All Work And No Play

Goddamn, Scott Snyder is one busy sonofabitch this week. Not only is the first issue of the latest miniseries spinoff from his home title, American Vampire, out, but the first issue of his version of Batman’s origin, Zero Year dropped as well. And on top of both of those giant-sized issue, his first issue of the Jim Lee-drawn Superman Unchained is out, just two days before Man of Steel hits theaters and drives scores of new comic readers to comic stores (yeah, we all know that that’s not a thing that happens. If superhero movies really drove lots of new people to buy comic books, I’d have to elbow people out of the way when I go to my local comic store, where they know me by name and ask me to stop drawing red underpants on Superman. And Batman. And the city Health Inspector.

But regardless of any big superhero movie, that’s still a lot of comics from one writer… and those are far from the only interesting-looking comic books that were released today. And, since they were released today, you know what that means: it means that this…

…is the end of our broadcast day.

This week gave us kind of a light take, but there is still some good-looking stuff in that pile. We’ve got a new issue of The Walking Dead (and maybe… maybe… someone will finally do something about Negan after a full fucking year of stories about that douchebag), the first issue of a new miniseries of The Crow that’s written by series creator James O’Barr, the latest Guardians of The Galaxy by Brian Michael Bendis, Thumbprint by Locke And Key writer Joe Hill, a new issue of Brian Wood’s killer Star Wars, and a bunch of other cool stuff.

But you know how this works: before we can talk about any of them, we need time to read them (and in the case of Superman Unchained, to figure out how to detach and read the poster insert without destroying the entire fucking comic book). So while we tackle that task…

…see you tomorrow, suckers!

The Head of The Giant Magic Lizard: Trailer For The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Released

We are in the height of summer movie season, which means that the movie studios, flush with cash and sucking in more every big weekend, are busily humping the beginnings of their holiday movie offerings. Because after all, three or four billion dollars between May and August is nice, but Christmas is in December, and every good movie executive knows that Paco, their pool cleaner, is relying on their holiday tip to make the down payment on the Porsche.

And if you’re gonna tease a future movie in the time of the massive explodo picture, it had better be a big one… and it surely is. The rumor is that, opening up for screenings of Man of Steel, will be the first trailer for the second Hobbit movie, The Desolation of Smaug. And considering that the title of the movie contains the name of a fucking dragon, that trailer had really deliver some giant fire lizard goodness (That’s what she said! …yeah, sorry; even I feel guilty about that gag. Moving on…).

What’s that? You simply can’t wait until the day after tomorrow to lay your eyes on that massive, slithering heat-spitter (Jesus, now even I feel dirty)? Well, I have good news for you: you can check the trailer out right here, after the jump.