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Rice Boy is the story of a small, white, armless boy who has been charged with a quest. Simple enough. Rice Boy's journey takes him across, over, and under his strange and fascinating world. He also meets an amazing assortment of friends, enemies, and others.
I came across this comic just after 1am and could not stop reading until I had finished the entire story. And it IS a complete story, told by creator Evan Dahm over the course of two years. He just finished, and the ending is extremely satisfying.
This one is special people. You owe it to yourselves to check it out.
This one kind of pisses me off, but I have a feeling they'll will realize what they've done quickly enough and make things right.
Thomas Denton of comic blog Say It Backwards has a nephew who was diagnosed with cancer. A charity called Candlelighters helped his family out. Thomas decided to use his connections in the comics world to organize some charitable auctions featuring original artwork by various artists to give something back to the organization. Apparently Time Warner (who own DC comics, who in turn own Superman, Batman and most of the cool superheroes who wear capes) objected to the selling of the pieces featuring their copyrighted and trademarked characters on eBay, specifically Superman from what I understand.
In a situation like this the company should step up and help, or at least approve the auction. My gut tells me this was pretty much just from the legal dept. and people higher up will notice and step in.
Warner/DC comics shuts down children's cancer charity auction over trademark [Boing Boing]
Over at Geek Tyrant, sources have confirmed that Captain America's shield made a cameo in the recent Iron Man film. You can take a look for yourself here in this picture.
Insider at Marvel confirms.. It is Captain Americas Shield!! Tony Starks father created weapons during World War II. He was the one that created the shield! Which is why Tony had it in the first place. Why did Tony Stark have it our on his work table? As a reference for the suit he was building of course. The suit is made out of the same metal that the shield was made from. So there you have it folks! That is Captain Americas shield!
I'm totally digging this cohesive Marvel film universe and would love to see more in The Incredible Hulk (in addition to the confirmed cameos, including Tony Stark).
As an added bonus, you can check out the latest Incredible Hulk trailer after the jump!
Confirmation!! Is that Captain Americas Shield in the background of Iron Man movie!? YES! [Geek Tyrant]
I'm kind of growing weary of these videos that Marvel and DC have been putting out that are basically still images with dramatic panning and accompanying music. Not that this helps, but here is another video straight from DC for the upcoming weekly series,
Trinity.
Yeah it makes me excited, but I think the way it's presented needs to be tweaked...
Last week I told all of you fine folks about the Men of the DCU contest being held at Comics Worth Reading. Well, the deadline is tomorrow (Thursday, May 15th) so if any of you guys are working on entry, be sure to send it in soon.
While you put the finishing touches on your masterpiece, you can check out the newest entry in the contest.
Boy Meets Hero is a web comic-turned print comic that focuses on a realistic gay couple who just happen to have superpowers. It's a neat little strip that doesn't pander to stereotypes, which is reason enough to read it soetimes. It invokes a lot of the old school Marvel days of the 60s.
Newsarama's Best Shots reviews recently took a look at Boy Meets Hero and had some kind words to say. Here's a snippet:
Happily romance is not all dead in our modern grim and gritty comic world thanks to the fantastically terrific Boy Meets Hero. Created, written, drawn, colored and lettered with aplomb by real life dynamic duo Chayne Avery and Russell Garcia, Boy Meets Hero happily heralds back to those awesome days of old where the super character's dating life and romantic foibles were just as exciting as the latest battle with any old arch supervillain.
You can check out the entire review after the jump.
You can get a second opinion on the series over at Prism Comics.
This weeks character hails from the pages of Gen¹³, from Wildstorm. Sarah Rainmaker, also simply known as Rainmaker, can control the weather and use wind to fly, not unlike the X-Men's Storm.
Rainmaker was originally declared a lesbian, but after some controversy, (and a drunken make-out session with a male teammate), she is now a bisexual. She also exhibits very little shame about her body, not batting an eye at swimming nude in front of her male teammates.
When not fighting the good fight as a superhero, Rainmaker attends protests and likes to lecture her team when they don't live up to her standards. She often attempts more peaceful resolution to conflicts before resorting to violent solutions, on at least one occasion earning the respect of rival team DV8.
It's tough to be a comic book fan and have to deal with advanced solicitations from various companies. If you want to remain spoiler-free, you probably don't want to check out the advanced solicitation for Buffy #17 after the jump. Instead, feel free and enjoy this spoiler-free cover that our experts were able to mock up!
Gorgeous spoilerific cover after the break!
Our resident head honcho brought you news of the upcoming Ultimate Origins event Marvel has planned to coincide with the Ultimatum series that promises to alter the Ultimate line for the foreseeable future.
Some would say the whole line is pointless now. The line was originally conceived as a way to attract new readers to the industry. Since the books were starting from scratch, they would not have a backlog of continuity for these new readers to keep track of. The problem is that as we near the decade mark on the Ultimate Universe, it now has its own continuity. Ultimate Spider-man especially has a great deal of story invested in itself and while it tends to do an excellent job in using this history well, it somewhat defeats the purpose of the line.
So Marvel has a few options on its hands. They can continue things as normal and lose more readers as the Ultimate books slip lower down the sales charts. They can cancel the whole line outright, which seems unlikely given that they do still sell (for now), especially Ultimate Spider-Man. Trim the fat by canceling a book or two (Ultimate Fantastic Four, I'm looking at you) and continuing the line in a series of limited series such as Ultimate Iron Man.
Most likely though, Marvel will use Ultimate Origins and Ultimatum to reshift the focus of the books into a tighter, more cohesive universe. The books have been mostly stand-alone with only some crossover up to this point. Given that these two series focus on several Ultimate books, this is a definite possibility.
So all that meandering was to eventually say that Major Spoilers has three of the four covers for Ultimate Origins #1. There is a 50/50 split for the Simone Bianchi and Gabrielle Dell'Otto covers with two variants provided by Michael Turner (one a sketch variant). Check out the gallery below to see more Wolverine than you can shake a stick at.
Marvel has just released this little tease. Make what you will of it and discuss in the comments below!
Just for fun, I pinged Sean McGrath (creator of Frater Mine) to help me make this into an impromptu Mad Libs...it was very difficult to keep the shenanigans PG-13.
Hit the jump to see our version!
Iron Man continued to hold the number one spot at the box office, despite attacks from Speed Racer and the Ashton Kutcher/Cameron Diaz generic romcom Let's Be Pretty And Do Stuff In Vegas (or something like that). Iron Man took in an additional $50.5 million dollars, making it the highest grossing movie of the year so far. Sadly, Speed Racer almost tied the aforementioned (though not in name) What Happens In Vegas in sales with $20.2 million vs $20 million.
This weekend, it looks like Iron Man will finally be dethroned as the new Chronicles of Narnia film debuts on Friday.
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Iron Man Rocks, Speed Racer Stalls: [Rotten Tomatoes]
And we're back to regular programming!
A big thanks to Goblin and the rest of the PK staff for taking care of the PK secret lair in my absence and doing an excellent job!
Onto the news!
Newsarama recently interviewed J. Michael Straczynski on his DC debut, The Brave and the Bold. He's going to be taking over that title later this year and promised to make some interesting team ups that do not involve Batman (as the title is historically known for). Expect to see unexpected team ups like Two-Face/Hawk and Dove, Challengers of the Unknown/Metal Men, Atom/Joker, and Batman/Dial H among others.
Don't expect continuity to come into play (which is a little disappointing to me) but be on the look out for JMS' signature strong character portrayals.
"Oh Lois, you SO don't want to know!"
Comic of the Week
Frater Mine by Sean McGrath and Juan Romera
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