Friday 16th January 2004
NEW BATMAN FAN FILMS ANNOUNCED
Following on the critical buzz for BATMAN: DEAD END in the later part of 2003, comes news this week of two new independantly produced live action Batman themed "fan films from Bat In The Sun Productions.
"Batman Beyond: Year One" is described as a "40 minute movie that deals with Terry McGinnis' dark past of being on the wrong side of justice." The second film, "Batman: Dark Justice is "a ten minute movie focusing on Batman and Commissioner Gordon."
And don't forget to cast your vote in this year's ALFRED AWARDS.
As always have a great week. - Alan J. Porter
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DECEMBER 2003 SALES CHARTS
Diamond Distributors this week released the cahrts for actual comics and graphic novel sales in December 2003. Batman and related books placed as follows:
Comics
Graphic Novels / Trade-Paperbacks
Comics Shipping (January 21st )
BATMAN ADVENTURES #10 -
Written by Ty Templeton and Dan Slott; art by Rick Burchett and Terry Beatty; cover by Kelsey Shannon - Misunderstood by the cops, Batman needs Catwoman's help to escape them. But if Catty thinks they can be fugitives together, she's wrong! And in the backup story, Catwoman pulls a heist at Wayne Manor! - BATMAN | 32pg. | Color | $2.25BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHTS #49 -
Written by Scott Beatty and Geoff Johns; art by Roger Robinson, John Floyd, Tommy Castillo and Rodney Ramos; cover by Kamajian - Get ready for the final Bane story! Batman, Nightwing, Robin and Batgirl go toe-to-toe with the man who once broke Batman's back. But even with the help of his three protégés, can Batman prevent Bane from exacting revenge against King Snake? And in the backup, Geoff Johns (JSA, THE FLASH) and Tommy Castillo & Rodney Ramos contribute "The Frightener," in which the Scarecrow teaches a lethal lesson on the nature of fear! - BATMAN | 40pg. | Color | $2.75BIRDS OF PREY #63 -
Written by Gail Simone; art and cover by Ed Benes and Alex Lei - In China, Lady Shiva makes Black Canary an offer that could change the course of her life. Back in Gotham, Barbara is plagued by her own technology, causing the once-infallible Oracle to send the wrong data to the JLA! - BATMAN | 32pg. | Color | $2.50JUSTICE LEAGUE ADVENTURES VOL. 1: THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN -
Written by Fabian Nicieza, Christopher Sequeira, Josh Siegal, Dan Slott; art by John Delaney, Min S. Ku, Chris Jones, Christian Alamy, Dan Davis, Randy Elliot, Mark Propst; cover by John Delaney and Rick Burchett - The stars of the hit Cartoon Network series are spotlighted in DC's third set of digest-sized trade paperbacks! Volume I collects JUSTICE LEAGUE ADVENTURES #3, 6, and 10-12, featuring the stories "The Star Lost," "Wolf's Clothing," "Must There Be a Martian Manhunter?," "The Moment," and "Cold War." - DC UNIVERSE | 112pg. | Digest | Color | $6.95JUSTICE LEAGUE ADVENTURES VOL. 2: FRIENDS AND FOES -
Written Michael Bernard, Jason Hall, Matthew Manning, Scott McCloud, and Dan Slott; art by Rick Burchett, John Delaney, Min S. Ku, Mark Propst, and John K. Snyder III; cover by Butch Lukic - Continuing DC's line of digest-sized trade paperbacks! Collecting JUSTICE LEAGUE ADVENTURES #13-14, 16, and 19-20, featuring the stories "Local Hero," "An Angry Tide," "Hide and Seek," "What's in a Hero?", and "Emotional Baggage." -NIGHTWING: BIG GUNS -
Written by Chuck Dixon; art by Greg Land, Patrick Zircher, Manuel Gutierrez, Mike Collins, Josč Marzán, Jr., Drew Geraci, John Stanisci, Sean Parsons, Steve Bird, Wayne Faucher; cover by Land and Karl Story - Reprinting NIGHTWING #46–50 and material from NIGHTWING 80-PAGE GIANT #1 and NIGHTWING SECRET FILES! Dick Grayson needs to clean up the corrupt police force in Blüdhaven, and finally gets his chance when he joins its ranks! While searching for evidence, he also must deal with the out of control Nite-Wing, Sylph — a killer lady in white with a grudge, Torque — the former cop with a twisted view of the world; and Hella — a vicious woman with a mad-on against a certain cop family. - BATMAN | 192pg. | Softcover | Color | $14.95OUTSIDERS #8 -
Written by Judd Winick; art by Tom Raney and Scott Hanna; cover by Raney - Enter: the Huntress! Only Nightwing's not happy about it... And meanwhile, a Russian mob paints the town red as they prepare to raise hell...literally! - DC UNIVERSE | 32pg. | Color | $2.50ROBIN #122 -
Written by Bill Willingham; art by Rick Mays and Aaron Sowd; cover by Jason Pearson - Eisner Award-winning writer Bill Willingham's (FABLES) hard-hitting debut ROBIN adventure continues in "Bad to the Bone." Robin's in for the battle of his life against madman mob-enforcer Johnny Warren. But when the bloody conflict takes a mystical turn, will either combatant survive? - BATMAN | 32pg. | Color | $2.25MORE BATMAN ON STATIC SHOCK
As well as the appearence of the Terry McGinnis, BATMAN BEYOND character on this weekend's Static Shock premiere (KidsWB - 11:30am) it was announced this week at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Hollywood, Calif that BATMAN and Robin will make another appearance on Static Stock during its fourth season.
JUSTICE LEAGUE (Cartoon Network)
TEEN TITANS (Cartoon Network)
TEEN TITANS (KidsWB)
STATIC SHOCK (KidsWB)
SUPER FRIENDS (Boomerang)
UK TV SCHEDULE
Toonami, Turner's new UK cartoon Network has just started broadcasting. The following Batman shows will be running.
BATMAN OF THE FUTURE (Batman Beyond) :
JUSTICE LEAGUE
LATEST BATMAN 5 RUMORS & NEWS
CATWOMAN UPDATES
BIG APPLE COMIC-CON - New York - Jan 24th / 25th
The latest Big Apple Comic con will feature several guests including Golden Age BATMAN artist DICK AYERS
EMERALD CITY COMIC CON - Seattle - Feb 29th
The second Emerald City convention features GREG RUCKA, MATT WAGNER, DAVE JOHNSON and PETE WOODS among many other guests.
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