New Comic Book Reviews Week Of 3/9/16
It’s quite a large week for new comic book reviews so to get through as many as possible they might be a little briefer than usual, so on with them we go.
It’s quite a large week for new comic book reviews so to get through as many as possible they might be a little briefer than usual, so on with them we go.
Over the weekend Deadpool broke all sorts of box office records. Here is how it all stacked up. #1 opening weekend ($132.75M) ever in Fox history #1 opening weekend ever for an R-rated film #1 February opening weekend #1 Winter opening weekend #2 opening weekend ever for an original Marvel property title #5 opening weekend ever for a Marvel property title Even more impressive is that this all happened with a very small $58 million budget that is very low by Hollywood standards for a major title with visual effects and a star.
It’s going to be short and sweet this week due to a hectic life schedule so here we go! Superman American Alien #1 DC Comics Writer Max Landis, Artist Nick Dragotta, Colorist Alex Guimaraes, Letterer John Workman This new mini series about the life of Superman is supposed to be seven short stories about different time periods in Superman’s life and the first issue takes place as a young boy and he is just discovering that he can fly but can’t control it.
A huge week of new books and I will try to fit in as many as I can. Some of the reviews might be on the short side to speed things up.
Over the weekend I finally got the chance to head up to California State University of Northridge that is currently holding an exhibit of Jack Kirby original artwork.
With this last weekends disastrous opening of the Fox’s new Fantastic Four reboot that made $25 million dollars and was second to the new Mission Impossible film that was in its second week of release.
DC revamped line starts this week and while not all of them are hits they at least a better direction than DC has been going lately.
Over the past couple of days there have been some geek/nerd internet hate stories that really makes me mad. It seems that the internet has tuned into a cesspool of hate, bile and entitlement.
The last week of the month brings the last batch of #1 Convergence titles to the shelves and it’s been more misses than hits for the books.
A big week for comics. I will be at WonderCon this weekend so if you see me say Hi. Lots of new comics this week so let’s get started.
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