Very little of backstory, but what there is, is a doozy of a revelation about Jack. Meanwhile, tragedy and joy hit the island. And where’s Locke?!?
Serenity #1 Comic Anounced
rickyjames
writes, Order your copy of Serenity #1 today via
the Dark Horse press release. Each issue of this
three-issue miniseries features three different
covers, one for each member of the Serenity crew,
drawn by the biggest names in comics. Issue #1
features Mal
by John Cassaday, Inara
by J. G. Jones, and Jayne
by Bryan Hitch. The story presented covers the “six
month gap” between the Firefly DVD episode “Objects in
Space” and the “Serenity: Big Damn Movie” coming out
September 30.
TV Review – “Batman: The Animated Series Vol. 2”
How about an old Batman review to get us
ready for the new Smallville review coming
after new episodes return next week?
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Weekly Comics Discussion – Wednesday, April 6, 2005
This
week’s shipping list includes such items of
interest as Green Lantern: Rebirth #5,
Strange #5, and Ultimate Fantastic Four
#17.
Doctor Who: The End Of The World
Eldhrin
writes, Doctor Who: The End Of The World
This received 36/42 from Eldhrin in total, with 4/6
for the overall score. That score would have been
higher had it been more than a one-shot episode. With
luck, they’re going the same route Buffy and
Smallville did, starting with some one-shots
to slowly build an audience, and then moving to longer
arcs after a few weeks.
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TV Review – “Star Wars: Clone Wars”
The first portion of the animated series is now on
DVD.
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Movie Review – “Spaceballs”
Mel Brooks did a sci-fi spoof a couple of decades ago.
How did he do?
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Countdown to Infinite Crisis
Identity Crisis revealed some shocking, but entirely plausible, secrets of some top-name DC heroes, secrets which actually made sense of issues raised by past stories. The series cast shadows over DC history.
Countdown to Infinite Crisis, an expensively-produced but inexpensively-priced comic ($1.00 U.S. for 80 pages!) picks up from that story, and functions as a prologue to several comic series that will shake up the DC Universe further, a kind of Crisis on Infinite Earths for the 2000s.
The Simpsons/Futurama Crossover Crisis II
Awhile back, Bongo comics brought the characters from Futurama into the world of The Simpsons with the parodically-titled Futurama/Simpsons Infinitely Secret Crossover Crisis. In 2005, they collide these two worlds once more– and throw in unlicensed appearances by numerous characters from literature, and superheroes from DC and Marvel comics.
Weekly DVD Picks – Tuesday, April 5, 2005
Another batch of releases on the way.
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