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Justice League of America: Martian Manhunter’s Secret

Justice League of America #2 courtesy DC Comics

Justice League of America #2 courtesy DC Comics

The new Justice League of America are hailed as America’s Most Dangerous! Amanda Waller and Steve Trevor have created a super team with a hidden agenda. The roster includes the new Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Hawkman, Katana, Stargirl, Vibe and Catwoman? I won’t spoil the secret behind why this form has been formed.

This week’s Justice League of America #2 picks up after last week’s shocker: one member’s undercover mission has gone horribly wrong! Will they survive. What is Martian Manhunter’s secret Continue reading →

DC Comics Emerald City Comicon Exclusives Revealed

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courtesy DC Comics

A trio of DC Comics’ biggest titles will go green at Emerald City Comicon in Seattle this weekend!

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courtesy DC Comics

The publisher revealed the exclusive covers for Batman #17 – in the die-cut Death of the Family cover style by Greg Capullo, Green Arrow #17 (the Seattle-based hero is drawn by new artist Andrea Sorrentino) and Justice League of America #1 by David Finch.

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DC Comics will be at booth 108. Emerald City Comicon (in the hometown of yours truly) is this weekend, March 1-3.

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New GREEN ARROW Villain!

Green Arrow #17 courtesy DC Comics

Green Arrow #17 courtesy DC Comics

   Arrow is a smash in Starling City on The CW. The Green Arrow comic book is set in my Emerald City, Seattle. In this week’s Green Arrow #17 new creative team Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino took over the book. The Kill Machine Part 1 ended with a violent double shocker for the Emerald Archer. Oliver Queen has lost his fortune and father’s firm. As Ollie confronted the man accused of ruining his father’s legacy… Continue reading →

Comic Book Picks for February 6, 2013

All-New X-Men #7 courtesy Marvel

All-New X-Men #7 courtesy Marvel

All-New X-Men #7 Mystique smells fresh meat! The sinister shapeshifter targets the young mutants from the past! First target: Cyclops! What’s her endgame?

Fearless Defenders #1 Valkyrie and Misty Knight? Two unlikely heroes in a brand new series by Cullen Bunn. The Asgardian warrior woman and the bad ass private detective team up against a new threat to Marvel Now!

Green Arrow #17 Oliver Queen loses everything and becomes the target of the assassin  Komodo! New creative team Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino take over send Ollie to the Seattle streets after learning a shocking secret about his father.

Star Trek #17 How did Doctor Leonard McCoy Continue reading →

Vertigo Strikes Arrow, New Team on Green Arrow

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  What a great time for Green Arrow fans! ARROW on The CW is throwing some of DC’s most dangerous criminals at the vigilante. China White and Deadshot have come to Starling City. Count Vertigo is on the way. Seth Gabel (Fringe, Nip/Tuck, Dirty Sexy Money) will play the villain according the TV Line. The character uses the drug Vertigo to disorient his victims.

 Sci Fi Vets Ben Browder (Farscape) and Tahmoh Penikett (Battlestar Galactica, Dollhouse) and John Barrowman (Doctor Who, Torchwood) will be guest starring in upcoming episodes.

The Huntress will soon be appearing in a multi-episode arc as a love interest of Oliver Queen.

 

Green Arrow #17 courtesy DC Comics

  Back to comics – acclaimed writer Jeff Lemire and artist Andrea Sorrentino will be the creative team on the Justice League’s archer with Green Arrow #17 this February. In that issue Oliver will deal with the loss of his family fortune and the evil archer called Komodo.

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ARROW Casts Farscape, Stargate Star

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Producers of The CW hit ARROW are making it hard for die-hard sci-fi fans not to tune in! Ben Browder (Farscape, Stargate SG-1) will join the series as DC Comics character Ted Gaynor according to IGN.

The Blackhawk Squadron member will be the former commanding office of bodyguard Diggle on the series. Browder recently guest starred on the Doctor Who episode A Town Called Mercy. I LOVED Browder as John Crichton on Farscape. Ted Gaynor hits Starling City in the eleventh episode.

John Barrowman (Torchwood, Doctor Who) will join the series in a yet undisclosed role.

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Battlestar Galactica Vet Joins “ARROW”

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  Tahmoh Penikett (Battlestar Galactica, Dollhouse) will guest star The CW’s new television take on Green Arrow. The actor announced on his Facebook page and GreenArrowTV reported he will play Tom Salvati on Arrow. This character is the second in command to the mob boss father of the Huntress (to be played by Jessica De Gouw.)

  I’m a huge fan of Penikett for playing the noble Lt. Karl Agathon aka Helo on the Battlestar Galatica series. He has a role in the Superman reboot Man of Steel.

Thanks to Digital Spy.

Green Arrow, Wonder Woman Date Night On The CW?

Wonder Woman #1 Courtesy DC Comics

  Could The CW become the destination for DC heroes? Producers of the upcoming Arrow television series express support for a potential Wonder Woman series on the same network. The CW, Warner Brothers and DC Comics are reported to be developing a script called Amazon. Allan Heinberg is working on an origin script.

  Arrow producers say they welcome another hero on The CW.

  “It harkens back to the years of my childhood where you had The Six Million Dollar Man and Wonder Woman and all these superhero-like genre shows all on the dial and all you had to do was change the channel,” Arrow Executive Producer Marc Guggenheim tells The Hollywood Reporter. “I think there’s totally room for both shows. It would be fun to share a night with them; the CW programs two hours a night and that’d be a pretty kick-ass night of television.”

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  Andrew Kreisberg points out the focus of Arrow and how it will differ from Smallville or a potential Wonder Woman series..

  “Our show definitely takes place in a much more realistic world,” Kreisberg adds ”There’s no superpowers, superheroes and aliens. With Wonder Woman, Diana of Themyscira, there are superpowers. I don’t foresee crossovers but one of the great things about superheroes is that they’re constantly being reimagined. There’s the Adam West and Christopher Nolan versions of Batman and one doesn’t obviate the other. The Lynda Carter version was great and now the CW is hopefully developing another wonderful version that will be a nice compliment to Arrow.”

  Producers will introduce villainess China White (played by Kelly Hu aka Lady Deathstrike of X2: X-Men United) and Huntress (played by Jessica De Gow) as a potential love interest for Oliver Queen.

Arrow debuts October 10th.

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Op/Ed: When I was a kid there were live action superheroes all over television! Wonder Woman, Six Million Dollar Man, Bionic Woman in prime time. Batman and Robin afterschool and Shazam and Isis on Saturday mornings!

  I have to raise issue with comparing Lynda Carter to Adam West in terms of their portrayals. Lynda Carter was physical and emotional perfection as Diana. While the series had camp moments – Carter was a Wonder and did justice to the Amazon!

New Justice League of America Announced

Justice League of America #1 courtesy DC Comics

  DC Comics announced a brand new Justice League of America series by Geoff Johns (Justice League, Green Lantern) and David Finch (Batman: The Dark Knight) at Fan Expo Canada.

  Steve Trevor will recruit an eclectic team of heroes to fight the Secret Society of Super Villains. Th roster pulls from the New 52, JSA and a shocker. 

  Martian Manhunter, Catwoman, Hawkman, Green Arrow, Stargirl, Vibe, Katana and the new Green Lantern. (Baz will be the first Arab Lantern debuting in September’s Green Lantern #0)

  Geoff Johns tells MTV Geek why this new version of the team forms:

  “The idea of why the JLA forms, and what it is, and what it’s in reaction to… It kind of spins out of Justice League #12; what happens in that, and then subsequent issues, because JLA comes out next year some time. But the book itself is a group of heroes that aren’t necessarily coming together because they want to be together… They’ve been selected specifically. They all want, or need something that Steve Trevor, and the other person behind the scenes that’s in charge of this team can provide.

  The first arc is going to deal with something they learn is called The Secret Society of Super-Villains.”

  There are a lot of surprise choices in this roster - Vibe? The choice that will make me try this book is Catwoman. Why is Batman’s femme fatale on the team?

  “Catwoman is a very different perspective, and is brought in for a very different reason. She stays because they have something that she wants… And it’s not at all what you’d expect. It’s not a big diamond, it’s not a get out of jail free card, it’s something she’s been searching for that’s going to lead to a whole exploration of a side of Selina Kyle we haven’t yet seen.

  But she is going to have a lot of fun on the team, she is going to be the Veronica to Stargirl’s Betty, if you will, and she has a new dynamic because we haven’t really seen her interact much with all these characters. Some of them not at all, like Vibe, and Stargirl… There’s not a lot of interaction between her and Martian Manhunter, and I don’t think she’s ever interacted with Steve Trevor that I can remember. Catwoman has a very different reason for being on the team.”

  For more from Geoff Johns here’s the  MTV Geek link.

 Justice League of America arrives in 2013.

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Huntress Romances Arrow

Huntress #1 courtesy DC Comics

  One of my favorite DC heroines is coming to the new series Arrow on The CW. Jessica De Gouw will play the Huntress in a multi-episode arc according to Entertainment Weekly.

  The Huntress is a vigilante, starred in her own series, has been a member of Birds of Prey and part of the Batman family. Helena Bertinelli is the daughter of a mafia boss out for revenge when her family is wiped out.

  Here’s the official character description:

  “Helena is a potential love interest for Oliver Queen; a fellow vigilante, set on destroying her father’s organized crime empire. But Helena’s blind pursuit of revenge will put her on a collision course with the Arrow.”

  The Huntress will arrive in Starling City in episode six according to EW.

The Huntress #5 courtesy DC Comics

  Batman’s world is filled with dangerous, resourceful women including Catwoman, Batwoman, Batgirl, Talia Al Ghul but one avenging angel I love is co-starring in her own comic book series and will appear opposite Green Arrow on television.

  The Huntress recently starred in her own mini-series seeking justice and stalking a mobster in Italy. DC Comics The Source shared scenes from Huntress #5 in which Helena assaulted an ancient monastery guarded by the Italian military.” This was the penultimate issue of her solo adventure but a new Huntress story is just beginning in DC Comics The New 52..

The Huntress #5 preview art courtesy DC Comics The Source

  The Huntress and Power Girl of Earth 2 are starring in a new World’s Finest – part of DC Comics The New 52 Second Wave. On Earth 2 Helena is Batman and Catwoman’s daughter. Paul Levitz, George Perez and Kevin Maguire will chronicle the duo’s mission to return home.

  The Huntress has one of my favorite costumes in comics and with a compelling back story making her a great anti-heroine.

  I’m thrilled to Helena on television and hope she may appear in a Batman movie some day.
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