Wolverine TV spot #2: Brothers
The second TV spot from earlier this week promoting “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.” This spot focuses on the relationship between Wolverine and Sabretooth.
- Matt Price
First Wolverine TV spot – Outcasts
The first of the “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” TV spots revealed earlier this week, this one focuses on the childhood of Wolverine.
– Matt Price
Matt watched The Watchmen
I can’t officially say anything review-wise until the day of release, but keep an eye on the newspaper and blog for features about “The Watchmen,” the upcoming Zack Snyder movie based on the Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons graphic novel. I’ve been in Los Angeles the past two days seeing the film and doing interviews.
– Matt Price
Comics Q&A: G.I. Joe
Kyle Roberts and Matt Price talk about the comic-book background of the Hasbro toy property, G.I. Joe, which comes to movie theaters this summer.
Monday movie quote challenge #19
“I resent that. Slander is spoken. In print, it’s libel.”
Identify who said this quote in what film in the comments!
Dunk contest again has superhero flair
The 2009 NBA Slam Dunk contest again had a superheroic theme. Dwight Howard again dresses as Superman for a dunk on a 12-foot rim, but is defeated by 5’9” Nate Robinson, showing off his “Kryptonite” by leaping Howard and dunking a bright green ball.
– Matt Price
Comics vodcast: Darkness 75, Thor 600, Batman 686 and X-Men Origins: Sabretooth
It’s a week of anniversaries! Darkness celebrates 75 issues, Thor celebrates 600, Batman attends a funeral, and Sabretooth has a violent way of saying “Happy Birthday” in this week’s comics, as discussed by Matt Price and Kyle Roberts.
Back issue review – Peter Parker: Spider-Man Annual 2000
Peter Parker: Spider-Man Annual 2000 is one of the annuals in that period of a few years when Marvel decided to number their annual releases by the year rather than the number. This one features two stories, each teaming Spidey up with a female character with questionable heroic credentials.
The first, longer story is from a plot by Chris Claremont and a script by Bill Rosemann. The art is by Joe Bennett.
Peter Parker is tending bar to fill in for roommate Randy Robinson, when he gets into a kerfuffle with a tall space bounty hunter in a midriff-baring outfit when he tries to slow her alcohol intake.
Their altercation spills into the street, where Peter doesn’t seem to be trying real hard to hide his secret identity. He finds out the bounty hunter, named Bounty, is just down after being rejected by Ben Grimm.
He catches up with Bounty again later that night, and they go for coffee, where they find themselves in the middle of a Romeo-and-Juliet situation involving rival gangs.
Bennett’s art is serviceable-to-good, and Rosemann’s clever quips and dialogue, for the most part, keep the reader from focusing on some of the story’s weaker points. Well, except this one: Peter reveals his secret ID to Bounty. A woman he’s met once, who drinks heavily and may or may not be on the right side of the law. I don’t know if Peter’s run into Bounty since, and I guess the magic that made everybody else forget Spidey’s secret ID after he revealed it to the world probably affects Bounty, too, but I just have to say:
Really, Pete? Really?
The second story is a less memorable one by Gregory Wright, also drawn by Joe Bennett, featuring a flirty team-up with the Black Cat. I assume this annual must have come out during a time when Marvel was trying to separate Peter and Mary Jane, given all the flirting Peter Parker does in this issue.
Overall, I don’t know that this issue is worth making a huge effort to seek out, though Rosemann, now a Marvel editor, has a good feel for Peter’s voice.
– Matt Price
Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter trailer
Check out the trailer for the animated companion DVD for “Watchmen,” “Tales of the Black Freighter.” It will also include an animated adaptation of the “Under the Hood” portions of the “Watchmen” graphic novel.
– Matt Price
Dwight Howard Dunk Contest meeting
Garbage Time All-Stars has a humorous take on a meeting in which Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic try to work out this year’s attempt for the Slam Dunk Contest. This follows up on Howard’s winning “Superman” dunk from last year. This comic strip will work best for you if you get both comics-related and NBA-related jokes. (I thought it was pretty hilarious.)
– Matt Price
