The fall season is upon us and the dynamic duo of SSH is here to review the first 2 episodes of the new FOX X-Men universe show The Gifted as well as ABC’s The Inhumans. One is great, one…not so much.
Also, this episode Batch breaks down what happened on Supergirl and The Flash, Logan covers his time at the New York Comic Con and the boys, for some reason, cast a Gilligan’s Island reboot. Why? You have to listen.
In comic reviews, Logan talks about his first step into the valiant universe of comics with his review of the first XO Manowar trade paperback and Batch expresses love for the new Justice League International Omnibus from DC comics.
All this and thoughts for the new trailers for Black Panther, New Mutants and Justice League.
On this episode of Small Screen Heroes, I enlist my Binge GameCast brethren Jack and Kupka to talk some Doctor Strange and how it adds a new dimension (pun intended) to the Marvel film verse. We now have seen 4 of the 5 Infinity stones in Marvel films, and that Infinity gauntlet is coming soon.
We then segue into Marvel TV with the announcement of the new Inhumans series coming to ABC and if it will lay on the foundation that Agents of Shield has introduced.
The 4 part crossover of the DC/CW-verse is quickly approaching, and I’m excited. Kupka and Jack could give 2 shits.
Wrapping up the episode, I give a quick little spotlight of the classic 80s DC character, The Vigilante, as he has now made his way onto the 5th season of Arrow. Adrian Chace was a very tragic character in the late 80s DC universe and his arc was really something you didn’t see a lot of in books at that time. Plagued by guilt and madness, whether what he was doing was right or wrong, what could have been a one dimensional Punisher knock off went the opposite way. As he struggles to fight his destiny, then seeing it swallow him whole, it really hit me hard. It’s definitely a book not many people know about and doesn’t get the acclaim it should, so it’s very cool it’s making its way in some small measure to TV.
On this weeks show Batch is joined by the returning Denny Luis and the 2 give some expert analysis to the first few issues of the civil war 2 comic event from marvel as well as the
X-men, Hercules, and Spiderman tie ins.
We also pull a casting call for a possible Inhumans movie and give some good picks for who should give marvels royal family some real screen presence.
Preachers most recent episodes are also covered in depth as well as reviews of Justice league vs Titans animated movie and Batman bad blood.
Also the latest on Arrow casting news and Justice League movie talk
Slicky dick the (alliterative) baba trick Nick back again for another week of comic binging. As August begins I can clearly see the end of all free time as I know it looming not far ahead. In preparation for temporarily handing over my life to university education, I’ve gotten to a lot of reading in the last week. As previewed on our new weekly Binge newsletter, which you can subscribe for here, I got a chance to check out the first volume of Charles Soule’s Inhuman for Marvel. Other than Soule’s efforts in the recent Death of Wolverine storyline, I’ve really enjoyed everything I’ve read of his in the past few years. From Swamp Thing and Red Lanterns, to the newest addition in Superman/Wonder Woman, Soule has proven that he can handle DC characters. Now in Inhuman, he creates an X-Men-like universe but it has a lot less of the the stuff we’re used to seeing. I really enjoyed Inhuman as it had a great story, and the characters were really well written. There are a handful of main characters with different story lines on different sides of the Inhuman crisis. I really enjoyed this book and I’m looking forward to more. Here’s to hoping that Charles Soule is able to continue two great original series, one for each Marvel and DC Comics.
Another series was passed on to me this week and it wasn’t highly recommended but I was told to give it a shot. It’s a prep school setting with younger, some teenage characters, which usually doesn’t fall well onto my radar. However, I was game to give at least the first volume a shot and I sure was not disappointed. In Morning Glories, Nick Spencer manages to comparatively baffle his audience much like that of Lost’s so many years ago. As the story furthers into the prep school and we discover more about our new student inductees, we come to find that the school isn’t so normal. As happenings and origins become shrouded in mystery, our new cast of characters is thrust into the position to decide whether or not they’re going to be heroes, or submit to the greatness that is the Morning Glory Academy. At the onset of the book, I was pretty well only interested in a few of the characters because they were humorous. As I reached the midway point of the first book, I began to realize that this book was not all preppy and schooly and teeny. This book had some serious plot twists and turns, whether they were resolved or not, it really shook up the story. The artwork in the book really fits well with the style of storytelling and writing, and I really enjoyed picking up more and more about each character as the book progressed. The storytelling aspect is very similar to that of Lost, as I kept referring to it as “Lost in a Prep School”, and it was overall a great read. I really enjoyed once the book got going by making things very life and death, and very intriguing with constant mystery. I highly recommend this series, and I’ll be picking up the rest of the volumes after the second in the coming weeks.
The last thing I got to check out shortly before typing up this week’s edition of the Comic Binge, was Jeff Lemire’s The Nobody. Somehow, I had yet to get this one on the shelf but it is finally here and I have to say, I yet again thoroughly enjoyed Lemire’s work. As there isn’t too much too it, I think it’s misunderstood as not being original or entertaining. I found it entirely enjoyable as it served as a retelling of the classic story of The Invisible Man. It features Lemire’s fantastic use of character development and empathy to really drive the story of the invisible man Griffen, home. If anyone got to check out Essex County after last week and enjoyed it, this will work really well for you too. It’s a perfect blend of Lemire’s storytelling, most prominently features in his Essex County series, and then his story type used in The Underwater Welder. The Nobody has a very Twilight Zone feel, which gives a lot of the story its magic. I really enjoyed the artwork as well, as usual with Lemire because it fits so well with the story. There were a lot of great references and call backs in the panels of the book that again, gave this book a lot of its power. A high recommend for fans of Lemire and good, simple suspense stories, and a general all around good recommendation when looking for a good, quick read.