This week, on the Major Spoilers Podcast, Justice League Dark, The Ugliest Kid in the World, and Conan: Throne of Aquilonia! Plus: The return of Rodrigo.
[podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/majorspoilers/msp490.mp3[/podcast]Show Notes after the Jump!
NEWS
Gullermo del Toro confirms Justice League Dark
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REVIEWS
STEPHEN
Fatale #11
Writer: Ed Brubaker
Artist: Sean Phillips and Dave Stewart
Publisher: Image Comics
Cover Price: $3.50
The first of four standalone FATALE FLASHBACK issues, and a perfect place for new readers to jump on board. Welcome to 1930s California, a hard place to be for a girl on the run. Witness Josephine’s early days with the Femme Fatale curse, and see some of her elusive secrets revealed.
MATTHEW
G.I. JOE/Danger Girl #5
Writer: Andy Hartnell
Artist: John Royce
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Cover Price: $3.99
The fifth and final issue of the historic first meeting of Danger Girl and G.I. JOE pulls out all the stops-heart-pounding, sweat-inducing, action-packed, this issue will exceed all your expectations! The explosive grand finale is finally here!
RODRIGO
Todd, The Ugliest Kid on Earth #1
Writer: Ken Kristensen
Artist: M.K. Perker
Publisher: Image Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
This series, a collision of comedy, sex, and violence, follows the misadventures of America’s most dysfunctional family as they go head-to-severed head with an Oprah-loving ax murderer, a cult-crazy soap opera star, and a neo-Nazi prison gang.
ZACH
Punisher: The Nightmare #1
Writer: Scott Gimple
Artist; Mark Texeira
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
A Special Forces soldier is injured and his family killed in the midst of a mob execution in Central Park, but this isn’t Frank Castle. This time it’s a young soldier named JAKE NIMAN, but the familiar story puts Frank on the path of punishment!
* As Jake Niman heals from his wounds, why is he growing strangely stronger?
* And who is the mysterious Johnny Nightmare?
Bullets fly, anarchy reigns, allies become enemies, the Punisher becomes the punished, and no one is safe!!!
Major Spoilers Poll of the Week
Sometimes we throw out polls that ask you to look inward and examine who you are in relation to the rest of society. Other times, we want to know what you like at this moment in pop culture history. Other times, we just like to see our favorite characters beat the crap out of one another.
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Discussion:
Conan Throne of Aquilonia
Conan finds himself wrapped up in a plot to unseat the king of Aquilonia as his journey down the Road of Kings concludes. But when everything goes wrong, the Cimmerian and his coconspirators become lost in the catacombs beneath the city, surrounded by zombies and monstrous insects, all while a civil war brews above their heads! Also in this volume, an encounter at a tavern lands Conan at the end of every sword in a small port city, in a story leading directly into Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan’s acclaimed Conan the Barbarian! CollectingConan: Road of Kings #7–#12!
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My year in review ended up strangely lining up with the content of the episode. Fatale, Conan. Weird. Also, I have to say I forgot to say that my recommendation for Dredd requires me to give credit to CatHalo, since I would never have watched it if not for his review on the podcast.
Incidentally, that could be the reason I pretty much aped his review of the movie.
Per Justice Leave: Dark writer…I vote for Neil Gaiman. His Dr. Who work alone makes him a good choice.
While I think it would be awesome if Allan Moore came out of hiding and wrote Justice League Dark, I can think of a million reasons why that’s highly unlikely. Gonna go with foolsmask and hope it’s Neil Gaiman.
Regarding Del Toro Dark Universe (which in the interview he says is the working title), he does mention Constantine but he puts more emphasis in Swamp Thing.
Regarding the writer, if he is indeed someone known by the readers I don’t think Ennis would be a good choice, while he’s a great writer and great in horror and he had a great Hellblazer run, he appears to have a very no nonsense attitude regarding comics canon, characters history and mysticism, he can use those things but mostly as background to the themes he really wants to explore, nothing wrong with that, but not what we would want, I think.
Good choices, I think Joe Hill is indeed a great choice, Morrison would be an even greater pic, he was wanting new venues to try, this might be it, he is great with mysticism and DC canon and crazy stuff in general. But I would bet it’s Gaiman, he is doing more screenwriting lately (I think), and he pretty much already wrote this story, what they are doing is pretty much “The Books of Magic” but without Tim Hunter, so that would be a no brainer.