Month: April 2019

Star Wars: The Mandalorian

Okay, sure, the first Episode IX trailer looked good and all, but the thing that had me most excited in the Star Wars universe this weekend just gone? News of The Madlaorian TV series:

The first live-action Star Wars television series takes place five years after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence of the First Order and follows a lone gun-fighter in the Boba/Jango Fett mold … It also looks to be leaning heavily into the franchise’s Western and Samurai film roots.

That in itself is enough to make me happy, but then they go and throw in a couple of pictures including one which, when a high res copy is available, will instantly be my wallpaper:

I have no idea how we in the UK will access the new Disney+ service but I’ll be trying to find out for this if nothing else.

Mash-Up #70

Three times a week I randomly generate two dates, hunt down covers from those dates and then mash them together and force the results on you lovely people, while giving a hat-tip to the wonderful Super-Team Family blog which has been doing this for years (and a lot better) on an almost daily basis.

I don’t remember seeing this in the recent Captain Marvel film . . .

Sunday Reviews

HAWKMAN #11

London, and the rest of the world, is in danger from the return of the Deathbringers and even an army made up of Hawkman and all his previous incarnations from across time and space may not be enough to stop them.

This issue is basically a big fight scene as Hawkman and his former lieutenant Idamm go against each other while the other Hawkmen fight the Deathbringers, and finishes with a cliffhanger as London is about to fall. Its not bad – it looks good, as you’d expect with Bryan Hitch, but I’m left thinking this could have been condensed rather than dragged out.

JUSTICE LEAGUE ODYSSEY #8

Darkseid finally spills the beans about the real reason the League are here: he knew the Source Wall would be destroyed and that the Multiverse would fall and has spent millennia preparing for the event. He needs the League to recover a handful of relics so he can build Sepulkore, an ark to hold life and protect it from the end of the Multiverse. Before the League decide whether to work with him, Blackfire attacks, forcing Darkseid to send Cyborg off to find the first relic, while Azrael reveals a previously unknown power.

As I said for the previous issue, the unsteady start to this series seems to have smoothed out as Dan Abnett takes over and brings a less frenetic pace to the book while tying in, at least tangentially, with the main JUSTICE LEAGUE book and it’s big-scale story. Oh, and it looks great, too.

100 Issues Ago December 2010

I came across this “100 Issues Ago” panel in an old JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA and thought I’d tidy it up and re-purpose it. If one month = one issue, what was I reading 100 Issues Ago?

This, my friends, is the power of free samples in action.

I think I saw a three or four page taster of this issue either in the back of another comic, or perhaps in Previews, but either way I was sold. I know nothing by Paul Cornell at the time and only had a vague idea of who Knight and Squire were thanks to some appearances in JLA by Grant Morrison, but the humorous tone – and decidedly British humour as well – displayed in the sample worked a treat for me so I picked this up.

I believe it’s been collected and if you haven’t read it but like your superheroes occasionally funny, then go for it.