The second of five current volumes of The
Essential Spider-Man is reviewed below.

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Our first comic book review is below. I discuss
the book itself, as well as the general criteria
we’ll use to rate comics.

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There’s a very
interesting read over on Cinescape. It seems
that Kevin Smith (of View Askew and Daredevil
fame) has interviewed Stan Lee for a video
release, which includes information about the
“Fantastic Four” movie, and possibly the movie
itself. Things aren’t quite clear on that right
now.

No details yet on what or when, but a “soon” issue of Amazing Spider-Man (currently being written by JMS, he of the un-spell-able name and Babylon 5 fame) will address the terrorist attacks of two weeks ago. Spidey’s a New Yorker, so it just seems poetic. JMS speaks!

“X-Men: Evolution” and the forthcoming “Justice League” are both based on comic books. So, naturally, they’re getting comic books of their own, based on the TV series, which were based on comic books. Ugh. Too many circles for my mind to comprehend. The Cinescape article doesn’t explain it much better, though.

Anonymous Coward writes, A bit late, but Dark Horse have started a re-release (I think it’s been released before anyway) of the Akira comic book translated into english. Find ’em at Amazon. They’re releasing all 6 parts at about one a month or so (I think).

Also have a look at this for a bit of info about an upcoming cinema and DVD release of Akira the film. If you want to help out the Bureau, you can also click the “Amazon.com” link to your left. Enter “Akira” in the search box, and you’ll hit the same page as that URL, except we’ll get a cut. :)

More spoilers, but these are probably legit, since they
come straight from the source. This interview
with J. Michael Straczynski (the Babylon 5 guy with the
hard-to-spell name) details some of his plans for the
next year, as he takes over writing duties for Marvel’s
“Amazing Spider-Man” book.

More nostalgia, I suppose – I grew up on some of the classic
Stan Lee comics, and I was an avid reader of the various
comics on StanLee.net. So it
saddens me a bit to report that, due to lack of funding,
the aforementioned site is closing for the forseeable future (well, not really closing, but they’re laying off most of their staff and halting production). With the exception
of the really goofy “Backstreet Boys as superheroes” bit, they were turning out some quality stories.