If you had asked me a year ago, a month ago or even a week ago, which major comic company has their ducks in a row dealing with podcasts for the fans, hands down it would have been DC with their DC Nation podcasts. DC Nation is informative, timely and entertaining. Just do [...]

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Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born HC (Marvel – King / David / Furth / Lee / Isanove) – Okay, first I want to give a disclaimer on why I didn’t read this when this first came out in single issues. It’s quite simple, I have a thing about Stephen King… he is [...]

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Awakening #3 (Archaia – Tapalansky / Eckman-Lawn / Mauer) – From Archaia’s site – “A series of missing-persons and gruesome murders has begun to unfold in the city of Park Falls. Derrick Peters, a former member of the Park Falls Police Department, receives a visit from Cynthia Ford one January afternoon. Cynthia, well [...]

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Okay, I’m looking forward to this. It looks to be a solid direct to DVD movie that has huge talent behind it.
Here’s the press release:
The next installment of the DC universe original ANIMATED movies soars onto shelves when warner home video releases – justice league: the New frontier ON February 26, 2008!
The Title [...]

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She-Hulk #23 (Marvel – David / Moll / Olazaba) – Shulkie has always been one of those interesting characters in the MU… never quite taking center stage, but never far from it.  And almost always being a harbinger of interesting things to come.  She became the Thing’s long-term replacement after Secret Wars and brought forth [...]

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Titans East: Special #1 (DC -Winick / Churchill / Rapmund) – DC’s website has this to say about it’s new Titans special, “Titans Tower is back up and running on the East Coast as Judd Winick, Ian Churchill and Norm Rapmund assemble an explosive new team of Titans under the leadership of Cyborg! But [...]

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Grendel: Behold the Devil #1 (Dark Horse – Wagner) – From the Dark Horse site “This is an untold chapter in the life of the greatest criminal mastermind in history–a thrilling and horrifying glimpse into a time when Rose’s novels were at the top of all the bestseller lists and rumors of the assassin [...]

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Marvel Comics Presents #3 (Marvel – Various)- From Marvel.com “The premiere comics anthology gets invaded—by Magneto! Witness a tale of the beginnings of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants with Quicksilver & Scarlet Witch guest–starring. Meanwhile, Hellcat continues battling for her very survival, Weapon Omega faces down demons both internal and external, and a routine murder [...]

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The Bottled Imp
Here’s the lowdown…

It would seem Countdown gets better the fewer the story lines they try to cover in the issue… and less Jimmy Olsen shows up
This is a huge Superman-Prime issue… it opens up with SM-P at the Source Wall… the barrier that keeps the multiverse separated
SM-P has traveled into the 5th dimension [...]

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Captain Marvel #1 (Marvel – Reed / Weeks) – Marvel.com has this to say about their new Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell) book. “From the pages of CIVIL WAR comes the tale of a man out of time! An accident in the Negative Zone propels Captain Marvel from the past to the present day. Now he [...]

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The All-New Booster Gold #4 (DC – Johns / Katz / Jurgens / Rapmund) – DC’s summary – “The critically acclaimed smash hit of the decade continues! (Hey, we’re optimists!) Booster Gold, Rip Hunter, Barry “The Flash” Allen and Wally “Kid Flash” West are stranded in time with a broken cosmic treadmill, and hot on [...]

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Ultimate Fantastic Four #48 (Marvel – Carey / Brooks / Mendoza / Ponsor) – The set up for this issue is that Reed has isolated himself working on the cosmic cube idea (forshadowing… ooooh scary kids!) and from that, Sue got her dander up and went on a research project alone. At some [...]

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