Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Crisis Counseling

DC's "Final Crisis" is finally coming in August. This week DC started releasing books with the tag line of "Sightings". Basically any book with that tag line are suppose to be some sort of tie-in to "Final Crisis". Just like we continue to cover Marvel's "Secret Invasion", we will also be giving you up to the minute coverage with "Crisis Counseling".

This week we got a taste of Libra in the pages of "Justice League of America" #21. I hate to make the comparison but the whole scene with Libra and the villains of DC was very reminiscent to that of the Hood from the pages of New Avengers last year. Basically Libra saves the hide of Z-list villain, the Human Flame, and offers him his heart's desire. All the Human Flame has to do is join up with Libra and become a follower of Darkseid. The cool part about this scene is that we get to see that not only is Libra trying to recruit some lower level bad guys, he's going for the heavy hitters too. Lex Luthor, Gorilla Grood, and Dr. Polaris are just a few we see. The scene ends with a tease that Martian Manhunter is running on borrowed time. The Human Flame wants revenge on Martian Manhunter and Libra wants to prove that he's not just blowing smoke up the ass of these villains. This equation can only end up equalling the death of a certain underutilized green martian.

News You Already Know

* Marvel's Runaways will be returning in September with writer Terry Moore and artist Huberto Ramos. The series is expected to pick up after the events of the Young Avengers/Runaways Secret Invasion crossover. Runaways fans can now rejoice in the hopes of this book becoming a monthly event. Check out the interview with Huberto Ramos at Newsarama.

* The upcoming Mortal Kombat vs DC game made news last week when it was announced that the game would not feature any fatalities. While some of the hardcore fans cried foul over this move, I'm just excited about a game based of DC characters that does not suck. Check out the website for the future fist fest HERE and see the new concept art.

* If you started buying Marvel comics in the 90's then you probably have a ton of books that guest star Spider-Man and own Ghost Rider books starring Danny Ketch. Ketch had been among the missing for years now until "Ghost Rider" #23 came out today. Writer Jason Aarons has been planning on bringing back Ketch for almost a year now after hearing the fans plea for his return. Grab issue #23 of "Ghost Rider" today and check out the return of Danny Ketch.

* The Micheal Turner alternate cover to "Wolverine" #66 has surfaced over at Comic Book Resources. The cover is a beauty and worth checking out. Funny part is where it says the book will be $2.99. When you actually find it in your comic book retailer, expect to pay more like $5.99 or more.

Site News

It seems that Rupert Murdoch's MySpace has finally paid off. It seems like it was only a month ago that myspace.com/ceediddyholla launched and we're finally starting to get some traffic. We've recently come in to contact with another blog called Biff Bam Pow Comics

This is a great blog from across the pond, that offers some really good reviews of new releases each week. not sure if you want to spend that three dollars on the new Iron Man book? Do yourself a favor and check out Biff Bam Pow Comics

We're going to be adding a link to this blog in the Diddyverse and will probably be giving you weekly updates on what reviews have been added to Biff Bam Pow Comics

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

DC Trinity

I hate when people take clips of movies and make trailers for movies that don't exist. It's annoying, poorly done, and a huge waste of space on the Internet. A new trend in comics books is for the publisher to make a trailer for their next big comic book event. Marvel's been doing them since Civil War and have already started doing them for this summer's Secret Invasion. DC has finally jumped on the trailer wagon with their trailer for Trinity


DC Comics - Trinity