New Comic Shoppe Airing Tues at 7pm: More on the History of Comic Book Fandom; More Thor Reviews, New Xmen 1st Class Trailer, 21 Jump St News & More!

Let's get into it, shall we? It's time for a new Comic Shoppe broadcast featuring Daryll B, Captain Kirk and Dburt, airing tomorrow at 7pm eastern. Call in live at 646-915-9620 (or via email/IM at afronerdradio@yahoo.com) to join in the pulp flavored discourse! We will be discussing issues such as: an overlooked piece from last week's NY Newsday comic book article that provided a synopsis on the history of graphic novel fandom in the year BCC (before comic cons); a second X-Men First Class hits the net, Johnny Depp might make a cameo in 21 Jump Street (the movie); more positive reviews for the upcoming Thor film are coming in; is the Red Hulk the preeminent Marvel giant now?; Dburt's definitive Mortal Kombat 9 video game review and our favorite graphic novel reads from the previous weeks. Imperius rex!

And, as always, take a gander at the latest blog entry from the Shoppe's indefatigable Daryll B:

Welcome back AfroNerd Readers to yet another trip around the Daryll B. comic and science fiction link tour. I caution you fine folks up front that I might be a little irritable while typing this since I am doing most of the mark up while watching my Knicks and Rangers go down in awful playoff defeat....

1) Graeme McMilian over at Spinoff Online does pose an interesting question about Marvel Studios' future plans:

http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2011/04/23/is-marvel-studios-expanding-too-fast/

You know we'll touch on this one on the show as we get closer to Marvel Movie Season...

2) The guys at The Weekly Crisis put out an interesting challenge to their followers: to give their favorite obscure characters a "pitch" treatment. The first candidate is a little known member of the DC Universe....

http://www.weeklycrisis.com/2011/04/pitching-forgotten-characters-viceroy.html

3) Newsarama spun a couple of great articles this week. First up is an analysis of the future effects of The Death of Spider-Man in the Ultimate Universe...

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/new-ultimate-spider-man-speculation-110422.html

4) You know you love the Lil Vader commercial from the Super Bowl. Well here's an inspired parody by Marvel to help promote the Thor movie...

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2011/04/little-thor-spoofs-little-vader-volkswagon-ad/

5) Interesting tale of getting your heart's desire by Ron Marz in his Shelf Life column. I know folks like McDuffie and Waid who have told similar stories in the past....

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=31983

6) These next two links involve my favorite indie writer of all time and his future plans after Echo is wrapped up in May.....

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/terry-moore-part-1-110420.html

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/terry-moore-part-2-110421.html

7) Talk about nailing why I love a book... that's what Robot 6 did right here about Avengers Academy....

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2011/04/the-fifth-color-avengers-academy-in-three-panels/

8) BBC America does it again! On the Eve of their Doctor Who premiere, they manage to acquire the rights to all of the updated Battlestar Galactica run...

http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2011/04/22/bbc-america-acquires-entire-run-of-battlestar-galactica/

As it stands, their Saturday Nights are going to be more appealing to me than "SyFy" Fridays now....

9) OK here we go again with Hollywood not learning from past mistakes and George Takei calling them on it:

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/04/21/george-takei-akira-whitewashing-asian/

Now I think I have come around on this issue to say any actor should be able to tryout for any role. However, when you take a movie like Akira that is so intrinsically Asian and put out a release saying you want white male leads only.... You are asking for trouble.

10) Yeah, enough of the serious stuff. Let's end with some humor courtesy of Scott Snyder:

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/04/22/scott-snyder-conspiracy-cops-kids-comics/

Jeff Parker and Erika Moen

http://www.4thletter.net/2011/04/read-jeff-parker-and-erika-moens-bucko-for-some-t-bolts-ta/

11) And finally a thinking piece by noted Bat-o-logist Chris Sims on Batman and killing....

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/04/22/batman-kills/

Due to my state of mind about my teams, I have no good feelings left in my heart for a satisfactory reclamation project this week. So I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday weekend and have found one or two of these articles fascinating. So until next time AfroNerd Readers, Keep Fantasizing!