Comics podcast: Spider-Man, Speed Racer

Kyle Roberts and I discuss this week’s new comics, including Amazing Spider-Man #549, Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Eight #11, Speed Racer Chronicles of the Racer #1 and Uncanny X-Men #495, in the weekly comics podcast.


Film trailers of 08 – comics culture on top so far

Looking at Apple’s “most popular” trailers as of Jan. 15 reveals a lot of buzz around based-on-comics films in the works for 2008.

#1. Wanted - Based on the Mark Millar comic-book miniseries for Top Cow.

#2. The Dark Knight - Introducing Heath Ledger as the Joker.

#3. Hellboy: The Golden Army – Guillermo del Toro directs this sequel starring Mike Mignola’s blue-collar supernatural hero.

(And at #5, the Wachowski Brothers’ Speed Racer, based on the classic anime.  And this trailer is seriously growing on me.)