4 February 2010

Blackest Night Wonder Woman #3 (Of 3)
Question #37 Blackest Night
Red Robin #9
Siege #2 (Of 4)
Siege Embedded #2 (Of 4) (maybe)
Ultimate Comics X #1

Flashforward

Watched the first episode, season 1 this morning. One word 'Awesome'. really liked the premise for the story. I had deliberately not read any magazine or website articles - didn't want any spoilers (although the name does give a fairly good idea of what happens). Anyway, looking forward to getting properly into it.

Avengers - The end?

Marvels' solicitations preview lists the series finales of The New Avengers, Dark Avengers, The Mighty Avengers and Avengers: The Initiative. It also solves the mystery of what Brian Michael Bendis and artist Bryan Hitch have been collaborating on: It's a 64-page one-shot called New Avengers: Finale.

Oh well!

Buy Pile 21 & 28 January 2010

Azrael #4
Batman Streets Of Gotham #8
Blackest Night The Flash #2 (Of 3)
Dark Avengers #13 Siege
Green Lantern Corps #44 Blackest Night
Phantom Stranger #42 Blackest Night
Spider-Woman #5
Starman #81 Blackest Night

Atom And Hawkman #46 Blackest Night
Batman And Robin #7
Blackest Night JSA #2 (Of 3)
Captain America Reborn #6 (Of 6)
Daredevil #504
Dark Reign Hawkeye #5 (Of 5)
Detective Comics #861
Gotham City Sirens #8
Green Lantern #50 Blackest Night
Justice League Cry For Justice #6 (Of 7)
Pilot Season Demonic #1 (maybe)

PC case mod

This has to be the coolest case mod I have ever seen for a PC. It rocks:

Due 24th - 14th January

Adventure Comics #5 (BN - to collect)
Rebels #11 (BN - to collect)

Batgirl #6
Batman #695
Batman Widening Gyre #4 (Of 6)
Black Widow Deadly Origin #3 (Of 4)
Catwoman #83 Blackest Night
Marvels Project #5 (Of 8)
Power Of Shazam #48 Blackest Night
Secret Six #17 Blackest Night

Blackest Night Wonder Woman #2 (Of 3)
Haunt #4
Red Robin #8
Siege #1 (Of 4)
Siege Embedded #1 (Of 4)
Weird Western Tales #71 Blackest Night

Captain America Reborn: Who Will Wield the Shield? (maybe)
Last Days Of American Crime #1 (Of 3) (R. Remender) (maybe)
Origins of Siege (maybe)
Blackest Night #6
Arkham Reborn #3 (Of 3)
Blackest Night JSA #1 (Of 3)
Detective Comics #860
Gotham City Sirens #7
Green Lantern #49 Blackest Night
Image United #2 (Of 6)
Teen Titans #78 Blackest Night

Ultimate X

I recently read Ultimatum and thought it was pretty awesome. It restored my faith in the Ultimate universe. So, I am somewhat excited about the prospect of another Ultimate single issue comic run (I am enjoying Millars' current Marvel Ultimate Comic). Ultimate X (due out next month) looks pretty cool and now we have a full list of key characters I think. I want to be careful not to read too many spoilers before I get my hands on this. I hope it is good.

The A-Team

Check out the trailer for the new film - it does look like a lot of fun. A little bit of the original theme tune - lots of explosions - a dude with a mohawk afro and a dude with a cigar - Check!

Invincible Iron Man - New suit!

As much as I love the character of Iron Man, I must confess to not reading any of the core publications. So I don't know what is really happening in Tony Stark's life other than a coma? and financial ruin? Anyway, there is a new suit. Check it out!

What do you think?

Green Lantern Variant #50

Saw this on Comicvine. It is pretty awesome.

Thor update

Courtesy of Garth Franklin on Dark Horizons:

With the troubled "Spider-Man 4" set to depart its original release date of May 5th 2011 for sometime later that season, the film schedule is already shuffling to compensate.

Box-Office Mojo reports that Marvel Studios' "Thor" has moved from its May 20th 2011 date to May 5th to fill the hole left by Spidey.

Shortly after, Disney pushed its "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" sequel up and will now take over the old "Thor" pre-Memorial Day weekend slot on May 20th.


I have to say I am getting kinda excited at the prospect of Thor. It will be interesting to see what part Thor will play in Marvels up-coming Siege storyline and whether that encourages the public to get more excited about the film.

Apple Tablet

Will you get one? It is apparently being announced the end of this month. CNET.COM had this to say:

There are two schools of thought on this: either the Apple tablet (or iSlate, or whatever it ends up being called) will be a 10-or-so-inch tablet PC with a full Mac OS X operating system; or it will merely be a larger-screen version of the current iPod Touch, which has a closed, limited phone-like OS.

The former would mean it could very likely run any software you'd run on a MacBook, from Firefox to Photoshop, and maybe even install Windows 7 via Boot Camp or Parallels. The later points to a hermetically sealed ecosystem, where apps would have to be approved and sold through an official app store (as in iTunes).

Initially, at least, the scant evidence hinted at the Apple tablet being akin to a touch-screen, keyboardless version of the company's current laptops. After all, convertible tablet laptops are, if not common, than at least easy to find. While mostly intended for medical, education, or other specialized markets, there are a handful of consumer-oriented ones, such as HP's TouchSmart series.

This made me laugh

I want a computer like this!

Item 1 - Etymotic hf2 headset and earphones

For me, earphones are an essential item. The packaged iPhone earphones are seriously lacking. The sound quality they produce is rubbish and they don't sit in your ear very comfortably. But, they do have 'controls' on the cable so you can pause, play music etc or take calls when on the move. So while researching replacement earphones, I was only looking for ones that had similar or better controls. Surprisingly there are not that many options, well, good options. I found Etymotic and a selection of their earphones. The hf2's have similar controls to the bog standard iPhone ones but much much better quality and noise reducing. At £90 they are not cheap, but I have to say, pretty darn good sound quality. For an extra £100, they will custom make the 'bud' based on the shape of your ear. Now I have them, they are always packed in the bag.


Includes:

* hf2 headset + earphones with 4 ft. cable
* Assorted eartips
* Filter tool with 2 replacement filters
* Storage pouch

Essential 'Man-Bag' items

The 'Man-Bag' has become an essential item for most males of the modern age. Most dudes I know either have one bag or a selection of them. I recently got myself a new bag for work and did a fair bit or research to find one that matched my needs. I needed a bag that could keep documents and comics (lol) flat for reading on the train and ideally a bag that wouldn't keel over every time I laid it on the floor. Now some people would say, a bag is a bag. Well, as I spend around 3 hours a day traveling, I need books, comics, newspapers, gadgets etc to accompany me and I need a decent bag to hold them.

So I found Crumpler http://www.crumpler.co.uk. They have a shop just off Holborn. They are a boutique bag shop and pretty funky with it. I opted for the Gentleman Farmer range. It has a metal frame in it that keeps it upright (Sweet!) It has a hard casing to protect a laptop or equivalent and loads of pockets and zips for the smaller items.

So it got me thinking, what are the essential items for a Man-Bag? My thoughts to follow.

P.S. Happy New Year.