Terminator 2 news

Now that the Terminator / Painkiller Jane crossover is finished with Terminator 2 #7, the question is what next ??? Here is what Joe Rybandt from Dynamite had to say:

• Next up... a sequel to the Furman penned “Infinity” story… .

When this will happen only god and Dynamite tptb know. And it only answer half of the question. Still no news about what's next in Painkiller Jane.

March 08 - 3rd shipment

The 4th shipment in March brought 6 new additions to my collection including issue #1 of the new Star Trek: New Frontier series.

Battlestar Galactica: Origins #4 - Baltar p.4

The Picture of Dorian Gray #4

Star Trek TNG: Intelligence Gathering #3 - Chasing Shadows

Star Trek: New Frontier #1 - Turn Around p.1

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic #26 - Vector p.2

Terminator 2 #7

This concludes a very exciting comics month with lots and lots of new additions to my growing collection :)

Spoils of a week in London

A week in london brought 15 new additions to my collection including 2 Stargate issues that I was looking for since I got into comics. Except for the Stargate and Painkiller Jane comics, all the new items were found on the bargain shelves at The Forbidden Planet and Orbital comics:

Stargate SG-1: Aris Boch

Stargate SG-1: 2003 con special

Painkiller Jane #5 (vol. 2)

Angel: Earthly possessions (Angel #5-7)

Angel: Hunting ground (Angel #8-9)

Angel: Long Night's Journey (Angel #1-4 (vol. 2))

Angel: The Hollower

Star Wars: Clone Wars vol. 8 (Star Wars: Republic #71-79)

Star Wars: Jango Fett

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic vol. 1 (#0-6)

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic vol. 2 (#7-12)

Star Wars: Prelude to Rebellion (Star Wars #1-6)

Star Wars: Tales vol. 6 (#21-24)

Star Wars: Vader's Quest

Star Wars: Zam Wesell

March's 2nd + 3rd shipments

Due to a customs strike, March 2nd and 3rd shipments arrived together last week. Yesterday after returning from my week vacation in London I got the 8 new items that were waiting for me:

Angel: After the Fall #5

CSI: Serial

Doctor Who #2

The Iliad #4

Painkiller Jane #5

Star Wars: Legacy #21

Star Wars: Rebellion #12

Starship Troopers #7 - Bad Blood p.3

These shipment included the items thta were missing from March 1st shipment, but not Moby Dick #2 is missing.

Dynamite for June

Dynamite's June solictaions have 3 new items:

• Battlestar Galactica: Year Zero #11
• Battlestar Galactica: origins #8
• Zorro #5

Again no new Highlander, Painkiller Jane or Terminator comics :(

Dabel Brothers for June

Dabel Brother's June solictaions has 1 new addition:

• Dresden Fikes: Welcome to the Jungle #3

On the other hand, Avatar's June solicitaions again have not Stargate news and Boom! Studios' has no new Godfather comics GRRRRRR

More on Angel upcoming issues and Spike new mini series

From Newsarama:

• Angel: After the Fall #6-8 begin a special three-part "stories-within-the-story" adventure, "First Night." The issues feature multiple stories featuring Angel's large cast of characters, as readers get a chance to see just how the apocalyptic fight in the alley that concluded the television series affected each character.
  Angel: After the Fall #6 looks at Spike (featuring art by David Messina), Connor (art by Stephen Mooney) and Lorne (art by John Byrne).
  All the stories in this issue and the next two will also feature a framing sequence featuring Betta George, illustrated by Tim Kane.
  Angel: After the Fall #7, featuring a wraparound cover by Rebecca A. Wrigley and a variant cover by Mike Oeming, looks at Wesley (art by Nick Runge) and also features the surprise return of a long-absent character from the Whedonverse. The concluding "First Night" tales in #8 feature Gwen (art by Fabio Mantovani), the effect on L.A. being thrust into hell on the city's denizens (art by Kevyn Schmidt) and a heart-wrenching tale of Gunn's fate (art by Mirco Pierfederici).
  Angel: After the Fall #9 picks up with the cliffhanger at the end of issue 5, and features an all-new art team, Nick Runge and Art Lyon. Angel: After the Fall #8 and #9 will ship bi-weekly in June.
  Spinning out of the events of his story in First Night, Spike will be getting his own mini-series debuting in July, Spike: After the Fall, written and illustrated by the team that Joss Whedon hand-picked to handle Angel: After the Fall, Brian Lynch and Franco Urru. The four-part serie takes Spike from the events in "First Night" and explores his changing relationship with Illyria in the new city, and answers many questions, foremost of which has been "How did Spike end up taking over a certain mansion in Westwood?"

Marvel solicitations for June

Marvel's June solicitaions were released yesterday and have 3 new items for me including a new The 3 MMusketeers series:

• The Iliad #7
• Moby Dick #5
• The 3 Musketeers #1

IDW solicitations for June

IDW's June solicitations were released and contain 8 new items for me including the new Star Trek: Mirror Images series:

• Star Trek: Mirror Images #1
• Star Trek: Assigment earth #2
• Star Trek year four: The Enterprise expirement #3
• Star Trek: New Frontier #4
• Angel: After the fall #8
• Angel: After the fall #9
• Doctor Who #6
• Doctor Who Classics #7

Doctor Who - Time Slip (Doctor Who Classics #4)

A very short story, only several pages long that could have stayed out of the reprint.

The Tardis is stopped by a space creature that feeds on time energy. The creature sucks all the time energy from the Tardis causing time inside the Tardis to go backward. We see the doctor's appearance go back to past incarnations till the minute he 1st activated the Tardis. When the Tardis arrived at the moment before it was turned on, the time energy stops, the creature weakens and time starts going forward till the the Tardis reactivate and time again goes backwords, and so on and so forth. This eventually kills the creature and time flow on the Tardis is restored.

As I said the story is too short. The writer didn't bother to add more "flash" to the original story idea. Pity that this idea wasn't used to re-visit some of the doctor's past adventures.

Doctor Who - The City of the Damned (Doctor Who Classics #2-4)

Thank you IDW for coloring and reprinting these old comics !!!

City of the Damned tells the story of a so called perfect society where the people's emotions were erased and feeling an emotion is prohibited. When blood bugs were leashed on the population, they were helpless because they didn't have the adrenalin caused by emotions, which was poisonous to the bugs. Of course the doctor came to the rescue and gave them their emotions back. The ratio of this story is that humans need emotions for better or for worse.

The story and the art are just amazing. Although in some of the panels the coloring wasn't complete and it was evident.

New Buck Rogers comics

According to CBR Dynamite Entertainment has announced the latest license to be added to their growing line, the classic sci-fi/adventurere, "Buck Rogers."

I liked the old Buck Rogers TV show but didn't like the books and sold them back to the 2nd hand books shop only several weeks ago. I'm ready to give the comics a try. But from past experience with Dynamite and Zorro comics it will be about a year before we'll get to see issue #1.

New Spike comics

From newsarama:

• It’s a good time in comics for fans of Joss Whedon’s Buffy-verse.
• Dark Horse is telling of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer’s adventures following the conclusion of her television series and IDW’s Angel: After the Fall is officially continuing that character’s story post Season Five of the television series’ finale.
• But what about Spike? Does his official (read: approved by Whedon) story get explored and told anywhere?
• While the character has appeared in Angel: After the Fall, there were certainly some questions left unanswered. Those burning questions will be answered in Spike: After the Fall miniseries launching in July from IDW, by Brian Lynch and Franco Urru. As for the continuity…hang on…
• Angel: After the Fall #6, #7 and #8 tell stories of how the cast of characters was affected by the fight in the alley that ended the series. Issue #6 will feature Spike, Connor and Lorne; issue #7 will feature Wesley and a surprise return of a character from the Whedonverse; while issue #8 will feature Gwen, the effect of LA being thrust into hell on the city’s residents, and the fate of Gunn. Issue #9 will pick up from the cliffhanger at the end of issue #5, and will feature the new art team of Nick Runge and Art Lyon. #8 and #9 will both ship in June.
• Spike: After the Fall will spin out of the “First Night” events seen in Angel: After the Fall and events in issue #7, and tells of Spike’s first few months in hell and co-stars Illyria.
• Spike: After the Fall will run four issues.

Sounds great. Loved the Angel & Spike comics I read so far. Definitly going to add Spike: After the fall to my reading list.

Writer Peter David talks about Star Trek: New Frontier universe and comics

From Newsarama:

• The original concept, as conceived by John Ordover, was to take the dissolution of the Soviet Union and transfer it to science fiction terms. In this case, the Thallonian Empire dissolved, plunging the entire volatile area into chaos. Old rivalries and wars that had been kept under wraps under Thallonian domination reignited once the Thallonians were no longer in power. Starfleet has assigned the Starship Excalibur, commanded by the maverick Captain Mackenzie Calhoun, to ride herd on the territory.
• The thing is, when we first introduced New Frontier, we had a core cast of characters and they were all on the Excalibur. As time as progressed, a number of them have moved on to different venues, as happens in life. And all those venues appear in the miniseries: Calhoun and Co. on the Excalibur, Robin Lefler and Kalinda on New Thallon, Shelby on Bravo Station, Kat Mueller on the Trident, and Soleta on her ship, the Specter.
• It features the full range of seriousness and humor that is integral to New Frontier, ranging from Calhoun witnessing the gut-wrenching and brutal death of a key New Frontier cast member, to the mountainous Zak Kebron endeavoring to extract information from an unwilling individual by making him sit through a slide show of every vacation Kebron's family ever went on. Plus, for the very first time, we'll be visualizing key characters such as Morgan Primus, answering questions that New Frontier fans have had going back years. It's a can't-miss for longtime New Frontier fans. And for people who have never read it, it will serve as a great introduction to the characters.

I love the New Frontier books and own most of them. I'm so looking forward for this comics. I'll probably won't resist and will read the 1st issue as soon as I'll get it :) .

From Star Trek: New Frontier press release

• New York Times best-selling novelist Peter David, author of the first Star Trek® series designed exclusively for print, celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Star Trek: New Frontier saga with its first-ever comic book series. The five-part epic, debuting from IDW Publishing (www.idwpublishing.com) in March with artist Stephen Thompson (Beneath the Valley of Rage), features all-new stories and the official continuation of the runaway hit novels from Pocket Books.
• In the new story, Turnaround, the most dangerous experimental vessel in the galaxy-a prototype time ship-has vanished, and it appears that the man who stole it is none other than Starfleet Admiral Edward Jellico. Only Captain Mackenzie Calhoun and the crew of the Excalibur have a hope of finding him before the ship, intended purely for scientific exploration, is used to disrupt the space-time continuum.

Angel: Old Friends #1-5

The idea of Angel, Spike, Gunn and Loren, with Ilyria's help, fighting with doubles of themselves and their dead old friends Fred, Wes and Cordy, all whom are intent on killing the real Angel & co. is good although a bit repetitous. But I love the twists and surprises. How Gunn jumped to the conclusion that of all their enemies from their Wolfram and Hart time, the mad doctor is the villan is not explained. The art is very good except from some too dark action panels. All in all - I like it a lot and am looking forward to get my hands on other Angel and Spike books that I don't have.

Dark Horse upcoming releases for June

Dark Horse's June solicitations were not released yet, but on their website the upcoming releases for june are already up and contain 4 new items; including a new Indiana Jones series:

• Star Wars: Dark Times #12
• Star Wars: Legacy #25
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic #30
• Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Gods #1

I'll order the new Indiana Jones series as soon as the actual solicitations will be released :)

March 08 - 1st shipment

Initially there were supposed to be 5 new items in March's 1st shipment. Unfortunatly 2 of them are MIA (CSI: Serial & Painkiller Jane #5), which leave me with only 3 new additions to my collection:

24: Cold Warriors

Battlestar Galactica: Season Zero #6

Doctor Who Classics #4 - City of the Damned p.3, Timeslip & The Star Beast p.1

Marvel Illustrated: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

• Marvel’s Marvel Illustrated line of comic adaptations of classic literature expands in June with Marvel Illustrated: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by the creative team of writer Eric Shanower and artist Skottie Young.
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is going to be eight issues.

This is definetly going to be in my collection. As a kid I read all the books in the Marvel Illustrated line except for Moby Dick and the Ilad which I read later. Most of them I even read in 2 languages. It's facintating to actually see how other people visualize the characters and stories.

More on Star Trek: Year Four: The Enterprise Experiment from writer DC Fontana

• The Star Trek franchise is about to become even more legendary as an all-star roster of talent is coming together to produce a new series continuing the chronicles of the Starship Enterprise's untold fourth year. Star Trek Year Four: The Enterprise Experiment will be co-written by D.C. Fontana, who started her career as assistant to Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, and has authored some of Star Trek's most celebrated episodes. Joining Fontana for her first-ever foray into comic book storytelling will be veteran Star Trek artist Gordon Purcell, whose work has appeared in more than 50 issues of Star Trek dating back to the 1980s, up to and including his most recent work for IDW. Purcell will be joined by longtime collaborator Terry Pallot on inks, with Derek Chester, a veteran of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine® and Star Trek video games, collaborating with Fontana on the story and script. Fan-favorite illustrators The Sharp Brothers will provide covers for the entire five-part series. The Enterprise Experiment represents the second series of IDW's Star Trek: Year Four, which reveals the untold fourth year of the U.S.S. Enterprise's legendary five-year mission, depicted for just three seasons on the original Star Trek show. For The Enterprise Experiment, Fontana and Chester have crafted a sequel to Fontana's celebrated Star Trek episode "The Enterprise Incident", in which Kirk famously posed as a Romulan to capture a new state-of-the-art cloaking device. In this all-new story, Federation efforts to fully adapt the cloaking device to Starfleet ships leads to an experiment gone awry, trapping Kirk and Spock on an Enterprise out of phase with space itself. At the same time, Romulan forces close in on the starship, intent on claiming revenge for their stolen technology. Later chapters in the series will provide a sequel to the first two issues, as the KlingonTM Empire-with its own agenda-suddenly enters the fray. "The story is absolute classic Trek in the best sense of the word," says Andrew Steven Harris, Star Trek editor at IDW Publishing. "We're thrilled to have talent like this, people who've been working on Star Trek for decades. You can't find comic book storytellers who know these characters and settings more intimately."

I am so looking forward to this mini series !!!

Doctor Who and the Iron Legion (Doctor Who Classics #1-2)

Although these are reprints of 1979 comics the art with the new coloring is amazing. The story is just wonderful. The 4th Doctor with no companion, finds himself in a paralel earth where Rome never fell and where the humans worship Gods without knowing that they are vicious aliens who feed on death. The aliens employ a robots army to conquer everything and anything even in paralel dimensions. With the help of a cyborg and an ancient robot the doctor manage to banish the aliens and free the paralel earth. The writer managed to squeeze all this story into the sapce of 30 pages. I'm so happy that IDW decided to reprint and color these old comics, they are great !!!

Star Wars: Infinities - The Empire Strikes Back

Unlike the 1st Infinities book, this one is a very pleasent surprise. This time the changed event, is Luke dying at the beginning of the story. Leia is the Skywalker who was trained by Yoda as a Jedi. It ends with Vader killing Yoda and then getting killed by his daughter Leia on Yoda's planet. Thus leaving the Sith emperor Palpatine alive and ruling the empire.

Comics sale

A visit to a comics sale at the other comics shop in town brought 3 new additions to my collection including the last Star Wars: Infinities book that was missing from the collection:

Angel: Spotlight - Connor

Angel: Spotlight - Illyria

Star Wars: Infinities - The Empire Strikes Back