Blog Archives: June 2008

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Review-a-Day #43: Superman/Batman - Supergirl

Review-a-Day #43: Superman/Batman - Supergirl from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Upcoming Dark Horse Presents!

Dark Horse is celebrating a successful year of their DHP MySpace page by releasing some really exciting comics next Wednesday. From the press release: Gerard Way and Gabriel Bä take their smash hit The Umbrella Academy in a new direction, with a short story delving into the team’s teen years, wh

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Just Plain Weird

 Check it out, it's a bunch of young Decepticons dancing to a cover of Born Slippy by Kupek, which is Scott Pilgrim creator Brian Lee O'Malley's band. This video is so weird, I watched it twice and I may be totally brainwashed.

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Talking: Fear Agent #22

  Spoiler. OK now is the time to jump into Fear Agent. This is a new story arc and so far it rocks. Things are a little crazy in Heath’s world. His ship has crashed coming out of a Black Hole. Then he is fighting giant bugs, and then blacks out. Only to wake up and find himself being was

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Review-a-Day #42: Hancock

Review-a-Day #42: Hancock from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Review-a-Day #41: Captain America

Review-a-Day #41: Captain America, Winter Soldier from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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New Hellboy 2 Trailer by Mike Mignola

There's a new trailer up for Hellboy 2. It's an animated prologue of the movie, and was done by Mike Mignola (not Guillermo del Toro). It gives a lot of backstory to the Hellboy 2 movie and the war between Humans and Monsters that plays out through the course of the film. Enjoy:

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Robot Chart Porn

   io9 recently published a great cartesian plot of most of history's famous (or infamous) robots. The chart is based on factors including alignment (Good-Evil) and physiology (Human Form-Box Form). Some of the robots include the original Terminator (Schwartezegger Form), Eve (from Wall

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Review-a-Day #40: Cancer Vixen

Review-a-Day #40: Cancer Vixen from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Talking: ’76 #4

Spoiler. OK yes this is black and white comic and I am a sucker for that, but still this is a fun comic. Lets go back in time and have some karate action. It is a story of a man coming to grips with his past. Yes, I think it is weird that when a bad ass hooks up with a lady and doesn’t tell

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Talking: Grendel Behold The Devil #8 of 8

Spoiler. So you had to really like the art in this book. I did. I was a little surprised by the ending though. It seemed almost predictable. I mean when a high-powered bad guy has someone snooping around he has him or her eliminated. I have thought this was a fun 8 comics, I was just a little di

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Breakfast for Your Eyes

Sean McKeever posted this image from the DC Nation page in the back of all of DC's books this week teasing the next team of Teen Titans. Who are the shadowy figues? Is that Kid Eternity wearing the cumberbund? Why do they keep changing this team into a worse and weirder form? Via A couple of cool/od

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Pull List Time

I am going to get: -76 #4 - Avengers The Initiative - Batman Gotham After Midnight - Black Panther - Caliber - Captain America - Daredevil - Deepak Chopras Beyond - Fantastic Four - Fear Agent - Green Lantern - Hercules - Hulk - Immortal Iron Fist - Jack Of Fables - Jim Bu

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Fan Film: Kyle Piccolo

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Comic Book Club w/ Heather Fink and Matt Donnelly Photos Posted

  Our Pulp Secret Flickr Account has been updated with the most recent episode of Comic Book Club.  This week's episode featured Heather Fink of Street Meat @ Cake Shop and Matt Donnelly of VH1 and the webcomic Police Procedures.  Both guests were great comedians AND major comic book nerds.  Thi

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Dr. Horrible's Teaser

Joss Whedon's Web Series gets a teaser: Teaser from Bad Horse on Vimeo.

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Five Minutes of Batman: Gotham Knight

   Fresh from the MTV movie blog, it's a sneak preview of the upcoming animated DVD Batman: Gotham Knight. Set inbetween the events of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, Gotham Knight is an anthology of six animated episodes full of grim and grit. The DVD hits the stands on July 8th.

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Remembering George Carlin

   The face of comedy was never the same after the 1972 release of Class Clown by one George Carlin.  Prior to releasing his "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" Class Clown album Carlin had been noted for his frequent guest spots and stints as host of The Tonight Show.  At the

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Fan Film: Captain Blasto

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Review-a-Day #39: Bizarro World

Review-a-Day #39: Bizarro World from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Talking: DMZ #32 and Comic Collections

Spoiler. So things are getting pretty intense in the DMZ world. Matty’s Mom is crashing his party. Or will she save the day? You are reading this right? It is so solid. Brian Wood is knocking this out of the park. DMZ thoughts? So a friend of mine is selling his comic collection. I know

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Breakfast for Your Eyes

 A re-imagining of the classic Fantastic Four #1 cover by Puño in which the FF battle a perhaps hungover Mickey Mouse while he's trying to enjoy a cigarette. Follow the link for some other awesome art. ViaHere's an early entry into Project: Rooftop's Superman: Man of Style contest, which Pulp Secr

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Preview: Fear Agent #22

Got another Dark Horse preview for you guys, this time from tomorrow's Fear Agent #22, kicking off the "I Against I" storyline: After being shot through the other side of a black hole, Heath Huston finds himself in a shadow universe marooned on the desolate planet Westx. A stranger in a strange plac

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New Spirit Character Posters

Eh? I kind of feel like, say whatever else you want about this adaptation, but Sarah Paulson is perfect casting.

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Fan Film: Armchair Superheroes

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Review-a-Day #38: The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius

Review-a-Day #38: The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Preview: Conan the Cimmerian #0

Conan The Cimmerian #0 doesn't hit until June 25th (this Wednesday, natch), but we've got your look at the first six pages, right now: Conan the Cimmerian #0 marks a transitional period in young Conan's life, as he spurns the magicians, turncoats, and legal trappings of the cities he's seen in order

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Talking: X-Factor #32

Spoiler. Sometimes you just need a sign from a dying old guy to get your life together. But really though this comic rocks! What a great end to a story and I can’t wait till the next comic. The X-Factor is now going to be like the A-Team! Man I can’t wait this is going to be great. I guess t

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Frank Miller Talks CGI

From his Spirit Blog... SPIRIT BLOG#10 STU MASCHWITZ TAKES ME TO SCHOOL There is a theological debate about the role of Computer Generated Images (CGI) that has yet to be engaged. Fanatics of CGI have placed no ceiling on their ambition. The true believers are determined that we can, wi

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Review-a-Day #37: Haridama - Magic Cram School

Review-a-Day #37: Haridama - Magic Cram School from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Review-a-Day #35: Kamichama Karin Chu, Vol 1

Review-a-Day #36: Kamichama Karin Chu, Vol 1 from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Superhero Fashion Emergency

So a friend of mine put this together. He did most of the voices. Heads up there is some swearing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W19wr5rXVHk There is no hating here, it is all in fun. Or if you are a fan of G.I. Joe you will enjoy this more "Intensive Snare" Plastician featurin

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This is NOT The New Cover For Fables

Nope, not even remotely. Also, NSFW.

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Review-a-Day #35: Avengers Forever

Review-a-Day #35: Avengers Forever from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Talking: Drafted #8

Spoiler. If you are not reading this comic what is your deal? Wow, so the so-called bad guys are attacking. It is wartime and it is the so-called good guy aliens and us. Man this comic is getting intense. It does a great job of balancing the humans’ experiences with the action of the actual wa

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Breakfast for Your Eyes

Good morning, rods and cones!This, from Dustin Nguyen's blog, is a collection of all of his favorites from Marvel. Up next his favorite females! And this is from Donald Soffritti's blog, where he has an ongoing series of pictures featuring his favorite characters as old, old heroes. Iron man looks

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Comic Book Club w/ Jordan D. White Photos Posted

Recently Marvel Comics Assistant Editor Jordan D. White sat down (on the new couches) at The People's Improv Theater with Alex, Justin, and Pete for Comic Book Club. You may remember Jordan from his very first editorial review he performed for us on-screen during a special episode of The Stack.

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Review-a-Day #34: Crecy

Review-a-Day #34: Crecy from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Pull Time

Here is what I am picking up: - Cthulhu #3 - DC Wildstorm Dreamwar #3 - DMZ #32 - Doc Walloper #5 (just because of name) - Ex Machina #37 - Flash Vol 2 #241 - Garth Ennis Streets Of Glory #5 - Gemini #2 - Grendel Behold The Devil #8! - Guardians Of Galaxy Vol 2 #2 - Incredible Hercul

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Spawning Again

Let's take it back to May 1992, Spawn #1 hits the stands, written and drawn by then comics superstar Todd McFarlane. Fans go insane. The book goes on to sell 1.7 million copies. Young fans bag and board the precious comic and lock it away convinced it will one day buy them the lamborghini for the p

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Review-a-Day #33: JLA/Avengers

Review-a-Day #33: JLA/Avengers from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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DC Roundup

There's a reason Superman needs a drink: DC Comics is having a TERRIBLE week. To Recap:- Chuck Dixon's very vocal departure from DC Comics which he seems to be putting squarely on Dan DiDio. From Mr. Dixon:Don’t blame my editors. DC, currently, is run from the top down in a way that makes Jim Sho

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First Official Footage of Two-Face On Screen

Warner Brothers has just leaked a teaser trailer of Two-Face appearing on screen through their viral Joker website WhySoSerious.com.  They show just enough so that you know Aaron Eckhart will look twisted enough to give a few nightmares to your kids.  Enjoy! 

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What is with the frog hating?

Spoiler. So B.P.R.D. has War on Frogs and Lost Boys has Reign Of Frogs. My point is both these comics are great! Lost Boys is a fun action packed shout out to Lost Boys movie. I loved the frog juice! B. P. R. D. War on Frogs is a well written, well drawn, and a really great comic. It is a little

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Spidey Vs. Hulk Art

 Those red and white pants on the Hulk are from his Cape Cod-Nantucket phase: Quaint Hulk! Via 

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Scarlett Johansson Spirit Poster

Thanks to the folks at Lions Gate for sending this over:

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Review-a-Day #32: Bullet Points

Review-a-Day #32: Bullet Points from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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There She Is!

Letterer Todd Klein posted this piece of art on his blog from the upcoming Greg Rucka/ J.H. Williams III Batwoman mini-series. Remember Batwoman? that character from 52 that appeared, caused a big media huff because of her sexuality and then handily vanished? Pretty weird right?The art looks great

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Talking: Magdalena Daredevil One Shot

Kind of spoiler. Cool crossover. Classic formula of fighting at first and then teaming up. Yes it has been done before but when it is good, it doesn’t matter. Yes you have seen it before and will see it again, but when 2 worlds collide that don’t usually collide it can be fun. What is good a

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The Gotham Times - Batman: Savior or Menace?

The latest issue of The Gotham Times has just rolled hot off the Adobe Flash presses. This issue features coverage of Harvey Dent's election win, as well as speculation on the intentions and motivation of Batman. It seems like The Gotham Times are taking a page from Jonah Jameson's Daily Bugle (w

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Darth Vader's Guide To Father's Day

In honor of the "day of Dad" listen to some time honored parenting techniques given by the galaxy's number one Dad Darth Vader.Happy Father's Day to all those Dad's out there!   How To Be The Best Dad In The Galaxy

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Exclusive Hulk Interview With Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, and Louis Leterrier

Moviefone has just posted an interview with Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, and Louis Leterrier. There's been a lot of bad press about the relationship between Norton and the Studio, as well as his co-stars. In the interview each person asks the others viewer submitted questions, as well as some questio

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Talking: Hack / Slash #12

Spoiler. Man this is a great issue. Plus guest appearances buy Milk! & Cheese! It just doesn’t get old. New town, new creepy slashers, but same old team. Cassie! & Vlad! Seems we have a puppet master in our mix. I love how the newsman was such a douche bag it was hilarious. Can you say anythin

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Has This Been Optioned For a Movie Yet?

Perhaps Summer 2012? 

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Review-a-Day #31: Hulk - Gray

Review-a-Day #31: Hulk Gray from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Cool Videos: Punisher War Zone Trailer

The trailer for Punisher War Zone is up. As is the case with re-boots lately (see Incredible Hulk), this Frank Castle is much more dark and disturbed. Think of the movie as done more in homage to German Expressionism or Film Noir (though not as literally as Sin City). I actually stopped watching

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Chuck Dixon Vs DC

Here's a story zinging around the blogosphere: Chuck Dixon has posted this rather terse statement on the Dixonverse message board I am no longer employed by DC Comics in any capacity. That sounds like parting ways on unhappy terms...How often does this happen in comics? Outsiders fans: happy or sa

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Review-a-Day #30: Blankets

Review-a-Day #30: Blankets from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Talking: Cable #4

Spoiler. So Cable has had enough. No more time jumping, no more running. Bring it on Bishop. I was a little surprised how easy Cable was to track, but this has been a fun ride. Sometimes though when you are saving a baby it takes an old guy to die before you say enough. Sound lame? It kind of i

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Review-a-Day #29: Black Cherry

Review-a-Day #29: Black Cherry from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Mike Mignola's: The Art of Hellboy II

   Wired.com has just released a first look at some of the artwork behind the new Hellboy II movie. As you can see Mignola's beautifully twisted artwork is depicted from pen and ink to screen. Dark Horse is releasing a TPB of the work simply titled Hellboy: The Art of the MovieAs Directo

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Talking: Batman Detective Comics #845

Spoiler. Wow, so there is something you don’t really get in Batman comics. They talk about the different ladies Batman and or Bruce have been with. Well apparently Catwoman has had enough. So whose is it going to be Batman? I hope he picks Catwoman. How about you, who would you pick? Jezebel

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Cool Videos: Hancock Behind-The-Scenes

This newest video footage offers some behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the cast and creators of the movie. The video surfaced on a Korean website, hence the korean subtitles.  Enjoy:

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Neil Gaiman on NPR

The Bryant Park Book Club on NPR has just released an audio interview of Neil Gaiman discussing his book Anansi Boys. It's a hot summer day where I am and there's nothing more refreshing than the dulcet tones of Mr. Gaimans's voice - like a cool, cool breeze. Check it out.

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Review-a-Day #28: Battle Royale

Review-a-Day #28: Battle Royale - Ultimate Edition from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now

Cory Doctorow, who is in the news for his novel Little Brother, has posted his graphic novel, Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now, online for your reading pleasure. The GN is a collection of his short stories drawn, lettered and inked by some pretty big names (Dara Naraghi, Esteve Polls, Sam Keith

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Hulk Pull Time

So I am going to pick up these comics: Action Comics, Batman Confidential, Burn, Captain Britain And MI 13, Drafted, Fall Of Cthulhu, Fear Agent, Fist Of Justice, Gamekeeper, Genext, Goon Vol 3, Green Arrow Black Canary, Green Lantern Corps, Hack Slash, Invincible, Iron Man Legacy of Doom, Jack

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Did Secret Invasion Change Since March?

Well, sure it did. Things change at the last second all the time. But I was reminded of Patton Oswalt's wrap-up of the first three issues, posted on his MySpace Blog, on March 25th: This is not a big, disposable, multi-issue donnybrook. This is a blitzkrieg from page one. Bendis basically worked

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Review-a-Day #27: Arsenic Lullaby

Review-a-Day #27: Arsenic Lullaby - The Donut Cometh from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Wonder Woman Finds Body

From CNN: The actress who played Wonder Woman on TV in the 1970s says she didn't do anything extraordinary when she discovered a body this week on the Potomac River in Washington. Lynda Carter, of "Wonder Woman" fame, found a body floating on the Potomac River. Lynda Carter tells The Washingt

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Talking: Batman Death Mask #3 of 4

Spoiler. Wow, so things are starting to get interesting. It seems to me that a good Manga story is a slow burn story. Manga starts out a little confusing kind of like a Grant Morrison piece of writing then ties it together in a very exciting way. Well we are not there yet, but things are reall

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An Actual Reason to Watch American Gladiators

Tonight on a very special American Gladiators... they paint muscular people green! 

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Well, Well, Well...

...Looks like someone special is being used to market The Hulk now. Don't watch if you don't want a major spoiler: Incredible Hulk - Unusual Problem

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Review-a-Day #26: Army @ Love

Review-a-Day #26: Army @ Love from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Review-a-Day #25: Akira

Review-a-Day #25: Akira - Volume 1 from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Cool Videos: The Adventures of Little Batman

The Adventures of Little Batman is a short fan-film shot by Joe Valenti and stars mostly 5 and 6 year old kids. It's a definite must-see for kids and parents alike. As you can see it draws primarily on the Adam West/Burt Ward Batman series of the 1960s. There are currently three videos. I think

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Recommendation: House of Mystery

It's not often that I feel the need to promote a new comic series , but I just finished reading House of Mystery #2 and man is this series good. The book has a nice concept that is under used in today's comics: each issue you get a break from the ongoing storyline as a different tells a short story

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Cool Videos: Pre-Two Face Harvey Dent Flips His Coin

Comcast.net has some exclusive videos of the upcoming Dark Knight movie.  There is an IMAX featurette showing a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of The Dark Knight in IMAX format.  The video shows a lot of additional footage, including Batman talking to the Joker in the interogation room, a p

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Lou Ferrigno Talks Hulk With George Roush

   Recently Lou Ferrigno took time out of beating the crap out of Jason Segel to talk with George Roush about his work on The Incredible Hulk and his other upcoming projects. This is amazing, because normally Lou is a man of few words. What's that line from the Marvel What If Hulk Issue.

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Review-a-Day #24: Birds of Prey - Of Like Minds

Review-a-Day #24: Birds of Prey - Of Like Minds from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Talking: Duo Star Racers #1

Kind of spoiler. I am a little confused about what is going on but I am into it. The artwork really does a great job of creating its own world. If the art was different I might not buy into what feels like robot racing future world. I could but this artwork pulls you in so much easier. It also h

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Cool Videos: Marvel Heroes Go Viral

Marvel is now publishing viral videos to popularize their characters in new ways. With the success of Iron Man and the great buzz going around about the Incredible Hulk, it looks like the campaign is working so far.  The videos are being produced by the same studio that brought you Marvel Ultimate

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Tim Kring Wants Your Help Casting Heroes

   Fans of NBC's Heroes now have a chance to influence the cast of the upcoming season of Heroes. Fans can vote on their favorite new characters in the Heroes online graphic novel. The character of Hana Gitelman was the first such popular character online to make the leap to the live acti

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Review-a-Day #23: Wonder Woman - Gods & Mortals

Review-a-Day #23: Wonder Woman - Gods and Mortals from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Talking: Jenna Jameson’s Shadow Hunter #3

Spoiler. So I know what you are thinking. Jenna is actually doing a kinda good job with her comic. But what I really want is not a comic. I want a collection of prose? That is right if you picked up Shadow Hunter #3 you got a collection of prose? What is the thinking behind this? Well I tried.

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Cartoon Cartoon

  A great slash cartoon featuring Captain Kirk, Spock and the song "Common People" by Pulp. Just watching the cut Star Trek cartoon scenes make me miss how good cartoons used to be. Have you watched Saturday morning TV lately? It's no Reboot or Hanna Barbera Laff-A-Lympics I can tell you that...

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Wormwood Gets Collected

I know Pete is a big fan of this series, and we all certainly like Ben Templesmith a lot; so why not check out this trade, featuring sweet, delicious Calamari? IDW releases the latest Wormwood collection from Eisner Award-nominee Ben Templesmith Ben Templesmith’s love affair with tentacles c

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Weekly Comic Strip: Terminus

It's not an easy thing to master, but a good one-panel comic strip is a nice way to start the day. This is Terminus by Dan White. Via Also, here is a picture NASA released of the sunset on Mars. You won't see J'onn J'onzz in the background because he was casually and unceremoniously murdered in the

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HD Feed Issues Are Fixed

Due to a technical glitch, if you subscribed to our HD feed on iTunes, you've missed the last three episodes of The Stack. Sorry about that. The problem has been resolved and you will start getting every new episode on time again.

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Stuff To Do: Batman Night

You should probably go check out this awesome night of Bat-comedy from our Bat-friends Kevin Maher, and Nick Nadel. And maybe there'll be some haikus from people you know. Hmmm... After the success of HULK Night and KISS Night, THE SCI FI SCREENING ROOM is proud to present...BATMAN Night!…

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Review-a-Day #22: Courtney Crumrin

Review-a-Day #22: Courtney Crumrin from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Back to Wednesday PULL

OK so this is what I am going to pick up: All-New Atom, American Splendor Season 2, Avengers Invaders, Batman Death mask, Brit, Buffy, Cable, Criminal 2, Detective Comics, FX, Invincible Iron Man, Jonah Hex, JSA, Manhunter Vol 4, Midnighter, Omega The Unknown, Project Superpowers, Punisher War J

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Futuristic Tales in Hardcover

I'm going out a limb to say that if anyone doesn't need publicity, it's Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow, who already runs the best plug machine on the web (that would be Boing Boing). But here we are, plugging away anyway. CORY DOCTOROW'S FUTURISTIC TALES OF THE HERE AND NOW IN HARDCOVER Writer an

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Latest Wanted Trailer Surfaces

 The latest trailer for Wanted, the adaptation of the graphic novel by Mark Millar has been posted. Let us know what you think:  

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Comic Book Club w/ Liz Baillie, Dave Roman, and Brian Heater Pics

The latest episode of Comic Book Club featured Liz Baillie (My Brain Hurts), Dave Roman (Teen Boat, Flight, Bizarro World), and Brian Heater (The Daily Cross Hatch). Everybody had an awesome time, especially Pete who was in rare form (re: Final Crisis #1 Review). In case you weren't able to join

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Under Construction: Castle Grayskull Redux

   Is He-Man headed for another live action feature? The possibility is becoming more and more real. A copy of Justin Marks' Grayskull: The Masters of The Universe screenplay is now in circulation. Many of us remember the last (and unfortunate) live-action He-Man film titled Masters of

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Gain The Regenerative Powers of Superman With...A Vitamin?

   Superman may no longer need Earth's Yellow Sun to heal those accursed magical lightning bolt wounds. New studies show that vitamins can help correct genetic defects on the cellular level. Specifically certian vitamins like folate have been found to correct mutations to enzymes involve

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Smoking is Cool Again!

Artist Chris Schweizer has finished a series of prints entitled Smokers of the Marvel Universe featuring some of your favorite characters who have been seen smoking. Some of my favorites:  Mentallo is such an angry smoker... 

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Batman RIP Inspirations

The lads over at The Mindless Ones blog have compiled a few covers that may be clear antecedants to Grant Morrison's Batman RIP story arc. I can't help but think that Grant Morrison is sitting in front of a vast table of comics picking and choosing the images he wants to incorporate into his run. P

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Stuff To Do: Comic Book Club w/Brian Heater & Liz Baillie

COMIC BOOK CLUB A Live Weekly Talk Show about Comic Books ***BEST OF NEW YORK PRESS 2007*** Hosted by Justin Tyler, Pete LePage, and Alex Zalben Tuesday, June 3rd @ 8:00 PM Featuring: ***MOCCA Fest Preview!*** Brian Heater (The Daily Cross Hatch) Liz Baillie (My Brain Hurts) Ticke

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Review-a-Day #21: Manhunter

Review-a-Day #21 - Manhunter from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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Talking: Batman Gotham After Midnight #1

Spoiler. Wow, this is a fun creepy Batman. Not since Sam Keith has Batman looked like this. (OK so that is probably not true) But it reminds me of his art. Point is this is a cool comic. OK so the way the Bat cave looks reminds me of Star Wars when Han gets frozen. But still it is a fun comic. S

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Giant Orphan Annie

I mean, seriously... If you're going to release an Omnibus collecting every Little Orphan Annie cartoon, why WOULDN'T you just go for the obvious joke? Sigh. Anyway, I totally love this massive collections of old comic strips. Not only are they fun to read, they're also a great slice of history, pre

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Review-a-Day #20: Ultra - Seven Days

Review-a-Day #20: Ultra - Seven Days from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.

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New Hulk Trailer - Must Watch

Still on the fence about The Incredible Hulk? Loved the TV show? Prepare to be sold:

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Talking: X-Force #4

Spoiler. Ok what the heck is going on!!!??? This is really getting upsetting. Why would they put together such a badass team and just have them suck the whole time? Yes, the writing has been great. There is a ton of cool stuff going on in this comic. BUT I am s upset at the fact that my favorit

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MoCCA Art Festival Events

Brian Heater, over at the Daily Cross Hatch, has compiled a list of events leading up to the MoCCA Art Festival here in New York on June 7th and 8th. The MoCCA Art Festival is a fundraiser for the Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art and features a bunch of really exciting comic book creators. You can

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G.I. DW

I know you guys are gonna rip me a new one, but I've never been into G.I. Joe. I certainly had a few of 'em growing up, but I was WAY more interested in my Transformers. That being said, G.I. Joe, and Transformers (at least in the comic books) are once again at the same home, as IDW has taken over

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Late Night Reading With Frank Miller

  There's been a lot of talk about the new Spirit Movie based on the works of Will Eisner. As you all know this is Frank Miller's second outing as a director (Sin City being the first co-directed with Robert Rodriguez), and first as solo flight as director. Because of the black and white

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Review-a-Day #19: The Flash - Blitz & Ignition

Review-a-Day #19: The Flash Blitz & Ignition from Alexander Zalben on Vimeo.