Episode 066: The Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane Spectacular

This week’s Checklist is a world-wide edition, featuring Marvel’s newest Soleil title, Universal War One. There’s also some Punisher, some Ultimate Fantastic Four, and a Final Crisis tie-in that you won’t want to miss if you are a fan of speedsters at all.

This and much more in this week’s Forecast, but that isn’t the real story. This week on The Watchtower is the return of the one and only Terry Moore. Terry is our first repeat guest, and this time he’s brought along artist Craig Rousseau to give us the skinny on their upcoming Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane run.

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 Jeff reviewing The Dark Knight on CFRB [2:07m]: Play Now | Download

Our good friends at Toronto @ Noon with Dave Trafford on Newstalk 1010 CFRB asked me to join them on the air today to review The Dark Knight. I thought it was a fun couple of minutes that you guys would enjoy hearing. Because, y’know, I haven’t talked about The Dark Knight enough in the past week.

What we really want to hear though is that YOU think! Now that The Dark Knight is out for everyone to see, we want to know what you think of the biggest comic book movie to hit the screen this year! Comment, E-Mail, Forums, however, just get in touch!

Over the years, Batman has taken many forms. There’s the comics we know and love, the campy 60’s TV show, and of course this summers gritty Caped Crusader in The Dark Knight. One of the most loved though, is the kid-friendly Batman of Batman: The Animated Series.

Broken into six chapters, Batman: Gotham Knight aims to keep to the flavour of The animated series, but with a new Anime-styled twist. It’s basically six short films from some esteemed Anime directors that are loose prequels to The Dark Knight.

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Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending an IMAX press screening of The Dark Knight. I don’t know if words can do justice to the Awesomeness of this movie, but I will do my best to get across every jaw-dropping, eye-bugging, mind-blowing aspect of the flick.

In other words, I liked it. A lot.

When Batman Begins came out, my review stated “This is everything a Batman movie should be.” With The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan has made me eat those words, and say “This is everything a Batman movie should be.”

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It’s a slightly shorter Checklist this week, but trust me, that’s a good thing! It’s good because I have so many cool things to get to this week!

In the Checklist, we have Secret Invasion, Ultimate Origins, and Captain America: White to deal with, but this week we also have the direct-to-DVD Batman: Gotham Knight, and the big nugget: The Dark Knight.

Check back for the Batman DVD and Dark Knight reviews, and this week on The Watchtower, we go two-on-one with Shuster Award Winner and JSA Penciller Dale Eaglesham.

Whew, it’s a lot to get in, so on with The Checklist!

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