Trinity #29

In the lead: Alfred’s Six spy on those sorta alien guys from last issue, and Donna Troy interjects when violence ensues. Surprise! She has her Wonder Girl powers! Then Alfred talks to the alien dudes and they decide to make a pilgrimage to the Trinity-inspired holy site. Meanwhile, Tarot freaks out a little bit and…



Guy from fatally bad comic movie to strike again with needless remake – ‘The Crow’

The Crow Gets Remake UK, December 15, 2008 – Relativity Media are set to reinvent Goth fantasy movie The Crow, with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen helmer Stephen Norrington hired to direct according to Variety. The 1994 movie, which was based on the comic by James O’Barr and was directed by Alex Proyas, revolved around…



X-Men Origins: Wolverine Trailer Now Online

I went to sleep last night, and I swear it was the year 2008. But, then, I woke up this morning to find the new trailer for the Wolverine Origin movie had been thrown up online over at 20th Century Fox’s Myspace Page. Now I’m not so sure what year it is. Is Dane Cook…



Book of Doom:
Secret Invasion: Dark Reign #1

This week we took a look at Secret Invasion: Dark Reign #1, the book that carries us from the closing pages of Secret Invasion #8 to everything else that comes next. The end of Secret Invasion left me intrigued, but I’m not sure how much I’ll be following along. Now that the Marvel Universe has…



Local news for Dec 13, 2008

• I haven’t chimed in since the big Black Friday sales, but it sounds like it was a big hit for everyone in town. • The gang at Capes Comics Lounge released a new video podcast this week, “Batman R.I.P.: more like Batman: WTF,” which you can view at comicbookcrossfire.libsyn.com or on the Capes myspace…



Uma… Oprah… Hugh?

Wolverine. Weapon X. Logan. Sexiest Man Alive. Oscar host? The big news out of Hollywood the past couple days has been about the Golden Globe nominations, so, today, not to be upstaged, the Academy Awards made a little bit of news of their own. It was announced a few hours ago that the Oscars are…



New additions to “The Acceptable DC Lexicon”

“Well Marvel, I see your ‘douchebag’ and raise you a ‘Goddamn’ (Final Crisis #5) and a ‘Tits’ (Final Crisis: Revelations #4).” I noticed fairly early on as a child that DC comics always had harsher language than Marvel, particularly in Batman, with its occasional “hell” and “damn.” To a kid, it simultaneously made Batman seem…



A Special Message for the Golden Globes

This morning, the nominees for the Golden Globes were announced, and, as I’m sure many of you were, I found myself shocked that The Dark Knight was only nominated for one award. Now, I’m not saying that nomination isn’t well deserved (honestly, if Heath Ledger doesn’t win, I’ll be quite surprised), but what about the…



Book of Doom:
Dark Reign #1

Sorry for the tardiness on this — I was waffling on what to choose for this week’s Book of Doom and leaning toward Detective #851 but apprehensive about choosing a third Batman book in three weeks. Once I got to the shop, I realized that Secret Invasion: Dark Reign #1 came out. Apparently I looked…



Trinity #28

In the lead: Alfred’s group of six heads to Happy Harbor, Rhode Island to the cave that would have been the first JLA HQ if the Trinity existed. After some mystic hoodoo, the group is transported to a different world and starts acting more like their “true” selves. Society in this world is run by…