Pop Culture Roundup: Daredevil on Disney! Detective Comics #27 Redux! More!
ITEM! DC Comics is republishing Detective Comics #27, which features the first appearance of Batman.
ITEM! Disney+ is planning a revived "Daredevil" series.
ITEM! Frank Miller and artist Emma Kubert (daughter of Andy and granddaughter of Joe) are collaborating on a fairy tale-inspired young adult comic.
ITEM! Electronic music composer Vangelis, famed for his themes to "Chariots of Fire" and "Blade Runner" has died at age 79.
New Music Out May 20: The Clash! Coltrane! Mavis and Levon! More!
Our picks this week. Click the links to order from Amazon.
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New Marvel Legends Figures: Mojoworld! Japanese Spidey! Retro Sentinel! More!
Check availability on Amazon.
Mojoworld 4-Pack
Mojoworld figure 4-pack includes Longshot, Marvel’s Mojo, and Dazzler 6-inch action figures, as well as a Wolverine slug figure
Marvel Legends Series 60th Anniversary Japanese Spider-Man
War Machine
Retro 375 Sentinel
Firelord
Disney+ Sharon Carter
Pop Culture Roundup: Marvel Buys Stan! Wonder Twins Deactivated! More!
ITEM! Marvel Comics has purchased the rights to Stan Lee's name and likeness. I just hope they give Jack Kirby credit for creating him.
ITEM! An Elton John documentary is planned by Disney+.
ITEM! A Wonder Twins movie planned by HBO Max is no longer planned.
ITEM! Whoa! The Matchbox Mobile Command Center is cool!
Check Out This Cool "The Curse of Frankenstein" Poster by Francesco Francavilla
A cool image by one of the better comics artists working at the moment. Available tomorrow, 5/19, only from Mondo. Details here.
Check Out Mezco's New, Retro Amazing Spider-man Figure
More info here.
Details:
The One:12 Collective Amazing Spider-Man evokes the nostalgic look and feel of his early appearances in his comics, suited up in a classic Spider-Man suit with web detailing and a spider insignia on his front and back. The Amazing Spider-Man figure boasts a whooping 5 head portraits! These include a light-up eyes portrait, 2 masked portraits with different eye shapes, an unmasked Peter Parker portrait, and a Spider-Sense portrait.
Peter Parker has perfected his web formula and is brimming with all-new web accessories including a shield, parachute, body slingshot, lasso loop that attaches to the torsos of most One:12 Collective figures, a backpack that he can wear, and more. Track down the Green Goblin with the included spider-tracers or capture the perfect photo for the Daily Bugle with the included camera that can be worn around Spider-Man’s neck.
Part time student, scientist, and photographer - full-time superhero. With arachnid abilities, Peter Parker swings above it all as Spider-Man who lives and fights with the wisdom of “with great power comes great responsibility”.
Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart - Vinyl Release of Live and Studio Releases on the Way
Coming up from 7a Records. Check for it here on Amazon.
Details:
One of our biggest releases to date; the release of Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart’s original studio and live albums! We have tracked down the original master tapes and remastered both albums. Released on July 8 as deluxe 2CD and 2LP sets, the CD version will include a massive 40 page colour booklet featuring extensive liner notes and previously unseen photos. The 2LP version comes in a gatefold sleeve and is pressed on special 180g Green, Black and Yellow Quad Vinyl.
In the mid-1970s promoters were trying to reunite the Monkees, but with Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork unavailable, it was suggested that Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones team up with
Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart to tour as ‘The Golden Great Hits Of The Monkees Show – ‘The Guys Who Wrote ‘Em & The Guys Who Sang ‘Em’’. The group signed a deal with Capitol Records
to record a self-titled studio album of new material. They later released a live album from their tour of Japan. Both albums have been unavailable and out of print for many years.
Track listing:
LP 1 (the Studio Album)
Side One
1. Right Now
2. I Love You (And I’m Glad That I Said It)
3. You And I
4. Teenager In Love
5. Sail On Sailor
6. It Always Hurts The Most In The Morning
Side Two
1. Moonfire
2. You Didn’t Feel That Way Last Night (Don’t You Remember)
3. Along Came Jones
4. Savin’ My Love For You
5. I Remember The Feeling
6. Sweet Heart Attack
LP 2 (Concert in Japan)
Side One
1. Last Train To Clarksville
2. Medley:
Valleri/Daydream Believer/A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You
3. I Wonder What She’s Doing Tonight
4. (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone
5. I Wanna Be Free
6. Savin’ My Love For You
7. Pleasant Valley Sunday
Side Two
1. I Remember The Feeling
2. A Teenager In Love
3 Cuddly Toy
4. Medley:
Come A Little Bit Closer/Pretty Little Angel Eyes/Hurt So Bad/
Peaches ‘N’ Cream/Something’s Wrong With Me/Keep On Singing
5. I Love You (And I’m Glad That I Said It)
6. Action
She & Him Announce "Melt Away" - Brian Wilson Covers LP
This should be fun. Out Order now from Amazon.
Details:
She & Him’s seventh studio album is a loving, LP-length tribute to one of the greatest living American songwriters and singers, Brian Wilson. Melt Away: A Tribute to Brian Wilson finds Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward diving deep into the legendary artist’s extensive songbook, offering fascinating and delectable new spins on time-honored classics and overlooked gems alike. These fourteen covers are infused with the familiar magic that She & Him fans know and love, opening a new window into Wilson’s iconic catalog. Wilson even features on a song with Zooey and M. Ward for the album, “Do It Again.” The band have enjoyed a friendship, and mutual appreciation, with Wilson over the years and She & Him was previously a guest vocalist on his 2015 album, No Pier Pressure.
“In the spring of 2020, we started a list of our favorite Brian songs — a very long list,” the duo explains. “We chose songs without any regard to their chart performance. The obscure ones hit us just as hard as the more popular songs — and all are ripe for re-imagining, re-interpreting, and re-inventing. Brian writes songs of beauty and loneliness and vulnerability better than anyone — and by sequencing them next to popular songs of confidence and love and fun, it creates a more complete picture of life on earth.”
TRACK LIST:
- Darlin’
- Wouldn’t It Be Nice
- Til I Die
- Deirdre
- Melt Away
- Good To My Baby
- Don’t Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
- Don’t Worry Baby
- This Whole World
- Kiss Me, Baby
- Do It Again ft. Brian Wilson
- Heads You Win, Tails I Lose
- Please Let Me Wonder
- Meant For You
Pop Culture Roundup: Batman! Bardot! League of Extraordinary Gentleman! More!
ITEM! DC Comics' upcoming "One Bad Day" is a series of one-shot, 64-page comics that pit Batman against some of his greatest foes.
ITEM! Nicholas Pinnock and Christopher Eccleston will star in the film "A God Amongst Men," which tells the story about an man who brings Muhammad Ali to England to save a boxing club from closure.
ITEM! Jan Berry's original music scores for Jan and Dean recordings are now being made available for sale.
ITEM! A Brigitte Bardot documentary is in the works from "Ma Vie en Rose" director Alain Berliner.
ITEM! Harrison Ford and Helena Mirren will star in "1932," another "Yellowstone" prequel series.
ITEM! Hulu plans a "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" series.
New Comics Collected Editions Out May 18: She-Hulk! Moon Knight! Sandman! More!
Items of interest out this week. Click the links to order from Amazon.
Mickey, Minnie, Donald Duck, Horace Horsecollar, and Clarabelle Cow go camping to forget the Great Depression. But when they return to Mouseton, they find shady real-estate developer Rock Fuller destroying it to build a golf course… with the help of an army of "zombies," transformed from normal citizens with a magic drink! What does Mickey's old enemy Pegleg Pete have to do with this evil scheme… and can Mickey trip it up?
Famed French cartoonist Régis Loisel won the Angouleme International Comics Festival's Grand Prize in 2006, and has been nominated in other years for numerous projects. Loisel has also worked as a Disney animator and was thrilled to produce this stellar tribute!
Zombie Coffee is told in the daily-comic-strip-serial style of Disney legend Floyd Gottfredson's beloved early Mickey adventures ― packed with action, laughs, and magnificent details that explode off the pages! This deluxe edition is a landscape-formatted hardcover that comes in a portrait-formatted slipcase ― and so the buyer can shelve it vertically but read it in its full cinemascope-style glory!
After 20 years working on film and series shoots, Benoît Cohen is drained. His enthusiasm gone, a desire to stop writing and put down the camera takes over. In the city for a year, he still wonders about how best to absorb the rich diversity of the cosmopolitan metropolis, settling on a simple idea: he will become a taxi driver.
Behind the iconic Yellow Cab, behind the fantasy of freedom and independence, behind the faces of his thousands of passengers, Benoît discovers a world in which he is a stranger. First, the administrative maze that leads to the taxi driver’s license. Then the world behind the scenes. And, finally, the prejudices that surround the profession and lead the customers, cops and entire city to look at it, quite randomly, either with indifference, kindness, or aggression.
Benoît Cohen dives into his new life with the idea of turning it into a screenplay for a future film, but the material he collects from this social experiment marks him deeply, leading down unsuspected paths. The project transforms into an autobiographical novel interspersed with reflections on the creative process.
With the help of Chabouté, it is now a sensitive, deeply human graphic novel, with breathtaking illustrations that pay vibrant tribute to the most famous of American cities.
Once, Marc Spector was the Egyptian god Khonshu’s avatar on Earth. But now, Spector and Khonshu are at odds. Moon Knight desperately wants to get back in the hero game, but every battle pushes him closer to the edge — both in brutality and sanity! As the increasingly unstable Moon Knight tries to navigate the superhero Civil War, he finds himself in the sights of Norman Osborn’s Thunderbolts! Spector must take refuge far away, in one of his multiple personas — but the lure of vengeance is too strong to keep him away for long. Can Moon Knight reclaim his heroic ideals, or will he succumb to the shadows — and end up back under Khonshu’s thrall?
COLLECTING: Moon Knight (2006) 1-30, Moon Knight Annual (2007) 1, Moon Knight: Silent Knight (2008) 1, Vengeance of the Moon Knight (2009) 1-10, Shadowland: Moon Knight (2010) 1-3
Gamma-powered HULK scribe Peter David crafts a whole new direction for the lean green fighting machine, as the world’s most dangerous lawyer takes on the world’s most dangerous job! But why has Jennifer Walters become a bounty hunter? What happened to her once thriving legal career? And what startling secret is her new partner Jazinda hiding? Okay, Jazinda is a Skrull — but what’s her other secret?! As Shulkie tracks down criminals and wrestles with justice, she’ll face the Absorbing Man, alien enforcers, a Celtic god — and the might of the Man-Elephant! But will She-Hulk’s allies the Lady Liberators cause an international incident, or a cosmic crisis? And when the Skrulls launch their Secret Invasion, where do Jazinda’s loyalties lie?
COLLECTING: She-Hulk (2005) 22-38, She-Hulk: Cosmic Collision (2008) 1, X-Factor (2005) 33-34, Sensational She-Hulk (1989) 12, material from She-Hulk Sensational (2010) 1
High King Agamemnon faces the most crushing dilemma of his life. Kill his beloved eldest daughter? Or forfeit victory in the Trojan War? A father’s secret plot clashes with a girl’s romantic dreams in this chilling classic play from Ancient Greece.
The most powerful dramatic script by EURIPIDES springs to life anew in a fresh adaptation by writer EDWARD EINHORN (Paradox in Oz, Fractions in Disguise, The Marriage of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein) with AGE OF BRONZE art by Eisner Award-winning ERIC SHANOWER (AGE OF BRONZE, Oz Graphic Novels, Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland).
A murder on the London Underground and a mysterious bloody knife draw a regular university student and a grizzled New Scotland Yard detective into a web of crime and suspense…
Watch "Ways of Seeing" with John Berger, 1972
First episode of the classic British art appreciations series.
Pop Culture Roundup: Donna's Grandad Back on "Doctor Who" and More!
ITEM! See every pop culture reference in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
ITEM! The Comics Journal checks out 1970s British comic The Sarge.
ITEM! Also returning to "Doctor Who"? Donna's granddad, played by the great Bernard Cribbins.
ITEM! Get well soon Eric "No-Mask" Clapton.
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