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27
May

Silver

By seekerwh 1 Comment
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The latest Marvel Knights title is here and it’s about out favorite silver bald guy, his own “end” mini series, Silver Surfer: Requiem! With his debut on the big screen coming in a few months with the new Fantastic 4 film and his latest appearances in the Ultimate Universe it was inevitable that there would be an event of his own, and this is it, the fall of the Silver Surfer in a 4-issue mini series.

 

For centuries he was the herald of Galaktus, the world devourer, he surfed through space to find worlds capable of sustaining his master a little more while they would be extinguished by his hunger. But everything changes when he discovers Earth and its heroes, a planet that actually has a hope, there he makes his stand with new friends and allies and faces his master, earning his freedom and salvation. Now, years later, the Silver Surfer feels that his death is imminent and decides to return to the place he sacrificed to save, the one part of the universe he kept himself away from for all those centuries, his home world, Zenn-La. But to do that he must travel great lengths, meet old allies and villains and even if he succeeds there’s no way he could know what he’ll meet there.

 

Coming from May till August from Marvel this is a potential ending to the Silver Surfer saga. It’s a pretty popular subject, like a What If mini series with a more realistic subject, but will it be really good or just another mini series to fill up the monthly catalog? Only time will tell.

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23
May

Iron

By seekerwh 2 Comments
Categories: Marvel Comics Tags: , .

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There was a time when comic movies where nothing but shameful events for us, comic fans, or best case just a good laugh, but fortunately that time has passed. Most of the movies based on comic books nowadays are carefully produced by the biggest studios and top actors, directors line up to have a chance of offering their own aspect of those modern myths. After Spider-Man, the X-Men, Hellblazer and other famous titles, the new film coming in May 2008 will be about one of the greatest heroes in the Marvel Universe, Iron Man!

Not much are known about the story but it seems like the first Iron Movie will be about the health problems of Tony Stark and the creation of the Iron Man suit after several different levels of development (the following picture that goes around in the web might look a little medieval but no worries, check the teaser poster and you’ll see the familiar red and yellow outfit). The bad guy is rumored to be the Mandarin which is both good and bad, he’s one of the oldest Iron Man villains but still not really well known and it might have something to do with a disturbingly politically correct storyline, West against East etc. Robert Downey Jr will play the role of Tony Stark / Iron Man in a casting that might prove the best pick in similar cases.

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The next days we will try to offer you as many information as possible about this upcoming event, the cast, the plot rumors, the production steps, everything that you’d want to know a year before Iron Man’s arrival, until then patience!

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21
Apr

Fantastic

By seekerwh 0 Comments
Categories: Marvel Comics Tags: , .

The Civil War is over and all the Marvel characters that got involved one way or the other (which might include all there are) continue in their separate series through the changes they suffered, well or bad. Spidey is back in black, Cap is hurt somewhere in a S.H.I.E.L.D base, the Iron Man leads the registered heroes, but what about Fantastic 4?

If you followed the events of Civil War you will know how they affected Marvel’s most famous family, Sue and Reed Richards came one step away from separation (Sue was frustrated by the turn things took and the outcomes of her husband’s actions like Hulk being thrown in a black hole and the Thor clone murdering one of their own) and only in the last moment they agreed to give their marriage a second chance, one that would need their entire attention and effort. So Mr. and Mrs. Fantastic took off leaving their team lacking two members, or do they? The second most famous couple in the Marvel Universe takes their place in the quartet in issue #544, Storm and the Black Panther, after their recent wedding in the middle of the war!

I sincerely doubt this will be a long term change in the series, I find it hard to believe they will be able to tie in effectively these characters in the same book, especially the Thing and the Human Torch who are totally connected with the two missing members of their team, but who knows, maybe for 5 issues or so it will be a nice change. What seems even more interesting though is the turn the story takes in issue #545 with the return of Galaktus and the Silver Surfer, can you imagine the Black Panther against the devourer of the worlds? I can’t!

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16
Mar

The

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Categories: The Dark Tower Tags: , .


acvr.jpgGet ready, here comes Stephen King and the next chapter of his magnum opus, The Dark Tower (actually more like the previous chapter since this is a prequel of the seven world-famous books)! Published by Marvel this 7 issue series is supposed to be the first arc of a limited number of stories, unknown parts of Roland’s life will be exposed and all those things you wanted to know but were never told will be revealed through this creation plotted by Robin Furth (King’s research assistant), dialogued by Peter David (Spectacular Spider-Man, X-Factor, Teen Titans, Spider-Man 2099 etc), illustrated by Jae Lee (Batman - Jekyll and Hyde, Hellshock, Witchblade – Demon etc) and colored by Richard Isanove (Daredevil – Father, Ultimate X-Men, Arcanum etc).

So, is it worth it? Well, I’m really not sure; I guess it depends on how you look at it. Yeah, it’s beautifully drawn, the story follows the original and if you’ve never read the books you’ll probably be introduced to them smoothly and yeah, the second issue is pretty cool with Roland fleeing to Hambry, facing the Big Coffin Hunters and meeting Susan Delgado but if you’re looking for something new, for now you’ll be disappointed. The writer seems to be afraid to present what was promised, which is missing parts of Roland’s life, and simply repeats already known facts from the books, such as the fight between Roland and his trainer, Cort, or the battle of Hambry, I guess they’ll have to show some creativity in the next arcs but anyway, this one doesn’t offer that much, at least yet. Still, it does have some emotional value for all of us that read every Dark Tower book with the same enthusiasm and love, watching that dark, western atmosphere drawn in front of your eyes, a decadent civilization in its last days, a world that moved forward and a man looking forever for the Dark Tower and sacrificing everything for it.

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I have to admit, I was deeply disappointed by the way some of the characters were presented but that was by no means the creators’ fault, it’s just that I imagined Cort differently, Susan Delgado looked in my mind like a girl I once knew, Roland was so much taller and the Crimson King never occurred to me as a huge spider, and that’s the weakest part of The Dark Tower as a comic, it’s a book series that lasted for all those years because we all imagined it in our own ways and had it painted in our heads like a thousand stories, another one for each. So will you endanger the feeling you got from the seven books of Stephen King‘s The Dark Tower to discover a comic book which might make the experience even better or destroy it? Well mate, that’s totally up to you…

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