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Today we have a new trailer for [PROTOTYPE2] called "Timelines," along with a few screenshots that were featured at PAX:



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Today we have a new Behind the Scenes vignette starrting Josh Keaton, the voice of Spider-Man, along with some new screenshots - both unveiled at PAX.



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And today, it ends. Well, not entirely. The Green Lantern and core Batman books will be largely unchanged in two weeks' time. But for all intents and purposes, today we saw the release of the final comic books in the DC Universe we've read for many years.
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Review by: Walt Kneeland (walt.kneeland@gmail.com )
Quick Rating: Great
Story Title:

Old Hob faces Splinter and his sons, before apparent tragedy is revealed and we're shifted to the past to see how things came to this point.

Story: Kevin Eastman & Tom Waltz
Script: Tom Waltz
Layouts: Kevin Eastman
Art: Dan Duncan
Colors: Ronda Pattison
Letters: Robbie Robins
Editor: Scott Dunbier
Associate Editor: Bobby Curnow

Two gangs close in on each other, and words are exchanged. Battle breaks out, and before long, the conflict is over. One of these "gangs" is a family--a familiar one. While something still doesn't sit right with them, even as the victors, we learn that they have experienced a loss that has profoundly affected them. Flashing back to a year and a half earlier, We're introduced to the newest intern at Stockgen Research--April O'Neil. Through her, we're introduced to a lab-rat and four bio-engineered turtles. Behind the scenes we're introduced to Doctor Stockman--presumably the founder of Stockgen--as he communicates with General Krang regarding some in-progress work that's been promised to the general. April names the turtles, and then in present day, we see one of the turtles come to the aid of a boy named Casey... ...

Reviewer: Craig Reade
Quick Rating: Enjoyable - but really needed a stronger editor

Winter arrives as the War of Five Kings sputters to an end.

Author: George R. R. Martin
Publication Date: July 12th, 2011
Pages: 1,040
ISBN: 0553801473
Publisher: Bantam Spectra

I'm exhausted!


I first dove into A Song of Ice and Fire just two months ago, in a frantic effort to complete all four existing novels prior to the release of this installment in the series. And I almost made it too - I got through all 3,200 pages of story, sorted through my notes, and completed The Series So Far: A Song of Ice and Fire just 6 days after A Dance With Dragons was released. I've already covered the groundwork of the universe in that article, so if you are looking for basics to see if you are interested in checking this series out, it is best to start there. ...

DC Retroactive: Wonder Woman-The 90s #1 (DC Comics)
By Bill Messner-Loeb, Lee Moder, Paris Cullins

Early in her career, Wonder Woman and Etta Candy take a group of young girls under their wing. Not quite understanding the sort of instruction she’s expected to provide, Diana begins to put the girls through the paces of a routine that’s meant for an Amazon. Will it crush the girls, or help them find an inner strength they didn’t know existed? (I’ll give you a hint: it’s the second one.) This is actually a very well-constructed story. Diana pushing girls to make more of themselves is a very positive message, and really, one of the things the character does best. The sheer level of naivety she displays here, though, hurts the story somewhat. While I get that the story is supposed to be at a point where she’s only recently joined “Man’s World,” some of the scenes (particularly the one where Diana tries to relate to the girls in a modern context) are too cute by half. I’ve had this complaint a couple of times over the years, but it bears repeating: just because a character is new to contemporary society doesn’t make them utterly ignorant. It hurts, just a little. The back-up, by Bill Messner-Loeb and Paris Cullins, isn’t quite as good as story overall, but its’ better at making Diana seem contemporary. A disaster in space sends Diana to a satellite where she’s got to help a Russian cosmonaut find her way home. The bonding between the two women is entertaining and, again, the sort of thing that works well for Wonder Woman. The artwork here, though, is considerably weaker than the first story. Overall, the small problems in both halves of the comic make me take the rating down a bit.
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Fables #108 (DC Comics/Vertigo)
By Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Joao Ruas

With the North Wind dead, the children of Snow White and Bigby find themselves under the magnifying glass. One of them must be the new King of the North… but who? Meanwhile, Rose Red returns to the Farm, and Bufkin begins to lead his squad of escapees back to Oz. The big issue #100 was eight issues ago, but somehow, it feels like this is where the second centenary of Fables is really beginning. The Mr. Dark story is over, as is the epilogue to it, and we’re turning our focus onto the children (whom Bill Willingham said some time ago will be the focus of Fables’ second 100 issues). Their story is the meat here, but the Bufkin storyline is the seasoning that gives the meat its flavor. Watching him and his crew trying to escape the clutches of Roquat the Nome King and cross the Deadly Desert back into Oz is a very strong story, but also, a particularly funny story. Bufkin is this title’s hidden dragon, a trove of storytelling potential that’s just beginning to be tapped. He reminds me very much of Flycatcher in the early issues, and we all know what happened to him. Mark Buckingham is in top form here, with fine artwork and gorgeous layouts and border artwork. This book has long been one of Vertigo’s best, and this is a great way to begin the next era of the title.
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Sorry I missed last week’s review, but I got pretty sick. It’s a double tragedy, because last week’s episode was so much better than this week’s episode. I just can’t catch a break, can I?

Was it just me, or did this episode feel a little weak? Everything was just so predictable. I guessed every plot twist long before it happened, and I got restless waiting for them. The end was pretty exciting, but of course the show ended just as things were getting good. Damn it! Isn’t that always the way?

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Tiny Titans #43 (DC Comics/Johnny DC)
By Art Baltazar, Franco

As always, Art Baltazar and Franco take what’s up with DC and have a little fun with it. This issue, Cyborg gets new shoes… that’s right. It’s a re-boot! Meanwhile, Robin, Superboy, Aqualad and Kid Flash decide it would be fun to step into the shoes (metaphorically, this time) of their mentors. Superboy winds up in an unexpected counter with Zod, Robin gets into his own battle for the cow, and Aqualad finds unusual laundry problems exist in Atlantis. This book is always silly, but this issue goes a little further into the sort of absurdist humor that makes the title so much fun. At the same time, they work in small in-jokes and gags that will probably play more to the parents than the kids, which makes it the sort of book they can all read together. The artwork is as funny and expressive as ever, and something about the joy and simplicity of the cover is even better than usual. I love this book, and it makes me deliriously happy that it won’t be impacted by the relaunch. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
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DC Retroactive: Batman-The 90s #1 (DC Comics)
By Alan Grant, Norm Breyfogle


When the Ventriloquist is let out of jail on a temporary parole, one of his old henchmen finds his former life summoning him again. To make matters worse, another stooge who didn’t quite make it out alive is back as well. This is just what I was hoping for with the Retroactive experiment: books that genuinely take me back, as a reader, to a different time. Grant and Breyfogle were working on the Batman comics just about when I came to DC as a serious reader for the first time, and Breyfogle’s Batman is still one of my favorites. Alan Grant, meanwhile, has a real knack for spinning a story that works both as a superhero tale and also as an eerie EC Comics-style morality tale – something this same creative team does in the back-up story, Trash, which I remember reading when I was young, but don’t remember what comic it was originally published in. Why on Earth is DC not including that information in these specials, anyway? Most importantly, to me anyway, this is an issue I could easily believe was produced back in 1991 or ’92 – just before Bane first broke open Arkham Asylum and started wreaking havoc – and has been sitting on the shelf since then. It’s a good book in its own right, but for fans of this creative team and this era of Batman stories, it’s a great one.
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