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Eric's
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| INTRODUCTION Can you believe it's almost the summertime already? It's always wild IF YOU READ NOTHING ELSE This month, I'm most excited about The Highwaymen, a mini-series about APR070242 Highwaymen #1 $2.99 retail.
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THE BIZ AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE HEADS FOR THE BIG SCREEN Yep, you heard it right, as frightening as the concept may seem, everyone's favorite Cartoon Network mini-show is headed for the big screen, much to my own personal terror. PAINKILLER JANE... THE MOVIE I know, I know, it's not new news that Painkiller Jane is being filmed as I write this but what's super-cool is the lead actress, Kristanna Loken, who will be playing the namesake. Also, I really enjoyed this Jimmy Palmiotti quote from Wizard Magazine -- "I want to write an adult story. I don't want to hold back on violence, nudity or cursing." Yum. SPIDER-MAN 3 ON THE WII Granted, the movie companies love to make video game versions of their blockbuster hits geared for launch, but Spider-Man 3 on the Nintendo Wii will feature something different -- real web-slinging. Previous Spider-Man games featured open-ended city slinging but on the Wii, the developers use the Wiimotes to allow players to truly sling webs. Now that's just nifty!
TOP-10 and TOP-100 Check out Comics NOW! Inc.'s Top-100 on IRX Productions. Download the May 2007 Top-100 PDF file (it's 8KB!). It's Comics NOW!'s very own Top-10 and Top-100 lists. This list is based on the internal sales quantities of the titles with Premiere being the big guns who pay the extra bucks to be listed first in the ordering system: Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, Image Comics, and Marvel Comics. The Independent list is everyone else, all those pea-shooters who no one really pays attention to... or do they? Here's an example of how to read the format: 1. (3) The Amazing Eric Comic #500 "1." - the place of the title in the list this month TOP 10 PREMIERE COMICS TOP 10 INDEPENDENT COMICS THE GOOD STUFF DARK HORSE COMICS FEAR AGENT: THE LAST GOODBYE #1 Heath Huston is a semi-truck driver who returns home just as aliens
invade
Earth and kill almost every living thing on his planet. Fear Agent follows
Heath and his wife, Charlotte, as they try to find a way to live within
a
nightmare of reality. DC COMICS GREEN LANTERN: SINESTRO CORPS SPECIAL #1 Sinestro's back. Gathering all of the baddest of the baddies that he
can
possibly find, Sinestro's goal is to instill fear in the entire
universe as
well as to attack the Green Lanterns of Earth; Hal Jordan, Kyle Rayner,
Guy
Gardner and John Stewart are all in for the ultimate test as Sinestro
sets
his sights on Earth in yet another of his universe-shattering plans. THE HIGHWAYMEN #1 of 5 Able "Speed" Monroe and Alistair McQueen are two men who used to be the IMAGE COMICS THE AMORY WARS #1 of 5 Yet another conspiracy storyline set in the future -- Coheed Kilgannon
is
some dude who has nightmarish dreams of torture only to be told by some
guy
named General Mayo Deftinwolf that the dreams are, indeed, real.
Apparently, scientists are performing procedures on Kilgannon to make
him
some sort of living weapon (ala Weapon X). Once he realizes what's
going
on, Kilgannon discovers that his family is at a crux of a treacherous
event
and that he and his wife, Cambria, must do something "unthinkable" to
save
the world. REPO #1 of 5 KD and Emil are small-time repo men who get assigned the job of
repossessing
an escaped clone, specifically its heart. In the vein of other titles
like
Teenagers From Mars and The Couriers, Rick Spears is attempting to make
this
story an "all-out action comedy." Always a risky proposition; however,
the
other titles were pretty good so I'll give him the benefit of the
doubt. THE WEAPON #1 of 4 When Tommy Zhou invents wristbands that create weapons out of solid holograms, an order of assassins believes he's discovered the technique
of
the Order of Wu-Shi -- "The Way of the Weapon." Naturally, if your
main
character has the ability to create weapons out of thin air you're
going to
have to send unbelievably large numbers of bad guys after him so he can
kill
them all, right? MARVEL COMICS MARVEL ILLUSTRATED: TREASURE ISLAND #1 of 6 Marvel's trying something a little different by bringing Robert Louis
Stevenson's classic novel to life in the form of an illustrated comic.
Not
a half-bad idea and I'm hoping it'll work out; it's exciting to see
Marvel
branch out and try something a little different. DAREDEVIL: BATTLIN' JACK MURDOCK #1 of 4 Jack Murdock is Matt Murdock's (a.k.a. Daredevil) father who used to
work
for organized crime. Also a boxer, one night Jack decides he's no
longer
going to be under the thumb of the gangsters and betrays them by
winning a
fight he was supposed to throw. Naturally, he's killed for his
betrayal and
his death leads Matt to become Daredevil. But, what led Jack to
executing a
move that he surely knew was going to end in his death? That's where
this
little mini-series comes in by attempting to tell the story behind
Daredevil's father. WORLD WAR HULK #1 of 5 Hulk's all kinds of pissed off. Last year, Hulk was exiled to Sakaar,
where
he rose through the ranks from slave to leader. Now, he's returning to
Earth to literally kick some ass and maybe take some names (if only he
were
literate). These three series follow Hulk on an incredibly revenge
rampage
throughout the Marvel Universe. What's up with that? NEW WARRIORS #1 Now, I know that nothing stays dead in the Marvel Universe for very
long but
isn't it a little bit early to be bringing the New Warriors back? At
any
rate, someone's running around the Marvel U wrapping up baddies and
spray-painting the letters "NW" on all kinds of Iron Man propaganda.
Who
could it possibly be? Maybe the New New Warriors? SUB-MARINER #1 of 6 Everyone's favorite half-naked fish-man returns from the depths of Atlantis
in his own mini-series. After appearing here and there in the Civil
War storyline, Marvel feels there's enough of a demand to bring back the
Sub-Mariner in all his speedo-clad glory. Yikes! X-MEN: FIRST CLASS #1 Not much of a surprise here. This is the ongoing series version of the
X-Men First Class mini-series that ran a few months back. Demand was
great
and I have to hand it to Marvel -- when they've got a mini-series that
develops a bit of success, they're smart enough to turn it into an
ongoing
series. FINAL NOTES The next time you hear from me, the heat of the summer will be causing me to try and prevent sweating on my comics. ACK! And, always remember, rather than make just one maxi-series about a big, angry green creature wreaking havoc on a planet, make three and you can make a whole lot more money in a whole lot less time. And, as always, thank you for your business! Eric Jacobson
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