New Comics Shipping For The Week Of 1/28/2009
January 28, 2009 by tcgames · Leave a Comment
BATMAN #685
CAPTAIN AMERICA #46
CONAN THE CIMMERIAN #7
DARK TOWER TREACHERY #5 (OF 6)
MARVEL MINIMATES SECRET INVASION BOX SET
STAND CAPTAIN TRIPS #5 (OF 5)
WATCHMEN MOVIE ASST #1 BALANCED CASE ASST
Captain America, Daredevil Comic And Film News
January 21, 2009 by tcgames · Leave a Comment
Ed Brubaker, who writes Captain America and Daredevil comic books for Marvel, told reporters to expect a big shock in the upcoming 50th issue of the Captain America series he writes. Leading up to that, the stories of the new Captain, Bucky and Sharon Carter (who killed Steve Rogers while brainwashed) will get complicated. Brubaker also has news about the coming Captain America movie, as well as other Marvel films he may be involved with.
“Lots of big stuff is coming,” Brubaker said in a group interview last week in Universal City, Calif. “This summer’s going to be really exciting, big stuff with Captain America coming up. Currently in the storyline, Bucky is sort of the new Cap, and he’s being faced with this horrifying past as the Winter Soldier. So that’s all sort of coming to a head. We’ll have a whole issue soon devoted to Sharon Carter and her memories of the day that Captain America died and starting to see things from a different perspective, actually; maybe learn some new mysteries.”
In the Daredevil universe, a familiar villain will return. “Kingpin’s about to come back to town, and it’s not going to be pretty,” Brubaker said. “I just saw some pages this morning from an issue that’s all the Kingpin, that’s a solo issue about the Kingpin in Spain.”
Brubaker added that he’s also busy starting a new comic-book series. “[I] just launched a new book called Incognito that is about a guy who’s like sort of a pulp villain living in witness protection,” he said. “That’s a huge sellout nationwide, actually, and we’re going back to print on that. I’m [still] writing Captain America. Daredevil, just finishing up a big storyline in that, and a couple special projects for this coming summer that I can’t talk about yet. Really big Marvel stuff, not crossovers, but big Marvel stuff. You’ll like it if you read comics.”
As more Marvel movies go into development, Brubaker expects to be involved in a Captain America film as well. “I think I’m going to,” he said. “I’ve talked to the Marvel Studios guys, and I think I’m going to be part of the brain trust on that, like they had for Iron Man. They’ve talked to me about it already. I talk to those guys a lot.”
As for the rumored Daredevil movie reboot, Brubaker is not in the loop. “I mean, I’ll be involved if they want me to be, but no,” he said. “I’ll be involved in any of that stuff they want me to be. I’m just trying to weasel my way in on as much of it as I can.”
The movie Brubaker really wants to see is Iron Fist, which was one of Marvel’s earliest movie proposals in a version Kirk Wong would have directed, starring Ray Park. Lately, Iron Fist has been on the back burner with director Steve Carr.
“I’m really, really pressuring them to do an Iron Fist movie, because I think that would just be awesome,” Brubaker said. “With our take on it, it’d be great, I think. They’re interested, so we’ll see. I’m hopefully going to meet with them tomorrow and just try to push them some more. They’re interested in it. Marvel Studios has a lot of plans, though, so I’m just trying to sort of get my way in as soon as I can.”
Source: Scifi Wire
New Comics Shipping For The Week Of 12/31/2008
December 28, 2008 by tcgames · Leave a Comment
Joe Johnston to Direct Captain America!
November 10, 2008 by tcgames · Leave a Comment
Joe Johnston (Jurassic Park III, Hidalgo) has signed a deal to direct First Avenger: Captain America, Marvel Studios’ take on its classic comic book character, says The Hollywood Reporter. Marvel’s Kevin Feige is producing.
No writers are on board, but the studio, which is hearing pitches, expects to hire shortly.
“This is a guy who designed the vehicles for ‘Star Wars,’ who storyboarded the convoy action sequence for ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark,’ ” Feige said. “From ‘Rocketeer’ to ‘October Sky’ to ‘The Wolfman,’ you can look at pieces of his movies and see how they lead to this one.”
Created in 1941 by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon for Timely Comics, Captain America is the heroic alter ego of Steve Rogers, who is rejected by the Army for being too sickly and undergoes an experiment that takes him to the pinnacle of human form. Paired with an indestructible shield, he became a symbol of the war effort, in and out of comics.
The character disappeared in the 1950s but was revived during the early era of Marvel Comics. He was reintroduced as part of the Avengers, the absence explained by having him being in a state of suspended animation during a war mission until found by the superteam.
First Avenger: Captain America is scheduled for a release on May 6, 2011. It will be a World War II-set movie, and the character will appear in the modern day-set The Avengers.
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Preview – Captain America Theater Of War Operation Zero Point
October 23, 2008 by tcgames · Leave a Comment
TC Games has a first look at Captain America: Theater Of War – Operation Zero Point, Marvel’s One-Shot on the First Avenger during WWII.
The first in a series of specials covering the length and breadth of the larger-than-life legend of Captain America, as told by the industry’s leading experts in the field! First up, it’s 1944, and wouldn’t you know it? Them sneaky Nazis have managed to crack the secrets of electro-magnetic physics…yeah, that’s right: apples may fall down in the free world, but schnitzels are falling up in the skies over a mysterious lab in a Polish forest, thanks to a little help from a nearby forced-labor camp. Sure, we could send in the Marines, but why bother when we’ve got Captain America?! But even Cap may be meeting his match against the lab’s sadistic cybernetic commandant. Because everyone knows, the only thing worse than a Nazi is a Robot Nazi!
Written by DANIEL & CHARLES KNAUF
Pencils & Cover by MITCH BREITWEISER
56 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
Shipping October 29, 2008
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Preview – Captain America #43 – Shipping October 22nd
October 15, 2008 by tcgames · Leave a Comment
TC Games has a first look at Captain America #43, which ships next week on October 22nd.
Bucky has survived his first major trial as the new Captain America, but now a villain from his past – both as Bucky in WW2 and as the Winter Soldier during the Cold War – has come to the U.S. and he’ll have to face his history just as he’s finding his feet in the present. The beginning of a gripping war and espionage tale, with some familiar faces for long-term Cap readers, as the New Captain America moves further into the Marvel U. And for this action-packed three-part story, award-winning Cap writer Ed Brubaker is joined by acclaimed artist Luke Ross (Jonah Hex, Samurai).
Written by ED BRUBAKER
Pencils by LUKE ROSS
Cover by STEVE EPTING
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99
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Possible Plot For Captain America Movie
October 6, 2008 by tcgames · Leave a Comment
The full plot synopsis for Marvel’s The First Avenger: Captain America has been included in the latest issue of Production Weekly:
“Born during the Great Depression, Steve Rogers grew up a frail youth in a poor family. Horrified by the newsreel footage of the Nazis in Europe, Rogers was inspired to enlist in the army. However, because of his frailty and sickness, he was rejected. Overhearing the boy’s earnest plea, General Chester Phillips offered Rogers the opportunity to take part in a special experiment… Operation: Rebirth. After weeks of tests, Rogers was at last administered the ‘Super-Soldier Serum’ and bombarded by ‘vita-rays.’ Steve Rogers emerged from the treatment with a body as perfect as a body can be and still be human. Rogers was then put through an intensive physical and tactical training program. Three months later, he was given his first assignment as Captain America. Armed with his indestructible shield and and battle savvy, Captain America has continued his war against evil both as a sentinel of liberty and leader of the Avengers.”
No big surprises. We already found out that the film would be set during World War II back in May. No director has been officially announced, but I’m sure they’re working on it. The First Avenger: Captain America will hit theaters on May 6th 2011, just two months before Marvel’s big screen superhero team-up The Avengers is set to hit theaters.
Source: slashfilm.com
Preview: Captain America #42 – Shipping September 24th
September 17, 2008 by tcgames · Leave a Comment
Captain America #42 ships next week and TC Games has a sneak peek at some of the artwork.
The final chapter of the epic “Death of Captain America” saga is here! The New Captain America, the Falcon, the Black Widow, Sharon Carter – all in a final showdown with the Red Skull and his minions for the future of America! Read more
Captain America #39 Preview
June 18, 2008 by tcgames · Leave a Comment
Here is a preview of Captain America #39, scheduled to ship June 25th.
Written by ED BRUBAKER
Pencils & Cover by STEVE EPTING
Okay, what the heck is going on here? Is that two guys in Captain America outfits? Yeah, it is.
More than that, we cannot say. The epic Death of Captain America continues in Part Three of “The Man Who Bought America” by the acclaimed team of Brubaker and Epting.
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Captain America Might Show Up On Hulk DVD
June 12, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
Louis Leterrier has come clean and told us that the scene between a suicidal Bruce Banner and Captain America will take place in the Arctic somewhere, but that it was cut from the movie. We here at CBM are theorizing that Bruce will find the frozen form of Cappy stuck in ice–just like in the comics.
As readers of Marvel Comics know well, Captain America is alive today only due to a freakish miracle. During World War II, he was involved in an accident involving an airplane. He plunged into icy waters where his body was frozen, only to be thawed out many decades later when the original Avengers find him floating in the ocean. Or at least, that’s the way Stan Lee and Jack Kirby presented it in the comics. (See comic screencaps to the left for the whole story)
Here is what Leterrier actually said:
“There’s a point when Bruce Banner gives up on his quest for the cure and decides to kill himself. So he travels far North and reaches the Arctic Circle. You might have seen bits of it in some of the promos. The result was a very dark and strong scene, which Marvel, me and everyone else considered to be too hard to young audiences to take, so we’ve cut it. Having that said, when Bruce arrives at his destination he meets up with Captain America! At some point this week, we will make it available on the internet – but I cannot tell you where or when – and the material will definitely be on the DVD.”
So now that we know Bruce and Cap “meet up” in the frozen north, more than likely the cameo will basically be Bruce finding a block of ice with a body in it. When you think about it, it’s brilliant! Not only does it make sense that Bruce would try and off himself via hypothermia, where his anger/stress levels wouldn’t be thwarting his intent by changing him into the Hulk, but an ice-to-face meeting (instead of face-to-face) meeting with Captain America incased in ice won’t entail Marvel choosing the actual actor who will play him in the movie–since it is still in the planning stages and no actor has been chosen. Like I said, BRILLIANT!
