Monday, March 17, 2008

The Awesome List: Indy and Buck Rogers comics, Galactica on Letterman, Deathly Hallows movies, X-Files 2, Eurospies, giant lobsters, and more

Indiana Jones Adventures



This is kind of old news, but Dark Horse Comics is gearing up in May for Kingdom of the Crystal Skull with lots of Indiana Jones comics, some of them reprints; some of them new. One of the new ones is the first volume of Indiana Jones Adventures, a cartoony kid-friendly digest-sized comic. And if there's anything that Marvel Adventures has taught me, it's that I'm enjoying the kid-friendly comics a lot more than the adult ones lately. I expect this to be twice the fun and excitement that any of the other Indy comics are.

Also coming from Dark Horse in May is a new anthology of prose Hellboy stories: Oddest Jobs.

New Buck Rogers comics

Crap. Dynamite Entertainment has been getting me closer and closer to buying some of their stuff as monthly singles instead of waiting for the trade paperback collections. I think they've finally figured out how to push me over the edge.

Battlestar Galactica cast on Letterman

Phone the neighbors and wake the kids. Or at least set the TiVo. Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Tricia Helfer, Grace Park, Michael Hogan, Aaron Douglas and Lucy Lawless will all be on Letterman to do the Top 10 List this Wednesday night, March 19.

Harry Potter 7 (and 8)



In case you've been in outer space since last Thursday and haven't heard, Warner Brothers is splitting Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows into two movies.

X-Files 2 has wrapped

I cannot freaking wait.

Agent 077

That's not a typo. It's an actual spy series from the '60s that Christopher Mills has the info (and the trailers) on. Looks schnazzy.

Salt Water Taffy



Oni's got a new comic coming about an "unusual hamlet called Chowder Bay–a small town full of big mysteries, giant adventures, and gargantuan lobsters." There's even an old sea dog fighting a giant lobster right on the cover. I'll be in line right behind Heidi MacDonald for my copy.

DC's Manhunter returns

I was pretty late coming to the Manhunter party. It took a big Wonder Woman story to get me to even take a look and that was after the series already had gone into hiatus. But I read it, loved it, and now I'm as excited as anyone else that it's finally coming back. Anyone interested in strong, three-dimensional, female characters should really give this series a look.

Not Awesome: Cliff Chiang leaving Black Canary

In all fairness, I've enjoyed Judd Winick's writing on Green Arrow and Black Canary about 3000 times more than I expected to. So I'll still be reading the series, even though it makes me very sad that Cliff Chiang will no longer be illustrating it. He'll still be doing covers, which is nice, but his next series will be something for Vertigo.

Mike Norton is replacing Chiang and from what I've seen on his blog, he should do just fine. Still, sad to see Chiang go.

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