Showing posts with label James Robinson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Robinson. Show all posts

Monday, 9 September 2013

Marvel launch new series and jumping on points this December

Marvel teased  plans for a new wave of Marvel NOW! books back at SDCC 2013, and today we've finally got some news on it, with the launch of two new series, one we've known about for a while and one all-new, as well as a good jumping on point for one of their major series on December 24th this year, check out the covers below...

First up is the competed cover for Matt Fraction and Joe Madureria's "Inhuman #1":


Then a brand new series from James Robinson and Steve Pugh, "All new Invaders", and remember a while back when Robinson claimed to be writing Namor then quickly denied it, well...


So there we have Captain America, Prince Namor ( see? ), Bucky Barnes, also known as The Winter Soldier and the original Human Torch.


And finally, here's the cover to Avengers 24.NOW ( Huh? ) , by Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic.


Notice, how all of these are under the banner of "All-New Marvel NOW!", maybe we'll be seeing some more of these books in the run up to Christmas Eve...

And, yes, I am definitely looking forward to being able to buy comics on Christmas Eve...

( Source: USA Today)

Friday, 31 May 2013

Review: Earth 2 annual #1


I feel like this was an okay issue, but it really wasn't my cup of tea.

I'm not a regular reader of Earth 2, I did read the first few issues but after that I just dropped off the book. I picked up this issue, like many, for the introduction of Earth 2's new Batman but after reading was a bit disappointed.

If you're buying this just for batman I don't think it's worth your five dollars, the story focuses on a lot of characters from the main series, which I guess is what I should've expected. I feel like if you're interested in those characters, you should enjoy the issue, but I was never really too interested in the Earth 2 cast ( apart from Jay Garrick ).

I also wasn't too keen on the art in this. I remember seeing some of the pencilled pages of Batman a few months ago and how impressed I was but it just didn't seem as good to me when completed. I think it was just the pencils put together with the inks and colours that put me off, but the pencils are fine on their own.

My main problem is just that the cover is quite misleading. The cover is Earth 2's new Batman, he's the only character on that cover yet he only shows up for a few pages in this issue, I may have liked it more with a cover slightly more true to the story. However, this is a problem with a lot of comics so I can't just point it out for this one.

Overall, I wasn't too impressed with the story but it had it's moments, the Batman pages were actually alright, but there weren't many of them. I also feel that only the pencils out of all of the art were good.

Rating: 5/10

Thursday, 30 May 2013

James Robinson confirms he's NOT writing Namor

A few days ago James Robinson tweeted and then delete the following:


Following that, many comic sites reported on this and it spread that Robinson could be writing a new Namor book at Marvel, I chose not to report on this because I wasn't really too sure if this was a serious statement or not. Although, let's just keep in mind that James Robinson announced his departure from Earth 2 over Twitter...

Just a few minutes ago James Robinson tweeted:

So, it seems Robinson isn't writing Namor after all, although that would make a good series, hopefully one day.