Disney buys Marvel for $4 Billion!

The Walt Disney Company announced this morning that they intend to aquire Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion. The reactions among fans are mixed in both companies. What do you guys think?

Smallville Season 9 Official Promo!

Pics from Comic Con 09

SDCC 09 Trailer for Planet Hulk

Sorry for all the delays guys. I'll be back on track this week.

-Pete

Play It Cool

General Zod

British actor Callum Blue has been cast to play the role of General Zod in the ninth season of Smallville. Blue previously played a character named Mason on the show Dead Like Me (one of my favorite shows). Great casting CW.

Galaxy News Radio

My buddy Rick (whose favorite comics include: The Dark Knight Returns and Kingdom Come) is the host of an SD radio show. He is a frequent visitor of the blog and participates regularly in the Funny Caption Contests. It airs on Tuesdays from 8pm-9pm. Check it out, it's good stuff.

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Invincible #63

Invincible has won me over in the last year and is now in my top three comics to buy list. While the Invincible War storyline was a bit confusing (mainly because I didn't pick up the crossover books) I was still blown away by the story developments and the wonderful art. This issue once again delivers. There's a MAJOR SPOILER for fans of the series.

Highlights (SPOILERS)

• Conquest and Invincible continue their battle for the planet.
  
• Invincible is barely able to hurt Conquest as the older Viltrumite lays the smack down on poor Mark.
  
• Mark's younger brother Oliver (AKA Omni-Boy) joins the fray but does little before he is taken down.
  
• Eve, Mark's girlfriend and super heroine known as Atom Eve in her own right, wakes up from the coma she was put in during the Invincible War.
  
• She sees Invincible getting killed on television and rushes in to help.
• Conquest kills her. Brutally. It's pretty graphic.
• Mark, now severely beaten and with a severed leg, mourns Eve's death.
• The issue ends with Mark promising that no matter how superior Conquest is to him in everyway, he will die for killing Eve.
  

Batman and Robin #1

A big fan of All Star Superman, I wouldn't miss this series for the world. The team of Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely has won me over before. Hopefully they'll go 2/2 in this series.

Highlights (Spoilers)

• The new duo of Batman and Robin (Dick Grayson and Damien Wayne) are chasing down a new villain in town named Toad.
  
• In the newly built Batcave beneath a Wayne skyscraper, Dick and Alfred talk about what I takes to be the Batman the city needs. Alfred assures dick he is doing a fine job.
  
• With the Gotham Police Department believing Batman isn't coming back, Dick and Damien make their first public appearence.
  
• A new villain named Pyg (who is working with Toad) is killing people and making a name for himself.
  

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