Comic Book Pitt #38 - The Mouse of Ideas
The House of the Mouse buys The House of Ideas! That’s right, the big news this week is the purchase of Marvel Entertainment by Disney, which we discuss in the beginning of this episode along with a couple of other topics.
Comics reviewed this week: Amazing Spider-Man #603, Batman and Robin #3, Blackest Night: Titans #1, Dark Avengers #8, Detective Comics #856, Fantastic Four #570, Gotham City Sirens #3, New Mutants #4, The Red Circle: The Shield #1, and The Red Circle: The Web #1.
Other BIG news which we forgot to mention in the episode: AiT/Planet Lar publisher Larry Young will be attending 24 Hour Comic Book Day at Time Tunnel on October 3/4. Larry will be hanging out, reviewing portfolios, and according to his website, may even put pen to paper himself. Free copies of True Facts, Larry’s pocket guide to self-publishing comic books, will be available to at least the first 25 creators taking part in the event.
Cover scans of all the books reviewed in this episode can be found here.
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The House of the Mouse buys The House of Ideas! - I just wonder what the variant covers will look like? I enjoyed your reviews and look forward to seeing you this weekend at Pgh Comicon. Ciao!
Jeff Moreci said this on September 7th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Hey guys, first off I wanted to say great minds think alike (especially when concerning some of our intro music choices and/or themes for our particular podcasts.)
As for my comments to your comments:
- Dark Avengers is simply the comic that you follow that ties into all the major events of the ark. There was “Civil War” and “Secret Invasion”, well… Dark Reign doesn’t have a title, so instead they have Dark Avengers. I too am curious if this will turn into anything else. A large chunk of these characters were part of the Thunderbolts, and then evolved into this new comic. I’d be very surprised if they broke apart this “A-List Villain” team they’ve been forming over the years. But… what if Norman doesn’t ultimately lose in this arc like everyone is expecting? What if Dark Reign and everything is just a crossover that’s setting the stage for how the universe is going to be for a lot longer. I mean… Dark X-Men… I find it hard to accept that a team like that is going to be formed, all this crossover hype, and then just washed away a few months after doing so. It would just be weird to do so.
- It would be great to have NEW New Mutants. The only problem is House of M seems to have gunked that all up, although there seems to be plenty of “newbie” mutants that could’ve filled the ranks for a NEW New Mutants group that is taught by the OLD New Mutants.
- Babies and any sort of “small thing that walks on two legs” is pretty much the scariest thing ever. They don’t necessarily have to be zombies or undead, sometimes just children by themselves are creepy.
- Apparently all you need to know about Solomon Grundy is that he’s a Black Lantern now. The end.
- My fiancee mentioned that this series (Gotham City Sirens) may crossover into Detective Comics due to the whole Hush + Harley plot that seems to be occurring right now. Which would be surprising to have a crossover this early, but that subplot does seem to be intertwined with some of the other new bat books right now, so maybe this was just a lead in to that?
I enjoyed this book immensely, and it’s probably because The Riddler is by and far one of my favorite villains. Just the narcissistic attitude, I’ve got a real soft spot for narcissists in fiction, they’re always SO out there that they are hilarious (speaking of Riddler in the Arkham Asylum game is awesome.)
I know in Gotham Underground “Battle for the Cowl” one-shot they did, which leads into Sirens, Riddler was also a key component in that story as well. It leads me to thinking that MAYBE Sirens is going to be a little bit of Charlie’s Angels and Riddler is going to play the role of Bosley or something. Just a thought. It’s too early to really tell, and it seems to be suffering some of the issues of Dark Avengers, where they just formed the team, and all of a sudden, it already seems mired into previous events and/or ongoing events in the rest of the universe. The team hasn’t even had a chance to BE a team yet. Hopefully this will happen soon.
- *SPIDEY SPOILER* I find it extremely interesting that MJ “knows” certain things. Perhaps that’s the result of the infamous “whisper” in Mephisto’s ear?
- That Fantastic Four “idea room” was a key part of the story in the Dark Reign limited series. It was essentially just Reed looking into thousands of alternate realities to figure out if he could’ve prevented the Civil War and/or Skrull Invasion and/or Dark Reign in some “perfect” scenario, and for the most part it was never possible without like… martial law or killing Rogers or Stark, etc.
He also came to the conclusion that the only times these things were even partially “fine” was when he became personally involved in the situation, like Civil War and stepping in and pushing Tony Stark to the side. If you’re a sucker for alternate dimension stuff, you should check out the limited, it was definitely a cool story. This definitely sounds like it’s following up on that concept which is awesome.
- DanG, you need to turn Blue Wraith into an animated comic, and then you can sell Blue Wraith in Bluray! BA-DUM-TCH!
- I’ll be sure to say hey to you guys whenever I break free from the “line of infinite length” which is my pre-emptive nickname for the Stan Lee line.
Link said this on September 9th, 2009 at 4:00 pm