Evan's Comic Book Blog

An Arrow and Shield cast update and some rumors.   So today we learned that Mockingbird has finally been cast on the Shield tv show. Actress Adrianne Palicki with play Bobbi Morse, aka Mockingbird in the upcoming season of Agents of Shield. Her first appearance, which is already a pretty hot book because of her rumored appearance on the show is in Marvel team-up issue 95. Next in Arrow news, they have cast actor Matt Ward to play the villain Komodo. Komodo first appeared in the New 52 Green Arrow series in issue 17, so he's a relatively new character. Next we have some rumors. So we all know that Vin Diesel voiced Groot in the Guardians of the Galaxy movie. But he's been teasing having a larger role in the Marvel Universe for a while now. Recent rumors suggest he will play the role of Black Bolt in a rumored Inhumans movie. Next is Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, he's been teasing us with rumors of him playing a DC hero or villain. It had been rumored that he may play th...

Young Justice season 1 review.  So I wanted to do a review on the first season of young justice as a whole. The show was recommended to me by a good friend of mine. I wasn't really that familiar with the characters and didn't read many teen titans comics. But this was a really great show. It was nice to see some of the familiar Justice League characters like Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman integrated into the show, but they weren't the main focus. So the team is made up of Superboy, Aqualad, Robin, Kid Flash, and Miss Martian. There are appearances by some others as well. Speedy was in the first episode but declines to joint he team. Artemis joins a little ways in and becomes a team regular. And Zatanna joins the team towards the end of the season. All the character on the show were great, I liked them all. Each episode had its own story and mission but they were all sort of interconnected into one larger story. I don't want to give any spoilers because the show w...

The strain episode 6 review 8/17/14 SPOILERS ahead. Ok so last week wasn't so great so let's hope this episode is better. They keep talking about this eclipse that's coming so I'm assuming that it has some significance to the story. So the nazi vampire guy has this guy chained up in a padded room, very weird, then he kills him. So the cops and now the FBI are after Eph because they think he killed the pilot. I still don't really understand the exterminator guys part in all this, he saw the vampires and didn't really do anything about it. So Eph's wife's boyfriend is a moron and calls the FBI on Eph and they take him away for questioning. So the wife and boyfriend are arguing now, she really needs to dump this guys, he's so damn annoying. Now back to the vampire hunter, he's on the hunt for others on his list of the people that were on the airplane. He goes into the basement of a house and it's covered in blood, there are four or five v...

Recent rumors update. So just a quick update, Apparently the episode of Arrow that's coming this season titled "the magician" isn't referring to Zatanna. Now it's being said that it's referring to Merlin the magician or Malcolm Merlin. Now I don't really remember him being referred to as the "magician" in the comics but I guess it makes sense. So will this be a back story episode on Merlin?, will he get his own island flashbacks? We really haven't heard much else about the episode. If I hear anything else I'll let you guys know.

Rumors So after yesterday's news that Jason Momoa will indeed play Aquaman in Batman vs Superman Dawn of Justice, it looks like DC is also planning a solo Aquaman movie. That is somewhat encouraging to think that they have enough faith in the character to give him his own film. And they may have also found a writer for the movie. Next on the rumor mill is Zatanna. Apparently episode 50 of Arrow, which we'll see in season 3, is titled "The Magician". So a lot of speculation is pointing towards Zatanna making an appearance on the show. I would love to see Zatanna make an appearance on Arrow. I've always liked her character. She has some great stories in the comics as part of the Justice League. She was a great character on the Young Justice tv show. And the characters that have appeared on Arrow so far have all been done well so I'm excited to see if the rumors are true and we get Zatanna for season 3.

Batman Assault on Arkham review 8/12/2014 SPOILERS ahead if you haven't seen this yet. So let's start off with the animation style. I liked it a lot. I think it really worked will for the movie. It's a little less like the Japanese animation style that DC has used in some of its animated movies. I'm not a huge fan of the Japanese style so I liked the animation in this movie. Batman didn't play a huge part in this movie. It was more focused on the Suicide Squad. Harley Quinn was great in the movie. I liked Killer Frost and Deadshot as well. The other characters were ok but not great. So Amanda Waller sends the Squad after the Riddler who hacked her computer and stole information on the Suicide Squad. The Riddler is in Arkham so the Squad needs to break in. The Joker and the Penguin also have small parts in the movie. Batman is also on the hunt for a dirty bomb that the Joker planted somewhere in Gotham. So the Squad breaks into Arkham Asylum and now they need to...

Aquaman cast in Batman vs Superman Dawn of Justice Well it's finally official, Jason Momoa who had been rumored to play Aquaman for months now has been confirmed. He will play the King of Atlantis in the movie set to release March 25, 2016. Adding Aquaman to the cast adds yet another original member of the Justice League of America. It will be interesting to see the interpretation of Aquaman used in the movie, as Jason Momoa doesn't really have the look of the tradition Aquaman from the comics. I wonder what the costume will look like and if he will have his Trident. It's also not known yet how big of a part he'll play in the movie. As a huge Justice League fan I'm interested to see what this movie will be like and hope that it's great and leads to an awesome Justice League of America movie.