Speaking of The Spectacular Spider-Man, he’s coming to TV in an all-new cartoon from the WB, and will be joining the network’s Saturday Morning Line-up right before The Batman, which has its series finale (re: its very last episode) the same week that The Spectacular Spider-Man will be debuting — this coming Saturday, March 8, 2008. You will be seeing villains like Doctor Octopus, Electro, Vulture, Venom and Sandman making the webcrawler’s life miserable, but isn’t that half the fun? Some images from the upcoming TV show below.
The Batman is closing up shop on the WB’s Kids programming line, and he’s going out with a bang. Or, specifically, a 1-hour finale that will guest-star the Justice League, as an alien menace called The Joining steals the League’s powers and transfers them to android versions. It’s up to the Batman and Green Arrow, the only two non-powered members of the League, to save the day. Check out some artwork from the The Batman series finale. One word: Holy crap, it looks fantastic!
Comic book artist Alex Ross, easily, one of the reasons I gave comic book another shot a few years ago, after having abandoned it a long time ago for, well, adulthood. Ross’s artwork was always so spectacular, so real and down-to-Earth, and yet the people he drew were anything but. And he made it looked so good. Ross’ latest work is the cover for a new book called “Age of TV Heroes” by George Khoury and Jason Hofius (thumbnail to your left, bigger version below).
In recent years, Marvel has been giving DC a run for their money on the big screen. Besides a couple of exceptions, most notably the “Batman” franchise, Marvel’s comic book-to-movies have overwhelmed their DC rivals by a healthy margin. But that isn’t the case on the small screen, where DC still dominates. But what about on DVD? That is where the new battleground is between the two companies.
At first glance, the new comic “The Dark 48″ looks like a mish-mash of Danny Boyle’s “28 Days Later” (they’re not really zombies, more like humans infected with a “rage” virus) and your standard zombie movie, with a group of survivors battling a zombie horde infestation. The comic book premieres as a two-issue limited series by writer Steven O’Connell and artist Daniel Indro, and colors by Joel Seguin.
Forget about the alien invasion of planet Earth — what happens when the aliens leave planet Earth after a long and grueling 10-year war with humanity? Why did they go? Where? And who won, exactly? That’s the premise of the new comic book series “Resurrection” by Marc Guggenheim and Dave Dumeer from Oni Press. 
The Sci Fi Channel is venturing out. No longer satisfied with just lame monster movies on Saturdays and recycled sci-fi flicks from the ’80s and ’90s, they’ve now gone into the comic book business by partnering up with Virgin Comics, which have been responsible for some pretty good comics in the last few years, including John Woo’s “7 Brothers”, which I really liked. The cable channel and Virgin’s latest effort is “The Stranded”, a sci-fi themed comic book series.