Monthly Archives: April 2013
Comic Book Pull List for April 3, 2013
Good news! I found my local comic book shop. Like I said, it shares space with a hobby store and was a little small so the selection wasn’t quite the full pull list. Maybe if I patronize them regularly, I can get a file and can get comics sent there or however that works.
As always (or at least like last week), we have our arbitrarily selected comics of the week. I’ll get better at it in time. First up is Superior Spider-Man #7 in which Spidey faces the consequences of his recent actions. For gaming fans, there’s a comic-book prequel to The Last of Us with The Last of Us: American Dreams #1. And in a bit of nostalgia for the comics I did read growing up, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Classics Volume 4 trade paperback is out tomorrow.
Also, as I mentioned yesterday, the new Doctor Who magazine (issue 458) is out this week and has news on the 50th Anniversary Special.
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The XCOM Shooter May Not Be Dead
A recent rumour reported by Kotaku’s anonymous rumour man, Superannuation, suggests that the originally planned reboot for XCOM may not be dead after the success of last year’s hit XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
Originally, 2K planned to reboot XCOM as a first-person shooter set in the 1960s. The game was originally set for a March 2012 release date before it was delayed into an apparent state of development hell. In the meantime, it’s thunder was stolen by Firaxis’ reboot of XCOM in the tradition turn-based tactical strategy form that we expect of XCOM.
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Journey and Deus Ex Win April Fools’ Day
Among all the other April Fools’ Day pranks and jokes, games developers like to get in on the fun. The press seemed to like the Sony buys Nintendo joke. I read that a couple of times yesterday. Granted, I thought yesterday’s best April Fools’ joke was The Walking Dead’s season finale. *rimshot*
Anyway, ThatGameCompany and Eidos Montreal both had the best pranks of the day with a couple of “new game” reveals.
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It’s Shatner vs. The Gorn: Round 2 for Star Trek: The Video Game
Captain James T. Kirk is back to help sell the upcoming Star Trek: The Video Game and he’s brought along an old friend. No, I’m not talking about Chris Pine’s Kirk from the rebooted Star Trek helmed by director J.J. Abrams, though that’s the time period in which the new game is set. In the latest Star Trek: The Video Game promo, William Shatner is back and battling his old nemesis, the Gorn. Sadly, no flying drop kick.
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Ten and Rose are Back for Doctor Who’s 50th Anniversary
After numerous denials, we finally have the first officially confirmed piece of news about the upcoming 50th Anniversary special of Doctor Who. As first reported by Blogtor Who as being revealed by this week’s Doctor Who magazine and later confirmed by the BBC, David Tennant and Billie Piper will reprise their roles as the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler for this fall’s Doctor Who 50th anniversary special.
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Doctor Who – The Bells of Saint John Review
Steven Moffat loves that little catchphrase that he wrote back in Season 3’s Blink. When Moffat writes, you get the sense that wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey will be involved at some point. (That or Weeping Angels.) With new companion Clara Oswald, we got our fair share of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey fun. There just wasn’t that same Moffat writing that we come to expect from his episodes in The Bells of Saint John.
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