. DC announced in early January that following the end of Blackest Night they would launch Brightest Day, a 26-issue bi-weekly comic book written by Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi.
It is my Feeling that Geoff John hit a home run with this story and sent DC Comics in a direction that will make them very successful. I believe this is the best series of the last several years in comics and look forward to reading the new story Brightest Day. The series has received generally positive reviews. Comic Book Resources gave the first and third issues in the series 5 out of 5 stars, and the second received 4.5 stars. IGN also reviewed the series favorably, rating the first three individual issues between 8.7 and 9.3 out of a possible 10. We will be following the new popularity of Green Lantern to see if it will last. See you at the comic shop. Stay tuned comic faithful for More. 
Walt
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Iron Man 2
By Walt | March 9, 2010
You wanted more “Iron Man 2″? You got it! Feast your eyes on the second official “Iron Man 2″ trailer! Watch it now! “Iron Man 2″ hits theaters May 7, 2010.
Robert Downey Jr. reprises his role as billionaire industrialist Tony Stark, aka the super hero Iron Man in this sequel to the 2008 blockbuster. RDJ, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle and Sam Rockwell are joined by Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury and Mickey Rourke as Whiplash. Jon Favreau once again takes up the directorial reins for Marvel’s armored avenger.
“Iron Man 2″ is one of a continuing slate of films being produced by Marvel Studios based on the Marvel characters, including “Thor” on May 6, 2011, “The First Avenger: Captain America” on July 22, 2011 and “The Avengers” on May 4, 2012.
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White Lantern from Blackest Night
By Walt | February 28, 2010
At the end of Blackest Night 7 we had quite a supprize Sinestro beat Hal Jordan to the White Enity and became a White lantern what ever that means. Geoff Johns is really keeping everyone guessing what direction he is going.
So will there be more White lanterns and will they be able to fight the creator of the Black lanterns Nekron? We will have to wait till and Green Lantern 52 and Blackest Night 8 to find out. Plus DC has reveiled that the creature trapped in the Black Lantern power battery is none other than The Anti-Monitor. He is set to return in Green Lantern Corps #46.
The Anti-Monitor is the antagonist of the 1985 DC Comics miniseries Crisis on Infinite Earths. He first appeared in Crisis on Infinite Earths #2, and was destroyed in Crisis on Infinite Earths #12, only to return after a long absence in Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special #1 (2007). At the end of the Sinestro Corps war, the Anti-Monitor’s shriveled and glowing form crashed on an unknown planet. He was recognized by a dark voice that bade him rise. Too weak to resist or escape, a Black Power Battery formed around him. In Green Lantern issue 43 this was revealed to be the planet Ryut in sector 666, homeworld of Atrocitus- last of the Five Inversions and founder of the Red Lantern Corps.
First the Black Lantern Corps rose from the Crypt on Oa decimating the planet and many Lanterns in their horrific path. Then Kyle Rayner’s brush with death and a Black Lantern ring resulted in Guy Gardner being blinded by great rage as he transformed into a Red Lantern killing machine. All this tragedy and devastation led to the collapse of the Green Lantern Central Power Battery.
How could writer Peter J. Tomasi and artist Patrick Gleason make things any worse for our Emerald Warriors? How about the return of one of the greatest threats the DC Universe has ever known: THE ANTI-MONITOR? When the battery is brought to Earth, the Anti-Monitor stirs within, demanding to be let out. He begins draining the white energies of Dove in order to affect an escape.
Life is never easy but in the DC Universe it is very very hard. Geoff Johns has painted a picture of no hope and he is going to amaze us I am sure with the remainder of story. The Black Lantern saga is better than Final Crisis and it makes the other pieces of history in the DC Universe fit together. It also gives direction to DC that it really needs. Good or bad it has got my attention and I will not miss the conclusion bar a nuclear holocaust. See you at the comic shop. Stay tuned comic faithful for More. Walt
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Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths Release
By Walt | February 19, 2010
Justice League Crisis on Two Earths
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths will be released next week I wanted to share part of an interview of the producer Bruce Timm it is an animated movie I will be reviewing soon. ComicMix published Bruce Timm’s remarks here thay are: Timm, the executive producer has been the creative force behind many of Warner Bros. Animation’s modern-day successes, elevating DC Comics’ canon of super heroes to new heights of animated popularity and introducing generations of new fans to the characters via landmark television series and made-for-DVD films. The latter task includes the creation of the current series of DC Universe animated original movies, which have drawn critical acclaim and further whetted the public’s appetite for comic book entertainment.
Question: What excites you about Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths?
Bruce Timm: In a weird kind of way, this is a return to my favorite show Justice League Unlimited. The original script was intended to be the bridge story between Justice League and Justice League Unlimited to explain how we went from seven heroes to more than 50 super heroes. We loved the story and the script, and it floated around here for years while we tried to figure out what to do with it – it was considered for a comic, but fortunately that got shot down. Then we took a look at it and, with just a few slight tweaks, we jumped at the chance to make it a DC Universe movie.
Question: What sets it apart from the TV version of Justice League?
Bruce Timm: It’s a very satisfying, grand scale adventure movie with a big cast of interesting, quirky characters. It’s amazing how much it feels like a great episode of Justice League Unlimited as a big, epic film with slightly different visual stylings. That’s a good thing.
More to come on my review Walt
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Stan Lee: Excelsior
By Walt | January 24, 2010
Stan Lee was born Stanley Martin Lieber; December 28, 1922 and is an American comic book writer, editor, actor, producer, publisher, television personality, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics. Three weeks ago Stan Lee turned 87 years old. In comics for over 65 years he is a legend in the industry. He shook up Marvel and is responsible for much of it’s modern day success.
He worked with some of the great names in the comic world in the early days of Marvel success. With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, and many other fictional characters, introducing a new age in superhero comic books. In addition, he headed the first major successful challenge to the industry’s censorship organization, the Comics Code Authority and forced it to reform its policies. Stan subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.
I was part of the young readers hooked by early Marvel titles. Fantastic Four was my favorate but Spider-Man was a close second. The sixties was a great time to read comics. I remember Stan for “Stan’s Soapbox” a monthly column on the Bullpen Bulletins page a creation of Stan he would always end what he had to say with his trademark phrase “Excelsior!” (which is also the New York state motto). He had a relationship with the public that few writers and comic creators ever established. You felt like Stan was a regular guy, one of us. Stan Lee introduced the practice of including a credit panel on the splash page of each story, naming not just the writer and penciller but also the inker and letterer. And his Bullpen Bulletins gave regular news about Marvel staff members and upcoming storylines. Very friendly to readers.
The “Marvel style” of comic-book creation was very popular with those at Marvel, the writer would brainstorm with the artist then submit a brief synopsis for his guide. The artist would panel the art based on the synopsis, he would fill the allotted number of pages by determining and drawing the panel-to-panel storytelling. Then the writer (Stan Lee) would write the word balloons and captions, and then oversee the lettering and coloring. All creators had input in the final product. The artists were co-plotters, whose collaborative first drafts the writer built upon.
Marvel was a collaboration of great creators and artist that Stan worked with for many years. “Make mine Marvel” was the cry of many readers in the 60’s and 70’s eventually making Marvel the number one comic publishing company. Stan supported using comic books to provide some measure of social commentary about the real world, often dealing with racism and bigotry. He influenced the change in the Comics Code which permited negative depictions of drugs, among other new freedoms for comic creators.
He was the best working with the best for many years all I have to say about that is “Nuff Said”. We wish Stan well and hope he lives many more years to see the evolution of the comic world he helped create. See you at the comic shop. Stay tuned comic faithful for More. Walt
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Brightest Day – DC Comics
By Walt | January 22, 2010
After Blackest Night is Brightest Day
The series will run bi-weekly for 26 issues alternating with Justice League: Generation Lost written by Keith Giffen and Judd Winick. It will also be crossing over into the Green Lantern series, the Green Lantern Corps, Justice League of America, The Titans and a new The Flash series, which will have a “Brightest Day” banner. It was later announced that Gail Simone would return to the Birds of Prey comic book, which will also be under the same banner.
It has also been revealed that the Green Lantern series will have a lot more of characters like Atrocitus and Larfleeze in a story arc called “New Guardians”. The first issue, issue #0, will be penciled by Fernando Pasarin. Artist David Finch will illustrate the covers for the series.
Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi will be part of the creative team for this crossover block buster. Johns in an IGN interview says “Brightest Day is the next step in repositioning a lot of characters in the DC Universe and pushing them to the next level. A lot of the main characters we’ve seen in Blackest Night will continue on to Brightest Day, like Mera and the Atom.”
I am convinced that Geoff Johns is a great writer in the same class as Brian Michael Bendis on the Marvel side. Remarkable talent directing the fate of the DC Universe and I hope making the backgroung for something special in comic writing. I hope one day we will look back on this time in comics and say WOW was that GOOD. See you at the comic shop. Stay tuned comic faithful for More. Walt
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