4-Panel | Comics & Manga

 King of the Bruces

We return to the realms of sequential art to discuss the worst X-Man ever, Garth Ennis’ new series “Johnny Red”, Gorilla Grod, Killer Frost and the new Firestorm in The Flash TV series, a new comic in development called “Bruce Lee: The Dragon Rises” and more.

Our featured comics and manga are Veda: Assembly Required, Fairy Tail: Blue Mistral volume 1, Assassin’s Creed: The Ankh of Isis Trilogy, and we return to the 1990’s with Guardians of the Galaxy #30 and the DC crossover event “Armageddon 2001” with Superman becoming the President of the U.S.A. (this really did happen).

Deadpool’s Silky Fairyland Adventure

We kick of this week’s episode with news about the new Spider Women crossover series, Howard the Duck and Squirrel Girl in their own comic together, the TV adaptations of Marvel’s Legion and Hellfire Club, and Vertigo’s Y: The Last Man, the possibility of a Battle Angel Alita movie directed by Robert Rodriguez and more.

Our featured comics and manga are All-New All-Different Marvel 0.1, Heart In A Box, True Believers: Silk #1, I Hate Fairyland #1 and Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe.

Cowboy Batman and Robot Robin

On this episode we discuss Zack Snyder’s talks with HBO about “The Watchmen” TV series, frozen subtitles on a U.S. screening of the live-action “Attack on Titan” movie, Mark Millar’s world-wide talent search, the fantasy-themed spin-off manga of “Assassination Classroom”, and “Damage Control” – Marvel’s new TV series.

Our featured comics and manga are Let’s Dance A Waltz volume 3, Aliens: Earth War, Batman: The Blue, The Grey & The Bat, Robin 3000, Asterix & The Magic Carpet, and as a special feature we take a look at The League of Regrettable Superheroes by Jon Morris.

We also investigate the “greatest” DC supervillain of all time – The Ten-Eyed Man!

Happy Batman Day

This week we use our detective skills to find out more about Batman Day – DC’s new annual celebration of all things related to the Dark Knight. In other news, Marvel announce their post-Secret Wars titles (including Black Panther, Mockingbird, Silver Surfer, Moon Knight, The Ininity Entity and X-Men ’92), the announcement of a Deus Ex comic-book, the first look at the Supergirl TV series’ version of Red Tornado and more.

Our featured comics and manga are Tokyo Ghost #1, Dragonflight, Batman: A Lonely Place of Dying and The Heroic Legend of Arslan volume 3.

Old Man Astroboy

This week Warner Bros. announce a Booster Gold/Blue Beetle movie, Scholastic decide to publish DC’s Secret Hero Society, Marvel give Mary Jane Watson an “unexpected” role in Iron Man, Batman fights institutionalised racism and manga series March Comes Like A Lion will be adapted for anime and as a live-action movie.

Our featured comics and manga are Guardians of Nowhere #1, Inuyashiki volume 1, Your Lie in April volume 3, DC’s Bombshells #2, Batman: A Death in the Family, The Heroic Legend of Arslan volume 2, and A Silent Voice volume 1.

Now I Have A Blunderbuss. Ho! Ho! Ho!

We kick off this episode with all sorts of television-based DC news, Marvel announce a special series of Gwenpool, the Kickstarter campaign to publish 4000 copies of Barefoot Gen for schools meets its target, and the British Museum announce a series of manga talks.

Our featured comics and manga are (Giant-Sized) Little Marvel: Avengers Versus X-Men, Daredevil #18, My Little Pony: Fiendship is Magic (the collected series), Rick & Morty #1, Constantine: The Hellblazer #1 & #2, The Heroic Legend of Arslan volume 1, DC’s Bombshells #1 and Batman Versus Predator.

Beat Thanos With Zappy Dubstep

4-Panel returns to deliver your weekly dose of comics, manga and graphic novels. This week’s news includes supervillains quoting politicians, more cast members for the Doctor Strange movie, NHK’s behind-the-scenes manga documentary series featuring Naoki Uresawa, and all sorts of other stuff.

Our featured comics and manga are Robocop Versus Terminator, Batman: Master of the Future, Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches volume 3, Star Wars: Dark Empire, and Calvin & Hobbes: Scientific Progress Goes Boink.

Babysitting Galactus

This week we discuss Marvel’s variant covers featuring cosplayers, the possibility that George Miller could direct Man of Steel 2, a sequel to the manga series Fruits Basket, Batman-themed burgers and more.

Our featured comics and manga are Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches volume 2, and we return once more to the 1990’s with Guardians of the Galaxy #24 and #25 – The Coming of The Keeper!

A Batman by Any Other Name

This week we take a look at the newly released pictures of Jay Garrick – the latest addition to the upcoming second season of The Flash, John Constantine appearing in the Arrow TV series, Marvel’s “ressurection” of Devil Dinosaur and a whole lot of tangents.

Our featured comics and manga are The Red Skull, Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier, The Flash, Your Lie in April volume 2 and Saga volume 4.

Marvel’s Sugar Daddy

With the poor reception of the new Fantastic Four movie we kick things off this week with director Josh Trank’s comments about the film he made, Fox’s desire for an X-Men TV series, a new Baccano! manga series and more.

Our featured comics and manga are “Giant-Sized” Little Marvel: Avengers Versus X-Men, Alex & Ada volume 2, UQ Holder Volume 3, Dogs: Bullets and Carnage Volume 10, Good-bye Chunky Rice by Craig Thompson, Your Lie in April volume 1 and Let’s Dance a Waltz volume 2.

We also have a special treat as we head back to the ’90s with The Incredible Hulk #417. That’s right, it’s the one with Rick Jones’ bachelor party.