Wednesday, June 8, 2005
DC COMICS FIRST LOOKS
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For covers and four-page previews of DC Comics titles arriving in store on June 15, CLICK HERE.
Titles include Batman: Dark Detective #4, Ex Machina #12, Birds of Prey #83, Hawkman #41, JLA: Classified #8, Mnemovore #3, Seven Soldiers: Klarion the Witch Boy #2, Vimanrama! #3 and Year One: Batman/Ra's Al Ghul #1.
MARVEL COMICS FIRST LOOKS
For covers and six-page previews of upcoming Marvel Comics titles, CLICK HERE.
Titles include Fantastic Four #528 and Runaways #5.
SMALLVILLE UPDATE
Warner Home Video has released the box art of Smallville: The Complete Fourth Season, which reaches stores on Sept. 13.
Here's how Warner describes the collection:
"Clark Kent will have plenty of reasons to remember his senior year! The thrilling reinterpretation of the Superman legend evolves in Season 4, whose 22 episodes include the quest for 3 Kryptonian crystals and Clark?s bold attempt to keep those mysterious stones from destroying Earth. Clark also becomes a highly recruited football star. Lana gets a boyfriend. Lois Lane smart, opinionated and entirely annoying to Clark comes to Smallville. Chloe learns the scoop of the century. Lionel becomes a straight-up nice guy. Lex steps further from the light into darkness. New characters (Krypto, Mr. Mxyzptlk) and a new power emerge. The calling awaits Clark an awakening to a destiny that only he can accept and fulfill."
DVD features include:
* Additional Scenes: Unaired Scenes.
* Audio Commentary: Audio commentary on 3 episodes by Alfred Gough, Miles Millar and cast.
* DVD ROM Features: ROM (link to website)
* Documentaries: Being Lois Lane: Dana Delaney, Erica Durance, Margot Kidder, Noel Neill and other portrayers share their thoughts.
Behind Closed Doors: Inside the Writers Room: The Process of Writing an Episode.
SONIC X AN ONGOING
Archie Comics has announced that Sonic X, the latest addition to the Sonic stable of books, will now be an ongoing series, set to be published 10 times a year.
"The reaction from fans when it came to Sonic X was impossible to ignore," editor Mike Pellerito said. "We'd be foolish not to keep this book on the stands."
Sonic X is written by Joe Edkin, with art by Tim Smith and Andrew Pepoy and covers by Spaz.
Here's how Archie describes the first two issues, due in August:
"All new stories based on the storylines from the hit Saturday morning cartoon Sonic X and featuring all the most popular characters; Sonic Along With Knuckles, Tails, Amy, Cream and Cheese, Rouge, Chris, Topaz and even an appearance by the mysterious Shadow as well as many more. Things go to the X-treme when Sonic and friends are transplanted and trapped on Earth.
With the diabolical DR Eggman planning to conquer the planet with his maniacal mechanical robot menaces! Our heroes set off to protect the Earth
from Eggman and find a way back to their home world.
"Sonic X starts off with a boom! When an evil plot by Eggman, with sidekicks
Decoe and Bocoe putt hundreds in danger attempting to empty the bank vault
of all its cash, Dr. Eggman hopes to gain more bucks for bigger, badder
bots! Trapped in the bank are Sonicšs friend Chris and his family! Only
Sonic can save the day with help from Knuckles, Amy, Cheese and Tails!
Things go from bad to worse when a strange energy is threatening the entire
seaboard, is it a Chaos Emerald? Or is it something much more dangerous?
Worst of all the mystery is at the bottom of the ocean, and Sonic canšt
swim!"
KITTY PRYDE MINI-SERIES
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Fresh off the new Age of Apocalypse series, Akira Yoshia is writing X-Men: Kitty Pryde -- Shadow & Flame, a five-issue mini-series drawn by Paul Smith.
"Who wouldn't want a pet dragon?" Yoshida said. "Itšs truly an honor to be working with a master storyteller like Paul Smith on this story, especially as he's one of the artists most closely associated with Kitty and Lockheed. Seeing him breathe life into my scripts is a high I will never come down from!"
In the mini-series, a deadly mystery draws Kitty Pryde and Lockheed from the Astonishing X-Men to the shores of Japan, but ninjas and dragons will be the least of their worries.
The first issue arrives in stores on June 29. Click on the thumbnails above for larger images.
BRIEFLY
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* Above is a first look at the completed covers to Arana: Heart of the Spider #5, New X-Men: Hellions #2, Last Hero Standing #5, Machine Teen #2 and X-Men #172.
* JSA #73, the first chapter of the three-part tale "Black Vengeance" and a tie-in to Day of Vengeance, has sold out at DC Comics. The issue, written by Geoff Johns with art by Don Kramer & Keith Champagne and a cover by Alex Ross, sold out 12 days after arriving in stores on May 11.
* Devil's Due Publising's G.I. Joe: Americašs Elite #0, the 25-cent issue re-launching the heroes into a new era, has sold out at the distributors. DDP will reprint #0 with a new cover; this time G.I. Joe: Americašs Elite will be sold at the standard $2.95 cover price.
* Coming Thursday: Marvel news -- and much more!!!
COMICS CONTINUUM BACK ISSUES
In case you missed The Continuum's recent coverage, here are some links:
* For Thursday, June 2, including Justice League Unlimited news, CLICK HERE.
* For Wednesday, June 1, including DC Comics news, CLICK HERE.
* For Tuesday, May 31, including Captain America news, CLICK HERE.
* For Monday, May 30, including Justice League Unlimited news, CLICK HERE.
* For Saturday, May 28, including Toy Biz/Marvel news, CLICK HERE.
* For Friday, May 27, including Batman animated news, CLICK HERE.
* For Thursday, May 26, including 55 images from Batman Begins, CLICK HERE.
* For Wednesday, May 25, including Teen Titans new episodes, CLICK HERE.
* For Tuesday, May 24, including House of M news, CLICK HERE.
* For Monday, May 23, including Batman Begins news, CLICK HERE.
* For Saturday, May 21, including Victoria's Secret Service news, CLICK HERE.
* For Friday, May 20, including Spider-Man movie news, CLICK HERE.
* For Thursday, May 19, including Sin City movie news, CLICK HERE.
* For Wednesday, May 18, including Marvel Comics' solicitations for August, CLICK HERE.
* For Tuesday, May 17, including Image Comics news, CLICK HERE.
* For Monday, May 16, including DC Comics' solicitations for August, CLICK HERE.
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