[Press] DYNAMITE TO PUBLISH GREEN HORNET COMICS!

Now if they will get the Lone Ranger out a regular basis…

DYNAMITE TO PUBLISH GREEN HORNET COMICS!
Legendary Crime-Fighter to Appear in new Dynamite Series

Dynamite Entertainment is pleased to announce the latest star to join the Dynamite roster of incredible talent – the legendary Green Hornet! Star of film, television, radio and comic books, The Green Hornet is known for his distinctive mask, car (The Black Beauty) and faithful sidekick, Kato!

“We’ve been working on this one for a long time now, I believe four years.? Since we started pursuing this, they’ve also announced a movie for next summer,” explained Dynamite President and Publisher Nick Barrucci. “The Green Hornet is a cultural icon and touchstone for modern super-heroes, including the greats like Batman. To work with such a character, and faithfully represent him along the lines of how we’ve handled The Lone Ranger and Zorro, and the upcoming Buck Rogers, is truly a momentous opportunity.? Over the last 4 years, fans and creators have asked us if we were negotiating for the Green Hornet license, which we finally have (big YES!), and we will be announcing creators in the near future.”

The Green Hornet was originally created by George W. Trendle for an American radio program in the 1930s. Though various incarnations sometimes change details, in most incarnations the Green Hornet is Britt Reid, a newspaper publisher by day who by night goes out in his masked “Green Hornet” identity to fight crime as a vigilante, accompanied by his similarly masked Asian manservant Kato and driving a car, equipped with advanced technology, called “Black Beauty”.

Overdue Review – P-Brane: The Green Man

Here is the second in a series of comic reviews that I should have done a long time ago.

Though P-Brane: The Green Man really isn’t a “graphic novel” by the strictest sense of the word, it is more like a “photo” novel where photos? of real “actors” and objects are then manipulated to make the art of the book.

Even though this is an interesting concept, I didn’t really care for how it was done in this book.? In the books that I usually read the hand drawn art just flows better to me, while this book just looked like a slide show with speech balloons. ? To me this just looked sloppy and hashed together and really made it really hard to read.

As far as the plot goes, it all seemed like nothing that spectacular. ? Man wakes up with amnesia, is able to do incredible things without any explanation, alien invasion, serial killers killing evil men, etc..

Anyone that has read books or comics, or watched TV for any length of time will have already seen almost every element of this story before, just maybe not put together in this particular way.? The flow of the book was very disjointed to me, things jumped around quite a bit and it was difficult to follow.? As well as that, the plot went places that didn’t make any sense to me at all.? Especially the ending.? Every time I thought I had a handle of what was going on in this book, there would be another turn in the plot that didn’t make any sense to me.

The dialogue, in my opinion, was the worst part of this book.? It is barely two-dimensional, choppy and has barely any feeling in it.? I have the feeling that the photo thing is partly to blame.

I won’t go on any further, it’s pretty obvious that I…well… hated this book.? There I said it.

Being somewhat of a writer myself, I don’t like tearing up someone else’s work, but this was just horrible in my opinion.

New Comic Web Log Updates page went flakey for a while

Looks like Newsgator changed the way feed headlines are shown so for a while today the New Comic Web Blog Updates page wasn’t showing anything.

After playing with it for a while, apparently Newsgator changed the max number of items shown to more than or equal to 35.? It was set at 100, as to give a good bunch of feed links, but if I input anything higher than 34 the page goes blank.

I am not sure if this is a site wide setting or if they set some kind of flood limit on that particular item specifically.? 34 items not being that much, I will see what I can do considering the number of feeds on the list.

Thanks for your patience.

From the Inbox – The Legion of Super Potatoes!

I don’t know how I missed this (damn spammers!), but I now present:

The Legion of Super Potatoes!

[PRESS] Bluewater Comics for June 2009

Warlock #4
Author(s): Nick Lyons
Artist(s) Jacob Bear
Cover Artist(s): cover by Matt Bellisle
In the climactic final issue of this mini-series, Tom, Hugh, and Rachael face off against the seven Warlocks. Can the Warlocks be stopped once and for all or will the they continue their reign of terror on everyone and everything in their path?

Vincent Price Presents #10
Writer: Darren G. Davis & Chad Helder
Pencils: Pat Broderick
Cover Artist(s):? cover: Pat Broderick
Vincent Price Presents: shocking tales of the macabre and the mysterious in the Gothic tradition of horror icon, Vincent Price.? In this month’s issue, an advertising executive encounters a nightmarish retribution when a fender-bender unleashes “Road Rage” in the twisted mind of a sinister adversary. Drawn by DC Comics artist Pat Broderick

William Shatner? Presents: Tek War #1
Writer: William Shatner & Scott Davis
Pencils: Erich Owens
Cover Artist(s): 2 covers: Erich Owens & Mike Coffey
After spending 4 years in cryogenic stasis for crimes he is certain he did not commit, Jake Cardigan is mysteriously released. Finding himself lost in a world that has changed since his incarceration, Jake tries and put his life back together. His wife and son are gone, or in hiding, and Jake; fights the strong urge to self-medicate using a digital drug called Tek. Offered a job to locate a missing enigmatic scientist, Jake can already feel the puppet strings manipulating him to return to the life that got him jailed in the first place. And his troubles are only beginning. The epic futuristic adventure, based on William Shatner’s best-selling TekWar novel series begins!

Lionsgate Films: Leprechaun #2
Writer: Zach Hunchar
Pencils: Kris Carter
Cover Artist(s):? cover: Photo cover
From the cult film from Lionsgate. Imagine simple tales of legend. Which are not tales or legends at all. And far from simple. Imagine no further as Leprechaun issue 2 continues the journey of the last of the Leprechauns. The dark forces have scattered his one true love. Now, new allies emerge that hold? keys to his survival.

Female Force: Caroline Kennedy
Author(s): Neal Bailey
Artist(s) Ryan Howe
Cover Artist(s): cover by Vinnie Tartamella
This comic series has been featured on CNN, FOX NEWS & OK! Magazine. Join Bluewater as we explore the life and times of Caroline Kennedy in the final installment of the first series of politically themed Female Force series, exploring strong women and the events that shaped their lives. From Camelot to the recent election, see the impact that the last child of the Kennedy dynasty has had in shaping the new America!

Legend of Isis #2
Writer: Aaron Stueve
Pencils: Ivan Barriga
Cover Artist(s): 2 covers van Barriga and Neil Chenier
Who or what is the Scarab Queen?!? Why is Isis is in the hospital?!? Who destroyed the museum?!? And just who the heck is that pointing a gun at Scott?!? Find out some of the answers to the above questions in the second outstanding issue of The Legend of Isis.

Kyle Bush is a little punk

I don’t care how good a driver Kyle Bush is, he is still a punk with no respect for anyone.? Is this the kind of driver that NASCAR wants people to look up to?

Here is even more proof:

Dale Jr. vs. Kyle Busch: Who’s your choice?

Like my friend Mike says:

Trouble is, while Jr. may not be winning races lately, the primary reason he’s so popular is because of four things Kyle Busch does not, and if the past is any indication, will not ever have :

Honesty, Integrity, Character, and Respect.

I’d say more, but KY isn’t worth another 2 seconds of my time.

Nuff said.

Overdue Review – Ayre Force

It has been close to a year since I first got this from the publisher.? Even though the company doesn’t appear to be selling this book anymore, I said I would review it; so here we go.

First a little info about the book from its press realease:

AYRE FORCE Invades 2008 NY Comic Con

April 4, 2008

Bodog Entertainment’s first ever graphic novel AYRE FORCE to make debut at NY Comic Con, April 18 – 20

Digital entertainment giant Bodog Entertainment has expanded its already extensive wealth of entertainment offerings even further to include the release of its first ever action packed graphic novel AYRE FORCE.

Based on real people, AYRE FORCE reveals the hidden activities and past of Bodog’s billionaire founder, Calvin Ayre, as he leads a covert operations unit composed of Bodog Music artists Bif Naked, Jason Darr and Nazanin; Bodog Fight mixed martial artists Tara LaRosa, Jorge Masvidal and Trevor Prangley; and Bodog Poker players Evelyn Ng, David Williams and Josh Arieh. Ayre and the AYRE FORCE have been engaged in a years-long war with pharmaceutical magnate Janus Winter, attacking the illegal operations of Wintercorp all over the globe. Now, Janus has upped the ante by unleashing his genetically engineered, superhuman children on Calvin and his team, intending to put an end to the war between the AYRE FORCE and Wintercorp once and for all!

Assembled by an incredibly talented creative team, the people behind AYRE FORCE are Illustrator Shawn Martinbrough (How To Draw Noir Comics, Batman: Detective Comics, World War Hulk: Frontline), Writers Adam Slutsky (Maxim, Bluff Magazine) and Joseph Phillip Illidge (Batman), Color Artists Andrew Dalhouse (The Sisterhood) and Felix Serrano (Batman) and Letterer Marshall Dillon (Street Fighter: Alpha).

This does sound exciting doesn’t it?

Well there was a lot of action in this book, but I wasn’t too excited about it when I was done.? It was pretty cheesy and came off to me as more of advertisement for Bodog.com than anything else.? The mix of fiction and real life people was a little strange to say the least, and gave it a “dirty” feel; for lack of a better word.? I even felt a little guilty after I read it.

The plot and the dialogue reminded me a lot of the action films that Arnold Schwarzenegger did back in the 80’s, cheesy and a lot of one liners, just not done near as well.? So I guess if you like that kind of stuff you might like this, but I doubt it.

Overall I wouldn’t recommend this, even if you could still get a copy, despite the fact the proceeds were supposed to go to charity.? Since this book isn’t even relevant anymore, not really that much else to say about it.

Mastering System Center Configuration Manager 2007 due to ship in April 2009!

As Ron as already posted, our Mastering System Center Configuration Manager 2007 book was shipped to the printers last Friday and should be available for purchase by 04/06/2009!

I know this has been a long time coming, but no one is happier about this than I am.

If you are still interested, you can preorder now.

For those of you that have already preordered, you will more than likely have to order it again.

Thanks to everyone for their support during this slow and painful process!