Author: Umbrax
Braxpix for the week of Jan.29th
Monday, January 29th, 2007 @ 8:11 am
Comics
Usagi Yojimbo #100
Stan Sakai’s creator owned comic has hit #100 under Dark Horse publishing.. Dark Horse is the third publisher that Usagi Yojimbo has run under and the character is now more than 20 years old.
Stan Sakai’s biggest admirers’who also happen to be some of the hottest names in comics’come together to celebrate one hundred issues of Usagi Yojimbo at Dark Horse!
Featuring eight extra story pages for a total of thirty-two, Usagi Yojimbo #100 is structured as a good-natured roast of both Usagi and Stan, kicking off with an opening by publisher Mike Richardson and artist Rick Geary before launching into unforgettable contributions from Frank Miller, Jeff Smith, Sergio Aragon’s, Guy Davis, Mark Evanier, Scott Shaw, Jamie S. Rich, and Andi Watson, not to mention Stan Sakai himself!
This extra-special issue is the ultimate introduction to the world of the rabbit ronin and his inimitable creator, a perfect entry point for anyone who ever wondered why the adventures of this long-eared hero have been among the most acclaimed all-ages comics for over two decades!
One of the longest-running, consistent-selling comics ever! www.darkhorse.com
Available Wednesday the 31st.
DVD
Bleach: The Substitute, Vol. 2
Over Christmas I had a gift certificate for the mall and decided to pick up some DVDs with it. I took a chance and picked up an anime I’ve heard good things about, Bleach vol. 1. By taking a chance, I mean that I don’t normally buy anime. I’m glad I did pick it up. I enjoyed the four episodes very much and have been looking forward to the second disk ever since.
High school student Kurosaki Ichigo is unlike any ordinary kid. Why? Because he can see ghosts. Ever since a young age, he’s been able to see spirits from the afterlife. Ichigo’s life completely changes one day when he and his two sisters are attacked by an evil, hungry and tormented spirit known as a Hollow. Right in the nick of time, Ichigo and his siblings are aided by a Shinigami (Death God) named Kuchiki Rukia, whose responsibility it is to send good spirits (Pluses) to the afterlife known as Soul Society, and to purify Hollows and send them up to Soul Society. But during the fight against the Hollow, Rukia is injured and must transfer her powers to Ichigo. With this newly acquired power, so begins Kurosaki Ichigo’s training and duty as a Shinigami to maintain the balance between the world of the living and the world of the dead… www.imdb.com
Available Tuesday the 30th.
Comics
Ultimate Civil War: Spider-Ham #1
The demand for Spider-Ham has been steadily growing over the past few years and now it has happened!
You asked for it, you got it! Quite possibly the most important comic ever! A life-changing event that will change the way you look at yourself and the world around you! Spinning out of the page of CIVIL WAR — and every other top-selling comic crossover event you can think of – it’s ULTIMATE CIVIL WAR SPIDER-HAM FRISIS (FEATURING WOLVER-HAM)!!! He’s little, he’s pink, he knows how to bring home the bacon. He’s Spider-Ham – and he’s about to embark a kaleidoscopic, time-spanning, universe-shifting journey that will prove just how big a pig he really is. Guest-starring: Iron Ham, Deviled Ham, Fantastic Ham, Green Ham, Ant-Ham, Ultimate Captain Ham, Hambit, Hamneto, and everyone’s favorite Sorcerer Supreme — whathisface? You know, the guy with the blue tights and red cape…Mustache…Man-servant named Wong? — anyway, you know who I’m talking www.marvel.com
Available Wednesday the 31st.
Popularity: 3% [?]
January 29th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Bleach is a great anime,theres one arc ,that just recently ended,that drags the series down some but it was a “filler” arc to let the manga its based on make more issues.
but youve got a long way to go before you et to that.
January 29th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Yeah, they are past episode 100 in Japan aren’t they?
That is insane that the manga is so popular that the anime has to make fillers. My wife is reading the first volume of the manga right now.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Yeah I believe the series is up to episode 112,i think thats the last fansub I saw out.I might check out the manga,I never read manga but the art style of this one seems really cool,especially some of the charater designs,it translated well to the anime.