Check Out Blade Like You’ve Never Seen Him Before as the Last of Marvel TV Premiers Not doing anything Sunday 1/15 at 11pm ET/PT? Enjoy watching action-packed supernatural monster slaughter delivered by a vampire/human hybrid known as the Daywalker? Ever see an awesomely horrible Japanese movie with school children fighting each other to the death titled “Battle Royale”? So maybe that last one is a “no” for many of you but I’ve seen it and trust me; it’s so violently wrong that it’s just right and clearly written by a very warped, brilliantly messed up mind. The mind of a guy named Kenta Fukasaku in fact, who is also the writer for the “Blade” anime series premiering on G4.
Vocalist Beer Reebs of Texas death metal maniacs HOD have issued the following update on the band’s highly anticipated second full-length entitled Book Of Worms, the imminent release of an unholy trio of tunes and forthcoming live action; “Due to numerous lineup changes (4 total) in the past 1 1/2 – 2yrs and lack of finances, our sophmore album Book of the Worm was inevitably pushed back, and pushed back.
The iconic legend Flash Gordon made his dynamic splash back into comics with Dynamite Entertainment with Flash Gordon – Zeitgeist! Spinning off from that series is the prequel comic book series, Merciless – The Rise of Ming #1, which is written by Scott Beatty and drawn by Ron Adrian, with an incredible cover from Alex Ross and is in stores April 2012! In issue #1, Prince Ming begins his rise to dominion over the entirety of Mongo! But who (or what) was Ming before he was ‘Merciless’? Find out here as the origin of one of science fiction’s preeminent villains is presented in all its diabolical details! Be sure to get Merciless – The Rise of Ming #1 in April 2012!
It seems Marvel continues to bombard us with these Avengers VS X-Men images from their upcoming event book. Take a look at The Thing, Daredevil and Spider Woman AVENGERS VS. X-MEN #1 (JAN120625) Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS, JASON AARON, MATT FRACTION, JONATHAN HICKMAN, ED BRUBAKER Art by JOHN ROMITA JR. Cover by JIM CHEUNG FOC – 2/27/12, ON SALE – 4/3/12
The Hub Television network, a destination for kids and their families, has acquired the hit animated series “The Super Hero Squad Show” from Marvel Animation. The popular half-hour series, which features the world’s best-known Super Heroes including Iron Man, Wolverine, Hulk, Thor, and Captain America will join The Hub’s Monday through Friday lineup beginning Monday, January 30, at 4 p.m. ET (with encore presentations on the weekend).
Animals as Leaders started as Tosin Abasi’s solo project. He’s a Washington D.C. based guitar player who played guitar for Born of Osiris & Reflux. He now has a full instrumental band with Javier also playing guitar & Navene Koperweis from Animosity playing drums. This is a mixture of electronic, ambient, progressive metal & jazz that I can just hear Tosin has spent years perfecting the sound of.
From down south. No, further south. Guanajuato, Mexico. Ominous Crucifix is bringing some much needed Satanism back to death metal. They are from Mexico, but the songs are all sung in English. It’s a bit different from other Mexican death metal albums in that it doesn’t have much blasting, its more intricate & there’s melodies. More like Scandinavian death metal.