At Tide We Sail

This is a buddy of mines band, they are pretty good if you are into contemporary metal, and rock. If not check em' out anyway and maybe they will change your mind! Just thought I'd give them a quick shout out on here.

At Tide We Sail- We are Here to Stay 

At Tide We Sail- In Love I Am






At Tide We Sail- Molotov 

Marvel NOW! Pt. 1

So, Marvel comics has gone all out with this Marvel NOW! "reboot". They aren't calling it a full blown reboot in the vain of DC Comics New 52, but they are making a lot of changes. The most notable of these changes is many books getting a new #1 with new creative teams taking over on them. They (Marvel) have also announced a couple new ongoing series' featuring some of Marvel's top talent.

Also, they are changing the focus on their covers, giving artists the freedom to turn them more into a movie poster style focus. 

So, I'm gonna just post some of the newest announcements in the last couple months, and offer my opinion.

Deadpool: 

Brian Posehn, Gerry Duggan, and Tony Moore will be taking over the "Merc with a Mouth" starting November. As you can tell my the teaser image, and the creative team the book will probably have some comedy in it.

I don't mind having a little bit of comedy, but I would much prefer to see Deadpool be the super badass we all know and love. Obviously you can't have Deadpool without comedy, just like you can't have Spider-Man without wisecracks, but I would much rather see a badass Deadpool who cracks some GOOD jokes, and gets put into funny situations that only a highly trained mercenary of his caliber could escape. 

I love Tony Moore's art, and I hope he will stick around for more than five issues, but he usually doesn't. I'm more than happy to be proven wrong though. Also, my worry about having two comedians on the book is that they will try to go overboard with the slapstick comedy. I'll once again reiterate that I would love to see him return to being more focused on over the top action.

I'll probably pick up the first issue, but the story, and overall feel of the books will determine whether I stay on board for a while or not. Also, Tony Moore is crucial for me to stay on board as well. If they get someone decent to follow him, that really compliments his art style I'll stick around.

Captain America: 

Okay, this is the big one for me because I'm a HUGE Captain America fan, HUGE is actually an understatement.

Rick Remender, and John Romita Jr. are gonna take over the Super Soldier, and I'm honestly super excited. Rick Remender has been writing Uncanny X-Force since it's conception two years ago, and is still one of my favorite books. It has been so rewarding reading it over time, and watching all the story threads intertwine, and finally start to come to a head. He also started the latest Venom ongoing series which for me was an incredible success of what the character can, and should be. The issue he (Remender) left is the issue I left because I knew the book just wouldn't be the same (Nothing against Cullen Bunn who took over the writing duties).

Now for John Romita Jr. (JRJr). He is my all time favorite artist. I just love the way he finds the happy medium between cartoony, and realistic. If you are in to comics then you know his Spider-Man is second to none. That being said his Captain America can tend to look a little weird at times, and a little less Super Soldiery than he should but hopefully this doesn't end up being the case.

I currently get this book every month, and that won't change when this new creative team takes over.

Fantastic Four: 

It is going to be very hard to follow up Jonathan Hickman's run on the Fantastic Four. He did such a good job at bringing the book back to being about the "First Family", and not just cosmic battles or constant conflicts with Doctor Doom. This doesn't mean that there hasn't been good stories before Hickman, but he has been on the book so long introducing so many new plot threads, and finally wrapping them all up so nicely. It has been such a rewarding feeling sticking with that book through his entire run. Not to mention the book was very smart, and very calculated throughout.

I also like Matt Fraction's work as well. Salvador Larrocca and him have made Iron Man a top tier Marvel character again (with some help from the movies). Hopefully he can breathe some more new life into the Fantastic Four, and bring them back to the top tier of superheroes as well. People forget that the Fantastic Four used to be the biggest franchise in the Marvel Universe, and in my opinion they have made leaps and bounds to get back there, but just haven't quite made it back to the top yet.

Now, Mark Bagley hasn't done many issues on a Marvel ongoing since his Ultimate Spider-Man days with Brian Michael Bendis. He's currently doing the art for Avengers Assemble; which Bendis also writes; but I think it's safe to assume that once Marvel now starts to get into full force Avengers Assemble is either going to be cancelled, or have a new creative team as well. 

I currently get this book every month, and have been on the fence about dropping it since around June. I'm going to stick with it tell November when this team takes over, but the first issue from this new team will make or break the series for me. 

????:

Not quite sure what this book is going to be, but seeing as how Matt Fraction is doing the writing I assume it is going to be attached to Fantastic Four much like Hickman's FF. This might even be a teaser for FF but Marvel is just trying to throw us off track.

More than likely it is Fantastic Four related, and Michael Allred does good work in the art department so once I find out more I'll determine if it is a book I want or not.

Invincible Iron man:

No surprise here that Kieron Gillen is taking over Invincible Iron Man. I say that because the guy has pretty much only followed Matt Fraction on every book he writes. Fraction took over to write Thor, and Gillen followed him. Fraction did some Uncanny X-Men, Gillen followed him. This isn't to discredit him as a writer, I've actually enjoyed some of his stories, but I dropped Thor (which turned into Journey Into Mystery) for being too boring, and Uncanny X-Men is unfortunately getting canceled in favor of Bendis' two new X-Men books in November.

Greg Land does great art, and I really enjoy it. It's very realistic but at the same time he adds a certain style that just makes any book he's on pop for me.

I currently get this book as well, but as I said previously when talking about Matt Fraction's run on the Invincible Iron Man it's been revolutionary. Along with Salvador Larocca they have brought back new life into the Iron Avenger, and have been doing if for the last three years (maybe more or less, not entirely sure). Their run on this book has resulted in multiple Eisner Award nomination, and Eisner Award wins including best new ongoing series a couple years ago. Much like the Fantastic Four the first couple issues of this book will make or break how I feel about it, and whether I will continue to get it.

Alright, that's it for part one of my impressions of Marvel NOW! I'm gonna keep my ear to the ground because Marvel still hasn't announced what ongoing Ed Brubaker will be writing outside of Winter Soldier, and he is currently one of my favorite authors. Plus: My thoughts on The Mighty Thor which is being taken over by a creative team I completely didn't expect. As well as my extreme excitement for the new team on Incredible Hulk, but my skepticism on how long it will last.

Let us not forget about the major announcements either: The new teams on Avengers, and New Avengers as well. The creative teams launching the new books, and what it might mean! Stay tuned I'll be back with more !

The Amazing Spider-Man Trailer Has Leaked!

Another highly anticipated movie, another leaked trailer. Seriously, this has become an epidemic it seems, and a part of me is bummed that this keeps happening because I like being surprised. Then on the other hand, its always cool to see things early. Once again, this is a shaky cam leak so don't expect anything too hight quality until the trailer officially lands worldwide on Friday. Even then the trailer probably won't be posted online until next Monday.

Watch and enjoy, and I will have an HD version when it becomes available.

DC: The New 52 Hardcover Collection Announced

DC Comics announced today that they plan to release a hardcover graphic novel on December 7th that will collect all 52 #1's from the companies previously announced series re-boots. Rumor is that it will be 1216 pages long, but no details have been announced if it will include any bonus material from any of the series creators.

The books is going to feature the work of Geoff Johns, Jim Lee, Scott Snyder, Grant Morrison, Rags Morales, Doug Mahnke, Yanick Paquette, and many others.

The question now is whether you will decide to buy each individual comic when it comes out, or wait for the big hardcover collection when it becomes available? Or possibly both?

Avengers Assemble! Teaser Trailer Leaked?

It was brought to my attention yesterday that a bootleg copy of The Avengers teaser trailer has leaked, so I decided I had to see it to believe it. Well, it is in fact true, and even though the quality is bad, especially the audio it gave me goosebumps to watch. I have posted the video below, and I would have posted the link for where I originally saw it, but it has since been taken down from the site. The video is posted below. It will officially premiere after the credits of Captain America: The First Avenger so make sure you stick around.

We get a good look at Captain America's new costume as well as Thor's and Hawkeyes. Tony Stark appears both in, and out of the Iron Man Armor, and Black Widow has a couple scenes as well. It is very short, and it is a lot to take in through such a short period of time. When it is officialy released I'm going to have to watch, and re-watch it. Another thing I found interesting is we dont see Hulk at all. We dont even see Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner. So either Joss Whedon is keeping him hidden still, or he wont play as big a role as we all thought he would. I cant be sure, just something to think about.

I cant wait to see this in HD. I'm officially more excited to see this movie than I am The Dark Knight Rises. Tell me what you think in the comments below.

New Captain America Poster

It seems that every day lately Marvel keeps unveiling behind the scenes info about Captain America: The First Avenger, and today is no different. Below is a picture of a new poster just released today, and might I say I think it's the best yet. Let me know what you think in the comments section.

Also, a few days back this exclusive look at a shield fighting sequence was revealed. It got me incredibly excited and I decided to share it within this post as well. Check right after the picture for the clip and tell me what you think about that as well. Cap is my all time favorite hero, and so far this movie looks like it is going to do him some justice.

This is the clip I talked about earlier. I hope that you enjoy it as much as I did, and remember go see the movie in theaters July 22nd. Go at midnight for good measure, I'll be there. Hope to have it reviewed by the next day.

The Dark Knight Rises First Official Images

I decided to post the first OFFICIAL images from The Dark Knight Rises while I wait for a high quality version of the trailer. I know all of you have probably already seen them but just humor me..or something.


Tom Hardy is looking like a beast as Bane so far


This is the first poster that has come out to advertise the movie


And just to be clear, any other image that you see is fake, or a really good fan re-creation. These are the only two pictures we have recieved outside of the trailer that just landed

The Dark Knight Rises Teaser Trailer [UPDATE] 7/18/11

So, I'm a little late to the posting parade that happened a couple days ago when this trailer first leaked, but I waited to see how many of the videos were going to get pulled down before I decided to do any posting. Turns out that all the good quality vids are gone so I'm posting a kind of decent one but I guess I'll let you guys be the judge of that. I also thought I would post a couple just so you could see different qualities, and I will for sure post the official Warner Bros realeased version when it becomes available which I imagine will be no later then Monday.

[UPDATE]: The official version of the trailer is here, and you can finally see and hear everything as if you were watching it in the theater. Look for it below where the other two videos used to be.

A couple key points to look for: Gordon in the hospital bed (pay close attention to the conversation)
-They flash a close up of Bane really fast, and you can see his mask and bald head.
-I'm gonna leave the last little bit a secret and all I'm gonna say is pay attention to the end

This teaser is probably going to be showing before a lot of movies releasing in the theaters in the future, and though there isn't a lot of new footage I'm incredibly excited. I saw it in the theater, and it looked much better, especially with the booming audio. Either way let me know what you think. The scene at the end with Batman backing away from Bane is pretty intense, and I think they will probably have the best PHYSICAL, not PSCHOLOGICAL, but PHYSICAL fight out of all three of Nolan's Batman movies. 

Amazing Spider-Man graces the cover of Entertainment Weekly

Very excited to share some news about the Amazing Spider-Man starring Andrew Garfield, and Emma Stone. I'm pretty impressed, and even more excited to see this film. The issue of Entertainment Weekly is available for purchase everywhere now. Also, let me know what you think back here on the comments section.

































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