Episode #2
Comicmaniacs
Happy Holidays!
Comicmaniacs Episode No. 2 December 2011 Editor & Publisher: Talisha A. Harrison Published By: Talisha A. Harrison P.O. Box 520392 Longwood, FL 32752 Printed by: Talisha Harrison Editor: Talisha Harrison Design: Talisha Harrison Cover Photo: Pictures courtesy of Google Images. Comcimaniacs is a bi-weekly online magazine for people who are traveling throughout the geek universe. Š Talisha Harrison 2011 Printed in the USA, all rights reserved. Comicmaniacs welcomes comments from our readers. Please send comments to: Email: taliadina@gmail.com
Table of Contents From the Editor’s Desk The Comicmaniac Five Webpicks Comicmaniac Spotlight Special Feature#1 Tali’s Favorite Animated Holiday Episodes & Specials Character Spotlight: Wonder Woman Classic Comic Review: Ant Vol. 2 Issue 3 Geek Reads Podcast Picks Comicmaniac Art Puzzle Me Geeky Quotes : The Holiday Edition Puzzle Me Answer Key End
From the Editor’s Desk Greetings my fellow Comicmaniacs! Tis I Lady Adina broadcasting live from the geeky reaches of space with another episode full of Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanza, Three Kings Day, New Years, and Wintery cheer! I wish all of you a wonderful holiday season whatever you celebrate! Now on to the show! This episode I bring you a new Comicmaniac Five which features my top news worthy picks in the geek universe. In the renamed Comicmaniac Spotlight, the light falls on ilikecomicstoo! This episode’s character spotlight brings you the amazing heroic amazon herself Wonder Woman! This week’s Classic Comic Review is Image’s Ant #3 and instead of a hot topic this episode, in the spirit of the holiday season (and because I just don’t have one this time lol) I give you a special feature! Finally there’s this weeks’ webpick, podcast picks, and comicmaniac art. I also bring you gifts in the form of new subjects that will be mainstays for present and future episodes to come! The first of which is Geeky Reads. Here I’ll give my picks each episode for books (other than comics) that I think you’ll enjoy. Puzzle Me is another new entry where each episode you’ll get to challenge your brain with a wordsearch, crossword puzzle etc. Finally, in Geeky Quotes, I bring you quotes from around the geek universe that I hop you’ll find funny, interesting and something to ponder at. This episode the quotes are extra special because they’re holiday geeky quotes! So there you have it, this episode in a nutshell! Now sit back and relax and enjoy this episode! Your’s truly, Tali Adina
The Comicmaniac Five 1. Movie Trailers , Movie Trailers! This past week we’ve seen a lot of movie trailers for upcoming films. The most recent was The Hobbit which you can view here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0k3kHtyoqc&feature=player_embedded We also had a new trailer for Ghostrider 2, G.I. Joe Retaliation, The Dark Knight Rises (and a six minute trailer before MI4 in selected IMAX theaters), and an international trailer for The Avengers (http://www.aintitcool.com/node/52330 ). Check them out online! 2.
Joe Simon Co-creator of Captain America Dies at the age of 98. Thank you for giving us this amazing character I wish best wishes and many blessings to your family Mr. Simon.
3. New videos arrive this week and next from ItsJustSomeRandomGuy on YouTube! That’s right! While traveling through the busy airports on his way to be home for the holidays, RandomGuy (Now @RandomGuyAtHome on Twitter) left a message on YouTube for all his RandomFans letting them know that there were more videos coming! And he was right! There are eight new holiday vids up! If you haven’t watched any of videos-old or new-then go visit his channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/ItsJustSomeRandomGuy. 4. Womanthology Holiday PDF is here! Just in time for the holidays, the almost fifty page PDF book has arrived! If you backed Womanthology, this week you received an email from Womanthology that had news and information for you and a link to download the pdf. My story entitled “Don’t Let The Light Go Out” is in the pdf. It was drawn by Geektress’ Brenda Kirk. So check it out! 5. Womanthology Sketchbook arrived in the homes of geeks everywhere! Have you checked your mail lately? If so you probally received your (if you’re a backer of the project) copy of the Womanthology sketchbook! If you didn’t back the project, then you can preoder the book and the anthology on Amazon!
Webpick
Clever Games Clever Games is a YouTube channel that brings you the latest in video game news, trailers, interviews, gameplay, and more! Produced, written, and hosted by Andrea Rene, this channel is an excellent source of information for video gamers and geeks through out the universe! Subscribe to Clever Games on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/ClevverGames and follow Clever Games on Twitter at: http://www.youtube.com/ClevverGames
Comicmaniac Spotlight Each episode I’ll spotlight a lady geek(s) or gentleman geek(s) orbiting in geek space and this week’s geek is :
ILIKECOMICSTOO
A NYU graduate and former Marvel.com intern, Marlene has interviewed Stan Lee twice, is a TV personality on MTV’s “My Life as Liz” and also works as an interviewer on Wizard World Tv. She loves comics and posts comic reviews, interviews, and other cool things on her blog and YouTube channel. Check it her out cause she’s an awesome lady! Website: http://www.ilikecomicstoo.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ilikecomicstoo Tumblr: http://ilikecomicstoo.tumblr.com/
Character Spotlight Clay. Diana. Amazon. Member of the Justice League. Princess.
Wonder Woman This superheroine has been around kicking butt for a long time-since 1941. I was introduced to her by watching the Justice League and Justice League Unlimited animated series and now I’m currently reading her new comic book series in the DC New 52. And she’s this episode’s Character Spotlight. So far I’m enjoying the new 52 story of Wonder Woman. I’ve never read any of the stories pre-relaunch, so I’m glad for the DC relaunch. If you’ve never read Wonder Woman there are a few things you should know about her: She’s a warrior princess of the Amazons (based on the Amazons of Greek mythology) who live on the island of Themyscira.
Her real name is Diana Her mother is Hippolyta who pre-DC relaunch formed her out of clay but now post DC relaunch Zeus is her father. Her signature weapons: Lasso of Truth which forces those who are bound by it to tell the truth. It’s virtually indestructible. A pair of indestructible bracelets which can deflect energy blasts and bullets. A golden tiara which serves as a dagger and a throwing weapon returning to her like a boomerang. And depending on which stories you read she also has an invisible airplane.
I recommend reading DC’s relaunch of Wonder Woman. It’s only on issue #4 so you can get caught up real quick. Also watch Justice League and Justice League Unlimited. These two shows are excellent and you’ll definitely see Wonder Woman in action. The 2009 animated film in which Wonder Woman was voiced by Kerri Russell is also an excellent way to learn about Wonder Woman. There has been a push by a lot of fans for a Wonder Woman film but it’s been in development hell for a long time. There was going to be a live-action TV show on NBCstarring AdriannePalicki-but it was canceled before the pilot even aired. Hopefully there will be a live-action film in the future. But for now, there’s plenty of Wonder Woman out there for you learn and enjoy the character!
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Special Feature #1
Tali’s Favorite Animated Holiday Episodes & Specials Every year you can depend on viewing during the holiday season episodes and specials some new, some classic but you always enjoy them. Here in no particular order are some of mine. You might see a couple that are also your favorite. If there’s none here that you like tweet your faves to @Comicmaniacs or tell me on the Comicmaniacs Facebook page or Tumblr page. Power Puff Girls – Twas the Fight Before Christmas Batman the Animated Series-Holiday Knights Batman the Animated Series-Christmas with the Joker Shrek the Halls Prep & Landing Doctor Suess Presents: How the Grinch Stole Christmas A Pinky and the Brain Christmas A Muppet Family Christmas Fat Albert Christmas Special He-Man & She-Ra Christmas Special Rudolph The Rednose Reindeer The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper Alvin & the Chipmunks-A Chipmunk Christmas Bugs Bunny’s Looney Christmas Tales Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special A Charlie Brown Christmas X-men the animated series-“Have Yourself a Little Morlock Christmas” Also check out @BlackNerd’s YouTube channel to watch his most recent video: 11 Nerdy Christmas Cartoons & Sitcom Specials - Black Nerd Comedy
Classic Comic Review Why am I reviewing older comics? Well because I’m still sorta new at this and I’m trying to catch up on reading the ones that I wasn’t able to read growing up. Also there are many people out there who are either new to comics or are seasoned pros who may want to revisit some of the older stuff. In fact these comics never get old. Besides, there are many people out there who are reviewing the new comics. So without further ado, I give you this episode’s Classic Comic Review…
Ant Vol. 2 Issue #3 “Reality Bites” part 3 Publisher: Image Story & Art: Mario Gully Story & Script: Marc Hammond Lettering: Ninja Lettering’s Payton Gauldin Color: Stefani Rennee Editor: Michael Patrick Sullivan Cover: Mario Gully & Avalon’s Rob Bo Ant Created by: Mario Gully
A few months back for my first review, I did Spawn issue #1 and so as I was going through my collection of back issues, after spotting this comic, I became curious and wanted to know who was this Ant lady sitting on Spawn’s lap? Well needless to say, I wasn’t disappointed. But before I tell you what I thought of this issue, let me give you a little background about this comic book character: Ant was created by Mario Gully who has stated that the concept of Ant was created while he was incarcerated in 1996 for attempted armed robbery. Gully says that one day he was looking through a barred cell window and a tiny ant crawled in from the outside. He later vowed to change his life and make something out of himself. He then created Ant. Volume one of Ant was published by Arcana Studios. The first issue "Days Like These", sold out in 9 days. The book later appeared on eBay going for as much as $100 for a good condition issue #1. The first volume ran for 4 issues before moving to Image Comics.
Classic Comic Review The second volume of Ant was published by Image Comics, and featured heavy hitters such as Spawn and the Savage Dragon as co-stars. The first 3 issues sold out and the momentum of the character and the popularity of the creator, Mario Gully, grew. This series ran for 11 issues. Currently Ant is being published at Big City Comics with only three issues of volume three having been printed. Now onto my review: I only have part three so I don’t know what exactly happened in the first two issues but apparently at the beginning of this book Ant (Hannah Washington) is having to fight Spawn and doesn’t know who Spawn is or remembers their previous encounters. So that’s the half of the book. The other half is Ant having a flashback and remembering her past and Spawn is able to see her flashback and now knows who Ant is and realizes that she’s an friend and not an enemy. Spawn then tries to help Ant find her dad who she believes is dead. They first try to enter hell but are not able to. They then try to enter heaven but are also shut out. Since they couldn’t enter either heaven or hell, Spawn and Ant believe that Ant’s dad must be alive and Ant says goodbye to Spawn-who tells her in a friendly way not to come back to his alley and also to tell her dad that he says hello. I absolutely enjoyed this book. I want to know more about this character Ant who is not only a woman superhero but also is an African-American woman and was created by a black writer. If you have the chance to read Ant please do so! It’s a great story.
Geek Reads
Womanthology Holiday PDF Comics Above Ground by Women Comics by Trina Robbins Comics above Ground: How Sequential Art Affects Mainstream Media By Durwin Talon , Bruce Timm, Bernie Wrightson, Adam Hughes The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Podcast Picks In geek space there are many podcasts to listen to and here are two that I think you will enjoy during your travels. GCF Talk Hosted by Random Fans Lac the Watcher, Nekzous (who’s overseas right now), Emperor Wade, Blahdiddy, and Minaminokyoko! You can find them on iTunes and also on blip.tv! http://blip.tv/gcftalk Aggressive Comix’s Geekgasm on YouTube
Hosted by the hiliarious and awesome Jenni Lorenzo on YouTube. Subscribe to Aggressive Comix’s channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/aggressivecomix/feed follow them on Twitter: https://twitter.com/aggressivecomix and like them on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Aggressive Comix
Comicmaniac Art Each episode I’ll feature artwork from Comicmaniacs around the universe. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a pro or a beginner, you could young or old, the only requirement is that the art must be yours and yours alone! Also if you want your fellow Comicmaniacs to view more of your creations (especially if you’re taking comissions) then let themknow how they can contact you! Now I’m not seasoned pro, I’m learning how to draw and so I bring you two more of my creations. This time it’s Professor Utonium and one of his daughters the PowerPuff Girl Bubbles!
Puzzle Me
A Comicmaniac Holiday K S R Z M R U W H X W R T J H C I I O U BATMAN CANDY CHRISTMAS COMICMANIACS COOKIES DEADPOOL FAMILY FOOD FRIENDS FUN GEEKS GEEKSPACE HANUKKAH HOLIDAY
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Geeky Quotes Another new entry for this episode. Ladies and gents, I bring you Geeky Quotes-The Holiday Edition. Enjoy. “I love Christmas Eve. Maybe even more so than Christmas itself. It's the one night of the year when the entire world just...stops. In those few hours before the dawn - human, mutant, everyone, just sort of holds their breath in sweet anticipation...waiting to see how badly they're going to be disappointed in the morning. In its own tragic way...it's kind of romantic. That's why I love Christmas Eve.” --Emma Frost (Earth-616) Schott: Mrs. Duffy? Mrs. Duffy? I have a surprise. Lois: So do we. You're busted. Merry Christmas. -Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Season 2 Episode 9 “Seasons Greetings” The Joker: [singing] Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg, the Batmobile lost a wheel, and the Joker got away! -Batman The Animated Series “Christmas With The Joker” Robin: Okay, I'll make a deal with you. If we go out on patrol and Gotham is quiet, with no sign of the Joker, we come back here, have Christmas dinner and watch "It's A Wonderful Life". Batman: You know, I've never seen that. I could never get past the title. –Batman The Animated Series “Christmas With The Joker” Harley Quinn: I'm depressed, Red. Here it is holiday time and we're hiding out in this dingy rat trap. No presents, no fun, no nothin'. Can't we at least get a Christmas tree? Poison Ivy: What? And support the mad campaign of botanical genocide that grips this country every December? Harley Quinn: But Christmas trees are so bright and fun and pretty. Oh, please? Please? Please? Please? –Batman The Animated Series “Holiday Knights” Batgirl: Don't waste your ammo on him. Shoot the Santa. –Batman The Animated Series “Holiday Knights’ Princess Morebucks: What? Why? Bubbles: Because Santa has his own list and he checks it twice. It says who's naughty and who's nice. Princess Morebucks: So? Bubbles: Duh. You're naughty. –The PowerPuff Girls “Twas The Fight Before Christmas”
Puzzle Me Answer Key
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End And once again, we’ve come to the end of an episode and I hope that you enjoyed another journey through geekspace. To continue the conversation aobut any of the subjects written about in this episode or you just want to start your own discussions visit the fourm on the Comicmaniacs Tumblr page. Stayed tuned, I’ll be back next year with another episode of Comicmaniacs and the new live show on Talkshoe.com on Saturday nights at 10:30pm! Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanza, Happy Three Kings Day, Happy New Year , enjoy the Winter Soltisce, and Happy Holidays. I’m Tali Adina and I’ll catch you on the flip side. Enjoy your travels in geekspace! See you later Space Geekladiesand guys….