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The DC Front Office Shake-Up Is Complete

A few months ago, in an obvious reaction to Disney acquiring Marvel, Warner Bros hired Diane Nelson as new President - replacing the longtime Paul Levitz. Nelson has finalized her executive team and announced that Dan Didio and Jim Lee would act as Co-Publishers, Geoff Johns would become Chief Creative Officer, Jim Rood would take on Executive V.P. of Sales and Marketing and Patrick Caldon is now Executive V.P. of Finance and Administration. The last two probably won’t affect the comics too much...

ComicCenter Talks Star Wars: TFU2, Star Wars:TOR MMO & Batman Arkham Asylum 2

Watch as Griz and The UndercoverFanboy talk about the announcement of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2, the upcoming release of Star Wars: The Old Republic and the Batman Arkham Asylum 2 reveal.

Reviews of Batgirl #5, Uncanny X-Men #519 & God Complex #1

UNCANNY X-MEN #519 - So it’s not a big surprise that Beast decides to take an indefinite leave of absence from the X-Men for awhile. Seems he’s still a little peeved at Scott for letting him languish in Osborn’s prison during Utopia until it suited Scott’s purposes to free him. Hank has graciously put together the X-Club to act as the X-Men’s brain trust in his absence. Fine. Done. Good-bye Cowardly Lion. Go hang out in S.W.O.R.D. with your green-haired girlfriend. This issue is once again stole...

Comic Reviews of Dark Avengers #12, Batman #694, Cable #21 & X-Force #22

CABLE #21 - I think I may have figured out just who and what Hope is. Review first, then theories. Last issue, Cable ad Hope just barely managed to escape the Brood and Bishop by using the ship’s escape pods. Bishop also manages to survive by bonding with a living Brood-ship and chases the two pods for two years on their course to Earth. Over the two years, Hope has become a young woman is her teens. Once back on Earth, Cable and Hope have one last confrontation with Bishop in which Hope manifes...

Batman Arkham Asylum 2 Trailer on the Web…

Okay, so everybody who watched the ComicCenter review of Batman: Arkham Asylum knows I wasn't fond of the game. But, honestly, Batman is one of my favorite characters and I get kinda irate when he's not handled well. This one looks to be based on the same graphics engine and continues the story, but this time... it takes place out of the confines of Arkham and on the streets of Gotham. At least this time, Bats will have something to grapple onto that makes some sense. The trailer broke during th...

Reviews of Blackest Night #5, Uncanny X-Men #517, Thor Giant-Sized, Secret Warriors #10, Black Knight, New Avengers #59

Rating System: 0 to 1.5 stars = save your money unless you are just mindlessly collecting the title. 2 to 3.5 = worth a shot if you are up to trying something new or wanting to get back into a title. 4 to 5 = a must buy for any comic reader. UNCANNY X-MEN #517 - You will all bow before the best writer at Marvel: Matt Fraction. Sure, I’m a tad biased towards anything with an X on it, but the way Fraction is crafting this new era of the X-Men; I’m beginning to think he’s secretly Chris Claremon...

Comic Review For The Week Of 11/14/09

Rating System: 0 to 1.5 stars = save your money unless you are just mindlessly collecting the title. 2 to 3.5 = worth a shot if you are up to trying something new or wanting to get back into a title. 4 to 5 = a must buy for any comic reader. DEADPOOL #17 - Whoo-hooo! More Deadpool. And a real Deadpool with a story that isn’t just a filler to boot. Now that Wade has “joined” the X-Men, he’s decided to kill that father of one of mutants on Nation X who’s working with Osborn to throw some bad PR...

Comic Reviews For The Week Of 10/28/09

Rating System: 0 to 1.5 stars = save your money unless you are just mindlessly collecting the title. 2 to 3.5 = worth a shot if you are up to trying something new or wanting to get back into a title. 4 to 5 = a must buy for any comic reader. ANTI-VENOM: NEW WAYS TO LIVE #2 - I get it. Venom is popular. So was the Joker rip-off, Carnage. I’m a big Marvel and Spidey fan, but I firmly believe that the Symbiote Saga and the Clone Crap have damaged the Spider-Man books so bad that even “big” event...

Will The Green Lantern Movie Lead To A Justice League Movie?

Rumors are running rampant in the interwebs that Warner Bros and DC are planning to steal an idea from Marvel Studios to lead into a Justice League movie. Green Lantern will have a cameo appearance by a character that will lead into either a Flash or Wonder Woman movie; ultimately bringing the main cast members tighter for a Justice League movie with Superman and Batman. No word yet on whether Christian Bale will still be around by then, but they should really consider Smallville’s Tom Welli...

Comic Reviews For The Week of 10/23/2009

I’m going to do the reviews a different way this week by giving each title. Let me know which format you like. Rating System: 0 to 1.5 stars = save your money unless you are just mindlessly collecting the title. 2 to 3.5 = worth a shot if you are up to trying something new or wanting to get back into a title. 4 to 5 = a must buy for any comic reader. INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #19 - This is it. Norman Osborn has finally pin-pointed Tony Stark’s location and is moving to permanently deal with him....