Saturday, June 18, 2005
DC COMICS FOR SEPTEMBER
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DC Comics is releasing its solictations for September on Monday at 5 p.m. (ET).
Check back here then for a rundown, with images.
FANTASTIC FOUR MOVIE UPDATE
The four members of the movie Fantastic Four will appear together as guests of NBC's The Today Show.
Ioan Gruffudd (Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic), Michael Chiklis (Ben Grimm/The Thing), Jessica Alba (Sue Storm/Invisible Woman) and Chris Evans (Johnny Storm/Human Torch) are scheduled to be guests on Tuesday, June 28. They will appear during the 7 a.m.-9 a.m. block.
Julian McMahon, who plays Doctor Doom, will be a guest on the Today Show on Wednesday June 29.
In other Fantastic Four news:
* Michael Bailey Smith, who played Ben Grimm in the unreleased Fantastic Four, told The Continuum he has been cast in teh remake of The Hills have Eyes, playing playing Pluto.
"The script is really great. It's going to be very bloody and scary!" he said. "We start shooting at the end of June."
Smith, who appeared at MegaCon earlier this year, worked with McMahon on the television series Charmed.
FIRST LOOKS
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For covers and four- to five-page previews of upcoming titles, CLICK HERE.
Titles include Flaming Carrot Comics #3 and Sea of Red #3 from Image Comics, The Middleman #1 from Viper Comics, Sundown: Arizona #1 from Arcana Studio and Rex Libris #1 from Slave Labor.
NEW SPAWN CREATIVE TEAM
Spawn #150 in September will mark a new creative team for the book: writer David Hine, artist Philip Tan and editor Brian Haberlin.
"I have to keep pushing the limits of my character and the direction I've always envisioned for him," said Spawn creator Todd McFarlane. "I believe that we've been pacing a bit slowly, so we're moving onto the super-highway with Spawn. Enormous changes are in store -- changes at a cosmic level -- and it's tremendously exciting."
Spawn #150 will be a special double-length story with added editorial content, pinup art and much more. It will feature four variant covers from McFarlane, Greg Capullo, Tan and Jim Lee.
Click on the thumbnails below for examples of Tan's pencils.
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GUN FU TO IMAGE
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Howard M. Shum is moving Gun Fu to Image Comics with the release of the Gun Fu Trade Paperback on Aug. 3.
The trade collects Gun Fu #1 and Gun Fu: The Lost City #1-4, written and inked by Shum, penciled by Joey Mason and colored by Etienne Simon.
The book features an introduction from Cerebus creatore Dave Sim and new pinups by Chris Bailey, Balak, Randy Green, Herval, Ruben Martinez, Xavier Ramonede, Matthew Stewart and Darryl
Young.
Gun Fu is an action-comedy that takes place in 1936. Cheng Bo Sen is a Hong Kong cop. England enlists him as a secret agent to help fight the Nazis. He also speaks hip-hop, which no one seems to notice.
Click on the thumbnails above for larger images.
SPIDER-WOMAN COVER
Marvel Comics has released the official cover to Giant-Size Spider-Woman #1, which is scheduled to arrive in stores on July 27.
The 96-page book features an all-new, eight-page story by New Avengers and House of M writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Rick Mays.
Also included are Spider-Woman's first appearance and origin from Marvel Spotlight #72 (February 1977), the original Spider-Woman #1 (April 1978), and the first appearance of Spider-Woman villain Siryn from Spider-Woman #37-#38 (April/June 1971), the last of which also features the X-Men and Nick Fury.
According to Marvel, the new story factors heavily into upcoming New Avengers storylines.
"The Spider-Woman story leads directly into the Spider-Woman two-parter coming up this fall in New Avengers," said Bendis. "It's the first chapter in a wide tapestry on Spider-Woman material that I will be putting out over the year. Now that House is done I am putting a lot of brain juice into the legend of Jessica Drew.
"Expect big things for Spider-Woman later this year!"
BRIEFLY
* Superman Returns stars Brandon Routh and Kate Bosworth are featured in Entertainment Weekly's double-sized Must Issue. They were No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, on the Must List, with Fantastic Four and Sin City star Jessica Alba at No. 3. The issue also named writer Robert Kirkman (No. 60) and Ait/PlanetLar's Larry Young (No. 93) on the list.
* Batman Begins brought in an estimated $15.5 million on Friday, pushing its three-day total $39.7 million.
* Coming Monday: Batman Begins news -- and much more!!!
COMICS CONTINUUM BACK ISSUES
In case you missed The Continuum's recent coverage, here are some links:
* For Monday, June 13, including an interview with Batman Begins director Christopher Nolan, CLICK HERE.
* For Friday, June 10, including Dark Horse Comics' solicitations for September, CLICK HERE.
* For Thursday, June 9, including Marvel news, CLICK HERE.
* For Wednesday, June 9, including DC news, CLICK HERE.
* For Monday, June 6, including Wizard World Philadelphia news, CLICK HERE.
* For Sunday, June 5, including Marvel/Ultimate news, CLICK HERE.
* For Saturday, June 4, including Batman Begins news, CLICK HERE.
* For Friday, June 3, including Batman Begins news, CLICK HERE.
* 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.
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