Comic Shows

I've mentioned this before on a blog post but I thought I 'd bring it up again. After this weeks episodes of the Flash and Arrow, they released the preview to the 2 hour crossover episode that will air on December 1st and the 2nd. Bummed that Arrow and the Flash are not going to air a new episode next week, most likely will be a rerun or something else, but they will be coming back strong with the crossover. Compared to last years crossover, there are so much more characters on both the shows. The two episodes will introduce new characters to the shows as well as reintroduce characters that died who were either brought back to life or were never really dead.
They released an extended trailer today that shows a bit more about what the episode might be about.
We get to see our first look at Hawkman aka Carter Hall. We also see that they will also be keeping Hawkman and Hawkgirls comic book backstory in the show. Their backstory is that in their past life in Egyptian Times, both of them were royalty and married to each other but died and are now reincarnated into who they are now. It will be interesting to see how they play it out on the show. Another new character that we see for the first time is the immortal man, Vandal Savage. I think Vandal may somehow be connected to Hawkman's and Hawkgirl's past lives.
Vandal is probably one of my favorite villains because he really makes the
Justice League struggle when they both butt heads. Both these shows have had a great season so far, I am sure that this crossover episode will just make it even better.
Here is the link to the extended trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTdIbE86jbo

Also, Colton Haynes who played as Roy Harper aka Arsenal tweeted that he will be coming back to the show after his character left last season. I am very excited to see him come back because he is a phenomenal actor and he played a great Roy Harper.

Some other comic book TV show that was released on Netflix today was Jessica Jones. I do not know much about Jessica Jones but I do know she is a badass detective. This show is a great way to introduce the character as well as other characters in the show like Luke Cage who will be getting his own show in the future. Some people are saying that this show is even better than Daredevil which is a lot to say because I have only heard good things about Daredevil.

Lots of cool things have been released and announced lately.
Yesterday, my favorite subscription box, Loot Crate, released their anime crates to order. Every month they release different themes and put items related to the theme. For example, their regular subscription had a theme called Villains 2 (Second time they did the villains theme). I signed up for the crate and got some really cool things. Here is a photo below from rgj.com of the crate that I got earlier this year.
   
The only difference in some crates were the mugs. I got the Carnage one.
The theme for the anime subscription boxes this month is called Brawl. It will be exciting to see what will be in these crates. It is definitely worth the money and you get a nice surprise. The crates themselves are nicely decorated too.

Yesterday after the Flash was over, they showed a preview to the Arrow/ Flash crossover that is happening in two weeks! It will introduce the Legends of Tomorrow and of course a new villain who was shown in the preview. That villain is none other than Vandal Savage, the immortal man. Ever since the last crossover they had last season, I have been looking forward to them doing another crossover but never expected them to have so many more people part of it.

Wonder Woman movie

In my last blog, I talked about how Wonder Woman was going to start filming soon in the UK which they have but to my surprise, it seems like they are really trying to keep the movie under wraps. What I mean by that is that they are trying to keep information about the movie a secret and try not to have people leak out anything. It is still pretty early for anything to be leaked out but over the weekend, an actor named Saïd Taghmaoui who is said to be playing a superhero which has not been revealed yet posted some photos with Chris Pine, who may be playing as Steve Trevor.
 

Nobody even knew that Saïd  was going to be in the movie until he posted the picture(s) on Facebook, which seems to have been taken down now. He also told a magazine outlet that he will be playing a superhero role in the movie.
After I read that he would be playing a superhero, I started to think who he may be playing as. Nothing came to mind until I someone mention in a post that he may be playing as John Zatara, who is the father of the well known Justice League member, Zatanna.

Young Justice version of Zatanna and her father

After reading it, I thought it would make sense if he were to play as Zatara. I mean he does look similar to Zatara but we will find out eventually which superhero character he will be playing. 

It will be interesting to see if Wonder Woman will be able to keep up with keeping lots of details of the movie a secret.

 

Friday the 13th

It has been a pretty horrible day but some DC comic related news made it a bit better.

Batman vs Superman is starting to release some merchandise like the shirts pictured below.

 

These shirts are just 2 out of 4 that have been made. I am positive that there will be more shirts involving this movie released once the release date for the movie starts to get closer. It is starting to feel more real every second that this movie is actually happening and just the beginning to many more DC movies being made later on.

I do not know if I mentioned this before but Wonder Woman is going to start shooting soon/ has already started filming for the movie in the UK so I expect to see some photos of Gal Gadot, who is playing Wonder Woman, in the mere future.
It has also been revealed that production for Justice League part one will start early next year! It almost feels so surreal that we will soon be seeing a live action Justice League on the big screen.
Heroic Hollywood also have reported that there will be another female character in Justice League part one besides Wonder Woman. I do not want to spoil it for those so here is the article to the rumor. Hope she won't be the only that is rumored to be in the movie. http://comicbook.com/2015/11/12/justice-league-part-one-to-reportedly-include-debut-of-another-d/

I will now leave you with this amazing photo from the much anticipated Arrow/The Flash crossover which will introduce the Legends of Tomorrow!!  

Animated Movies

Waking up is always a hassle especially on a Monday but waking up to a new trailer to the new Batman movie, Batman: Bad Blood, makes waking up on a Monday all worth it. The movie is basically a squeal to Batman vs Robin, the second batman movie after Son of Batman. It seems like the movie is taking part of a comic where Dick Grayson, the first boy wonder, taking up Bruce's Batman mantle because, if I am not mistaken, Bruce got terribly injured.
Two more Bat family characters will be introduced in this movie which are Batwoman, also known as Kate Kane and Batwing who is also known as Luke Fox and yes, he is related to Lucius Fox whom many recognize from the Batman Nolan films. Glad to see the Bat family growing more and more. It would be lovely to see more characters from the Bat family join them in other movies like Cassandra Cain, Barbara Gordon, Jason Todd and Tim Drake. The movie is being released on January 19, 2016 with three different versions. One of them even includes a Nightwing action figure and is a limited edition. Here's the trailer if you'd like to check it out:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-0bQpHlpdQ

The limited edition box with Nightwing figure

There's another Batman movie in the works but this one involves them being Legos. On a previous blog, I mentioned that Rosario Dawson is going to voice Batgirl in the movie, which I am looking forward to a lot but this next casting to another character is just something else. Supposedly, Mariah Carey willing be voicing Jim Gordon in the Batman Lego movie. I do not know how I feel about this. It has not been confirmed yet so hopefully she is playing a different because I don't see Mariah voicing the tough police commissioner.

Comic News of the week

I want to start off by saying how awesome it was of the people at Disney, Lucasfilms and the director himself, J.J. Abrams, for screening the new Star Wars movie to a fan who was diagnosed with an untreatable cancer and was not sure if he would make it to the time the movie comes out. The Star Wars fan's wife decided to make a campaign which lead to many people including the stars of the movie tweeting #ForceForDaniel. It was incredible seeing so many people come together to get the fans final dying wish granted.

Other awesome thing that happened this week was Matt Ryan guest starring in Arrow. Matt Ryan played as John Constantine, who is also known as Hellblazer, on Constantine on NBC. After it's first season, NBC decided to cancel the show and left many Hellblazer fans disappointed. The abrupt cancellation of the show caught some people's eyes from the CW show, Arrow. After fans and even the actors on the show pushed for Constantine to be a guest on the show, it finally happened. This past week, Arrow's episode involved the Hellblazer and it was probably one of the best episodes ever since season four started. He was as witty and sarcastic as ever. I didn't catch this when I saw the episode but there was a part where Constantine asked for a peacock feather which he used to scratch his back and that scene was to say that NBC. who is known for their peacock colors hence the feather Constantine had, was stabbing Matt Ryan in the back by cancelling the show.
After the episode ended, it left many fans, including me, wanting more. I hope somehow Matt Ryan can become a regular on the show because he definitely brought it together.

Cosplay

Cosplay is defined by Google "as the practice of dressing up as a character from a movie, book, or video game". It has gotten very popular as the years go by especially at cons or expos. One of the great things about cosplay is that no matter how old you are or what gender you are, you can cosplay as any character from their favorite movie, TV show, etc. Most cosplayers make their costumes from scratch which is amazing especially after they are done putting them together because the end result is just incredible.
Here are some photos of different cosplayers from Comikaze this past weekend from LA Weekly:

Hulkbuster Iron Man

In cosplay, there is no limit to your imagination. You can become who ever you want. For example, in the photo below, the women are dressed up as male superheros and the men are dressed as female superheroes.  

or this cosplayer dressed up as the female version of Thor's brother, Loki 

Like I said earlier, there is no limit to who you want to dress up as. You can even mix two characters together like the person in the photo did below with Spider-Man and Captain America.

It's amazing what people can come up with and create with just their imaginations. No matter how simple they may be or vice versa, all cosplay is pretty amazing. I encourage you to check out more pictures of cosplayers because it will amaze you.

Comikaze Aftermath

After opening its doors to those attending for the fifth year this past weekend in Los Angeles, over 70,000 fans made their way around the con. As I expected, there wasn't much news revealed over the weekend but there were a couple of cool announcements. One of them included Hot Toys, a production company based in Hong Kong that specializes in scale collectible figures including Batman, the Avengers, Star Wars, and many more announced a collectible action figure of the one and only Mr. Stan "the Man" Lee. Hot Toys makes amazing looking collectibles that almost look life like. This is very cool for fans of Stan Lee and even Hot Toys. The scale figure is being sold for $199.99 or they also have a payment plan available for as little as $50.00 a month but including the tax (I didn't include shipping because it is estimated differently) the total comes out to $214.98. They are taking pre-orders right now and is expected to ship out between July 2016 to September 2016. The figure also comes with other cool stuff like different outfits, directors chair, interchangeable hands, etc.


Also released this past weekend was Stan Lee's World of Heroes extended video of "No Hero Now" which is a music video. Of course it wouldn't be a Stan Lee project without the man himself having a cameo in it which what he is known for. In every Marvel movie, you'll find him in a scene acting as a different character each time. Watch a Marvel movie and you'll find him in there. Here is the link to the video to check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdA9txx1m7s

And you have time, look up "Comikaze 2015" and look at the articles about cosplay because you will see some amazing looking costumes that people dress up in and have created.

Happy Halloween!

As usual, the day before Halloween is always an exciting one. Many can't concentrate at school or work and look forward to the festivities that will be happening the next day. One way you can celebrate Halloween is by visiting your local comic book shop and get free comics Halloween themed comics. Every October 31st, comic book shop that participates in Halloween ComicFest offers many cool comics from different publishers. Some stores even have signings or artist to come do commissions along with people dressed up as superheroes, Star Wars characters, etc. It's a very fun day for family and friends to enjoy and to support your local comic store.
Some of the comic that were given away included:

Fragments of Horror by Junji Ito from publisher, Viz Media


Donald Duck's Haloween Scream! by William Van Horn and Dan Noonan from IDW Publishing. This would be a great book for kids to get.


Grimm Tales of Terror from Zenescope Entertainment INC


Vampblade featuring Zombie Tramp written by Jason Martin and Dan Mendoza and art by Winston Young published by Action Lab- Danger Zone. This is probably one that I wouldn't recommend for kids to get but there are definitely a lot of comics for people to choose from for all ages.

Also happening this weekend is Stan Lee's Comikaze in Los Angeles. It's another con that happens every year and is hosted by the one and only Stan "the Man" Lee. If you ever want to meet Mr. Stan Lee, you have a great chance at doing that by going to his con. A lot of cool guests will be there including Grant Morrison and Carrie Fisher. The expo started today and will end on Sunday. We might get so cool news from the expo but not really likely since it's not on the same level as San Diego comic con or New York comic con but still a great weekend for those attending.

New Comic Book Day

It is Wednesday which means Happy New Comic Book Day! New comic book day is every Wednesday and every Wednesday, new comic book issues are released. You can find new comics in almost every comic book store you go to. I, sadly, have to wait until Thursdays or even until Fridays to get new comic books that were released on Wednesdays because I stay on my campus almost the entire day and once I go home, the comic book store is already closed.
It's always a good idea to buy new comics that are just getting released as soon as possible because there is a chance that they can sell out and you'll have to wait up to two weeks just to get it.
Some new #1 comic book issues that went on sale today were:
From DC Comics
Justice League: Darkseid War: Batman #1


From Scout Comics:
Henchgirl #1


From Image Comics:
Black Magick #1


These are just a few that were released today but definitely check out the other great issues released from other amazing publishers.

Also released today were more Empire Suicide Squad covers but this time with Deadshot who will be played by Will Smith and Harley Quinn played by Margot Robbie.





These covers have been amazing so far and I hope they release more of the rest of the Squad.

Fans of Civil War are finally getting making noise after a photo of some new merch from the Civil War movie shows that Captain America will have scales on his new suit which sticks to the comic book version of Captain America. It is nice seeing how these films are becoming more comic book accurate with the superhero suits.

Other movie news that was exciting was that Chris Pine confirmed that he will be in the Wonder Woman solo movie. It is still not known who he will be playing but I am glad to see him join the DCCU.

Comic News

It has been an awesome Monday morning so far because the magazine Empire features new images from the upcoming Suicide Squad movie that is set to release next year.  

Jared Leto's Joker is gracing the front cover of the magazine and gives us a different look to the character.Most of the pictures feature Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, Cara Delevingne's Enchantress and of course Jared Leto's Joker. There's also another photo of the entire squad together. Here are some of the photos:

Cara Delevingne as (Pre?) Enchantress 

The wonderful & talented Viola Davis as Amanda Waller

Margot Robbie as (Pre) Harley Quinn and Jared Leto as the Joker

Squad! These are just some of the photos that fans released online on Twitter so I'm hoping to see if more images will be released from the magazine but it was nice seeing these new photos to give us another look at what Suicide Squad will be like.

Also the first trailer for Marvel's Jessica Jones on Netflix has been released. To be honest, I was a bit hesitant about this series but after watching the trailer, I was hooked. I shouldn't have expected anything less from a Marvel Netflix show. Here's the trailer for those curious  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWHUjuJ8zxE


Another show, which will be premiering tonight on CBS, is Supergirl. Melissa Benoist will be playing as Kara Zor-El who also goes by Supergirl. She is cousins with Superman aka Clark Kent, who may be showing up on the show. I'm very excited for this show because it is the first time in about 30 years that we're getting a female superhero on TV. This show can definitely inspire many kids out there especially young girls. Great show for the family to watch. 

Clean Room #1

October is known for being the month of horror. So the recent comic book released from Vertigo, which is a publisher that is part of DC comics, definitely suits this month's theme. Clean Room #1 is written by Gail Simone, drawn and colored by Jon Davis-Hunt and the cover art by Jenny Frison. Clean Room is said to explore revenge and religion so this is definitely not a comic you would want kids to read. I was hesitant about getting this issues because I'm not really a fan of things that have to do with horror but I was drawn to this book because my favorite comic book writer was writing it and the art in it was superb.


The story starts off with a family heading to church on a nice Sunday morning. It is set in a different country. In the next panel we see two guys who work for what seems like a water delivery company.
One of them asks the other if they're alright but the other guy just says, "I wish everyone would stay the fuck out of my business." You can tell right away that there is something odd about the annoyed guy. The two workers then get into their truck and the annoyed one, named Jonas, started to drive recklessly and hits the girl who's was with her family walking to church. After the girl is crushed by the two cars, Jonas backs up the truck and what happens next was something nobody expected. He proceed to hit the girl again with the truck. Bystanders who saw the whole thing hauled Jonas out of the car and started to him to a pulp.

The young girl who was hit miraculously woke up from the accident in her hospital room. Her parents are also in the room with her listening to the news about the accident, which I assume, happened earlier that day. The girl calls out to her mom and both her mother and father rush to her bedside. The girl asks for her father but he is right next to her. Both her parents tell her that he's right there.
With a scared look on her face, the girl says "Mama.."
 

The story is just getting started but this is where I'll end the blog for today since it is a newer book that was just released. I highly recommend getting this book. So much talent behind it which is one of the reason I just had to buy this issue. But here's some photos from the rest of the issue. The story moves on from the little girl, who will actually be one of the main characters in the book, to another main character whose story takes place years later after the little girls accident.





Photos from comicbookresources.com

Animated DC Movies and Shows and Games

Most people aren't aware that DC is well known for their animated shows and movies. Marvel may have them beat in live action movies but they definitely can't compete with DC's animation. From animated shows like Batman: The Animated Series to Justice League and Young Justice and their animated movies like Wonder Women, Justice League: Doom but one of my all time favorites would have to be The Flashpoint Paradox.


I recommend this movie to so many people who want to get into comics or simply just want to watch a movie.
The movie shows a whole other universe where  Batman's parents aren't dead, Wonder Woman and Aquaman are at war with each other and Flash's mom is alive. This movie introduced the multiverse that DC has going on right now.


The multiverse has many different earth's and all of them have different versions of superheroes and villains. For example, in one of the Earth's, I think it was Earth 2, both Superman and Batman are kids while Wonder Woman is an adult.

The video game, Injustice: Gods Among Us also goes into the multiverse. In a different world, Superman loses his cool and kills the Joker. That's when Superman turns evil and many members of the Justice League join him. Batman, who was there when Superman killed the Joker, is against what Clark is trying to do, which is be the most powerful leader, and has a team of his own to take down Superman. I have not played the game but I have seen the video scenes of the game and it looks like a really good game to play on your free time. There's also comics that continue the story line from the game and adds a bit more detail to it.

Comic News

Monday's are always a drag but with the new Star Wars trailer that will be airing tonight during Monday Night Football, today is bound to be a good Monday.

Inspired, fan made movie poster for Batman vs Superman

It is also a good day for comic related news.

New Star Wars movie poster 

First off, Rosario Dawson, plays as Claire Temple in Marvel's Daredevil, has been chosen to voice Batgirl aka Barbara Gordon in the upcoming Lego movie. Rosario has voiced DC characters before but it was interesting news to me because of her role as a Marvel character. Rosario is an amazing actress and I can't wait to see her voice one of my favorite characters.

Exciting news for fans of Hulk and Thor. Mark Ruffalo's Hulk is expected to be in Thor: Ragnarok. Thor and Hulk have clashed before in the comics so him starring in the new Thor movie will intriguing.


The popular Hack/Slash comic book series is being developed into a TV series. They hired Skip Woods to write the script and be executive producer along side Adrian Askarieh and Ray Ricord. If you are a fan of horror, then this series is for you.


During New York comic con, their was a display for Batman vs Superman on the show floor and it included Lex/OS, which is run by none other then Lex Luthor, Superman's nemesis. According to comicbook.com, they were offering wifi and charging stations to the fans who attended the con. Now they are asking fans to sign up for updates. I thought this was a very cool way of promoting the movie and getting fans excited about it.

Sources:
comicbook.com
@SuperHeroFeed
The Hollywood Reporter

Comic News

New York Comic Con just ended but didn't bring as much big news as I had expected. Still very exciting week for many of those who attended.

Taken from comicbookresources.com

Kodansha announced that they will be releasing an Attack on Titan anthology based on the popular Japanese anime and manga Shingeki No Kyojin or better known as Attack on Titan. The book will feature a ton of American comic creators such as Gail Simone, Scott Snyder, Babs Tarr, Cameron Stewart and many more. It will feature different short stories that the writers come up with. The book will be in full color and will be 250 pages long. I honestly jumped up and down when I heard this news. Attack on Titan is one of my favorite anime/manga so seeing that some of my favorite comic book writers teaming up to bring something different to the story. If you'd like to watch the anime, it is available on Crunchyroll and Funimation.


Other comic book news announced was that Marvel will be publishing a Captain Marvel young adult novel that will be created by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale. This will be a great way to get more girls into comics and welcome more readers. Also a great way to introduce this character to people before the movie gets released.


Marvel also released a teaser for the upcoming second season for Daredevil. The footage teases a lot of what will be coming in the second season of the show like Elektra and the Punisher.
The first season of the show did very well and it seems like this upcoming season will also be a good one. This show shows a bit of the darker side of Marvel. Here's the link to the teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y44m5739m-4

Jared Leto with a Baboon mask

Mark Ruffalo in disguise 

Jared Leto who will be playing the Joker in the upcoming DC movies and Mark Ruffalo who plays as Hulk in the Marvel movies were walking around New York comic con in disguise. Many con goers had no idea who was under the masks they wore as a disguise and even took pictures with some cosplayers. Many actors go to cons dressed up in costumes or masks to enjoy walking around the con floor without making a big scene.

Sources:
comicbookresources.com