Podcast Update 2/20

Two new casts out at 4shared to check out.

Digital Scribbles Max Episode 15
Actually came out some days ago but just in case... random reviews (which end as of next episode as I announce the permanent review cycle of DC, Marvel and other digital reviews.

Hasbro Days Episode 1
Premiere episode. Introductions and first reviews.

New Old Comic Addict Episode 4
The Revenge of Hipster Daken invoicing. Plus I review Action Comics and Superman #26, Ghost Rider #19-#20, Hellstrom Prince of Lies #1 and Ferret and Arrow One Shots.

Presently working on Equestria This Week Episode 55, New Old Spider-Man Comic Addict Episode 1 and Digital Scribbles Episode 16.

Podcast Updates 2/11

Lots of comic casts to speak of...
Digital Scribbles Max Episode 15
More random reviews coming up... should be out tomorrow (2/12)

New Old Comic Addict Episode 4 (33%)
The first invoicing of 2014 aka The Revenge of Hipster Daken... work in progress, should be done by Sunday 2/16

Hasbro Days Episode 1 (70%)
All new series covering GI Joe, Transformers, Littlest Pet Shop, My Little Pony and more. See about putting it out Friday.

Digital Scribbles Max Episode 16 (development)
Part of The Revenge of Hipster Daken, reviewing Deadpool, Avengers, Iron Man and more.

Stay tuned for updates.

Podcast Update 1/30

Podcast Update over at 4shared.

Digital Scribbles Max Episode 14
Put out a cast a few weeks back, check it out. Presently working on Episode 15 (more random reviews)

New Old Comic Addict Episode 2
New cast just put out. Reviewing DC New 52, old Spider-Man, TMNT and cloner comics.

Updates on Digital Scribbles Max and Digital Doctor Who Podcast coming soon.

Podcast Update January 7th 2014

New podcasts out at 4shared!

Digital Scribbles Max Episode 13
Warm up to the end of IDW run of Doctor Who (waiting to finish up said reviews)
The New Old Comic Addict Episode 1
(New home of That New 52 Smell reviews)
New 52, Boris Karloff comic, Lone Gunmen and Unold Tales of Spidey.

Presently working on Digital Scribbles Max Episode 14. Stay tuned.

4shared upload update

Due to PC problems I am presently limited to uploading New episodes to 4shared, but at least I can still release while I am working on finding a way to get back to uploading on mediafire, and putting the links up on the blogs. Stay tuned.

In the meantime we have new episodes...

- Digital Scribbles Max Episode 12 (DC/Marvel episode)

Working on Episode 13 (12 Days of Free Comic Books) right now, stay tuned.

Podcast Updates 10/3

Wrapping up this week's new casts new cast Digital Trek, covering Star Trek both digitally and physically comic book wise, is now out and available. Following that a new Digital Scribbles (Episode 7).

Digital Scribbles now available

The next relaunch, Digital Scribbles, is now up and available for download. Please spread the word and help bring up downloads please, thank you.

This episode we're reviewing Doctor Who Series 3 #1-#4, a pair of comics promoting stuff, a comic about President Obama and more.

Next week it's That New 52 Smell V2 Episode 2 and more reviews. Stay tuned.

New episode of Digital Scribbles coming this Sunday

Finally relaunching Digital Scrbbles with a brand new episode this Sunday.

Featuring...
Doctor Who Series 3 Issues #1-#4
Amazing Spider-Man "You're Hired"
Craftsman Lock-on System Saves The Justice League
And more!

See you Sunday!

Book Em' Danno : Darkhold #1-#2

Book Em Danno!

Darkhold #1-#2
Publisher : MARVEL (1992)
Writer : Christian Cooper
Pencils : Richard Case
Inks : Mark McKenna
Colors : Glynis Oliver
Letters : Phil Felix
Editor : Bobbie Chase
Managing Editor : Kelly Corvese
Editor in Chief : Tom Defalco

With word of an upcoming Dr. Strange movie somewhere in 2016 or 17 you might think now would be a good time to roll out a dark supernatural chain of MARVEL movies! The leap of logic here isnt a big one, I assure you. You just have to completely ignore the first two underwhelming Nicolas Cage Ghost Rider movies, as well as the fact you cant use both Ghost Rider and Johnny Blaze in a Ghost Rider and Spirits of Vengeance movie series as long as Fox has the movie rights.

Who has the rights to Blade? By now it should be MARVEL again, right?

Well we're talking Midnight Sons, a rather short lived nitche of the MARVEL Universe dedicated to the Supernatural. Prior to the crossover event we had the 2nd ongoing Ghost Rider but once it launched we had new titles. Titles like Spirits of Vengeance, featuring Johnny Blaze teaming up with the newest Ghost Rider in his second title.

We had Spider-Man villain Morbius the Living Vampire get his own title. Years before tragic mistakes in fiction like The Glittery Vampire Quadrilogy aka Twilight would scar Morbius' modern release.

We had Nightstalkers. A title revolves about the popularity of one character, Wesley Snipe's Blade.

And of course X-Files knockoff Darkhold.

OK, as Issue One starts its Part 4 of the Rise crossover. We just met Morbius, and Nightstalkers premiere next time... so lets see if I can say this with without laughing.

A midget in a tux not related to the guy who runs WildC.A.T.s (Image in this decade) is wandering the country playing matchmaker. However he is not so much trying to find love as he is matching severely stereotypical Friday the 13th the TV Series character types with pages of the Darkhold. Enter one Vicki Montesi, who rather clichely finds herself drawn into a blatently ripped off plot stolen from same Friday the 13th the TV Series after her best friend is horribly injured in a bomb blast meant to kill our lead character.

And so haunted with also cliche visions of Issue one's baddie she must hunt the pages of the Darkhold and stop whatever curse they carry and whoever uses the... no really could this be anymore of a Friday the 13th TV ripoff?!? Come on!

Do I need to go on? This series didnt make it past 25 Issues! Guess why!

A series that could have been far better, this is a sad sad shallow wading pool of been there, done that, could have should have wasnt isnt. Even when a story has an original notion (Issue Two and its ties to the Hulk) they never really run with it and make said ideas work for them. If the title was better thought out? It could have been a hit. As it stands its 1 out of 5 overdue fines on Mephisto's library card.

Next - Updates.

This Old Comic Addict : X-Men Evolution Part 1

This Old Comic Addict
X-Men Evolution Part 1 (#1-#2)
Publisher - MARVEL (2002)
Writer : Devin Grayson
Art and Colors : UDON with Long Vo, Charles Park and Saka of Studio XD
Lettering : Sharpfront's Randy Gentile
Editor : Ralph Macchio(*)
Associate Editor : Brian Smith and C.B. Cebulski (Issue #7)
Editor in Chief : Joe Quesada
President : Bill Jemas

(*) - I had to be told by Ninja High School creator Ben Dunn during an interview that this isn't Daniel-san from The Karate Kid movies.

NOTE - As of this review I didnt have X-Men Evolution Issue #8 to review.

Continuing our trip down comic book memory lane, specifically comic book adaptations of animated series. This time out the MARVEL adapt of X-Men Evolution, basically a weird prequel X-Men universe mixing up younger X-Men from a smathering of different decades and teams... oh, and Storm now has a nephew named Evan Daniels aka Spyke.

X-Men Evolution. That weird hybrid of teen angst, school drama and comic action. Oh. And as your about to see it also does a rewrite of established X history on occasion.

OK. Lets see. These eight issues basically kick off the series from the beginning. In Issue One we find Wolverine lying in the snow in Canada, apparently missing both his shirt and his memory. Head on over to America and Xavier is meeting and recruiting Ororo aka Storm... well I did say Evolution tends to rewrite X history... next up Xavier is having a cup of Earl Grey with old frienemy Magnus aka Magneto. The subject of the so called "Wild Man" of Canada comes up and suddenly Xavier has to cut short his usual human mutant talk with Magnus (and a disguised Mystique playing the role of a cute maid) in order to do his thing. Which lead to both Xavier and Magneto trying to recruit Logan at the same time... given the choice beteen peace and war by the two, Logan chooses peace... then spends the rest of the series being the character most likely to break things first and give peace a chance later. Go figure.

Issue Two introduces Cyclops. A well meaning good soul who had a bad break when his parents die in a plane crash... only for his dad to come back later as a space pirate... sheesh.

But that, and people's general fear of people who uncontrollably shoot lasers from their eyes wont get him down, even if he does save a kid from bank robbers only to be shunned by the girl's retard mom and assaulted by a cop for being different.

I am sure there is a friendship lesson there somewhere for Cyke to write.

Dear Princess Twilight Sparkle

Sometimes people are jerks.

Your faithful student Cyclops

Oops! Out of words! Come back next week and we will wrap up with our look at X-Men Evolution Issue 3 to 8.

See you then!

FYI Week 2

FYI
Introduction Part 2
Sweet 16 & Updates

Continuing from last time we wrap up the Sweet 16 list by looking at MARVEL and Valiant... then I have an update on my contacting the big 4! But first thing first...

MARVEL
About as good a time to jump in since they just twice rebooted themselves, their present gimmick being the MARVEL NOW line, of which I will tap into review wise.

Avengers
What can I say? It's an Avengers title, and Avengers 2 is coming up 2015... go figure.

Guardians of the Galaxy
Since we will be talking about it next year with the coming movie I might as well review the comic.

Superior Spider-Man
I'd say we are in for the long haul... but rumor has it Peter gets over being dead in Issue #7 at the earliest...we'll see what I do next with this title when that happens.

X-Men
New female led X-Men title? Me want.

And finally...
Valiant Comics
Presently it sports 5 titles, but I am only reviewing 4... the 5th, Harbringers, I will pick up in Trade Paperback format.

Archer and Armstrong
Bloodshot
Shadowman
X-O Manowar

My crowning achievement with Valiant, though, will be the series of ebooks I plan to write covering the history of Valiant in the 90's. I also have books planned for covering Defiant Comics, Malibu's Ultraverse and MARVEL to an extent. Stay tuned to Book Em Danno for more info.

Now onto some pretty positive news... and that is I contacted the big four publisher I mentioned (DC, IDW, MARVEL and Valiant).

As my usual when contacting publishers I focus on 3 criteria of relations.- Press Releases, aka the Daily Newsfeed of comics. What's new, what's big, what's up and coming.

- The ability to make interview requests

- Review Material Requests

With those three basics set to mind I approached the big four, resulting in...

Day 1 (February 4th)
Made contact with IDW. Brief and right to the heart of the matter. Look forward to...

- IDW News, here every Sunday as well as with RKYV Online.

- Researching for first interviews.

- IDW Reviews article coming in, double the words double the reviews... previews. I am still figuring that out.

Day 5 (February 8th)
As the first week drew to a close... nothing else happened. But still I figured I would be patient. After all this doesnt go up until February 14th. Plenty of time, right?

So I waited. And waited... and waited...

Week 1 ended, and... we'll end it here. What happens next? Lets see... Day 8 we brought in Phase 2, and that is when I heard from Dynamite. Then I began receiving press releases from Valiant from Phase 1 so I knew I did get in contact with them... but the details remained rather unclear, kinda like my present dealings with Dynamite really.

Next time?
Well unless there is a major update in this venue, ie I hear back from Dark Horse, DC or MARVEL... also looking for more info on my dealings with Dynamite and Valiant as well. Stay tuned.

End Note?
If I don't hear back from MARVEL before the end of the month? I am seriously thinking of bumping them in favor of Dynamite, who I have heard back from.

Book Em' Danno : Introduction

Book Em Danno!
Introduction

The first time I wrote an ebook it covered the short limited lifespan of the faith based Christian "Manga" (OEL Manga to be precise if we go that route) Realbuzz Studios. It was pretty short... it only published 17 100 page comics after all, and I even published my one and only interview to boot.

This time out I am looking at subjects sure to fill bigger ebooks. And that is what we'll look at here.

A Short Life in Print...
So far it will be a revamp of my Realbuzz coverage, as well as coverage of the short lived Defiant Comics (Warriors of Plasm for instance).

Into The Ultraverse
The history and full coverage of the Malibu Ultraverse.

MARVEL at Night
The supernatural side of MARVEL.

Print Valiant
Full history and coverage of the 90's Era Valiant Comics.

So... to recap we are looking at...

Defiant Comics
Malibu's Ultraverse
MARVEL Comics
Realbuzz Studios
Valiant Comics (90's)

We'll rotate through those as the content comes in. Oh, I also have a few Superman themed topics for the year but that relates more to Superman Turns 75 than a book I am writing. FYI. Once stuff starts rolling in I will put together a Want list over at www.ihaveplanet.com to keep track of what I am looking for.

Anything else? I guess I will be rotating the review item weekly so you get a little of this and a little of that every week. Also when things come in I will update how much closer I am to getting one of these ebooks assembled.

Well... thats that. Lets wrap up early and next week we start reviewing. We'll kick things off with MARVEL.

Next Week
Several years ago MARVEL rolled out the Midnight Sons concept. Tying together Ghost Rider with new titles like Spirits of Vengeance, Morbius and this title, Darkhold.

Its not quite the Necronomicon, and she's no Bruce Campbell, but somebody has to recover the lost pages Friday the 13th the TV Series style, against the evil Anti-Tattoo... you'll see.

See you next week!