Wretches #1 Review

Wretches #1 was made possible by the creative team of writer James E. Roche artist Salomon Farias, colourists Chunlin Zhao and letterer Jamie Me. The Wretches Team also had a successful Kickstarter Campaign back in April 2016 raising about $1,200.00 above the funding goal.

Official Synopsis from James E. Roche:

Wretches, at its core, is a story about family, sacrifice, and loss. Siblings, Shea and Sean, were forced to grow up on the streets of an alien city, far from the lifeless planet they’d once called home. Now, all grown up, they capture other beings for the promise of reward – specializing in hunting the robots they’d once shared their home planet with. Still suffering emotionally from the loss of everything they’d ever known and loved, these siblings have nothing else in the universe but each other. Until, they no longer even have that. Once one of them is kidnapped, the other will tear the entire galaxy apart to get them back.

The opening of Wretches starts with dialogue all too familiar with people. The somewhat stereotypical declarations parents tell us as children. That nothing bad will ever happen to us, promising they will always be there for us and many other promises. You see our main characters Shea and Sean struggle to make a life for themselves while working together to make a living as bounty hunters.

James has created a good pace for Wretches. The dialogue doesn’t overburden you with information it gives just what you need to know, and the story never stagnates with a nice balance of plot revealing and action.

Salomon’s Art overall is decent with a couple of panels standing out to me as off, with some body proportions and a couple of facial expressions. That being said there are some well-done memorable action scenes.

Chunlin’s colours work well with the art and have great shadowing and lighting throughout the issue. Jamie’s lettering is pleasant to read and has a good word balloon flow.

Overall Issue #1 of Wretches is a good introduction to a new Sci-FI universe with a satisfying ending that should peak reader’s interest enough to want issue #2. There is currently no official date yet for the release of issue #2 yet but stay tuned to Skatronixxx as we will let you know as soon as we are aware.

8/10

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The digital copy of Wretches #1 (PDF format) is available at Drive Thru Comics

The Physical print version is available at JamesERoche.com

For updates on Wretches follow James E. Roche on Twitter: @JamesERoche as well as his website.

Imogen Poots Cast in I Kill Giants Movie

Toronto Film Festival gave us some great upcoming movie scoops this year- particularly for comic book fans. The Internet was awash with stories about the latest Guardians of the Galaxy film, and Variety has reported that rising star Imogen Poots (That Awkward Moment) has been cast in upcoming comic adaptation I Kill Giants. The film will also star GotG leading lady Zoe Salanda and teen sweetheart Madison Wolfe (True Detective).

The film is based on the 2008 Image comic by Joe Kelly (who also wrote the screenplay) and J. M. Ken Niimura. The story focuses on a geeky outsider called Barbara (Wolfe) who escapes into a world of fantasy. Barbara is a great young female protagonist, especially for people who don’t quite feel like they fit in.

Salanda will play Barbara’s school psychologist Ms Molle, and it has not yet been reported what role Poots will play. The film will be directed by award winning Danish film maker Anders Walter.

I Kill Giants is due to start filming in late September, and due for release in 2017.

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Melissa Rosenberg Suggests Jessica Jones Will Not Be ‘Fixed’

Jessica Jones will be back on our screens for a second season in 2018, after the release of Luke Cage in a couple of weeks, and Iron Fist and The Defenders in 2017. Even though there’s been a long break between seasons, showrunner Melissa Rosenberg has already started getting the show written and finalised. In fact, season 2 is already half written. Makes me think Rosenberg was never one to leave her homework until last thing on a Sunday night….

In an interview with Esquire magazine, Rosenberg explained that Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) would not be magically “cured” following the climax of series 1. “People don’t just heal, you don’t go through that just to say, ‘Oh, he got arrested, he’s in jail, I’m OK now.’ That trauma is a huge part of who she is now.” This is a huge relief to fans. Jessica Jones has become an important part of the media landscape, particularly for women. Jessica had lots of issues going on before she met Kilgrave (David Tennant), and even though Kilgrave is now out of the picture her remaining issues need to be addressed and worked through.

Rosenberg also said that she’d learned a lot about this type of character development through working on Dexter. “With Dexter, the moment he felt guilt or accepted that he was ‘bad,’ the show’s over. He’s no longer a sociopath. The equivalent for us would be if Jessica somehow recovered from the damage that had been done to her.” A Jessica that resembled Kimmy Schmidt might not sit well with the tone of the show!

The series will arrive after The Defenders, and although Melissa Rosenberg is not on the team leading that show, she’s aware of what’s going on so that she can seamlessly link the events in with season 2. Rumour has is that Luke Cage will take a back seat and Kilgrave is gone, so the friendship between Jessica and Trish (Rachael Taylor) will take more of a leading role for the show’s second outing. She did, however, play down the ‘shipping’ chat that has surrounded the two characters. “People would love that. I sometimes think there’s sort of a prurient interest in that, like, can’t women just be friends? I feel like for me that’s what is unique about the relationship, that they are such intimate friends, and I think they don’t have to become lovers—that being said, one never knows.”

Jessica Jones season 2 as yet has no release date. Marvel’s Luke Cage lands on Netflix 30th September.

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Mr Sinister Mock Up Pic Released

So we found out a few months back that Richard E. Grant had signed on to play Mr Sinister in the new Wolverine 3 movie and Comicbookmovie.com enlisted the help of artist Hamza Javed (hjaved.art) to mock up what he may look like as Mr Sinister.

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Black Widow Back-Story Was Cut From Captain America: Civil War

Captain America: Civil War has started the journey for the next few films to come out, leading up to the biggest war in superhero history. The directors did such a great job with the story that it left the fans pining for more and anticipating what we will see in the upcoming movies. Marvel and directors shared with us new faces, thicker plots, and origins so we don’t wonder how they started, but they left out someone….. Black Widow.

  

I know I was there with everyone else, just accepting that she was just there, no rhyme or reason behind how she became the Russian spy or what have you. Sure, they told us how she met Cap and the others, but no Widow history. (Avid fans of the Marvel and DC universes and readers of comic books my understand, but not everybody is into that.) Yet no one asked “where did she come from?” It was recently revealed recently that a conversation between the Cap and his red head Russian sweetie was cut from the original movie. (and no one is complaining about this or suing Marvel… just sayin’) the scene between the two should have gone something like this:

“Natasha studied Cap’s expression of resolve. Finally, she said, “In Russia, in the red room, there were dozens of us. All girls, all young. We lived together. They let us be friends. Then they dropped us in the tundra, two weeks’ walk from home, with just enough supplies for one of us to survive.”

The Cap looked at her, understanding her meaning.

“Don’t let them push us into the cold,” she said”

Hollywood makes its cuts in movies, as we all well know, and for whatever reasons they had, they felt Natasha was fine where she was and didn’t need further explaining. The movie rocked regardless and we are all waiting to see what new faces and stories we will have in future Avengers movies. ^_^

You Can Work Out With Iron Man With These Cool Kettlebells

Do you like to work out? Are you trying to get your body ready for that outfit for ComicCon? Then come get your very own Iron Man kettle bells!!! LOL ok sorry had to try some infomercial-type opening here.

Ok, if you are a workout junkie like me then this is pretty freaking awesome and a must-have for sure. Iron Man kettlebells. Yes please. And they look like the shape of Iron Man’s head! LOL yes! The picture below is of the Iron Man 40 lbs kettle bell which will be part of Onnit’s new workout line up. And will be featured along with Captain America barbell plates! Yup need to get those too.

No release date yet on these bad boys that I have found, which sucks because I am ready to buy them now. But will be watching for sure on when I can get a set and get “ahead” on the work out scene. (see what I did there, heheh Iron Man head) ^_^

Thor: Ragnarok Director Talks Possible Dr Strange Cameo

Director Taika Waititi is already becoming an old pro at dodging questions about up and coming events in a Marvel movie. There was a picture release of Chris Hemsworth on set dressed in civilian clothing holding a business card in the streets of New York and if you zoom in on said picture you can clearly see the address ‘177A Bleecker St’ which all hardcore Marvel fans know is the address of the Sorcerer Supreme’s Sanctum Sanctorum in Greenwich Village.

Site Digital Spy attempted to get some information from Waititi but his reply came as the following.

Oh, I don’t know,” he said. “I am not sure if… I don’t know actually. I can’t comment on it. It may have just been something for the fans.”

He continued to be not very forth coming with an answer when the site asked him directly if Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange may have a cameo role in Thor: Ragnarok by saying the following

“Might be something like that,” he said. “Might be a little tease. Or maybe a tease just for people who wanted to zoom into that photo.”

So as always with Marvel we don’t have any direct response on  whether or not he will be making an appearance of any kind in the movie.

Thor: Ragnarok appears in the UK on October 27th and Doctor Strange appears in the UK on October 25th.

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Rumor: Solo Batman Movie Set In Arkham Asylum

Back in July, Batman-on-Film reported that Ben Affleck‘s solo Batman movie will take place inside Arkham Asylum, in a film that sounds very similar to the Arkham series of video games from Rocksteady.

One of the hot rumors surrounding Affleck’s Batman movie was that it would serve as a kind of loose adaptation of Grant Morrison’s Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth graphic novel that features Batman breaking up a riot at Gotham’s infamous asylum. Morrison’s comic is a dark addition to the Batman mythology and seems to be perfectly in line with the kind of superhero stories Warner Bros. is looking for; for mature audiences and crammed to the gills with as many recognizable faces as possible.

Unfortunately (for me at last), it turns out that Arkham Asylum might not play as big a role in the movie than some of us hoped. A new rumor from  Umberto Gonzalez, Heroic Hollywood editor-in-chief, suggests that the standalone Batman movie will not take place entirely in Arkham Asylum. This shouldn’t be particularly surprising now that Deathstroke has been announced as one of the major villains for Affleck’s film, the logistics of fitting him into an Arkham Asylum narrative in any meaningful way would seem pretty tough. You’d basically have to either keep him out of costume  —  which wouldn’t jive with the test footage Affleck released  —  or have him be the driving force behind the prison riots. Either way, I’m going to see it!

What do you think about the role Arkham Asylum might or might not play in the Batfleck standalone Batman movie? Sound off in the comments below!

 

Thor:Ragnarok Director Hints At 4th Thor Film

Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi has been busy promoting his next film Hunt For The Wilderpeople and during an interview with Digital Spy the subject of Thor came up.

“We are halfway through and it’s going really well. Everything is going to plan in that we didn’t have a plan to start with”

“It’s going better than expected and it’s a lot of fun shooting. The style is not too dissimilar to how I would normally work. It’s just a longer schedule because it’s a bigger film with more special effects and things like that”.

He then decided to add in something extra to get people talking “If I do really well with it and people like it and I enjoy the process then I’d definitely think about doing another one”

We do not know yet if Marvel have even considered doing a 4th installment of the movie or whether they are going to end the Thor solo movies after Thor: Ragnarok.

Thor: Ragnarok is due to hit UK cinemas on October 27th.

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Spider-Gwen Makes Debut Appearance in Ultimate Spider-Man

Marvel’s had its fair share of female Spider titles: Silk, Spider-Woman, a number of Spider-Girls, Madame Web – but none seem to have captured fans attention like Spider-Gwen. Originally introduced as part of the 2014-15 Spider-Verse event, she was quickly given her own series, following the Gwen Stacy of Earth-65; an alternate universe where Gwen was bitten by the radioactive spider, not Peter Parker.

Not content with her own popular series, Gwen is now hitting the screens in Disney X D’s Ultimate Spider-Man. She’s voiced by Dove Cameron, a previous Disney Channel sweetheart, best known as Mal in Descendants. Some careful Googling reveals that this is the Disney channel tv movie about the kids of Disney villains, not the 2011 film starring George Clooney  – every day’s a school day!

In her first appearance, released on Marvel’s YouTube channel, she runs into Peter Parker and Miles Morales while holding a bag of money she’s recovered from some bank robbers. Of course the guys think she’s the culprit – she looks like she’s been caught red-handed. She explains herself, and, to be honest, Parker seems cool with it. We know he’s a sucker for a pretty face. I’m going to assume there’s a pretty face under the mask.

The 3 vigilantes are then cornered by none other than Captain George Stacey (who happens to be her dad). She then tells the two guys that he’s her dad – which seems a bit crazy to me. Does no-one respect the secret identity any more? Or are they ok knowing who she is because they’re Spider-Men? I don’t know Gwen, but it seemed like a rookie mistake to me. Schoolgirl error.

Watch the clip here to judge for yourself:

The clip comes from season 4 finale ‘Return to the Spider-Verse’ which will be on Disney X D 17th September.

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