Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 6/17/23
Fun week in comics for me this week. We’ve got a pair of new issues, and that’s always a hoot. But we’ve also got the second issue of Green Lantern. So it’s one of those weeks.
Comic Book of the Week goes to Void Rivals #1 for a pretty much perfectly structured and told first issue, which sufficiently teases whatever this new Energon Universe is going to be.
Meanwhile, I’ve taken a pause from Tears of the Kingdom to try out Diablo 4 with some friends of mine, and it’s been a fine choice. I love the Diablo games and this one is just as fun as the others. I also watched and enjoyed The Flash movie, so come back on Wednesday for my review/thoughts.
Comic Reviews: Black Panther #1, Green Lantern #2 and Void Rivals #1.
Read the rest of this entryNimona Looks Pretty Great
There’s a new animated movie coming to Netflix called Nimona, based on a comic by N.D. Stevenson. I never read the comic, but Stevenson was the genius behind She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, so I trust everything they do from now on. Nimona looks pretty great!
Looks fun, looks pretty silly, but it also looks touching and cool. Nimona is being hailed as an LGBTQ+ story, which is great for Pride Month. I’m definitely looking forward to watching this one.
Nimona comes to Netflix on June 30.
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Our First Look at Star Wars: Outlaws Looks Pretty Good
A big, open world Star Wars game has been rumored for some time now. I even did a List of Six about what I’d like to see in such a game when it was first announced two years ago. Based on the new trailer and game announcement, looks like I’m getting about half of what I hoped for. Star Wars: Outlaws will be a non-Jedi game where you play as a plucky, young scoundrel getting up to crimes and mischief sometime during the original trilogy timeframe.
Here’s the cinematic announcement trailer.
Looks fine. Looks full of Star Wars stuff. The protagonist looks neat. I’m disappointed that she’s just another human. And a white person at that. But I can live with it. At least she’s a woman. This is Star Wars. Why can’t we have really diverse alien protagonists for some of these games? Does that not test well? Would nobody buy the game if the protagonist was a lady Twi’lek?
Anyway, here’s the gameplay trailer.
Again, looks fine. That’s all the open world gameplay stuff that I really enjoy. I like how she can transition between locations, including planets, maybe. I like how she can use her little pet to accomplish stuff in game, like effect the environment and grab new weapons.
But it also all looks kind of samey. Nothing really stands out as new or exciting for an open world game. So perhaps it will just be a generally enjoyable Star Wars game. Nothing wrong with that. I like those.
Star Wars: Outlaws, produced by Ubisoft, comes out sometime next year.
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6 Zippiest Comic Book Speedsters (Other than the Flash)
The Flash movie is finally coming out this week, so we’re going to celebrate comic book speedsters! Super speed is a classic super power, so it only makes sense that I take a good, long look at all the other super speedy superheroes out there in comic book land. What better way to honor the Fastest Man Alive?
There will be plenty of restrictions to this list. I only want to focus on characters whose main deal is super speed. Superman has super speed among his powers, but he doesn’t count. (Also, in my opinion, the Fast is faster than Superman.) Also, I don’t want to use any of the Flash’s sidekicks, allies or villains. They all have super speed, and would take up the list entirely. I want this list to be about other speedsters, ones who don’t get the movies or get much focus. The unsung speedsters of the comic book world, if you will!
So join me after the jump for six of the slickest speedsters in all of comic books!
Read the rest of this entryTuesday Trailerpalooza
Last week, a metric ton of new trailers come out for everything from indie movies to big action movies to TV shows to video games. How am I supposed to keep up with them all? By dumping them on all in a single post on a Tuesday. Go me!
First up is the new movie Bottoms, which looks pretty fun as a silly, potentially raunchy high school teen comedy.
I might for sure give this one a watch if it comes to a theater near me. Could be funny. Could be really bad. There’s only one way to find out. Bottoms comes to theaters on Aug. 25.
Next up, let’s check out the trailer for the second season of Good Omens!
I really enjoyed the book, I really enjoyed the first season, and I’ll be happy to watch a second season. I’m sure they’ll have a ton of fun with this one! I think it’s an entirely new story, since the book didn’t have a sequel. As long as it’s got Neil Gaiman’s seal of approval, I’ll be content.
Good Omens season two comes to Amazon Prime on July 28.
Thirdly, it’s the full trailer for the long-awaited Venture Bros. wrap-up movie, which has the silly title of Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart.
I love the Venture Bros. as much as the next person. I even cosplayed as Henchman 21 at a couple of comic cons. Those pictures exist on the internet. Anyway, as much as I loved the show, I was somebody who got annoyed at how rarely new seasons came out. They were good seasons when they did…but they also rarely accomplished anything, paid off anything or were very memorable for the next five years of new content.
It was a shame when the show got cancelled, but…eh. I’ll gladly watch this movie. Hopefully they do pay off everything they put into this series. Or maybe there will just be more movies.
The Venture Bros.: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart will come to digital and DVD at the end of July.
Lastly, for now, we got a full game trailer for Moral Kombat 1.
I’ve played pretty much every Mortal Kombat game of the modern era. I’ll probably play this one at some point. Looks fine. No sign of Smoke, though, so perhaps I’ll have to wait for Mortal Kombat 2. I’m sure this one will be as fun as all the others.
Mortal Kombat 1 comes out on Sept. 19.
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