Starship Troopers news

Funny, just as I finished reading the latest story arc, Markosia decided to announce a new story arc. From CBR:

• AAM/Markosia, announce "Triple Threat", the biggest event ever in the Starship Troopers ongoing series.
• Three stories, linked over two parts by writer Cy Dethan, with guest writers Tony Lee (Doctor Who) and Christian Beranek (Willow Creek), and guest artists Neil Edwards, Scott James and Jim Boswell. It's the Vandals versus the Tigers in a race to save the federation against the Civilian Militia -- but who are the Reaper Cell and what is their connection to SICON?
• I had a blast helping define a new element in the ST universe: the psychics! Expect some mental carnage, for sure.
• Starship Troopers: Triple Threat runs in issues 9 and 10. The first part will be out in July, with the conclusion following in August.

As I said while reviewing Bad Blood, I'm looking forward to this new story. I just hope that 2 issues is long enough to really develop the story, and that the art will be better then in Bad Blood.

Starship Troopers #5-8 - Bad Blood

This story arc does not continue the adventures of the Tanner Tigers. Instead it introduce a new MI squad "the Vandals" and a new alien enemy. The story is good. The alien enemy is actually another technological advanced race who hate the bugs as much as the humans does. But instead of joining forces they fight each other. The arc ends with the aliens withrawing after a change of leadership leaving the humans to deal with the bugs.

The art isn't good. The drawings themsleves are beautiful but hard to dechiper what's going on. Esp. due to the nonchrom coloring. Everything is either grey tinted or green tinted.

I enjoyed the story and looking forward to the next installment esp. since it has Tony Lee, who wrote all the other story arcs, as guest writer. I do hope that the art and coloring will be better.

April 08 - 4th shipment + bargains

April 4th shipment had 6 new additions to my collection. Looking for bargains during Passover holiday brought up another 2 additions:

The picture of Dorian Gray #5

Star Trek TNG: Intelligence Gathering #4 - Matters of the mind

Star Trek DS9 - The Maquis

Star Trek: New Frontier #2 - Turnaround p.2

Star Wars: Dark Times #10 - Parallels p.5

Star Wars: Knights of the old Republic #27 - Vector p.3

Star Wars: Legacy #22 - The Warth of the Dragon

Starship Troopers

Dynamite for July

In July Dynamite will have 3 new items for me:

• Battlestar Galactica: Origins #9
• Battlestar Galactica: Season Zero #12
• Zorro #6

This almost ends the July solicitations. Looking forward to see what new series if any, will be announced in August solicitaions :)

Star Trek: Year Four - The Enterprise Experiment #1

Another very promising 1st issue. I'm very happy that IDW decided to go for several issues 0er story instead of the too short 1 story per issue that was the rule in pervious series. The art is great too. Bright with good likenesses.

Writer Jim Butvher talking about Dresden Files comics

From Newsarama:

• Butcher started off by discussing why this mini is a prequel to the book series. He says he always drops references to other cases in the other Dresden books and that he always intends to go back to do short stories based on them. He says this story was actually inspired by a line in the pilot to the Dresden Files TV series referencing a past case at the zoo.“Oh, that mess in the zoo, that sounds so vague … it leaves so much room.” So when he was asked to write an out-of-continuity story to introduce Dresden to comic book readers, Butcher said “I called it ‘Welcome to the Jungle’ and threw in some Upton Sinclair quotes …and thus justified my college education. To myself anyway.”
• Butcher says the adaptation of his Storm Front is next on Dresden’s comic book agenda, but he’s not doing it. He did say that the Dabel Brothers may sucker him into doing a four-issue mini series set just after that storyline.

I enjoyed so much the 1st issue of Welcome to the Jungle and am so looking forward to the rest and to whatever Dabel Brothers will publish next.

Update: Dresden Files: Stormfront will be a 12-18 issue maxi series.

Star Trek comics news

John Byrne has announced he is working on a number of new Star Trek projects for IDW. He has four new TOS era projects in the works, three of which have already been approved by CBS.The first will be a sequel to his Alien Spotlight on the Romulans (which itself was a prequel to Balance of Terror and The Enterprise Incident). This project will begin with a two-parter, with more to follow. One of the other projects is apparently a TOS prequel, set earlier than Captain April's captaincy.

Keith R.A. DeCandido has announced which alien he will be putting in the spotlight in his issue for the second series of IDW's Alien Spotlight: The Klingons, in a story titled "Four Thousand Throats.

Other species in the series will be the Tholians, Ferengi and Betazoids, with a couple that will be surprises along the way.

Boom! Studios for July

After nothing new for 2 months, Boom! studios will have a new item for me in July (hopefully):

• The Godfather Chrinicals #3

After no menton of The Godfather comics anywhere, no issue #1 although April is almost over, and even no mention in their panel this weekend, I was starting to think that Boom! are not going to publish this comic. If issue#3's solicitaions was moved to July maybe it means that issue#1 will be out next month.

Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle #1

WOW !!! This is one great issue !!! 1st of all it's 33 pages long which is great. This issue is only 1st part of the story and I can't wait for the rest. The story is great. A magical being took control of the Zoo's animals, kill people and lay the blame on the animals. The art is great and precise as I love it.

Dabel Brothers in July

In July Dabel Brothers wil have 1 new item:

• Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle #4