Hello and welcome to our weekly wrap-up! “But it’s Tuesday!” you say? Yes, but everyone knows that the week doesn’t officially start until tomorrow: New Comics Day!

Hello!  I hope you had a fun and safe Fourth of July.  I ended up nerding out this weekend and watching the fireworks above Stormwind city instead of actually going out and doing anything.  I felt pretty pathetic doing so, but my reasons for staying in alst weekend were noble at least; college homework!  Anyway, as a result of the holiday I believe that comics are not shipping until Thursday of this week.  So don’t be silly like me and go in on Wednesday only to be let down!

ComicNerd is just exploding in popularity lately.  I cannot believe how many readers are passing through this site, with new comments every day by all sorts of new readers.  None of this would be possible without the hard work of all of the writers on staff here at ComicNerd.  Please do what you can to make their time worthwhile and comment on their posts and tell your friends about this site!

In that same vein, I have another new addition to the writing team here at ComicNerd.  I am proud to announce that Clayton520 has joined our ranks as an official ComicNerd writer!  Clayton brings a deep and rich understanding of the Marvel Universe, specifically the Avengers mythos, as well as a comprehensive understanding of the Secret Invasion event going on right now

Let’s hear more about ComicNerd’s newest writing staff member:

After a failed attempt of arguing the socialistic tendencies of Captain America, I have accepted my fate as a writer, critic, and purveyor of all things weird.

I began writing film reviews in my mid teens and have been doing it ever since. I am a film snob of the highest order but I particularly enjoy cult films (Blade Runner Eraserhead, ect…). Several of my short stories have been published and I am hoping to complete a longer work of fiction sometime before I am 30.

Comics came into my life only a few years ago when I picked up a copy of Civil War and have been hooked ever since. Marvel is the name of the game as far as I am concerned, but I am always willing to pick up a good indie issue or two.

Currently, I am working towards my masters in English. However, most of my time and energy goes into my fiction, a book on the most overrated films in history and my comic production company Ruin Comics, which I confounded with Greg Padilla.

You can read more about my work and reach me  at either my website or blog.

We’re looking for more writers! If you or anyone you know might be interested in writing for ComicNerd - hit me up!

Ok, let’s get started with what’s up…

Click through the jump to get the full rundown from the last week and a full review of what’s coming in the world of comics this Wednesday on July 2nd!

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Happy Monday folks, and welcome to our weekly feature, Monday Movie Mayhem! Where we cover movie and TV nerd-related news for all the ComicNerd.com readers out there!

Unfortunately folks, this is the very last installment of “Monday Movie Mayhem!”, it’s just not proving to be very popular and I think it might be better to just post movie news as it comes rather than giving you ‘old news’ every Monday morning.  So, for this last installment, let me bring to you the normal format one more time.  Look out for in-depth movie reviews just like the one we did for The Incredible Hulk on ComicNerd as well!

This week we have a lot of trailers, so prepare a cup of coffee and get ready to be teased!  First up is the synopsis of the X-Men Origins: Magneto film, based on the actual screenplay itself.   We have the first trailer for The Day The Earth Stood Still remake, starring Keanu Reeves.  Another new trailer for The X-Files: I Want to Believe sequel, set to release later this month.  There is a trailer as well for The Mutant Chronicles, set to release sometime this year and starring Thomas Jane and Ron Perlman.  I’m still not sure how I feel about that one.  A relatively uninteresting promo pic from the upcoming X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie has been released.  We have some news about who’s going to be in Smallville season 8.  Finally, we have some news about a film based on The Goon comic series.

Click through the jump to be overwhelmed by nerdy movie goodness!

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Welcome to Variant Watch where each week I’ll be discussing the new hot variant covers of the week.  As all comic collector’s know, each week on Wednesday Comic book Santa Claus flies around to every comic shop in the world delivering that week’s new comics and there is much celebration.

Now the avid collectors also know that with each shipment of new comics comes a select few variant covers of regular issues.  Why are they special you ask?  No, not because they cost two-to-fifty times that of the regular issues.  Variants are rare and “rare” is a word that comic collectors both love and hate.  When you have a “rare” book you love it.  When you are looking at “rare” books on Ebay and questioning your station in life because you can’t even picture a time when you’ll be able to drop $500.00 on a comic book, “rare” can be an awful term.

Click through the jump to see my picks for Variant Watch!

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Hello and welcome to our weekly wrap-up! “But it’s Tuesday!” you say? Yes, but everyone knows that the week doesn’t officially start until tomorrow: New Comics Day!

Hello there!  I know you must hate me for not doing Monday Movie Mayhem! yesterday, I sincerely apologize.  Lots of stuff, good and bad have happened this week.  We lost two pop culture icons; George Carlin to heart failure and Michael Turner to cancer.  This truly has been a sad week.  George Carlin was one of the staples of my adolescence, getting me in trouble at school as I repeated his aphorisms at school and Michael Turner’s covers have always inspired me to pull comics off the shelves and into my buy pile, his art was always simply exquisite.  Both men have accomplished the one thing many die trying to accomplish, the touching of others’ lives.

On a lighter note, today marks the first day of July, and besides the arrival of Uncanny X-Men #500; it also marks the end of ComicNerd’s Ghost Rider giveaway!  Unfortunately, the script reset the numbers at midnight last night, so I could not get final numbers!

The last time I looked, Stephanie was in the lead with 208 and redhollywood was the runner up at 185, but that could have changed!  Please set me straight if you can, if not I will assume Stephanie had the most posts and give her the choice between #15 and #50.

Either way both of you guys had a ton of posts!  This site has been ALIVE this last month, and I have you guys to thank!

So congratulations Stephanie and redhollywood!  I hope you enjoy your awesome comics!

Ok, let’s get started with what’s up…

Click through the jump to get the full rundown from the last week and a full review of what’s coming in the world of comics this Wednesday on July 2nd!

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Are you guys ready for this?  It’s a bit of a stretch but it’s the only piece of information that might be relevant to the setup and plot of 2009’s G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra.  This post is merely speculative, and it doesn’t help that the source information has been changed, but we couldn’t rightly call ourselves nerds if we didn’t see at least some significance in this.

Ok, so as of yesterday, the WHOIS information for http://www.risoefcobra.com had some potentially spoilery information hidden within it.  The information has since been changed, and I can only assume it is because some sites have picked up on it and actually published the email address listed in the WHOIS, which most likely was the reason this information was pulled down.

Click through the jump to see all of the little nuggets that were dropped and see it’s just crazy talk or if something is really to be found here…

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Some lucky soul got a chance to see The Dark Knight, and sent in this review to AICN.

The review is spoiler-free, but does give away some of the plot and reveals a bit about the film’s framework.

I personally didn’t read the whole thing as I want to keep the movie as fresh as possible for myself - but if you want to brave it, click through the jump!

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Hello and welcome to our weekly wrap-up! “But it’s Tuesday!” you say? Yes, but everyone knows that the week doesn’t officially start until tomorrow: New Comics Day!

This has been a ridiculously busy week. In between a surgery I have been trying to get caught up on homework AND make sure this site keeps running. Now that ComicNerd has some solid writers on board (and MORE on the way) I can no longer afford to just let the site sit idle - we gotta keep publishing! It doesn’t hurt that everything about comics is so exciting right now, one just has to look at Monday Movie Mayhem! posted yesterday to catch just a small glimpse of that. Speaking of comic movies, let me gently, no… forcefully point you to ComicNerd’s very first movie review - The Incredible Hulk!

But enough about movies, today is about comics!

There are only 6 days left in the Ghost Rider Contest - it’s going to get intense as the two top posters battle it out as the end of the month draw near.  Stay tuned for an announcement concerning next month’s giveaway!

This week I am proud to announce another new addition to the editing team, Mbomb! With him joining our team, it looks like we will finally have someone knowledgable about DC!  I am so excited about this, as I felt ComicNerd definately needed some help in this department.  Hopefully starting this week Mbomb will also be contributing a regular weekly column covering variant comics and touching upon the comic book market.

Let’s hear more about ComicNerd’s newest writing staff member:

Howdy Nerds!  Matt Baum (Mbomb), nice to meet ya’s. I’ve been the staff comic book writer at Worthpoint.com for a little more than a year now where I write a couple of blogs a week about comic collecting and trends in the back-issue market.  To think my parents said a Journalism degree would never pay off, look at me now dad…  Yes I’m writing for free and yes it’s still about comics…  Anyway, before college and culinary school, both of which I’m still finishing, I managed a comic shop for 7 years while touring as  a drummer in a few different bands.

I started reading comics at a very young age and, with the exception of a brief stint where I was too cool for my own good, have ever since.  Currently I work part time helping out at a small shop in Omaha called Legend Comics.  You can find me there ranting and raving every Thursday night.  Feel free to stop by and say hey.

Other wise you can catch my coffee-and-speed-metal induced rants right here on Comicnerd.com.  I’ll be writing reviews, looking at business trends of the comic market and generally screaming and yelling about your favorite funny books.  I thrive on feedback so tell me what you guys think.  If you agree with me then feed my ego.   If not, then threaten my life.  I can take it.  After all, we’re nerds, and for some of us our comics are the only thing that keep us going.  sniff…  sniff…

We’re looking for more writers! If you or anyone you know might be interested in writing for ComicNerd - hit me up!

This site has just been bursting with new stuff everyday thanks to the new additions.  I hope that you as readers enjoy the increase in cool stuff to look at and do here at ComicNerd, and as always you have the ability almost everywhere on this site to be heard, so let us know what you think!

Ok, let’s get started with what’s up…

Click through the jump to get the full rundown from the last week and a full review of what’s coming in the world of comics this Wednesday on June 25th!

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Happy Monday folks, and welcome to our weekly feature, Monday Movie Mayhem! Where we cover movie and TV nerd-related news for all the ComicNerd.com readers out there!

First off, I want to point all of you to a full comprehensive and excelent review done by ComicNerd writers Stephanie and RedHollywood about The Incredible Hulk.  Read it right now, right here!

Phew lotta stuff going on this week…  we have a report detailing what happens in the teaser trailer for Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, which we should all be catching at the previews for The Dark Knight, as was reported last week.   We have the debut of the full trailer for The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emporer which just looks AWESOME.

Thomas Jane, who starred in the Punisher reboot (but didn’t return for a sequel) shows off his fanboy side by dressing up as Jonah Hex after he checked out a posible script for a movie based around the badass western anti-hero from DC.  We have a NEW poster for The Dark Knight, but I am not 100% sure it’s an official one.  it still looks cool though!

J Michael Straczynski touched base on the possibility of a Silver Surfer feature movie, and explains how the script portrays Galactus differently from Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer.  We have a quick quote from Will.i.am regarding his role as John Wraith in the X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie.

We have the very first image of the new Movie Poster from G.I. Joe movie, coming out in 2009.  Click here to see it!  Finally, there’s also an update from Mark Millar about the Kick-Ass movie, which apparently ready to go and the parts have been casted.

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