Ant-Man Has Found Its Director: Again!

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Family, Fun, and Comics: Free Comic Book Day 2014

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Free Comic Book Day, takes place on the first Saturday of May. It is an annual promotional effort by the North American comic book industry to help bring new readers into independent comic book stores. Retailer Joe Field of Flying Colors Comics in Concord, California brainstormed the event in his "Big Picture" column in the August 2001 issue of Comics & Games Retailer magazine. Free Comic Book Day started in 2002 and is coordinated by the industry's single large distributor, Diamond Comic Distributors.

It is safe to say that this year was a successful one! People of all walks of life went down to their local comic store and immersed themselves into the geek community. Young or old, Free Comic Book Day had something for everyone. All stores were friendly and completely in the spirit of this grand holiday.

The best part of this event has to be seeing kids at very young age being introduced to a brand new world. A world of all things superhero and comics. (Personally, I'd rather see a kid with a comic than a cell phone.)

At any rate, Free Comic Book Day 2014 was a blast. It was fun meeting and talking with everyone. We can't wait for next year!

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It's another week and that means it is time for more comics! This week has a lot going for it and you will have to see it to believe it! Also I may or may not have a few bets about some of these I need to settle. Lesson of the day kids: Never gamble your knees on the plot line of an Aquaman book!

#3

 Title: Batman and Robin #29

Price: $2.99

Writer: Peter J. Tomasi

Artist: Mick Gray and Patrick Gleason

Story/Premise

  Batman is ready to settle the score with Ra’s al Ghul, who stole Robin’s body out of the grave! As the Dark Knight travels to the island where Damian was born, he’s set on a collision course with Aquaman!

Opinion

Ok so if somebody hasn't ruined it in the last year and a half, Damian Wayne is dead. . . dead, Dead, DEAD!!!!!! If that hasn't been established by now, you just got a bucket of "That's Life!" thrown in your face by your dear Uncle Dan.  What I am not quite sure of is how long we are going to run this into the ground?! We know Bruce is upset, hell, internet and physically walled off North Koreans know.  The fact that Grandpa Demon's head just dug him up and said, "IT'S TIME NOW!" doesn't speak levels about this to me, as this thought was already pursued and abandoned by Batman. So after all that why is it #3?  Shit, it's got Aquaman, what else do you want from me?

#2

Title: Wonder Woman #29

Price: $2.99

Writer: Brian Azzarello

Artist:  Cliff Chiang

Story/Premise

   If the helmet fits…then it’s time to play God!

Opinion

What a weak ass teaser.  We have known this moment was coming since Ares fell, now we get to see it played out in ultimate fashion.  Wonder Woman kicking ass and claiming godhood? You only expected half of that if you started this arc at the beginning of the new 52, and with their conservative storytelling and balls to the walls action, the creative team has delivered on both those grounds.  This issue is not to be missed.

#1 

Title: Superman Unchained #6

Price: $3.99

Writer: Scott Snyder

Artist: Jim Lee and Scott Williams

Story/Premise

 The Man of Tomorrow and the Superman of yesterday go at it—no holds barred! Supes goes full throttle after his would-be ally, Wraith, in a seismic battle ranging from deep space to the ocean’s floor and ultimately the core of the earth! Meanwhile, Lois Lane holds the key to defeating Ascension, but she needs to reach the Fortress of Solitude to ensure its safekeeping—not to mention hers! And she’s being pursued by a heavily armed force, and it isn’t Ascension!

Opinion

Here we are.  I have reached a new crossroads in my life where I don't know what to think anymore.  A Superman title is the one book I am most excited for in a week.  This is unprecedented.  I need a minute. . .

. . . Just a sec. . .

. . .OK! I have come to terms with it and we are moving forward.  This book looks to be full of the fight that has been teased since the start of the book.  With such a masterful creative team sandwiched around this hero, I can safely say that this is gonna be good.

Notables

Harley Quinn # 4

Green Lanterns New Guardians #29

Suicide Squad #29

Scribblenauts: A Crisis of Imagination #3 

The Flash Costume Has Been Revealed!

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The CW has released the first official image of Grant Gustin in full costume as The Flash. 

Honestly! I think it looks great. In fact it looks badass, but there is a downside. Click on the jump to see some more photos that help elaborate on my thoughts. With all the Photoshop this suit looks fantastic, but a problem I see with it is the heavy influence from Ben Affleck's Dare Devil suit. Is that bad? I'm not sure, but I am split right down the middle. I guess we will have to wait for the show to be aired!

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DC Comics: Comic Book Buy List-Week of March 12th 2014

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What a fantastic last week was for comics! Forever Evil 6 sold like hotcakes, the Batman/Superman annual impressed, and on the Marvel side of things I absolutely loved the premiere of VOL. 5 of Moon Knight and Loki proved it was no one hit wonder.  How can things get any better for us DC Fanboys? Oh yeah, it's a Batman week.

#3

Title: Superman/Wonder Woman #6

Price: $3.99

Writer: Charles Soule

Artist: Batt and Tony S. Daniel

Story/Premise

When the Phantom Zone is breached by Zod, Superman and Wonder Woman are forced to do the unthinkable to stop the tyrant from global destruction. But can they do what must be done – and will the world forgive them?

Opinion

I was a huge fan of what Man of Steel had going for it and Superman II was arguably the best movie of Big Blue's up until then. Common factor? These Kryptonian bastards. I love a good story of opposites matched evenly or slightly advantaged on one end, and these four have my curiosity and my attention.  How awesome will this brawl be? Who will make out afterwards?  Will there be hair pulling?!  TOO MUCH SUSPENSE!

#2

Title: Batman #29

Price: $4.99

Writer: Scott Snyder

Artist: Greg Capullo and Danny Miki

Story/Premise

 The “DARK CITY” chapter of “ZERO YEAR” reaches its conclusion in this amazing, extra-sized issue! Now, the next chapter of Zero Year is almost upon us, and we’ve saved the best for last! What corners of Batman’s past will be revealed? And how will they impact his very near future? Find out here!

Opinion

Thought it would be number one? PSYCHED YOU OUT, YOU JIVE MOTHA'S! But in all seriousness, the Zero Year run has had so many loving homages to the greatest Batman stories ever told, and though we are ending part two of three of it's three arcs, I can tell we have yet to see the full scale of the greatness promised us by the buildup.  If I can still get all weak in the knees from the anticipation of books, I know I am into the right books.   

#1

Title: Batman L'il Gotham #12

Price: $2.99

Writer: Dustin Nguyen

Artist: Dustin Nguyen

Story/Premise

 Damian’s fowlest friend Jerry has disappeared, but the people of Gotham City are not helping in his search for a missing turkey. This November, the Condiment King is making a Sandwich Day run! Then we close out the year with a bang before taking a long winter’s nap.

Opinion

Yeah, it was a digital first comic and you could have read this waaaaaaay long ago, but for the same reason Injustice holds my heart so, there is something just magical about this book and it's level of charm.  This is the final issue, print or digital, being released before it gets the trade paperback treatment and eventually fades away to an awesome memory and section of my bins I don't touch.  If you haven't read this all ages Batman book, you really should.  It is as light hearted as it is hilarious. If I am tired after a long day at the store I know that this book will pep me up and give me some great laughs,  and since it is ending, I salute it's run.  Dustin, you rock man.

Notables

Nightwing #29

Batgirl #29

JLA #13

JL 3000 #4 

Marvel Comics: Comic Book Buy List - Week of March 5th 2014

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Oh my goodness I am absolutely terrible at balancing my time aren't I!? Insanely sorry for my lack of posts and I'm sorry as well for missing this past week's Movie News Overview videocast. I'm going to be posting a lot more starting this weekend so be on the look out for some more posts I have planned! This week in Marvel we aren't getting to heavy of a load but we are getting some AWESOME books out that's for sure. I had an incredibly hard time picking which book should be at #3 so be sure you check out the Notable's section this week because every book mentioned in this list deserves to be read (in my humble opinion that is!) Anyway, enough jibber jabber from me, let's see the top 3 Marvel Comics out this week!!

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With all the anticipation and waiting finally over the time has come! This week is full of long delayed DC Books that deserve a good hard, hot, and heavy reading: I am talking pages spread; fingers flailing wildly; mouth watering at all the tasty bits laid out before you.

Marvel Comics: Comic Book Buy List - Week of February 26th

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Alright! Another week, more new comics! Sorry for the delay on the buy lists this week! Work can get pretty crazy! Anyway, there's definitely some Marvel books worth mentioning this week! Without further a do! Lets get to it!

#3

Title: Guardians of the Galaxy #012

Price: $3.99

Writer: Brian Michael Bendis

Artist: Sara Pichelli

Story/Premise

"THE TRIAL OF JEAN GREY" PART 4! A surprise ally from one character's past comes to help, but is that enough against the most powerful army in the Universe?

Opinion:

So far, "The Trial of Jean Grey" has been an awesome and exciting crossover between the Guardians and the X-Men. It's really interesting to see how the X-Men from the past react to the Guardians, especially Rocket and Groot. If you've been reading this crossover so far you know that it's been a bit of a ride. If you like space adventure and aliens I would definitely pick up this book!

#2

Title: Fantastic Four #001

Price: $3.99

Writer: James Robinson

Artist: Leonard Kirk

Story/Premise

"THE FALL OF THE FANTASTIC FOUR" PART 1 The world's greatest comics magazine begins anew with Marvel's First Family, the Fantastic Four! But as the brilliant MR. FANTASTIC, the compassionate INVISIBLE WOMAN, the ever lovin' THING & the hot-headed HUMAN TORCH embark on a strange mission, they aren't met with new beginnings, but an untimely end! As the family of cosmic explorers head towards their darkest hour, who could possibly be behind their downfall? And how is one of their oldest enemies, the sadistic dragon known as Fing-Fang-Foom involved? Prepare for the fantastic!

Opinion:

The reason that this book made the top 3 of the buy list this week is mostly because I'm intrigued to know why exactly Marvel wanted to do another Re-Boot of Fantastic Four when the last run just ended a few weeks ago. According to the solicitations It's going to be interesting to see how this story plays out with it being apparently "the end."

#1

Title: The Superior Spider-Man #028

Price: $3.99

Writer: Dan Slott

Artist: Giuseppe Camuncoli

Story/Premise

"Goblin Nation" #2 (of 5) Goblins! Spiderlings! Super villains! Giant robots! It can only mean one thing: ASSAULT ON SPIDER-ISLAND!If you want to see people standing around talking, read another comic. Want to see heroes having a fist fight, go somewhere else?You are IN the GOBLIN NATION and this is ALL-OUT WAR!

Opinion:

This I think is obviously the #1 Marvel book coming out  this week as it is almost every week a new issue comes out. The anticipation behind this final story arc is incredible and if the last issue of SSM was any indication on how the rest of this arc will go, this issue will be absolutely no disappointment. If you've been reading Superior before this issue, keep getting it, if you are yet to pick up this title, pick up the last two issues a long with this one so that you kind of know what's going on!

Notables 

Deadpool #024

Thunderbolts #022

Uncanny Avengers #017

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DC Comics: Comic Book Buy List-Week of February 26th 2014

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 With Dreams of Forever Evil 6 once more crushed until next week, I look onwards to this new week, where things are getting awesome.  I am a huge fan of what DC has been putting out, and my load of comics for this week is quite heavy! With so many fresh takes on solid characters, and new budding classics, I am super stoked to talk about this week's books! 

#3

  

Title: Superman: Lois Lane #1

Price:  $4.99

Writer: Marguerite Bennett

Artist:  Dan Jurgens

Story/Premise

Lois Lane is known for chasing down stories - but what happens when the story is her family? As her father gains more power in the government, Lois's sister Lucy has become involved with a deadly drug scene! Meanwhile, Lois thought she was rid of the influence of Brainiac, but now she finds that the the computer tyrant of Colu is calling out to her again!

Opinion

Lois Lane, a woman known for bangin Supes on and off again throughout DC's canon and getting in people's faces to get her stories out there finally gets her own book. . . again.  A strong independent woman who don't need no (Super)man, she is truly one of the most iconic female characters in comics next to Catwoman, Mary Jane Watson and Sue Storm. All were pioneers in the progressive minded woman's world of comics and though this may be a cash grab for another new #1 in their hat,  it looks and sounds different enough from the status quo of The New 52 to have me interested.

#2

Title: Batman/Superman #8

Price: $3.99

Writer: Greg Pak

Artist: Kenneth Rocafort

Story/Premise

 The Worlds' Finest teams of two worlds meet at last in chapter 1 of 'First Contact'! With Power Girl's abilities on the fritz, see what happens when her long-lost cousin Superman approaches her! And a major threat returns in a way you won't believe! Continues in this month's WORLDS' FINEST #8.

Opinion

Earth 2 and all of it's side series have been nothing short of amazing.  The first arc of this series demonstrated that yet again, and though the last Mongul-centric arc took a dip, this one looks to step it up once more.  Finally we get to see what happens when both Bruce and Clark are faced with their alternate universe relatives.  We can assume it will go well since they have already visited themselves on that planet, but with hints at ties to the current arc of Earth 2, let's just say I am little more than moist, mentally, over this next arc. 

 

#1

Title: The Wake #6

Price: $2.99

Writer: Scott Snyder

Artist: Sean Murphy

Story/Premise

 'My name is Leeward, and this is where my story begins...' Our story jumps two hundred years into a flooded future where nothing is the same. The second half of THE WAKE starts here!

Opinion

WAIT, THAT'S A VERTIGO BO- I know.  Honestly they are owned by the same men in suits sitting at a table somewhere and counting your lunch money so I don't see the point in pretending that Vertigo is an entirely isolated publisher from DC.  This book has been crazy awesome thus far, a true breath of fresh air in my hero filled pull list and with the ending of issue 5 and the promise of what this second half of the story holds I believe we are all in for one hell of a ride.  Mutants? Check.  Killer Mermaids?  Still check.  BATTLE DOLPHINS?! You bet your ass. If you are looking for well penned horror story with splashes of Sci-Fi and haunting art, look no further.

Notables:

Talon #16

World's Finest #20

Aquaman #28

Batman: The Dark Knight #28

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For the Fan's Brand New Videocast!

Hello everyone! We here at For the Fan are extremely excited announce that we have started up a brand new weekly, Movie News video-cast! Every Thursday, Matt and Anthony will now be bringing you a round up of all the latest movie news through video! Along with this brand new video-cast will also be a podcast version of all the episodes(link below) and we will be starting up some additional podcast's as well, including one for movies, weekly comic talk, and more! We are insanely excited to be branching out into the video and podcast side of things as well as keeping the blog going in writing! So without further ado! Here is the very first episode of our brand new weekly movie news!

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Batman and Robin #28 Comic Review

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The Review:

"I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
And if I die, no soul shall pity me.
Nay, wherefore should they? since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself. . . . "

Nova #013.NOW - Comic Review

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title: Nova #013.NOW

publisher: Marvel Comics

price: $3.99

writer: Gerry Duggan

artist: Paco Medina

Story/Premise

All-New Marvel Now means some All-New Nova Wow! After Infinity, Inhumanity, and the landmark 100th appearance of Nova, it's been a crazy year for the galaxy's newest hero! As Sam Alexander continues to hunt down clues of the Nova Corps demise, he finds an all new threat of his own making. But the arrival of former Mjolnir-wielder Beta Ray Bill means Nova's days may be numbered.

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title: New Warriors #001

publisher: Marvel Comics

price: $3.99

writer: Chris Yost

artist: Marcus To

Story/Premise

WARRIORS REBORN! Adventurers SPEEDBALL and JUSTICE have come together with a group of young heroes including NOVA, SUN GIRL, and HUMMINGBIRD (and even a couple of new faces) to stop the latest threat to the Marvel Universe—the Atlanteans, Inhumans, clones and hundreds of other so-called “superior” beings are living among the humans of the Marvel Universe, but not everyone is pleased about it.

THE HIGH EVOLUTIONARY has raised an army to combat the evolution of humanity – and the New Warriors are locked in his sights! 

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title: The Punisher #002

publisher: Marvel Comics

price: $3.99

writer: Nathan Edmondson

artist: Mitch Gerads

Story/Premise

For years, The Punisher has waged a war on crime in New York City with an array of very large guns, but a lead on a major source of drugs, weapons, and more has set his many sights due west. NOW! Frank Castle's in the City of Angels, looking to give the devil his due. Things aren't all they appear, though, with a highly trained military hit squad hot on Frank's tail. Caught between a posse of Punisher predators and targets of his own one-man-war, Frank's manifest destiny may be a shallow grave!

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With the trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy being released. Marvel Studios has released a barrage of brand new photos and we have them for you to gaze upon HERE:

Marvel Comics: Comic Book Buy List - Week of February 19th!

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A new week means new comics! The last two weeks have had an awesome selection of new Marvel books coming out, and this week is no exception. February has been a strong month so far for Marvel's releases and I think that this week is going to be one of the stronger weeks we've gotten so far. Going into this weird "All New Marvel Now" re-launch of a re-launch I wasn't sure exactly how well the books were going to be and wasn't really sure it was for. I still don't know why Marvel did this soft re-launch of sorts, but the books have been exceptional lately! It's easily some of the best writing we've gotten from Marvel in the last year (just my opinion.) So enough of me talking! Let's see what made the top 3 list for this week's All New Marvel Books!

DC Comics: Comic Book Buy List- Week of February 19th!

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Welcome to my first official post (not just recommendations!) on this lovely site!  My name is Dan and I am here to take you on a wild journey into what some call Marvel after dark.  That's right baby, I'm talkin' DC Comics!  Though we may lose the vibrancy,  colorful humor, and charm that Marvel swings around on occasion in this 'verse, here you will find the dark, the gritty and the  *gasp!* brooding world of angst we call Batman. If that doesn't grab you by the collarbone and shake you into a squirming puddle of joy fret not! All heroes are valid, no matter the publisher! I am just going to be giving you the what's what and the who's who with this, The New 52. There are some really great things going on this month so let's dive into this week, shall we?

The Superior Spider-Man #027.Now - Comic Review

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title: The Superior Spider-Man #027.Now

publisher: Marvel Comics

price: $3.99

writer: Dan Slott

artist: Giuseppe Camuncoli

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title: Deadpool #023

publisher: Marvel Comics

price: $2.99

writer(s): Gerry Duggan & Brian Poshen

artist: Mike Hawthorne