March 11, 2012 Johanna Movie News 3 comments

Disney’s John Carter Flops Hard

The New York Times has an article up on John Carter, which opened this weekend. The headline, “‘Ishtar’ Lands on Mars“, tells you the tack they’re taking. The facts are damning: “cost an estimated $350 million to make and market”, took in just over $30 million this weekend, will require Disney to “take a quarterly write-down of $100 million to $165 million”. Because of its enormous cost and the way ticket sales are split with theaters, analysts say the film […]

March 9, 2012 Johanna Comic News One comment

Archie Sales Figures for 2011

Recently out, here are the Archie Comics sales figures based on the Statements of Ownership, Management, and Circulation the company is required to file in their publications. These numbers appeared in issues published between January 18 and February 15, 2012; the data was filed with the government on October 11, 2001. (For comparison, I’ve done the same things for books published in 2010, published in 2009, published in 2008, and published in 2007.) Before I get to the sales figures, […]

Photo of Nathan Fillion by Gary Miereanu

March 4, 2012 Johanna DCU Original Animation Leave a comment

Nathan Fillion on Playing Green Lantern

As promotion for last week’s release of Justice League: Doom, which had a number of fun bits, many of which involved Nathan Fillion voicing Green Lantern, Warner Home Video has provided this interview with Fillion. Fillion previously was the voice of Green Lantern in Green Lantern: Emerald Knights, which also resulted in some promotional interviews. He has also been the voice of Steve Trevor for the Wonder Woman DVD movie, and that meant an interview available then as well. So […]

March 3, 2012 Johanna Dark Horse 2 comments

Usagi Yojimbo #144

Concluding the two-part story about feuding soy sauce makers by Stan Sakai, this issue provides a simple look at justice. SPOILERS follow. The rabbit samurai’s biggest challenge this issue isn’t the greedy rival merchant who’s escalated a business struggle into sabotage of the traditionalist’s warehouse sauce vats. Instead, it’s the fraidy-cat local lawman who refuses to get involved. After a slow opening, which recaps the premise if you missed the previous issue, we pick up with Usagi determined to force […]

February 28, 2012 Johanna Other Publishers One comment

Silent Partner

Silent Partner is based on a novel originally published in 1989, the fourth in the Alex Delaware series by Jonathan Kellerman. Delaware is a child psychologist who solves murder mysteries, and the newest book in that series, Victims, comes out the same day as this graphic novel adaptation, for cross-promotion purposes. I haven’t read the novels, but I’ve been a fan of Ande Parks’ crime writing since Capote in Kansas. He does an excellent job making this feel like a […]

February 27, 2012 Johanna First Second 10 comments

Friends With Boys

I’m a big fan of Faith Erin Hicks’ work, so I knew I’d love her new graphic novel, but I had no idea how much. With Friends With Boys, Hicks has developed into a cartoonist you need to be reading. Drawing on her own home-schooling experiences, but not sinking into autobiography, Hicks tells the story of Maggie, the youngest of four siblings and the only girl in the family. They’d all previously been taught by their mother, but she has […]

February 26, 2012 Johanna Comic News One comment

Archie Gets Political With Occupy Riverdale

Several sites have covered this brief Archie Comics blog post (no longer available) about an upcoming “Occupy Riverdale” story to appear in Archie #635 due in July 2012. It’s typical of Archie lately to pick storylines based on what will get them free press coverage, especially if it’s a hot-button political issue, such as gay marriage, or here, economic inequality. Using Veronica and her family to personalize the issue is a great idea, actually, and I hope they follow through […]

February 25, 2012 Johanna DCU Original Animation 4 comments

Justice League: Doom Reviewed

Based on Mark Waid’s Tower of Babel story, Justice League: Doom features Vandal Savage putting together a villain team of Star Sapphire, Cheetah, Metallo, Bane, Ma’alefa’ak, and Mirror Master to defeat the Justice League. We see the hero team first after a battle with the Royal Flush Gang, where the League backs up Batman. Then it’s a matter of sending the members’ arch-enemies against them one by one, using (SPOILER ALERT, since this isn’t revealed until 50 minutes into the […]

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