IDW Announces Highlander Prequel Comic
By Dustin Cabeal
If you've listened to the CBMFP over the years you may have picked up on the fact that I'm a big Highlander fan. Aside from watching all of the movies, and I do mean all of the movies, I also watched that really shitty cartoon they did... also an animated movie. Maybe those are the same thing, if they're not I've seen them both! Point is, I should be a little excited by this because I've willing sat through a lot of bad Highlander shit, is a comic cashing in on that really that bad? But it's IDW... which kills any excitement, but even worse than that they're calling it a prequel to the movie which is just stupid.
Trailer Time: Fullmetal Alchemist - Live-Action
By Robert Ramos
Well, what do we have here? This trailer of the live-action adaption of Fullmetal Alchemist is news to me so I figured I'd share it with you guys. I think it looks great and I'll definitely check it out whenever the opportunity presents itself. And hey, no use of a shitty cover song here (looking at you, Ghost in the Shell).
Sailor Moon R The Movie U.S. Theatrical Screening Event Coming January 2017
By Dustin Cabeal
Robert actually found this bit of news just after we had finished recording this week's episode of Super S. Not that we would have had much to say. Lindsay wants to see it, I'll likely be the only one to get it in his area and I'm sure Robert would have asked what the "R" stood for while sipping water from Canada.
Fantagraphics Books to Distribute Breakdown Press
Press Release
Fantagraphics is proud to announce a new partnership with London-based publisher Breakdown Press. As of the November 2016 Diamond Previews Catalog, issue #338, Fantagraphics will be distributing a selection of Breakdown Press titles to comic book specialty stores.
Super S - Anime Podcast E.015
By Dustin Cabeal
We're trying something new. We're self-hosting the podcast now, but because of the current way we're set up it means you have to go to a separate page to listen to it. You can do so by clicking the link below.
Listen to E.015 of Super S - Anime Podcast
Review: WWE Then. Now. Forever #1
By Pablo Arriaga
The main feature in this comic invites the reader to relive the final days of the SHIELD, coming off their Payback 2014 win and taking place on the Monday Night Raw the following night, as the comic flashbacks to the days leading up to the pay-per view all the way to the night Seth Rollins would turn on Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose to become the whiny undisputed future on the WWE, and now we’re cheering for him. Wrestling is weird!
Mini-Reviews: Week of 11/9/16
By Dustin Cabeal
Something I used to do quite often was mini-reviews. Essentially talk about books that I didn’t want to do a full review for, but still wanted to mention and maybe even attach a score to. If we have a full review for something it won’t show up here, but here’s some titles I read this week that are worth mentioning.
We Need To Talk... Big Trouble/Escape From NY Takes The Top Spot In October
By Dustin Cabeal
Hey, there kiddos. Yeah, come on in and sit down, we need to talk. First, you're probably wondering if your mom and I are getting a divorce and the answer is yes. You see, I've loved your mom since I was a little kid. I remember her fondly in the pages of Spider-Man and Captain America. Later that love grew into X-Men and Batman. I grew up some, and we saw each other less and less.
Image Picks Up Rich Tommaso's "Spy Seal"
By Dustin Cabeal
You just never know which idea will catch fire. Rich Tommaso's Dark Corridor was undersupported and ended too soon. She Wolf was again, undersupported, but just a mini-series. Now... Spy Seal . You just never know, but I hope that all these raving fans support the book and that means pre-orders and continued pre-orders. We'll see.
Ominous Press To Publish Legendary Series
By Dustin Cabeal
I'll admit that I know jack about Ominous Press. I never read it in the 90s, but now that they're back I recognize a lot of the art and such from Wizard Magazine. I'm curious about this series in particular because I've never read it. We'll see how it goes!
Mignola and Golden to End Baltimore
By Dustin Cabeal
Well this is interesting. Mike Mignola is ending another long-running series of his. This plus the slowed pace of the B.P.R.D. series kind of makes you wonder if he's getting tired of comics. Who knows, could just be the logical conclusion which is fine and should happen more often in comics. If you haven't read the Baltimore series then you should check it out.
Review: Psycho-Pass: Inspector Shinya Kogami vol 1
By Patrick Larose
The police procedural is to me what grilled cheese is to most people—it’s my comfort food. The narrative beats and structural format hit me like a good song with that experience of getting to watch some jaded but good-hearted cops push through the morbidity of the every-day murder and the explore the personal frustrations and weaving webs we create just in carrying out our day-to-day lives.
Review: Batman/TMNT Adventures #1
By Chris Tresson
The Batman and The Turtles... Another miniseries featuring these two franchises and a scary crossover for me, as I found the last one to be a complete and utter bag of wank. It was very disappointing to see two things I’ve loved since I was a child treated so badly. I’m hoping this miniseries will do these characters justice, because with characters like these, a crossover event between the two should be absolutely epic…
Review: Batgirl #4
By Patrick Larose
A part of me wonders that when an independent comic creator enters the mainstream superhero genre, there’s this pressure to emphasize the superhero aspect in a superhero story.
Review: All-Star Batman #4
By Justin Wood
By issue four the shock has worn off. The routine sets in. It's amazing how many nonsensical things this book crams in, yet it doesn't faze me anymore. If you want a parade of the most ridiculous Batman concepts and moments since the 1970's, pick up any given issue of 'All Star Batman.' I'm reviewing all of the remaining issues of this first arc (appearing to thankfully take its bow next issue) but the worst this book can make me feel is now behind us. Now we just wait and wonder how it came to this.
Review: March Comes In Like A Lion E.01
By Shanel Kamara
Okay, so unlike Fune Wo Amu, what drew me to 3 – Gatsu No Lion (in English March Comes in like a Lion) immediately was the style of animation and the fact that the original source, of the anime series, is a manga by Chica Umino, the author, and creator of the award-winning Honey and Clover series.
Review: Space Battle Lunchtime #6
By Mike Badilla
Space Battle Lunchtime. The rules are simple: cook or be cooked, according to the awesome (and illustrated vs written) recap page. Without fact checking (so don't get all mad if I'm wrong) I'm going to assume this is some kind of intergalactic cooking battle. Different cooks are pulled from different planets or galaxies in order to compete, and this round there is a human! She is very upset that she has been chosen for all this competition. Understandably so, as ending up in some alien's stomach is a pretty poor fate if she doesn't win.
Review: Intertwined #2
By Patrick Larose
Intertwined continues to be a series that I dig shamelessly. Sure, the line-work can be choppy and the colors sometimes muddy but the pages wield a pin-point focus on what it sets out to do and be, nailing that target wholly.
Review: Antique #1 (of 4)
By Dustin Cabeal
There’s aspects of Antique that I like, but others I’m not fond of. The storytelling and pacing is skilled and keeps the story interesting. The art… is not for me. Hey, I like a variety of styles, but this isn’t one I’m enjoying. It was difficult getting through the issue because I couldn’t get into the art.
Review: Violent Love #1
By Patrick Larose
Something tells me that when Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were robbing hardware stores in East Texas, they weren’t doing it because it’d make a good story. Likewise, when Charlie Starkweather and Caril Fugate were torturing industrialists in Lincoln, Nebraska, they didn’t do it so in the early ‘90s people would make a couple counter-cultural films about them.
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